17th-century Scottish male writers

James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603, until his death in 1625. Though he long attempted to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained sovereign states ruled by James in personal union, with their own parliaments, judiciaries and laws.

Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)

Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London (1667-1735)

Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1612-1650)

Governed Scotland during Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1607-1661)

Scottish writer 1585–1649

Scottish writer and translator

Scottish writer

Minister of the Church of Scotland, Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury; (1643-1716)

Scottish writer (c. 1570–1638)

Scottish Quaker apologist

British philologist, historian, poet and etruscologist

Scottish courtier and poet

Minister of the Church of Scotland, Archbishop of St Andrews, historian

British philosopher

Scottish physician and poet (1652–1713)

Scottish folklorist, Bible translator, Gaelic scholar (1644-1692)

Scottish writer and controversialist

British explorer

Scottish Calvinist minister and member of the Hartlib Circle

Scottish lawyer, Lord Advocate, essayist and legal writer (1636 – 1691)

Scottish physician and writer

Scottish baronet, historian and Lyons king-of-arms

Scottish writer

Scottish writer

Minister of the Church of Scotland and Historian