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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797–1875)
Iain Banks
Scottish writer (1954–2013)
Tobias Smollett
18th-century poet and author from Scotland
James Bruce
Scottish explorer and botanist (1730–1794)
James Hogg
British poet and novelist (1770–1835)
Robert Kerr
Scottish scientific writer and translator (1757–1813)
William Dalrymple
author and historian (born 1965)
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Scottish physician, traveller and naturalist (1762-1829)
Robert Michael Ballantyne
Scottish author of juvenile fiction (1825-1894)
John Crawfurd
British historian
Eric Linklater
Scottish fiction, history and travel writer (1899–1974)
Robert Fortune
British botanist
Charles Wyville Thomson
Scottish marine zoologist (1830-1882)
Thomas Thomson
Scottish chemist
John Galt
Scottish writer (1779-1839)
Henry Faulds
Scottish physician, missionary and scientist (1843–1930)
Edwin Muir
British poet, novelist and translator (1887-1959)
James Edward Alexander
Scottish soldier, traveller and author (1803-1885)
Florence Dixie
noblewoman; British writer (1855–1905)
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
British politician (1852–1936)
William Balfour Baikie
British explorer and scientist
James Baillie Fraser
Scottish travel writer and artist (1783–1856)
Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Scottish Arctic traveller and botanist (1889-1982)
John Bell
Scottish anatomist and surgeon (1763–1820)
Basil Hall
Royal Navy officer (1788-1844)
Constance Gordon-Cumming
Scottish travel writer and painter (1837-1924)
Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross
British historian (1904–1976)
Kenneth White
Scottish poet, academic and writer (1936–2023)
Gavin Maxwell
British naturalist (1914–1969)
John Macdonald Kinneir
British diplomat
Patrick Brydone
British scientist, traveller and author (1736-1818)
James Esdaile
British hypnotist (1808-1859)
Robert Hay
Scottish traveller, antiquarian, and early Egyptologist
Claudius Buchanan
British theologian
Frances Erskine Inglis
Spanish Marquise and chronicler (1804–1882)
John Bell
18th century Scottish doctor and traveller (1691-1780)
William Lithgow
British explorer
Henry David Inglis
Scottish writer (1795–1835)
George Patterson
British missionary (1920-2012)
Zainab Cobbold
British Muslim aristocrat
Thomas Edward Gordon
Scottish soldier, diplomat and artist (1832-1914)
Robert Bertram Serjeant
British academic (1915-1993)
John Moore
Scottish physician and writer (1729–1802)
Alexander Keiller
Scottish archaeologist
William Gordon Burn Murdoch
Scottish painter, travel writer and explorer (1862-1939)
George Finlayson
Scottish naturalist, traveller and writer (1790-1823)
Geoffrey Bull
British missionary
John Duncan
Scottish traveller in Africa (1805-1849)
Alice Blanche Balfour
British entomologist, geneticist, naturalist and scientific illustrator (1850-1936)
Martin Martin
Scottish writer (c1660-1718)
Leitch Ritchie
British writer
John Foster Fraser
Scottish writer (1868–1936)