An alphabetical list of Scottish writers includes the following:

• Thomas Aird, (1802-1876), poet
• Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, (c.1695-1770), poet
• William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (c.1570-1640)
• Marion Angus
• Margot Asquith, writer and wit
• Sir Robert Ayton, (1570-1638), poet
• William Edmonstoune Aytoun, (1813-1865), poet, humourist and writer
• Lady Grizel Baillie, (1665-1746), song-writer
• RM Ballantyne
• Iain Banks, (born 1954), a.k.a Iain M. Banks
• John Barbour, (1316-1395), poet
• Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860-1937), novelist and dramatist, creator of Peter Pan
• William Black (1841-1898)
• Robert Blair, (1699-1746), poet
• George Blake
• James Boswell, (1740-1795), biographer of Samuel Johnson
• James Bridie
• Christopher Brookmyre (born 1968)
• George Douglas Brown
• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (1875-1940), novelist (The Thirty-Nine Steps)
• Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
• Thomas Campbell
• Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881), essayist and historian
• Catherine Carswell
• William Cleland
• Joe Corrie
• Samuel Rutherford Crockett, (1860-1914), novelist
• AJ Cronin, (1896-1981), novelist (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom)
• Helen Cruickshank
• Gavin Douglas
• Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859-1930), novelist, creator of the Sherlock Holmes stories
• William Drummond of Hawthornden
• William Dunbar
• Jane Duncan
• Douglas Dunn, (born 1942), poet
• Robert Fergusson
• Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
• John Galt
• Robert Garioch
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
• W. S. Graham, neo-romantic poet
• Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1932)
• Elizabeth Grant
• Iain Grant
• Alasdair Gray, (born 1934), writer and artist
• Neil M Gunn
• John MacDougall Hay
• Robert Henryson
• James Hogg
• John Home
• Mollie Hunter , (born 1922)
• Violet Jacob
• Robert Keith, (1681-1757), Episcopal Bishop and historian
• James Peebles Ewing Kennaway
• A. L. Kennedy
• Jessie Kesson
• Andrew Lang, (1844-1912)
• Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, (1784-1848), writer
• David Lindsay, (1878-1945)
• Sir David Lindsay, (c.1490-c.1555)
• Eric Linklater
• John Gibson Lockhart
• Fionn Mac Colla
• Norman MacCaig, poet
• J. McCullough, golf author
• Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978), poet
• George Macdonald, (1824-1905), poet and novelist. Admired by W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Lewis Carroll and, eventually, Mark Twain.
• William Topaz McGonagall, poet, novelist
• Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, (1899-1970), writer, photographer and poet
• Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, a.k.a Duncan Ban McIntyre
• John William Mackail, classical scholar and writer
• Compton Mackenzie
• Helen Clark MacInnes, (1907-1985), suspense novelist
• Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scottish Gaelic poet
• Ken MacLeod
• Henry Mackenzie
• Ian Maclaren
• Alistair MacLean
• Robert McLellan
• James Macpherson
• Sir John Malcolm, (1769-1833), historian
• Gavin Maxwell
• Hugh Miller
• A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh
• Sir Edward Montague
• Edwin Morgan, (1920), foremost Scottish poet
• Edwin Muir, (1887-1959), novelist and poet
• Neil Munro
• Charles Murray
• Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, 18th century composer and songwriter
• Margaret Oliphant
• Allan Ramsay
• Ian Rankin, creator of Inspector Rebus crime novels
• Alexander Scott
• Michael Scott, (1789-1835), author
• Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), novelist and poet (Ivanhoe etc.)
• William Sharp, (1855-1905), poet and biographer
• Nan Shepherd
• Sydney Goodsir Smith
• Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771), novelist
• William Soutar
• Muriel Spark, (born 1918), novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), novelist, poet and travel writer (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island etc.)
• Mary Stewart
• Annie S Swan
• Robert Tannahill
• Josephine Tey, (1896-1952), mystery writer
• James Thomson
• James Thomson (B.V.)
• Nigel Tranter
• Alexander Fraser Tytler, (1747-1813), lawyer and writer
• Patrick Fraser Tytler, (1791-1849), historian
• Sir Thomas Urquhart, (1611-1660), writer and translator
• Maurice Walsh
• Alan Warner, (born 1964)
• Irvine Welsh, (born 1961), novelist (Trainspotting)
• John Wilson (Christopher North)