Delilah S. Dawson is an American author, primarily of fantasy and science fiction. She writes fantasy as Lila Bowen, and has written erotica as Ava Lovelace.

Delmira Agustini was an Uruguayan poet of the early 20th century.

Delmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer.

Delphine Bertholon is a French writer and screenwriter. She lives currently in Paris and works as a screenwriter.

Delphine de Girardin, pen name Vicomte Delaunay, was a French author.

Delphine de Vigan is an internationally known French novelist who has won several awards.

Demetrio Aguilera Malta was an Ecuadorian writer, director, painter, and diplomat. He was a member of the Guayaquil Group of the 1930s, who used social realism in their writings. He used magical realism in his masterpiece Siete lunas y siete serpientes (1970), which was translated into English as Seven Serpents and Seven Moons by Gregory Rabassa in 1979.

Demetrios Bernardakis, was a polymath writer and Professor of History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Demetrios Kydones, Latinized as Demetrius Cydones or Demetrius Cydonius, was a Byzantine Greek theologian, translator, author and influential statesman, who served an unprecedented three terms as Mesazon of the Byzantine Empire under three successive emperors: John VI Kantakouzenos, John V Palaiologos and Manuel II Palaiologos.

Demetrios Vikelas was a Greek businessman and writer; he was the first President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1894 to 1896.