Ethel Clifford Rosenberg known professionally as Eth Clifford or Ruth Bonn Penn, was an American children's fiction writer, best known as the author of the Flatfoot Fox and Jo-Beth and Mary Rose Mysteries series.

Ethan Andrew Canin is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, author and film director. He has received numerous nominations including for four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.

Ethan Mordden is an American author and musical theater researcher.

Ethan Daniel Van Sciver is an American comics artist. He illustrated and drew covers for a number of superhero titles in the 2000s, primarily for DC Comics, including Green Lantern and The Flash: Rebirth, and New X-Men for Marvel Comics.

Ethel Colburn Mayne was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, biographer, literary critic, journalist and translator.

Ethel Lina White was a British crime writer from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. She was best known for her novel The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock 1938 film The Lady Vanishes was based.

Ethel May Dell Savage, known by her pen name, Ethel M. Dell, was a British writer of over 30 popular romance novels and several short stories from 1911 to 1939.

Ethel Edith Mannin was a popular British novelist and travel writer, political activist and socialist. She was born in London.

Ethel Portnoy was a Dutch writer of prose, who wrote essays, columns, short stories, travel stories and several novels.