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  • Густав Бадин (1747 или 1750–1822), шведский придворный слуга
  • Элизабет Бейкер (ок. 1720 - ок. 1797), английский секретарь и геолог.
  • Дэвид Патон Бальфур (1841–1894), новозеландский овцевод и начальник дорожного движения
  • Марта Баллард (1735–1812), американская акушерка и целительница
  • Сэмюэл Бэмфорд (1788–1872), английский диалектный поэт и теоретик диалекта
  • Мария Бануц (1914–1999), румынский поэт и публицист
  • Сара Банзет (1745–1774), французский педагог
  • Аурел Баранга (1913–1979), румынский драматург и поэт
  • WNP Barbellion (1889–1919), английский натуралист, эссеист и автор рассказов
  • Мэри Энн Баркер (1831–1911), австралийская писательница ямайского происхождения
  • Арчи Барвик (1890–1966), австралийский фермер и солдат
  • Вайком Мухаммад Башир (1908–1994), индийский активист и писатель.
  • Мария Башкирцева (1858–1884), украинский художник и скульптор (на французском языке)
  • Фред Бейсон (1907–1973), английский книготорговец, телеведущий и писатель
  • Энни Мария Бакстер (1816–1905), австралийская домохозяйка английского происхождения
  • Питер Хилл Берд (род. 1938), американский фотограф в Африке
  • Сесил Битон (1904–1980), английский модный, портретный и военный фотограф.
  • Симона де Бовуар (1908–1986), французский писатель и философ
  • Бен-но Найши (弁 内侍, c. 1220-е - c. 1270), японская придворная дама и поэт
  • Рут Бенедикт (1887–1948), американский антрополог.
  • Тони Бенн (Энтони Веджвуд Бенн, 1925–2014), английский политик
  • Алан Беннетт (1934 г.р.), английский писатель и драматург
  • Арнольд Беннетт (1867–1931), английский писатель.
  • AC Бенсон (1862–1925), английский академик, биограф и поэт.
  • Мярта Берендес (1639–1717), шведская хозяйка мантий.
  • Ольга Берггольц (1910–1975), советский поэт и драматург.
  • Пьер Бергуниу (1949 г.р.), французский писатель
  • Hélène Берр (1921-1945), французский писатель нацистской оккупации в Париже
  • Бертольт Брехт (1898–1956), немецкий драматург, поэт и политик.
  • Альфред Бестолл (1892–1986), английский иллюстратор, наиболее известный благодаря рассказам Руперта Медведя.
  • Мэри Матильда Бетэм (1776–1852), английский поэт, писательница и художник-миниатюрный портретист.
  • Мэн де Биран (1766–1824), французский писатель, философ и математик.
  • Леон Блуа (1846–1917), французский писатель, поэт и памфлетист.
  • Николас Бланделл (1669–1737), английский оруженосец
  • Уилфрид Скауэн Блант (1840–1922), английский поэт и писатель
  • Барбара Бодишон (1827–1891), английский педагог , феминистка и путешественница (Американский дневник 1857–1858)
  • Джордж Уоллес Боллинджер (1890–1917), новозеландский солдат
  • Вайолет Бонэм Картер (1887–1969), английский политик, дочь премьер-министра Е. Х. Асквита
  • Терезина Бонтемпи (1883–1968) швейцарский политический деятель
  • Стэнли Бут (1942 г.р.), американский музыкальный журналист
  • Юзеф Борувласки ( 1739–1837 ), польский карликовый музыкант
  • Джеймс Босуэлл (1740–1795), шотландский летописец Сэмюэля Джонсона
  • Джимми Бойл (1944 г.р.), шотландский гангстер, скульптор и писатель
  • Джоселин де Бракелонд (ок. 1155 - ок. 1202), английский монах (на латыни)
  • Ульрих Брекер (1735–1798), швейцарский самоучитель и писатель.
  • Джайлз Брандрет (1948 г.р.), английский писатель и политик
  • Элис Дэйрелл Калдейра Брант (1880–1970), бразильский подросток, ведущий дневник.
  • Патрик Брин (1795–1868), американский член партии Доннера , пострадавший, застряв в пустыне зимой 1846/47 года.
  • Сэр Уильям Бреретон, первый баронет (1604–1661), английский политический деятель и военный командир Раундхеда
  • Вера Бриттен (1893–1970), английский писатель и феминистка
  • Бенджамин Бриттен (1913–1976), английский композитор
  • Форд Мэдокс Браун (1821–1893), английский художник французского происхождения
  • Дэвид Брюс (1898–1977), американский посол
  • Натаниэль Брайсон (1826–1911), английский клерк
  • Томас Брин (1782–1827), норвежский юрист и государственный служащий
  • Эманойл Бучуна (1887–1946), румынский писатель, критик и поэт
  • Казимеж Буйницкий (1788–1878), польский писатель
  • Дебора Булл (1963 г.р.), английская балерина и писательница
  • Читатель Буллард (1885–1976), английский дипломат
  • Иван Бунин (1870–1953), русский / советский писатель
  • Фанни Берни (1752–1840), английский писатель, драматург и биограф
  • Ричард Бертон (1925–1984), валлийский актер
  • Элеонора Шарлотта Батлер (1739–1829) Одна из когда-то вызывающих споры дам Лланголлена.
  • Мэри Баттс (1890–1937), английский писатель
  • Уильям Берд II (1674–1744), колониальный американский диарист
  • Лорд Байрон (1788–1824), английский поэт и путешественник.

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  • Мэг Кэбот (1967 г.р.), американский автор YA
  • Александр Кадоган (1884–1968), английский дипломат и государственный служащий
  • Луи Калаферте (1928–1994), французский писатель и публицист.
  • Матей Кэлинеску (1934–2009), румынский критик и профессор
  • Аластер Кэмпбелл (1957 г.р.), англо-шотландский журналист, телеведущий и автор
  • Томас Кэмпбелл (1733–1795), ирландский протестантский министр и писатель-путешественник
  • Зенобия Кампруби (1887–1956), Гражданская война в Испании, вид с Кубы
  • Альбер Камю (1913–1960), французский писатель и философ алжирского происхождения.
  • Эмили Карр (1871–1945), канадская художница
  • Дора Кэррингтон (1893–1932), английский художник
  • Джим Кэрролл (1949–2009), американский писатель, поэт и музыкант
  • Льюис Кэрролл (Чарльз Л. Доджсон, 1832–1898), английский писатель и математик
  • Адольфо Биой Касарес (1914–1999), аргентинский писатель-фантаст и сотрудник Хорхе Луиса Борхеса
  • Ричард Кейси, барон Кейси (1890–1976), австралийский государственный деятель и посол
  • Джуди Кассаб (1920–2015), австралийская художница
  • Констанс де Кастельбажак (1859–1986), французский аристократ
  • Абелардо Кастильо (1935–2017), аргентинский писатель и публицист.
  • Барбара Кастл (1910–2002), английский политик
  • Анри де Катт (1725–1795), швейцарский ученый
  • Кэтрин Коуги (1923–2008), новозеландская взломщик кодов и эрготерапевт из Кении.
  • Ханна Ребекка Фрэнсис Каверхилл (1834–1897), домохозяйка из Новой Зеландии
  • Генри «Чипс» Ченнон (1897–1958), англо-американский политик и писатель.
  • Мириам Чащевацки (1924–1942), польская еврейская жертва Холокоста
  • Джон Чивер (1912–1982), американский писатель
  • Клэр Ли Ченно (1890–1958), американский генерал времен Второй мировой войны, глава « Летающих тигров»
  • Мэри Бойкин Чеснат (1823–1886), американка, описавшая жизнь в Южной Каролине во время Гражданской войны в США.
  • Чхве Бу (최부, 1454–1504), корейский чиновник и путешественник
  • Йохан Корен Кристи (1909–1995), норвежский генерал-майор ВВС
  • Галеаццо Чиано (1903–1944), министр иностранных дел Италии Муссолини.
  • Ханс Цибулка (1920–2004), немецкий чешский поэт
  • Эмиль Чоран (1911–1995), румынский писатель и философ
  • Алан Кларк (1928–1999), английский политик и историк
  • Эндрю Кларк (1856–1922), шотландский диарист и священнослужитель
  • Осси Кларк (1942–1996), английский модельер
  • Ральф Кларк (1755 или 1762 - 1794), шотландский военно-морской офицер
  • Виллем де Клерк (1795–1844), голландский протестантский возрожденец
  • Леди Энн Клиффорд (1590–1676), английский литературный покровитель и корреспондент
  • Курт Кобейн (1967–1994), американский рок-музыкант, солист группы Nirvana.
  • Генри Кокберн, лорд Кокберн (1779–1854), шотландский судья и писатель
  • Жан Кокто (1889–1963) французский писатель и кинорежиссер.
  • Джон Алан Коуи (1950–1975), американский солдат в родезийской армии
  • Мэри Кока (1727–1811), английский дневник и корреспондент
  • Уильям Коул (1714–1782), английский англиканский священнослужитель и антиквар
  • Морис Коллис (1889–1973), ирландский администратор в Бирме и писатель
  • Христофор Колумб (Cristoforo Colombo, c. 1451 - 1506), итальянский исследователь и колонизатор [1]
  • Джемайма Кондикт (1754–1779), американский детский дневник
  • Ив Конгар (1904–1995), французский доминиканский монах и богослов
  • Бенджамин Констан (1767–1830), французский писатель, философ и политик.
  • Этель Купер (1871–1961), австралийский музыкант и немецкий заключенный во время Первой мировой войны.
  • Элеонора Коппола (р. 1936), американский режиссер и писатель
  • Рэйчел Корри (1979–2003), американская активистка
  • Уильям Джонсон Кори (1823–1892), английский школьный учитель и ученый
  • Сельсо Бениньо Луиджи Костантини (1876–1958), кардинал Ватикана и апостольский канцлер
  • Ноэль Кауард (1899–1973), английский драматург и композитор
  • Мэри Каупер (1685–1724), английский придворный
  • Джеймс Кокс (1846–1925), новозеландский чародей
  • Питер Юлиус Койет (1618–1667), шведский посланник в Англии
  • Томас Криви (1768–1838), английский политик
  • Николас Крессуэлл (1750–1804), английский поселенец в американских колониях.
  • Николае Кристя (1834–1902), румынский священник и политический деятель.
  • Джон Уилсон Крокер (1780–1857), политик ирландского происхождения
  • Сьюзан Мэри Кромптон (1846–1932), австралийский реформатор социального обеспечения
  • Фриц Кронман (ок. 1640 - ок. 1680), шведский дипломат
  • Ричард Кроссман (1907–1974), английский политический деятель и писатель
  • Алистер Кроули (1875–1947), английский оккультист и поэт
  • Ханна Каллвик (1833–1909), английская домашняя прислуга и хозяйка жилого дома
  • Мария Кюри (1867–1934), польский физик и химик
  • Алексис Карверс (1906–1992), бельгийский писатель
  • Кирилл Чарковский-Голеевский (1885–1940), польский помещик, жертва Катыни.
  • Клементина Чарторыйская (1780–1852), польская дворянка
  • Адам Черняки (1880-1942), польский руководитель из Варшавского гетто «s юденрата и холокост жертвы

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  • Людвиг Дааэ (1829–1893), норвежский юрист и политик
  • Эжен Даби (1898–1936), французский писатель
  • Мария Домбровская (1889–1965), польский писатель и драматург
  • Луиса Дакоста (1927–2015), португальский писатель-фантаст и поэт
  • Томас Даллам (1570 - после 1614), английский органостроитель (дневник 1598–1599, путешествие в Турцию)
  • Джаспер Данкаертс (1639–1702/1704), голландский североамериканский колонист и писатель-путешественник.
  • Ng Thùy Trâm (1942–1970), хирург Вьетнамской армии
  • Якоб Херслеб Дарре (1757–1841), норвежский капеллан и представитель конституционного собрания
  • Грегорио Дати (1363–1435), флорентийский купец
  • Эмили Дэвис (1860-е), афроамериканский автор дневников
  • Анна Доубин (1816–1905), австралийская домохозяйка и приемная мать английского происхождения
  • Йенс Петер Дебес (1776–1832), норвежский судья и политик
  • Джон Ди, английский математик 17-го века и астроном валлийского происхождения
  • Софи Дедекам (1820–1894), норвежский композитор
  • Хельга Дин (1925–1943), голландско-немецкая жертва Холокоста
  • Эжен Делакруа (1798–1863), французский художник
  • Е. М. Делафилд (1890–1943), английский писатель.
  • Бернар Дельвай (1931–2006), французский поэт и антолог
  • Дан Deșliu (1927–1992), румынский поэт
  • Джузеппе Десси (1909–1977), итальянский писатель и драматург
  • Джордж Диаманди (1867–1917), румынский политик и социолог
  • Чарльз Лютвидж Доджсон: см. Льюиса Кэрролла
  • Джордж Бабб Додингтон (1691–1762), английский политик и дворянин
  • Pete Doherty, English rock musician (Babyshambles), (born 1979), ex-Libertines
  • Emil Dorian, Romanian poet and physician
  • Anna Dostoyevskaya (1846–1918), Russian wife of Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelist
  • Gusta Dawidson Draenger (1917–1943), Polish Holocaust victim
  • Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (c. 1735–1807), American Quaker diarist
  • Alice Dudeney (1866–1945), English novelist (life in Sussex)
  • Eugène Duflot de Mofras (1810–1884), French naturalist and diplomat
  • William Dugdale (1605–1686), English antiquary and historian
  • Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), French novelist and scriptwriter
  • Bob Dylan (born 1941), American musician and songwriter

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  • Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904), Swiss explorer and writer
  • Christina Ebner (1277–1356), German Dominican mystic
  • Margareta Ebner (1291–1351), German Dominican nun
  • Dickon Edwards (born 1971), British musician and dandy
  • Jacob Elet (earlier 18th c.), Dutch factor on the Slave Coast of West Africa
  • Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), Romanian historian of religion and mythologist
  • George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans, 1819–1880), English novelist
  • Edward Robb Ellis (1911–1998), American writer and reporter
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American writer
  • Selma Engel-Wijnberg (1922–2018), Dutch Holocaust survivor
  • Brian Eno (born 1948), English musician, record producer and polymath
  • Annie Ernaux (1940-), French writer
  • John Evelyn (1620–1706), English writer, scholar and gardener

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  • Marianne Faithfull (born 1946), English singer and actress
  • Joseph Farington (1747–1821), English landscape painter
  • Florence Farmborough (1887–1978), English nurse and author
  • John Pascoe Fawkner (1792–1869), Australian pioneer and politician
  • Eliza Fay (1756–1816), English traveller to India
  • Miksa Fenyő (1877–1972), Hungarian politician and poet
  • Jacques Fesch (1930–1957), French murderer and Catholic convert
  • Dorothea de Ficquelmont (1804–1863), Russian diarist in French and salonnière
  • Celia Fiennes (1652–1741), English traveler
  • Zlata Filipović (born 1980), Bosnian child and adult diarist in Sarajevo
  • Carrie Fisher (1956–2016), American actress and writer
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), American writer
  • Arne Fjellbu (1890–1962), Norwegian bishop
  • Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child diarist (diary 1809–1811)
  • Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940), lepidopterist
  • Barclay Fox (1817–1855), English broker and gardener, brother of Caroline
  • Caroline Fox (1819–1871), English socialite, sister of Barclay
  • George Fox (1624–1691), English founder of the Quakers
  • Anne Frank (1929–1945), Dutch Holocaust victim, documenting her life in hiding (diary 1941–1945)
  • Miles Franklin (1879–1954), Australian author
  • Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1789–1857), English wife of Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer), main contributor to The Wynne Diaries
  • Donald Friend (1915–1989), Australian artist
  • Robert Fripp (born 1946), English musician
  • Max Frisch (1911–1991), Swiss playwright and novelist
  • Samuel Fritz (1654–1725, 1728 or 1730), Czech Jesuit missionary and explorer
  • Bella Fromm (1890–1972), German wartime diarist and journalist
  • Fujiwara no Kanezane (1149–1207), Japanese historian and Chief Minister
  • Fujiwara no Michinaga (966–1028), Japanese statesman
  • Fujiwara no Sanesuke (957–1046), Japanese Minister of the Right
  • Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241), Japanese scholar and calligrapher
  • Buckminster Fuller (1895–1993), American designer and engineer
  • Catherine Fulton (1829–1919), New Zealand community leader and suffragette
  • Joseph Furttenbach (1591–1667), German architect and mathematician

G[edit]

  • Wanda Gag (1893–1946), American artist and children's author
  • Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963), English politician
  • Arne Garborg (1851–1924), Norwegian writer
  • David Gascoyne (1916–2001), English poet and translator
  • Vladimir Gelfand (1923–1983), Soviet World War II soldier
  • Eugenia Gertsyk (1878–1944), Russian/Soviet writer and translator
  • Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), English historian and politician
  • André Gide (1869–1951), French novelist and man of letters
  • Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), American beat poet
  • Petr Ginz (1928–1944), Czechoslovak author, artist, editor, and Holocaust victim
  • Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum (1821–1902), Norwegian jurist and businessman
  • Mary Gladstone (1847–1927), English political diarist
  • Glückel of Hameln (1647–1727), German businesswoman and diarist in Yiddish
  • Emperor Go-Nara (1495–1557), Japanese Emperor
  • Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), Nazi German Propaganda Minister
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer and statesman
  • Paul Goma (1935–2020), Romanian dissident writer
  • Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), Polish writer
  • Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896), French writer and critic, brother of Jules
  • Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), French writer, brother of Edmond
  • Gilles de Gouberville (1521–1578), French seigneur in Cotentin, Normandy
  • Zalman Gradowski (1910–1944), Polish Jewish Holocaust victim
  • Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), French novelist and salonnière
  • Elizabeth Grant (1797–1885), Scottish traveler and writer
  • Richard E. Grant (born 1957), Swazi/English actor
  • Francine du Plessix Gray (born 1930), Franco-American author
  • Julien Green (1900–1998), American author, writing in French
  • Bob Greene (born 1947), American journalist
  • Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852–1932), Irish dramatist and theater manager
  • Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979), English actress and writer
  • H. W. Gretton (1914–1983), New Zealand poet, teacher and soldier
  • Charles Greville (1794–1865), English civil servant and cricketer
  • Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914), American abolitionist and women's rights activist
  • Harriet Grote (1792–1878), English salonnière and biographer
  • Benoîte Groult (1920–2016), French writer
  • Eugénie de Guérin (1805–1848), French writer
  • Che Guevara (1928–1967), Argentine revolutionary
  • Hervé Guibert (1955–1991), French writer and AIDS activist
  • Alec Guinness (1914–2000), English actor
  • Pierre Guyotat (born 1940), French writer

H[edit]

  • Michihiko Hachiya (蜂谷道彦, 1903–1980), Japanese medical practitioner and Hiroshima survivor
  • Peter Hagendorf (c. 1601 or 1602–1679), German mercenary in the Thirty Years' War
  • Harry Robbins Haldeman (H. R. Haldeman, 1926–1993), American political aide involved in Watergate
  • Franz Halder (1884–1972), German army general
  • Peter Hall (1930–2017), English theater and film director
  • Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), Swedish Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Richard Hammond (born 1969), English TV presenter
  • Emperor Hanazono (花園天皇, 1297–1348), Japanese Emperor
  • Heinrich Hansjakob (1837–1916), German Catholic priest, historian and novelist
  • Hara Takashi (原敬, 1856–1921), Japanese Prime Minister
  • Mary Hardy (1733–1809), English farmer and brewer's wife from Whissonsett, Norfolk
  • Saima Harmaja (1913–1937), Finnish poet and tuberculosis victim
  • Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (both 1981–1999), American schoolboy perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre
  • Howell Harris (1714–1773), Welsh preacher
  • Keith Haring (1958–1990), American artist
  • Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994), Norwegian horticulturalist and poet
  • Jens Haugland (1910–1991), Norwegian jurist and politician
  • Mireille Havet (1898–1932), French writer
  • Peter Hawker (1786–1853), English army officer and sportsman
  • Mary Hayden (1862–1942), Irish historian
  • Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846), English painter
  • Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893), 19th President of the United States
  • Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759–1818), documented life in the Swedish royal court and elite, 1775–1817
  • Philip Henslowe (c. 1550–1615), English theatre producer
  • Dorothea Herbert (c. 1767–1829), Irish poet
  • Abel Herzberg (1893–1989), Dutch lawyer and writer
  • Maria Heyde (1837–1913), German missionary and translator in Tibet
  • Elisabeth von Heyking (1861–1925), German novelist and travel writer
  • Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), Dutch Holocaust victim.
  • George Hilton (1673–1725), English gentleman diarist[2]
  • Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), Nazi and commander of the SS[3]
  • Edmund C. Hinde (1830–1909), American participant in the 1850s California Gold Rush
  • Anna Maria Hinel (1924–1943), Polish underground activist and Holocaust victim
  • Henry Hitchcock, American lawyer serving under General William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), English writer on education
  • Richard Hoare, second baronet (1758–1838), English antiquary and traveler
  • Lady Margaret Hoby (1599–1605), English gentlewoman
  • John Hobhouse (1786–1869), English politician and Member of Parliament
  • Wilhelm Hoffman (fl. 1940s), German soldier at the Battle of Stalingrad
  • Edith Holden, (1871–1920), English artist, teacher and naturalist
  • William Holland (1746–1818), English country clergyman
  • Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759–1818), Queen of Sweden and Norway
  • Philip Hone (1780–1851), American mayor and New York socialite
  • Karen Horney (1885–1952), German psychoanalyst
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), English poet and priest
  • Lyall Howard (1896–1955), Australian engineer and businessman
  • Constantijn Huygens Jr., 17th century Dutch astronomer

I[edit]

  • William Ralph Inge (1860–1954), English cleric and author
  • Julia, Lady Inglis (1833–1904), English diarist with an account of the 1857 Siege of Lucknow
  • Arthur Crew Inman (1895–1963), American poet who wrote a diary of 17 million words
  • Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), English-American novelist
  • Ishin Sūden (以心崇伝, 1569–1633), Japanese Zen Rinzai monk and advisor
  • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894–1980), Polish writer, poet and dramatist
  • Izumi Shikibu (和泉式部, born c. 976), Japanese poet

J[edit]

  • Rosamond Jacob (1888–1960), Irish writer
  • Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish novelist and poet
  • Alice James (1848–1892), American sister of novelist Henry and philosopher William
  • Derek Jarman (1942–1994), English painter, filmmaker and gardener
  • Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914–1977), Brazilian writer and social activist
  • Jahanra Imam (1929–1994), Bangladeshi writer and political activist
  • Joseph Jenkins (1818–1898), Welsh-born Australian swagman and self-educator
  • Roy Jenkins (1920–2003), Welsh-born British politician and biographer
  • Finn Varde Jespersen (1914–1944), Norwegian orienteer and air force lieutenant
  • John Beauchamp Jones (1810–1866), American novelist and Confederate War Department clerk
  • Liz Jones (born 1958), English writer and journalist
  • Ralph Josselin (1617–1683), rural English cleric (diary 1641–1683)
  • Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979), French writer
  • Stanislaus Joyce (1884–1955), Irish scholar and writer
  • Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), German entomologist and Wehrmacht officer

K[edit]

  • Franz Kafka (1883–1924), German-language novelist in Czechoslovakia
  • Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Mexican painter
  • Kajūji Mitsutoyo (勧修寺光豊, 1576–1612), Japanese noble
  • Leszli Kálli (living), Colombian kidnap victim
  • Wojciech Karpiński (born 1943), Polish critic and historian of ideas
  • Erich Kästner (1899–1974), German satirist and children's writer
  • Alfred Kazin (1915–1988), American writer and critic
  • Ravindra Kelekar (1925–2010), Indian activist and writer
  • Friedrich Kellner (1885–1970), German justice inspector and author
  • Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), English actress
  • Harry Graf Kessler (1868–1937), Anglo-German diplomat and writer
  • Kōichi Kido (木戸幸一, 1889–1977), Japanese imperial advisor
  • Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher and theologian
  • Francis Kilvert (1840–1879), English country cleric
  • Kimura Kenkadō (木村蒹葭堂, 1736–1802), Japanese scholar and artist
  • Cecil Harmsworth King (1901–1987), English newspaper proprietor
  • William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950), Canadian Prime Minister
  • Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996), American writer, impresario and connoisseur
  • Aya Kitō (木藤亜也, 1962–1988), Japanese sufferer from spinocerebellar ataxia
  • Paul Klee (1879–1940), Swiss-German painter
  • Victor Klemperer (1881–1960), German scholar and writer
  • Jochen Klepper (1903–1942), German writer and poet
  • Robert Knopwood (1763–1938), English-born Australian clergyman
  • Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶, 1763–1828), Japanese Jōdo Shinshū lay priest
  • Věra Kohnová (1929–1942), Czechoslovak Holocaust victim
  • David Koker (1921–1945), Dutch Holocaust victim
  • Karl Koller (1898–1951), German air force general
  • Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German artist
  • Konoe Nobutada (近衛信尹, 1565–1614), Japanese courtier and poet
  • Ina Konstantinova (1924–1944), Soviet World War II partisan
  • Christiane Koren (1764–1815), Danish-born Norwegian poet and playwright
  • Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938), Polish mystic, saint and secretary of Divine Mercy
  • Teodora Krajewska (1854–1935), Polish-born Austro-Hungarian physician and writer
  • Marianne Kraus (1765–1838), German painter and travel writer
  • Doppo Kunikida (国木田獨歩, 1871–1908), Japanese novelist and poet
  • Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936), Russian writer

L[edit]

  • Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), Swedish writer, first female winner of Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Luca Landucci (1436–1516), Florentine Italian apothecary
  • Gladys Langford (1890–1972), London wartime schoolteacher
  • Rutka Laskier (1929–1943), Polish Holocaust chronicler
  • Nella Last (1889–1968), English housewife
  • Mark Latham (born 1961), Australian Labor Party politician
  • Valery Larbaud (1881–1957), French author
  • Alan Lascelles (1887–1881), English royal courtier and civil servant
  • Rutka Laskier (1929–1943), Polish Jewish Holocaust victim
  • Friedrich Christian Laukhard (1757–1822), German novelist and theologian
  • Mary Leadbeater (1758–1826), Irish writer
  • Paul Léautaud (1872–1956), French writer and author of Le Journal Littéraire
  • Jan Lechoń (1899–1956), Polish critic and diplomat
  • James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), English biographer, historian and secretary of National Trust Country House Committee
  • Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007), American author
  • Élisabeth Leseur (1866–1914), French mystic
  • Pierre de L'Estoile (1546–1611), French collector
  • Didier Lestrade (born 1958), French author and AIDS activist
  • C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), Irish-born English children's writer and theologian
  • Norman Lewis (1908–2003), English journalist and travel writer
  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), American wife of aviator, who described the kidnapping of their child
  • Rywka Lipszyc (1929 – c. 1945), Polish Jewish Holocaust victim
  • Anne Lister (1791–1840), English landowner, diarist and lesbian
  • R. H. Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970), English secret agent and author
  • Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, English politician and reformer
  • Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925), French writer
  • Courtney Love (born 1964), American actress and rock musician
  • Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868–1947), French-born English novelist and playwright, sister of Hilaire Belloc
  • Nina Lugovskaya (1918–1993), Soviet Russian artist (diary 1928–1937)
  • Narcissus Luttrell (1657–1732), English historian and politician

M[edit]

  • Dónall Mac Amhlaigh (1926–1989), Irish writer
  • Elizabeth Macarthur (1766–1850), English-born Australian pastoralist and merchant
  • Henry Machyn (1496/1498–1563), English clothier
  • Alasdair Maclean (1926–1994), Scottish poet
  • Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (1864–1916), Scottish-born novelist and wartime social volunteer
  • Harold Macmillan (1894–1986), UK Prime Minister
  • William Macready (1793–1873), English actor
  • Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), Belgian writer
  • Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879–1964), German musician, wife of Gustav Mahler
  • Charles Malik (1906–1987), Lebanese philosopher and diplomat
  • Judith Malina (1926–2015), German-born American actress and co-founder of Living Theatre
  • Julie Manet (1878–1966), French painter and model
  • Edna Manley (1900–1987), Jamaican sculptor and painter
  • Petru Manoliu (1903–1976), Romanian novelist and newspaper editor
  • Klaus Mann (1906–1949), German-born American writer
  • Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner
  • John Manningham (died 1622), English lawyer
  • Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), New Zealand modernist fiction writer
  • Mathieu Marais (1665–1737), French jurist
  • Marie of Romania (1875–1938), English-born Romanian queen consort
  • Atanasie Marian Marienescu (1830–1915), Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian folklorist
  • Joachim Martin (1842–1897), French carpenter
  • Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958), French writer
  • Helena Apolonia Massalska (1763–1815), Polish noblewoman
  • Mary Mathew (1724–1777), Irish householder
  • Sarah Mathew (c. 1805–1890), New Zealand housewife
  • Matsudair Ietada (松平家忠, 1555–1600), Japanese samurai
  • Christopher Matthew (born 1939), English writer and broadcaster
  • Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉, 1644–1694), Japanese haiku and renga poet
  • Megan McCafferty (born 1973), American YA author
  • Georgiana McCrae (1804–1890), English-born Australian painter
  • Kit McNaughton (c. 1887–1953), Australian wartime nurse
  • Durgaram Mehta (1809–1876), Indian Gujarati reformer and essayist
  • H. L. Mencken (1880–1956), American essayist and scholar
  • Thomas Merton (1915–1968), Trappist monk and writer
  • Wojciech Miaskowski (died c. 1654), Polish nobleman and Sejm member
  • Fujiwara no Michinaga (藤原道長?, 966–1028), Japanese poet and statesman
  • Michitsuna no Haha (c. 935–995), Japanese writer
  • Jo Mihaly (1902–1989), German dancer and writer
  • Minamoto no Michichika (源通親, 1149–1202), Japanese statesman
  • Pierre Minet (1909–1975), French writer
  • André François Miot de Mélito (1762–1841), French statesman and scholar
  • Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999), Scottish novelist and poet
  • Petter Moen (1901–1944), Norwegian resistance fighter
  • George Fletcher Moore (1798–1886), Irish-born Australian settler, explorer and linguist
  • Alanis Morissette (born 1974), Canadian singer and songwriter
  • Yoko Moriwaki (森脇瑤子, 1932–1945), Japanese diarist and Hiroshima victim
  • Helena Morley (1880–1970), Brazilian young-adult writer
  • Roger Morrice (1628–1702), English Puritan minister and political commentator
  • Mary Morris (1921–1997), Irish wartime nurse
  • Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870), Bohemian composer and pianist
  • René Mouchotte (1914–1943), French air force pilot
  • Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979), UK naval officer and statesman
  • Mary Braidwood Mowle (1827–1857), English-born Australian settler
  • Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013), Polish dramatist and cartoonist
  • Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990), English journalist and satirist
  • Lena Mukhina (1924–1991), Soviet teenager during Siege of Leningrad
  • Chris Mullin (born 1947), English Labour politician and writer
  • Arthur Munby (1828–1910), English poet, barrister, and solicitor
  • Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, c. 973 or 978 – c. 1014 or 1031), Japanese novelist and lady in waiting
  • Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Anglo-Irish novelist
  • Costin Murgescu (1919–1989), Romanian economist and diplomat
  • Robert Musil (1880–1942), Austrian novelist and philosopher

N[edit]

  • Marc-Édouard Nabe (born 1958), French writer, painter and guitarist
  • Kafū Nagai (永井荷風, 1879–1959), Japanese author and playwright
  • Takashi Nagai (永井隆, 1908–1951), Japanese Catholic physician and Nagasaki survivor
  • Nakayama Tadachika (中山忠親, 1131–1195), Japanese court noble and writer
  • Zofia Nałkowska (1884–1954), Polish writer and dramatist
  • Odd Nansen (1901–1973), Norwegian architect and humanitarian
  • Stevie Nicks (born 1948), American singer/songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac
  • Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), English diplomat, politician and author
  • Bronislava Nijinska (1891–1972), Polish/Russian ballet dance
  • Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Lady Nijō (後深草院二条, 1258 – post–1307), Japanese noblewoman
  • Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), Cuban/French lover of Henry Miller, writer of erotica, pornography and poetry
  • Leonard Nolens (born 1947), Belgian poet
  • Konrad Nordahl (1897–1975), Norwegian trade unionist and politician

O[edit]

  • Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938), American author
  • Akinpelu Obisesan (1889–1963), Nigerian businessman and politician
  • Florence Vere O'Brien (1854–1936), English-born Irish philanthropist and craftwoman
  • Tomas O'Crohan (1856–1937), Irish islander
  • Irina Odoyevtseva (1895–1990), Russian/Soviet poet and novelist
  • John Olsen (born 1945), Australian artist
  • Willem Oltmans (1925–2004), Dutch journalist
  • Tarlach Ó Mealláin (fl. 1641–1650), Irish Franciscan friar
  • Ōoka Tadasuke (大岡忠相, 1677–1762), Japanese samurai
  • Arne Ording (1898–1967), Norwegian historian and politician
  • Iris Origo (1902–1988), English-born biographer
  • Joe Orton (1933–1967), English playwright
  • George Orwell (1903–1950), English journalist, essayist and critic
  • Einar Østvedt (1903–1980), Norwegian historian and educator
  • Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (1780–1837), Irish draper and teacher
  • Cynthia Ozick (born 1928), American author

P[edit]

  • Walburga, Lady Paget (1839–1929), German writer and friend of Queen Victoria
  • Michael Palin (born 1943), English Monty Python team member, actor and travel writer
  • Jim Parker (1897–1980), New Zealand sportsman and business executive
  • Frances Partridge (née Marshall), (1900–2004), English writer
  • George S. Patton (1885–1945), American World War II general
  • Georg Pausch (c. 1740–1795 or 1796), German soldier in British service
  • Claus Pavels (1769–1922), Norwegian bishop
  • Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist and critic
  • John Otunba Payne (1839–1906), Nigerian court registrar
  • Nicholas Peacock (fl. mid–18th c.), Irish farmer
  • Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827), Colonial American painter
  • Drew Pearson (1897–1969), American journalist and broadcaster
  • Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli (1729–1808), Italian civil servant and essayist
  • Elizabeth Pepys (1640–1669), French-born wife of Samuel Pepys
  • Emily Pepys (1833–1877), English child diarist (diary 1844–1845)
  • Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), English civil servant (diary 1660–1669)
  • Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776), English peeress
  • Calel Perechodnik (1916–1944), Polish Jewish ghetto policeman and Holocaust victim
  • Diane Pernet (living), Paris-based American fashion critic
  • Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė (1861–1943), Lithuanian fiction writer
  • Tom Pickard (born 1946), English poet and filmmaker
  • Ricardo Piglia (1941–2017), Argentine critic and novelist
  • Karl Pilkington, English radio and TV personality
  • Ananda Ranga Pillai (1709–1761), Indian dubash of French India
  • Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972), Argentine poet
  • Josep Pla (1897–1981), Catalan writer
  • Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American poet
  • Thomas Platter the Younger (1574–1628), Swiss-born physician and traveller
  • James K. Polk (1795–1849), 11th President of the United States
  • John William Polidori (1795–1821), English poet, writer and physician
  • Grigore T. Popa (1892–1948), Romanian physician and intellectual
  • Agnes Porter (c. 1752–1814), English governess
  • S. K. Pottekkatt (1913–1982), Indian writer and politician
  • Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), English children's book writer and illustrator
  • Liane de Pougy (1869–1950), French dancer and courtesan
  • Anthony Powell (1905–2000), English novelist and biographer
  • Dawn Powell (1896–1965), American writer
  • Catherine Pozzi (1882–1934), French writer, Paul Valery's lover
  • Christen Pram (1756–1821), Norwegian/Danish economist and writer
  • Hana Maria Pravda (1916–2008), Czechoslovak/English actress and Holocaust survivor
  • Mikhail Prishvin (1873–1954), Russian/Soviet writer
  • Ferenc Pulszky (1814–1897), Hungarian politician
  • Sextil Pușcariu (1877–1948), Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian linguist and philologist
  • Barbara Pym (1913–1980), English novelist

Q[edit]

  • Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津, 1969–1995), Taiwanese novelist
  • Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), English man of letters[4]
  • Raymond Queneau (1903–1976), French writer

R[edit]

  • John Rabe (1882–1950), German diplomat and Nazi official
  • Lillemor Rachlew (1902–1983), Norwegian Antarctic explorer
  • Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1925), President and later Prime Minister of Bangladesh
  • Raiden Tameemon (雷電爲右衞門, 1767–1865), Japanese sumo wrestler
  • Francisc Rainer (1874–1944), Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian pathologist and anthropologist
  • Catherine Hester Ralfe (1831–1912), New Zealand dressmaker and teacher
  • Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly (1913–2001), English secretary and diplomatic employee
  • Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th President of the United States
  • Märta Helena Reenstierna (1753–1841), Swedish gentlewoman
  • Wilhelm Reich (1897–1956), Austrian physician and psychoanalyst
  • Charles à Court Repington (1858–1925), English military officer and war correspondent
  • Nicolas-Edme Rétif (1734–1806), French novelist
  • Charles Ritchie (1906–1995), Canadian diplomat
  • Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1887), English lawyer
  • Gérard Rondeau (1953–2016), French photographer
  • Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), 26th President of the United States
  • Ned Rorem (born 1923), American composer
  • Henry Rollins (born 1961), American singer for Black Flag
  • Ingrid von Rosen (1930–1995), Swedish housewife
  • Barbara Rosenthal (born 1948), American avant-garde New Media artist/writer/performer
  • Radu R. Rosetti (1877–1949), Romanian general and military historian
  • Everett Ruess (1914–1934), American artist, poet and explorer
  • Peter Rühmkorf (1929–2008), German writer
  • John Ruskin (1819–1900), English art critic and philanthropist
  • Robert Russell (1808–1900), English-born Australian architect
  • Dudley Ryder (1691–1756), English Lord Chief Justice (diary 1715–16)

S[edit]

  • Jacques Sadoul (1881–1956), French lawyer, politician and writer
  • María Sáez de Vernet (1800–1858), Argentine resident in the Falkland Islands
  • Hakeem Muhammad Saeed (1920–1998), Indian/Pakistani medical researcher and philanthropist
  • Robert de Saint-Jean (1901–1987), French writer and journalist
  • Rubino Romeo Salmonì (1920–2011), Italian author and Holocaust survivor
  • George Sand (1804–1876), French writer
  • Marino Sanuto (1466–1536), Venetian historian
  • May Sarton (1912–1995), American poet and novelist
  • Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French writer and philosopher
  • Rudy Sarzo (born 1950), Cuban-American rock bassist, notably of Ozzy Osbourne fame
  • Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English poet and author
  • Eisaku Satō (佐藤榮作, 1901–1975), Japanese Prime Minister
  • Tanya Savicheva (1930–1944), Soviet child in the World War II Siege of Leningrad
  • Jules Schelvis (1921–2016), Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), American historian and political adviser
  • Norbert Schmelzer (1921–2008), Dutch Catholic politician and diplomat
  • Frederik Schmidt (1771–1840), Danish-born Norwegian priest and poet
  • Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), English Antarctic explorer
  • Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish novelist and poet
  • Sei Shōnagon (清少納言, c. 966–1017 or 1025), Japanese court lady and writer
  • George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish Nobel Prize-winning playwright
  • Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English novelist and travel writer
  • Betsy Sheridan (1758–1837), Irish writer, sister of the satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Robert Shields (1918–2007), American teacher
  • Efim Shifrin (born 1956), Soviet/Russian actor and singer
  • Michael Shiner (1805–1880), American freed slave and Navy Yard worker
  • William L. Shirer (1904–1993), American journalist and contemporary historian
  • Emily Shore (1819–1839), English young adult
  • Malla Silfverstolpe (1782–1861), Swedish salon hostess
  • Elizabeth Simcoe (1762–1850), English wife of Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
  • Ion Șiugariu (1914–1945), Romanian poet
  • Nikki Sixx (born 1958), American bassist/songwriter for Mötley Crüe
  • John Skinner (1772–1839), English cleric and antiquarian
  • Philip Slier (1923–1943), Dutch typesetter and Holocaust victim
  • Elizabeth Smart (born 1987), American abduction victim and broadcaster
  • Konstantin Somov (1869–1939), Russian painter
  • William Soutar (1898–1943), Scottish poet
  • Alexander Brodie Spark (1792–1856), Scottish-born Australian merchant and settler
  • Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld (1655–1727), Swedish diplomat and linguist
  • Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet
  • Renia Spiegel (1924–1942), Polish Jewish Holocaust victim
  • John Steinbeck (1902–1968), American novelist
  • Nicolae Steinhardt (1912–1989), Romanian writer and monk
  • Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783–1842), French novelist
  • Frances Stevenson (1888–1972), English mistress and second wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George
  • Margaret Stevenson (c. 1807–1874), English-born Australian satirist
  • Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer
  • Joseph Stilwell (1883–1946), American World War II general
  • Joseph Stock (1740–1813), Irish Protestant bishop
  • Constantin T. Stoika (1892–1916), Romanian poet, translator and army officer
  • Gordon Stott, Lord Stott (1909–1999), Scottish advocate
  • Richard Strauss (1864–1949), German composer
  • George Templeton Strong (1820–1875), American lawyer
  • Roy Strong (born 1935), English gardener and aesthete
  • Sufia Kamal (1911–1999), Bangladeshi writer and political activist
  • Sugawara no Takasue no musume (菅原孝標女, c. 1008 – after 1059), Japanese writer
  • Sukemasa Irie (入江相政, 1905–1985), Japanese essayist and Grand Chamberlain of Japan
  • Rosemary Sutcliff (1920–1992), English historical novelist for children and young adults
  • John Swete (1752–1821), English cleric and artist
  • Richard Symonds (1617–1660), English Civil War diaries

T[edit]

  • Jun Takami (高見順, 1907–1965), Japanese novelist and poet
  • Takizawa Bakin (曲亭馬琴, 1867–1948), Japanese gesaku writer
  • Fanny Tarnow (1779–1862), German fiction and non-fiction writer
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Russian composer
  • Henry Teonge (1620–1690), English naval chaplain (diaries 1675–76 and 1678–79)
  • Daniel Terdiman (living), American award-winning journalist
  • Carl Tersmeden (1715–1797), Swedish admiral
  • Kathleen Tipper (born 1919), English wartime clerk
  • Mary Thomas (1787–1835), English-born Australian poet
  • John Thomlinson (1692–1761), English cleric (diary 1717–1722)
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), American author and philosopher
  • Hester Thrale (1740–1821), Welsh author, friend and confidante of Samuel Johnson
  • Jean de Tinan (1874–1898), French writer
  • Sophia Tolstaya (1844–1919), Russian wife of author Leo Tolstoy
  • Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), Russian novelist and social reformer
  • William Treloar (1843–1923), English haberdasher and Lord Mayor of London (diary 1906–1907)
  • Govardhanram Tripathi (1855–1907), Indian Gujarati-language writer
  • Melesina Trench (1768–1827), Irish writer and poet
  • Anne Truitt (1921–2004), American artist
  • Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), 33rd President of the United States
  • Meta Truscott, (1917–2014), Australian chronicler and local historian (diaries 1934–2014)
  • Mikhail Tsekhanovsky (1889–1965), Russian/Soviet artist and illustrator
  • Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian poet and writer
  • George Albert Tuck (1884–1981), New Zealand builder and soldier
  • Thomas Turner (1729–1793), English shopkeeper
  • Anna Tyszkiewicz (1779–1867), Polish noblewoman

U[edit]

  • Emperor Uda (宇多天皇, 866–931), Japanese Emperor
  • Matome Ugaki (宇垣纏, 1890–1945), Japanese admiral
  • Umewaka Minoru I (初世梅若実, 1828–1909), Japanese Noh actor

V[edit]

  • Krishna Baldev Vaid (1927–2020), Indian fiction writer and playwright
  • C. Raja Raja Varma (died 1905), Indian painter
  • Marie Vassiltchikov (1917–1978), Russian princess involved in plot to kill Hitler
  • Gerrit de Veer (c. 1570 – c. 1598), Dutch naval officer
  • Queen Victoria (1819–1901), British queen and empress
  • Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French writer
  • Léonie Villard (1890–1962), French critic and university professor
  • Renée Vivien (1877–1909), French and English writer
  • Alice Voinescu (1885–1961), Romanian writer, translator and university professor

W[edit]

  • Cosima Wagner (1837–1930), German daughter of Franz Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner
  • Richard Wagner (1813–1873), German composer
  • Alice Walker (born 1944), American author
  • Jakob Walter (1788–1864), German soldier in the Napoleonic Wars
  • Sabrina Ward Harrison (born 1975), Canadian artist and author
  • Andy Warhol (1928–1987), American artist
  • Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick (1625–1678), Irish maid of honour
  • Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), English novelist
  • Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), English sociologist and social reformer
  • Simone Weil (1909–1943), French philosopher
  • Gisela Weimann (born 1943), German multimedia artist
  • Hermann Weinsberg (1518–1597), German city councilor in Cologne
  • Johan Peter Weisse (1832–1886), Norwegian philologist
  • Denton Welch (1915–1948), English writer and painter
  • John Wesley (1703–1791), English theologian and founder of the Methodist movement
  • Algernon West (1832–1921), English civil servant
  • Alexander Whisker (1819–1907), New Zealand soldier
  • Gilbert White (1720–1793), English naturalist and Anglican cleric
  • Opal Whiteley (1897–1992), American naturalist and nature writer
  • Margaret Whitlam (1919–2012), Australian Olympic swimmer, writer and social campaigner
  • Dorothy Payne Whitney (1887–1968), American social activist and lecturer
  • Elie Wiesel (1928–2016), Romanian-American author
  • John Wilkes (1725–1797), English journalist and politician
  • Kenneth Williams (1926–1988), English comic actor
  • Charlotte Williams-Wynn (1807–1869), English gentlewoman
  • Katherine Wilmot (c. 1773–1824), Irish traveller
  • Edmund Wilson (1895–1972), American writer and critic
  • Edward Adrian Wilson (1872–1912), English naturalist and Antarctic explorer
  • Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (1864–1922), English military officer
  • William Windham (1750–1810), English statesman and orator
  • Anna Green Winslow (1759–1780), American child diarist
  • David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992), American painter and performer
  • Knut Getz Wold (1915–1987), Norwegian economist and civil servant
  • Robert Woodford (1606–1664), English lawyer
  • James Woodforde (1740–1803), English rural cleric
  • Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789), American author, poet and loyalist (South Carolina journal late 1760s)
  • Wilford Woodruff (1807–1898), 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), English author and feminist
  • Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), English poet, sister of William Wordsworth
  • Woodrow Wyatt (1918–1997), American politician and journalist
  • Joan Wyndham (1921–2007), English memoirist

Y[edit]

  • Yi Kyu-won (이규원, 1833–1901), Korean military official
  • Zina D. H. Young (1821–1901), American 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Relief Society

Z[edit]

  • Mircea Zaciu (1928–2000), Romanian critic and literary historian
  • Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925), Polish novelist and dramatist
  • Polina Zherebtsova (born 1985), Russian Chechen documentarian and poet
  • Karl von Zinzendorf (1739–1813), Saxon Austrian civil servant
  • A. L. Zissu (1888–1956), Romanian writer and Jewish spokesman
  • Ludwik Żychliński (1837–1901), Polish military officer
  • Teodor Żychliński (1830–1909), Polish herald and author

Diaries of disputed authenticity[edit]

  • The Black Diaries purportedly written by Roger Casement and detailing his alleged homosexual activities, are believed by some to be a forgery perpetrated by the British government.

See also[edit]

  • List of Australian diarists of World War I
  • List of dream diaries
  • List of fictional diaries
  • List of fictional diaries § Hoax diaries

References[edit]

  1. ^ The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492–1493, edited and translated by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley Jr.(London: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 1989)
  2. ^ The Rake's Diary: The Journal of George Hilton, edited by Anne Hillman (Curwen Archive Texts, Kendal, 1994), ISBN 9781897590010
  3. ^ "Himmler diaries found in Russia reveal daily Nazi horrors". bbc.co.uk. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
  4. ^ Eaton, Horace Ainsworth, Thomas De Quincey: A Biography, New York, Oxford University Press, 1936; reprinted New York, Octagon Books, 1972, p. 525.