David Lindsay, 1st Lord Balcarres

David Lindsay, 1st Lord Lindsay of Balcarres (born 1586 or 1567 – 1641) was a Scottish nobleman.

He was born in Edinburgh, Lindsay was the younger son of John Lindsay of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir and Marion Guthrie. estimated to contain around 1000 to 1200 works. Poet William Drummond of Hawthornden wrote in a letter that it was difficult to find Lindsay a book which he did not already have. It was largely destroyed or dispersed after his death in 1641, with a small remainder being owned by the Earl of Crawford. In 1901, the manuscripts of the Crawford collection and part of Lindsay's library were bought by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands and given to the John Rylands Library. The Library became part of the University of Manchester in 1972 and the Balcarres and Crawford papers were given to the National Library of Scotland in 1988.