| comte de Lautréamont | 1846–1870 | 2 |
| Stéphane Lauzanne | born 1874 | 1 |
| Gaston Lavalley | 1834–1922 | 1 |
| Théophile Lavallée | 1804–1865 | 2 |
| Jerome Buell Lavay | born 1860 | 1 |
| Emile de Laveleye | 1822–1892 | 1 |
| C.-H. (Charles-Honoré) Laverdière | 1826–1873 | 1 |
| Emily Lawless | 1845–1913 | 1 |
| Hugh Jackson Lawlor | 1860–1938 | 1 |
| Marion Lawrance | 1850–1924 | 1 |
| D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence | 1885–1930 | 16 |
| Eugene Lawrence | 1823–1894 | 1 |
| George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence | 1827–1876 | 3 |
| Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother | 1611–1691 | 2 |
| Robert Means Lawrence | 1847–1935 | 1 |
| Alfred W. (Alfred William) Lawson | 1869–1954 | 1 |
| Henry Lawson | 1867–1922 | 7 |
| John Lawson | 1674–1711 | 1 |
| Thomas William Lawson | 1857–1925 | 1 |
| Emma Lazarus | 1849–1887 | 2 |
| Frederick John Lazell | 1870–1940 | 3 |
| Francis Le Baron | 1824–1911 | 1 |
| Gustave Le Bon | 1841–1931 | 4 |
| Brinsley Le Fanu | 1854–1929 | 1 |
| Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | 1814–1873 | 18 |
| Georges Le Faure | 1856–1953 | 4 |
| Amy Le Feuvre | 1861–1929 | 8 |
| Richard Le Gallienne | 1866–1947 | 16 |
| Louis Le Gendre | 1655–1733 | 1 |
| Charles Le Goffic | 1863–1932 | 1 |
| Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir | 1825–1912 | 1 |
| William Le Queux | 1864–1927 | 7 |
| Le Roux de Lincy | 1806–1869 | 5 |
| Albert Le Roy | 1856–1905 | 1 |
| Edouard Le Roy | 1870–1954 | 1 |
| Alain René Le Sage | 1668–1747 | 3 |
| Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott) Lea | 1793–1858 | 1 |
| Stephen Leacock | 1869–1944 | 14 |
| C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater | 1854–1934 | 4 |
| Walter Leaf | 1852–1927 | 1 |
| Arthur Herbert Leahy | 1857–1928 | 3 |
| António Duarte Gomes Leal | 1848–1921 | 3 |
| José da Silva Mendes Leal | 1818–1886 | 1 |
| Raul de Oliveira Sousa Leal | 1886–1964 | 1 |
| Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Leale | 1842–1932 | 1 |
| Edmund Leamy | 1848–1904 | 1 |
| Edward Lear | 1812–1888 | 7 |
| Walter Learned | 1847–1915 | 1 |
| William Harvey Leathem | 1875–1937 | 1 |
| Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley Leathley | 1818–1899 | 1 |
| Georgette Leblanc | 1869–1941 | 1 |
| Maurice Leblanc | 1864–1941 | 7 |
| Adrien Leblond | 1854–1939 | 1 |
| Léon Lebèque | 1863–1930 | 1 |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky | 1838–1903 | 1 |
| Willem Leo Leclercq | 1899–1984 | 1 |
| Leconte de Lisle | 1818–1894 | 2 |
| Mary Forman Ledyard | born 1867 | 1 |
| Andrew Lee | 1745–1832 | 1 |
| Day Kellogg Lee | 1816–1869 | 1 |
| Gerald Stanley Lee | 1862–1944 | 3 |
| H. W. (Henry William) Lee | 1865–1932 | 1 |
| Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee | 1780–1865 | 1 |
| Holme Lee | 1828–1900 | 1 |
| Ida Lee | 1865–1943 | 1 |
| Jennette Lee | 1860–1951 | 2 |
| John Doyle Lee | 1812–1877 | 1 |
| Minnie Mary Lee | 1826–1903 | 1 |
| Lee, R., Mrs. | 1791–1856 | 1 |
| Robert E. (Robert Edward) Lee | 1843–1914 | 1 |
| Lee, Sidney, Sir | 1859–1926 | 2 |
| Vernon Lee | 1856–1935 | 2 |
| John Leech | 1817–1864 | 2 |
| Herbert Corey Leeds | 1855–1930 | 1 |
| J. Cameron (James Cameron) Lees | 1834–1913 | 1 |
| J. A. C. van (Jacobus Adrien Cornelius) Leeuwen | 1870–1930 | 1 |
| Antoni van Leeuwenhoek | 1632–1723 | 1 |
| Edwin Lefevre | 1871–1943 | 1 |
| Albert Leffingwell | 1845–1916 | 1 |
| James Legge | 1815–1897 | 7 |