This is an international list of diarists who have Wikipedia pages and whose journals have been published.

A

• Layal Abboud (born 1982), Lebanese singer and dancer • Rreze Abdullahu (born 1990), Kosovo Albanian writer • Abutsu-ni (阿仏尼, c. 1222–1283), Japanese nun and poet • J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967), English literary editor and biographer • Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813–1890), French writer and philosopher • Lady Harriet Acland (1750–1815), English noblewoman and nurse • John Adams (1735–1826), 2nd President of the United States, statesman and diplomat • John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), 6th President of the United States, statesman and diplomat • Catherine Adamson (1868–1925), New Zealand homemaker • Felix Aderca (1891–1962), Romanian novelist, playwright and poet • James Agate (1877–1947), English writer and critic • Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), American novelist • William Allingham (1824–1889), Irish poet • Nuha al-Radi (1941–2004), Iraqi potter and painter • Thura al-Windawi (born 1983), Iraqi pharmacologist and political commentator • Isaac Ambrose (1604–1664), English Puritan • Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881), Swiss philosopher, poet and critic • Hansine Andræ (1817–1898), Danish feminist • Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918), French writer • Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), English associate of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington • Takeo Arishima (有島 武郎, 1878–1923), Japanese novelist • Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French writer and critic • Lady Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960), English writer • Elise Aubert (1837–1909), Norwegian fiction and non-fiction writer • Charles John Ayton (1846–1922), New Zealand gold miner and rabbiter

B

• Gustav Badin (1747 or 1750–1822), Swedish court servant • Elizabeth Baker (c. 1720 – c. 1797), English secretary and geologist • David Paton Balfour (1841–1894), New Zealand sheep farmer and roading supervisor • Martha Ballard (1735–1812), American midwife and healer • Samuel Bamford (1788–1872), English dialect poet and dialect theorist • Maria Banuș (1914–1999), Romanian poet and essayist • Sara Banzet (1745–1774), French educator • Aurel Baranga (1913–1979), Romanian playwright and poet • W. N. P. Barbellion (1889–1919), English naturalist, essayist and short story writer • Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911), Jamaican-born Australian writer • Archie Barwick (1890–1966), Australian farmer and soldier • Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908–1994), Indian independence activist and writer • Franta Bass (1930-1944), Jewish Czechoslovakian child poet, Holocaust victim • Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), Ukrainian painter and sculptor (in French) • Fred Bason (1907–1973), English bookseller, broadcaster and writer • Annie Maria Baxter (1816–1905), English-born Australian housewife • Peter Hill Beard (born 1938), American photographer in Africa • Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), English fashion, portrait and war photographer • Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French writer and philosopher • Ben no Naishi (弁内侍, c. 1220s – c. 1270), Japanese court lady and poet • Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), American anthropologist • Tony Benn (Anthony Wedgwood Benn, 1925–2014), English politician • Alan Bennett (born 1934), English writer and playwright • Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), English novelist • A. C. Benson (1862–1925), English academic, biographer and poet • Märta Berendes (1639–1717), Swedish mistress of the robes • Olga Bergholz (1910–1975), Soviet poet and playwright • Pierre Bergounioux (born 1949), French writer • Hélène Berr (1921–1945), French writer on Nazi occupation of Paris • Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German playwright, poet and politician • Alfred Bestall (1892–1986), English illustrator, best known for Rupert Bear stories • Mary Matilda Betham (1776–1852), English poet, woman of letters and miniature portrait painter. • Ethel Bilbrough (1868–1951), English First World War diarist and artist • Maine de Biran (1766–1824), French writer, philosopher and mathematician • Léon Bloy (1846–1917), French novelist, poet and pamphleteer • Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), English squire • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and writer • Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), English educationalist, feminist and traveller (An American Diary 1857–1858) • George Wallace Bollinger (1890–1917), New Zealand soldier • Violet Bonham Carter (1887–1969), English politician, daughter of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith • Teresina Bontempi (1883–1968) Swiss political activist • Stanley Booth (born 1942), American music journalist • Józef Boruwłaski (1739–1837), Polish dwarf musician • James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish chronicler of Samuel Johnson • Jimmy Boyle (born 1944), Scottish gangster, sculptor and novelist • Jocelyn de Brakelond (c. 1155 – c. 1202), English monk (in Latin) • Ulrich Bräker (1735–1798), Swiss autodidact and writer • Gyles Brandreth (born 1948), English writer and politician • Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (1880–1970), Brazilian teenage diarist • Patrick Breen (1795–1868), American member of The Donner Party, who suffered while stranded in the wilderness in the winter of 1846/47 • Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet (1604–1661), English politician and Roundhead military commander • Vera Brittain (1893–1970), English author and feminist • Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), English composer • Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893), French-born English painter • David Bruce (1898–1977), American ambassador • Nathaniel Bryceson (1826–1911), English clerk • Thomas Bryn (1782–1827), Norwegian jurist and civil servant • Emanoil Bucuța (1887–1946), Romanian novelist, critic and poet • Kazimierz Bujnicki (1788–1878), Polish writer • Deborah Bull (born 1963), English ballet dancer and writer • Reader Bullard (1885–1976), English diplomat • Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), Russian/Soviet novelist • Fanny Burney (1752–1840), English novelist, playwright and biographer • Richard Burton (1925–1984), Welsh actor • Elizabeth Bury (1644–1720), English nonconformist • Eleanor Charlotte Butler (1739–1829) One of the once controversial Ladies of Llangollen • Mary Butts (1890–1937), English writer • William Byrd II (1674–1744), Colonial American diarist • Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet and traveler

C

• Meg Cabot (born 1967), American YA author • Alexander Cadogan (1884–1968), English diplomat and civil servant • Louis Calaferte (1928–1994), French novelist and essayist • Matei Călinescu (1934–2009), Romanian critic and professor • Alastair Campbell (born 1957), Anglo-Scottish journalist, broadcaster and author • Thomas Campbell (1733–1795), Irish Protestant minister and travel writer • Zenobia Camprubí (1887–1956), Spanish Civil War seen from Cuba • Albert Camus (1913–1960), Algerian-born French writer and philosopher • Emily Carr (1871–1945), Canadian artist • Dora Carrington (1893–1932), English painter • Jim Carroll (1949–2009), American author, poet and musician • Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson, 1832–1898), English writer and mathematician • Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999), Argentine fiction writer and collaborator with Jorge Luis Borges • Richard Casey, Baron Casey (1890–1976), Australian statesman and ambassador • Judy Cassab (1920–2015), Australian artist • Constance de Castelbajac (1859–1886), French aristocrat • Abelardo Castillo (1935–2017), Argentine novelist and essayist • Barbara Castle (1910–2002), English politician • Henri de Catt (1725–1795), Swiss scholar • Catherine Caughey (1923–2008), Kenyan-born New Zealand code breaker and occupational therapist • Hannah Rebecca Frances Caverhill (1834–1897), New Zealand homemaker • Henry "Chips" Channon (1897–1958), Anglo-American politician and author • Miriam Chaszczewacki (1924–1942), Polish Jewish Holocaust victim • John Cheever (1912–1982), American novelist • Claire Lee Chennault (1890–1958), American World War II General, head of the Flying Tigers • Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886), American who described life in South Carolina in the American Civil War • Choe Bu (최부, 1454–1504), Korean official and traveler • Johan Koren Christie (1909–1995), Norwegian air-force major general • Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944), Mussolini's Italian foreign minister • Hanns Cibulka (1920–2004), German Bohemian poet • Emil Cioran (1911–1995), Romanian writer and philosopher • Alan Clark (1928–1999), English politician and historian • Andrew Clark (1856–1922), Scottish diarist and cleric • Ossie Clark (1942–1996), English fashion designer • Ralph Clark (1755 or 1762 – 1794), Scottish naval officer • Willem de Clercq (1795–1844), Dutch Protestant revivalist • Lady Anne Clifford (1590–1676), English literary patron and correspondent • Kurt Cobain (1967–1994), American rock musician, Nirvana's lead singer • Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn (1779–1854), Scottish judge and writer • Richard Cocks (1566–1624), English head of trading post in Japan • Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French writer and filmmaker • John Alan Coey (1950–1975), American soldier with the Rhodesian army • Mary Coke (1727–1811), English diarist and correspondent • William Cole (1714–1782), English Anglican cleric and antiquary • Maurice Collis (1889–1973), Irish administrator in Burma and writer • Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo, c. 1451 – 1506), Italian explorer and colonizer • Jock Colville (1915–1987), English civil servant • Jemima Condict (1754–1779), American child diarist • Yves Congar (1904–1995), French Dominican friar and theologian • Thomas Coningsby (9 October 1550-30 May 1625), English soldier and member of parliament • Benjamin Constant (1767–1830), French writer, philosopher and politician • Ethel Cooper (1871–1961), Australian musician and First World War German detainee • Eleanor Coppola (b. 1936), American filmmaker and writer • Rachel Corrie (1979–2003), American activist • William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), English schoolmaster and scholar • Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini (1876–1958), Vatican cardinal and Apostolic Chancellor • Noël Coward (1899–1973), English playwright and composer • Mary Cowper (1685–1724), English courtier • James Cox (1846–1925), New Zealand swagman • Peter Julius Coyet (1618–1667), Swedish envoy to England • Thomas Creevey (1768–1838), English politician • Nicholas Cresswell (1750–1804), English settler in the American colonies • Nicolae Cristea (1834–1902), Romanian priest and political activist • John Wilson Croker (1780–1857), Irish-born politician • Susan Mary Crompton (1846–1932), Australian social welfare reformer • Fritz Cronman (c. 1640 – c. 1680), Swedish diplomat • Richard Crossman (1907–1974), English politician and writer • Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), English occultist and poet • Hannah Cullwick (1833–1909), English domestic servant and lodging-house keeper • Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish physicist and chemist • Alexis Curvers (1906–1992), Belgian writer • Cyryl Czarkowski-Golejewski (1885–1940), Polish landowner and Katyn massacre victim • Klementyna Czartoryska (1780–1852), Polish noblewoman • Adam Czerniaków (1880–1942), Polish head of the Warsaw Ghetto's Judenrat and Holocaust victim

D

• Ludvig Daae (1829–1893), Norwegian jurist and politician • Eugène Dabit (1898–1936), French writer • Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965), Polish novelist and playwright • Luísa Dacosta (1927–2015), Portuguese fiction writer and poet • Thomas Dallam (1570 – post-1614), English organ builder (diary 1598–1599, journey to Turkey) • Jasper Danckaerts (1639–1702/1704), Dutch North American colonist and travel writer • Đặng Thùy Trâm (1942–1970), Vietnamese army surgeon • Jacob Hersleb Darre (1757–1841), Norwegian chaplain and constitutional assembly representative • Gregorio Dati (1363–1435), Florentine merchant • Emilie Davis (fl. 1860s), African-American diarist • Anna Dawbin (1816–1905), English-born Australian housewife and foster mother • Dorothy Day (1897-1980), American journalist and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement • Jens Peter Debes (1776–1832), Norwegian judge and politician • John Dee 17th-century English mathematician and astronomer of Welsh extraction • Sophie Dedekam (1820–1894), Norwegian composer • Helga Deen (1925–1943), Dutch/German Holocaust victim • Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French painter • E. M. Delafield (1890–1943), English novelist • Bernard Delvaille (1931–2006), French poet and anthologist • Dan Deșliu (1927–1992), Romanian poet • Giuseppe Dessì (1909–1977), Italian novelist and playwright • Simonds d'Ewes (1602–1650), English antiquary and politician • George Diamandy (1867–1917), Romanian politician and social scientist • Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: see Lewis Carroll • George Bubb Dodington (1691–1762), English politician and nobleman • 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 • Antera Duke (died post-1788), Nigerian slave trader • Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), French novelist and scriptwriter • Bob Dylan (born 1941), American musician and songwriter • William Dyott (1761-1847), British army General and aide-de-camp of George III

E

• 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

F

• 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 • Caroline Fox (1819–1871), English socialite, sister of Barclay • George Fox (1624–1691), English founder of the Quakers • Samuel Foxe (1560–1630, English politician • Anne Frank (1929–1945), Dutch Holocaust victim, documenting her life in hiding (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

• Wanda Gág (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 • Chester Gillette (1883–1908), American murderer • 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

• 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 • Patricia Highsmith (1923–1995), American author • Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), Dutch Holocaust victim. • George Hilton (1673–1725), English gentleman diarist • Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), Nazi and commander of the SS • 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 • 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. (1628–1697), 17th century Dutch astronomer

I

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 (1905–2001), 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 • John Oglander (1585–1655), English politician • 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

• 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 (1769–1822), 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 • Frances Dallam Peter (1843–1864), United States Civil War diarist • 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

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

R

• 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 (1923–2022), American composer • Henry Rollins (born 1961), American singer for Black Flag • 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

• 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 • Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson (1786–1868), Argentine society hostess • 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

• 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

• Emperor Uda (宇多天皇, 866–931), Japanese Emperor • Ida Hunt Udall (1858–1915), American homesteader • Matome Ugaki (宇垣纏, 1890–1945), Japanese admiral • Umewaka Minoru I (初世梅若実, 1828–1909), Japanese Noh actor

V

• 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

• 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

• Yi Kyu-won (이규원, 1833–1901), Korean military official • Yi sun-sin (1545–1598) • Zina D. H. Young (1821–1901), American President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Relief Society

Z

• Mircea Zaciu (1928–2000), Romanian critic and literary historian • Zheng Xiaoxu (1860–1938), Chinese politician, poet and calligrapher • 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