Lives listing by occupation: author
- Villers, Charles François Dominique de (born 1765–died 1815), French university teacher, author
- Villette, Charles Michel de, marquis Du Plessis-Villette (born 1736–died 1793), French author, playwright, politician, revolutionary
- Vitrac, père Jean Baptiste, abbé Vitrac (born 1750–died 1805), French author, historian
- Voët, Gisbert (born 1589–died 1676), Dutch author, theologian, university administrator
- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (born 1694–died 1778), French author, essayist, philosopher
- Vosburg, Reverend Isaac (died 1705), Dutch churchman, Remonstrant, translator, author
- Wagnière, Jean Louis (born 1739–died 1802), Swiss private secretary, amanuensis, servant, author
- Walker, Clement (died 1651), English author, historian
- Walker, Joseph Cooper (born 1761–died 1810), Irish antiquarian, author
- Walpole, Horace, 4th earl of Orford (born 1717–died 1797), English author, novelist, medievalist, politician, member of Parliament
- Walsh, William (born 1662–died 1708), English author, poet, politician, member of Parliament
- Ward, Charles (flourished 1778–1818), English author, playwright
- Warden, David Bailie (born 1772–died 1845), Irish midwife, diplomat, author, journalist, science-writer, scholar
- Waring, Jeremiah (born 1757–died 1829), English Quaker, author
- Warren, Mercy Otis [née Otis] (born 1728–died 1814), American author, playwright
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