Name
- Johnson, Samuel, author and lexicographer, 1709-17841
- Jones, Edward Coley Burne-, 1st Baronet, artist, 1833-18981
- Jones, James Sidney, composer1
- Kaufman, Angelica, afterwards Zucchi sculptor al Kauffmann1
- Keene, Charles Samuel, illustrator and etcher, 1823-18911
- Kipling, Joseph Rudyard, author, 1865-19361
- Lamb, Charles, essayist1
- Lamb, Mary Ann, sister of Charles Lamb, writer1
- Lang, Andrew, author, 1844-19121
- Lawrence, John Laird Mair, 1st Baronet Lawrence, 1811-18791
- Lawrence, Thomas, PRA1
- Layard, Austen Henry, GCB, archaeologist and politician, 1817-18941
- Le Gallienne, Richard Thomas, author, 1866-19471
- Leech, John, humorous artist and illustrator, 1817-18641
- Leighton, Frederic, Baron Leighton, PRA1
- Lind-Goldschmidt, Johanna Maria, alias 'Jenny Lind', singer1
- Locker, Frederick, afterwards Locker Lampson poet1
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, poet, 1807-18881
- Lucas, Edward Verrall, of Methuen and Co, author and publisher1
- Lyttelton, George William, 4th Baron Lyttelton1