Scottish Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Scottish descent. Scottish Jamaicans include those of European, mixed African, and Asian ancestry with Scottish ancestors and date back to the earliest period of post-Spanish European colonisation.

An early influx of Scots came in 1656 when Oliver Cromwell deported 1200 prisoners of war.^[1] There was also a later migration at the turn of the 18th century, after the failed Darien colony in Panama.^[1] In 1707, Scots gained access to England's preexisting colonies when the Act of Union took place.

People of Scottish Jamaican descent

• Akala, British rapper and poet
• Harry Belafonte, American musician
• William Davidson, radical^[2]
• Paul Douglas (Grammy Award-winning drummer and bandleader of Toots and The Maytals)
• Ms. Dynamite, British singer and rapper
• Stewart Faulkner, British retired athlete of Jamaican and Cuban parentage
• Salena Godden, poet and author of Jamaican Irish parentage, descendant of Scottish ancestor Lieutenant General James Robinson (1762–1845) who is buried at Edinburgh University.
• Goldie, British disc jockey of Scottish and Jamaican parentage
• Harry J, record producer
• Lewis Hutchinson, Scottish immigrant to Jamaica; owned a castle; one of the world's first known serial killers
• Colin Powell, American general, of Scottish Jamaican parentage^[3][4]
• Mary Seacole, father was a Scottish soldier
• Gil Heron, Jamaican football player
• Gil Scott-Heron, late American soul and jazz poet
• Robert Wedderburn, radical and abolitionist^[5]