- Björnstjerne Björnson
- Anatole France
- Hermann Hesse
- Knut Hamsun
- Thomas Mann
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
- Carl Gustav Verner v. Heidenstam
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Paul Heyse
- Theodor Mommsen
- Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
- George Bernard Shaw
- Joseph Rudyard Kipling
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Henri Bergson
- Rudolf Eucken
- Carl Spitteler
- Luigi Pirandello
- Sigrid Undset
- Romain Rolland
- William Butler Yeats
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Sully Prudhomme
- Iwan Alexejewitsch Bunin