Category
page 118th-century Scottish historians

Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)

Tobias Smollett
18th-century poet and author from Scotland

Adam Ferguson
Scottish philosopher and historian; (1723-1816)
William Robertson
British historian, minister of religion, and principal of the University of Edinburgh (1721-1793)
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Scottish philosopher, judge and agricultural improver (1696–1782)
Gilbert Burnet
Minister of the Church of Scotland, Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury; (1643-1716)

John Home
Scottish playwright and Presbyterian minister; (1722-1808)
Archibald Pitcairne
Scottish physician and poet (1652–1713)
John Pinkerton
British antiquarian (1758-1826)

John Millar
Scottish philosopher, jurist and historian
Alexander Fraser Tytler
Scottish advocate, judge, writer and historian; (1747-1813)
Thomas Blackwell
Scottish classical scholar and historian (1701-1757)
Robert Henry
Scottish minister and historian (1718–1790)
John Jamieson
Scottish lexicographer (1759-1838)
Alexander Cunningham
historian and diplomat (1654-1737)
Archibald Bower
Scottish Historian
William Guthrie
Scottish writer and journalist (1708–1770)
John Gillies
British historian
Malcolm Laing
British politician

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
Scottish judge and historian
James Anderson
Scottish antiquary and historian
Adam Anderson
Scottish economist
John Logan
Scottish minister and historian

Patrick Abercromby
Scottish antiquarian, physician