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- Ruth Padel (born 1946), poet and journalist
- Lynda Page (born 1950), novelist
- Russell Page (1906–1985), garden writer and landscape architect
- John Paget (died 1638), religious writer and Presbyterian minister
- Barry Pain (1864–1928), novelist and humorist
- Thomas Paine (1737–1809), political writer and pamphleteer, Rights of Man
- William Painter (c. 1540–1594), writer
- William Paley (1743–1805), philosopher, theologian and cleric
- Francis Palgrave (1788–1861), historian
- Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), poet and anthologist, Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics
- William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), travel writer and orientalist
- Alan Palmer (living), historian and biographer
- Edward Henry Palmer (1840–1882), translator and orientalist
- Herbert Edward Palmer (1880–1961), poet and critic
- John Palmer (c. 1729–1790) religious writer and Unitarian minister
- John Palmer (1742–1786), religious writer and Unitarian minister
- Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), poet and painter
- Robert Paltock (1697–1767), novelist
- Julia Pardoe (1806–1862), poet, novelist and travel writer
- Bernard Pares (1867–1949), historian and Russian expert
- Edith Pargeter (also wrote as Ellis Peters, 1913–1995), novelist and history writer
- Emma Parker (fl. 1809–1817), novelist
- Henry Parker (1604–1652), political writer
- Martin Parker (c. 1600 – c. 1656), balladeer
- Matthew Parker (1504–1575), Bible translator and archbishop, the Bishops' Bible
- Norman Parker (born 1954), memoirist
- Samuel Parker (1640–1688), theologian, religious writer and bishop
- Samuel Parker (1681–1730), religious writer and translator
- Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer and poet
- C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993), naval historian and writer on administration, Parkinson's Law
- John Parkinson (botanist) (1567–1650), herbalist
- Adele Parks (born 1969), novelist
- Tim Parks (born 1954), novelist and translator
- David Parlett (born 1939), writer on games
- Samuel Parr (1747–1825), political writer, scholar and educator
- Cecil Parrott (1909–1984), translator, biographer and diplomat, The Good Soldier Švejk
- Eliza Parsons (1739–1811), novelist, The Castle of Wolfenbach
- Frances Partridge (1900–2004), diarist and translator
- John Pass (born 1947), poet and scholar
- Paston Family (14th – 16th cc.), Paston Letters
- Walter Pater (1839–1894), essayist and novelist, Marius the Epicurean
- Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), poet and critic
- Simon Patrick (1626–1707), religious writer, theologian and bishop
- Brian Patten (born 1946), poet and children's writer
- Mark Pattison (1813–1884), writer and cleric
- Tom Paulin (born 1949), poet, academic and broadcaster
- Michelle Paver (born 1960), children's writer, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series
- Stel Pavlou (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
- James Payn (1830–1898), novelist and miscellanist
- John Payne (1842–1917), poet and translator
- Nick Payne (living), playwright
- David Peace (born 1967), novelist
- Henry Peacham the Elder (1546–1634), writer on rhetoric and cleric
- Henry Peacham the Younger (c. 1573 – c. 1643), poet and writer on art and literature
- Lucy Peacock (fl. 1785–1816), children's writer, editor and translator
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), satirical novelist and poet, Nightmare Abbey
- Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), novelist and poet, Gormenghast
- Philippa Pearce (1920–2006), children's writer, Tom's Midnight Garden
- Pearl Poet (unnamed poet, fl. 14th c.), poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Hugh Pearman (born 1955), critic and architect.
- Tim Pears (born 1956), novelist
- Hesketh Pearson (1887–1964), biographer
- John Pearson (born 1930), biographer
- John Pearson (1612–1686), theologian and bishop
- Edward R. Pease (1857–1955), writer and politician
- Reginald Pecock (c. 1395–1460), theologian and bishop
- Margaret Pedler (died 1948), novelist
- Arthur George Villiers Peel (also known as George Peel, 1869–1956), economist and politician
- J. H. B. Peel (1913–1983), writer, poet and journalist
- George Peele (1556–1596), playwright and poet
- Mal Peet (living), children's writer
- Samuel Pegge (1704–1796), antiquary, translator and cleric
- Isaac Penington (1616–1679), Quaker writer on religion
- William Penn (1644–1718), politician and political and religious writer
- Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, antiquary and travel writer
- Roland Penrose (1900–1984), biographer and artist
- Hilary Pepler (1878–1951), writer and poet
- Michael Peppiatt (born 1941), art critic, art historian and biographer
- Emily Pepys (1833–1877), child diarist
- Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), diarist
- Thomas Percy (1729–1811), bishop, poet and anthologist, Percy's Reliques
- John Perrin (c. 1558–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Chris Petit (born 1949), novelist and film director
- William Petty (1623–1687), economist and philosopher
- K. M. Peyton (born Kathleen Herald, 1929), children's writer, The Edge of the Cloud
- Gilbert Phelps (1915–1993), novelist, critic and educator
- St. John Philby (1885–1960), writer, intelligence officer and Arabist
- Ambrose Philips (1674–1739), poet
- John Philips (1676–1709), poet
- Katherine Philips (1632–1644), poet
- Caryl Phillips (born 1958), novelist
- Edward Phillips (1630 – c. 1696), writer and philologist
- John Phillips (1631–1706), writer
- J. B. Phillips (1906–1982), Bible translator and cleric
- Richard Phillips (1767–1840), writer and publisher
- Stephen Phillips (1864–1915), poet and playwright
- Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960), novelist, poet and playwright
- Henry Phillpotts (1778–1869), pamphleteer and bishop
- Gervase Phinn (born 1946), novelist, poet and writer on education
- Constantine Phipps (1797–1863), writer and politician
- David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), writer, scientist and educator
- Barbara Leonie Picard (1917–2011), children's writer
- Tom Pickard (born 1946), poet and scriptwriter
- David Pickering (born 1958), compiler of reference books
- Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), scholar, Qur'an translator and novelist
- Sarah Piers (died 1719), poet
- Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), economist
- Mary Pilkington, (1766–1839) novelist, poet and children's writer
- Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934), playwright
- William Pinnock (1782–1843) educational writer and publisher
- Harold Pinter (1930–2008), Nobel prize winner, playwright and screenwriter, The Caretaker
- Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), writer on shorthand
- Christopher Pitt (1699–1748), poet and translator
- Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), poet
- Mary Pix (1666–1709), playwright and novelist
- James Planché (1796–1880), playwright
- Victor Plarr (1863–1929), poet and biographer
- Alan Plater (1935–2010), playwright, screenwriter and novelist
- Karen Platt (living), garden writer.
- Max Plowman (1883–1941), writer and poet
- J. H. Plumb (1911–2001), historian
- Anne Plumptre (1760–1818), writer and translator
- Isaac Pocock (1782–1835), playwright and painter
- Tom Pocock (1925–2007), biographer and historian
- Richard Pococke (1704–1765), travel writer, diarist and bishop
- Frank Podmore (1856–1910), writer and politician
- Michael Podro (1931–2008), art historian
- Elizabeth Polack (fl. 1830–38), playwright
- John William Polidori (1795–1821), writer, poet and physician, The Vampyre
- Alfred Oliver Pollard (1893–1960), novelist, autobiographer and army officer
- Alfred W. Pollard (1859–1944), bibliographer and scholar
- Margaret Steuart Pollard (1903–1996), poet and writer
- William Pollard (1828–1893), Quaker writer on religion
- Jacob Polley (born 1975), poet and novelist
- Elizabeth Polwheele or Polewhele (c. 1651 – c. 1691), playwright
- Richard Polwhele (1760–1838), poet, writer and cleric
- John Pomfret (1667–1703), poet and cleric
- John Poole (1786–1872), playwright
- Alexander Pope (1688–1744), poet
- Dudley Pope (1925–1997), novelist, Lord Ramage series
- Jessie Pope (1868–1941), poet and writer
- Walter Pope (1627–1714), astronomer and poet
- James Pope-Hennessy (1916–1974), biographer and travel writer
- Samuel Pordage (1633–1691), poet
- Eleanor Anne Porden (1795–1825), poet
- Richard Porson (1759–1808), scholar, editor and translator
- Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832), novelist and poet
- Henry Porter (died 1599), playwright
- Henry Porter (born 1953), writer on liberty and novelist
- Jane Porter (1776–1850), novelist
- Roy Porter (1946–2002), historian
- Sheena Porter (born 1935), children's writer, Nordy Bank
- Jacob Post (1774–1855), Quaker religious writer
- Raymond Postgate (1896–1971), novelist and social historian
- Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), children's writer and illustrator, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Dennis Potter (1935–1994), playwright and screenwriter
- Robert Potter (1721–1804), translator, poet and cleric
- Anthony Powell (1905–2000), novelist, A Dance to the Music of Time
- Michael Powell (1905–1990), writer and film director
- Eileen Power (1889–1940), historian
- Rhoda Power (1890–1957), children's writer and broadcaster, Redcap Runs Away
- John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), novelist, A Glastonbury Romance
- Llewelyn Powys (1884–1939), travel writer and biographer
- T. F. Powys (1875–1953), novelist and story writer
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), poet and politician
- Terry Pratchett (born 1948), novelist, Discworld series
- Anne Pratt (1806–1893), botanical writer and illustrator
- Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749–1814), poet, playwright and novelist
- Thomas Preston (1537–1598), scholar and playwright
- Thomas Preston (1563–1640), religious writer and RC monk
- Diana Primrose (fl. 1630), poet
- Matthew Prior (1664–1721), poet
- Bonamy Price (1807–1888), political economist
- Nancy Price (1880–1970), dramatist, novelist and poet
- Richard Price (1723–1791), economist, moral philosopher and Unitarian minister
- Susan Price (born 1955), children's writer, The Ghost Drum
- Christopher Priest (born 1943), novelist
- Chris Priestley (born 1958), children's writer and illustrator
- J. B. Priestley (1894–1984), playwright and novelist, An Inspector Calls
- Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian, natural philosopher and political theorist
- Alison Prince (born 1931), children's writer and screenwriter
- Peter Prince (living), novelist and screenwriter
- V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997), writer
- May Probyn (1856–1909), poet
- Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), poet and philanthropist
- Bryan Waller Procter (wrote as Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874), songwriter and playwright
- Sophie Amelia Prosser, (1807–1882), children's writer
- Sally Prue (living), children's writer
- J. H. Prynne (born 1936), poet
- William Prynne (1600–1699), religious pamphleteer and history writer
- John Pudney (1909–1977), writer and poet
- Sheenagh Pugh (born 1950), poet and novelist
- Pullein-Thompson sisters: Josephine, (born 1924), Diana, (born 1925) and Christine, (1925–2005), children's writers
- Charlotte Pullein-Thompson (wrote as Charlotte Popescu, born 1957), writer on ponies and gardening
- Philip Pullman (born 1946), children's writer, His Dark Materials
- Samuel Purchas (c. 1575–1626), travel writer
- C. B. Purdom (1883–1965), critic, author and biographer
- Libby Purves (born 1950), novelist, broadcaster and columnist
- Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), theologian, scholar and cleric
- George Puttenham (1529–1590), and Richard Puttenham (c. 1520 – c. 1601), critics and courtiers
- Henry James Pye (1745–1813), Poet Laureate and writer
- Barbara Pym (1913–1980), novelist
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