- Tessa Hadley
- John Haffenden FBA
- William Hague MP
- John Halperin
- Georgina Hammick
- Christopher Hampton CBE
- Barbara Hardy FBA
- Sir David Hare
- Claire Harman
- Richard Harries (The Rt Rev Lord Harries of Pentregarth)
- Robert Harris
- Wilson Harris
- Tony Harrison
- David Harsent
- Sir Ronald Harwood CBE, Vice-President
- Sir Max Hastings
- Lady Selina Hastings
- Roy Hattersley (Lord Hattersley)
- Cameron Hazlehurst
- Shirley Hazzard
- Tim Heald
- Denis Healey (Lord Healey CH MBE)
- Philip Hensher
- Dominic Hibberd
- Sir Geoffrey Hill
- Reginald Hill
- Rosemary Hill
- Tobias Hill
- Bevis Hillier
- Tim Hilton
- Barry Hines
- Eric Hobsbawm CH FBA
- Mary Hocking
- Eva Hoffman
- Richard Hoggart
- Ursula Holden
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Richard Holmes OBE FBA
- Sir Michael Holroyd CBE C Lit FRHistS, President
- Park Honan
- Hugh Honour FBA
- Christopher Hope
- Nick Hornby
- Sir Alistair Horne CBE
- Elizabeth Jane Howard CBE
- Philip Howard
- Kathryn Hughes FRHistS
- Shirley Hughes OBE
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Roland Huntford
- Aamer Hussein
- Angela Huth
- Samuel Hynes
Ursula Holden – Year of election 2010
Ursula Holden, whose novels have been compared to those of Ivy Compton Burnett, is a chronicler of rackety, damaged lives, of families fractured by alcohol and the poverty of post-war