* 1910 – Roger MacDougall, Scottish writer ( d. 1993 )

* 1972 – Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian and writer

* 1925 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist co-founder of the Guinness World Records ( d. 2004 )

* 1925 – Ross McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist, co-founder of the Guinness World Records ( d. 1975 )

* The Cone Gatherers, a novel by the Scottish writer Robin Jenkins, first published in 1955

* 1969 – Mark Millar, Scottish comic book writer

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

David Abercromby was a 17th-century Scottish physician and writer, thought to have died in 1702.

* 1864 – John Henry Mackay, Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer ( d. 1933 )

* 1954 – Brian Morton, Scottish writer

* 1958 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and writer ( d. 2010 )

* 1943 – Graeme Garden, Scottish writer

The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.

Henry Home, Lord Kames ( 169627 December 1782 ) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver.

* 1803 – Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet ( d. 1811 )

* 1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer ( b. 1859 )

* 1874 – Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer ( d. 1917 )

* 1925 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1896 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer ( d. 1981 )

* John Brown ( minister ) ( 1784 – 1858 ), Scottish clergyman and writer

* 1785 – John Wilson, Scottish writer ( d. 1854 )

* 1911 – Fitzroy MacLean, Scottish soldier, writer and politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1940 – Giles Gordon, Scottish writer and agent ( d. 2003 )

* 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener ( b. 1925 )

* 1961 – Steven Moffat, Scottish television writer and producer

* 1771 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

In Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, for example, the heroine, Jeanie Deans, a Scottish Presbyterian, writes to her father about the church situation she has found in England ( bold added ):

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

* 1948 – Walter Smith, Scottish football manager

Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work Life and Mind for publication, and she found solace with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent whose mother had recently died.

Walter Scott whose Waverley Novels helped define Scottish identity in the 19th century.

In literature the most successful figure of the mid-nineteenth century was Walter Scott, who began as a poet and also collected and published Scottish ballads.

Kemble continued the trends toward realistic costume and to Shakespeare's language that had marked Macklin's production ; Walter Scott reports that he experimented continually with the Scottish dress of the play.

* 1870 – Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer ( death date unknown )

* 1942 – Walter McGowan, Scottish boxer

* 1832 – Walter Scott, Scottish author, poet, and playwright ( b. 1771 )

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet ( 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832 ) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.

He wrote that he was " a faithful student of the Scottish ballads, and had always envied Sir Walter the delight of tracing them out amid their own heather, and of writing them down piecemeal from the lips of aged crones.

In the early 19th century, Walter Scott wrote of Wallace in Exploits and Death of William Wallace, the " Hero of Scotland ", and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wallace legend in The Scottish Chiefs in 1810.

* Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet

** Walter Smith, Scottish football manager

* September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer ( b. 1771 )

* August 15 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

* December 24 – Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler ( b. 1385 )

While he admired and drew inspiration from the Romantic style of Scottish novelist Walter Scott, Balzac sought to depict human existence through the use of particulars.

In the 14th century, the English cleric and historian Walter Hemingford described the Scottish coronation stone as residing in the monastery of Scone, a few miles north of Perth:

* Scottish author Sir Walter Scott featured Charles and the 1745 Jacobite uprising in his popular 1814 novel Waverley.

Perth has been known as The Fair City since the publication of the story Fair Maid of Perth by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott in 1828.

During the era of Romanticism, when knowledge of Celtic culture was overlaid by legends and fictions, the word was reintroduced into the West Germanic languages, this time directly into the English language, in the sense of ' lyric poet ', idealised by writers such as the Scottish romantic novelist Sir Walter Scott.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another fifty years or more, thanks to such figures as James Hutton, James Watt, William Murdoch, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin and Sir Walter Scott.