Famous Scots

John Abercrombie - Philosopher
Ralph Abercromby - Army general and reformer
Famous Aberdonians
John Adair - Surveyor
Robert Adam - Architect
Patrick Adamson - Scottish divine
Robert Adamson - Photographer
William Adamson - Politician
Thomas Aird - Poet
Robert Aitken - Bible Publisher
Alexander Alane - Theologian
Archibald Alison - Writer
Alexander Anderson - Poet
John Anderson - Scientist
John Anderson - Politician
William Anderson - Politician
Alexander III - King of Scots
John Arbuthnot - Satirist
William Archer - Writer
Duke Of Argyll - Writer
John Armstrong - Poet
William Arrol - Engineer
Margot Asquith - Society figure and wit
Sir Robert Ayton - Poet
William Aytoun - Poet
Joanna Baillie - Dramatist
Lady Baillie - Poet
Robert Baillie - Writer
Dugald Baird - Pioneer of maternity and neonatal care
John Logie Baird - Inventor of television
James Ballantine - Artist
Robert Ballantyne - Writer
Henry Campbell-Bannerman - Prime Minister
John Barbour - Poet
Alexander Barclay - Poet
John Barclay - Satirist
Lady Barnard - Poet
George Barnes - Trade Unionist
J. M. Barrie - Novelist and playwright
James Moranda Barry - First Woman Doctor
Sawney Bean - Cannibal
James Beattie - Poet
Alexander Graham Bell - Inventor of the telephone
Henry Bell - Engineer and Pioneer of Steam Navigation
Joseph Black - Chemist
John Blackie - Scholar
Hugh Blair - Divine
Robert Blair - Poet
Thomas Blacklock - Poet
William Blackwood - Publisher
Blind Harry - Minstrel
Boece - Historian
Horatius Bonar - Divine
Muirhead Bone - Artist
Thomas Boston - Divine
Robert Boothby - Politician
Alexander Boswell - Songwriter
James Boswell - Writer, and biographer
Archibald Bower - Historian
Andrew Boyd - Writer
David Brewster - Man Of Science
Deacon Brodie - Thief
Henry Brougham - Politician
John Brown - Royal retainer
Dr John Brown - Physician
James Bruce - Explorer
William Bruce - Architect
William Speirs Bruce - Polar explorer
Alexander Buchan - Meteorologist
John Buchan - Writer and statesman
George Buchanan - Scholar
Gilbert Burnet - Writer
Robert Burns - Poet
John Hill Burton - Historian
William Burrell - Shipping magnate
Edward Caird - Philosopher
John Caird - Theologian
David Calderwood - Historian
Archibald Campbell - Politician
George Campbell - Theologian
John Campbell - Lawyer
John Francis Campbell - Celtic Scholar
Lewis Campbell - Scholar
Thomas Campbell - Poet
Alexander Carlyle - Autobiographer
Thomas Carlyle - Essayist and historian
Andrew Carnegie - Industrialist and philanthropist
Robert Carruthers - Journalist
George Chalmers - Antiquary
Thomas Chalmers - Founder of the Free Church
Robert Chambers - Writer
William Chambers - Publisher
Bonnie Prince Charlie - Stuart restoration
Hugh Clapperton - Explorer
Jim Clark - World champion racing driver
Thomas Cochrane - Naval commander
Lord Cockburn - Judge
William Collins - Publisher
St Columba - Missionary to Scotland
George Combe - Writer
Sean Connery - Actor
Billy Connolly - Comedian, Entertainer, Actor
James Connolly - Rebel leader
Thomas Coutts - Banker
George Craik - Writer
Kate Cranston - Tearoom owner
James Crichton - Prodigy
A. J. Cronin - Writer
Allan Cunningham - Poet
R. B. Cunninghame Graham - Traveller, writer
David Dale - Industrialist and philanthropist
Lord Darnley - Second husband of Mary Queen of Scots
James Dewar - Inventor of the vacuum flask
John Dewar - Spirit merchant and distiller
Gavin Douglas - Poet
James Douglas - Commander in Wars of Independence
Hugh Dowding - Fighter Command
Arthur Conan Doyle - Writer
Henry Drummond - Writer
William Drummond - Poet
Mountstuart Duff - Writer
William Dunbar - Poet
Viscount Dundee - Royalist commander
John Colin Dunlop - Historian
John Dunlop - Inventor of the pneumatic tyre
Duns Scotus - Philosopher and theologian
Alexander Dyce - Scholar
John Elder - Marine Engineer
Jean Elliot - Poet
Ralph Erskine - Poet
Thomas Faed - Artist
William Falconer - Poet
Adam Ferguson - Philosopher
James Fergusson - Writer
Robert Fergusson - Poet
James Ferrier - Metaphysician
Susan Ferrier - Novelist
George Finlay - Historian
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrator
Alexander Fleming - Discoverer of penicillin
Andrew Fletcher - Scottish statesman
James Forbes - Natural Philosopher
John Fordun - Chronicler
Bill Forsyth - Film-maker
James Frazier - Anthropologist
William Gallacher - Politician
John Galt - Novelist
Alexander Geddes - Theologian
Joseph Gerrald - Reformer
Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Writer
George Gilfillan - Poet
Robert Gilfillan - Poet
George Gillespie - Scottish Theologian
John Gillies - Historian
John Bruce Glasier - Reformer
George Gleig - Writer
William Glen - Poet
William Cunningham Glencairn - Soldier
Walter Goodall - Historical Writer
George Hamilton Gordon - Politician
Robert Cunninghame Graham - Politician
James Grahame - Poet
Simon Grahame - Writer
Anne Grant - Poet
David Gray - Poet
John Grierson - Film-maker
George Grub - Historian
Colin Gubbins - British Army
Thomas Guthrie - Reformer
Douglas Haig - First World War commander
David Hailes - Judge
Richard Haldane - Politician
Patrick Hamilton - Lutheran martyr
Sir William Hamilton - Metaphysician
William Hamilton - Poet
James Hannay - Novelist
George Hardie - Politician
Keir Hardie - Socialist and labour leader
Arthur Henderson - Politician
Thomas Henderson - Astronomer
Robert Henry - Historian
Robert Henryson - Poet
James Hepburn - Politician
David Herd - Scottish anthologist
David Octavius Hill - Painter and photographer
John Hodge - Activist
James Hogg - Writer
John Home - Dramatist
John Howie - Biographer
David Hume - Philosopher
John and William Hunter - Anatomists
Elsie Inglis - Medical reformer and suffragette
Cosmo Innes - Historian
Thomas Innes - Historian
William Ironside - British Army
Edward Irving - Theologian
King James I, II, III, IV, V, VI, - Kings of Scotland
Francis Jeffrey - Critic
Arthur Johnston - Poet
Tom Johnston - Activist
John Paul Jones - Hero of War of American Independence
Henry Kames - Writer
Robert Keith - Historian
Captain Kidd - Pirate, adventurer and merchant
John Knox - Protestant reformer
Robert Knox - Anatomist
William Knox - Poet
William Laidlaw - Poet
David Laing - Antiquary
Malcolm Laing - Writer
Harry Lauder - Entertainer
Thomas Lauder - Novelist
Jennie Lee - Politician
David Leslie - Scottish Army
John Leyden - Poet
Eric Liddell - Athlete and missionary
Robert Lindsay - Historian
William Lithgow - Traveller
David Livingstone - Missionary and explorer
John Gibson Lockhart - Novelist
John Logan - Poet
Robert Lorimer - Architect
David Lyndsay - Poet and playwright
John McAdam - Road builder
Mary Macarthur - Activist
Macbeth - King of Scots
Hugh MacDiarmid - Poet
Alexander Macdonald - Activist
Flora Macdonald - Jacobite heroine
George Macdonald - Poet
John Macdonald - Canadian statesman
Ramsay MacDonald - First Labour Prime Minister
William MacEwen - Pioneer of neurosurgery
William McGonagall - Poet
Rob Roy Macgregor - Outlaw and adventurer
Charles MacIntosh - Inventor of waterproof materials
Charles Mackay - Poet
Compton Mackenzie - Writer
George Mackenzie - Lawyer
Henry Mackenzie - Novelist
Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Architect, and artist
James Mackintosh - Philosopher
John Maclean - Activist
Neil Maclean - Politician
George MacLeod - Founder of the lona Community
J. J. R. Macleod - Co-discoverer of insulin
Norman Macleod - Divine
James Macpherson - Translator
John Major - Writer
John Malcolm - Soldier
David Malloch - Poet
St Margaret - Saint and Queen of Scots
Theodore Martin - Poet
David Masson - Biographer
Mary Queen of Scots - Queen of Scots
James Maxton - Reformer
James Clerk Maxwell - Physicist
David Maxwell Fyfe - Politician
John Mayne - Poet
George Mealmaker - Reformer
Andrew Melville - Religious and academic reformer
James Melville - Divine
John Menzies - Bookseller
William Mickle - Poet
James Mill - Philosopher
Hugh Miller - Geologist
William Minto - Critic
Edward Rosslyn Mitchell - Politician
David Moir - Poet
James Monboddo - Philosopher
Alexander Montgomerie - Poet
James Montgomery - Poet
Robert Montgomery - Poet
Marquis of Montrose - Royalist soldier and poet
John Moore - Physician
William Motherwell - Poet
John Muir - Ecologist and conservationist
William Mure - Scholar
Thomas Muir - Reformer
St Mungo - Patron saint of Glasgow
William Murdock - Engineer
Lord George Murray - Jacobite commander
Lady Nairne - Songwriter
John Napier - Discoverer of logarithms
Mark Napier - Historian
Charles Neaves - Author
St Ninian - Missionary and saint
Christopher North - Poet
Margaret Oliphant - Writer
John Boyd Orr - Nutritionist
Robert Dale Owen - Reformer
Mungo Park - Explorer
William Paterson - Founder of the Bank of England
Andrew Picken - Writer
Allan Pinkerton - Founded Pinkerton Detective Agency
John Pinkerton - Historian
Robert Pollok - Poet
Thomas Pringle - Poet
Duke of Queensberry - Rake
Henry Raeburn - Artist
Allan Ramsay - Poet
Allan Ramsay - Artist
Edward Bannerman Ramsay - Writer
Thomas Reid - Philosopher
John Reith - Broadcaster
John Rennie - Engineer
Leitch Ritchie - Novelist
Robert I, the Bruce - King of Scots
James Robertson-Justice - Actor
William Robertson - Historian
Robert Rollock - Theologian
Ishbel Ross - Relief Worker
John Row - Historian
Thomas Ruddiman - Grammarian
William Russell - Historian
Samuel Rutherford - Theologian
Alexander Scott - Poet
Michael Scott - Wizard
Walter Scott - Writer
William Bell Scott - Poet
Alexander Selkirk - Castaway/Robinson Crusoe
Patrick Sellar - Sutherland factor during the Clearances
William Young Sellar - Scholar
Robert Semphill - Poet
James Young Simpson - Pioneer of anaesthesia
John Skelton - Writer
William Forbes Skene - Historian
John Skinner - Historian
William Skirving - Reformer
Mary Slessor - Missionary
Jane Smeal - Reformer
Samuel Smiles - Social reformer
Adam Smith - Economist and philosopher
Alexander Smith - Poet
George Smith - Whisky distiller
Madeleine Smith - Alleged poisoner
William Robertson Smith - Theologian
Walter Smith - Poet
Tobias Smollett - Writer
Mary Somerville - Mathematician
John Spottiswood - Historian
John Sterling - Essayist
The Stevenson Family - Engineers
Robert Louis Stevenson - Writer
Dugald Stewart - Philosopher
James Stirling - Philosopher
William Stirling - Poet
Gilbert Stuart - Writer
Robert Tannahill - Poet and weaver
Thomas Telford - Engineer
Charles Tennant - Chemist
William Tennant - Poet
James Thomson - Poet
Thomas the Rhymer - Poet and seer
Alexander ' Greek ' Thomson - Architect
John Tulloch - Theologian
John Veitch - Writer
William Wallace - Patriot
Robert Watson - Historian
Robert Watson-Watt - Pioneer of radar
James Watt - Pioneer of the steam engine
Nora Wattie - Pioneer in social medicine
William Wilkie - Poet
Alexander Wilson - Poet
Daniel Wilson - Archæologist
John Wilson - Missionary
David Wingate - Poet
James Young - Discoverer of paraffin