| Semonides (Seventh Century B.C.) |
| Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770–1846) |
| Seneca (c. 4 B.C.–65 A.D.) |
| William Senior (1839?–1920) |
| Matilde Serao (1856–1927) |
| Olivia Wilmot Serres (1772–1834) |
| Michael Servetus (1511?–1553) |
| Robert William Service (1874–1958) |
| Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) |
| Elkanah Settle (1648–1724) |
| Madame de Sévigné (1626–1696) |
| Frank Sewall (1837–1915) |
| Harriet Winslow Sewall (1819–1889) |
| Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (1748–1808) |
| Samuel Sewall (1652–1730) |
| Stephen Sewall (1734–1804) |
| Anna Seward (1747–1809) |
| William Henry Seward (1801–1872) |
| Sextus Empiricus (fl. Late Second Century) |
| Thomas Shadwell (1642–1692) |
| Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683) |
| John Campbell Shairp (1819–1885) |
| William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841–1906) |
| William Franklin Gore Shanks (1837–1905) |
| Vishnu Sharma (Pilpay) (c. 1000 B.C.?) |
| Dallas Lore Sharp (1870–1929) |
| Isaac Sharpless (1848–1920) |
| Albert Shaw (1857–1947) |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) |
| John Dawson Gilmary Shea (1824–1892) |
| Julia Ann Clark Shedd (1834–1897) |
| William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1820–1894) |
| Charles Monroe Sheldon (1857–1946) |
| Edward Sheldon (1886–1946) |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| Frederick William Shelton (1814–1881) |
| William Shenstone (1714–1763) |
| Elizabeth Sara Sheppard (1830–1862) |
| Philip Henry Sheridan (1831–1888) |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) |
| Frank Dempster Sherman (1860–1916) |
| John Sherman (1823–1900) |
| William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891) |
| Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood (1826–1903) |
| Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851) |
| Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) |
| Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814–1890) |
| Mary Dana Shindler (1810–1883) |
| Milicent Washburn Shinn (1858–1940) |
| Louis Evan Shipman (1869–1933) |
| Paul Shorey (1857–1934) |
| Clement King Shorter (1857–1926) |
| John Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903) |
| Ethel Sidgwick (1877–1970) |
| Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900) |
| Algernon Sidney (1623–1683) |
| Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| Saint Sidonius Apollinaris (431/2–c. 487) |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) |
| Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) |
| Silius Italicus (25–101) |
| Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
| João Manuel Pereira da Silva (1817–1898) |
| José da Silva Mendes Leal (1818–1886) |
| Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838) |
| Sima Guang (1019–1086) |
| William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
| Theophylactus Simocatta (c. 570–c. 640) |
| Jules Simon (1814–1896) |
| Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
| John Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887) |
| George Robert Sims (1847–1922) |
| Catherine Sinclair (1800–1864) |
| May Sinclair (1963–1946) |
| Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840–1921) |
| Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842) |
| Konrad Sittenfeld (1862–1918) |
| Walter William Skeat (1835–1912) |
| John Skelton (1460?–1529) |
| Arthur Sketchley (1817–1882) |
| John Skinner (1721–1807) |
| Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903) |
| Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1856–1947) |
| Johannes Sleidanus (1506–1556) |
| William Milligan Sloane (1850–1928) |
| Annie Trumbull Slosson (1838–1926) |
| Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) |
| George Washburn Smalley (1833–1916) |
| Christopher Smart (1722–1771) |
| Helen Hamilton Gardener Smart (1853–1925) |
| Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) |
| Adam Smith (1723–1790) |
| Albert Smith (1816–1860) |
| Alexander Smith (1830–1867) |
| Buckingham Smith (1810–1871) |
| Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) |
| Edmund Smith (1672–1710) |
| Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806–1893) |
| Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838–1915) |
| George Smith (1840–1876) |
| Gerrit Smith (1797–1874) |
| Goldwin Smith (1823–1910) |
| Harry Bache Smith (1860–1936) |
| James (1775–1839) and Horace (1779–1849) Smith |
| Captain John Smith (1580–1631) |
| Matthew Hale Smith (1810–1879) |
| May Riley Smith (1842?–1927) |
| Richard Penn Smith (1799–1854) |
| Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895) |
| Seba Smith (1792–1868) |
| Sydney Smith (1771–1845) |
| William Smith (1808–1872) |
| William Smith (1813–1893) |
| William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) |
| Tobias George Smollett (1721–1771) |
| Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900) |
| Newman Smyth (1843–1925) |
| John Collis Snaith (1876–1936) |
| Jan Renier Snieders (1812–1888) |
| Count Carl Johan Gustaf Snoilsky (1841–1903) |
| Snorri Sturluson (1179?–1241) |
| Lorenzo Snow (1814–1901) |
| Socrates (469–399 B.C.) |
| James Russell Soley (1850–1911) |
| Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882) |
| Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927) |
| Solomon ibn Gabirol (Avicebron) (1021?–1058) |
| Solon (c. 630–560 B.C.) |
| Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900) |
| Mary Somerville (1780–1872) |
| Sophocles (c. 496–406 B.C.) |
| Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles (1807–1883) |
| Sophron (Fifth Century B.C.) |
| Sordello of Goito (Thirteenth Century) |
| William Sotheby (1757–1833) |
| Frédéric Soulié (1800–1847) |
| Alexandre Soumet (1788–1845) |
| Robert South (1634–1716) |
| Thomas Southerne (1660–1746) |
| James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk (1827–1905) |
| Caroline Bowles Southey (1786–1854) |
| Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| Robert Southwell (c. 1561–1595) |
| Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819–1899) |
| Émile Souvestre (1806–1854) |
| Githa Sowerby (1876–1970) |
| John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) |
| Martin John Spalding (1810–1872) |
| Frances Campbell Sparhawk (1847–1930) |
| Jared Sparks (1789–1866) |
| William Henry Sparks (1800–1882) |
| Solomon Spaulding (1761–1816) |
| Frank Hamilton Spearman (1859–1937) |
| John Randolph Spears (1850–1936) |
| James Spedding (1808–1881) |
| John Banning Speke (1827–1864) |
| Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) |
| Jesse Ames Spencer (1816–1898) |
| William Loring Nunez Spencer |
| William Robert Spencer (1770–1834) |
| Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| Friedrich Spielhagen (1829–1911) |
| Carl Spindler (1796–1855) |
| Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1825–1908) |
| Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921) |
| Charles Sprague (1791–1875) |
| Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832–1904) |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) |
| Ephraim George Squier (1821–1888) |
| P.-J. Stahl (1814–1886) |
| Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (1805–1875) |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881) |
| Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) |
| Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Palmer Stannard (1856–1911) |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816–1902) |
| Henry Brewster Stanton (1805–1887) |
| Theodore Stanton (1851–1925) |
| Francis Reginald Statham (1844–1908) |
| Statius (c. 45–c. 96 A.D.) |
| William Thomas Stead (1849–1912) |
| Frank Preston Stearns (1846–1917) |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
| Flora Annie Webster Steel (1847–1929) |
| Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729) |
| Thomas Sedgwick Steele (1845–1903) |
| Jacob Steendam (1616–c. 1672) |
| Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) |
| Stendhal (1783–1842) |
| Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) |
| Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812–1883) |
| Ann Sophia Stephens (1810–1886) |
| Charles Asbury Stephens (1844–1931) |
| James Stephens (1882–1950) |
| James Brunton Stephens (1835–1902) |
| John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) |
| Robert Neilson Stephens (1867–1906) |
| Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky (Stepniak) (1851–1895) |
| John Sterling (1806–1844) |
| Daniel Stern (1805–1876) |
| Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) |
| Stesichorus (c. 630–c. 556 B.C.) |
| Charlotte Perkins Stetson (1860–1935) |
| Abel Stevens (1815–1897) |
| Henry Stevens (1819–1886) |
| John Austin Stevens (1827–1910) |
| Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872–1962) |
| Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) |
| Balfour Stewart (1828–1887) |
| Dugald Stewart (1753–1828) |
| Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868) |
| William Still (1821–1902) |
| Charles Janeway Stillé (1819–1899) |
| William James Stillman (1828–1901) |
| Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855–1943) |
| Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818–1878) |
| Frank Richard Stockton (1834–1902) |
| Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) |
| Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) |
| Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) |
| William Osborn Stoddard (1835–1925) |
| Henry Sewell Stokes (1808–1895) |
| Christian, Graf von Stolberg (1748–1821) |
| Friedrich Leopold, Graf von Stolberg (1750–1819) |
| John Augustus Stone (1801–1834) |
| Lucy Stone (1818–1893) |
| Theodor Storm (1817–1888) |
| Richard Salter Storrs (1821–1900) |
| Joseph Story (1779–1845) |
| William Wetmore Story (1819–1895) |
| John Stow (1525?–1605) |
| Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802–1886) |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) |
| Strabo (c. 64 B.C.–c. 23 A.D.) |
| Walafrid Strabo (807?–849) |
| William Strachey (1572?–1621) |
| Lisbeth Gooch Séguin Strahan |
| John Strang (1795–1863) |
| Lewis Clinton Strang (1869–1935) |
| Edward Stratemeyer (1862–1930) |
| Gene Stratton-Porter (1863–1924) |
| Oscar Solomon Straus (1850–1926) |
| David Friedrich Strauss (1808–1874) |
| Alfred Billings Street (1811–1881) |
| Hesba Stretton (1832–1911) |
| Agnes Strickland (1796–1874) |
| August Strindberg (1849–1912) |
| Arthur Stringer (1874–1950) |
| Latham Cornell Strong (1845–1879) |
| Nathan Strong (1748–1816) |
| David Hunter Strother (1816–1888) |
| Gustav Karl Otto von Struensee (1803–1875) |
| Simeon Strunsky (1879–1948) |
| Melancthon Woolsey Stryker (1851–1929) |
| John Strype (1643–1737) |
| Esmé Stuart (1851–1934) |
| Ruth McEnery Stuart (1856–1917) |
| Ambrosius Stub (1705–1758) |
| William Stubbs (1825–1901) |
| Julian Russell Sturgis (1848–1904) |
| Julius Sturm (1816–1896) |
| Cristóval Suárez de Figueroa (Seventeenth Century) |
| Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) |
| Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928) |
| Eugène Sue (1804–1857) |
| Suetonius (c. 69–c. 122 A.D.) |
| Suidas |
| Alan Sullivan (1868–1947) |
| James William Sullivan (1848–1938) |
| Thomas Russell Sullivan (1849–1916) |
| Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1559–1641) |
| Sully Prudhomme (René François Armand Prudhomme) (1839–1907) |
| Johann Georg Sulzer (1720–1779) |
| Aleksandr Sumarokov (1717–1777) |
| Charles Sumner (1811–1874) |
| William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) |
| Evelyn Greenleaf Baker Sutherland (1855–1908) |
| Van Tassel Sutphen (1861–1945) |
| Alfred Sutro (1863–1933) |
| Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914) |
| Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) |
| Alexander Edwin Sweet (1841–1901) |
| Madame Swetchine (1782–1857) |
| Sophia Miriam Swett (1858–1912) |
| Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
| John Swinton (1829–1901) |
| William Swinton (1833–1892) |
| Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (1815–1884) |
| Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895) |
| Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
| Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 350–c. 405) |
| John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) |
| Arthur Symons (1865–1945) |
| Synesius (c. 375–c. 415) |
| John Millington Synge (1871–1909) |
| Władysław Syrokomla (1823–1862) |
| László Szalay (1813–1864) |
| Sze-ma Ts’ien (c. 163–c. 85 B.C.) |
| Ede Szigligeti (1814–1878) |
| Tabarî (838?–923) |
| John Banister Tabb (1845–1909) |
| Tacitus (56–c. 120 A.D.) |
| Toussaint-Gaspard Taconet (1730–1774) |
| William Howard Taft (1857–1930) |
| Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) |
| Alphonse Honoré Taillandier (1797–1867) |
| Saint-Réné Taillandier (1817–1879) |
| Noël Taillepied (1540–1589) |
| Eugène François Joseph Tailliar (1803–1878) |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (1828–1893) |
| Archibald Campbell Tait (1811–1882) |
| Charles Remington Talbot (1851–1891) |
| Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854) |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) |
| François-Joseph Talma (1763–1826) |
| Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832–1902) |
| Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) |
| Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835–1923) |
| Luigi Tansillo (1510–1568) |
| Eva March Tappan (1854–1930) |
| William Bingham Tappan (1794–1849) |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944) |
| Jules Romain Tardieu (1805–1868) |
| Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) |
| Bernardo Tasso (1493–1569) |
| Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) |
| Alessandro Tassoni (1565–1635) |
| Emil Taubert (1844–1895) |
| Johannes Tauler (c. 1300–1361) |
| Baroness Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus (1807–1893) |
| Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) |
| Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1819–1887) |
| Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
| Isaac Taylor (1759–1829) |
| Isaac Taylor (1787–1865) |
| Isaac Taylor (1829–1901) |
| Baron Isidore-Justin-Séverin Taylor (1789–1879) |
| Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) |
| John Taylor (1580–1653) |
| Philip Meadows Taylor (1808–1876) |
| Thomas Taylor (1758–1835) |
| Tom Taylor (1817–1880) |
| William Taylor (1821–1902) |
| Evald Teellinck (c. 1570–1629) |
| Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) |
| Count József Teleki (1790–1855) |
| Konrad Telmann (1854–1897) |
| Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme (1798–1881) |
| Eduard von Tempeltey (1832–1919) |
| Claudine-Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin (1682–1749) |
| William Tennant (1784–1848) |
| Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann (1761–1819) |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898) |
| Hallam Tennyson (1852–1928) |
| Jacques de Teramo (1349–1417) |
| Fanny Messageot de Tercy (b. 1781) |
| François Tercy (c. 1774–1841) |
| Terence (c. 195/185–159 B.C.) |
| Albert Payson Terhune (1872–1942) |
| Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune (Marion Harland) (1830–1922) |
| Jean Terrasson (1670–1750) |
| Gerhard Tersteegen (1697–1769) |
| Tertullian (c. 160–c. 230) |
| Count Fulvio Testi (1593–1646) |
| Jean Tétard (1770–1841) |
| Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1820–1878) |
| Georg Daniel Teutsch (1817–1893) |
| Charles Félix Marie Texier (1802–1871) |
| Thomas Thaarup (1749–1821) |
| John Boyd Thacher (1847–1909) |
| William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
| Thales (c. 620–c. 546 B.C.) |
| Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850–1934) |
| Jérôme (1874–1953) and Jean (1877–1952) Tharaud |
| Moritz Thausing (1838–1884) |
| Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
| Emma Homan Thayer (1842–1908) |
| William Makepeace Thayer (1820–1898) |
| William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes) (1859–1923) |
| Augustin Theiner (1804–1874) |
| Theocritus (fl. Third Century B.C.) |
| Theodoret (c. 390–c. 460) |
| Theognis (fl. Sixth Century B.C.) |
| Theophrastus (c. 371–287 B.C.) |
| Theopompus of Chios (b. c. 378 B.C.) |
| André Theuriet (1833–1907) |
| Antoine-Claire, Count Thibaudeau (1765–1854) |
| Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772–1840) |
| Amédée Thierry (1797–1873) |
| Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry (1795–1856) |
