- Lawrence Sail
- Giles St Aubyn LVO
- William St Clair FBA
- Norman St John-Stevas (Lord St John of Fawsley)
- Fiona Sampson
- J.J. Scarisbrick FRHistS
- Ann Schlee
- Michael Schmidt
- The Rev Professor M.A. Screech FBA
- Roger Scruton FBA
- Peter Scupham
- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
- Elisa Segrave
- Richard Sennett
- Vikram Seth CBE
- Miranda Seymour
- Sir Peter Shaffer CBE
- Nicholas Shakespeare
- Kamila Shamsie
- Jo Shapcott
- Norman Sherry
- Elaine Showalter
- Posy Simmonds MBE
- Helen Simpson
- Andrew Sinclair
- Clive Sinclair
- Iain Sinclair
- Robert Skidelsky (Lord Skidelsky of Tilton FBA FRHistS)
- Ali Smith
- Godfrey Smith
- Lacey Baldwin Smith FRHistS
- Zadie Smith
- Mary Soames (Baroness Soames LG)
- Ahdaf Soueif
- Frances Spalding CBE
- Francis Spufford
- Hilary Spurling CBE
- John Spurling
- Tom Stacey
- Jon Stallworthy FBA
- Martin Stannard
- Edward St Aubyn
- C.K. Stead ONZ CBE
- George Steiner FBA
- Rory Stewart OBE MP
- Stanley Stewart
- Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE C Lit
- Sir Roy Strong FSA
- Kate Summerscale
- Virginia Surtees
- John Sutherland
- Graham Swift
- George Szirtes
Kate Summerscale – Year of election 2010
Kate Summerscale, an author and journalist,has made a huge impression with her two published works of non-fiction. The Queen of Whale Cay, the biography of Joe Carstairs, adventurer, speed boat ace, colonist and lesbian, revealed one of the twentieth century’s most colourful characters and won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award and the Whitbread Award for Biography. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, a compelling combination of murder mystery and historical revelation, won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2008.