蘇格蘭裔美國人（Scottish Americans、Scots Americans） 是具有蘇格蘭血統的美國人[8]。蘇格蘭-愛爾蘭裔美國人跟他們類似，但其祖先在抵達美國之前還在愛爾蘭停留了幾代。
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18世紀蘇格蘭人開始大量向美國移民，1745年詹姆斯黨叛亂以及高地清洗之後速度加快。大規模的遷徙使得蘇格蘭部分地區人口為之一空，引發了高地清洗。這些移民一開始主要定居在南卡羅來納州和弗吉尼亞州，後來散佈到其他各州。
James McCarthy and Euan Hague, 'Race, Nation, and Nature: The Cultural Politics of "Celtic" Identification in the American West', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 94 Issue 2 (5 Nov 2004), p. 392, citing J. Hewitson, Tam Blake and Co.: The Story of the Scots in America (Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 1993).
James Webb, Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (New York: Broadway Books, 2004), front flap: 'More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland.' ISBN 0-7679-1688-3 Celeste Ray, 'Introduction', p. 6, id., 'Scottish Immigration and Ethnic Organization in the United States', pp. 48-9, 62, 81, in id. (ed.), The Transatlantic Scots (Tuscaloosa, AL:University of Alabama Press, 2005).
