Indeed born in the Ettrick Forest and following the occupation of shepherd, James Hogg published several of his works under the sobriquet the "Ettrick Shepherd," a character he was to continue into his Edinburgh writing career, including his contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. His first major publication, The Mountain Bard (1807) was a collection of ballads. His most significant work was a novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1834).

English painter and engraver, Hogarth produced numerous popular satirical series, including The March to Finchley, A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, and Marriage A-la-Mode.

An English poet and clerk, sometimes known as Thomas Occleve. Some of his better works include "The Letter of Cupid," The Regement of Princes (1411-1412), "The Complaint," "The Dialogue with a Friend," "How to Die," "Prologue and a Miracle of the Blessed Virgin," and "Mother of God."

English cleric, dramatist, and poet. John Hoadly was the brother of Dr. Benjamin Hoadly and the son of Benjamin Hoadly.

Physician and researcher into electricity, Hoadly authored one enormously popular dramatic comedy, The Suspicious Husband (1747).

English clergyman, theologian, and father of Dr. Benjamin Hoadly and John Hoadly, best remembered as as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy which challenged the authority of Church government.

Also known as Sir John Hill, he was a notable botanist, writer, and journalist. Many of his publications are collected in The letters and papers of Sir John Hill, 1714-1775 (1982). Between the years of 1752 and 1753, Hill engaged in a "paper war" with rival authors including Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding. In particular, The Story of Elizabeth Canning Considered (1753) was hostile to Canning and Fielding, arguing in favor of the perjury verdict that resulted in Canning's transportation to Connecticut. and

Translator of Madame de Staël's 1807 work Corinne; Or, Italy (1833).

A versatile but only moderately successful playwright, theater manager, and essayist, Hill was one of Alexander Pope’s targets in The Dunciad. As a business man, Hill not only managed the Drury Lane and the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket for brief periods, but was involved in concerns as varied as lumber for Navy ships, potash production, beech nut oil, winemaking, and more. As an author, he began with A full and just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1709), the account of his impromptu solo journey as a teenager from Britain to his uncle's ambassadorial post in Turkey.

Bishop of Sodor and Man. With his predecessor Thomas Wilson he translated the Bible into Manx.