List of Scottish dramatists

This is a list of playwrights either born in Scotland or living/based in Scotland. Playwrights whose work is in Scottish Gaelic and Broad Scots are included.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A – J

• Marion Adams-Acton
• William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
• Dave Anderson
• Freddie Anderson
• Hugh Abercrombie Anderson
• James Robertson Anderson
• Arthur Argo
• David Ashton
• Joanna Baillie
• Chris Ballance
• J. M. Barrie
• Alistair Beaton
• Alan Bissett
• James Bridie
• George MacKay Brown
• Bill Bryden
• George Buchanan
• Gregory Burke
• John Byrne
• Lord Byron
• Victor Carin
• Catrìona Lexy Chaimbeul (Catriona Lexy Campbell)
• Glenn Chandler
• Kate Clanchy
• J. Storer Clouston
• Stewart Conn
• Grace Corbett
• Joe Corrie
• A. J. Cronin
• John Davidson
• Ann Marie Di Mambro
• Anne Donovan
• William Douglas-Home
• Alexander Dow
• Anne Downie
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Walterina Cunningham
• Carol Ann Duffy
• Graham Eatough
• Suzy Enoch
• David Erskine
• Henry Brougham Farnie
• Simon Farquhar
• Bill Findlay
• Tom Gallacher
• William Gillies
• Alan Gilmour
• John Glashan
• Sue Glover
• Janey Godley
• Alasdair Gray
• Nicholas Stuart Gray
• Stephen Greenhorn
• David Greig
• Gavin Greig
• Catherine Grosvenor
• Kris Haddow
• Andrew Halliday
• Tom Hanlin
• David Harrower
• Jennifer S Hartley
• Ian Hay
• John Home
• Gordon Honeycombe
• Jules Horne
• Armando Iannucci
• D C Jackson
• Robert William Jameson
• Fleeming Jenkin
• Ada F. Kay

K – Z

• James Kelman
• Robert Kemp
• Jessie Kesson
• William Lauder
• Charlotte Lennox
• Liz Lochhead
• John Logan
• David Lyndsay
• Andrew MacDonald
• Robert David MacDonald
• Sharman MacDonald
• Peter McDougall
• John McGrath
• Tom McGrath
• Henry MacKenzie
• Norman McKinnel
• Robert McLellan
• David MacLennan
• Joseph MacLeod
• Roddy McMillan
• Aonghas MacNeacail
• Kevin MacNeil
• Steven McNicoll
• Willy Maley
• David Mallet
• David Marshall
• Forbes Masson
• Douglas Maxwell
• Peter May
• Denise Mina
• Graham Moffat
• Paul Morris
• Grant Morrison
• Rona Munro
• Anthony Neilson
• Janet Paisley
• Archibald Pitcairne
• John Purser
• David Purves
• Allan Ramsay
• Alexander Reid
• Stanley Robertson
• Tony Roper
• Suhayl Saadi
• Sara Shaarawi
• John Smith
• Sydney Goodsir Smith
• W. Gordon Smith
• Alan Spence
• Gerda Stevenson
• Ena Lamont Stewart
• Zoë Strachan
• Cecil Taylor
• William Templeton
• William Tennant
• Josephine Tey
• Margaret Turnbull
• Joan Ure
• Deborah Wallace
• William Watson
• James Wedderburn
• Irvine Welsh
• Louise Welsh
• Brian Whittingham
• Andrew P. Wilson

See also

• Theatre of Scotland
• List of theatres in Scotland
• List of Irish dramatists
• Scottish literature
• List of Scottish poets
• List of Scottish novelists
• List of Scottish short story writers