Wikidata list showing women writers (& subclasses) who are Scottish
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actor
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Marianna Palka | Scottish filmmaker and actor | actor film producer writer screenwriter film director |
Glasgow | |
Morayo Akandé | Scottish actress and film producer | actor film director film producer screenwriter |
archaeologist
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Caroline Wickham-Jones | Scottish archaeologist | archaeologist university teacher |
art historian
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Elizabeth Ann Macgregor | gallery director | art historian | Dundee |
botanical illustrator
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Estelle Thomson | Australian naturalist and botanical artist (1894-1953) | botanical illustrator naturalist |
Glasgow |
botanist
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Jeanette Wilma Abéle Ridder-Numan | botanist | botanist |
chemist
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Elizabeth Fulhame | Scottish chemist | chemist biologist |
clinician
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Joyce Deans Baird | Scottish clinician, diabetologist and scientist | clinician diabetologist scientist |
Glasgow |
courtier
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Lena Login | born Lena Campbell (1820–1904), Scottish courtier and author | courtier writer |
Perth |
crime fiction writer
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Karen Campbell | Scottish author | crime fiction writer writer |
Paisley |
earth scientist
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Pat Langhorne | Scottish professor and Antarctic sea ice researcher | earth scientist researcher physicist |
Glasgow |
editor
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Elizabeth Watson | Scottish editor and scholar and supporter of the Scottish Gaelic language | editor scholar |
Lismore |
egyptologist
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Janet May Buchanan | Scottish Egyptologist | egyptologist academic |
Glasgow |
engineer
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A. Catrina Bryce | Scottish electrical engineer | engineer physicist |
Glasgow |
environmentalist
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Polly Higgins | Scottish barrister, advocate and expert in ecocide | environmentalist barrister writer |
Glasgow |
epidemiologist
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Emma B. Hodcroft | Scottish-American epidemiologist | epidemiologist | Stavanger town |
film director
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Charlotte Wells | Scottish filmmaker | film director screenwriter |
Edinburgh |
folklorist
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Jessie Saxby | Saxby, Jessie Margaret Edmondston (1842–1940), author and folklorist | folklorist writer |
Unst |
geologist
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Maria Gordon | Scottish geologist (1864-1939) | geologist paleontologist |
Monymusk |
information scientist
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Hazel Jane Read Hall | Scottish information scientist | information scientist university teacher |
journalist
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Christian Isobel Johnstone | British journalist, editor | journalist editor writer |
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Isabel Geraldine McAllister | Journalist and writer (1870–1945) | journalist writer |
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Zoë Strachan | British journalist | journalist librettist writer |
Kilmarnock |
lawyer
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Isabel Buchanan | Scottish lawyer and author | lawyer writer |
Dundee |
mathematician
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Flora Philip | Scottish mathematician | mathematician | Isle of Mull | |
Sheila Scott Macintyre | Scottish mathematician | mathematician university teacher |
Edinburgh |
musician
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Mairi Munro | musician and translator | musician translator |
Hamilton |
novelist
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Dilys Rose | Scottish writer | novelist writer |
Glasgow | |
Kirsty Logan | Scottish writer (1984-) | novelist | ||
O. Douglas | British writer | novelist humorist |
Pathhead | |
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan | Scottish novelist | novelist writer |
Partick Glasgow |
orientalist
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Zainab Cobbold | British Muslim aristocrat | orientalist | Edinburgh |
physiotherapist
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Caro Ramsay | British writer | physiotherapist writer |
Govan |
poet
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Grizel Baillie | noblewoman; Scottish Songwriter (1665-1746) | poet songwriter writer chronicler |
Berwickshire | |
Helen Cruickshank | British poet | poet writer suffragette |
Montrose | |
Jean Elliot | Scottish poet | poet writer |
Scotland | |
Roseanne Watt | Scottish poet and filmmaker | poet filmmaker musician editor |
Shetland Islands | |
Tracey Herd | Scottish poet | poet |
political scientist
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Marjorie Farquharson | Scottish political scientist and human rights worker | political scientist humanitarian human rights activist |
Glasgow |
scientist
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Alice McLaren | Scottish doctor, gynecologist, suffragist and advocate for women | scientist gynaecologist physician suffragist |
Edinburgh | |
Kim Crosbie | Scottish Antarctic scientist | scientist receivership |
suffragist
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Margaret Mylne | Scottish suffragette and writer. | suffragist writer suffragette |
Colinton |
teacher
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Patricia Hiddleston | Scottish mathematician (1933-2017) | teacher mathematician |
Troon |
writer
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Barbara Mauritzen | British veteran | writer | ||
Dorothea Gerard | Scottish writer | writer | Glasgow | |
Eleanor Thom | British writer | writer | London | |
Estelle Maskame | author | writer | Peterhead | |
Gillian Philip | British children's fiction and fantasy fiction writer | writer | Glasgow | |
Iona McGregor | Scottish LGBT author | writer | Aldershot | |
Janet Harvey Kelman | Scottish author, illustrator and director of a YWCA college in Selly Oak (1873-1957) | writer illustrator scientific illustrator director |
Leith | |
Linda McLean | Scottish playwright | writer | ||
Marion Adams-Acton | Scottish writer | writer playwright |
Isle of Arran | |
Marion Kirkland Reid | Scottish feminist writer | writer | Glasgow | |
Mary Diana Dods | Scottish writer | writer diplomat poet |
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Norma Lorimer | Manx writer (1864-1948) | writer | Auchterarder | |
Rhoda Bulter | Shetland author | writer poet |
Lerwick | |
Samantha Young | Scottish writer | writer | Falkirk | |
Sybil Grant | noblewoman; British artist and writer (1879-1955) | writer poet |
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Wilhelmina Baird | Scottish science fiction author (1935- ) | writer | Dunfermline |
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