Lives listing by occupation: poet
- Jacobi, Johann Georg (born 1740–died 1814), German author, poet, philosopher
- Jago, Richard (born 1715–died 1781), English churchman, poet
- Jenyns, Soame (born 1704–died 1787), English politician, member of Parliament, poet
- Jerningham, Edward (born 1737–died 1812), English author, poet
- Jolyot de Crébillon, Prosper (born 1674–died 1762), French author, playwright, poet, academician
- Jones, Henry (born 1721–died 1770), Irish author, playwright, poet
- Jovellanos, Gaspar Melchor de (born 1744–died 1811), Spanish lawyer, judge, statesman, philosopher, author, poet, playwright
- Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich (born 1766–died 1826), Russian author, historian, poet, critic
- Keate, George (born 1729–died 1797), English author, poet, painter, antiquarian, academician
- Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb (born 1724–died 1803), German author, poet
- Knight, Henrietta, Lady Luxborough [née St John] (born 1699–died 1756), English author, poet, salon hostess
- La Férandière, Marie Amable de, marquise de La Férandière [née Petiteau] (born 1736–died 1819), French aristocrat, poet, children’s author, fabulist
- La Live de Bellegarde, Élisabeth Françoise Sophie de, comtesse d’Houdetot (born 1730–died 1813), French aristocrat, poet, salon hostess
- L’Attaignant, Gabriel Charles de (born 1697–died 1779), French author, poet, songwriter
- Laujon, Pierre (born 1727–died 1811), French author, poet, songwriter, academician
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