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- Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)
- Angus Peter Campbell, Gaelic novelist, columnist, poet
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), essayist and historian
- Harry Carmil (pen name of Leopold Horace Ognall) (1908–1979), crime novelist (born in Glasgow)
- Catherine Carswell (1879–1946)
- Glenn Chandler (born 1949)
- William Cleland (1661–1689)
- Alison Cockburn (1712–1794) poet and wit
- Sophie Cooke (born 1976)
- Joe Corrie (1894–1968)
- Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860–1914), novelist
- A. J. Cronin (1896–1981)
- Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975)
- Andrew Crumey (born 1961)
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