Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

male, deceased (1894)
Scottish historical novelist, British non-fiction outdoors writer, from Napa County, California, islomaniac, death by cerebral hemorrhage, From Edinburgh…Travel writer, Horror writer, children's writer, Short story writer, Edinburgh Academical
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English...
John Murray

John Murray

male, deceased (1914)
Stirling High School, Stirling High School alumni, British road accident victim, University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Newhaven, Edinburgh, Challenger expedition…Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Isle of Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde, Non-fiction writer, university of edinburgh
Sir John Murray KCB (3 March 1841 – 6 March 1914) was a pioneering Scots-Canadian oceanographer and marine biologist. Murray was born at Cobourg, On...
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

male, deceased (1930)
memoirist, death by myocardial infarction, Pre-1914 Association Football player, Legion of Frontiersmen member, Scottish historical novelist, British writer…Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles, mystery writer, writer, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective...
David Brewster

David Brewster

male, deceased (1868)
Principal of the University of Edinburgh, lighthouses, rector, mathematician, writer, inventor…university of edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, from the Scottish Borders, Academic of the University of St Andrews
Sir David Brewster,FRS, (11 December 1781 - 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. He was born at Jedburgh, where his...
J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

male, deceased (1937)
peter pan, James Matthew Barrie, Glasgow Academy alumni, wendy, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom…Order of Merit, The Glasgow Academy, university of edinburgh, fantasy writer, children's writer
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist....
J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling

female, 44 years old
Harry Potter, author, billionaire, children's writer, fantasy writer, English…Order of the British Empire, writer, Writer of young adult literature, woman writer, The Sunday Times Rich List
Joanne "Jo" Rowling BA (Exon.) OBE is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling. Rowling is the author of the "Harry...
Thomas Dick

Thomas Dick

male, deceased (1857)
Hilltown, Dundee, scientific, Scottish, Science writer, dundee, Theologian…AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh
Thomas Dick (November 24, 1774 in Hilltown, Dundee - July 29, 1857), was a Scottish scientific teacher and writer known for his works on astronomy....
Charles Bell

Charles Bell

male, deceased (1842)
Theologian, Fellow of the Royal Society, writer, Knights Bachelor, Neuroscientist, Scottish…From Edinburgh, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh
Sir Charles Bell (November 1774, in Doun in Monteath, Edinburgh - April 28, 1842, in North Hallow, Worcestershire) was a Scottish anatomist,...
Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin

male, 49 years old
Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Deputy Lieutenant, Cardenden, novelist, From Edinburgh, Knots and Crosses…Academic of the University of Edinburgh, AlumnioftheUniversityofEdinburgh, mystery writer, university of edinburgh, Crime writer
Ian Rankin OBE, DL. (born April 28 1960, in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland) is one of the best-selling crime writers in the United Kingdom. His best...
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