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List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland.
Actors (see also 'Humorists')
- Ian Bannen (1928-1999)
- Billy Boyd (born 1968)
- Gerard Butler (born 1969)
- Peter Capaldi (born 1958)
- Robert Carlyle (born 1961)
- Hamish Clark (born 1967)
- Robbie Coltrane (born 1950)
- Sean Connery (born 1930)
- Billy Connolly (born 1942)
- Tom Conti (born 1941)
- James Cosmo (born 1948)
- Brian Cox (born 1946)
- Alan Cumming (born 1965)
- Craig Ferguson (born 1962)
- Rikki Fulton (1924-2004)
- Janey Godley (born 1961)
- Dougie Henshall (born 1965)
- James Robertson Justice (1905-1975)
- Deborah Kerr (born 1921)
- John Laurie (1897-1980)
- Fulton Mackay (1922-1987)
- David McCallum (born 1933)
- Angus McFadyen (born 1963)
- Ewan McGregor (born 1971)
- Paul McGillion (born 1968)
- Kevin McKidd (born 1973)
- Peter Mullan (born 1954)
- Daniela Nardini (born 1968)
- Bill Paterson (born 1945)
- Dougray Scott (born 1965)
- Moira Shearer (born 1926)
- Alastair Sim (1900-1976)
- John Gordon Sinclair (born 1962)
- David Tennant (born 1971)
- Ian McDiarmid (born 1944)
- Denis Lawson (born 1947)
- John Hannah (born 1962)
- David Hayman (born 1950)
Architects
- Robert Adam, (1728-1792)
- William Adam, (1689-1748) Father of Robert and architect and builder
- Robert Rowand Anderson (1834 - 1921)
- Charles Cameron, (1743-1812)
- Robert Lorimer (1864 - 1929)
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh, (1868-1928), architect, designer and watercolourist, husband of Margaret MacDonald (Artist)
- Robert Matthew, (1906 - 1975)
- James Playfair, (1755 - 1794), father of William Henry
- William Henry Playfair, (1790-1857)
- James Robert Rhind, (1854-1918)
- James Stirling, (1926-1992)
- Basil Spence, (1907-1976)
- Thomas S. Tait, (1882 - 1954)
- Alexander 'Greek' Thomson , (1817-1875)
Artists
- Muirhead Bone, (1876 - 1953), etcher
- Mark Boyle, (1934-2005)
- John Byrne, (born 1940)
- Robert Colquhoun
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925), sculptor and installation artist
- Peter Howson
- Hew Lorimer, (1907 - 1993), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer
- Margaret MacDonald (Artist), (1865-1933), wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Robert MacBryde
- Dugald MacColl
- James MacGillivray, sculptor
- David Mach, (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist
- Alexander Millar, painter
- Alexander Nasmyth, (1758-1840), landscape painter
- Patrick Nasmyth, (1787-1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander
- Henry Raeburn, (1756-1823), portrait painter
- Reverend John Thomson (1778 - 1840), landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk
- Jack Vettriano, (born 1951)
- David Wilkie (1785 -1841) painter
Business
- Arthur Anderson, (1792-1868), co-founder of P&O
- Alexander Berry, (1781-1873), Australia's first Millionaire? Had a town named after him.
- David Buick, founded the Buick car company
- Andrew Carnegie, (1835-1919), steel magnate, major philanthropist
- William Davidson,(1740-1790 entrepreneur and founder of the first colony in New Brunswick, Canada
- Dr.Henry Duncan, (1774-1846) Church of Scotland Minister. Started the worlds first savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfries and Galloway
- Thomas Blake Glover, (1838-1911) Nagasaki-based trader in 19th century Japan
- Tom Hunter, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Sports Division
- Irvine Laidlaw Scotland's 2nd richest man and founder of the modern conference company
- John Law, (1671-1729), advocate of paper money and founder of the Mississippi Company
- William Paterson, (1658-1719), founder Bank of England and Bank of Scotland
- Robert Gordon, founder of The Robert Gordon University
Composers
Engineers and Inventors
- Sir William Arrol, (1839-1913), bridge builder
- Alexander Bain, (1818-1903), fax machine
- John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), television
- Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), telephone, National Geographic, Hydrofoil
- Henry Bell, (1767-1830), ran Euope's first commercially successful steamboat
- James Braid, (1795-1860), hypnosis
- James Chalmers, (1782-1853), adhesive postage stamp
- Sir Dugald Clark (aka Clerk), (1854-1932), first two stroke cycle engine (the Clark cycle)
- Robert Davidson, first electric locomotive, 1837
- James Dewar, (1842-1923), inventor of the Thermos flask and co-developer of cordite
- William Dickson, (1860-1935), motion picture camera and the world's first film
- John Boyd Dunlop, the modern rubber tyre
- Sir Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), isolated Penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum
- James Harrison, (1816-1893), pioneer in mechanical refrigeration
- James Bowman Lindsay, (1799-1862), inventor of the constant electric light bulb
- Charles Macintosh, (1766-1843), patented waterproofing
- Kirkpatrick MacMillan, (1813–1878) the bicycle
- John Loudon McAdam modern road construction
- Sir Robert McAlpine (Concrete Bob), (1847-1934), road builder
- Patrick Miller, steamboat pioneer.
- William Murdoch, (1754-1839), pioneer of gas lighting
- James Nasmyth, (1808-1890), Steam Hammer
- Robert Stirling Newall, (1812 - 1889), engineer, improved wire rope and submarine cable laying.
- John Shepherd-Barron, inventor of the ATM
- William Symington, (1764-1831), engineer, built the first practical steam boat
- Thomas Telford, (1757-1834) architect, civil engineer, bridge designer
- Robert William Thomson, (1822-1873)
- James Watt, (1736-1819), engineer, significantly improved the steam engine
- James Simpson, introduced chloroform into surgery
Explorers
- William Balfour Baikie, (1824-1864), Africa, surgeon and naturalist on the 1854 Niger expedition
- James Bruce, (1730-1794), traveller and travel writer.
- William S. Bruce, (1867-1921) Antarctica, first to widely explore the Weddell Sea
- David Douglas, (1799-1834), explorer, botanist, introduced about 240 species of plants to Great Britain, including the Douglas-fir
- Alexander Forbes, American Pacific coast
- Robert Gordon of Straloch, map maker of Scotland
- James Augustus Grant, (1827-1892), eastern Africa, member of the exhibition that found the sources of the Nile
- Alexander Gordon Laing (1793–1826), first European to reach Timbuktu
- David Livingstone, (1813-1873), explorer, missionary in Africa, discovered Victoria Falls
- Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)
- Archibald Menzies (1754-1852)
- Major Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855), Australia
- Mungo Park (1771-1806), Africa, first European to reach the Niger
- John Rae, (1813-1893), Canadian Arctic
- Sir James Clark Ross (born in London), (1800-1862), Antarctica, discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Mount Erebus and Mount Terror
- John McDouall Stuart, (1815–1866), most famous of all Australia's inland explorers, led the first expedition to successfully traverse the continent from south to north
- Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney, allegedly explored North America in 1398
- John Muir
- Colin Campbell, founder of the Swedish East India Company
- Tom Weir climber, author and broadcaster
Humourists
- Ronald Balfour Corbett (Ronnie), (born 1930)
- Stanley Baxter, (born 1926)
- Rory Bremner, (born 1961)
- Janet Brown, (born 1924)
- Billy Connolly (born 1942)
- Ivor Cutler (born 1923)
- Craig Ferguson, (born 1962)
- Graeme Garden, (born 1943)
- Janey Godley, (born 1961)
- Doon Mackichan, (born 1962)
- Alexander Selkirk
- Chic Murray
Inventors
Please see List of Scottish inventors
Musicians
Please see List of Scottish musicians
Philosophers
- John Abercrombie, (1780-1844)
- John Anderson, (1893-1962)
- Thomas Brown, (1778-1820)
- Adam Ferguson, (1723-1816)
- Sir William Hamilton, (1788-1856)
- Henry Home, Lord Kames, (1696-1782)
- David Hume, (1711-1776), inspired Immanuel Kant
- John Mair, othewise known as Major, (1467 - 1550), teacher of George Buchanan, John Knox, and influencer of Calvin and Loyola
- Alasdair MacIntyre, (born 1929)
- James McCosh, (1811-1894)
- Thomas Reid, (1710-1796), played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment
- Duns Scotus, (1266-1308)
- Adam Smith, (1723-1790), Eeconomist, Free Trade, Laisser-faire, Division of Labour
Rulers, Politicians, Soldiers
- William Wallace, (c. 1270-1305), a.k.a. The Wallace
- Robert the Bruce, Robert I of Scotland
- Alex Salmond, Politician (SNP leader 1990-2000 & 2004-)
- Gordon Brown, (born 1951), Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender to the throne of the United Kingdom
- Donald Dewar, (born 1937), Scotland First Minister
- Robert Cunninghame-Graham ('Don Roberto') aristocrat socialist
- Jo Grimond, (1913-1993), Liberal Party leader from 1956 to 1967
- James VI of Scotland and I of England, (1603-1625)
- Jimmy Maxton, leader of the Independent Labour Party
- Tom Johnston (Tam), post WW2 Secretary of State for Scotland
- Thomas Cochrane, Admiral in the Royal Navy
- Charles Kennedy, leader of the Liberal Democrats 1999-2006
- Mary, Queen of Scots, (1542-1587)
- Macbeth of Scotland, High King of Scotland
- John MacCormick, Nationalist
- John A. Macdonald, First Prime Minister of Canada
- Margo MacDonald, Nationalist
- Ramsay MacDonald, (1866-1937), UK Prime minister
- Malcolm MacDonald
- Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada
- John MacLean, revolutionary
- Jerry Rawlings, former president of Ghana. He is partly of Scottish descent.
- Jim Sillars, founder of Scottish Labour Party, MP
- John Smith, (1938-1994) Labour Party leader
- David Steel, (born 1938), Liberal Party leader from 1976 to 1988
- Alec Douglas-Home, (1903-1995), UK Prime minister
- Calgacus
- Colin Campbell
- Abbot Bernard de Linton, author of the Declaration of Arbroath
- Cardinal David Beaton
- King James IV
- James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Covenanter and Royalist Leader of Highland Armies
- Richard Cameron, Republican Covenanter and founder of the “Cameronians”
- Viscount (Bonnie) Dundee, Jacobite Highland Army leader
- Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
- Rob Roy MacGregor
- Keir Hardie
- James Connolly
- Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
- Jack McConnell, Current First Minister
Scientists
See List of Scottish scientists
Sportspeople
- See also Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.
- Alain Baxter, alpine skier
- Ken Buchanan, (born 1945), world champion boxer
- Sir Matt Busby, (1909-1994), football manager, won the European Cup in 1968
- Jim Clark, (1936-1968), Formula 1 driver
- David Coulthard, (born 1971), Formula 1 driver
- Kenny Dalglish, (born 1951), footballer and a manager of Liverpool F.C.
- Sir Alex Ferguson, (born 1941), footballer and a manager of Manchester United F.C.
- Roberto Frankowski, (born 1987), junior world champion boxer
- Wyndham Halswelle, (1882-1915), Olympic champion runner
- Stephen Hendry (born 1969), professional snooker player, 7 times World champion.
- Dougal Haston, (1940-1977), mountaineer
- Chris Hoy, (born 1976), world, olympic and commonwealth champion track cyclist
- Craig Maclean, (born 1971), world, olympic and commonwealth champion track cyclist
- Jimmy Johnstone, (born 1944), football player
- Denis Law, (born 1940), football player
- Eric Liddell, (1902-1945), athlete, one of the two subjects of Chariots of Fire
- Jackie Lockhart, (born 1965), curler, skip of Scotland team that won the 2002 world championships
- Benny Lynch, (1913-1946), world champion boxer
- Hamish MacInnes, (born 1930), mountaineer
- Colin McRae, (born 1968), world champion rally driver
- Rhona Martin curler, Olympic gold medallist
- Ally McCoist, (born 1962), football player
- Liz McColgan, (born 1964), athlete
- William McGregor, (1846-1911), founder of the Football League in England
- Billy McNeill, (born 1940), footballer and a manager of Celtic F.C.
- David Millar, (born 1977), road cyclist
- Robert Millar, (born 1958), professional cyclist, 'King of the Mountains' in 1984 Tour de France
- Andrew Murray, (born 1987), tennis player
- Graeme Obree (born ?), world record holding cyclist
- Bill Shankly, (1914-1981), football manager
- Jock Stein, (1922-1985), football manager, won the European Cup with Celtic F.C.
- Sir Jackie Stewart, (born 1939), world champion Formula 1 driver
- Bobby Thomson, (born 1923), Scots-born American baseball player
- Andrew Watson, (1857-?) world's first black international football player, captain and administrator
- Jim Watt, (born 1948), world champion boxer, won the WBC World Lightweight title
- David Wilkie, (born 1954), swimmer
- Jim Baxter, footballer (September 29, 1939 – April 14, 2001)
- Davie Cooper, footballer (February 25, 1956 - March 23, 1995)
Television Personalities
- Ronni Ancona, (born 1968)
- Edith Bowman, (born 1975)
- Nicky Campbell, (born 1962)
- Romana D'Annunzio, (born 1972)
- Kirsty Gallacher, (born 1976)
- Lorraine Kelly, (born 1959)
- John Leslie (John Leslie Stott), (born 1965)
- Gail Porter, (born 1971)
- Carol Smillie, (born 1961)
- Kirsty Wark, (born 1955)
- Cameron Stout
Theologians
- William Robinson Clark, (1829-1912) Born Daviot, Aberdeenshire became Dean of Taunton and prebendary of Wells 1859-1880 and Professor of Theology, mental and moral philosophy - University of Toronto, Canada 1888-1912. External link: William Robinson Clark and obitituary.
- Alexander Penrose Forbes (1817-1875)
- James Frazer (1854-1941), anthropologist of comparative religion and myth
- Alexander Henderson (1583-1646)
- Richard Holloway
- John Knox, (c.1513-1572)
- Thomas McCrie
- George Newlands
- Andrew Purves, born in Scotland, currently working at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in USA
- John Duns Scotus, (c.1266-1308)
- Thomas Torrance, (born 1913)
- George Wishart, (1513-1546)
- Saint Mungo (or Kentigern)....
- Rev Prof Norman Walker Porteous (1898-2003), translator of the Bible
Writers
See List of Scottish writers
Others
- Alison Balfour, A "Notorious Witch"
- Andrew Bell (educationalist), (1753-1832), Developer of the Madras System of Education (aka mutual instruction)
- Veronica Deneuve, Exotic dancer and political activist.
- Helen Duncan, "Hellish Nell", The Last woman to be tried under the Witchcraft Act
- Donald Findlay
- Douglas Haig, (1861-1928), Commander-in-chief of British Forces during World War I
- Elsie Inglis, Medical Reformer and Suffragette
- Alexander Kinloch Forbes, (1821-1865) Scholar of the Gujarati language and Colonial Administrator in British India
- John Paul Jones, (1747-1792), Admiral of the Russian and American Navies
- Captain Kidd, (1645-1701), Pirate
- Flora Macdonald, Jacobite and United Empire Loyalist
- Rob Roy MacGregor, Romantic Outlaw
- Colin Mackenzie, (c.1754-1821), Soldier and Scholar in British India
- John James Richard Macleod, (1876-1935)
- John Muir, (1838-1914), 19th Century Environmentalist
- James Murdoch,(1856-1921) Journalist and Teacher in Japan and Australia
- Robert Noble
- Allan Pinkerton, (1819-1884), US Detective
- John Charles Walsham Reith, (1889-1971), a.k.a Lord Reith, First Director General of the BBC
- Alexander Selkirk, (1676-1723), Inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
- Christian Shaw, Started the Paisley Thread Industry
- Mary Slessor, Missionary and Advocate for Women's Rights
- Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, Enthusiastic Contributor to the Highland Clearances
- Stella Tennant, Model
- John Thomson (photographer) (1837 - 1921), photographer, geographer and explorer
See also
- List of people by nationality
- List of Kings of the Picts
- List of monarchs of Scotland
- Scottish-American
- Scots-Quebecer
- Scottish-Canadian
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