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- 1320-1395
- John Barbour, poet
- c.1425-1500
- Robert Henryson, poet
- c.1460-c.1513
- William Dunbar, poet
- c.1476-1522
- Gavin Douglas, poet
- c.1486-1555
- Sir David Lindsay, poet and playwright
- c.1515-1583
- Alexander Scott, poet
- 1585-1649
- William Drummond, poet
- 1611-1660
- Sir Thomas Urquhart, man of letters and translator
- 1685-1758
- Allan Ramsay, poet
- 1695-1770
- Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, poet
- 1700-1748
- James Thomson, dramatist and poet
- 1721-1771
- Tobias George Smollett, Novelist
- 1722-1808
- John Home, dramatist
- 1724-1812
- Duncan Ban Macintyre, poet
- 1736-1796
- James Macpherson, poet and translator
- 1740-1795
- James Boswell, biographer, diarist and travel writer
- 1745-1831
- Henry Mackenzie, novelist and essayist
- 1750-1774
- Robert Fergusson, poet
- 1759-1796
- Robert Burns, poet
- 1766-1845
- Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, poet
- 1770-1835
- James Hogg, novelist and poet
- 1771-1832
- Sir Walter Scott, novelist and poet
- 1774-1810
- Robert Tannahill, poet
- 1777-1844
- Thomas Campbell, poet and journalist
- 1779-1839
- John Galt, novelist
- 1782-1854
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, novelist
- 1785-1854
- John Wilson ("Christopher North"), reviewer and essayist
- 1788-1824
- Lord Byron, poet
- 1794-1854
- John Gibson Lockhart, novelist and biographer
- 1795-1881
- Thomas Carlyle, historian, essayist and critic
- 1797-1886
- Elizabeth Grant, diarist
- 1802-1856
- Hugh Miller, geologist, journalist, newspaper editor and folklorist
- 1824-1905
- George MacDonald, novelist, poet and preacher
- 1825-1894
- RM Ballantyne, novelist
- 1826-1894
- William Alexander, novelist, social historian and journalist
- 1828-1897
- Margaret Oliphant, novelist
- 1834-1882
- James Thomson ("B.V."), poet
- 1844-1912
- Andrew Lang, scholar and man of letters
- 1850-1894
- Robert Louis Stevenson, poet, novelist and essayist
- 1850-1907
- Ian Maclaren, novelist
- 1852-1936
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame, travel writer and essayist
- 1855-1905
- William Sharp, novelist
- 1859-1914
- SR Crockett, novelist
- 1859-1943
- Annie S Swan, novelist
- 1859-1930
- Arthur Conan Doyle, short story writer, novelist, journalist and doctor
- 1859-1932
- Kenneth Grahame, essayist and children's writer
- 1860-1937
- Sir JM Barrie, novelist and dramatist
- 1863-1930
- Neil Munro, novelist, poet and journalist
- 1863-1946
- Violet Jacob, novelist, poet, short story writer and diarist
- 1864-1941
- Charles Murray, poet
- 1866-1946
- Marion Angus, poet
- 1869-1902
- George Douglas Brown, novelist
- 1875-1940
- John Buchan, novelist, publisher and politician
- 1876-1945
- David Lindsay, novelist
- 1879-1946
- Catherine Carswell, novelist and biographer
- 1879-1964
- Maurice Walsh, novelist
- 1880-1919
- John MacDougall Hay, novelist and journalist
- 1883-1972
- Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, novelist and journalist
- 1886-1975
- Helen Cruickshank, poet, cultural and political activist
- 1887-1959
- Edwin Muir, poet and novelist
- 1888-1951
- James Bridie, dramatist
- 1891-1973
- Neil M Gunn, novelist
- 1892-1978
- Hugh MacDiarmid, poet
- 1893-1961
- George Blake, novelist
- 1893-1981
- Nan Shepherd, novelist
- 1894-1968
- Joe Corrie, playwright, poet, journalist and short story writer
- 1896-1981
- AJ Cronin, novelist
- 1898-1943
- William Soutar, poet
- 1899-1974
- Eric Linklater, novelist
- 1901-1935
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon, novelist, social historian and critic
- 1906-1975
- Fionn Mac Colla, novelist and historian
- 1907-1985
- Robert McLellan, playwright, poet and short story writer
- 1909-1981
- Robert Garioch, poet
- 1910-1976
- Jane Duncan, novelist
- 1914-1969
- Gavin Maxwell, writer and naturalist
- 1915-1975
- Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, playwright and critic
- 1916-1994
- Jessie Kesson, novelist and playwright
- 1922-1987
- Alistair MacLean, novelist
- 1928-1968
- James Peebles Ewing Kennaway, novelist and screenwriter
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