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A. J. Cronin
Scottish novelist (1896–1981)
Alasdair MacIntyre
Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)
Niall Ferguson
British historian
Alistair MacLean
Scottish novelist (1922–1987)
Craig Ferguson
British actor
Alasdair Gray
Scottish writer and artist (1934–2019)
Thomas Campbell
Scottish poet (1777-1844)
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Scottish metaphysician (1788-1856)
Armando Iannucci
Scottish comedian, film director and producer
Douglas Stuart
Scottish-American writer
Phyllida Law
British actress
James Kelman
Scottish writer
Grant Morrison
Scottish comic book writer and playwright (born 1960)
Jackie Kay
Scottish poet and novelist
Edwin Morgan
Scottish poet and translator (1920-2010)
Marion Chesney
British writer (1936–2019)
Robert W. Service
Canadian poet and writer (1874-1958)
Peter May
British and French writer (born 1951)
William Black
British novelist (1841–1898)
William MacAskill
Scottish philosopher and ethicist (born 1987)
Helen MacInnes
20th-century Scottish-American author
Marianna Palka
Scottish filmmaker and actor
Stuart Paton
British director, screenwriter and actor (1883-1944)
Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Scottish screenwriter
John Hodge
Scottish screenwriter and dramatist
Norman Stone
Author, educator, historian (1941–2019)
John Stuart Blackie
Scottish scholar and man of letters (1809–1895)
Manda Scott
British writer
Kenneth White
Scottish poet, academic and writer (1936–2023)
Hal Duncan
Scottish writer
Robert Barr
Scottish-Canadian novelist (1849-1912)
John Muir
Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist (1810–1882)
John Henry Muirhead
British philosopher (1855–1940)
Marion Kirkland Reid
Scottish feminist writer
Sharman Macdonald
Scottish playwright
John Jamieson
Scottish lexicographer (1759-1838)
Anna Murdoch Mann
Scottish journalist and author (1944–2026)
Gordon A. Craig
American historian
Alexander Trocchi
Scottish writer (1925–1984)
Gilbert Highet
British classicist, writer, and historian (1906–1978)
Ivor Cutler
British poet and humorist (1923-2006)
Margaret Elphinstone
British writer
James Bridie
Scottish playwright, screenwriter and surgeon
James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
British hispanist (1858–1923)
Cezaro Rossetti
Scottish Esperanto writer
Denis William Brogan
British historian (1900–1974)
William Motherwell
British writer (1797-1835)
Helen Adam
Scottish poet and photographer (1909-1993)
Catherine Carswell
British writer (1879–1946)
Andrew O'Hagan
Scottish novelist, journalist, academic (born 1968)
Campbell Armstrong
Scottish author (1914–2013)
Alexander Sutherland
Scottish-Australian educator, writer and philosopher
Sarah Moss
British novelist
James Barr
British bible scholar (1924-2006)
Alfred Walter Stewart
British chemist and writer (1880–1947)
William Paton Ker
Scottish literary scholar and essayist (1855-1923)
Thomas Gerard Gallagher
British academic
William Shand
Argentine writer (1902–1997)
Molly Weir
Scottish actress (1910-2004)
Anne Grant
British writer (1755-1838)