| Henry Cromwell (1628–1674), Lord-deputy of Ireland |
| Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), Lord Protector of England |
| Richard Cromwell (1626–1712), Lord Protector of England |
| Thomas Cromwell (1485?–1540), English statesman |
| Abraham Peter Cronholm (1809–1879), Swedish historian |
| Piet Cronjé (1836–1911), Boer general |
| George Crook (1828?–1890), American soldier |
| Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), English chemist and physicist |
| George Richard Crooks (1822–1897), American author |
| Will Crooks (1852–1921), British Labour politician |
| Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), American landscape painter |
| Howard Crosby (1826–1891), American preacher and teacher |
| Richard Assheton Cross (1823–1914), English statesman |
| Henry William Crosskey (1826–1893), English geologist and Unitarian minister |
| William Crotch (1775–1847), English musician |
| Samuel McChord Crothers (1857–1927), American clergyman and author |
| Frederic Nicholls Crouch (1808–1896), song and ballad composer |
| Jean-Pierre de Crousaz (1663–1750), Swiss writer |
| Enoch Herbert Crowder (1859–1932), American soldier |
| Catherine Crowe (1790–1876), English authoress |
| Eyre Evans Crowe (1799–1868), English journalist and historian |
| Sir Joseph Archer Crowe (1825–1896), English consular official and art critic |
| Robert Crowley (1518?–1588), English religious and social reformer |
| John Crowne (1640?–1712), British dramatist |
| Samuel Crowther (1806?–1891), African missionary-bishop |
| Philippe de Croÿ, Duke of Aerschot (1526–1595), Governor-general of Flanders |
| Pierre Crozat (1661–1740), French art collector |
| John Baptist Crozier (1853–1920), Protestant Archbishop of Armagh |
| John Beattie Crozier (1849–1921), British philosopher |
| William Crozier (1855–1942), American soldier |
| Alexander Cruden (1699–1770), author of the well-known concordance to the English Bible |
| George Cruikshank (1792–1878), English artist, caricaturist and illustrator |
| Alexander Crummell (1819–1898), American minister of African descent |
| John Crunden (c. 1745–1835), English architectural and mobiliary designer |
| Magnus Jakob von Crusenstolpe (1795–1865), Swedish historian |
| Christian August Crusius (1715–1775), German philosopher and theologian |
| Jean Cruveilhier (1791–1874), French anatomist |
| Cornelius Cruys (1657–1727), founder of Russian maritime power |
| Ramón de la Cruz (1731–1794), Spanish dramatist |
| Albin Csáky (1841–1912), Hungarian statesman |
| Antal Csengery (1822–1880), Hungarian publicist and historical writer |
| Gergely Csiky (1842–1891), Hungarian dramatist |
| Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773–1805), Hungarian poet |
| Ctesias (Fifth Century B.C.), Greek physician and historian |
| Cuauhtémoc (1495?–1525), thirteenth and last Mexican King |
| Thomas Cubitt (1788–1855), English builder |
| Sir William Cubitt (1785–1861), English engineer |
| Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688), English philosopher |
| Juan de la Cueva (1550?–1610?), Spanish dramatist and poet |
| Paul Cuffe (1759–1817), American negro philanthropist |
| Jacques Cujas (1520–1590), French jurisconsult |
| Paul Cullen (1803–1878), Cardinal and Archbishop of Dublin |
| William Cullen (1710–1790), Scottish physician and medical teacher |
| Shelby Moore Cullom (1829–1914), American statesman |
| George Washington Cullum (1809–1892), American soldier |
| Thomas, Lord Culpeper (d. 1719), colonial Governor of Virginia |
| Dukes and Earls of Cumberland |
| Bishop Richard Cumberland (1631–1718), English philosopher and Bishop of Peterborough |
| Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), English dramatist |
| William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), British royal and general |
| John Cumming (1807–1881), Scottish divine and author |
| Joseph George Cumming (1812–1868), English geologist and archæologist |
| William Hayman Cummings (1831–1915), English musician |
| Albert Baird Cummins (1850–1926), American politician |
| Maria Susanna Cummins (1827–1866), American novelist |
| Sir Samuel Cunard (1787–1865), British civil engineer, founder of the Cunard line of steam-ships |
| Maria Cunitz (1610–1664), Silesian astronomer |
| Walter, Baron Cunliffe (1855–1920), English banker |
| Alexander Cunningham (c. 1655–1730), Scottish classical scholar and critic |
| Sir Alexander Cunningham (1814–1893), English general and archæologist |
| Allan Cunningham (1784–1842), Scottish poet and man of letters |
| William Cunningham (d. 1791), adventurer |
| William Cunningham (1805–1861), Scottish theologian and ecclesiastic |
| William Cunningham (1849–1919), English economist |
| Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936), British author and traveller |
| Carlo Maria Curci (1809–1891), Italian theologian |
| François de Curel (1854–1928), French dramatist |
| Jean Nicolas Curély (1774–1827), French cavalry leader |
| William Cureton (1808–1864), English orientalist |
| Pierre (1859–1906) and Marie (1867–1934) Curie, French physicists |
| Gaius Scribonius Curio (c. 125–53 B.C.), Roman statesman and orator |
| Thomas Blizard Curling (1811–1888), British surgeon |
| Edmund Curll (1675–1747), English bookseller |
| John Philpot Curran (1750–1817), Irish politician and judge |
| Sir Arthur Currie (1875–1933), Canadian general and administrator |
| Sir Donald Currie (1825–1909), British shipowner |
| James Currie (1756–1805), Scottish physician and editor of Burns |
| Daniel Curry (1809–1887), American clergyman and author |
| Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825–1903), American educator |
| Lucius Papirius Cursor (Fourth Century B.C.), Roman general |
| Andrew Gregg Curtin (1817–1894), American political leader |
| Jeremiah Curtin (1835–1906), American linguist |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), American jurist |
| Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (1850–1933), American publisher |
| George Ticknor Curtis (1812–1894), American lawyer, legal writer and constitutional historian |
| George William Curtis (1824–1892), American man of letters |
| Ernst Curtius (1814–1896), German archæologist and historian |
| Marcus Curtius, legendary hero of ancient Rome |
| Quintus Curtius Rufus, biographer of Alexander the Great |
| Hugh Curwen (d. 1568), English ecclesiastic and statesman |
| John Curwen (1816–1880), English Nonconformist minister and founder of the Tonic Sol-Fa system of musical teaching |
| Lord Curzon (1859–1925), English statesman |
| Mary Francis Cusack (1829–1899), philanthropist |
| Caleb Cushing (1800–1879), American political leader and lawyer |
| Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857–1900), American ethnologist |
| Harvey Cushing (1869–1939), American surgeon |
| Luther Stearns Cushing (1803–1856), distinguished American jurist |
| Thomas Cushing (1725–1788), American statesman |
| William Cushing (1732–1810), American jurist |
| William Barker Cushing (1842–1874), American naval officer |
| Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), American actress |
| Robert Cushman (1577–1625), American Colonial founder |
| Henry Cust (1861–1917), English journalist |
| Robert Needham Cust (1821–1909), English orientalist and philologist |
| George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876), American cavalry soldier |
| Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740–1793), French general |
| George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), American public man |
| Saint Cuthbert (c. 635–687), Bishop of Lindisfarne |
| Manasseh Cutler (1742–1823), American clergyman |
| John Cutts, Lord Cutts (1661–1707), British soldier and author |
| Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French naturalist |
| François de Cuvillés (1695–1768), French architect and engraver |
| Alfred-Auguste Cuvillier-Fleury (1802–1887), French author and political writer |
| Cuyp, name of a Dutch family which produced two generations of painters |
| Alexander John Cuza (1820–1873), first Prince of Rumania |
| Cyaxares (d. 585 B.C.), King of Media |
| Cynegils (d. 643), King of the West Saxons |
| Cynewulf (d. 785), King of Wessex |
| Cynewulf, Old-English vernacular poet |
| Saint Cyprian (c. 200–258), early Christian author |
| Cypselus (Seventh Century B.C.), tyrant of Corinth |
| Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655), French romance-writer and dramatist |
| Cyril (c. 315–386), Bishop of Jerusalem |
| Saint Cyril (c. 370–444), Father of the Church |
| Saint Cyril (827–869), Apostle of the Slavs |
| Cyrillus (Fifth Century), Greek jurist |
| Cyrus, name borne by two prominent members of the Achaemenid house |
| Stefan Czarniecki (1599–1665), Polish general |
| Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770–1861), Polish statesman |
| Fryderyk Michal Czartoryski (1696–1775), Polish statesman |
| Ottokar Czernin (1872–1932), Austro-Hungarian statesman |
| Karl Czerny (1791–1857), Austrian pianist and composer |
| Edgar Vincent, Viscount D’Abernon (1857–1941), English politician |
| Simon Dach (1605–1659), German lyrical poet |
| André Dacier (1651–1722), French classical scholar |
| Dafydd ap Gwilym (fl. Fourteenth Century), greatest of the medieval Welsh poets |
| Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852–1929), French painter |
| Dagobert I. (d. 639), King of the Franks |
| Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), French painter and physicist, inventor of the daguerreotype |
| Hans Dahl (1849–1937), Norwegian painter |
| Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857), Norwegian landscape painter |
| Michael Dahl (1659?–1743), Swedish portrait painter |
| Erik Dahlbergh (1625–1703), Swedish soldier and engineer |
| Carl Fredrik Dahlgren (1791–1844), Swedish poet |
| John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (1809–1870), Admiral in the U.S. navy |
| Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785–1860), German historian and politician |
| Gunno Dahlstierna (1661–1709), Swedish poet |
| Felix Dahn (1834–1912), German historian, jurist and poet |
| Jean Daillé (1594–1670), French Protestant divine |
| Bhau Daji (1822–1874), Hindu physician, Sanskrit scholar and antiquary |
| Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (1801–1872), Russian author and philologist |
| Dalberg, name of an ancient and distinguished German noble family |
| Robert William Dale (1829–1895), English Nonconformist divine |
| Sir Thomas Dale (d. 1619), British naval commander and colonial deputy-governor of Virginia |
| John Dobree Dalgairns (1818–1876), English Roman Catholic priest |
| George Dalgarno (c. 1626–1687), English writer |
| Marquess of Dalhousie (1812–1860), British statesman and Indian administrator |
| Fox Maule Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie (1801–1874), British politician |
| Olof von Dalin (1708–1763), Swedish poet |
| Alexander James Dallas (1759–1817), American statesman and financier |
| George Mifflin Dallas (1792–1864), American statesman and diplomat |
| Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861–1944), American sculptor |
| Henry Lytton Bulwer, Baron Dalling and Bulwer (1801–1872), English diplomatist and author |
| John Henry Dallmeyer (1830–1883), Anglo-German optician |
| Francesco Dall’Ongaro (1808–1873), Italian writer |
| Jules Dalou (1838–1902), French sculptor |
| John Dalton (1766–1844), English chemist and physicist |
| Augustin Daly (1838–1899), American theatrical manager and playwright |
| Thomas Dalyell (d. 1685), British soldier |
| Damaskios (c. 480–c. 550), the last of the Neoplatonists |
| Damasus, name of two popes |
| Father Damien (1840–1889), Belgian missionary |
| Robert François Damiens (1715–1757), Frenchman who attained notoriety by his attack on Louis XV. of France in 1757 |
| Damīrī (1341?–1405), Arabian writer on canon law and natural history |
| Jean Philibert Damiron (1794–1862), French philosopher |
| János Damjanich (1804–1849), Hungarian soldier |
| Damocles, one of the courtiers of the elder Dionysius of Syracuse |
| Damophila, poetess of Lesbos |
| Damophon, Greek sculptor |
| William Dampier (1652–1715), English buccaneer, navigator and hydrographer |
| Leopold Damrosch (1832–1885), composer, conductor and violinist |
| Walter Damrosch (1862–1950), American musician and conductor |
| Dan, a tribe of Israel |
| Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897), American journalist |
| Francis Dana (1743–1811), American jurist |
| James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist |
| Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879), American author |
| Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), American publicist |
| Francis Danby (1793–1861), English painter |
| Dance, name of an English family distinguished in architecture, art and the drama |
| Alessandro D’Ancona (1835–1914), Italian critic and man of letters |
| Florent Carton Dancourt (1661–1725), French dramatist and actor |
| Dandolo, name of one of the most illustrious patrician families of Venice |
| Vincenzo Dandolo (1758–1819), Italian chemist and agriculturist |
| Nathan Dane (1752–1835), American lawyer |
| John Wilson Danenhower (1849–1887), American Arctic explorer |
| Thomas Dangerfield (c. 1650–1685), English conspirator |
| Daniel, central figure of the biblical Book of Daniel |
| Daniel of Kiev (Twelfth Century), earliest Russian travel-writer |
| Gabriel Daniel (1649–1728), French Jesuit historian |
| Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), English poet and historian |
| Daniele da Volterra (c. 1509–1566), Italian artist |
| John Frederic Daniell (1790–1845), English chemist and physicist |
| Thomas Daniell (1749–1840), English landscape painter |
| Josephus Daniels (1862–1948), U.S. politician |
| William Turner Dannat (1853–1929), American artist |
| Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758–1841), German sculptor |
| Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938), Italian poet, man of letters and soldier |
| Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), greatest of Italian poets |
| Georges Jacques Danton (1759–1794), one of the most conspicuous actors in the decisive episodes of the French Revolution |
| Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838), dramatist and poet |
| Georges Darboy (1813–1871), Archbishop of Paris |
| Thomas, Lord Darcy (c. 1467–1537), English soldier |
| Dares Phrygius, Trojan priest of Hephaestus |
| Antoine-Elisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne (1820–1882), French historian |
| Rodolphe Dareste (1824–1911), French jurist |
| Alexander Sergeivich Dargomyzhski (1813–1869), Russian composer |
| Darius, name of three Persian kings |
| Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1822–1888), American artist |
| George Darley (1795–1846), Irish poet |
| Grace Darling (1815–1842), British heroine |
| Matthias Darly (fl. Eighteenth Century), English caricaturist, designer and engraver |
| Arsène Darmesteter (1846–1888), French philologist and classical scholar |
| James Darmesteter (1849–1894), French author and antiquarian |
| Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545–1567), King consort of Scotland |
| Earl of Dartmouth |
| Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Comte Daru (1767–1829), French soldier and statesman |
| Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist |
| Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), English man of science and poet |
| Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), English writer |
| Princess Dashkova (1743–1810), Russian littérateur |
| Petter Dass (1647–1708), “Father” of modern Norwegian poetry |
| Eduardo Dato (1856–1921), Spanish politician |
| Carl Daub (1765–1836), German Protestant theologian |
| Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716–1799), French naturalist |
| Charles Daubeny (1795–1867), English chemist, botanist and geologist |
| Charles François Daubigny (1817–1878), French landscape painter |
| Auguste Daubrée (1814–1896), French geologist |
| Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), French novelist |
| Léon Daudet (1867–1942), French writer |
| Honoré Daumet (1826–1911), French architect |
| Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), French caricaturist and painter |
| Leopold Josef, Count von Daun (1705–1766), Austrian field marshal |
| Pierre Claude François Daunou (1761–1840), French statesman and historian |
| Jean Daurat (1508–1588), French poet and scholar |
| Charles Davenant (1656–1714), English economist |
| Sir William Davenant (1606–1668), English poet and dramatist |
| Edward Loomis Davenport (1816?–1877), American actor |
| John Davenport (1597–1670), Puritan preacher and pioneer |
| Robert Davenport (fl. 1623–1639), English dramatist |
| Horace, Baron Davey (1833–1907), English judge |
| David, biblical King |
| Saint David, national and tutelar saint of Wales |
| David I. (c. 1082–1153), King of Scotland |
| David II. (1324–1371), King of Scotland |
| David, name of three Welsh princes |
| Félicien David (1810–1876), French composer |
| Gerard David (c. 1460–1523), Netherlands painter |
| Jacques Louis David (1748–1825), French painter |
| Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (1789–1856), French sculptor |
| Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922), British orientalist |
| Andrew Bruce Davidson (1831–1902), Scottish divine |
| John Davidson (1857–1909), British poet, playwright and novelist |
| Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825), American poetess |
| Margaret Miller Davidson (1823–1838), American poetess |
| Randall Thomas Davidson (1848–1930), Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Samuel Davidson (1806–1898), Irish biblical scholar |
| Thomas Davidson (1817–1885), British palæontologist |
| Thomas Davidson (1840–1900), Scholar and philosopher |
| David Charles Davies (1826–1891), Welsh nonconformist divine |
| Emily Davies (1830–1921), British educationalist |
| Hubert Henry Davies (1869–1917), English playwright |
| Sir John Davies (1570–1626), English philosophical poet |
| John Davies (1679–1732), English classical scholar and critic |
| John Llewelyn Davies (1826–1916), English divine and educationalist |
| Sir Louis Henry Davies (1845–1924), Canadian politician and jurist |
| Richard Davies (1501–1581), Welsh Bishop and scholar |
| Samuel Davies (1723–1761), American clergyman |
| Sarah Emily Davies (1830–1921), British educationalist |
| Walford Davies (1869–1941), English organist and composer |
| William Henry Davies (1871–1940), British poet |
| Arrigo Caterino Davila (1576–1631), Italian historian |
| Nicholas Flood Davin (1843–1901), poet and publicist
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