This is a list of British playwrights.

20th-century British playwrights

See also the more extensive list at British playwrights since 1950.

List of British playwrights

Jim Allen

John Arden

Alan Ayckbourn

John Roman Baker

Howard Barker

Peter Barnes

J. M. Barrie

Alan Bennett

Tess Berry-Hart

Robert Bolt

Tejas Saini

Edward Bond

John Griffith Bowen

Howard Brenton

Leo Butler

John Caine

George Calderon

Caryl Churchill

Noël Coward

Martin Crimp

Tim Crouch

April De Angelis

Keith Dewhurst

Nell Dunn

David Edgar

Ben Elton

Michael Frayn

John Galsworthy

Simon Gray

David Greig

Trevor Griffiths

David Hare

Catherine Johnson

Terry Johnson

Sarah Kane

Sue Lenier

Saunders Lewis

Henry Livings

Frederick Lonsdale

Stephen Lowe

David Mercer

Edgar Middleton

Raman Mundair

Peter Nichols

Onyeka

Joe Orton

John Osborne

Harold Pinter

Alan Plater

J. B. Priestley

Peter Quilter

Terence Rattigan

David Rudkin

Willy Russell

James Saunders

Anthony Shaffer

Peter Shaffer

R. C. Sherriff

Dodie Smith

Gladys Bronwyn Stern

Tom Stoppard

David Storey

Alfred Sutro

Herbert Swears

Miles Tredinnick

Keith Waterhouse

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Arnold Wesker

Emlyn Williams

Snoo Wilson

Charles Wood

Lauri Wylie

See also

List of English playwrights

List of Scottish playwrights

Lists of dramatists and playwrights

Playwrights

Playwrights

List of British playwrights