Sir Alexander Gray (6 January 1882 – 17 February 1968) was a Scottish civil servant, economist, academic, translator, writer and poet.
During the First World War he worked in the civil service, employing his linguistic skills to produce anti-German propaganda.
His work consisted of original poems written in English, and translations of the folk and ballad poetry of Germany and Denmark into Scots.
This quote features on the Canongate Wall at the new Scottish Parliament building: This is my country, The land that begat me.
He translated many German poets, including von Kotzebue, Müller, Uhland, Herder but, above all, Heine.