- A. J. Cronin, (1896–1981),
- A.R. Gurney
- Aaron Sorkin
- Abraham Dov Ber Gottlober, (1811–1899),
- Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden, (1840–1908),
- Abu Khalil Qabbani, (1835–1902),
- Adam de la Halle, (1237 – 1288),
- Adam de la Halle, (1237 – 1288),
- Adam Rapp
- Adolf von Wilbrandt
- Adrienne Kennedy
- Aeschylus,, (525 İÖ - 456 İÖ),
- Agatha Christie, (1890–1976),
- Agathon
- Agnes Walsh
- Agustus Montrose, (1830–1899),
- Ajmer Singh Aulakh,
- Akbar Radi,, (1939–2007),
- Alan Ayckbourn,
- Alan Bennett,
- Alan Berks
- Alan Foster Friedman
- Alan Gross
- Albert Camus, (1913–1960),
- Alberto Casella, (1891–1957),
- Alden Nowlan, (1933–1983),
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- Alejandro Rodriguez Alvarez
- Aleksander Fredro, (1793–1876),
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- Alex Dremann, (d. 1966),
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- Alexander Kluge
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- Alfred Jarry,
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- Alice Caroline
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- Almir Imsirevic
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- Ama Ata Aidoo
- Amy Fox, (d. 1975)
- André Birabeau, (1890–1974),
- Andreas Gryphius
- Andrew Cherry, (1762–1812)
- Angelo Ambrogini ya da Angelo Poliziano
- Angelo Beolco
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- Anna Deavere Smith
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- Antonio Gil y Zárate, (1793–1861),
- Aphra Behn, (1640–1689),
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- Ariel Dorfman
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- Aristophanes, (446 İÖ - 385 İÖ),
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- Arno Schmidt
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- Arthur M. Jolly
- Arthur Miller, (1915–2005)
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- Athol Fugard,
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- August Blanche
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- August von Kotzebue
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- Augustin Daly, (1838–1899),
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- Ben Jonson,
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- Brad Erickson
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- Caleb Lewis
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- Carl Zuckmayer, (1896–1977),
- Carlo Bertolazzi, (1870–1916),
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- Carlos Arniches, (1866–1943),
- Carlos Canales, (d. 1955),
- Carlos von Son
- Caryl Churchill
- Casimir-Jean-François Delavigne, (1793–1843),
- Charles D. Brooks, III, (d. 1939),
- Charles Gordone, (1925–1995),
- Charles J. Fourie
- Charles L. Mee
- Charles Ludlam
- Charles Rivière Dufresny, (1654–1724),
- Charles Rivière Dufresny, (1654–1724),
- Charles Smith
- Charles Wood
- Charlotte Charke, (1713–1760)
- Chay Yew
- Cheryl A. Costa, (d. 1952),
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon, (1653–1725),
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- Christine Brückner
- Christoph Gahl
- Christopher Durang
- Christopher Fry, (1907–2005),
- Christopher John,
- Christopher Marlowe, (1564–1593)
- CJ Hopkins
- Clare Boothe Luce,
- Clare Boothe, (1903–1987),
- Clemence Dane, (1888–1965),
- Cleve Haubold, (d. 1930)
- Clifford Bax, (1886–1962),
- Clifford Odets, (1906–1963),
- Clyde Fitch, (1865–1909),
- Colin Sargent
- Colley Cibber, (1671–1757),
- Colorado Tolston, T. James Belich'in takma adı, (d. 1976),
- Craig Lucas
- Craig Walker
- Curt Goetz, (1888–1960),
- D Underbelly, (United States)
- D. B. Gilles, (United States)
- Dale Wasserman
- Dan Fenton
- Dan O'Brien
- Daniel Call
- Darcy Hogan
- Dario Fo
- David Auburn, (d. 1969)
- David Belasco, (1853–1931),
- David Campton, (d. 1924),
- David Edgar
- David Fleisher.
- David French
- David Garrick, (1717–1779),
- David Gieselmann
- David Gow, (d. 1964),
- David Greenspan
- David Greig,
- David Grimm, (d. 1965),
- David Hare, (d. 1947)
- David Ives
- David Lindsay-Abaire
- David Mamet,, (d. 1947),
- David Marshall Grant
- David Mercer
- David Rabe
- David Rudkin
- David Sedaris
- David Storey
- David W. Christner
- David Williamson, (d. 1942),
- David-Augustin de Brueys, (1640–1723),
- Del Shores
- Denis Diderot, (1713–1784),
- Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin, (1744/5-1792),
- Denis Johnston
- Dennis Kelly
- Derek Alan Fuzzell, (d. 1985),
- Derek Walcott
- Derrick Matthew Smith
- Dharamvir Bharati
- Dick McBride, (d. 1928)
- Diego Fabbri, (1911–1980),
- Dimitrios Mpogris, ( 1890–1964 )
- Dion Boucicault, (1820/22-1890),
- Don Duyns, (d. 1967),
- Don Evans,
- Donald Margulies
- Donato Giannotti, (1492–1573),
- Dorothy Hewett, (1923–2002)
- Douglas William Jerrold
- Dr. Narendra Mohan
- Duke of Buckingham ya da George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
- Dusty Hughes
- E. E. Cummings, (1894–1962),
- Earl of Dorset ya da Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset}
- Ed Graczyk
- Edmé Boursault, (1638–1701),
- Edmond Jean Baptiste Duesberg, (1857-1944),
- Edmond Rostand
- Edna Ferber, (1887–1968),
- Édouard Bourdet, (1887–1945),
- Eduardo De Filippo, (1900–1984),
- Edward Albee, (d. 1928),
- Edward Bond
- Edward Bullins, (d. 1935),
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, (1803–1873),
- Edward Sheldon
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Elias Canetti
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- Ellen McLaughlin
- Else Lasker-Schüler
- Émile Augier, (1820–1889),
- Émile Fabre, (1869–1955),
- Émile Zola, (1840–1902),
- Emilio Carballido (1925–2008),
- Emlyn Williams,
- Enid Bagnold
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- Enrico Bassano, (1899–1999),
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- Eric Bogosian
- Eric Simonson, (d. 1960)
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- Erich Fried
- Erik Ehn
- Ernest Thompson, (d. 1949),
- Ernst Barlach, (1870–1938),
- Ernst Hardt, (1876–1947)
- Ernst Toller
- Erwin Riess
- Esther Gerritsen
- Étienne Aignan
- Eugène Brieux, (1858–1932),
- Eugène Ionesco,
- Eugene O'Neill, (1888–1953)
- Euripides, (485 İÖ - ca. 406 İÖ),
- Eve Ensler
- Ewan MacColl
- Federico Della Valle, (1560–1628),
- Federico García Lorca, (1898–1936),
- Félix Morisseau-Leroy, (Moriso Lewa), (1912–1998)
- Feo Belcari, (1410–1484),
- Ferdinand Bruckner, (1891–1958),
- Ferdinand Raimund
- Ferdinando Galiani, (1728–1787),
- Ferhan Sensoy
- Fernand Crommelynck, (1885–1970),
- Fernando Arrabal, (d. 1932),
- Florencio Sánchez
- Florent Carton Dancourt, (1661–1725),
- Frances Goodrich, (1890–1984),
- Francesca Sanders
- Francesco Augusto Bon, (1788–1858),
- Francis Beaumont, (1584-85 - 1616),
- Francis de Croisset, (1877–1937),
- Francis Tolson, (died 1745-6)
- Francisco Arriví
- Francisco Antonio Bances y López-Candamo, (1662–1704),
- Franco Ambriz
- François Billetdoux, (1927–1991),
- François Coppée, (1842–1908),
- François de Curel, (1854–1928),
- Frank D. Gilroy, (d. 1925),
- Frank Howson
- Frank Marcus , (1928–1996)
- Frank McGuinness
- Frank Wedekind
- Franz Fühmann, (1922–1984),
- Franz Grillparzer
- Franz Theodor Csokor, (1885–1969),
- Franz Werfel
- Franz Xaver Kroetz
- Frawley Becker,
- Frederic Lansing Day, (1886–1982),
- Frederick Knott
- Friederike Roth
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, (1921–1990),
- Friedrich Forster, (1895–1958),
- Friedrich Hebbel, (1813–1863)
- Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
- Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805)
- Fritz Hochwaelder
- Gabriel Barylli
- Gabriela Zapolska, (1860–1921),
- Gabriele d'Annunzio, (1863–1938),
- Gary Murway,
- Gaston de Caillavet, (1869–1915),
- Georg Büchner, (1813–1837),
- Georg Kaiser
- George Ade, (1866–1944),
- George L. Aiken,
- George Axelrod, (1922–2003),
- George Bernard Shaw, (1856–1950)
- George Chapman, (1560–1634),
- George Colman the Elder, (1732–1794),
- George Dalton
- George Etherege, (1635–1691),
- George F. Walker
- George Farquhar, (1677-8 - 1707),
- George Fitzmaurice, (1877–1963),
- George Francis Abbott, (1887–1995),
- George Gascoigne, (1535–1577),
- George Gordon Byron, (1788–1824),
- George H. Boker, (1823–1890),
- George Herman, (d. 1928)
- George Landen Dann, (1904-1977),
- George M. Cohan, (1878–1942),
- George Middleton, (1880–1967),
- George Pierce Baker, (1866–1935),
- George S. Kaufman
- George Shiels
- George Tabori
- Georges Arnaud, (1917–1987),
- Georges Berr, (1867–1942),
- Georges Courteline, (1858–1929),
- Georges Feydeau, (1862–1921),
- Georges Schehadé, (1905–1989),
- Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, (1585–1618)
- Gergely Csíky, (1842–1891),
- Gerhart Hauptmann, (1862–1946)
- Gerlinde Obermeier
- Gertrude Friedberg, (died 1989),
- Gherardo Gherardi, (1891–1949),
- Giambattista della Porta, (1535–1615),
- Giannino Antona-Traversi, (1860–1939),
- Gigio Artemio Giancarli, (1500–1550),
- Gil Vicente
- Giordano Bruno, (1548–1600),
- Giovan Maria Cecchi, (1518–1587),
- Giovanni Battista Cini, (1525–1586),
- Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio, (1504–1573),
- Giovanni Giraud, (1776–1834),
- Girish Karnad
- Girolamo Bargagli, (1537–1586),
- Giuseppe Baffico, (1852–1927),
- Giuseppe Giacosa, (1847–1906),
- Gordon Porterfield,
- Gore Vidal
- Gottfried Benn
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Govind Deshpande
- Graham Farrow England
- Graham Greene, (1904–1991),
- Gratien Gélinas, (1909–1999),
- Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880–1918),
- Guillén de Castro y Bellvís, (1569–1631),
- Guillermo Schmidhuber, (d. 1943)
- Gundi Ellert
- Gupta Sachin
- Gursharan Bha,
- Gustav Freytag, (1816–1895),
- Gustave Flaubert
- Günter Eich
- Günter Grass, (d. 1927),
- Habib Tanvir,
- Hall Caine, (1853–1931),
- Han Ong
- Hanif Kureishi
- Hans Chlumberg, (1897–1930),
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Hans Sachs
- Harley Granville-Barker, (1877–1946),
- Harold Brighouse, (1882–1958),
- Harold Pinter, (1930–2008),
- Harrison Watts
- Harry Kondoleon
- Harvey Fierstein, (d. 1952),
- Haseena Moin, (d. 1941)
- Heiner Müller,
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg, (1737–1823),
- Helmut Krausser
- Henning Mankell,
- Henri Bataille, (1872–1922),
- Henri Bernstein, (1876–1953),
- Henri Duvernois, (1875–1937),
- Henri Ghéon, (1875–1944),
- Henrik Ibsen,
- Henry Becque, (1837–1899),
- Henry Fielding, (1707–1754),
- Henry James Byron
- Henry Taylor
- Herbert Achternbusch
- Hermann Bahr, (1863–1934),
- Hermann Broch
- Hjalmar Bergman, (1883–1931),
- Honoré de Balzac, (1799–1850),
- Horton Foote
- Howard Barker
- Howard Brenton
- Hroswitha of Gandersheim
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Ian Fraser,
- Imamu Amiri Baraka, (d. 1934),
- Indy Daugherty , (d. 1995),
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Ingmar Bergman, (1918–2007),
- Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky, (1856–1909),
- Ion Luca Caragiale, (1852–1912),
- Ira Levin
- Isaac Bickerstaffe, (1735–1812),
- Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, (1894–1941),
- Itamar Moses
- Ivan Goll
- J. B. Priestley, (1894–1984),
- J. M. Barrie, (1860–1937),
- Jacinto Benavente, (1866–1954),
- Jacinto Grau Delgado, (1877–1958),
- Jack Davis, (1917–2000),
- Jack Gelber, (1932–2003),
- Jack Rosenthal
- Jaco Van Dormael
- Jacob Gordin, (1853–1909),
- Jacob Appel,
- Jacques Audiberti, (1899–1965),
- Jacques Bouralan ya da Jacques Deval
- Jacques Copeau, (1879–1949),
- Jacques Deval, (1894–1972),
- Jai Sepple
- Jaimie Martin
- Jaimie-Lee Harris Marcher Wise,
- Jakob Ayrer
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
- James Albery
- James Baldwin, (1924–1987),
- James Bridie, (1888–1951),
- James Elroy Flecker, (1884–1915),
- James Goldman, (1927–1998),
- James Joyce,
- James Nelson Barker, (1784–1858),
- James Reaney
- Jane Anderson
- Jane Arden, (1927–1982)
- Jane Martin,
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- Janet Silva
- János Nyíri
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- Jay Presson Allen, (1922–2006),
- Jean Anouilh, (1910–1987),
- Jean Bellemère ya da Jean Sarment
- Jean Bernard-Luc, (1909–1985),
- Jean Cocteau, (1889–1963),
- Jean Desmarets, (1595–1676),
- Jean Dutourd, (d. 1920),
- Jean Genet, (1910–1986),
- Jean Giono, (1895–1970),
- Jean Giraudoux, (1882–1944),
- Jean Palaprat
- Jean Racine
- Jean Tardieu
- Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset, (1709–1777),
- Jean-Jacques Bernard, (1888–1972),
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jean-Pierre Grédy, (d. 1920),
- Jeff Baron
- Jeff Goode,
- Jeffrey Hatcher
- Jeffrey Sweet
- Jeremy Gable, (d. 1982),
- Jerome Chodorov, (1911–2004),
- Jim Allen, (1926–1999),
- Jim Beaver,
- Jim Cartwright
- Jim Grover
- Jimmy Murphy
- Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo, (1905–1993),
- Joaquín Dicenta, (1863–1917),
- Joe DiPietro
- Joe Orton, (1933–1967),
- Joel Gersmann, (1942–2005),
- Johann Christoph Gottsched, (1700–1766),
- Johann Nestroy
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832),
- John Arden, (d. 1930),
- John B. Keane
- John Bale, (1495–1563),
- John Burkhardt
- John Colton, (1889–1946),
- John Crowne, (1640 – 1703),
- John Drinkwater, (1882–1937),
- John Dryden, (1631–1700),
- John Fletcher, (1579–1625),
- John Ford, (1586-1639 sonrası),
- John Galsworthy, (1867–1933),
- John Gay, (1685–1732),
- John Godber
- John Griffith Bowen
- John Guare, (d. 1938),
- John Heywood, (1497 – 1580)
- John Lloyd Balderston, (1889–1954),
- John Marston, (1576–1634)
- John Millington Synge
- John Mortimer, (1923–2009),
- John Osd.e, (1929–1994),
- John Patrick Shanley
- John Patrick
- John Ruganda, (1941–2007)
- John Vanbrugh
- John Webster, (1580 – 1634),
- John Whiting
- John William Van Druten
- John-Michael Howson
- Jon Fosse,
- Jonathan Harvey, (d. 1968)
- Jonathan Marc Sherman
- Jonathan Rand
- Jonathon Larson
- Jorge Arroyo, (d. 1959),
- Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas,
- José Antonio Giménez Arnau y Gran, (1912–1985),
- José de Cañizares, (1676–1750),
- José Echegaray, (1832–1916),
- José Rivera
- Jose Zorrilla y Moral
- José Zorrilla, (1817–1893),
- Joseph Addison, (1672–1719),
- Joseph Fields, (1895–1966),
- Joseph Kesselring
- Baron Joseph von Eichendorff, (1788–1857),
- Joshua Taylor
- Jörg Graser
- Juan Bautista Diamante, (1625–1687),
- Juan de la Cueva, (1550–1610),
- Juan del Encina, (1469 - 1529-30),
- Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza
- Judith Sapperstein
- Judith Thompson
- Jules Eckert Goodman, (1876–1962),
- Jules Feiffer, (d. 1929),
- Julien Green, (1900–1998),
- Jun Lana
- Jurek Becker
- Justin Fleming
- Justin Poisson
- Jürgen Becker
- Kaj Munk,
- Kalidasa
- Kang Baek Lee,
- Karel Čapek, (1890–1938),
- Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
- Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
- Paul Ernst, (1866–1933),
- Karl König
- Karl Kraus
- Katharina Gericke
- Kathie Lee Gifford
- Keith Waterhouse
- Ken Ludwig
- Kenneth G. Ross
- Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
- Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
- Kenneth Lonergan
- Kent R. Brown
- Kermi Goell
- Ketti Frings, (1909–1981),
- Kjeld Abell, (1901–1961),
- Klaus Chatten
- Klaus Mann
- Kurt Besci, (d. 1920),
- Kurt Tucholsky
- L. Frank Baum, (1856–1919),
- Lady Augusta Gregory, (1852–1932),
- Landen Gessell
- Lanford Wilson,
- Langston Hughes,
- Larry Gelbart, (1928–2009),
- Larry Shue
- Lars Forssell, (1928–2007),
- Lars Norén,
- Laurence Mark Wythe
- Laurence Wilson, (d. 1970),
- Lawrence Riley
- Lazarre Seymour Simckes, (d. 1937)
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín, (1760–1828),
- Leilah Assunção,
- Lennie Varvarides,
- Lennox Robinson
- Leo Butler, (ö. 1974)
- Leo Ferrero, (1903–1933),
- Leonard Melfi,
- Leonhard Frank, (1882–1961),
- Leonid Andreyev, (1871–1919),
- Leslie Ayvazian
- Leslie Bonnet, (1902–1985),
- Lewis Black,
- Lillian Hellman, (1905–1984)
- Lilly Axster, (1896–1948)
- Linda Chambers,
- Lion Feuchtwanger, (1884–1958),
- Lucius Livius Andronicus
- Lionel Abel (1910-2001)
- Lodovico Dolce, (1508 – 1568),
- Lord Dunsany, (1878–1957),
- Lorraine Hansberry, (1930–1965)
- Louis Carette ya da Félicien Marceau
- Louis O. Coxe, (1918–1993),
- Lucas Fernández, (1474–1542),
- Lucien Besnard, (1872–1955),
- Lucien Descaves, (1861–1949),
- Lucille Fletcher
- Ludovico Ariosto, (1474–1533),
- Ludvig Holberg
- Ludwig Anzengruber, (1839–1889),
- Ludwig Fels
- Ludwig Tieck
- Luigi Capuana, (1839–1915),
- Luigi Chiarelli, (1880–1947),
- Luigi Jannuzzi
- Luigi Pirandello, (1867–1936),
- Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez, (1590 – 1650),
- Luis Fernández Ardavín, (1891–1962),
- Lutz Rathenow
- Lydia R. Diamond, (d. 1969),
- Lyle Kessler,
- Lynn Nottage
- George Macropedius,, (1487–1558)
- Madge Dishman
- Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, (1796–1873),
- Manuel José Arce
- Marc Blitzstein, (1905–1964),
- Marc Camoletti
- Marc Connelly, (1890–1980),
- Marc Dunn
- Marcel Achard, (1899–1974),
- Marcel Aymé, (1902–1967),
- Marcel Dubé, (d. 1930),
- Margaret Edson
- Margo Linnet,
- Marguerite Duras, (1914–1996),
- Maria Adelaide Amaral,
- Maria Irene Fornes
- Marie Aspioti, (1909-2000),
- Marieluise Fleisser
- Marin Držić
- Marion Adams-Acton, (1846-1928),
- Marius von Mayenburg
- Mark Medoff
- Mark Scharf
- Marsha L. Grant
- Marsha Norman
- Mart Crowley, (d. 1935),
- Martin Flavin, (1883–1967),
- Martin McDonagh,, (d. 1970)
- Martin Walser
- Mary Coyle Chase, (1907–1981),
- Mary Reinhardt
- Mary Rohde Scudday
- Massimo Bontempelli, (1878–1960),
- Maureen Hunter
- Maurice Donnay, (1859–1945),
- Max Brod, (1884–1968),
- Max Frisch, (1911–1991),
- Maxim Gorky, (1868–1936),
- Máximo Avilés-Blonda
- Maxwell Anderson, (1888–1959),
- Melvyn Morrow
- Menander
- Merrill Denison, (1893–1975),
- Michael Cook
- Michael Cristofer
- Michael Drayton, (1563–1631),
- Michael Fackelmann
- Michael Frayn
- Michael Hollinger
- Michael MacLennan
- Michael V. Gazzo, (1923–1995),
- Michel de Ghelderode, (1898–1962),
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Younger, (1568–1642),
- Miguel de Cervantes, (1547–1616),
- Mike Bartlett
- Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891–1940),
- Miklos Laszlo,, (1903–1973)
- Miles Tredinnick
- Mirza Adeeb, (1914–1999),
- Mohan Rakesh,
- Moisés Kaufman
- Molière,, (1622–1673)
- Monica Malek-Yonan
- Moritz Schiff
- Moss Hart, (1904–1961)
- Mulat Ayalneh
- Naomi Iizuka
- Naomi Wallace
- Narciso Pimentel, Jr.
- Natalie Gaupp, (d. 1967),
- Nathan Bruhn
- Nathan Field
- Neil LaBute
- Neil Simon
- Nell Dunn
- Nell Leyshon
- Nelly Sachs
- Nestor Kukolnik
- Nicholas Stuart Gray, (1922–1981),
- Nicholas Udall
- Nicholas Wright,
- Nick Enright
- Nicky Silver
- Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, (1737–1780),
- Nigel Heseltine, (1916–1995)
- Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol, (1809–1852),
- Nilo Cruz
- Noël Coward, (1899–1973),
- Norm Foster, (d. 1949),
- Ntozake Shange
- Octave Mirbeau, (1848–1917)
- Oliver Bukowski
- Oliver Goldsmith, (1728/30-1774),
- Olympe de Gouges
- Onyeka,
- Oscar Wilde,
- Oskar Braaten
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Ossie Davis, (1917–2005),
- Otto Ludwig
- Owen Davis, (1874–1956),
- Ödön von Horváth
- Paddy Chayefsky, (1923–1981),
- Padraic Colum, (1881–1972),
- Pali Bhupinder Singh,
- Paolo Ferrari, (1822–1889),
- Paolo Giacometti, (1816–1882),
- Pär Lagerkvist, (1891–1974),
- Parmod Singh
- Partap Sharma
- Pat Condell,
- Patrick Süskind
- Paul Claudel, (1868–1955),
- Paul Eliot Green, (1894–1981),
- Paul Foster, (d. 1937),
- Paul Foucher, (1810–1875),
- Paul Géraldy, (1885–1983),
- Paul Rudnick
- Paul Vincent Carroll, (1900–1968),
- Paul Zindel, (1936–2003),
- Paula Vogel
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca, (1600–1681),
- Per Olov Enquist,
- Percy Granger, (1945–1997),
- Peter Barnes
- Peter Basch
- Peter Brook,
- Peter Gordon,
- Peter Hacks, (1928–2003)
- Peter Handke, (d. 1942)
- Peter Hedges, (d. 1962)
- Peter Nichols
- Peter Oswald
- Peter Shaffer,, (d. 1926)
- Peter Weiss
- Peter Whelan
- Philip Ayckbourn
- Philip Barry, (1896–1949),
- Philip Dunning, (1891–1957),
- Philip Ridley
- Philippe Néricault Destouches, (1680–1754),
- Philippe Quinault, (1635–1688),
- Pierre Barillet, (d. 1923),
- Pierre Corneille, (1606–1684),
- Pierre de Beaumarchais, (1732–1799),
- Pierre de Marivaux
- Pierre du Ryer, (1606–1658),
- Pietro Aretino, (1492–1556),
- Pietro Cossa, (1830–1881),
- Plautus
- Polly Stenham
- Preston Sturges
- Prince Hoare
- Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, (1674–1762),
- R. C. Sherriff
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941),
- Rachel Axler,
- Rachel Crothers, (1878–1958),
- Rafael Alberti, (1902–1999),
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
- Rajiv Joseph
- Ralph Pape
- Ramón de la Cruz, (1731–1794),
- Ramvriksh Benipuri, (1902–1968)
- Ray Cooney,
- Ray Harrison Graham, (d. 1962)
- Ray Harrison Graham, (d. 1962)
- Reinhard Goering, (1887–1936),
- Reinhard Lettau
- René Fauchois, (1882–1962),
- Richard Bean, (d. 1956),
- Richard Beer-Hofmann, (1866–1945),
- Richard Billinger, (1893–1965),
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Richard Brome, (1590-1652/53),
- Richard Conlon, (England)
- Richard Cumberland, (1732–1811),
- Richard Greenberg
- Richard Nelson
- Rick Cleveland, (United States)
- Rick Fonté
- Rick Kunzi
- Rick Shiomi
- Rob Shearman
- Robert Bolt, (1924–1995),
- Robert Browning, (1812–1889),
- Robert de Flers, (1872–1927),
- Robert E. Sherwood
- Robert Edwin Lee
- Robert Garnier, (1544–1590),
- Robert Greene, (1558–1592),
- Robert Montgomery Bird, (1806–1854),
- Robert Musil
- Robert Patrick
- Robert Schenkkan
- Robert Schenkkan,
- Robert Taylor Conrad, (1810–1858),
- Robert W. Anderson, (d. 1917),
- Robert Walser
- Roberto Arlt
- Roberto Bracco, (1861–1943),
- Robertson Davies, (1913–1995),
- Robin Swados
- Rochelle Owens
- Rodolfo Usigli
- Roger Ferdinand ya da Roger-Ferdinand
- Roger Iverson
- Roger Martin du Gard
- Rolf Hochhuth
- Romain Coolus, (1868–1952),
- Romulus Linney
- Ron Schnitzius
- Ron Sparks
- Ronnie Warren, (d. 1964),
- Rony Robinson
- Rosie Malek-Yonan
- Roxann Dawson
- Rudolph Besier, (1878–1942),
- Rupert Holmes
- Russel Crouse, (1893–1966),
- Ruth and Augustus Goetz
- Ruth Gordon, (United States)
- Ruth Hale, (1908–2003)
- S. Ansky, (1863–1920),
- S. N. Behrman, (1893–1973),
- Saadallah Wannous,, (1941–1997)
- Sacha Guitry
- Sachin Gupta
- Salvatore Di Giacomo, (1860–1934),
- Sam Shepard, (d. 1943)
- Samantha Tennant, (d. 1996)
- Samuel Taylor
- Samuel Beckett, (1906–1989),
- Samuel Foote, (1720–1777),
- Samuel Hershaw
- Sandeep Aks Mehraj,
- Sandra Seaton
- Sarah Kane
- Sarah Ruhl
- Saunders Lewis
- Scott McMorrow
- Sean O'Casey, (1880–1964),
- Sem Benelli, (1877–1949),
- Seneca the Younger
- Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero Serafin, (1871–1938) Joaquin, (1873–1944),
- Sharon Pollock,
- Shawn Hirabayashi
- Sheila Callaghan
- Shelagh Delaney, (d. 1939),
- Shelagh Stephenson
- Sholem Asch, (1880–1957),
- Sidney Howard
- Sidney Kingsley
- Sieur de Bigot ya da Jean Palaprat
- Silvio Giovaninetti, (1901–1959),
- Simon Corble,
- Simon Gantillon, (1887–1961),
- Simon Gray, (1936–2008),
- Sita Ram Chaturvedi, (1907–1995),
- Sławomir Mrożek,
- Solomon Ettinger, (1800/03-1856),
- Sophocles
- St. John Ervine, (1883–1971),
- Staffan Göthe,
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ya da Witkacy, (1885–1939),
- Stanisław Przybyszewski, (1868–1927),
- Stanley Keyes,
- Stefan Andres, (1906–1970),
- Stefan Zweig, (1881–1942),
- Stephen Currens
- Stephen Lowe
- Stephen Tobolowsky,
- Stephen Wakelam
- Steven Dietz
- Steven Talbot
- Stig Dagerman, (1923–1954),
- Stig Larsson,
- Stuart Draper,
- Sue Lenier
- Sugathapala de Silva
- Susan Glaspell, (1882–1948),
- Susan Wald,
- Susannah Centlivre, (1667–1723),
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Suzanne Bradbeer
- Swadesh Deepak, (d. 1942),
- T. James Belich, (takma adı: Colorado Tolston), (d. 1976),
- T. S. Eliot, (1888–1965),
- Tad Mosel
- Tankred Dorst, (d. 1925),
- Tennessee Williams,
- Terence Rattigan
- Terence
- Terrence McNally,, (d. 1939)
- Terry Baum
- Terry Johnson
- Théodore de Banville, (1823–1891),
- Thomas Bernhard, (1931–1989),
- Thomas Brasch
- Thomas Corneille, (1625–1709),
- Thomas Dekker, (1572–1632),
- Thomas Kilroy
- Thomas Kyd
- Thomas Middleton, (d. 1850),
- Thornton Wilder,
- Tian Han
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Tina Howe
- Todd Bash
- Tom Griffin
- Tom Murphy
- Tom Stoppard
- Tommy Murphy
- Tony DiMurro,
- Tony Kushner
- Toyin Abiodun, (d. 1963),
- Trevor Griffiths
- Tristan Bernard, (1866–1947),
- Turner Austin Smith , (d. 1996)
- Tyler Perry,
- Ugo Betti, (1892–1953),
- Ugo Foscolo, (1778–1827),
- Ulpian Fulwell, (1545/6 – 1584/5/6)
- Ulrich Becher, (1910–1990),
- Ulrich Plenzdorf
- Utpal Dutta,
- Václav Havel, (1936–2011),
- Václav Kliment Klicpera
- Valentino Bompiani, (1898–1992),
- Vasile Alecsandri, (1821–1890),
- Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov
- VB Leghorn,
- Veza Canetti
- Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta, (1734–1787),
- Victor Hugo,
- Victoria Benedictsson, (1850–1888),
- Vijay Tendulkar,
- Vilhelm Moberg, (1898–1973),
- Vincenzo Giusti, (1532–1619),
- Vitaliano Brancati, (1907–1954),
- Vittorio Alfieri, (1749–1803),
- Vladimir Mayakovsky,
- Volker Braun
- W. H. Auden, (1907–1973),
- W. S. Gilbert, (1836–1911),
- Waldfried Burggraf ya da Friedrich Forster
- Wallace Shawn, (d. 1943)
- Walter Hasenclever, (1890–1940)
- Walter Learning,
- Warren Bowles
- Wendy Belden
- Wendy MacLeod
- Wendy Wasserstein, (1950–2006),
- Werner Aspenström, (1918–1997),
- Werner Schwab
- Will Eno
- Will Power
- William Alfred, (1922–1999),
- William Archibald, (1917–1970),
- William Boyle, (1853–1923),
- William Butler Yeats, (1865–1939),
- William Congreve, (1670–1729),
- William Davenant, (1606–1668),
- William Dunlap, (1766–1839),
- William Gibson, (d. 1914),
- William Gillette, (1855–1937),
- William Hanley, (d. 1931)
- William Inge
- William Marchant,, (1923–1995)
- Will Scott, (1893–1964)
- William Nicholson
- William Rufus Chetwood,, (died 1766),
- William Saroyan
- William Shakespeare,, (1564–1616)
- William Somerset Maugham
- William Wycherley
- Willy Millowitsch
- Willy Russell
- Witold Gombrowicz, (1904–1969),
- Wole Soyinka
- Wolfgang Bauer
- Wolfgang Borchert, (1921–1947),
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer, (1916–1991)
- Yasmina Reza
- Yesim Ozsoy Gulan
- Zillur Rahman John , (d. 1959)
- Zoë Akins
- Zog Kadare
- Zona Gale, (1874–1938),