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
• Wallace Breem (1926–1990)
• Emily Brightwell
• Louisa Bronte
• John Buchan (1875-1940)
• Fiona Buckley
• John Burke
• John Dickson Carr (1906-1977)
• Philippa Carr (1906-1993)
• Winston Churchill (1871-1947)
• Alys Clare
• Michael Clynes
• Jonathan Coe
• Virginia Coffman
• Judith Cook
• Bernard Cornwell
• Thomas B. Costain (1885-1965)
• Lindsey Davis
• Len Deighton
• Lillian De La Torre
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
• P. C. Doherty
• David Donachie
• Alfred Duggan
• Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
• Daphne Du Maurier (1907-1989)
• Ann Dukthas
• Dorothy Dunnett (1923-2001)
• Umberto Eco (born 1932)
• George Eliot (1819-1880)
• Kathy Emerson
• Elizabeth Eyre
• Sebastian Faulks
• Patricia Finney
• Ken Follett
• C.S. Forester
• Bruno Frank (1878-1945)
• 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)
• George MacDonald Fraser
• John Masters (1914-1983)
• 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
• Boleslaw Prus (1847–1912)
• 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
• Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
• Kate Sedley
• Francis Selwyn
• Anya Seton (died 1916)
• Jeffrey Shaara
• Michael Shaara
• 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 (1909-1998)
• Henry Treece
• Peter Tremayne
• M.J. Trow
• Leon Uris
• Robert Van Gulik
• Jill Paton Walsh
• Jay Williams
• David Wishart
• Richard Woodman
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Frank Yerby
• Nicholas Yermakov (born 1951)

See also: Lists of authors