List of Geordie songwriters

This is a list of songwriters in the Geordie dialect of English, spoken in Tyneside.

20th century and forward

 * Robert Allen (poet)
 * Eric Boswell - songwriter/poet
 * Henry Brewis - poet, writer, cartoonist, illustrator
 * Bill Griffiths (poet)

Antiquarians, historians, authors, mining engineers, scientists and similar

 * John Balmbra - Entrepreneur, owner of the famous Music Hall
 * Sir David Brewster - subject of a song and a scientist/engineer and inventor of the Kaleidoscope c1820. The song "The Pitman's Skellyscope" written by William Mitford appears in a great many chapbooks, possibly due to its novelty value, including on page 147 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
 * John Collingwood Bruce - Author and editor, He and John Stokoe co-edited "Northumbrian Minstrelsy"
 * Mr W. Cail - an author/historian/antiquarian who collected manuscripts, particularly relating to the songs and poems of Edward Chicken. He is mentioned on page 5 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings. There was a W Cail practising as a solicitor in Newcastle around that time, but it is not known if they were one and the same.
 * Edward Charlton - writer & historian
 * Dr Clark - historian/antiquarian whose brief comment on John Shield's work is noted on page 65 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
 * James Thomas Clephan - Journalist and songwriter/poet
 * David Dippie Dixon - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
 * Scott Dobson - A 20th-century writer of prose and humorous books, mainly in broad Geordie dialect
 * John Woodham Dunn - An Anglican vicar and author who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
 * Dennis Embleton - Medical doctor, surgeon, naturalist, historian and poet
 * George Clementson Greenwell - A mining engineer, whose writings defined many of the words and terms used in mining
 * Richard Oliver Heslop - historian/lexicologist/songwriter/poet/ etc.
 * Eneas Mackenzie - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
 * Sir Walter Scott - He may have transcribed "Bewick and the Graeme'" according to the comment on page 25 of Stokoe and Bruce'a Northumbrian Minstrelsy.
 * James Shotton - Artist
 * Robert Surtees - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
 * Robert Wilson - A physician, whose published papers on mining added to the area's history.