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Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
- Author
- Essayist
- Poet
- Politician
John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)
- Author
- M.D.
Thomas Augustine Arne (1710–1778)
- Composer
Mary Astell (1668–1731)
- Author
Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
- Author
- Poet
- Spy
Francis Atterbury (1662–1732)
- Author
- Politician
- Bishop
Thomas Attwood (1765–1838)
- Composer
- Performer
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)
- Author
- Editor
Jane Barker (1652–1732)
- Author
Sir Richard Blackmore (1654–1729)
- Author
- Physician
Martha Blount (1690–1763)
Sir John Blunt (1665–1733)
- Financier
- South Sea Director
William Boyce (1711–1779)
- Composer
- Performer
- Music Editor
Richard Boyle (1694–1753)
- Architect
- Patron
Anne Bracegirdle (d. 1748)
- Actress
- Singer
Isaac Brandon (1769–1847)
- Merchant
- Author
- Librettist
John Broughton (1704? – 8 January 1789)
- Pugilist
- Waterman
- Lighterman
- Yeoman
Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
- Statesman
- Orator
- Author
Frances Burney (1752–1840)
- Author
the elder Thomas Cadell (1742–1802; fl. 1765–1802)
- Printer / Publisher
- Bookseller
- Publisher
Duncan Campbell (1680?–1730)
- Soothsayer
Elizabeth Cellier (fl. 1680–?)
- Midwife
Susanna Centlivre (1667?–1723)
- Author
- Poet
- Playwright
- Actress
Charlotte Charke (1713–1760)
- Actor
- Author
- Farmer
- Tavern Keeper
- Valet
- Pastry Cook
- Sausage Maker
William Rufus Chetwood (d. 1766)
- Bookseller
- Author
- Theatre Manager
- Theatre Prompter
Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700)
- Sculptor
Colley Cibber (1671–1757)
- Author
- Actor
- Theatre Manager
Susannah Maria Cibber (1714–1766)
- Actress
- Author
Theophilus Cibber (1703–1758)
- Actor
- Author
- Theatre Manager
Edmund Curll (1683–1747; fl. 1706–1747)
- Bookseller
- Publisher
Chevalier d'Éon (1728–1810)
- Diplomat
- Spy
- Soldier
Thomas Davies (1712?–1785)
- Printer / Publisher
- Bookseller
- Publisher
- Author
- Actor
Daniel Defoe (1660?–1731)
- Author
- Journalist
John Dennis (1657–1734)
- Author
- Critic
James Dodsley (1724–1797)
- Bookseller
Robert Dodsley (1704–1764)
- Bookseller
- Author
John Dryden (1631–1700)
- Author
- Poet Laureate
John Dunton (1659–1733)
- Bookseller
- Author
Arabella Fermor (1689?–1738)
Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
- Author
- Magistrate
Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
- Author
Celia Fiennes (1662–1741)
- Traveller
James Figg (d. 8 December 1734)
- Master of the Noble Science of Defence
- Victualler
- Prize-fighter
Anne Finch (1661–1720)
- Author
Ann Fisher (1719–1778)
- Author
- Grammarian
Sir Samuel Garth (1661–1719)
- Author
- Physician
- M.D.
John Gay (1685–1732)
- Author
King George II (1683–1760)
- Monarch
- King
Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
- Author
- Historian
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
- Composer
Eliza Haywood (ca. 1695? – 1756)
- Author
- Poet
- Actress
- Translator
- Editor
- Bookseller
- Publisher
John Henley (1692–1756)
- Clergyman
John Hill (1714?–1775)
- Apothecary
- Botanist
- Physician
- Actor
James Hook (1746–1827)
- Musician
- Composer
- Teacher
Theodore Edward Hook (b. 1788)
- Author
Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821)
- Author
- Actress
James II and VII (1633–1701)
- Monarch
- King
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
- Author
- Lexicographer
- Editor
- Critic
Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816)
- Actress
- Courtesan
Michael Kelly (1762–1826)
- Singer
- Composer
- Administrator
Bernard Lintot (1675–1736; fl. 1690–1736)
- Printer / Publisher
- Stationer
- Bookseller
- Publisher
John Locke (1632–1704)
- Philosopher
Delariviere Manley (1670?–1724)
- Author
A. Moore
- Pamphlet-seller
- Publisher
John Moore (d. 1737)
- Apothecary
- Author
Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
- Author
- Philosopher
- Mathematician
Anne Oldfield (1683–1730)
- Actress
John Oldmixon (1673?–1742)
- Historian
- Author
Thomas Parnell (1679–1718)
- Clergyman
- Author
Elisabeth Pepys (1640–1669)
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)
- Naval Official
- Member of Parliament
Katherine Philips (1631–1664)
- Poet
- Translator
Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821)
- Author
Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
- Author
Edith Pope (1643–1733)
Sarah Popping (d. 1728; fl. 1710–1723)
- Printer / Publisher
- Bookseller
- Publisher
Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
- Author
- Diplomat
Samuel Richardson (1689–1761; fl. 1719–1761)
- Author
- Printer / Publisher
- Publisher
- Stationer
Thomas Roseingrave (1690/91 – 1766)
- Organist
- Composer
Elizabeth Rowe (1674–1737)
- Author
Margaret Caroline Rudd (1745?–1798?)
- Courtesan
- Author
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780)
- Musician
- Author
- Tobacconist & Grocer
- Composer
Elkanah Settle (1648–1724)
- Author
William Shield (1748–1829)
- Composer
- Performer
- Music Theorist
Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)
John Christopher Smith (1712–1795)
- Composer
- Author
Richard Steele (1672–1729)
- Author
- Dramatist
- Essayist
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
- Author
- Clergyman
Anna Selina Storace (1765–1817)
- Singer
Stephen Storace (1762–1796)
- Composer
- Performer
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
- Author
- Dean
Lewis Theobald (1688–1744)
- Author
- Editor
- Translator
Elizabeth Thomas (1677–1731)
- Author
Mary Toft (1701?–1763)
the Second Jacob Tonson (1682?–1735; fl. 1700–1735)
- Printer / Publisher
- Bookseller
- Publisher
- Book Binder
- Stationer
the First Jacob Tonson (1656?–1736; fl. 1678–1720)
- Printer / Publisher
- Bookseller
- Publisher
Voltaire (1694–1778)
- Philosopher
- Author
Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
- Author
- Politician
Robert Walpole (1676–1745)
- Politician
- Prime Minister
Edward Ward (1667–1731)
- Author
- Publican
John Wilmot (1647–1680)
- Author
- Courtier
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
- Author
William Woodfall (1745–1803; fl. 1771–1793)
- Printer / Publisher
- Publisher
- Reporter
- Press Editor
- Author
- Editor
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)
- Noblewoman
- Author
- Poet
- Traveller

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