This is a biographical index of scholars and other authors who have written about or studied James Boswell.

Date of birth Date of death
Claude Colleer Abbott 1889-04-17 1971-09-17
Margery Bailey 1891-05-12 1963-06-17
Peter S. Baker 1952
Philip Baruth 1962-02-10
Thomas F. Bonnell 1953
Frank Brady 1924-11-03 1986-09-02
David Buchanan 1933
James J. Caudle
Richard C. Cole 1926-04-16 2013-03-23
Thomas Crawford 1920 2014
John Wilson Croker 1780-12-20 1857-08-10
Leo Damrosch 1941-09-14
Marlies K. Danziger 1926-02-16 2018-02-26
Lillian de la Torre 1902-03-15 1993-09-13
Frank Delaney 1942-10-24 2017-02-21
Charles N. Fifer 1922 2012
Iain Finlayson 1945
Elizabeth Goldring
David Hankins 1935-10-01 2005-03-10
Allan Ingram
Irma S. Lustig 1921-08-31 2020-02-05
Ralph Heyward Isham 1890-07-02 1955-06-13
Andrew Neil Macleod
George Mallory 1886-06-18 1924-06-09
Peter Martin 1940
Rachel McClellan 1928 2009
Hugh M. Milne
Charles G. Osgood 1871-05-04 1964-07-27
Frederick Albert Pottle 1897-08-03 1987-05-16
Marion S. Pottle 1897-10-23 1992-05-24
Nellie Pottle Hankins 1904-06-04 1993-03-22
Peter Quennell 1905-03-09 1993-10-27
Bruce Redford
Joseph W. Reed 2019-02-11
Charles Rogers 1825-04-18 1890-09-18
Charles Ryskamp 1928-10-21 2010-03-26
Terry Seymour
Richard Sher 1948-03-29
Adam Sisman 1954-03-17
John Lucius Smith-Dampier 1875 1958-12-02
John Strawhorn 1922 1997-08-07
Paul Tankard
Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1876-10-22 1963-03-10
Gordon Turnbull
C. E. Vulliamy 1886-06-20 1971-09-04
Marshall Waingrow 1923-03-26 2007-01-25
Ralph S. Walker 1904 1990
Charles McC. Weis 1922
Lucyle Werkmeister 1908-01-16 1999-03-04
Jack Werner
William K. Wimsatt, Jr. 1907-11-17 1975-12-17
D. B. Wyndham-Lewis 1891-03-09 1969-11-21