| LESSING | Doris _; novelist and Nobel Prize-winner (7) |
| MANN | Thomas --, 1875-1955, German novelist and Nobel Prize winner (4) |
| GARDNER | Erle Stanley _; novelist and creator of Perry Mason (7) |
| NAIPAUL | Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author of A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
| FIRBANK | Ronald ___, novelist whose works include Valmouth (1919) and The Flower Beneath The Foot (1923) (7) |
| RUSHDIE | Salman _, novelist who won the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children (1981) |
| BENNETT | Arnold ___, novelist who wrote The Old Wives' Tale (7) |
| GOLDING | William ___, novelist (7) |
| BALLARD | JG _, novelist whose best-known works are Crash (1973) |
| MURDOCH | Iris ___, novelist made a DBE in 1987 |
| CHURCHILL | PM and Nobel prize winner (9) |
| YEATS | WB -, Irish poet and Nobel prize winner (5) |
| BOSCH | Karl, a German chemist and nobel prize winner (5) |
| IVAN | Physiologist and Nobel Prize winner ___ Pavlov |
| DYLAN | Musician and Nobel Prize winner, Bob ___ |
| CHERENKOV | Pavel, Soviet physicist and Nobel Prize winner (9) |
| SHULL | Clifford G., American physicist and Nobel Prize winner (5) |
| OWENCHAMBERLAIN | US physicist and Nobel Prize-winner, 1920-2006 (4,11) |
| DIRAC | Paul ___, British physicist and Nobel prize winner(5) |
| JOSEPHSON | Brian David -, Welsh physicist and Nobel Prize winner (9) |