This is a list of diarists.
- James Agate
- Louisa May Alcott
- Isaac Ambrose
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- W. N. P. Barbellion
- Marie Bashkirtseff 1858-1884
- Libby Beaman
- Tony Benn
- Arnold Bennett
- Stanley Booth, chronicled his personal experiences with music personalities of the 1960s and 1970s
- James Boswell, chronicler of Samuel Johnson
- Fanny Burney
- Jim Carroll
- Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minister
- Richard Crossman
- George Bubb Dodington
- Edward Robb Ellis
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- John Evelyn
- Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
- Buckminster Fuller, designer and engineer
- Philip Henslowe
- Etty Hillesum
- Carolina Maria de Jesus
- Frida Kahlo
- Francis Kilvert
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of the aviator, kept diaries her whole life and describes in detail what the family experienced as a result of the kidnapping of her child
- Katherine Mansfield
- Matsuo Basho, haiku and renga poet also known for his travel diaries
- Michinaga
- Roger Morrice
- Anais Nin, lover of Henry Miller, pornographer and poet. Also known for her erotica.
- Joe Orton, playwright
- Samuel Pepys, wrote in shorthand, not understood for many years
- Sylvia Plath poet
- Henry Rollins of Black Flag
- May Sarton
- Siegfried Sassoon
- George Bernard Shaw
- Emily Shore
- Hester Thrale 1740-1821
- Sophia Tolstoy
- Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
- Richard Wagner
- Opal Whiteley
- Kenneth Williams
- Edmund Wilson
- Virginia Woolf
- Dorothy Wordsworth
Fake diaries
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