Agnes Deans Cameron was a Canadian educator, writer, journalist, lecturer, and adventurer. She was the first white woman to reach the Arctic Ocean and her published book about the journey was a best-seller. She promoted immigration to Canada through her lectures and publications.

Agnes Giberne was a prolific British novelist and scientific writer. Her fiction was typical of Victorian evangelical fiction with moral or religious themes for children. She also wrote books on science for young people, a handful of historical novels, and one well-regarded biography.

Agnes Elsie Diana Herbert née Thorpe was a British travel writer and big game hunter. She was the mother of the Canadian novelist Bradda Field.

Agnes Maule Machar was a Canadian author, poet and social reformer.

Agnes Repplier was an American essayist.

Agnes Rothery (1888–1954), or Agnes Edwards Rothery, was the pen name of American writer Agnes Pratt. Primarily known as a travel writer, she also published novels.

Agnes Strickland was an English historical writer and poet. She is particularly remembered for her Lives of the Queens of England.

Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg, primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen name Ahad Ha'am, was a Hebrew journalist and essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of cultural Zionism. With his vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in Eretz Israel, his views regarding the purpose of a Jewish state contrasted with those of prominent figures within the Zionist movement such as Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism. Unlike Herzl, Ahad Ha'am strived for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews".

Ainsworth Rand Spofford was an American journalist, prolific writer and the sixth Librarian of Congress. He served as librarian from 1864 to 1897 under the administration of ten presidents. A great admirer of Benjamin Franklin, he wrote a twenty-one page introduction in Franklin's autobiography, which he edited and published.

Frances L. Marshall, who wrote under the pseudonym Alan St. Aubyn, was a British author. Many of her novels are set in Cambridge colleges.