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John Adams, 2nd President of the United States, statesman, diplomat

John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, statesman, diplomat

James Agate, writer and critic

Louisa May Alcott, novelist

Isaac Ambrose, Puritan

Henri-Frederic Amiel, philosopher, poet, and critic

Martha Ballard, midwife and healer

W. N. P. Barbellion, naturalist, essayist and short story writer

Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), painter and sculptor

Libby Beaman

Peter Hill Beard, photographer in Africa

Tony Benn, British politician

Arnold Bennett, novelist

Violet Bonham Carter, British politician, daughter of Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith

Stanley Booth, chronicled his personal experiences with music personalities of the 1960s and 1970s

James Boswell, chronicler of Samuel Johnson

Fanny Burney, novelist

Jim Carroll, author, poet, and musician

Mary Chesnut, described life in South Carolina during the American Civil War

Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minister

Kurt Cobain, rock musician, Nirvana's lead singer

Richard Crossman, British politician and writer

Adam Czerniaków, head of the Warsaw Ghetto's Judenrat

George Bubb Dodington, British politician and nobleman

Pete Doherty, rock musician (Babyshambles), ex-Libertines

Edward Robb Ellis, writer and reporter

Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer

John Evelyn, writer and gardener

Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress

Zlata Filipović, diarist in Sarajevo during the Yugoslav war

Miles Franklin, Australian author

Donald Friend, Australian artist

Anne Frank, hid from the Nazis during World War II

Max Frisch, playwright and novelist

Buckminster Fuller, designer and engineer

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Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Minister

Eugénie de Guérin

Charlotte Forten Grimké, abolitionist and women's rights activist

Philip Henslowe, Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur

Etty Hillesum, young Jewish victim of Nazi Germany

Arthur Crew Inman, author of a 17-million word diary

Alice James, sister of Henry James and William James: lived in England during the 1880s and 1890s

Carolina Maria de Jesus, Brazilian slum survivor

Franz Kafka, writer

Frida Kahlo, painter

Friedrich Kellner, Justice Inspector Friedrich Kellner Diary

Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher

Francis Kilvert, described rural Victorian life

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian prime minister

Victor Klemperer, professor of literature, described life as a Jew under the Nazis

Selma Lagerlöf, first female winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

James Lees-Milne, biographer and historian, secretary of the Country House Committee of the National Trust 1936-1950

Elisabeth Leseur

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 their child

Courtney Love, actress and rock musician

Thomas Mann, German novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Katherine Mansfield, author

Matsuo Basho, haiku and renga poet also known for his travel diaries

Michinaga, 11th century de facto Japanese ruler

Alanis Morissette, canadian singer-songwriter

Helena Morley (1880–1970), described life as a teenage girl in the Brazilian town of Diamantina during the 1890s

Roger Morrice, Puritan minister and political journalist

Arthur Munby, Victorian poet, barrister, and solicitor

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Anaïs Nin, lover of Henry Miller, pornographer and poet: also known for her erotica

Joyce Carol Oates, writer

Joe Orton, playwright

Samuel Pepys, civil servant

Sylvia Plath, poet

James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States

Thomas Raikes

Ned Rorem, composer

Henry Rollins, singer for Black Flag

May Sarton, poet and novelist

Siegfried Sassoon, poet and author

Sir Walter Scott, novelist

George Bernard Shaw, Nobel Prize-winning playwright

Emily Shore

Frances Stevenson, mistress and second wife of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George

George Templeton Strong (1820–1875), New York lawyer

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), author and philosopher

Hester Thrale (1740–1821), author, friend and confidante of Samuel Johnson

Sophia Tolstoy, wife of Russian author Leo Tolstoy: they read each other's diaries

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, poet and writer

Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner, composer

Opal Whiteley, author, naturalist and subject of several books, including one by Benjamin Hoff

Kenneth Williams, comic actor

Edmund Wilson, writer and critic

Otto Wolf, hid from the Nazis during World War II

James Woodforde, eighteenth century English clergyman

Wilford Woodruff, fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Virginia Woolf, author and feminist

Dorothy Wordsworth, poet, sister of William Wordsworth

Zina D. H. Young, third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Hitler Diaries

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List of dream diaries