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- Suhayl Saadi (born 1961), novelist, playwright and physician
- Oliver Sacks (born 1933), writer and neurologist, Awakenings
- Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706), poet and rake
- Lady Margaret Sackville (1881–1963), poet and children's writer
- Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), poet and statesman
- Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), poet and novelist
- Lawrence Sail (born 1942), poet and editor
- George Saintsbury (1845–1933), critic
- Saki (real name Hector Hugh Munro) (1870–1916), story writer and satirist
- Fiona Sampson (born 1968), poet and editor
- Kevin Sampson (born 1961), novelist
- Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780), writer and domestic servant
- Nicholas Sanders (c. 1530–1581), polemicist and RC priest
- Robert Sanderson (1587–1663), theologian and logician
- George Sandys (1577–1644), poet and traveller
- Peter Sanger (born 1943), poet and scholar
- C. J. Sansom (born 1952), novelist
- Clive Sansom (1910–1981), poet, playwright and writer on education
- William Sansom (1912–1976), novelist and travel writer
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), poet and novelist, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- Hilary Saint George Saunders (wrote as Francis Beeding, etc., 1898–1951), novelist
- James Savage (1767–1845), writer, antiquary and editor
- Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), poet and satirist
- Henry Savile (1549–1622), scholar and AV translator
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), novelist, Lord Peter Wimsey
- Frank Sayers (1763–1817), poet, scholar and metaphysician
- Francis Scarfe (1911–1986), poet and novelist
- Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), poet
- Ann Schlee (born 1934), novelist
- Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelist
- Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929), writer and poet
- Hugh Stowell Scott (wrote as Henry Seton Merriman, c. 1863–1903), novelist
- Jane Scott (1779–1839), playwright and theatre manager
- John Scott (1783–1821), editor and writer
- John Scott of Amwell (1731–1783), poet and patron
- John A. Scott (born 1948), poet and novelist
- Mary Scott (1751/2–1793), poet
- Paul Mark Scott (1920–1978), novelist, playwright and poet
- Sarah Scott (1720–1795), novelist and translator, Millenium Hall (sic)
- William Bell Scott (1811–1890), poet and artist
- Will Scott (1893−1964), story writer, crime writer and playwright
- E. J. Scovell (1907–1999), poet
- James Scudamore (born 1976), novelist
- George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), poet, novelist and politician
- Marcus Sedgwick (born 1968), children's writer
- Charles Sedley (1639–1701), poet, rake and politician
- Kate Sedley (real name Brenda Clarke, born 1926), novelist
- Frederic Seebohm (1833–1912), economic historian
- John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), historian and essayist
- Rachel Seiffert (born 1971), novelist
- David Selbourne (born 1937), political philosopher and playwright
- Catherine Selden (fl. 1797–1817), novelist
- John Selden (1584–1654), polymath
- Will Self (born 1961), novelist and columnist
- Charles Seltman (1886–1957), art historian
- George Selwyn (1719–1791), letter writer and wit
- Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), economist
- Sepharial (real name Walter Gorn Old, 1864–1929), astrologer and numerologist
- Gitta Sereny (born 1921), biographer and historian
- Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), novelist and poet
- Robert Service (born 1947), historian and Russian specialist
- Diane Setterfield (born 1964), novelist
- Elkanah Settle (1648–1724), playwright and poet
- Anna Seward ("Swan of Lichfield", 1747–1809), poet and biographer
- Thomas Seward (1708–1790), writer
- William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist
- Anna Sewell (1820–1878), novelist, Black Beauty
- Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906), novelist and religious writer
- Mary Wright Sewell (1797–1884), children's writer
- William Sewell (1804–1874), writer, translator and cleric
- Miranda Seymour (born 1948), biographer, novelist and children's writer
- Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), Poet Laureate, Historiographer Royal and playwright
- Anthony Shaffer (born 1926), playwright and novelist, Sleuth
- Peter Shaffer (born 1926), playwright, Equus
- Eddy Shah (born 1944), novelist and newspaper owner
- Saira Shah (born 1964), writer and film-maker
- Tahir Shah (born 1966), travel writer and critic
- Olivia Shakespear (1863–1938), novelist and playwright
- Nicholas Shakespeare (born 1957), novelist and biographer
- William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), poet and playwright
- Edward Shanks (1892–1953), poet and critic
- Jo Shapcott (born 1953), poet and scholar
- Evelyn Sharp (1869–1955), journalist, children's writer and suffragist
- Margery Sharp (1905–1991), novelist, children's writer and playwright
- Richard Sharp (1759–1835), controversialist, politician and hatter
- Thomas Wilfred Sharp (1901–1978), writer on town and country planning
- Kevin Sharpe (1949–2011), historian
- Richard Sharpe (living), medieval historian
- Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), ornithologist and editor
- Tom Sharpe (born 1928), novelist
- George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
- Pete Shaw (born 1966), writer and producer
- Peter Shaw (1694–1763), physician, medical writer and translator
- Robert Shaw (1927–1978), actor and novelist
- Watkins Shaw (1911–1996), musicologist
- John Shebbeare (1709–1788), novelist and satirist
- John Sheffield (known as Mulgrave, later Buckingham, 1647–1721) poet, essayist and politician
- Mary Shelley (1797–1851), author, Frankenstein
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet
- George Shelvocke (1675–1742), travel writer and privateer
- William Shenstone (1714–1763), poet
- Stav Sherez (born 1970), novelist
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), playwright, The Rivals
- William Sherlock (1641–1707), theologian and cleric
- R. C. Sherriff (1890–1975), playwright, novelist and screenwriter, Journey's End
- Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), science writer, physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
- Norman Sherry (born 1935), novelist and biographer
- Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851), children's writer and tractarian
- James Shirley (1596–1666), playwright
- Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), novelist
- Fredegond Shove (1889–1949), poet
- Nevil Shute (1899–1960), novelist and aviation engineer, A Town Like Alice
- Penelope Shuttle (born 1947), poet and novelist
- Gareth Sibson (born 1977), novelist and broadcaster
- Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), artist and poet
- Mary Sidney later Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, (1561–1621), poet and translator
- Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet and soldier
- Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester (1563–1626) poet and statesman
- Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955), novelist
- Jon Silkin (1930–1997), poet, editor and critic
- Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), novelist, poet and translator, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
- Elizabeth Simcoe (1762–1850), diarist
- George Augustus Simcox (1841–1905), poet and scholar
- Kathryn Simmonds (born 1972), poet and story writer
- Jack Simmons (1915–2000), historian
- Dave Simpson (living), playwright and adapter
- David Simpson (1745–1799), religious writer and cleric
- Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), novelist
- Helen Simpson (born 1959), novelist and story writer
- Joe Simpson (born 1960), mountaineer and writer, Touching the Void
- John Simpson (1746–1812), religious writer and Unitarian minister
- John Simpson (born 1953), lexicographer, Oxford English Dictionary
- John Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887), playwright
- N. F. Simpson (1919–2011), playwright and adapter
- George Robert Sims (1847–1922), writer, poet and journalist
- Andrew Sinclair (born 1945), novelist, historian and biographer
- Clive Sinclair (born 1948), novelist
- Ian Sinclair writer, poet and film-maker
- May Sinclair (real name Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863–1946), novelist, poet and critic
- C. H. Sisson (1914–2003), poet, translator and writer
- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), poet
- Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969), writer
- Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), poet and writer
- Barbara Skelton (1916–1996), novelist and memoirist
- John Skelton (c. 1460–1529), poet and satirist
- Robert Skidelsky (born 1939), economic historian and biographer
- Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903), poet and editor
- George Edward MacKenzie Skues (1858–1949), writer on fishing
- Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), children's writer, Jessamy
- Edward Slow (1841–1925), dialect poet and carriage maker
- Carolyn Smart (born 1952), poet
- Christopher Smart (1722–1771), poet
- Francis Edward Smedley (1818–1864), novelist
- Menella Bute Smedley (1819–1877), novelist, poet and translator
- Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860), writer, entertainer and mountaineer
- Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), poet and novelist
- Dodie Smith (1896–1990), novelist and playwright, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Edmund Smith (1672–1710), poet and translator
- Eleanor Smith (1902–1945), novelist
- Emma Smith (born 1923), novelist and children's writer
- Horace Smith (born Horatio Smith, 1779–1849), novelist and poet
- Joan Smith (born 1953), novelist and journalist
- John Frederick Smith (1806–1890), novelist
- Ken Smith (1938–2003), poet
- Michael Marshall Smith (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
- Miles Smith (1554–1624), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Sid Smith (born 1949), novelist and journalist
- Stevie Smith (1902–1971), poet and novelist
- Sydney Smith (1771–1845), writer and cleric
- Tom Rob Smith (born 1979), novelist
- Wentworth Smith (1571 – c. 1623), playwright
- William Smith (fl. 1590s), poet
- William Smith (1769–1839), geologist
- William Smith (1813–1893), lexicographer
- Zadie Smith (born 1975), novelist, White Teeth
- Frank Smythe (1900–1949), writer and mountaineer
- C. P. Snow (1905–1980), novelist and physicist
- William Somervile (1675–1742), poet
- Charles Sorley (1895–1915), poet
- William Sotheby (1757–1833), poet and translator
- Ahdaf Soueif (born 1950), novelist and translator
- Robert South (1634–1716), theologian and cleric
- R. W. Southern (1912–2001), historian
- Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate
- Robert Southwell (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and Jesuit martyr
- Robert Spaulding (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Rachel Speght (born 1596), poet and polemicist
- Henry Spelman (c. 1562–1641), historian and antiquary
- Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), poet
- Colin Spencer (born 1933), writer, artist and broadcaster
- Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), philosopher
- John Spencer (1630–1693), scholar, religious historian and cleric
- William Robert Spencer (1769–1834), poet and wit
- Stephen Spender (1909–1995), poet, novelist and travel writer
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), poet, The Faerie Queene
- John Spenser (1559–1614), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Dennis Spooner (1932–1986), TV screenwriter, Doctor Who
- William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), scholar and perpetrator of spoonerisms
- Jean Sprackland (born 1962), poet
- Francis Spufford (born 1964), writer
- Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), religious writer and Baptist minister
- J. C. Squire (1884–1958), poet and historian
- Edward St Aubyn (born 1960), novelist and journalist
- Bayle St. John (1822–1859), travel writer and biographer
- Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751) politician and philosopher
- James Augustus St. John (born James John, 1795–1875), journalist, writer and traveler
- Spenser St. John (1825–1910), biographer, travel writer and diplomat
- Brian Stableford (born 1948), SF writer
- Tom Stacey (born 1930), novelist, writer and publisher
- Julian Stallabrass (living), art historian
- John Stallworthy (born 1935), scholar and poet
- John Stammers (born 1954), poet
- Josiah Stamp (1880–1941), economist and banker
- Derek Stanford (1918–2008), biographer and poet
- Louisa Stanhope (fl. 1806–1827), novelist
- Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, (1694–1773) politician and writer
- Arthur Stanley (1815–1881), religious writer, theologian and cleric
- Thomas Stanley (1625–1678), poet and philosopher
- Andy Stanton (living), children's writer,
- Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950), philosopher and novelist, Star Maker
- Freya Stark (1893–1993), travel writer
- Mariana Starke (1761/2–1838), travel writer, poet and playwright
- Boris Starling (born c. 1969), novelist and screenwriter
- William Thomas Stead (1849–1912), journalist and social campaigner
- Michael Steed (born 1940), political scientist and broadcaster
- Wickham Steed (1871–1856), journalist and historian
- Anne Steele (wrote as Theodosia, 1717–1778), hymn writer
- David Ramsay Steele (living), philosopher
- Jonathan Steele (living), writer and journalist
- Marguerite Steen (1894–1975), novelist and biographer
- George Steevens (1736–1800), Shakespeare scholar and editor
- James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), poet
- Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), writer and mountaineer
- Frederic George Stephens (1828–1907), art critic
- Henry Pottinger Stephens (1851–1903), playwright and novelist, Billee Taylor
- James Francis Stephens (1792–1852), entomologist
- Robert Stephens (1665–1732), Historiographer Royal and historian
- Simon Stephens (born 1971), playwright
- G. B. Stern (1890–1973), novelist, playwright and biographer
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), novelist, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- George Alexander Stevens (1710–1780), playwright, poet and actor
- Matthew Stevenson (died 1654), poet
- William Stevenson poet and playwright, Gammer Gurton's Needle (presumed author)
- Angus Stewart (1936–1998) novelist, diarist and poet
- John "Walking" Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher and traveller
- Mary Stewart (born 1916), novelist
- William Stobbs (1914–2000), children's writer and illustrator
- Julian Stockwin (born 1944), novelist
- Sewell Stokes (1902–1979), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
- Nick Stone (born 1966), novelist
- Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), hymn writer and cleric
- David Storey (born 1933), novelist and playwright
- Catherine Storr (1913–2001), children's writer, Marianne Dreams
- Thomas Story (c. 1670–1742), religious writer and Quaker preacher
- John Stow (c. 1525–1605), historian and antiquarian
- Herbert Strang (pen name of George Herbert Ely, 1866–1958, and Charles James L'Estrange, 1867–1947), children's writers
- Alix Strachey (1892–1973), psychoanalyst and translator
- James Strachey (1887–1967), psychoanalyst, translator and editor
- Julia Strachey (1901–1979), novelist
- Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer and critic, Eminent Victorians
- Ray Strachey (born Rachel Costelloe, 1887–1940), biographer and writer on women's suffrage
- Paul Strathern (born 1940), novelist and scholar
- Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), children's writer, Ballet Shoes
- A. G. Street (1892–1966), writer and broadcaster
- Cecil Street (wrote as John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Waye, 1884–1965), novelist
- Joe Stretch (born 1982), novelist
- Hesba Stretton (real name Sarah Smith, 1832–1911), novelist, story writer and children's writer
- Agnes Strickland (1796–1874), history writer, poet and children's writer
- William Strode (1600–1643), poet
- Leonard Strong (L. A. G. Strong, 1896–1958), novelist, poet and children's writer
- Jan Struther (real name Joyce Anstruther, (1901–1953), novelist and hymn writer
- Alexander Stuart (living), novelist and screenwriter
- Muriel Stuart (1885–1967), poet and garden writer
- John Stubbs or Stubbe (c. 1543–1591), pamphleteer
- John Studley (c. 1545 – c. 1590), translator
- Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) abolitionist writer and campaigner
- Howard Sturgis (1855–1920), novelist
- Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), novelist and poet
- George Sturt (wrote as George Bourne, 1863–1927), country writer
- John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer
- Showell Styles (1908–2005), novelist, children's writer and mountaineer
- John Suckling (1609–1642), poet
- J. W. N. Sullivan (1886–1937), science writer and journalist
- Montague Summers (1880–1948), author, translator and critic
- Kate Summerscale (born 1965), writer and journalist
- Alfred Sutro (1863–1933), playwright and translator
- Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864), novelist
- E. W. Swanton (1907–2000), cricket writer and broadcaster
- Graham Swift (born 1949), novelist
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), poet
- Robert Swindells (born 1939), children's writer
- Randall Swingler (1909–1967), poet
- Frank Swinnerton (1884–1982), novelist and editor
- Christopher Sykes (1907–1986), travel writer and biographer
- Percy Sykes (1867–1945), travel writer and historian
- Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), poet
- John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), poet and critic
- A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), writer and bibliographer
- Arthur Symons (1865–1945), poet and essayist
- Julian Symons (1912–1994), crime writer and poet
- Mitchell Symons (born 1957), writer and journalist
- George Szirtes (born 1948), poet and translator
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