# List of Scottish poets

A list of Scottish poets in English, Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, Latin, French, Old Welsh and other languages. This lists includes people living in what is now Scotland before it became so.

## A

* Helen Adam
* Henry Adamson
* Hew Ainslie
* Thomas Aird
* Aithbhreac Inghean Coirceadal
* Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
* Robert Allan
* Sandra Alland
* Robert Alves
* Alexander Anderson
* Freddie Anderson
* William Anderson
* Marion Angus
* Aneirin
* J. K. Annand
* William Anstruther
* Alexander Arbuthnot
* Arthur Argo
* John Armstrong
* John Armstrong
* Donna Ashworth
* Thomas Atkinson
* William Auld
* Robert Aytoun
* William Edmondstoune Aytoun

## B

* Joanna Baillie
* Alexander Bald
* Alexander Balfour
* James Ballantine
* George Bannatyne
* Anne Bannerman
* John Barbour
* John Barclay
* Matthias Barr
* Thomas de Barry
* Meg Bateman
* George Beattie
* James Beattie
* William Beattie
* Beccán mac Luigdech
* John Joy Bell
* John Bellenden
* David MacLeod Black
* Sheena Blackhall
* John Stuart Blackie
* Thomas Blacklock
* Robert Blair
* Blind Harry
* Alan Bold
* Deric Bolton
* Mark Alexander Boyd
* David Boyle
* Frederick Victor Branford
* George Mackay Brown
* Horatio Brown
* Archibald Bruce
* Michael Bruce
* Giolla Críost Brúilingeach
* John Buchan
* Dugald Buchanan
* George Buchanan
* Robert Williams Buchanan
* Rhoda Bulter
* Haldane Burgess
* James Drummond Burns
* Elizabeth Burns
* Robert Burns
* John Burnside
* John Burrell
* Ron Butlin
* Lord Byron

## C

* John M. Caie
* Maoilios Caimbeul
* Janet Caird
* Angus Calder
* Norman Cameron
* A. Y. Campbell
* Angus Peter Campbell
* Dorothea Primrose Campbell
* Thomas Campbell
* Sìleas na Ceapaich
* Kate Clanchy
* Thomas A. Clark
* William Cleland
* W. D. Cocker
* Arthur Conan Doyle
* Stewart Conn
* Dominic Cooper
* Grace Corbett
* Joe Corrie
* Thomas Craig
* Robert Crawford
* Archibald Crawfurd
* Duncan MacGregor Crerar
* Iain Crichton Smith
* Ian Crockatt
* Helen Cruickshank
* Allan Cunningham
* Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore
* Walterina Cunningham
* James Cuthbertson
* Ivor Cutler

## D–F

* David Daiches
* Hew Dalrymple
* Harriet Miller Davidson
* John Davidson
* Robert Davidson
* Thomas Davidson
* Edward Davison
* Christine De Luca
* Imtiaz Dharker
* Des Dillon
* David Doig
* Julia Donaldson
* Rob Donn
* Gavin Douglas
* George Brisbane Scott Douglas
* William Drummond of Hawthornden
* William Dudgeon
* Carol Ann Duffy
* William Dunbar
* Hal Duncan
* Douglas Dunn
* George Eglisham
* Jean Elliot
* Henry Erskine
* Jenni Fagan
* William Falconer
* Henry Brougham Farnie
* Vicki Feaver
* Alison Fell
* Robert Fergusson
* John Ferriar
* Alec Finlay
* Ian Hamilton Finlay
* John Finlay
* Matthew Fitt
* James Fordyce
* Veronica Forrest-Thomson
* William Forsyth
* William Fowler
* George Sutherland Fraser
* Olive Fraser
* Robin Fulton

## G

* Richard Gall
* Miriam Gamble
* Alexander Garden
* Robert Garioch
* Flora Garry
* William Gay
* Alexander Geddes
* Magi Gibson
* George Gilfillan
* Robert Gilfillan
* Robert Pearse Gillies
* Duncan Glen
* William Glen
* John Glenday
* Jean Glover
* Robert Gordon of Straloch
* Rody Gorman
* James Graeme
* Lollie Graham
* W. S. Graham
* James Grahame
* James Grainger
* Alex Grant
* David Grant
* Joseph Grant
* Alasdair Gray
* Alexander Gray
* Christian Gray
* David Gray
* James Gray
* Andrew Greig
* John Grieve

## H

* Kris Haddow
* Jen Hadfield
* George Halket
* Janet Hamilton
* Patrick Hamilton
* Thomas Hamilton
* William Hamilton (British Army officer)
* William Hamilton (comic poet)
* William Hamilton (Jacobite poet)
* Patrick Hannay
* Scott Hastie
* Susanna Hawkins
* George Campbell Hay
* Gilbert Hay
* Hamish Henderson
* Diana Hendry
* J. F. Hendry
* Robert Henryson
* Thomas Nicoll Hepburn
* W. N. Herbert
* Robert Herring
* William Hershaw
* William Maxwell Hetherington
* Robert Hetrick
* James Hogg
* Richard Holland
* John Home
* Tom Hubbard
* Huchoun
* Alexander Hume
* David Hume of Godscroft
* Patrick Hume of Polwarth
* Anne Hunter
* Pearse Hutchinson
* James Hyslop

## I-K

* John Imlah
* Mick Imlah
* Iseabail Ní Mheic Cailéin
* A. B. Jackson
* Alan Jackson
* Violet Jacob
* James I of Scotland
* Robert William Jameson
* Kathleen Jamie
* Robert Alan Jamieson
* Arthur Johnston
* John Johnston
* Jackie Kay
* Walter Kennedy
* John Ker
* William Knox
* Rögnvald Kali Kolsson
* Norman Kreitman
* Frank Kuppner

## L

* R D Laing
* Andrew Lang
* John Lapraik
* William Lauder
* T. S. Law
* Joseph Lee
* Charlotte Lennox
* Tom Leonard
* Frances Leviston
* Eddie Linden
* Jenny Lindsay
* Maurice Lindsay
* Janet Little
* Pippa Little
* Liz Lochhead
* John Logan
* Iain Lom
* John Longmuir
* Roddy Lumsden
* David Lyndsay
* Agnes Lyon
* John Lyon
* Henry Francis Lyte

## Mac/Mc

* George MacBeth
* Norman MacCaig
* Hugh MacDiarmid
* Andrew Macdonald
* Donald MacDonald, Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
* George MacDonald
* James Macfarlan
* Murdo Macfarlane
* James Pittendrigh Macgillivray
* Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
* Stuart MacGregor
* Artúr Dall Mac Gurcaigh
* Duncan Ban MacIntyre
* James McIntyre
* John William Mackail
* Barbara Mackay
* Charles Mackay
* John Henry Mackay
* Lachlan Mackinnon
* Ewart Alan Mackintosh
* Ewen MacLachlan
* Alasdair Maclean
* Sorley MacLean
* Anne MacLeod
* Joseph Macleod
* Aonghas MacNeacail
* Kevin MacNeil
* Hector Macneill
* Robert Macnish
* James Macpherson
* Jamie Macpherson
* Donnchadh MacRath
* Brian McCabe
* Marion McCready
* Matthew McDiarmid
* Elvis McGonagall
* William McGonagall
* William McIlvanney
* Alastair McIntosh
* Alexander McLachlan
* Robert McLellan
* Hugh McMillan

## M

* Wes Magee
* Richard Maitland
* Willy Maley
* David Mallet
* Peter Manson
* Theodore Martin
* James Maxwell
* John Mayne
* Isabella Fyvie Mayo
* Robert Murray M'Cheyne
* Gordon Meade
* Elizabeth Melville
* James Melville
* William Mercer
* William Meston
* William Julius Mickle
* William Miller
* Christian Milne
* Drew Milne
* Elma Mitchell
* Naomi Mitchison
* David Macbeth Moir
* Alexander Montgomerie
* James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
* Edwin Morgan
* J. O. Morgan
* David R. Morrison
* William Motherwell
* Edwin Muir
* Raman Mundair
* John Munro
* Neil Munro
* William Murdoch
* Charles Murray
* Robert Fuller Murray

## N–R

* Carolina Nairne
* Charles Neaves
* William Neill
* William Nicholson
* Robert Nicoll
* Niall O'Gallagher
* William Henry Ogilvie
* Meta Orred
* George Outram
* Janet Paisley
* Andrew Park
* Alasdair Paterson
* Don Paterson
* Walter Perrie
* Robert Pollok
* Katrina Porteous
* Richard Price
* Alison Prince
* Thomas Pringle
* Pauline Prior-Pitt
* John Purser
* David Purves
* Walter Quin
* Seán Rafferty
* Tessa Ransford
* Alastair Reid
* Robert Rendall
* Alan Riach
* Henry Scott Riddell
* Hugh S. Roberton
* Gary Robertson
* James Robertson
* James Logie Robertson
* Robin Robertson
* John Rolland
* David Rorie
* Uilleam Ros
* Dilys Rose
* Alexander Ross

## S

* Suhayl Saadi
* Lady Margaret Sackville
* Stephen Scobie
* Alexander Scott (16th-century poet)
* Alexander Scott (20th-century poet)
* Tom Scott
* Walter Scott
* Sir William Scott of Thirlestane
* William Bell Scott
* Thomas Seget
* J. B. Selkirk
* James Sempill
* Robert Sempill the elder
* Robert Sempill the younger
* Robert W. Service
* John Campbell Shairp
* William Sharp
* Nan Shepherd
* David Sillar
* Burns Singer
* Felicia Skene
* John Skinner
* William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
* Alexander Smith
* John Gibson Smith
* Morelle Smith
* Sydney Goodsir Smith
* Walter Chalmers Smith
* Charles Sorley
* William Soutar
* Muriel Spark
* Alan Spence
* Charles Spence
* Lewis Spence
* Alicia Ann Spottiswoode, Lady John Scott
* John Sterling
* Gerda Stevenson
* Robert Louis Stevenson
* Ena Lamont Stewart
* John Stewart of Baldynneis
* John Alexander Stewart
* John Roy Stewart
* William Stewart
* William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
* Thomas Tod Stoddart
* John Struthers
* Muriel Stuart
* Maud Sulter

## T-Z

* Alexander Tait
* Margaret Tait
* Robert Tannahill (weaver poet)
* Rachel Annand Taylor
* William Tennant
* William Thom
* Thomas the Rhymer
* Derick Thomson
* James Thomson
* James Thomson (weaver poet)
* James Thomson (B.V.)
* Ruthven Todd
* Gael Turnbull
* Joan Ure
* Thomas Urquhart
* Vagaland
* George Valentine
* Ryan Van Winkle
* John Veitch
* Florentius Volusenus
* Roderick Watson
* Lauchlan Watt
* James Wedderburn
* John Wellwood
* Kenneth White
* Brian Whittingham
* Christopher Whyte
* George Whyte-Melville
* William Wilkie
* Colin Will
* Kevin Williamson
* John Wilson
* Rab Wilson
* William Wilson
* David Wingate
* John Wright
* William Wright
* Andrew Young
* Douglas Young
* John Younger