Lives listing by occupation: author
- Diderot, Denis (born 1713–died 1784), French author, philosopher, encyclopædist
- Difenbach, Johann Jacob (flourished 1752–1778), German author, legal author, translator
- Dionis Du Séjour, Mlle — (flourished 1777–1778), French author, poet
- Disney, John (born 1746–died 1816), English churchman, Unitarian, biographer, author
- Dodington, George Bubb, Baron Melcombe (born 1691–died 1762), English politician, member of Parliament, arts-patron, diarist, author
- Dorat, Claude Joseph, chevalier Dorat (born 1734–died 1780), French author, playwright
- Dorfeuille, Philippe Antoine (born 1754–died 1795), French actor, author, playwright, traveller, revolutionary
- Dornford, Doctor Josiah (born c. 1734–died 1810), English politician, civil servant, author
- Doublet, Marie Anne [née Legendre] (born 1677–died 1771), French author, artist, draughtsman, portraitist, pastellist, salon hostess
- Douch, Reverend John (born c. 1623–died 1675), English churchman, tutor, author
- Douglas, Francis (born 1719–died c. 1790), Scottish author, publisher
- Dow, Lieutenant-colonel Alexander (born 1735–died 1779), Scottish army officer, author
- Droz, François Nicolas Eugène (born 1735–died 1805), French lawyer, civil servant, historian, author
- Drugny de Colsenel, père —, abbé Drugny de Colsenel (flourished 1760–1790), French churchman, author
- Dubois-Fontanelle, Joseph Gaspard (born 1727–died 1812), French author, playwright
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