Alexander Arbuthnot (poet)

This article is about the Scottish poet. For his contemporary and namesake, the Edinburgh printer who produced the first edition of George Buchanan's History of Scotland in 1582, see Alexander Arbuthnot (printer).

Alexander Arbuthnot
Born1538
Aberdeenshire
Died1583
Resting placeKing's College Chapel, Aberdeen, Scotland
NationalityScottish
EducationUniversity of Aberdeen
Occupation(s)Poet, clergyman and academic
MovementScottish Reformation

Alexander Arbuthnot (1538–1583) was a Scottish ecclesiastic poet, "an eminent divine, and zealous promoter of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland". He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (the highest position in the Church of Scotland) in both 1573 and 1577.