Category
page 1Writers from Aberdeen
James Macpherson
British writer, poet, translator and politician (1736-1796)

Michael Gove
British politician (born 1967)
James Anderson
Scottish writer and minister born and educated in Aberdeen, Scotland (1680-1739)
John Barbour
Scottish poet (c.1320 – 1395)
William Forbes Skene
Scottish historian (1809-1892)
John Abercrombie
Scottish physician (1780–1844)
Alexander Chalmers
Scottish writer (1759-1834)

George Campbell
figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, born 1719
Stuart MacBride
Scottish writer
John Hill Burton
British academic (1809-1881)
Charles Sorley
British poet (1895–1915)
Alexander Ross
Scottish writer and controversialist
Thomas Blackwell
Scottish classical scholar and historian (1701-1757)
Nan Shepherd
(1893 - 1981), Scottish novelist, poet, educator

John Gregory
Scottish physician, writer, and moralist (1724-1773)
John Grant
Scottish writer (1949-2020)
Karen McCombie
British writer
Kerry Hudson
British writer
John Nicol Farquhar
British orientalist
James Fordyce
British writer and minister
David Masson
British academic (1822–1907)
James Donaldson
Scottish classical scholar, and educational and theological writer (1831–1915)