| Wilhelm Raabe (Jacob Corvinus) (1831–1910) |
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| William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1828–1889) |
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| Lennox Robinson (1886–1958) |
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| Therese Albertine Luise (von Jakob) Robinson (1797–1870) |
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| Roger of Hoveden (fl. 1174–1201) |
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| Romain Rolland (1866–1944) |
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| Ambroise Lucien Rollin (1692–1749) |
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| André Rollinat (1741–1793) |
| Maurice Rollinat (1846–1903) |
| Alice Wellington Rollins (1847–1897) |
| Louis Charles Reparat Geneviève Octave Romey (1804–1874) |
| Auguste Romieu (1800–1855) |
| Antonin François Rondelet (1823–1893) |
| Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
| Charles-Philippe Ronsin (1751–1794) |
| Henry Edward Rood (1867–1954) |
| Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829–1906) |
| Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) |
| George Frederick Root (1820–1895) |
| John Codman Ropes (1836–1899) |
| Nestor Roqueplan (1804–1870) |
| Otto Roquette (1824–1896) |
| Adrien Rouquette (1813–1887) |
| Salvatore Rosa (1615–1673) |
| Juan de la Rosa González (1820–1886) |
| Thomas Roscoe (1791–1871) |
| William Roscoe (1753–1831) |
| Earl of Roscommon (1633?–1685) |
| Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929) |
| Peter Rosegger (1843–1918) |
| Baron George de Rosen (1805–1860) |
| Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz (1805–1879) |
| Hugo Rosenthal-Bonin (1840–1897) |
| Constantin Rosetti (1816–1885) |
| Joseph Bernard Rosier (1804–1880) |
| Giovanni Rosini (1776–1855) |
| Carlo de Rosmini (1758–1827) |
| Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797–1855) |
| Joseph de Rosny (1771–1814) |
| Alexander Ross (1699–1784) |
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| Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
| Gabriele Rossetti (1783–1854) |
| William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919) |
| Ernesto Rossi (1829–1896) |
| John Christopher Rost (1717–1765) |
| Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) |
| Eugène Rostand (1843–1915) |
| Vincent Rota (1703–1785) |
| Charles Édouard Joseph Rotalier (1804–1849) |
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| Jean Rotrou (1609–1650) |
| Carl von Rotteck (1775–1840) |
| Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745–1794) |
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| Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1670–1741) |
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| Pierre Rousseau (1716–1785) |
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| Camille Félix Michel Rousset (1821–1892) |
| John Frederick Rowbotham (1859–1925) |
| Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718) |
| Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762–1824) |
| Just Jean Étienne Roy (1794–1871?) |
| Pierre Charles Roy (1683–1764) |
| Josiah Royce (1855–1916) |
| Alphonse Royer (1803–1875) |
| Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866) |
| Heinrich Rückert (1823–1875) |
| Rūdakī (Tenth Century) |
| Jaufré Rudel (Twelfth Century) |
| Lope de Rueda (d. 1565) |
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| Juan Ruiz (active 1343) |
| Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza (c. 1580–1639) |
| Claude Carloman de Rulhière (1735–1791) |
| Count Rumford (1753–1814) |
| Jalāl-ad-dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) |
| Karl Friedrich Ludwig Felix von Rumohr (1785–1843) |
| Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) |
| Bertha Runkle (1879–1958) |
| John Ruskin (1819–1900) |
| Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) |
| Charles Edward Russell (1860–1941) |
| “A. E.” (George William Russell) (1867–1935) |
| Irwin Russell (1853–1879) |
| William Clark Russell (1844–1911) |
| Sir William Howard Russell (1820–1907) |
| Claudius Rutilius Numatianus (Fifth Century) |
| Abram Joseph Ryan (1838–1886) |
| Viktor Rydberg (1828–1895) |
| Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906) |
| Duque de Rivas, Angel de Saavedra (1791–1865) |
| Antonio de Saavedra y Guzmán (fl. 1599) |
| Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (1584–1648) |
| Joseph Sabin (1821–1881) |
| Franco Sacchetti (c. 1330–c. 1400) |
| Leopold Sacher-Masoch (1835–1895) |
| Hans Sachs (1494–1576) |
| Julius Sachs (1832–1897) |
| Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706) |
| José Antonio Saco (1797–1879) |
| Sa’dī (c. 1213–1291) |
| Sæmundar the Learned (Twelfth Century) |
| Pavel Josef Šafárik (1795–1861) |
| Gabriel Sagard (Seventeenth Century) |
| Marc Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (1594–1661) |
| Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869) |
| Saint-Évremond (1613–1703) |
| Mellin de Saint-Gelais (1491–1558) |
| Marco de Saint-Hilaire (d. 1887) |
| Joseph Xavier Boniface Saintine (1798–1865) |
| Bayle St. John (1822–1859) |
| James Augustus St. John (1795–1875) |
| Percy Bolingbroke St. John (1821–1889) |
| Jean-François de Saint-Lambert (1716–1803) |
| Saint-Marc Girardin (1801–1873) |
| Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814) |
| Charles Irénée Castel, Abbé de Saint-Pierre (1658–1743) |
| César Richard, Abbé de Saint-Réal (1639–1692) |
| George Saintsbury (1845–1933) |
| Claude Henri, Count de Saint-Simon (1760–1825) |
| Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675–1755) |
| Jacques Benjamin Maximilien, Count de Saint-Victor (1772–1858) |
| Paul Binsse, Count de Saint-Victor (1827–1881) |
| George Augustus Henry Sala (1828–1895) |
| George Sale (1697?–1736) |
| Sallust (c. 86–c. 34/35 B.C.) |
| Constance de Salm-Dyck (1767–1845) |
| Edgar Evertson Saltus (1855–1921) |
| Francis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889) |
| Mikhail Saltykov (Shchedrin) (1826–1889) |
| Albert Victor Samain (1858–1900) |
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| Katharine Abbott Sanborn (1839–1917) |
| George Sand (1804–1876) |
| Mrs. Henry Roscoe Sandbach (1812–1852) |
| Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau (1811–1883) |
| Edward Sanford (1805–1876) |
| Salvador Sanfuentes (1817–1860) |
| Charles Sangster (1822–1893) |
| Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912) |
| George Santayana (1863–1952) |
| Iñigo López de Mendoza, Marques de Santillana (1398–1458) |
| Moritz Gottlieb Saphir (1795–1858) |
| Sappho (fl. c. 610–580 B.C.) |
| Francisque Sarcey (1827–1899) |
| Victorien Sardou (1831–1908) |
| Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927) |
| Epes Sargent (1813–1880) |
| Nathan Sargent (1794–1875) |
| Winthrop Sargent (1825–1870) |
| Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811–1888) |
| Adelaide Kemble Sartoris (1814–1879) |
| Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy (1807–1880) |
| Frederick Saunders (1807–1902) |
| Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861–1947) |
| Thomas Marie François Sauvage (1794–1877) |
| John Savage (1828–1888) |
| Minot Judson Savage (1841–1918) |
| Richard Henry Savage (1846–1903) |
| George Francis Savage-Armstrong (1845–1906) |
| Nicolas Savary (1788–1788) |
| Friedrich Karl von Savigny (1779–1861) |
| Lodovico Vittorio Savioli (1729–1804) |
| Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) |
| Leicester Ambrose Sawyer (1807–1898) |
| John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) |
| Saxo Grammaticus (d. c. 1204) |
| Jean Baptiste Say (1767–1832) |
| Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933) |
| Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609) |
| Julius Scaliger (1484–1558) |
| Paul Scarron (1610–1660) |
| Adolph Friedrich von Schack (1815–1894) |
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| Sophus Schandorph (1836–1901) |
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| Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826–1886) |
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| Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854) |
| Maximilian Gottfried von Schenkendorf (1783–1817) |
| Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer (1815–1889) |
| Wilhelm Scherer (1841–1886) |
| Johannes Scherr (1817–1886) |
| F. C. S. Schiller (1864–1937) |
| Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
| August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767–1845) |
| Friedrich von Schlegel (1772–1829) |
| Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721–1793) |
| Johann Elias Schlegel (1719–1749) |
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| Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) |
| Friedrich Christoph Schlosser (1776–1861) |
| Schmid, Ferdinand von (1823–1888) |
| Heinrich Julian Schmidt (1818–1886) |
| Maximilian Schmidt (1832–1919) |
| Max Schneckenburger (1819–1849) |
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| Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) |
| Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865) |
| Karl Schönherr (1867–1943) |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864) |
| Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) |
| James Schouler (1839–1920) |
| Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) |
| Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739–1791) |
| Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780–1860) |
| Christoph Bernhard Levin Schücking (1814–1883) |
| Eduard Schulz (1813–1842) |
| Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747–1800) |
| Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze (1789–1817) |
| Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808–1883) |
| Robert Schumann (1810–1856) |
| Jacob Gould Schurman (1854–1942) |
| Carl Schurz (1829–1906) |
| Eugene Schuyler (1840–1890) |
| Gustav Schwab (1792–1850) |
| Marie Sophie Schwartz (1819–1894) |
| Frederick Schwatka (1849–1892) |
| Albert Schwegler (1819–1857) |
| Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1856–1928) |
| Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) |
| Alexander Scott (1525?–1584?) |
| Andrew Scott (1757–1839) |
| Clement Scott (1841–1904) |
| Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947) |
| Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) |
| John Reed Scott (1869–1942) |
| Leroy Scott (1875–1929) |
| Lady Scott (1784–1857) |
| Michael Scott (Thirteenth Century) |
| Patrick Scott (Nineteenth Century) |
| Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| William Bell Scott (1811–1890) |
| Augustin Eugène Scribe (1791–1861) |
| Frank Kimball Scribner (1866–1935) |
| Horace Elisha Scudder (1838–1902) |
| Vida Dutton Scudder (1861–1954) |
| Georges de Scudéry (1601–1667) |
| Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) |
| Charles Sealsfield (1793–1864) |
| Laura Redden Searing (Howard Glyndon) (1840–1923) |
| Molly Elliot Seawell (1860–1916) |
| Joannes Secundus (1511–1536) |
| Publius Pomponius Secundus (First Century) |
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| Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701) |
| Henry Sedley (1835–1899) |
| Sir John Robert Seeley (1834–1895) |
| Howard Seely (1856–1894) |
| Julius Hawtry Seelye (1824–1895) |
| Berthold Seemann (1825–1871) |
| Anne Moncure Crane Seemüller (1838–1872) |
| Louis Philippe, Comte de Ségur (1753–1830) |
| Philippe Paul, Comte de Ségur (1780–1873) |
| Victor Séjour (1817–1874) |
| John Selden (1584–1654) |
