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19th-century Scottish writers

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William John Macquorn Rankine
civil engineer (1820–1872)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
David Brewster
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
Kenneth Grahame
British novelist
Alexander Mackenzie
2nd Prime Minister of Canada (1822-1892)
Robert Kerr
Scottish scientific writer and translator (1757–1813)
Margaret Oliphant
Scottish novelist, 1828–1897 (1828–1897)
Robert Chambers
Scottish publisher and writer (1802–1871)
Frances Wright
American activist (1795-1852)
William Robertson Smith
Scottish orientalist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland (1846–1894)
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Scottish metaphysician (1788-1856)
William Muir
Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator (1819–1905)
Robert Edmond Grant
anatomist/zoologist (1793-1874)
John Claudius Loudon
Scottish botanist (1782-1843)
Laurence Oliphant
British author, traveller, diplomat and Christian mystic (1829-1888)
Thomas Chalmers
Scottish mathematician and leader of the Free Church of Scotlandl (1780-1847)
George Don
Scottish botanist (1798-1856)
James Anderson
Scottish economist
John Wilson
Scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854)
John Abercrombie
Scottish physician (1780–1844)
James Hutchison Stirling
British philosopher (1820–1909)
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
British politician (1852–1936)
John Watson
Scottish writer Ian Maclaren (1850–1907)
James Baillie Fraser
Scottish travel writer and artist (1783–1856)
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Scottish writer (1801–1866)
John Gibson Lockhart
Scottish writer and editor (1794-1854)
John Francis Campbell
Scottish author and Celticist (1821–1885)
John Stuart Blackie
Scottish scholar and man of letters (1809–1895)
Alicia Ann Spottiswoode
Scottish songwriter and composer (1810-1900)
John Muir
Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist (1810–1882)
Alexander Adam
British teacher, writer; (1741-1809)
Marion Kirkland Reid
Scottish feminist writer
Carolina Nairne
Scottish songwriter
Anne Bannerman
British poet (1765–1829)
John Cunningham Geikie
Scottish Presbyterian minister and author
Eliza Brightwen
Scottish naturalist (1830-1906)
John Pringle Nichol
Scottish educator, phrenologist, astronomer and economist (1804–1859)
Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson
sibling duo
James Browne
British writer (1793–1841)
James Balfour Paul
Lord Lyon King of Arms (1846-1931)
Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming
British explorer and big game hunter (1820–1866)
Alexander Carmichael
British writer (1832–1912)
John Reddie Black
Scottish publisher, journalist, writer, photographer, and singer
Grace Kennedy
Scottish author
Allan MacDonald
Scottish Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector, and activist
Thomas Edward Gordon
Scottish soldier, diplomat and artist (1832-1914)
Samuel Laing
British politician (1812-1897)
Alexander Campbell
Scottish musician and writer
George Robert Gleig
Scottish soldier, military writer, and priest (1796-1888)
James Gilmour
British missionary (1843–1891)
Ewen MacLachlan
British writer
John Wilson
Christian missionary, orientalist, and educator in Maharashtra, India (1804-1875)
Walter Traill Dennison
British folklorist
John Blackwood
Scottish publisher
Christian Isobel Johnstone
British journalist, editor