
Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II was a Maltese-American literary scholar and translator. He served as William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame until his retirement in 2017, when he was named professor emeritus. Buttigieg cotranslated and coedited the three-volume English edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.

Oreste Calleja is a Maltese playwright.

Joe Julian Farrugia is a writer, songwriter and broadcaster from Malta.

Egidio Galea OSA MBE was a Maltese Augustinian Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and educator, and a significant figure in the Catholic resistance to Nazism in Italy during World War II. He was a close aide to the Irish priest Hugh O'Flaherty.

Fr. Emmanuel Magri, S.J. was a Maltese ethnographer, archaeologist and writer.

Mary Meilak was a Maltese poet.

Doreen Micallef was a Maltese poet and playwright. She has been cited as an example of Malta's post World War II emergence of female authors and poets. Micallef's work has also been noted for introducing poetry into Maltese plays. In 2011, Micallef's home in Valletta was restored by the Maltese Academy, an organization that promotes the use of the Maltese language in Malta. Upon the completion of the restoration, the home became the organization's headquarters.

Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi was a Maltese lawyer, poet, novelist and social commentator. He studied in the Mdina Seminary, and in the University of Malta, where he graduated as a lawyer in 1875. He was married to Tonina Fenech, and had three sons Ivo and Ġino, who were both writers, and Anton, a composer.

Pietru Pawl Saydon, was a Roman Catholic priest and scholar of the Maltese language, other semitic languages and the Bible. He was President of the Maltese Language Society (Ghaqda tal-Malti) at the University of Malta. He is most noteworthy for his contributions to the Maltese language, and the translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew to Maltese.

Mabel Edeline Strickland,, was an Anglo-Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician.