page_title: List of University of Glasgow people
section_title: Writers and poets
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Glasgow people / Arts / Writers and poets
context_page_description: The following list of University of Glasgow people provides a selection of the well-known people who have studied or taught at the University of Glasgow since its inception in 1451. Historical lists of Chancellors, Rectors and Principals of the University are contained in those offices' respective articles.
context_section_description: Lin Anderson, writer
  Julie Bertagna, writer
  James Boswell, writer
  William Boyd, writer
  James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor), dramatist and founder of the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre
  Christopher Brookmyre, writer
  Luke Brown, writer
  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, writer and Governor General of Canada
  Robert Williams Buchanan, poet
  C. Delisle Burns, atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
  Thomas Campbell, poet
  Robert Crawford, poet, Professor of English at the University of St Andrews
  A. J. Cronin, physician and writer who's given credit for inspiring the National Health Service
  Ann Marie Di Mambro, playwright and scriptwriter
  Hal Duncan, writer
  Jane Duncan (Elizabeth Jane Cameron), writer
  Janice Galloway, writer
  Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore, poet and politician
  Alasdair Gray, writer and artist
  David Gray, poet
  Janice Hally, playwright and scriptwriter
  Robert Henryson, poet (probably taught)
  James Herriot, writer
  Philip Hobsbaum, poet and critic
  John Jamieson, lexicographer
  James Kelman, writer
  Walter Kennedy, poet
  Tom Leonard, poet and essayist
  Liz Lochhead, poet and dramatist
  Helen MacInnes, "queen of spy writers"
  Alistair MacLean, writer
  Ken MacLeod, writer
  Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic bard and Jacobite captain
  Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet
  Laura Marney, writer
  Angus Matheson (1912–1962), inaugural Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow
  William McIllvanney, writer
  Caroline Moir, writer
  Edwin Morgan, poet
  Robert William Service, poet and writer
  Jane Shaw, writer
  J David Simons, writer
  Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, writer and the first person to use the word "statistics" in the English language
  Tobias Smollett, writer
  Derick Thomson, Gaelic writer and academic
  Alexander Trocchi, writer
  John Wilson, writer
  Thomas Hamilton, Among the 'Glasgow School' of early nineteenth century Scottish novelists
  Archibald Alison, Scottish episcopalian priest and essayist
  Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, Scottish politician and Greek scholar
  Alexander Carlyle, church leader, and autobiographer.
caption: Sir John Sinclair
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