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- Ann Marie Di Mambro (born 1950), playwright and scriptwriter
- Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905), feminist, travel writer, novelist
- Gavin Douglas
- O. Douglas (1877–1948), novelist
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes detective novels
- Andrew Drummond, novelist, author of An Abridged History and A Hand-book of Volapük
- William Drummond of Hawthornden
- William Dunbar (c. 1460 – c. 1520), poet
- Jane Duncan
- Douglas Dunn (born 1942), poet
- Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001), novelist
- Niall Duthie (born 1947), novelist
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