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- Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
- Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (1784–1848), writer
- David Lindsay (1878–1945)
- Sir David Lindsay (c. 1490 – c. 1555)
- Douglas Lindsay (born 1964)
- Eric Linklater
- John Gibson Lockhart
- William Laughton Lorimer (1885–1967), translated the New Testament from Greek to Scots
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