List of English Writers - O

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• Ann Oakley (born 1944), novelist and sociologist
• Graham Oakley (born 1929), children's writer
• Patrick O'Brian (born Richard Patrick Russ, 1914–2000), novelist, Aubrey–Maturin series
• Sean O'Brien (born 1952), poet, playwright and editor
• Thomas Occleve or Hoccleve (c. 1368–1426), poet
• William Ockham or Occam (c. 1288 – c. 1348), scholastic philosopher, Occam's Razor
• Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), writer and poet
• John Oldham (1653–1683), poet
• John Oldmixon (1673–1742), historian and pamphleteer
• William Oldys (1696–1761), antiquarian and bibliographer
• Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888), writer and traveler
• F. S. Oliver (1864–1934), political writer
• Jamie Oliver (born 1975), cookery writer and chef
• Martin Oliver (living), children's writer
• Michael Oliver (1937–2002), writer on music and broadcaster
• Paul Oliver (born 1927), writer on architecture and blues music
• Reggie Oliver (born 1952), story writer and playwright
• Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927), children's writer
• Daniel O'Mahony (born 1973), novelist and writer, Dr. Who spinoffs
• Carola Oman (1897–1978), biographer, novelist and children's writer
• Charles Oman (1860–1946), military historian
• Michael O'Neill (born 1953), poet and scholar
• Oliver Onions (1873–1961), novelist
• Onyeka, (real name Onyeka Nubia, living), writer and playwright
• Amelia Opie (1769–1853), novelist and poet
• Iona Opie (born 1923), and Peter Opie (1918–1982), ethnographers
• E. Phillips Oppenheim (wrote as Anthony Partridge, 1866–1946), novelist
• Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), novelist, playwright and translator, The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Joe Orton (1933–1967), playwright
• George Orwell (real name Eric Blair), (1903–1950), novelist and essayist, 1984
• Martin Orwin (born 1963), poet, educator, writer
• Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695), letter writer
• John Osborne (1929–1994), playwright, Look Back in Anger
• Robin Osborne (born 1957), classical scholar and historian
• Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881), poet
• Maggie O'Sullivan (born 1951), poet and performer
• Alice Oswald (born 1966), poet
• Peter Oswald (living), playwright
• William Young Ottley (1771–1836), art historian
• Thomas Otway (1652–1685), playwright
• Ouida (real name Maria Louise Ramé, 1839–1908), novelist, Under Two Flags
• William Oughtred (1574–1660), mathematician
• Keith Ovenden (born 1943), novelist and biographer
• John Overall (1559–1619), scholar, AV translator and bishop
• Thomas Overbury (1581–1613), poet and essayist
• Richard Overton (c. 1599–1664), pamphleteer
• John Owen (1616–1683), theologian
• Richard Owen (1804–1892), anatomist, palaeontologist and zoologist
• Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), poet
• Elsie J. Oxenham (real name Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley, 1880–1960), children's writer, Abbey Series
• John Oxenham (real name William Arthur Dunkerley, 1852–1941), novelist, journalist and poet
• Mary Oxlie (fl. 1616), poet