LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joanna Baillie	Playwright	11-Sep-1762	23-Feb-1851	Family Legend
Iain Banks	Author	16-Feb-1954		Consider Phlebas
J. M. Barrie	Author	9-May-1860	19-Jun-1937	Peter Pan
Blind Harry	Poet	fl. 1470-92	fl. 1470-92	Acts and Deeds of William Wallace
James Boswell	Author	29-Oct-1740	19-May-1795	The Life of Samuel Johnson
George Mackay Brown	Poet	17-Oct-1921	13-Apr-1996	Time in a Red Coat
John Buchan	Author	26-Aug-1875	11-Feb-1940	The Thirty-Nine Steps
Robert Burns	Poet	25-Jan-1759	21-Jul-1796	Most beloved Scottish poet
Paul Carr	Author	7-Dec-1979		Bringing Nothing to the Party
Robert Chambers	Author	10-Jul-1802	17-Mar-1871	Chambers's Book of Days
William Chambers	Publisher	16-Apr-1800	20-May-1883	W. & R. Chambers, Ltd.
Ivor Cutler	Poet	15-Jan-1923	3-Mar-2006	Glasgow Dreamer
George Douglas	Novelist	26-Jan-1869	28-Aug-1902	The House With the Green Shutters
Arthur Conan Doyle	Novelist	22-May-1859	7-Jul-1930	Creator of Sherlock Holmes
William Dunbar	Poet	c. 1460	c. 1520	The Thrissil and the Rois
John Dury	Religion	1596	26-Sep-1680	The Reformed Librarie-Keeper
John Galt	Novelist	2-May-1779	11-Apr-1839	The Ayrshire Legatees
Robert Garioch	Poet	9-May-1909	26-Apr-1981	Scots dialect poet
Ron Geesin	Musician	17-Dec-1943		Audio innovator, co-wrote Atom Heart Mother
Kenneth Grahame	Novelist	8-Mar-1859	6-Jul-1932	The Wind in the Willows
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane	Author	27-May-1862	24-Dec-1937	Descartes: His Life and Times
James Hogg	Poet	1770	21-Nov-1835	The Queen's Wake
John Home	Playwright	21-Sep-1722	5-Sep-1808	Douglas
Andrew Lang	Author	31-Mar-1844	20-Jul-1912	Scottish man of letters, historian, author
Hugh MacDiarmid	Poet	11-Aug-1892	9-Sep-1978	A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
George MacDonald	Author	10-Dec-1824	18-Sep-1905	At the Back of the North Wind
Compton MacKenzie	Novelist	17-Jan-1883	30-Nov-1972	Carnival
Alistair MacLean	Novelist	28-Apr-1922	2-Feb-1987	The Guns of Navarone
Fitzroy Maclean	Politician	11-Mar-1911	15-Jun-1996	Eastern Approaches
Sorley Maclean	Poet	26-Oct-1911	24-Nov-1996	Scottish/Gaelic poet
James Macpherson	Hoaxer	27-Oct-1736	17-Feb-1796	So-called translations of Ossian
Bruce Marshall	Novelist	24-Jun-1899	18-Jun-1987	The White Rabbit
William McGonagall	Poet	1825	29-Sep-1902	The Tay Bridge Disaster
Mark Millar	Cartoonist	24-Dec-1969		The Ultimates, Ultimate X-Men writer
H. H. Munro	Novelist	18-Dec-1870	14-Nov-1916	Reginald
Margaret Oliphant	Novelist	4-Apr-1828	25-Jun-1897	The Chronicles of Carlingford
Sir Walter Scott	Author	15-Aug-1771	21-Sep-1832	Ivanhoe
Ali Smith	Author	24-Aug-1962		There But For The
Tobias Smollett	Novelist	19-Mar-1721	17-Sep-1771	The Adventures of Roderick Random
Muriel Spark	Novelist	1-Feb-1918	13-Apr-2006	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Robert Louis Stevenson	Author	13-Nov-1850	3-Dec-1894	Treasure Island
Josephine Tey	Novelist	1897	13-Feb-1952	Richard of Bordeaux
Thomas Urquhart	Author	1611	1660	Translator of Rabelais
Irvine Welsh	Novelist	27-Sep-1961		Trainspotting
Eric Woolfson	Musician	18-Mar-1945	1-Dec-2009	Former Alan Parsons Project collaborator

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