By Series - Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Adam Ferguson
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Pope
- Anne Bradstreet
- Ben Jonson
- Benjamin Franklin
- Casanova
- Charles de Montesquieu
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Daniel Defoe
- Edward Gibbon
- Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon
- Engelbert Kämpfer
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
- Friedrich Schiller
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Henry Fielding
- Increase Mather
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
- Jakob Böhme
- James Boswell
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- Jean Racine
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Bunyan
- John Donne
- John Dryden
- John Milton
- Jonathan Swift
- Joseph Addison
- Joseph Priestley
- Lope de Vega Carpio
- Marin Mersenne
- Marquis de Condorcet
- Mary Wortley Montagu
- Matsuo Bashō
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
- Molière
- Noah Webster
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Pierre Corneille
- Robert Burns
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Sir John Vanbrugh
