This list may include any author who has written a historical novel as defined in the relevant article.
- Peter Ackroyd, (born 1949)
- Harold Adams
- Bruce Alexander
- Valerie Anand
- Anna Apostolou
- Mary Balogh
- Pat Barker
- Stephanie Barron
- Laura Black
- Emily Brightwell
- Louisa Bronte
- John Buchan, (1875-1940)
- Fiona Buckley
- John Burke
- John Dickson Carr, (1906-1977)
- Philippa Carr, (1906-1993)
- Alys Clare
- Charles Dickens, (1812-1870)
- Michael Clynes
- Jonathan Coe
- Virginia Coffman
- Judith Cook
- Bernard Cornwell
- Thomas B. Costain, (1885-1965)
- Lindsey Davis
- Lillian De La Torre
- P. C. Doherty
- David Donachie
- Alfred Duggan
- Alexandre Dumas, (1802-1870)
- Daphne Du Maurier, (1907-1989)
- Ann Dukthas
- Dorothy Dunnett, (1923-2001)
- Umberto Eco, (1932-)
- George Eliot, (1819-1880)
- Kathy Emerson
- Elizabeth Eyre
- Sebastian Faulks
- Patricia Finney
- Ken Follett
- Margaret Frazer
- Dale Furutani
- Diana Gabaldon
- Roberta Gellis
- Margaret George
- C. L. Grace
- Philippa Gregory, (born 1954)
- Susanna Gregory
- Robert Lee Hall
- Barbara Hambly
- Lauren Haney
- Paul Harding
- Mollie Hardwick
- Karen Harper
- Simon Hawke, (born 1951)
- Keith Heller
- Georgette Heyer, (1902-1974)
- Eleanor Hibbert, (1906-1993)
- Domini Highsmith
- Tom Holland
- Tom Holt, (born 1961)
- Victoria Holt, (1906-1993)
- Victor Hugo, (1802-1885)
- S. L. Hunter, (born 1951)
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Christian Jacq
- Rosemary Hawley Jarman
- Michael Jecks
- Alexander Kent
- Kate Kingsbury
- Alanna Knight
- Bernard Knight
- Deryn Lake
- Janet Laurence
- Margaret Lawrence
- Stephen Lewis
- Hannah March
- A.E. Marston
- J. D. Masters, (born 1951)
- Maan Meyers
- Margaret Miles
- Vivian Moore
- Ian Morson
- Amy Myers
- Sharan Newman
- Robert Nye
- Patrick O'Brian
- Robin Paige
- William Palmer
- Edith Pargeter, (1913-1995)
- Michael Pearce
- Elizabeth Peters
- Ellis Peters, (1913-1995)
- Sharon Penman, (born 1945)
- Anne Perry
- Jean Plaidy
- Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
- Mary Renault, (1905-1983)
- Kel Richards
- Candace Robb
- John M. Roberts
- Lynda Robinson
- Caroline Roe
- Martha Rofheart
- Elliott Roosevelt
- Rosemary Rowe
- Laura Rowland
- Steven Saylor
- Kate Sedley
- Francis Selwyn
- Anya Seton, (died 1916)
- Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832)
- Samuel Shellabarger, (1888-1954)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
- Mary Stewart, (born 1916)
- Rosemary Sutcliff, (1920-1992)
- A.C. Tassie
- Victoria Thompson
- Marilyn Todd
- Leonard Tourney
- Nigel Tranter, (1909-2000)
- Geoffrey Trease
- Henry Treece
- Peter Tremayne
- M.J. Trow
- Leon Uris
- Robert Van Gulik
- Jill Paton Walsh
- Jay Williams
- David Wishart
- Richard Woodman
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- Nicholas Yermakov, (born 1951)
