This is a list of songwriters in the Geordie dialect of English, spoken in Tyneside.
Poets and songwriters
Pre-20th century
20th century and forward
Antiquarians, historians, authors, mining engineers, scientists and similar
- John Balmbra - Entrepreneur, owner of the famous Music Hall
- Sir David Brewster - subject of a song and a scientist/engineer and inventor of the Kaleidoscope c1820. The song "The Pitman's Skellyscope" written by William Mitford appears in a great many chapbooks, possibly due to its novelty value, including on page 147 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
- John Collingwood Bruce - Author and editor, He and John Stokoe co-edited "Northumbrian Minstrelsy"
- Mr W. Cail - an author/historian/antiquarian who collected manuscripts, particularly relating to the songs and poems of Edward Chicken. He is mentioned on page 5 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings. There was a W Cail practising as a solicitor in Newcastle around that time, but it is not known if they were one and the same.
- Edward Charlton - writer & historian
- Dr Clark - historian/antiquarian whose brief comment on John Shield's work is noted on page 65 of Thomas Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs and Readings
- James Thomas Clephan - Journalist and songwriter/poet
- David Dippie Dixon - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
- Scott Dobson - A 20th-century writer of prose and humorous books, mainly in broad Geordie dialect
- John Woodham Dunn - An Anglican vicar and author who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
- Dennis Embleton - Medical doctor, surgeon, naturalist, historian and poet
- George Clementson Greenwell - A mining engineer, whose writings defined many of the words and terms used in mining
- Richard Oliver Heslop - historian/lexicologist/songwriter/poet/ etc.
- Eneas Mackenzie - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
- Sir Walter Scott - He may have transcribed "Bewick and the Graeme'" according to the comment on page 25 of Stokoe and Bruce'a Northumbrian Minstrelsy.
- James Shotton - Artist
- Robert Surtees - A historian who added much to the knowledge of the area and its language
- Robert Wilson - A physician, whose published papers on mining added to the area's history.
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