title: List of British playwrights
text: # List of British playwrights
  
  This is a list of British playwrights.
  
  ## 20th-century British playwrights
  
  See also the more extensive list at British playwrights since 1950.
  
  * 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
  