Alexander Laing (1787–1857) was a Scottish verse writer, known as the Brechin poet.
Laing was born at Brechin, Angus, 14 May 1787; his father was an agricultural labourer.
At the age 16 he was apprenticed to a flax-dresser, and followed this occupation for fourteen years, when an accident permanently disabled him.
In 1846 he published a collection of his poetry under the title Wayside Flowers, of which a second edition appeared in 1850.
He edited popular editions of Robert Burns and Robert Tannahill, supplied notes to Allan Cunningham's Scottish Songs, 1825, and biographical notices to the Angus Album, 1833.