List of Scottish writers
This list of Scottish writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of Scottish writers who have a Wikipedia page. Those on the list were born and/or brought up in Scotland. They include writers of all genres, writing in English, Lowland Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Latin, French or any other language. Please help by adding new names, using the present entry format as far as possible. Writers put on the list who are still without a Wikipedia page have been transferred to the "No-pagers" section on the Talk page.
Abbreviations used: awa = also writes/wrote as, b. = born, c. = circa, fl. = floruit (flourished), or. = originally, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young-adult.
This is a subsidiary list to the List of Scots.
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- John Abercrombie (1726–1806), horticulturalist and garden writer
- Patrick Abercromby (1665 – c. 1716), historian and physician
- Gilbert Adair (1944–2011), novelist, poet and critic
- Alexander Adam (1741–1809), classicist
- James Adam (1860–1907), classicist
- Jean Adam (1704–1765), poet from the labouring classes
- Marion Adams-Acton (awa Jeanie Hering, 1846–1928), children's writer and playwright
- Henry Adamson (1581–1639), historian
- Adomnán (627/8–704), biographer (in Latin), Vita Columbae
- Douglas Ainslie (1865–1948), poet, translator and critic
- Thomas Aird (1802–1876), poet
- Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1695–1770), poet
- Gillebríghde Albanach (fl. 1200–1230), poet (in medieval Gaelic)
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling (c. 1570–1640), poet and dramatist
- Archibald Alison (1757–1839), essayist and Episcopal cleric
- Archibald Alison (1792–1867), historian and advocate
- William Alison (1790–1859), social reformer and physician
- Adam Anderson (1692 or 1693–1765), economist
- Alan Orr Anderson (1879–1958), historian
- James Anderson (1662–1728), historian
- James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808), economist and farmer
- James Robertson Anderson (1811–1895), playwright and actor
- John Anderson (1726–1796), natural philosopher and reformer
- Lin Anderson (living), crime writer
- Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), historian
- Patrick Anderson (fl.1618–1635), author and physician
- Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1423), poet (in Early Scots), Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland
- Aneirin (fl. c. 575 – c. 600), bard (in Brythonic)
- James Stout Angus (1830–1923), poet (in English and Shetlandic)
- Marion Angus (1866–1946), poet (in Braid Scots)
- J. K. Annand (1908–1993), Scots poet, best known for his children's poems
- Alexander Arbuthnot (1538–1583), poet and Church of Scotland minister
- John Arbuthnot (c. 1667–1735), physician, satirist and polymath
- Hugo Arnot (1749–1786), writer and lawyer
- David Ashton (b. 1941), screenwriter, novelist and actor
- Margot Asquith (1864–1945), writer and wit
- William Auld (1924–2006), poet and writer (in Esperanto and English)
- Robert Aytoun (1570–1638), poet
- William Edmonstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), poet, humorist and writer
B
- William Balfour Baikie (1824–1864), naturalist and philologist
- Lady Grizel Baillie (1665–1746), song-writer
- Joanna Baillie (1762–1851), poet and dramatist
- Alan Balatine (fl. 1520–1560), historian
- James Balfour (c. 1600 – c. 1658), annalist and antiquary
- Patrick Balfour, Lord Kinross (1904–1976), historian and biographer
- R. M. Ballantyne (1825–1894), children's novelist, The Coral Island
- Iain Banks (1954–2013), novelist; also wrote as Iain M. Banks
- Anne Bannerman (1765–1829), poet
- John Bannerman (1932–2008), historian
- John Barbour (1316–1395), poet (in Early Scots)
- William Barclay (1546–1608), jurist and author
- William Barclay (1570?–1630?), writer on miscellaneous subjects
- Lady Anne Barnard (1750–1825), poet and correspondent
- John Baron (1786–1851), biographer of Edward Jenner
- Damian Barr (b. 1976), writer
- William Barr (b. 1940), historian of the Arctic
- J. M. Barrie (1860–1937), novelist, playwright and children's writer, Peter Pan
- Carole Barrowman (b. 1959), co-author with John Barrowman, and Professor of English and Director of Creative Studies in Writing
- Meg Bateman (b. 1959), scholar and poet (in Gaelic)
- James Beattie (1735–1803), poet and moral philosopher
- J. J. Bell (1871–1934), story writer and poet (in Scots and English)
- John Bellenden or Bannatyne (c. 1495 – pre-1548), poet and translator (in Middle Scots)
- Margot Bennett (1912–1980), thriller writer
- Julie Bertagna (b. 1962), children's and YA writer
- Erskine Beveridge (1851–1920), historian and industrialist
- Alan Bissett (b. 1975), novelist and playwright (in Scots and English)
- David MacLeod Black (b. 1941), poet and psychoanalyst
- J. B. Black (1883–1964), historian
- Margaret Moyes Black (1853–1935), novelist and biographer
- William Black (1841–1898), novelist
- Sheena Blackhall (b. 1947), poet, novelist, short story writer, illustrator, traditional story teller and singer
- John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895), classicist and translator
- Thomas Blackwell (1701–1757), classicist and historian
- William Garden Blaikie (1820–1899), religious writer, biographer and Free Church of Scotland minister
- Iain Blair (wrote as Emma Blair, 1942–2011), romantic novelist and actor
- Robert Blair (1699–1746), poet
- Blind Harry (awa Harry the Minstrel, c. 1440–1492), poet (in Middle Scots), The Wallace
- Hector Boece (awa Boethius, 1465–1536), historian and biographer
- Alan Bold (1943–1998), poet and biographer
- James Boswell (1740–1795), biographer and diarist, Life of Samuel Johnson
- Alexander Bower (fl. 1804–1830), biographer
- Walter Bower (c. 1385–1449), chronicler (in Latin) and abbot, Scotichronicon
- Edward Boyd (1916–1989), screenwriter
- Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), poet (in Latin and Middle Scots)
- M. C. Bradbrook (1909–1993), critic and scholar
- Rory Bremner (b. 1961), screenwriter, comedian and translator
- Theresa Breslin (living), YA writer
- James Bridie (real name Osborne Henry Mavor, 1888–1951), playwright, screenwriter and surgeon
- George Brodie (c. 1786–1867), historian
- Denis William Brogan (1900–1974), political scientist
- Christopher Brookmyre (b. 1968), novelist
- Dauvit Broun (b. 1961), historian
- George Douglas Brown (1869–1902), novelist, The House with the Green Shutters
- George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), poet, writer and playwright
- Gordon Brown (living), crime writer
- Hamish Brown (b. 1934), writer on walking
- James Brown known as J.B.Selkirk (1832 – 25 December 1904), Scottish poet and essayist
- John Brown (1722–1787), theologian and minister of the Secession Church
- John Brown (1784–1858), theologian and minister of the Secession Church
- John Brown (1810–1882), essayist and physician
- Peter Hume Brown (1849–1918), historian
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), novelist, The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Dugald Buchanan (Dùghall Bochanan, 1716–1768), poet and Bible translator (in Scots and Gaelic)
- George Buchanan (1506–1582), historian and humanist (in Latin, Middle Scots and English)
- Geoffrey Bull (1921–1999), religious writer
- Rhoda Bulter (1929–1994), poet and novelist
- Haldane Burgess (1862–1927), poet, novelist and historian
- Gregory Burke (b. 1968), playwright, Black Watch
- James Burnett (1714–1799), judge and philosopher
- Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), theologian, historian and bishop
- John Burnet (1863–1928), classicist
- Robert Burns (1759–1796), national poet and lyricist (in Lowland Scots and English)
- John Burnside (b. 1955), poet and novelist
- John Hill Burton (1809–1881), historian and economist
- John Byrne (b. 1940), playwright
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- Maoilios Caimbeul (b. 1944), poet and children's writer (in Gaelic)
- John Cairncross (1913–1995), scholar, translator and spy
- John Cairns (1818–1892), religious writer and minister of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland
- Angus Calder (1942–2008), literary critic and historian
- Jenni Calder (née Daiches) (born 1941), literary historian
- Peter Ritchie Calder, Baron Ritchie-Calder of Balmashanner (1906–1982), socialist author, journalist and academic
- David Calderwood (1575–1650), historian and Presbyterian minister
- Henry Calderwood (1830–1897), philosopher and minister of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland
- Allan Cameron (b. 1952), novelist and translator
- Norman Cameron (1905–1953), poet
- A. Y. Campbell (1885–1958), classicist and poet
- Angus Peter Campbell (living), novelist, columnist and poet (in Gaelic)
- James Campbell (b. 1951), biographer and literary journalist
- James Dykes Campbell (1838–1895), biographer and scholar
- John Campbell (1708–1775), historian, novelist and translator
- Karen Campbell (b. 1968), crime writer
- Lewis Campbell (1830–1908), classicist
- Rod Campbell (b. 1945), children's writer and illustrator
- Thomas Campbell (1777–1844), poet
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), essayist and historian
- Alexander Carmichael (1832–1912), writer and ethnographer
- Catherine Carswell (1879–1946), biographer, novelist and critic
- Sìleas na Ceapaich (fl. 1660–1729), female Gaelic poet
- George Chalmers (1742–1825), antiquary and historian
- Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847), theologian, economist and Free Church of Scotland minister
- Robert Chambers (1802–1871), thinker and publisher, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
- Glenn Chandler (b. 1949), playwright, novelist and screenwriter
- Keith Charters (b. 1965), children's writer and publisher
- Marion Chesney (awa M. C. Beaton, etc., b. 1936), genre novelist
- Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1924–2006), church historian
- Kate Clanchy (b. 1965), poet and playwright
- Ralph Clark (1755 or 1762–1794), diarist and Royal Marines officer
- William Robinson Clark (1829–1912), theologian, biographer and Church of England cleric
- William Cleland (1661–1689), poet and soldier
- John Clerk of Eldin (1728–1812), naval writer and merchant
- J. Storer Clouston (1870–1944), novelist and historian
- Alison Cockburn (awa Alison Rutherford, 1712–1794), poet and wit
- Henry Cockburn (1779–1854), writer and lawyer
- James Cockburn (1882–1973), church historian and Church of Scotland minister
- John Colville (c. 1540–1605), historian and politician
- Stewart Conn (b. 1936), poet and playwright
- Sophie Cooke (b. 1976), novelist, poet and travel writer
- Joe Corrie (1894–1968), poet, playwright and miner
- John William Cousin (1849–1910), biographer
- Ashley Cowie (b. 1973), historian and broadcaster
- Helen Craik (1751–1825), novelist and poet
- John Adam Cramb (awa R. A. Revermont, 1862–1913), historian and novelist
- James Brown Craven (1850–1924), church historian and Episcopal minister
- Robert Crawford (b. 1959), poet, scholar and critic
- George Crawfurd (d. 1748), genealogist and historian
- John Crawfurd (1783–1868), writer and colonial administrator
- Andrew Crichton (1790–1855), biographer and historian
- Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914), novelist
- A. J. Cronin (1896–1981), novelist and physician, Dr Finlay
- Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975), poet (in Braid Scots and English)
- Andrew Crumey (b. 1961), novelist
- Charles Cumming (b. 1971), spy novelist
- Allan Cunningham (1784–1942), poet, novelist and biographer
- Joseph Cunningham (1812–1851), historian
- Lady Margaret Cunningham (d. c. 1622), memoirist and correspondent
- Peter Cunningham (1816–1869), topographical writer and biographer
- Anne Jane Cupples (1839–1896), children's writer
D
- John Davidson 1857–1909, poet, playwright and novelist
- David Daiches (1912–2005), critic and scholar
- David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes (1726–1792), historian and judge
- John Dalrymple (1726–1810), historian and judge, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland
- William Dalrymple (b. 1965), historian and travel writer
- John Graham Dalyell (1775–1851), antiquary and translator
- Thomas Davidson (1840–1900), philosopher
- Carol Anne Davis (b. 1961), crime writer
- Christine De Luca (born 1947), Scottish poet, writing in English and Shetland dialect
- Thomas Dempster (1579–1625), scholar and historian (in Latin)
- Lavinia Derwent (real name Elizabeth Dodd, 1909–1989), children's writer and broadcaster
- Tom Devine (b. 1945), historian
- Henry Dewar (1771–1823), writer, minister of religion and physician
- Imtiaz Dharker (b. 1954), poet, artist and filmmaker
- Anne Dick (d. 1741), comic poet
- Des Dillon (living), novelist, poet and screenwriter
- Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905), feminist, travel writer and novelist
- James Main Dixon (1856–1933), author, teacher and scholar of the Scots language
- Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993), historian
- James Donaldson (1831–1915), classicist and theologian
- Anne Donovan (living), novelist
- Colin Douglas (real name Colin Thomas Currie, b. 1945), novelist and physician
- Gavin Douglas (1474–1522), makar, translator (in Middle Scots) and bishop
- George Brisbane Scott Douglas (1856–1935), poet and biographer
- O. Douglas (1877–1948), novelist
- Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, 6th Baronet (1694–1770), genealogist responsible for The Baronage of Scotland
- Patrick Edward Dove (1815–1873), economic philosopher
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), novelist and story writer, Sherlock Holmes
- Andrew Drummond (living), novelist and translator
- Henry Drummond (1851–1897), religious and scientific writer
- William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), poet
- Archie Duncan (b. 1926), historian
- Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955), Poet Laureate and playwright
- James Dunbar (d. 1798), moral philosopher (in Latin and English)
- William Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520), poet (in Middle Scots)
- Andrew Duncan (1744–1828), medical writer and physician
- Dave Duncan (b. 1933), fantasy and SF writer
- Hal Duncan (b. 1971), SF and fantasy writer
- Henry Duncan (1774–1846), reformer, religious writer and minister of the Free Church of Scotland
- Jane Duncan (real name Elizabeth Jane Cameron, 1910–1976), novelist and children's writer
- Binnie Dunlop (1874–1946), doctor and advocate of eugenics
- John Colin Dunlop (c. 1785–1842), historian
- Douglas Dunn (b. 1942), poet
- Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001), historical novelist, Lymond Chronicles
- Bruce Durie (b. 1954), writer and crime novelist
- Niall Duthie (b. 1947), novelist
E
- Arthur Edmondston (1776–1841), Scottish physician and writer on the Shetland Isles
- John Elder (fl.1542–1565), cartographer, tutor and writer
- Jean Elliot 1727–1805, poet (in Scots)
- Margaret Elphinstone (b. 1948), novelist
- David Erskine (1772–1837), playwright and antiquary
- Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754), religious writer, diarist and minister of the Secession Church
- Ralph Erskine (1685–1752), poet, religious writer and minister of the Secession Church
F
- John Fardell (b. 1967), children's writer and cartoonist
- Simon Farquhar (living), playwright
- Alison Fell (b. 1944), poet and novelist
- Adam Ferguson (1723–1816), philosopher and historian
- Craig Ferguson (b. 1962), novelist and screenwriter
- David Ferguson (d. 1598), religious writer and compiler
- Robert Ferguson (c. 1637–1714), pamphleteer and minister of the Church of Scotland
- Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), poet (in Braid Scots and English)
- Eric Fernie (b. 1939), art historian
- James Frederick Ferrier (1808–1864), philosopher
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782–1854), novelist
- Paul John Ferris (b. 1963), author and criminal
- George Finlay (English-born Scot, 1799–1875), philhellene and Greek historian, founder of the British School in Athens
- Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), poet and artist
- Iain Finlayson (b. 1945), biographer
- Matthew Fitt (b. 1968), poet and novelist (in Scots)
- David Hay Fleming (1849–1931), historian
- John Fleming (1785–1857), naturalist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland
- Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), child writer and poet
- Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653–1716), political writer
- Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975), poet and a critical theorist
- Neil Forsyth (b. 1978), biographer and humorist
- William Fowler (c. 1560–1612), poet and courtier
- Ronald Frame (b. 1953), novelist and short story writer
- George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), historical novelist, The Flashman Papers
- William Fraser (1816–1898), historian, palaeographer and lawyer
- James George Frazer (1854–1941), anthropologist, The Golden Bough
- Graham Fulton (b. 1959), poet
- Robin Fulton (b. 1937), poet and translator
- Christopher Fyfe (1920–2008), historian
G
- James Gairdner (1828–1912), historian and editor
- Gillian Galbraith (living), crime writer and advocate
- Iain Gale (b. 1959), novelist and critic
- Janice Galloway (b. 1956), novelist and story writer, The Trick is to Keep Breathing
- John Galt (1779–1839), novelist (in Lowland Scots and English), Annals of the Parish
- Robert Garioch (1909–1981), poet and translator (in Scots)
- Alexander Geddes (1737–1802), theologian, Bible translator and poet
- Michael Geddes (c. 1650–1713), historian and Anglican cleric
- Sir William Duguid Geddes (1828–1900), Greek scholar and educationalist
- Alexander Gerard (1728–1795), philosopher and minister of the Church of Scotland
- Pat Gerber (1934–2006), novelist and children's writer
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon (real name James Leslie Mitchell, 1901–1935), novelist, A Scots Quair
- Peter Giles (1860–1935), philologist
- George Gilfillan (1813–1878), author and poet, mentor of the Spasmodic poets
- John Gillies (1747–1836), historian and translator
- Duncan Glen (1933–2008), poet, scholar and editor
- William Glen (1789–1826), poet
- Debi Gliori (b. 1959), children's writer and illustrator
- Janey Godley (b. 1961), writer and comic
- Alexander Gordon (c. 1692–1755), antiquary
- Alexander Gordon (1841–1931), historian and Unitarian minister
- Robert Gordon (1786–1853), religious writer, scientist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland
- Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580–1661), poet, antiquary and cartographer
- Thomas Gordon (c. 1691–1750), polemicist and translator
- Robert Graham of Gartmore (1735–1797), poet
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936), writer and politician
- W. S. Graham (1918–1986), poet
- Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932), story writer and children's writer, The Wind in the Willows
- Elizabeth Grant (c. 1745 – c. 1814), songwriter
- James Grant (1822–1887), novelist and historian
- John Grant (b. 1949), SF, fantasy and non-fiction writer
- John Grant (living), children's writer, illustrator and broadcaster
- K. M. Grant (b. 1958), children's writer
- Alasdair Gray (b. 1934), writer and artist
- Alex Gray (b. 1950), crime writer
- Alexander Gray (1882–1968), scholar, poet and translator
- Muriel Gray (b. 1959), writer and broadcaster
- Nicholas Stuart Gray (1922–1981), children's writer and actor
- David Gregory (1659–1708), mathematician and astronomer
- Donald Gregory (1803–1836), historian and antiquary
- James Gregory (1638–1675), mathematician and astronomer
- James Gregory (1753–1821), classicist and physician
- John Gregory (1724–1773), moralist and physician
- William Gregory (1803–1858), chemist and translator
- Andrew Greig (b. 1951), novelist, poet and writer on climbing
- David Greig (b. 1969), playwright
- Neil M. Gunn (1891–1973), novelist and essayist
- Allan Guthrie (b. 1965), crime writer
- Henry Guthrie (c. 1600–1676), historian and bishop
- William Guthrie (1708–1770), historian
H
- Archibald Richard Burdon Haldane (1900 – 1982), social historian and writer
- James Haldane (1768–1851), theologian and missionary
- John Joseph Haldane (b. 1954), philosopher
- Alastair Hamilton (b. 1958), writer, The Appeal of Fascism
- Janet Hamilton (1795–1873), poet
- Thomas Hamilton (1789–1842), philosopher and novelist
- William Hamilton (1788–1856), philosopher
- Tom Hanlin (1907–1953), novelist
- William Hardie (1862–1916), classicist
- Thomas Hardy (1747–1798), historian, religious writer and Church of Scotland minister
- Molly Harrower(1906–1999), pioneering clinical psychologist and poet
- Christopher Harvie (b. 1944), historian and politician
- George Campbell Hay (1915–1984), poet (in several languages)
- Gilbert Hay (c. 1403 – post-1456), poet (in Early to Middle Scots)
- Ian Hay (real name: John Hay Beith, 1876–1952), playwright and novelist
- John MacDougall Hay (1880–1919), novelist
- Mairi Hedderwick (b. 1939), children's writer and illustrator, Katie Morag
- George Henderson (1866–1912), Gaelic scholar
- Hamish Henderson (1919–2002), poet and folksong collector
- Lizanne Henderson (living), historian and ethnographer
- Frances M. Hendry (b. 1941), YA and children's writer
- Robert Henry (1718–1790), historian
- Robert Henryson (fl. 1460–1500), poet (in Middle Scots)
- Thomas Nicoll Hepburn (wrote as Gabriel Setoun, 1861–1930), poet and novelist
- W. N. Herbert (b. 1961), poet (in English and Scots)
- Jeanie Hering (1846–1928), children's writer, playwright
- Robert Heron (1764–1807), historian and geographer
- William Maxwell Hetherington (1803–1865), poet, historian and Free Church of Scotland minister
- Gilbert Highet (1906–1978), classicist and critic
- James Hogg (1770–1835), poet, novelist and story writer.
- Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782), writer and lawyer
- John Home (1722–1808), minister of religion and playwright
- Stuart Hood (b. 1915), novelist and translator
- Geoffrey Hosking (b. 1942), historian
- Gerald Howat (1928–2007), cricket writer and historian
- Thomas Hudson (d. c. 1605), poet and translator
- Ben Humble (1903–1977), writer and climber
- Alexander Hume (c. 1560–1609), poet
- Anna Hume (fl. 1644), translator, poet and writer
- David Hume (1711–1776), philosopher and historian. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- David Hume of Godscroft (1558–1629), historian, political theorist and poet
- Patrick Hume of Polwarth (c. 1550–1609), makar
- John Hunt (1827–1907), translator, theologian and Anglican cleric
- Alexander Hunter (1729–1809), science writer and physician
- James Hunter (b. 1948), historian
- Mollie Hunter (1922–2012), YA and children's writer
- William Wilson Hunter (1840–1900), historian and statistician
I
- Alexander Taylor Innes (1833–1912), historian, biographer and lawyer
- Cosmo Innes (1798–1874), historian and antiquary
- Thomas Innes (1662–1744), historian and RC priest
J
- Alan Jackson (born 1938), poet
- Violet Jacob (1863–1946), poet and novelist
- Kathleen Jamie (b. 1962), poet
- John Jamieson (1759–1838), philologist, antiquary and United Secession Church minister
- Robert Jamieson (c. 1780–1844), antiquary
- Robert Alan Jamieson (b. 1958), poet and novelist
- Quintin Jardine (b. 1945), crime writer
- Alexander Jeffrey (c. 1806–1874), historian and lawyer
- Francis Jeffrey (1773–1850), critic and judge
- Robin Jenkins (1912–2005), novelist and story writer
- John of Fordun (pre-1360 – c. 1384), chronicler (in Latin) and RC priest
- Arthur Johnston (c. 1579–1641), poet (in Latin) and physician
- D.D. Johnston (b. 1979), novelist
- Morag Joss (living), novelist
K
- Ada F Kay (b. 1929), playwright and biographer
- Jackie Kay (b. 1961), poet and novelist
- John Kay (b. 1948), economist
- Henrietta Keddie (wrote as Sarah Tytler) (1827–1914), novelist and children's writer
- Robert Keith (1681–1757), historian and Episcopal bishop
- Isabella Kelly (c. 1758–1857), novelist and poet
- Mary Kelly (b. 1927), crime writer
- James Kelman (b. 1946), novelist, playwright and essayist, A Disaffection
- James Kennaway (1928–1968), novelist and screenwriter
- A. L. Kennedy (b. 1965), novelist and story writer
- Sir Ludovic Kennedy (1919–2009), journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author
- Walter Kennedy (c. 1455 – c. 1508), poet (in Middle Scots)
- William Paton Ker (1855–1923), critic and essayist
- Peter Kerr (b. 1940), travel writer and novelist
- Philip Kerr (b. 1956), novelist and children's writer
- Robert Kerr (1755–1813), science writer and translator
- Jessie Kesson (1916–1984), novelist and playwright
- Colin Kidd (living), historian
- William King (b. 1959), SF and fantasy writer
- Bill Knox (1928–1999), crime writer and broadcaster
- John Knox (c. 1514–1572), religious reformer and theologian
- Angus Konstam (b. 1960), historian
- Frank Kuppner (b. 1951), poet
L
- Alexander Laing (1787–1857), Lallans verse writer, known as the Brechin poet
- David Laing (1793–1878), editor and antiquary
- Malcolm Laing (1762–1818), historian
- Samuel Laing (1780–1868), travel writer
- Samuel Laing (1812-1897), railway administrator, politician, writer on science and religion
- Laura Lam, American expatriate novelist working in Scotland
- Alexander Crawford Lamb (1843–1897), antiquary
- Norman Lamont (1869–1949), writer and politician
- Andrew Lang (1844–1912), poet, novelist and folk-tale collector
- Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (1784–1848), writer and antiquary
- John Parker Lawson (d. 1852), historian and Episcopal minister
- Ross Leckie (living), historical novelist
- Alexander Leighton (1587–1644 or 1649), pamphleteer and Presbyterian preacher
- Patricia Leitch (b. 1933), children's writer
- Tom Leonard (b. 1944), poet, novelist and essayist (in English and Glasgow patter)
- John Lesley (1527–1596), historian and RC bishop
- David Lindsay (1876–1945), SF writer, A Voyage to Arcturus
- Frederic Lindsay (b. 1933), crime writer
- Maurice Lindsay (1918–2009), poet, biographer and broadcaster
- Wallace Lindsay (1858–1937), classicist
- Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie (c. 1532–1580), chronicler (in Middle Scots)
- Eric Linklater (1899–1974), novelist and historian, Private Angelo
- Liz Lochhead (b. 1947), playwright and poet, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
- John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854), biographer and editor
- John Logan (1748–1788), historian and poet
- Iain Lom (c. 1624 – c. 1710), poet (in Gaelic)
- John Longmuir (1803–1883), poet and minister of the Free Church of Scotland
- William Laughton Lorimer (1885–1967), scholar and Bible translator (in Scots)
- Nick Lowe (b. 1956), classicist
- Michael Lynch (b. 1946), historian
- David Lyndsay or Lindsay (c. 1490 – c. 1555), poet (in Middle Scots) and courtier
- Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847), Anglican divine, hymn-writer and poet
M
- Anne Macaulay (1924–1998), musicologist
- Lord Macaulay (1800–1859), essayist, historian and poet
- Alexander Macbain (1855–1907), philologist
- Scott McBain (pseudonym, b. 1960), novelist
- Stuart MacBride (b. 1969), crime writer
- Brian McCabe (b. 1951), poet and story writer
- Norman MacCaig (1910–1996), poet
- R. B. McCallum (1898–1973), historian and psephologist
- Malcolm MacColl (1831–1907), writer and Episcopal cleric
- Fionn MacColla (1906–1975), novelist
- James McCosh (1811–1894), philosopher
- Thomas M'Crie (1772–1835), historian and United Secession Church minister
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1789–1864), economist
- Val McDermid (b. 1955), crime writer
- Hugh MacDiarmid (or. Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892–1978), poet (in Lallans and English)
- Matthew McDiarmid (1914–1996), critic and poet
- Allan MacDonald (1859–1905), poet and RC priest
- Ethel MacDonald (1909–1960), anarchist and publisher
- George Macdonald (1824–1905), poet and novelist
- Norman Macdougall (living), historian and biographer
- Iain McDowall (living), crime writer
- Alexander Robertson MacEwen (1851–1916), church historian and United Free Church of Scotland minister
- Ronald Campbell Macfie (1867–1931), poet, science writer and physician
- James Pittendrigh Macgillivray (1856–1938), poet (in Scots) and sculptor
- William McGonagall (1825–1902), poet and performer
- Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1899–1970), writer, photographer and poet
- William McIlvanney (b. 1936), novelist and poet
- Helen Clark MacInnes (1907–1985), thriller writer
- Pat McIntosh (living), mystery and fantasy writer
- Duncan Ban MacIntyre (1724–1812), poet (in Gaelic)
- John William Mackail (1859–1945), classicist, poet and biographer
- Angus Mackay (b. 1939), historian
- James A. Mackay (1936–2007), biographer, philatelist and plagiarizer
- John Henry Mackay (1864–1933), novelist and anarchist
- Reg McKay (1953–2009), crime writer and writer on crime
- Shena Mackay (b. 1944), novelist
- Charles McKean (1946–2013), architectural historian and Professor of Scottish Architectural History at the University of Dundee
- Agnes Mure Mackenzie (1891–1955), novelist, critic and historian
- Alexander Mackenzie (1838–1898), historian
- Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873–1936), ethnographer and mythologist
- George Mackenzie ("Bluidy Mackenzie", 1636/38–1691), lord advocate and legal writer
- Henry Mackenzie (1745–1831), novelist and miscellanist
- William Mackay Mackenzie (1871–1952), historian and archaeologist
- Piers Mackesy (b. 1924), military historian
- Euan MacKie (b. 1936), archaeologist
- John Duncan Mackie (1887–1978), historian
- Donald MacKinnon (1839–1914), Celtic scholar
- James Mackintosh (1765–1832), philosopher, historian and judge
- John Mackintosh (1929–1978), politician
- Ewen MacLachlan (1775–1822), classicist and translator (into Gaelic)
- Ian Maclaren (real name John Watson, 1850–1907), fiction writer and theologian
- Alistair MacLean (1922–1987), thriller writer, HMS Ulysses
- Fitzroy Maclean (1911–1996), army officer, autobiographer and historian, Eastern Approaches
- James Noël MacKenzie MacLean (1928–1978), historian
- Sorley MacLean (1911–1996), poet (in Gaelic)
- Robert McLellan (1907–1985), playwright and poet (in Scots)
- Iain Finlay Macleod (b. 1973), playwright
- Joseph Macleod (1903–1984), poet and playwright
- Ken MacLeod (b. 1954), SF writer
- Nicholas McLeod (fl. 1868–1889), writer on Japan
- Norman Macleod (1783–1862), writer (in Gaelic) and minister of the Church of Scotland
- Norman Macleod (1812–1872), writer (in Gaelic and English) and minister of the Church of Scotland
- James McLevy (1793/4–1873), detective and writer on crime
- William Miller Macmillan, leading scholar of the liberal South African historiography that emerged in the 1920s and started diminishing in the 1970s
- Ron McMillan (b. 1958), travel writer, crime writer and photo-journalist
- Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (1864–1916), novelist and Red Cross volunteer
- Aonghas MacNeacail (b. 1942), poet (in Gaelic)
- Kevin MacNeil (living), novelist, poet and playwright
- F. Marian McNeill (1885–1973), ethnographer and food writer
- Hector Macneill (1746–1818), poet and song-writer
- Robert Macnish (1802–1837), writer and physician
- Hector Macpherson (1851–1924), biographer and political writer
- James Macpherson (1736–1796), poet and feigned translator of the "Ossian" poems
- Sharon McPherson (b. 1965), writer and publisher
- David MacRitchie (1851–1925), folklorist
- Angus MacVicar (1908–2001), crime and SF writer
- Candia McWilliam (b. 1955), novelist
- Wes Magee (b. 1939), poet and children's writer
- Richard Maitland (1496–1586), poet (in Middle Scots) and judge
- John Major (awa Mair, 1497–1550), philosopher (in Latin and English)
- Sir John Malcolm (1769–1833), historian, army officer and colonial official
- David Mallet (c. 1705–1765), playwright and poet
- Ann Marie Di Mambro (b. 1950), playwright and scriptwriter
- Laura Marney (living), novelist
- Theodore Martin (1816–1909), poet, biographer and translator
- Ernest Marwick (1915– 1977), writer on Orkney folklore and history
- James David Marwick (1826–1908), historian and politician
- Allan Massie (b. 1938), novelist and journalist
- David Masson (1822–1907), critic and historian
- David I. Masson (1915–2007), science-fiction writer and librarian
- Graham Masterton (born 1946), horror writer
- Colin Matthew (1941–1999), editor and historian, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969), naturalist and travel writer, Ring of Bright Water
- Herbert Maxwell (1845–1937), novelist, historian and politician
- Peter May (b. 1951), novelist and screenwriter
- James Meek (b. 1962), novelist and journalist
- Andrew Norman Meldrum (1876–1934), chemist and historian
- Andrew Melville (1545–1622), classicist, theologian and university reformer
- Elizabeth Melville (c.1578 – c.1640), poet
- James Mill (1773–1836), historian and economist
- John Millar (1735–1801), philosopher and historian
- Mark Millar (b. 1969), comic book writer
- Hugh Miller (1802–1856), geologist
- Judith Miller (b. 1951), writer and broadcaster on antiques
- Karl Miller (b. 1931), critic and biographer
- Denise Mina (b. 1966), crime writer and playwright
- Alexander Ferrier Mitchell (1822–1899), church historian and Church of Scotland minister
- Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999), novelist and poet
- Rosalind Mitchison (1919–2002), social historian
- David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851), poet, essayist and physician
- David Binning Monro (1836–1905), classicist and polymath
- Alexander Montgomerie (c. 1550–1598), poet (in Middle Scots)
- James Montgomery (1771–1854), editor, hymnwriter and poet
- John Moore (1729–1802), physician and novelist
- Edwin Morgan (b. 1920), poet (in Scots)
- David R. Morrison (1941–2012), poet and essayist
- Ewan Morrison, novelist and screenwriter
- Grant Morrison (b. 1960), comic book writer and playwright
- A. J. Morton (living), historian
- William Motherwell (1797–1835), poet and antiquary
- Edwin Muir (1887–1959), novelist and poet
- Willa Muir (awa Agnes Neill Scott, 1890–1970), novelist and translator
- Helen and Morna Mulgray (b. 1939), crime writers
- Neil Munro (awa Hugh Foulis, 1863–1930), humorist, novelist and critic
- Neil Gordon Munro (1863–1942), anthropologist
- Robert Munro 1835–1920, archaeologist
- Charles Murray (1864–1941), poet
- James Mylne (1757–1839), moral philosopher
- Robert Mylne (c. 1643–1747), lampooner and antiquary
N
- Tom Nairn (b. 1932), political writer and essayist
- Carolina Nairne (or. Oliphant, 1766–1845), songwriter and collector
- Bill Napier (b. 1940), novelist and science writer
- James Napier (1810–1884), antiquary and chemist
- Macvey Napier (1776–1847), solicitor, legal scholar, and editor of Encyclopædia Britannica
- Mark Napier (1798–1879), historian
- Adam Neale (died 1832), army physician and author
- Charles Neaves (1800–1876), poet, critic and jurist
- Patrick Neill (1776–1851), naturalist and travel writer
- William Neill (1922–2010), poet (in Scots, Gaelic and English)
- Robin Neillands (1935–2006), travel and military writer
- Ian Niall (also John Kincaid McNeillie, 1916–2002), novelist and writer
- John Niven (living), novelist and screenwriter
O
- Robert Maxwell Ogilvie (1932–1981), classicist
- William Ogilvie of Pittensear (1736–1819), classicist and reformer
- William Henry Ogilvie (1869–1963), poet
- Andrew O'Hagan (b. 1968), novelist and essayist
- Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888), novelist, travel writer and mystic
- Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), novelist, historian and travel writer
- Thomas Oliphant (1799–1873), writer and composer
- Neil Oliver (b. 1967), writer and TV presenter
- Richard Oram (living), historian and biographer
- James Orr (1844–1913), church historian and United Presbyterian Church minister
- John Oswald (d. 1793), philosopher, poet and social critic
P
- Isabel Pagan (c.1740–1821), poet of the Romantic Era.
- Janet Paisley (b. 1948), writer, playwright and poet (in Scots and English)
- Mungo Park (1771–1806), explorer and travel writer
- Aileen Paterson (b. 1934), children's writer
- Don Paterson (b. 1963), poet
- William Paul (b. 1955), novelist and editor
- G. C. Peden (b. 1943), economic historian
- Alexander Petrie (1881–1979), classicist
- Ricardo Pinto (b. 1961), fantasy writer
- Robert Pollok (c. 1798–1827), poet and minister of the United Secession Church
- Jane Porter (1776–1850), Scottish novelist and dramatist
- Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1856–1931), philosopher
- Richard Price (b. 1966), poet, novelist and translator
Q
- John Quigley (b. 1925), novelist
R
- Janet Milne Rae (1844–1933), novelist and missionary
- Robert Rait (1874–1936), historian
- Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), poet
- Caro Ramsay (living), crime writer
- Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793–1872), clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and author of Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
- William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939), archaeologist and biblical scholar
- Ian Rankin (b. 1960), crime writer, Inspector Rebus
- P. J. G. Ransom (living), transport writer
- Alastair Reid (b. 1926), poet, scholar and translator
- Thomas Reid (1710–1796), philosopher
- Robert Rendall (1898–1967), Orkney Scottish poet, and amateur naturalist
- William Richardson (1743–1814), classicist and critic
- Edith Anne Robertson (1883–1973), poet who wrote in both English and Scots
- James Robertson (b. 1958), novelist and poet
- William Robertson (1721–1793), historian and Church of Scotland minister
- Michael Scott Rohan (b. 1951), fantasy and SF writer
- Dilys Rose (b. 1954), poet and novelist
- David R. Ross (1958–2010), history and travel writer
- W. D. Ross (1877–1971), philosopher
- William Roughead (1870–1952), writer on crime and lawyer
- John Row (1568–1646), historian and Church of Scotland minister
- J.K. Rowling (b. 1965), English-born writer of the Harry Potter series
- Brian Ruckley (living), fantasy writer
- Thomas Ruddiman (1674–1757), classicist
- Charlotte Runcie (b. 1989), poet
- Christopher Rush (b. 1944), novelist and children's writer
- David Syme Russell (1916–2010), theologian and Baptist minister
- William Russell (1741–1793), miscellanist
- Samuel Rutherford (1600?–1661), Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly
- Margaret Ryan (living), children's writer
S
- Suhayl Saadi (b. 1961), novelist and dramatist
- Alexander Scott (c. 1520 – c. 1583), poet
- Alexander Scott (1920–1989), poet
- Tom Scott (1918–1995), poet and critic
- Andrew Murray Scott (b. 1955), novelist
- Manda Scott (awa Kellen Stewart, b. 1962), crime writer and vet
- Michael Scott (1789–1835), novelist
- Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), novelist and poet
- Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914–1943), poet and story writer
- Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889–1930), writer, translator of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
- W. C. Sellar (1898–1951), humorist, 1066 and All That (with R. J. Yeatman)
- William Young Sellar (1825–1890), classicist
- Francis Sempill (1616?–1682), poet and wit
- Sir James Sempill (1566–1625/1626), author of protestant literature, and diplomat
- Robert Sempill (c. 1530–1595), narrative poet (in Middle Scots)
- Robert Sempill the younger (1595?–1663?), poet, early user of the Standard Habbie stanza
- James Seth (1860–1925), philosopher
- William Sharp (awa Fiona MacLeod, 1855–1905), poet and biographer
- Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), novelist and poet
- Sara Sheridan (b. 1968), novelist
- Robert Sibbald (1641–1722), historian and physician
- J David Simons (b. 1953), novelist
- George Sinclair (1787–1834), garden writer and horticulturalist
- John Sinclair (1754–1835), writer on finance and agriculture
- Burns Singer (1928–1964), poet and translator
- William Forbes Skene (1809–1892), historian and editor
- John Skinner (1721–1807), historian, songwriter and Episcopal minister
- William Henry Oliphant Smeaton (1856–1914), biographer and children's writer
- William Smellie (1740–1795), antiquary and encyclopaedist
- Samuel Smiles (1812–1904), writer and politician, Self-Help
- Adam Smith (1723–1790), political economist, The Wealth of Nations
- Alexander Smith (1829–1867), poet and essayist
- Alexander McCall Smith (b. 1948), crime writer
- Ali Smith (b. 1962), novelist
- George Adam Smith (1856–1942), theologian and scholar
- Iain Crichton Smith (1928–1998), poet and novelist (in Gaelic and English)
- James Smith of Jordanhill (1782–1867), man of letters
- Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975), poet and novelist (in Scots, Lallans and English)
- Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), novelist and poet, The Adventures of Roderick Random
- Christopher Smout (b. 1933), Historiographer Royal
- William Ritchie Sorley (1855–1935), philosopher
- William Soutar (1898–1943), poet and diarist (in English, Scots and Lallans)
- Alexander Souter (1873–1949), Biblical scholar
- John Spalding (fl. 1650), annalist
- Muriel Spark (1918–2006), novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
- Alan Spence (living), poet, novelist and playwright
- Lewis Spence (1874–1955), ethnographer, occultist and poet
- John Spottiswoode (1565–1639), historian and archbishop
- William Gordon Stables (1840–1910), children's writer and naval surgeon
- Adam Stark (1784–1867), local historian
- James Brunton Stephens (1835–1902), poet and novelist
- John Sterling (1806–1844), poet, essayist and fantasy writer
- Gerda Stevenson (living), dramatist and actress
- D. E. Stevenson (1892–1973), novelist
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), novelist, poet and travel writer, Treasure Island
- Dugald Stewart (1753–1828), philosopher
- Ena Lamont Stewart (1912–2006), playwright
- John Stewart of Baldynneis (c. 1545 – c. 1605), poet and translator (in Middle Scots)
- William Stewart (c. 1478–1548), poet (in Scots)
- Norman Stone (b. 1941), historian
- John Struthers (1776–1853), poet and miscellanist
- Sheila Stuart (1892–1974), children's writer
- Luke Sutherland (b. 1971), novelist and musician
- Annie Shepherd Swan (awa David Lyall and Mrs Burnet-Smith, 1859–1943), romantic novelist
T
- Reay Tannahill (1929–2007), historian and novelist
- Robert Tannahill (1774–1810), poet
- Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937 and 1869–1951), historians
- Rachel Annand Taylor (1876–1960), poet, biographer and critic
- William Tennant (1784–1848), scholar, poet and playwright
- Josephine Tey (real name Elizabeth MacKintosh, awa Gordon Daviot, 1896–1952), mystery writer and playwright
- Eleanor Thom (b. 1979), novelist
- William Thom (1799–1848), poet (in Scots)
- Thomas the Rhymer (also known as Thomas Learmonth, c. 1220 – c. 1298), rhymester and prophet
- May Miles Thomas (b. 1959), screenwriter
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948), polymath, On Growth and Form
- Derick Thomson (awa Ruaraidh MacThòmais, 1921–2012), poet (in Gaelic), critic and publisher
- James Thomson (1700–1748), poet, The Seasons
- James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882), poet
- Thomas Thomson (1768-1852), advocate, antiquarian and archivist
- D. R. Thorpe (b. 1943), biographer
- Margaret Todd (c.1859–1918), novelist, biographer and doctor
- Ruthven Todd (1914–1978), poet, novelist and children's writer
- Jeff Torrington (1935–2008), novelist
- Thomas Toughill (living), non-fiction writer
- Nigel Tranter (1909–2000), historical novelist and historian
- Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984), novelist and cultural activist
- William Barclay Turnbull (1811–1863), antiquary
- Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747–1813), lawyer and writer
- Patrick Fraser Tytler (1791–1849), historian and biographer
U
- Betty Miller Unterberger (born 1922), historian, first woman professor at Texas A&M University
- Joan Ure (Elizabeth Thoms Clark) (1918–1978), poet and playwright
- Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611–1660), writer and translator
W
- Frank Arneil Walker (born 1938), architectural academic and writer
- Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw (1677–1727), balladeer (in Middle Scots)
- Alan Warner (b. 1964), novelist
- Alan Watson (b. 1933), legal scholar
- D. E. R. Watt (1926–2004), historian
- William Montgomery Watt (1909–2006), historian and biographer, Muhammad at Mecca
- William J. Watson (1865–1948), toponymist
- William Watson (1931–2005), novelist and playwright
- David Wedderburn (c.1580–1646), writer, and schoolmaster at Aberdeen Grammar School
- James Wedderburn (c. 1495–1553), poet and playwright
- John Wedderburn (c. 1505–1553), poet and theologian
- Robert Wedderburn (c. 1510 – c.1555), poet and vicar
- Molly Weir (1910–2004), memoirist and actress
- Tom Weir (1914–2006), naturalist and broadcaster
- Irvine Welsh (b. 1961), novelist, Trainspotting
- Louise Welsh (b. 1965), thriller writer
- Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976), archaeologist
- Kenneth White (b. 1936), poet and academic
- Brian Whittingham (b. 1950), poet and playwright
- Christopher Whyte (b. 1952), novelist, poet and translator (English and Gaelic)
- Jack Whyte (b. 1940), historical novelist and fantasy writer
- William the Clerk (possibly William Malveisin, d. 1238), poet (in Old French), Roman de Fergus
- Peter Williamson (1730–1799), known as "Indian Peter", memoirist and showman
- Robert Willis (1799–1878), translator and writer on medicine and philosophy
- John Wilson (awa Christopher North, 1785–1854), writer and critic
- Rab Wilson (b. 1960), poet, who writes mainly in Scots
- David Wingate (1828–1892), poet and miner
- Ninian Winzet (1518–1592), Roman Catholic priest and polemicist
- David Wishart (b. 1952), historical crime writer
- Robert Wodrow (1679–1734), historian
- Harry Harvey Wood (1903–1977), literary and artistic figure, a founder of the Edinburgh International Festival
- John Philip Wood (d. 1838), antiquary and biographer
- Jenny Wormald (living), historian
Y
- Andrew Young (1885–1971), poet and Presbyterian minister, later Church of England cleric
- Douglas Young (1913–1973), poet, scholar and translator
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