Chronological list of Scottish classical composers

The following is a chronological list of classical music composers living and working in Scotland, or originating from Scotland.

Renaissance
• Robert Johnson (Scottish composer) (c. 1470 – after 1554)

• Robert Carver (composer) (c. 1485 – c. 1570)

• Tobias Hume (possibly 1579 – 1645)

Baroque
• John Abell (1653 – after 1724)

• John Clerk (1676–1755)

• William McGibbon (1690 – 1756)

Classical era
• James Oswald (1710–1769)

• Thomas Erskine (1732–1781)

Romantic
• Sophia Dussek (1775 – 1831)

• John Thomson (1805 – 1841)

• Alicia Ann Spottiswoode (1810 – 1900)

• Alexander Mackenzie (1847 – 1935)

• Helen Hopekirk (1856 – 1945)

• William Wallace (1860 – 1940)

• Eugen d'Albert (1864 – 1932)

• Learmont Drysdale (1866 – 1909)

• Frederic Lamond (1868 – 1948)

• Hamish MacCunn (1868 – 1916)

• John Blackwood McEwen (1868 – 1948)

• Donald Tovey (1875 – 1940)

• Cecil Coles (1888 – 1918)

Modern/Contemporary
• Francis George Scott (1880 – 1958)

• James Friskin (1886 – 1967)

• Erik Chisholm (1904 – 1965)

• Alan Richardson (1904 – 1978)

• William Wordsworth (1908 – 1988)

• Robin Orr (1909 – 2006)

• Shena Fraser (1910 – 1993)

• Ronald Center (1913 – 1973)

• Robert Bruce (1915 – 2012)

• Geraldine Mucha (1917 – 2012)

• Iain Ellis Hamilton (1922 – 2000)

• James Brian Bonsor (1926 – 2011)

• Thomas Wilson (1927 – 2001)

• Thea Musgrave (born 1928)

• Ronald Stevenson (1928 – 2015)

• James Douglas (born 1932)

• John McLeod (born 1934)

• Janet Beat (born 1937)

• John Hearne (born 1937)

• Claire Liddell (born 1937)

• John Maxwell Geddes (1941 – 2017)

• Martin Dalby (1942 – 2018)

• David Johnson (1942 – 2009)

• John Purser (born 1942)

• Lyell Cresswell (born 1944)

• Morris Pert (1947 – 2010)

• Derek Watson (1948 – 2018)

• Edward ("Eddie") McGuire (born 1948)

• Nigel Osborne (born 1948)

• James Dillon (born 1950)

• Alistair Hinton (born 1950)

• William Sweeney (born 1950)

• Sally Beamish (born 1956)

• John Lunn (born 1956)

• John Kenny (born 1957)

• Craig Armstrong (born 1959)

• James MacMillan (born 1959)

• Pete Stollery (born 1960)

• Jennifer Margaret Barker (born 1965)

• Gordon McPherson (born 1965)

• Stuart Mitchell (1965 – 2018)

• James Clapperton (born 1968)

• Alwynne Pritchard (born 1968)

• David Horne (born 1970)

• Julian Wagstaff (born 1970)

• Lorne Balfe (born 1976)

• Stuart MacRae (born 1976)

• Gordon Cree (born 1977)

• Gareth Williams (born 1977)

• Anna Meredith (born 1978)

• Helen Grime (born 1981)

• Harry Whalley (born 1984)

• Matthew Whiteside (born 1988)

• Cameron Sinclair (nd)