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- Alexander Scott (c. 1520 – c. 1583), poet
- Alexander Scott (1920–1989), poet
- Manda Scott, veterinary surgeon and crime writer
- Andrew Murray Scott (born 1955), novelist
- Michael Scott (1789–1835), author
- Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), novelist and poet
- William Sharp (1855–1905), poet and biographer
- Nan Shepherd
- Sara Sheridan (born 1968), novelist
- Neal Sillars (born 1968), novelist, living in Spain and writing modern Scottish and literary fiction
- Samuel Smiles (1812–1904)
- Adam Smith (1723–1790)
- Ali Smith (born 1962)
- Iain Crichton Smith
- Sydney Goodsir Smith
- Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), novelist
- William Soutar
- Dame Muriel Spark (1918–2006), novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
- D. E. Stevenson (1892–1973), novelist
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), novelist, poet and travel writer
- Ena Lamont Stewart, playwright
- Mary Stewart
- William Stewart, (c. 1478–1548)
- Annie Shepherd Swan
- Chancery Stone (born 1956), novelist (Danny)
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