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Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair (Alexander MacDonald) 1700 - 1780
Gaelic Poet.

• 1741 - Published a Gaelic vocabulary
• 1745 - "Incitement to the Highland Clans" - a rallying call for Bonnie Prince Charlie in the 45 rebellion.
• 1751 - "Resurrection of the Ancient Scottish Tongue" - the first book of Gaelic Poetry
• "The Birlinn of Clanranald" - considered his best work

William Alexander 1826 - 1894
Born in Chapel of Garioch, Aberdeenshire
Novelist and Newspaper Journalist

• 1871 - "Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk"
• 1875 - "Sketches of Life Among my Ain Folk"
• 1876 - "Notes and Sketches"
• 1878 - "Twenty-Five Years: a Personal Retrospect"
• 1879 - "Memoir of the Late Andrew Jervie" - written with J. G. Mackie:
• 1887 - "Mrs Garden: a Memorial Sketch"
• 1888 - "The Making of Aberdeenshire"
• 1986 - "The Laird of Drammochdyle" - posthumously
• 1992 - "Rural Life in Victorian Aberdeenshire" - posthumously
• 1995 - "My Uncle The Baillie" - posthumously

Marion Angus 1866-1946
Born in Aberdeen. Died in Arbroath
Poet, Story Writer

• "Alas, Poor Queen" - her best-known poem, is a lament for Mary Queen of Scots
• 1922 - "The Lilt and Other Poems"
• 1924 - "The Tinker's Road"
• 1927 - "Sun and Candlelight"
• 1929 - "The Singin' Lass"
• 1931 - "The Turn of The Day"
• 1937 - "Lost Country"
• 1950 - "Selected Poems, ed. M. Lindsay" - published posthumously