List of Scots
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List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland.
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[edit] Actors
- See also: List of Scots#Humorists
[edit] Architects
- Robert Adam (1728–1792)
- William Adam (1689–1748) Father of Robert and architect and builder
- Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921)
- Sir William Bruce (c.1630-1710)
- Edward Calvert (c. 1847 – 1914)
- Charles Cameron (1743–1812)
- Colen Campbell (1676–1729)
- Alan Dunlop (1958-present)
- James Leslie Findlay (1868–1952)
- James Gibbs (1682-1754)
- Ian G Lindsay (1906–1966)
- Robert Lorimer (1864–1929)
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), architect, designer and watercolourist, husband of Margaret MacDonald (Artist)
- Robert Matthew (1906–1975)
- James Miller (1860–1947)
- Gordon Murray (1954-present)
- James Playfair (1755–1794), father of William Henry
- William Henry Playfair (1790–1857)
- David Rhind (1808–1883)
- James Robert Rhind, (1854–1918)
- Basil Spence (1907–1976)
- James Stirling (1926–1992)
- Thomas S. Tait (1882–1954)
- Alexander 'Greek' Thomson (1817–1875)
- Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832–1898)
[edit] Artists
- Cosmo Alexander (c. 1724 – 1772), noted portraitist in the United States[1]
- John Amabile (born 1964), interior designer
- Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), etcher
- Mark Boyle (1934–2005)
- John Byrne (born 1940)
- Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962)
- Ian Hamilton Finlay (born 1925), sculptor and installation artist
- Peter Howson (born 1958)
- Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer
- Margaret MacDonald (1865–1933), wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Robert MacBryde (1913–1966)
- Dugald MacColl (1859–1948)
- James MacGillivray, sculptor (1856–1938)
- David Mach (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist
- William Miller, engraver (1796–1882)
- 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
[edit] Business
- Arthur Anderson (1792–1868), co-founder of P&O
- James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795–1872) founder and publisher of the New York Herald
- Alexander Berry (1781–1873), town of Berry named after him, possibly first millionaire in Australia
- David Buick (1854–1929) founded the Buick car company
- Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), steel magnate, major philanthropist
- William Davidson (1740–1890) entrepreneur and founder of the first colony in New Brunswick, Canada
- Dr. Henry Duncan (1774–1846) Church of Scotland Minister. Started the world's first savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfries and Galloway
- Sir Tom Farmer (born 1940), entrepreneur
- Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911) Nagasaki-based trader in 19th century Japan
- Robert Gordon (1668–1731), founder of the Robert Gordon University
- George Heriot (1563–1624), goldsmith and founder of George Heriot's School
- Tom Hunter, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Sports Division
- Irvine Laidlaw (born 1943) Scotland's 6th richest man and founder of the modern conference company
- John Law (1671–1729), advocate of paper money and founder of the Mississippi Company
- Thomas Leishman, founder of United Breweries, India
- William Paterson (1658–1719), founder Bank of Scotland and Bank of England
- George Watson (1654–1723), first chief accountant of the Bank of Scotland, and founder of George Watson's College
- William Walls (1819–1893), lawyer and industrialist, influenced the development of 19th century Glasgow
[edit] Composers
- Robert Carver (c. 1485 – c. 1570)
- Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916)
- John Blackwood McEwen (1868–1948)
- James MacMillan (born 1959)
- William Wallace (1860–1940)
- Erik Chisholm (1904–1965)
- Robert Burns (1759–1796)
[edit] Engineers and inventors
- Further information: Scottish 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 Europe'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 (1804–1894), first electric locomotive
- 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 (1840–1921), 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 (1756–1836), 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 (born 1925), inventor of the Automatic Teller Machine
- 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)
- Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1893-1973), Developed Radar
- James Watt (1736–1819), engineer, significantly improved the steam engine
- James Young Simpson (1811–1870), introduced chloroform into surgery
[edit] Explorers
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling (1570–1640)
- William Alexander (the younger), (1602–1638)
- Albert Armitage
- John Arthur
- William Balfour Baikie (1824–1864), Africa, surgeon and naturalist on the 1854 Niger expedition
- Peter Belches
- Alexander Berry
- Henry Robertson Bowers
- James Bruce (1730–1794), traveller and travel writer
- William S. Bruce (1867–1921) Antarctica, first to widely explore the Weddell Sea
- David Buchan
- Colin Campbell (1686–1757), co-founder of the Swedish East India Company
- David Douglas (1799–1834), explorer, botanist, introduced about 240 species of plants to Great Britain, including the Douglas-fir
- Hugh Clapperton
- John Dundas Cochrane
- William Cormack
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham ("Don Roberto"), (1852–1936)
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton (1903–1973), Mount Everest, aviator and first man to see Everest from above
- Alexander Forbes, American Pacific coast
- Henry Ogg Forbes
- George Glas
- Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580–1661), map maker of Scotland
- James Augustus Grant (1827–1892), eastern Africa, member of the exhibition that found the sources of the Nile
- James Hector
- Alexander Keith Johnston (1844–1879)
- John Kirk
- Alexander Gordon Laing (1793–1826), first European to reach Timbuktu
- Macgregor Laird
- William Lithgow
- David Livingstone (1813–1873), explorer, missionary in Africa, discovered Victoria Falls
- John MacGregor
- Gregor MacGregor
- Alexander Mackenzie (1764–1820), Canada & Arctic Ocean
- Harry McNish
- Archibald Menzies (1754–1852)
- Major Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792–1855), Australia
- John Muir (1838–1914)
- John Murray
- Mungo Park (1771–1806), Africa, first European to reach the Niger
- William Paterson
- Polly Murray b.1974, Perth, first Scottish woman to climb Everest, first person to make unsupported crossing Bylot island
- John Rae (1813–1893), Canadian Arctic
- John Richardson
- Sir James Clark Ross (born in London), (1800–1862), Antarctica, discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Mount Erebus and Mount Terror
- Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney (c. 1345 – c. 1400), allegedly explored North America in 1398
- 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
- Joseph Thomson
- John Wood
- James Wordie
- Charles Wyville Thomson
- Tom Weir (1914–2006), climber, author and broadcaster
[edit] Humorists
- Stanley Baxter (born 1926)
- Rory Bremner (born 1961)
- Janet Brown (born 1924)
- Des Clarke
- Billy Connolly (born 1942)
- Ronald Balfour Corbett (Ronnie), (born 1930)
- Ivor Cutler (born 1923)
- Graeme Garden (born 1943)
- Janey Godley (born 1961)
- Greg Hemphill (born 1969)
- Ford Kiernan (born 1962)
- Brian Limond (born 1975)
- Doon Mackichan (born 1962)
- Chic Murray (1919–1985)
[edit] Musicians
Please refer to List of Scottish musicians
[edit] 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 (Himself of Scottish Heritage through his mother)
- John Mair, othewise known as Major, (1467–1550), teacher of George Buchanan, John Knox, and influencer of Calvin and Loyola
- Alasdair MacIntyre (born 1929)
- John Macmurray (1891–1976)
- James McCosh (1811–1894)
- Thomas Reid (1710–1796), played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment
- Duns Scotus (1266–1308)
- Adam Smith (1723–1790), Economist, Free Trade, Laissez-faire, Division of Labour
[edit] Photographers
- Albert Watson (born 1942), fashion and celebrity photographer
[edit] Rulers, politicians, soldiers
- James Alexander (1691–1756), attorney general of New Jersey[1]
- Cardinal David Beaton (c. 1494 – 1546)
- Tony Blair (born 1953) (born in Scotland), Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997 - 2007)
- Gordon Brown (born 1951), Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (2007–present)
- Calgacus
- Richard Cameron (c. 1648 – 1680), Republican Covenanter and founder of the “Cameronians”
- Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792–1863)
- Colin Campbell
- Thomas Cochrane (1775–1860), Admiral in the Royal Navy
- James Connolly (1868–1916)
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham ("Don Roberto"), (1852–1936), first socialist Member of Parliament (MP)
- Donald Dewar (1937–2000), former First Minister of Scotland
- Sir Archibald Douglas (c. 1298 – 1333), Regent of Scotland and leader of Scots forces at the Battle of Halidon Hill
- James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (1525–1581), Regent of Scotland
- Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995), British Prime minister
- Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653–1716)
- John Forbes (1707–1759), Scottish general
- Annabel Goldie (born 1950), leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650), Covenanter and Royalist leader of Highland Armies
- Viscount (Bonnie) Dundee (c. 1648 – 1689), Jacobite Highland Army leader
- Jo Grimond (1913–1993), Liberal Party leader from 1956-67
- Douglas Haig (1861–1928), Commander of British Forces during World War I
- James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (1516–1575), Regent of Scotland.
- Keir Hardie (1856–1915)
- Glenda Jackson (born 1936), MP and actress
- King James IV (1473–1513)
- James VI of Scotland and I of England (1603–1625)
- Tom Johnston (Tam), (1882–1965), World War II Secretary of State for Scotland
- John Paul Jones (1747–1792), father of the American Navy
- Charles Kennedy (born 1959), leader of the Liberal Democrats 1999-2006
- Arthur MacArthur, Sr. Governor of Wisconsin and grandfather of Gen. Douglas MacArthur
- Macbeth of Scotland (c. 1005 – 1057), High King of Scotland
- John McCain (born 1936), United States presidential candidate
- Jack McConnell (born 1960), leader of the Scottish Labour Party
- John MacCormick (1904–1961), nationalist
- John A. Macdonald (1815–1891), first Prime Minister of Canada
- Margo MacDonald (born 1943), nationalist
- Malcolm MacDonald (1901–1981)
- Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937), British Prime minister
- Rob Roy MacGregor (1671–1734)
- Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892), second Prime Minister of Canada
- Colin Mackenzie (c. 1754 – 1821), soldier in British India
- Alexander Slidell MacKenzie, US NAvy
- Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, US Cavalryman
- William McKinley, US President
- John MacLean (1879–1923), revolutionary
- Henry McLeish (born 1948) former First Minister
- Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587)
- Jimmy Maxton (1885–1946), leader of the Independent Labour Party
- Hugh Mercer Continental Army General
- Richard Montgomery Continental Army General
- Viscount Montgomery British Field Marshal
- Andrew Moray died 1297.
- George Smith Patton US General-World War II
- Jerry Rawlings (born 1947), former president of Ghana; partly of Scottish descent
- Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), Robert I of Scotland
- Alex Salmond (born 1954), current First Minister
- Jim Sillars (born 1937), founder of Scottish Labour Party, MP
- John Smith (1938–1994) Labour Party leader
- David Steel (born 1938), Liberal Party leader from 1976-88
- Nicol Stephen (born 1960), leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Lord Stirling, American Revolutioanry War General
- Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720–1788), Jacobite Field Marshal and heir to the throne of Great Britain.
- Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (1890–1970), Liberal Party leader from 1935-45
- William Wallace (c. 1270 – 1305), a.k.a. The Wallace
[edit] Scientists
[edit] Sportspeople
- See also Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.
- Robert Archibald (born 1980), 1st Scottish NBA player
- Alain Baxter (born 1973), alpine skier
- Jim Baxter (1939–2001), footballer
- 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
- Davie Cooper (1956–1995), footballer
- 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
- Dougal Haston (1940–1977), mountaineer
- Stephen Hendry (born 1969), professional snooker player, 7 times World champion.
- Chris Hoy (born 1976), world, Olympic and Commonwealth champion track cyclist
- Jimmy Johnstone (1944–2006), 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 which won the 2002 world championships
- Benny Lynch (1913–1946), world champion boxer
- Hamish MacInnes (born 1930), mountaineer
- Craig MacLean (born 1971), world, Olympic and Commonwealth champion track cyclist
- Rhona Martin (born 1966), curler, Olympic gold medallist
- Catriona Matthew (born 1969), golfer
- 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.
- Colin McRae (1968–2007), world champion rally driver
- David Millar (born 1977), road cyclist
- Robert Millar (born 1958), professional cyclist, "King of the Mountains" in 1984 Tour de France
- Willie Miller (born 1955), International footballer and captain of Aberdeen when they won Cup Winners' Cup in 1983
- Janice Moodie (born 1973), golfer
- Andrew Murray (born 1987), tennis player
- Jamie Murray (born 1986), tennis player, doubles, Wimbledon winner 2007 mixed doubles
- Graeme Obree (born 1965), 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 (born 1857, date of death unknown) 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
[edit] Television and radio personalities
- Ronni Ancona (born 1968)
- Hardeep Singh Kohli (born 1969)
- Edith Bowman (born 1975)
- Nicky Campbell (born 1962)
- Romana D'Annunzio (born 1972)
- Jenni Falconer (born 1976)
- Kirsty Gallacher (born 1976)
- Muriel Gray (born 1959), journalist
- Sarah Heaney (born 1971)
- Lorraine Kelly (born 1959)
- John Leslie (born 1965)
- Eddie Mair (born 1965)
- Gail Porter (born 1971)
- Carol Smillie (born 1961)
- Cameron Stout (born 1971)
- Kirsty Wark (born 1955), journalist
- Craig Ferguson (born 1962)
- Alan Johnston (born 1962), journalist
- Gordon Ramsay (born 1966), celebrity chef
- Dominik Diamond (born 1969), DJ, journalist
[edit] Theologians
- James Barr (1924–2006)
- William Robinson Clark (1829–1912), Dean of Taunton
- Alexander Penrose Forbes (1817–1875)
- James Frazer (1854–1941), anthropologist of comparative religion and myth
- Alexander Henderson (1583–1646)
- Richard Holloway (born 1933)
- John Knox (c. 1513 – 1572)
- John F. MacArthur, Jr. (born 1939), American evangelical writer and minister
- Thomas McCrie
- Saint Mungo (also known as Saint Kentigern), (died 614)
- George Newlands
- The Revd Professor Norman Walker Porteous (1898–2003), translator of the Bible
- Andrew Purves
- John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – 1308)
- Thomas Torrance (born 1913)
- George Wishart (1513–1546)
[edit] Writers
[edit] Other notable people
- Andrew Bell (1753–1832), developer of the Madras system of education
- Veronica Deneuve, exotic dancer and political activist.
- Helen Duncan (1897–1956), last woman to be tried under the Witchcraft Act
- Donald Findlay (born 1951)
- Alexander Kinloch Forbes (1821–1865) scholar of the Gujarati language
- Sir Andrew Gilchrist (1910–1993) diplomat
- Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), medical reformer and suffragette
- Captain Kidd (1645–1701), pirate
- Flora MacDonald (1722–1790), Jacobite and United Empire Loyalist
- John James Richard Macleod (1876–1935)
- Jamie Macpherson (1675–1700), outlaw and author of MacPherson's Lament or Rant
- James Murdoch (1856–1921) Journalist and Teacher
- Robert Noble
- Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), North American detective
- John Charles Walsham Reith (1889–1971), First Director General of the BBC
- Alexander Selkirk (1676–1723), Inspiration for Robinson Crusoe
- Mary Slessor (1848–1915), missionary and advocate for women's rights
- Stella Tennant (born 1970), model
- John Thomson (1837–1921), photographer
- Roderick Wright (1940-2005), Disgraced Catholic bishop
[edit] References
[edit] 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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