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.

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

• 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