Lives listing by occupation: author
- Parsons, William (born c. 1764–died 1807), English author, poet
- Pascoli, Alessandro (born 1669–died 1757), Italian author, philosopher, physician
- Passerat de La Chapelle, Claude François (born 1707–died 1784), French physician, army officer, medical author, author
- Paterson, William (born 1658–died 1719), Scottish author, merchant, economist
- Payan de Lestang, Marie Anne Henriette, marquise d’Antremont (born 1746–died 1802), French author, poet
- Pennant, Thomas (born 1726–died 1798), Welsh naturalist, traveller, author
- Pepys, Samuel (born 1633–died 1703), English civil servant, academician, politician, member of Parliament, diarist, author
- Perceval, John, 1st earl of Egmont (born 1683–died 1748), Irish politician, member of Parliament, diarist, academician, author
- Percivall, George (born 1637–died 1675), Irish court official, courtier, civil servant, author
- Perrin, Jean Baptiste (flourished 1767–1798), French tutor, linguist, educationalist, author
- Perroquet, Jacob [Claude Adrien Helvétius] (pseudonym/initials used c. 1758–c. 1759), French philosopher, author
- Pertusier, Charles (born 1779–died 1836), French army officer, author, poet
- Pesselier, Charles Étienne (born 1712–died 1763), French author, poet, university administrator
- Petitpierre, Alphonse (flourished c. 1878), Swiss author, economist
- Pezzana, Giuseppe (born 1735–died 1802), Italian author, poet, translator, journalist
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