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James V of Scotland
King of Scotland from 1513 to 1542

George Buchanan
Scottish historian and humanist scholar (1506-1582)
Thomas Campbell
Scottish poet (1777-1844)
Aneirin
Aneirin (), also rendered as Aneurin or Neirin and Aneurin Gwawdrydd, was an early Medieval Brythonic war poet who lived during the 6th century. He is believed to have been a bard or court poet in one of the Cumbric kingdoms of the Old North, probably that of Gododdin at Edinburgh, in modern Scotland. From the 17th century, he was usually known as Aneurin.
John Wilson
Scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854)
Henry Francis Lyte
Anglican priest, hymn-writer and poet (1793-1847)
Lewis Spence
British academic (1874-1955)

John Stuart Blackie
Scottish scholar and man of letters (1809–1895)

John Home
Scottish playwright and Presbyterian minister; (1722-1808)
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Minister in the Church of Scotland prior to the Disruption (1813-1843)
Kenneth White
Scottish poet, academic and writer (1936–2023)
Don Paterson
poet
Meg Bateman
Scottish writer
William Tennant
British writer; (1784-1848)
Thomas Pringle
Scottish writer, poet, abolitionist (1789-1834)
John William Mackail
Scottish academic and reformer (1859–1945)
Douglas Dunn
Scottish poet (b1942)
Jenni Calder
British historian

Dugald Buchanan
Scottish poet (1716-1768), helped translate the New Testament into Scottish Gaelic
James Robertson
Scottish writer and publisher
John Logan
Scottish minister and historian
Alexander Ross
British poet (1699-1784)
Imtiaz Dharker
contemporary British poet
William Julius Mickle
Scottish poet (1734–1788)

John Bellenden
Scottish writer
Henry Erskine
Scottish Whig politician and lawyer; (1746-1817)
William Knox
Scottish poet
Ron Butlin
Scottish writer
Michael Bruce
Scottish poet and hymnist (1746-1767)