Lives listing by occupation: author
- La Ruë, Pieter de (born 1695–died 1770), Dutch author, art critic
- Lasteyrie, Charles Philibert de, comte de Lasteyrie (born 1759–died 1849), French educationalist, author
- L’Attaignant, Gabriel Charles de (born 1697–died 1779), French author, poet, songwriter
- Laujon, Pierre (born 1727–died 1811), French author, poet, songwriter, academician
- Launay, M. — de (born 1695–died 1751), French author, playwright
- Launay, père Jean de, abbé de Launay (born 1603–died 1678), French author, theologian
- Laurence, French (born 1757–died 1809), English lawyer, politician, member of Parliament, author
- La Vieuville, Claire Marie de, marquise de Saint-Chamond [née Mazarelli] (born 1731–died c. 1792), French aristocrat, author
- Law, Thomas (born 1756–died 1834), English East India Company official, civil servant, economist, author
- Laya, Jean Louis (born 1761–died 1833), French author, critic, journalist, academic, teacher
- Layton, Henry (born 1622–died 1705), English author, theologian
- Lebeau de Schosne, père Augustin Théodore Vincent, abbé de Schosne (flourished 1752–1773), French author, playwright
- Lebègue de Presle, Achille Guillaume (born 1735–died 1807), French physician, author, science-writer, civil servant
- Le Blanc, père Jean Bernard, abbé Le Blanc (born 1707–died 1781), French author, art critic, translator, civil servant
- Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, Bernard, chevalier d’Her (born 1657–died 1757), French author, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, philosopher, academician
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