List of Scottish writersAn alphabetical list of Scottish writers includes the following:
- Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair
- William Alexander
- Marion Angus
- Margot Asquith, writer and wit
- RM Ballantyne
- Iain Banks, (born 1954), a.k.a Iain M. Banks
- John Barbour
- Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860-1937), creator of Peter Pan
- George Blake
- James Boswell, (1740-1795)
- James Bridie
- Christopher Brookmyre (born 1968)
- George Douglas Brown
- John Buchan, (1875-1940)
- Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
- Lord Byron
- Thomas Campbell
- Thomas Carlyle
- Catherine Carswell
- Joe Corrie
- SR Crockett
- AJ Cronin
- Helen Cruickshank
- Gavin Douglas
- Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859-1930)
- William Drummond
- William Dunbar
- Jane Duncan
- Douglas Dunn, (born 1942), poet
- Robert Fergusson
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
- John Galt
- Robert Garioch
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
- Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1932)
- Elizabeth Grant
- Alasdair Gray, (born 1934)
- Neil M Gunn
- John MacDougall Hay
- Robert Henryson
- James Hogg
- John Home
- Violet Jacob
- James Peebles Ewing Kennaway
- Jessie Kesson
- Andrew Lang, (1844-1912)
- David Lindsay
- Sir David Lindsay
- Eric Linklater
- John Gibson Lockhart
- Fionn Mac Colla
- Norman MacCaig, poet
- Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978), poet
- George Macdonald, (1824-1905), poet, novelist
- William Topaz McGonagall, poet, novelist
- Duncan Ban Macintyre
- John Mackail, classical scholar and writer
- Compton Mackenzie
- Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scottish Gaelic poet
- Ken MacLeod
- Sir Edward Montague
- Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, a.k.a Duncan Ban McIntyre
- Henry Mackenzie
- Ian Maclaren
- Alistair MacLean
- Robert McLellan
- James Macpherson
- Gavin Maxwell
- Hugh Miller
- A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh
- Edwin Muir
- Neil Munro
- Charles Murray
- Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, 18th century composer and songwriter
- Margaret Oliphant
- Allan Ramsay
- Ian Rankin, creator of Inspector Rebus crime novels
- Alexander Scott
- Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832)
- William Sharp
- Nan Shepherd
- Sydney Goodsir Smith
- Tobias Smollett
- William Soutar
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
- Mary Stewart
- Annie S Swan
- Robert Tannahill
- James Thomson
- James Thomson (B.V.)
- Sir Thomas Urquhart
- Maurice Walsh
- Irvine Welsh
- John Wilson (Christopher North)
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