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.
| Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair |
| William Aytoun |
| Sheena Blackhall |
| George Buchanan |
| Robert Burns |
| Thomas Campbell |
| Iain Crichton Smith |
| Imtiaz Dharker |
| Carol Ann Duffy |
| Robert Ferguson |
| Flora Garry |
| George Gilfillan |
| Alasdair Gray |
| Janet Hamilton memorial |
| James Hogg |
| Kathleen Jamie |
| Jackie Kay |
| David Lyndsay |
| Hugh MacDiarmid |
| Sorley MacLean |
| William McGonagall |
| Naomi Mitchison |
| Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown |
| Carolina Nairne |
| Don Paterson |
| Sir Walter Scott, Bart. |
| Robert Service |
| Gerda Stevenson |
| Rachel Annand Taylor |
| Thomas Urquhart |
| Andrew Young |