Authors and Poets
- Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001), poet
- Alla Rakha Khan (1919–2000) Indian tabla player
- Amin Kamil, Kashmiri poet & short story writer
- Basharat Peer (1977- ), author
- Chandrakanta (1938- ), novelist and short story writer
- Dina Nath Walli alias Al-mast Kashmiri (1908-2006), poet as well as renowned water color artist
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911–1984) influential left-wing intellectual, famed revolutionary poet, notable member Progressive Writers' Movement, recipient Lenin Peace Prize by Soviet Union
- Habba Khatun 16th century poetess, known under the name Zoon (the Moon) because of her immense beauty
- Hari Kunzru (1969- ), British novelist of Kashmiri descent
- Jaspreet Singh, novelist and playwright
- Khalid Hasan (1935–2009) writer, senior Pakistani journalist and diplomat.
- Krishan Chander (1914–1977) Urdu and Hindi Afsaana Nigaar, or short story writer
- Krishna Hutheesing (1907–1967), author, and sister of Jawaharlal Nehru
- Manju Kak, short story writer
- Maqbool Shah Kralawari (1820–1876), lyricist
- Meeraji (1912–1949) an eminent Urdu poet, lived the life of a bohemian and worked only intermittently
- Mahmud Gami (1765–1855), composed a version of the story of Yusuf and Zulaikha
- Ghulam Ahmad (1885–1952), poet, better known by the pen name Mahjoor
- Momin Khan Momin (1800-1851) Indian poet known for his Urdu ghazals
- Moti Lal Kemmu (1933- ), playwright
- Moti Lal Saqi (1936–1999), poet, writer, folklorist and researcher
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) famous Muslim poet and philosopher. Commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal
- Mohammad Ishaq Khan (1946- ) foremost historian of Kashmir well known for his scholarly works on Islam in Kashmir with special reference to Sufism, society and culture
- Nayantara Sahgal (1927- ), Indo-Anglian writer, novelist
- Prem Nath Dar (1914–1976) Urdu language short story writer from the Kashmir Valley, member Progressive Writers' Movement
- Rehman Rahi, Kashmiri poet
- Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955), famous short story writer, member Progressive Writers' Movement
- Salman Rushdie (1947- ), novelist and essayist
- Santha Rama Rau (1923- ), travel writer
- Shivkumar Sharma (1938- ) Indian Santoor player, Santoor being a folk instrument from Kashmir
- S.L. Sadhu (1917–), Scholar, Professor, poet, writer, folklorist and Historian
- Pamposh Bhat, (1958- ), author and environmentalist
- Qudrat Ullah Shahab (1917–1986) eminent Urdu writer and civil servant from Pakistan, best known for his autobiography Shahabnama
- Zinda Kaul (1884–1965), poet, also known as Masterji
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