WJerónimo de Alcalá Yáñez y Rivera was a Spanish physician and writer. Most of his works were published after 1615.
WAndrés Baquero was a Spanish teacher, researcher and writer from Murcia.
WFrancisco Cascales (1564–1642) was a Spanish erudite, humanist and writer. He wrote Discurso de la ciudad de Cartagena.
WPancracio Celdrán Gomáriz was a Spanish professor, intellectual and journalist whose specialties were the history and literature of antiquity and the medieval period.
WRamón Gaya y Pomés was a Spanish painter and writer.
WMiguel Ángel Hernández is a Spanish writer. He teaches art history at the University of Murcia, and has published several books on art and visual culture. He is best known for his fictional works, among them the novels Intento de escapada (2013), which won the Premio Ciudad Alcalá de Narrativa and was translated in five languages, and El instante de peligro (2015), which was a finalist for the Premio Herralde de Novela. His latest novel is El dolor de los demás (2018), selected among the books of the year by El País and The New York Times en Español.
WLuis Ramón Leante Chacón, commonly known as Luis Leante, is a Spanish novelist and Latin professor.
WDiego de Saavedra Fajardo was a Spanish diplomat and man of letters.
WJuan Soto Ivars is a Spanish novelist and columnist.
WVicente Tomás Medina was a Spanish poet, dramatist and editor, and a symbol of local identity for the Murcia region of southeastern Spain. His best-known work, Aires murcianos, was taken up as a reference point for local cultural and social criticism, and was widely praised by contemporaries. In his time Medina was considered in Spain to be one of the country's most important writers, referred to as "the great contemporary Spanish poet" and "the Spanish poet of poets". His fame has since declined, and he is now little read; but he remains an important figure as the greatest poet to have written in the Murcian dialect.