Tom Scott (6 June 1918 – 7 August 1995) was a Scottish poet, editor, and prose writer.
With the onset of the Depression, the family moved to St. Andrews in Fife, where Tom worked briefly as a butcher's assistant before becoming an apprentice stonemason in his uncle's business.
After the war he lived in London for a while, moving in the same literary and social circles as Kathleen Raine, Dylan Thomas and Louis MacNeice.
with Honours in English Literature and a PhD for research on the poetry of William Dunbar.
During his travels he became interested in literature in Scots, his own native language, which shaped the direction of his work for the rest of his life.