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- Andrew Murray Scott (born 1955), novelist
- Michael Scott (1789–1835)
- Sir Walter Scott, (1771–1832), innovator of the historical novel
- Alan Sharp (born 1934)
- Nan Shepherd (1893–1981)
- Ali Smith (born 1962)
- Iain Crichton Smith (1928–1998), Consider the Lilies
- Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- Muriel Spark (1918–2006)
- D. E. Stevenson (1892–1973)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850–1894), Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Treasure Island etc.
- Luke Sutherland (born 1971)
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