List of Scottish writers
Alphabetical list of Scottish writers:
A
- Gilbert Adair (1944-2011)
- Thomas Aird
- Alasdair Alasdair MacMhaighstir
- William Alexander, Earl of Stirling ( c.1570 - 1640)
- Alexander Anderson
- Marion Angus
- Alexander Arbuthnot
- John Armstrong
- Margot Asquith
- Robert Ayton
- William Edmonstoune Aytoun
B
- Lady Grizel Baillie
- RM Ballantyne
- Iain Banks, Iain M. Banks aka (* 1954)
- John Barbour
- John Barclay (1582-1621)
- Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937): Peter Pan
- James Beattie
- John Joy Bell
- William Black (1841-1898)
- John Stuart Blackie
- Robert Blair
- George Blake
- James Boswell (1740-1795)
- Mark Alexander Boyd
- James Bridie
- Christopher Brookmyre ( b. 1968 )
- George Douglas Brown
- George Mackay Brown (1921-1996)
- Michael Bruce
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir ( 1875-1940 )
- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- John Burnside
- Ron Butlin
- Lord Byron
C
- Norman Cameron
- Thomas Campbell
- Thomas Carlyle
- Catherine Carswell
- William Cleland
- Alison Cockburn
- Joe Corrie
- Iain Crichton Smith
- SR Crockett
- AJ Cronin
- Helen Cruickshank
- Allan Cunningham
- Robert Cunninghame - Grahame of Gartmore
- Ivor Cutler
D
- John Davidson
- Edward Davison
- Rob Donn
- Gavin Douglas
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
- William Drummond of Hawthornden
- Carol Ann Duffy
- William Dunbar
- Jane Duncan
- Dorothy Dunnett
E
- Jean Elliot
- Henry Erskine
F
- William Falconer
- Robert Fergusson
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Matthew Fitt
- G. S. Fraser
G
- Janice Galloway
- John Galt
- Robert Garioch
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- George Gilfillan
- Robert Cunninghame Graham Bontine
- Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
- Elizabeth Grant
- Iain Grant
- Alasdair Gray ( b. 1934 )
- Alexander Gray (1882-1968)
- David Gray (1838-1861)
- Neil M Gunn
B
- William Hamilton
- John MacDougall Hay
- Gilbert Hay
- Hamish Henderson
- J. F. Hendry
- Robert Henryson
- Robert Herring
- Laura Hird
- James Hogg
- Richard Holland
- John Home
- Huchoun
- Alexander Hume
- Mollie Hunter (* 1922)
J
- Violet Jacob
- Arthur Johnston
K
- Jackie Kay (* 1961)
- James Kelman
- James Kennaway (also: James Peebles Ewing Kennaway ) ( 1928-1968 )
- A. L. Kennedy
- Jessie Kesson
L
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
- Tom Leonard
- David Lindsay
- Eric Linklater
- Liz Lochhead
- John Gibson Lockhart
- Iain Lom
- David Lyndsay
- Henry Francis Lyte
M
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
- Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
- Norman MacCaig
- Fionn Mac Colla
- Norman MacCaig, poet
- Val McDermid (1955 )
- Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978), poet
- George MacDonald (1824-1905), poet, novelist
- William Topaz McGonagall
- Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet Duncan Ban McIntyre aka
- John William Mackail
- Shena Mackay
- George Mackay Brown
- John Mackail, classical scholar and writer
- Compton Mackenzie
- Sorley MacLean (1911-1996), Scottish- Gaelic poet
- Fiona Macleod
- Ken MacLeod
- Hector Macneill
- Henry Mackenzie
- Ian Maclaren
- Alistair MacLean
- Robert McLellan
- James Macpherson
- Richard Maitland
- Marriott Edgar
- John Mayne
- Gavin Maxwell
- Scott McBain (1960 )
- William Julius Mickle
- Hugh Miller
- A. A. Milne
- Harold Ian Miltner
- Sir Edward Montague
- Alexander Montgomerie
- Edwin Morgan (1920-2010), mostly Scottish poet
- William Motherwell
- Edwin Muir
- Neil Munro
- William Murdoch
- Charles Murray
N
- Robert Nicoll
O
- William Henry Ogilvie
- Andrew O'Hagan ( b. 1968 )
- Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, composer of the 18th century
- Margaret Oliphant
- George Outram
P
- Isabel Pagan
- Don Paterson
- Thomas Pringle
R
- Allan Ramsay
- Ian Rankin: Inspector Rebus crime novels
- John Rolland
- Ruthven Todd
S
- Alexander Scott
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- Robert Sempill D. J.
- James Sempill
- Robert Sempill
- William Sharp
- Nan Shepherd
- John Skinner
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Walter Chalmers Smith
- Sydney Goodsir Smith
- Tobias Smollett
- Charles Sorley
- William Soutar
- Muriel Spark
- Lewis Spence
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
- Mary Stewart
- Muriel Stuart
- Annie S. Swan
T
- Margaret Tait
- Robert Tannahill
- Josephine Tey
- William Thom
- James Thomson
- James Thomson ( B. V. )
- Nigel Tranter
- Gael Turnbull
U
V
- John Veitch
W
- Maurice Walsh
- Alan Warner ( b. 1964 )
- Irvine Welsh
- Louise Welsh
- Kenneth White ( b. 1936 )
- Alexander Wilson
- John Wilson