Edinburgh in popular culture
The following is a list of notable films and books set or with a significant scene in Edinburgh, Scotland, and other aspects of popular culture:
Books
- 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
- Complicity by Iain Banks was partly set in Edinburgh
- The Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson], is often considered as resembling Edinburgh more than London, where it is set
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Film
- Complicity
- The Debt Collector
- ''Driving Lessons
- Festival (2005 film)
- Greyfriars Bobby
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Restless Natives
- Shallow Grave
- Trainspotting
Music
- Bay City Rollers
- Idlewild formed in Edinburgh
- The Proclaimers
See also
- List of Edinburgh people
- Edinburgh Festival