Writers
- Adomnán of Iona (Abbot)
- Sir William Alexander (Nova Scotia)
- Robert Allan (Songwriter)
- Margot Asquith (PM's Wife)
- Lady Grisell Baillie (Poet)
- John Barbour (Ecclesiastic)
- Alfred Barnard (Whisky Writer)
- J.M. Barrie (Writer)
- Eric Temple Bell (Mathematician)
- Horatius Bonar (Clergyman)
- Alastair Borthwick (Mountaineer)
- James Boswell (Samuel Johnson)
- Walter Bower (Historian)
- The Brahan Seer (Seer)
- Dugald Buchanan (Poet)
- Gilbert Burnet (Historian)
- John Buchan, 1st Tweedsmuir
- Robert Burns (Poet)
- George Byron, 6th Baron (Poet)
- Catherine Carswell (Novelist)
- William Chambers (Publisher)
- A.J. Cronin (Novelist)
- Helen Cruickshank (Poet)
- Daniel Defoe (Writer)
- Gavin Douglas (Ecclesiastic)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Writer)
- Jane Duncan (Novelist)
- Dorothy Dunnett (Novelist)
- Robert Fergusson (Poet)
- Susan Ferrier (Novelist)
- David Hay Fleming (Historian)
- John of Fordun (Historian)
- G. MacDonald Fraser (Novelist)
- Robert Gordon of Straloch
- Seton Gordon (Writer)
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Author)
- Neil M. Gunn (Author)
- James Hogg (Writer)
- Isabel Hutchison (Explorer)
- Sir William Jardine (Naturalist)
- Violet Jacob (Writer)
- Samuel Johnson (Writer)
- Jessie Kesson (Playwright)
- Andrew Lang (Historian)
- Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (Witer)
- Eric Linklater (Novelist)
- Helen Nora Low (Screenwriter)
- Hugh MacDiarmid (Poet)
- Alexander MacDonald (Poet)
- George MacDonald (Author)
- Mary Macdonald (Poet)
- Agnes Mackenzie (Historian)
- Compton Mackenzie (Author)
- Henry Mackenzie (Novelist)
- David MacGibbon (Architect)
- William MacGillivray (Naturalist)
- William McGonagall (Poet)
- Helen MacInnes (Novelist)
- Alistair MacLean (Novelist)
- Sorley MacLean (Poet)
- Robert McLellan (Dramatist)
- James Macpherson (Ossian)
- Martin Martin (Writer)
- Gavin Maxwell (Writer)
- Elizabeth Melville (Writer)
- Hugh Miller (Geologist)
- William Miller (Poet)
- Edwin Muir (Poet)
- John Muir (Environmentalist)
- Neil Munro (Writer)
- W.H. Murray (Mountaineer)
- Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne
- Robert Owen (New Lanark)
- Thomas Pennant (Travel Writer)
- Timothy Pont (Cartographer)
- Allan Ramsay the Elder (Poet)
- Thomas Ross (Architect)
- Sir Walter Scott (Author)
- Margaret Fay Shaw (South Uist)
- Nan Shepherd (Author)
- Samuel Smiles (Author)
- Alexander Smith (Poet)
- Tobias Smollett (Author)
- Muriel Spark (Author)
- Catherine Helen Spence (Australia)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (Author)
- John Sobieski Stuart (Tartans)
- Annie S Swan (Novelist)
- Robert Tannahill (Weaver Poet)
- Alexander Trocchi (Novelist)
- Sir Thomas Urquhart (Author)
- Tom Weir (Broadcaster)
- Alexander Wilson (Ornithologist)
- Walter Wingate (Children's Poet)