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

Scholar / Author Date of birth Date of death
Claude Colleer Abbott April 17, 1889 September 17, 1971
Margery Bailey May 12, 1891 June 17, 1963
Peter S. Baker 1952
Philip Baruth February 10, 1962
Thomas F. Bonnell 1953
Frank Brady November 3, 1924 September 2, 1986
David Buchanan 1933
James J. Caudle
Richard C. Cole April 16, 1926 March 23, 2013
Thomas Crawford 1920 2014
John Wilson Croker December 20, 1780 August 10, 1857
Leo Damrosch September 14, 1941
Marlies K. Danziger February 16, 1926 February 26, 2018
Lillian de la Torre March 15, 1902 September 13, 1993
Frank Delaney October 24, 1942 February 21, 2017
John Eglin
Charles N. Fifer 1922 2012
Iain Finlayson 1945
Elizabeth Goldring
David Hankins October 1, 1935 March 10, 2005
Allan Ingram
Irma S. Lustig August 31, 1921 February 5, 2020
Ralph Heyward Isham July 2, 1890 June 13, 1955
Andrew Neil Macleod
George Mallory June 18, 1886 June 9, 1924
Peter Martin 1940
Rachel McClellan 1928 2009
Hugh M. Milne
Charles G. Osgood May 4, 1871 July 27, 1964
Frederick Albert Pottle August 3, 1897 May 16, 1987
Marion S. Pottle October 23, 1897 May 24, 1992
Nellie Pottle Hankins June 4, 1904 March 22, 1993
Peter Quennell March 9, 1905 October 27, 1993
Bruce Redford 1953
Joseph W. Reed 1932 February 11, 2019
Charles Rogers April 18, 1825 September 18, 1890
Charles Ryskamp October 21, 1928 March 26, 2010
Terry Seymour
Richard Sher March 29, 1948
Adam Sisman March 17, 1954
John Lucius Smith-Dampier 1875 December 2, 1958
John Strawhorn 1922 August 7, 1997
Paul Tankard
Chauncey Brewster Tinker October 22, 1876 March 10, 1963
Gordon Turnbull
C. E. Vulliamy June 20, 1886 September 4, 1971
Marshall Waingrow March 26, 1923 January 25, 2007
Ralph S. Walker 1904 1990
Charles McC. Weis July 22, 1922 November 30, 2023
Lucyle Werkmeister January 16, 1908 March 4, 1999
Jack Werner
William K. Wimsatt, Jr. November 17, 1907 December 17, 1975
D. B. Wyndham-Lewis March 9, 1891 November 21, 1969