By Series - Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Henry Fielding
- Henry Hudson
- Henry Pelham
- Henry Purcell
- Horace Mann
- Hugo Grotius
- Immanuel Kant
- Increase Mather
- Inigo Jones
- Jacques Necker
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
- Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
- Jakob Böhme
- James Boswell
- James Brindley
- James Bruce
- James Edward Oglethorpe
- James Hargreaves
- James I
- James II
- James Jerome Hill
- James Madison
- James Watt
- James Wilson
- James Wolfe
- Jan Vermeer
- Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- Jean Racine
- Jean Siméon Chardin
- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean-Paul Marat
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Jeremy Bentham
- Jethro Tull
- Johann Bernhard Basedow
- Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johannes Kepler
- John Adams
- John André
- John Baskerville
- John Biddle
- John Bunyan
