Category
page 1Scottish literary critics
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)

Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
James Mill
Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (1773-1836)

William Boyd
Scottish novelist, short story writer, and screen writer (born 1952)
Margaret Oliphant
Scottish novelist, 1828–1897 (1828–1897)
Hugh Blair
British philosopher
John Cairncross
British intelligence officer and spy for the Soviet Union (1913-1995)
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Scottish philosopher, judge and agricultural improver (1696–1782)
James Beattie
Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher (1735-1803)
John Barclay
Scottish writer
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Scottish politician, judge, literary critic (1773-1850)

Catherine Spence
Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and suffragist (1825–1910)

John Stuart Blackie
Scottish scholar and man of letters (1809–1895)
Gavin Maxwell
British naturalist (1914–1969)
Gilbert Highet
British classicist, writer, and historian (1906–1978)
Christopher Whyte
Scottish writer
Andrew O'Hagan
Scottish novelist, journalist, academic (born 1968)
Robert Anderson
Scottish author and critic (1750-1830)
Douglas Dunn
Scottish poet (b1942)

Lewis Campbell
Scottish classical scholar (1830–1908)
David Daiches
British writer and historian (1912–2005)
William Paton Ker
Scottish literary scholar and essayist (1855-1923)
Malcolm Laing
British politician
William Allan Neilson
American lexicographer (1869–1946)
Allan Massie
Scottish journalist and novelist (1938-2026)

Thomas Grainger Stewart
Scottish doctor (1837-1900)
David Masson
British academic (1822–1907)
John Campbell Shairp
British writer (1819–1885)
John William Cousin
Scottish writer and editor
Angus Calder
British writer and academic

Herbert John Clifford Grierson
British scholar (1866–1960)
James Donaldson
Scottish classical scholar, and educational and theological writer (1831–1915)