List of Scots

This is a list of notable people from Scotland.

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Architects and master masons
  • James Adam (1732–1794), son of William Adam
  • John Adam (1721–1792), eldest son of William Adam
  • Robert Adam (1728–1792), architect, son of William Adam
  • William Adam (1689–1748), father of James, John and Robert; architect and mason
  • James Alison (1862-1932), architect responsible for the appearance of late Victorian Hawick
  • John Macvicar Anderson (1835–1915)
  • Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921)
  • George Ashdown Audsley (1838–1925), architect, artist, illustrator, writer, and pipe organ designer
  • William James Audsley (1833–1907)
  • Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton (1874–1960), FRIBA
  • John Baird (1798–1859), influential figure in the development of Glasgow Georgian and Victorian Architecture
  • Andrew Balfour (1863–1943), architect, work including Holmlea Primary School, Glasgow
  • Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie (1900–1970), possibly the first woman to practise architecture in Scotland
  • John Begg (1866–1937), architect who practised in London, South Africa and India, and taught at Edinburgh College of Art
  • William Bryce Binnie (c. 1885–c. 1963)
  • Alexander Black (c.1790–1858)
  • Hippolyte Blanc (1844–1917)
  • Thomas Bonnar (c.1770–1847), interior designer and architect
  • James MacLellan Brown (c. 1886–1967), city architect of Dundee, designer of the Mills Observatory
  • Thomas Brown (1781–1850), architect, works including Bellevue Church, Edinburgh
  • Thomas Brown (1806–1872), architect notable for prison design
  • Sir George Washington Browne (1853–1939)
  • Sir William Bruce (c. 1630–1710)
  • David Bryce (1803–1876)
  • William Burn (1789–1870)
  • John Burnet (1814–1901), architect who lived and practised in Glasgow
  • Sir John James Burnet (1857–1938), Edwardian architect, son of John Burnet
  • James Burton (1761–1837), famous London property developer and architect; father of Decimus Burton and James Burton (Egyptologist)
  • James Byres of Tonley (1733–1817), architect, antiquary and dealer in Old Master paintings and antiquities
  • Edward Calvert (c. 1847–1914)
  • Charles Cameron (1743–1812)
  • Alexander Buchanan Campbell (1914–2007)
  • Alexander Lorne Campbell (1871–1944), architect founder of Scott & Campbell
  • Colen Campbell (1676–1729)
  • Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor (born 1962)
  • John Campbell (1857–1942)
  • John Chesser (1819–1892), architect largely based in Edinburgh
  • Sir John Ninian Comper (1864–1960), Gothic Revival architect
  • George Corson (1829–1910)
  • David Cousin (1809–1878), architect, landscape architect and planner
  • James Craig (1739–1795)
  • James Hoey Craigie (1870–1930)
  • Alexander Hunter Crawford (1865–1945), architect and businessman, owner of Crawford's Biscuits
  • Alexander Davidson (1839–1908), architect active in Australia
  • William Gordon Dey (1911–1997), architect who specialised in college buildings
  • John Douglas of Pinkerton (c.1709–1778), architect who designed and reformed several country houses
  • Sir Robert Drummond of Carnock (died 1592), Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland
  • Sir James Duncan Dunbar-Nasmith, (1927–2023), leading conservation architect
  • Alan Dunlop (born 1958)
  • John Murray Easton (1889–1975), architect, winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture
  • Alexander Edward (1651–1708), Episcopalian clergyman, draughtsman, architect and landscape designer
  • Archibald Elliot (1760–1823)
  • Reginald Francis Joseph Fairlie (1883–1952), architect of the National Library of Scotland
  • James Fergusson (1808–1886)
  • Claude Waterlow Ferrier (1879–1935), architect, specialising in the Art Deco style
  • James Leslie Findlay (1868–1952)
  • Kathryn Findlay (born 1954)
  • Robert Findlay (1859–1951)
  • George Topham Forrest (1872–1945)
  • William Fowler (1824–1906), architect
  • Malcolm Fraser (born 1959)
  • Patrick Allan Fraser (1812–1890), architect and painter
  • Andrew Frazer (died 1792)
  • Thomas Gildard (died 1895), architect of Britannia Music Hall
  • James Gibbs (1682–1754)
  • Charles Lovett Gill (1880–1960)
  • James Gowan (1923–2015), postmodernist architect of the "engineering style"
  • Sir James Gowans (1821–1890), maverick Edinburgh architect and builder
  • James Gillespie Graham (1776–1855)
  • John Edgar Gregan (1813–1855)
  • David Hamilton (1768–1843)
  • Sir James Hamilton of Finnart (c.1495–1540), Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland
  • Thomas Hamilton (1784–1858)
  • John Henderson (1804–1862), architect chiefly remembered as a church architect
  • James Macintyre Henry (1852–1929)
  • William Hastie (1753/1763–1832)
  • Gareth Hoskins (1967–2016), architect, UK Architect of the year 2006
  • Edith Mary Wardlaw Burnet Hughes (1888–1971), considered Britain's first practising woman architect, who established her own firm in 1920
  • Ernest Auldjo Jamieson (1880–1937), architect specialising in country houses, largely for wealthy family friends
  • George Meikle Kemp (1795–1844), carpenter, draughtsman, and architect, best known as the designer of the Scott Monument
  • Robert Kerr (1823–1904), co-founder of the Architectural Association
  • Sir William Hardie Kininmonth (1904–1988), architect whose work mixed a modern style with Scottish vernacular
  • Alexander Laing (1752–1823), architect
  • William Leiper (1839–1916)
  • David Lennox (1788–1873), bridge-builder and master stonemason, working in Australia
  • John Lessels (1809–1883)
  • Ian G Lindsay (1906–1966)
  • Robert Lorimer (1864–1929)
  • David MacGibbon (1831–1902)
  • Kate Macintosh (born 1937), architect of Dawson's Heights in Southwark
  • Alexander George Robertson Mackenzie (1879–1963), architect, in London and Aberdeen
  • Alexander Marshall Mackenzie (1848–1933)
  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), architect, designer and watercolourist; husband and business partner of Margaret McDonald
  • James Marjoribanks MacLaren (1853–1890), associated with the Arts and Crafts movement and Scottish Vernacular architecture
  • Thomas MacLaren (1863–1928), architect who worked in worked in London, and the United States
  • Andy MacMillan (1928–2014), architect, educator, writer and broadcaster
  • Ebenezer James MacRae (1881–1951), City Architect for Edinburgh
  • Thomas P. Marwick (1854–1927), architect based in Edinburgh, important to the architectural character of Marchmont
  • Robert Matheson (1808–1877), architect and Clerk of Works for Scotland
  • Robert Matthew (1906–1975)
  • John McAslan, CBE (born 1954), designed many buildings around the world, such as the new departures concourse at London King's Cross railway station, the Iron Market in Port-au-Prince and the Olympia Park in Moscow
  • Alexander McGill (died 1734), mason and architect, who worked in partnership with James Smith
  • John McLachlan (1843–1893), architect
  • George McRae (1858–1923), architect who migrated to Australia and pursued his career in Sydney
  • Sir Frank Charles Mears (1880–1953)
  • Adam Menelaws (born between 1748 and 1756–1831)
  • James Miller (1860–1947)
  • Sydney Mitchell (1856–1930)
  • Robert Morham (1839–1912), City Architect for Edinburgh
  • Richard Murphy (born 1955), architect, winner of the 2016 RIBA House of the year
  • Gordon Murray (born 1954)
  • Sir James Murray of Kilbaberton (died 1634), master wright and architect
  • John Mylne (died 1621), master mason
  • John Mylne of Perth (c. 1585–1657), master mason
  • John Mylne (1611–1667), master mason and architect
  • Robert Mylne (1633–1710), stonemason and architect, last Master Mason to the Crown of Scotland
  • Robert Mylne (1733–1811), architect and civil engineer, remembered for Blackfriars Bridge, London
  • Walter Newall (1780–1863)
  • Peter Nicholson (1765–1844)
  • John Paterson (died 1832)
  • Robert Hamilton Paterson (1843–1911), partner in the architectural practice, Hamilton-Paterson and Rhind
  • David Paton (1801–1882), architect and builder, who worked in the United States in the 1830s
  • John Dick Peddie (1824–1891)
  • John More Dick Peddie (1853–1921)
  • Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832–1898)
  • James Playfair (1755–1794), father of William Henry
  • William Henry Playfair (1790–1857)
  • B. Marcus Priteca (1889–1971)
  • Robert Reid Raeburn (1819–1888), architect who worked in and around Edinburgh
  • Robert Reid (1774–1856), King's architect and surveyor for Scotland
  • David Rhind (1808–1883)
  • James Robert Rhind (1854–1918)
  • John Rhind (1836–1889), architect from Inverness
  • George Richardson (c. 1737–c. 1813), architectural and decorative draftsman
  • John Thomas Rochead (1814–1878)
  • Thomas Ross (1839–1930)
  • Fred Rowntree (1860–1927), Arts and Crafts architect
  • Witold Rybczynski (born 1943)
  • James Salmon (1873–1924), grandson of James Salmon (1805–1888)
  • James Salmon (1805–1888), grandfather of James Salmon (1873–1924)
  • William Schaw (c. 1550–1602), Master of Works to James VI of Scotland for building castles and palaces
  • John Scrimgeour of Myres (fl. 16th century), Master of Work for royal buildings for James V and Mary, Queen of Scots
  • James Robb Scott (1882–1965), chief architect of the Southern Railway
  • James Sellars (1843–1888)
  • Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912), architect known for his country houses and for commercial buildings
  • Archibald Simpson (1790–1847), one of the major architects of Aberdeen
  • James Smith (c. 1645–1731)
  • James Smith of Jordanhill (1782–1867), architect, merchant, antiquarian, geologist, biblical critic and man of letters
  • John Smith (1781–1852), first official city architect of Aberdeen
  • Robert Smith (1722–1777), emigrant to America
  • William Smith (1817–1891)
  • John Soutar (1881–1951)
  • James Souttar (1840–1922), worked in Sweden
  • Basil Spence (1907–1976)
  • John James Stevenson (1831–1908)
  • James Stirling (1926–1992)
  • John Tait (1787–1856), architect based in Edinburgh
  • Thomas S. Tait (1882–1954)
  • Bruce James Talbert (1838–1881), architect and interior designer
  • Sir Andrew Thomas Taylor (1850–1937), architect and Conservative Party municipal councillor
  • Alexander "Greek" Thomson (1817–1875)
  • James Thomson (died 1927), City Engineer, City Architect, and Housing Director of Dundee
  • Ramsay Traquair, architect and academic with strong links to Canada
  • James Campbell Walker (1821–1888), architect specialising in poorhouses and schools
  • William Wallace (died 1631)
  • Frederick Walters (1849–1931), notable for Roman Catholic churches
  • George Henry Walton (1867–1933)
  • Thomas Lennox Watson (c. 1850–1920)
  • William Weir (1865–1950)
  • Charles Wilson (1810–1863)
  • Robert Wilson (1834–1901), architect for the Edinburgh Board of Education
  • George Wittet (1878–1926), architect working mostly in Bombay, India
  • William Young (1843–1900), designer of Glasgow City Chambers

Businesspersons
  • Robert Aitken (1734–1802), Philadelphia printer, the first to publish an English language Bible in the United States
  • Alexander Aikman (1755–1838), Jamaican printer, newspaper publisher, and landowner.
  • Arthur Anderson (1792–1868), co-founder of P&O
  • Alexander Arbuthnot (died 1585), printer, work including George Buchanan's first History of Scotland
  • Sir George Gough Arbuthnot (1848–1929), businessman and civic leader in British India
  • John Bartholomew, Sr. (1805–1861), cartographer and engraver, founder of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd
  • John Bartholomew Jr. (1831–1893), cartographer
  • John Christopher Bartholomew (1923–2008), cartographer and geographer
  • John George Bartholomew (1860–1920), cartographer and geographer
  • John (Ian) Bartholomew (1890–1962), cartographer and geographer
  • William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn (1856–1936), founder of William Beardmore and Company engineers and shipbuilders
  • James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795–1872), founder and publisher of the New York Herald
  • Alexander Berry (1781–1873), town of Berry is named after him, possibly the first millionaire in Australia
  • David Berry (1795–1889), livestock breeder, landowner and benefactor; brother of Alexander Berry
  • Peter Buchan (1790–1854), editor, publisher, and collector of ballads and folktales
  • David Buick (1854–1929), founded the Buick car company
  • Sir George Burns, 1st Baronet (1795–1890), shipping magnate
  • Sir James Burns (1846–1923), businessman, shipowner and philanthropist in Australia
  • James Burns (1789–1871), shipowner born in Glasgow
  • John Burns, 1st Baron Inverclyde (1829–1901), shipowner, chairman of Cunard
  • Agnes Campbell, Lady Roseburn (1637–1716), printer, described as "Scotland's wealthiest early modern printer".
  • Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), steel magnate, major philanthropist
  • Thomas Catto, 1st Baron Catto (1879–1959), businessman, Governor of the Bank of England.
  • William Chambers of Glenormiston (1800–1883), publisher
  • Sir Arnold Clark (1928–2017), founder of Arnold Clark motor group
  • Catherine Cranston (1849–1934), leading figure in the development of tea rooms, patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and others
  • William Cunninghame of Lainshaw (1731–1799), tobacco merchant
  • David Dale (1739–1806), merchant and businessman, established the weaving community of New Lanark
  • William Davidson (1740–1890), entrepreneur and founder of the first colony in New Brunswick, Canada
  • Adam Dawson (1793–1873), Linlithgow and owner of St Magdalene distillery
  • George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo (1732–1818), advocate, landowner, agricultural improver, politician and business man
  • Peter Denny (1821–1895), shipbuilder and shipowner, with William Denny and Brothers
  • John Dewar, Sr. (1805–1880), founder of John Dewar & Sons, Scotch whisky distillers
  • Dr. Henry Duncan (1774–1846), Church of Scotland Minister; started the world's first savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfries and Galloway
  • John Elder (1824–1869), marine engineer and shipbuilder
  • Sir Tom Farmer (born 1940), entrepreneur
  • Robert Fleming (1845–1933), financier, founder of Robert Fleming & Co. merchant bank
  • B. C. Forbes (1880–1954), founder of Forbes magazine
  • Alexander Fordyce (died 1789), banker, involved in the bank run on Neal, James, Fordyce and Down in 1772
  • Hugh Fraser (1817–1853), founder of House of Fraser group of department stores
  • Anita Margaret Frew (born 1957), businessperson
  • Martin Gilbert (born 1955), Chief Executive of Aberdeen Asset Management
  • James Gillespie (1726–1797), snuff-maker and philanthropist
  • Ann Gloag (born 1942), co-founder of Stagecoach Group, born in Perth
  • Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911), Nagasaki-based trader in 19th-century Japan
  • Robert Gordon (1668–1731), founder of the Robert Gordon University
  • Sir Angus Grossart (1937–2022), chairman of merchant bank Noble Grossart
  • Andrew Halyburton (died 1507), merchant, 'Conservator of the Scottish privileges in the Low Countries'
  • Willie Haughey (born 1956), entrepreneur and founder of City Refrigeration Holdings
  • George Heriot (1563–1624), goldsmith and founder of George Heriot's School
  • Tom Hunter (born 1961), entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Sports Division
  • John Lawson Johnston (1839–1900), creator of Bovril
  • Irvine Laidlaw (born 1942), 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
  • Sir Thomas Lipton (1848–1931), founder of Lipton's Tea
  • Sir George Mathewson, (born 1940), former chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Jim McColl (born 1951), founder of Clyde Blowers
  • William McEwan (1827–1913), founder of McEwans brewers
  • Stewart Milne (born 1950), founder of Stewart Milne Group and majority shareholder of Aberdeen F.C.
  • Michelle Mone (born 1971), founder of Ultimo
  • Sir David Murray (born 1951), founder of Murray International Metals
  • Thomas Napier (1802–1881), builder, emigrant to Australia
  • William Paterson (1658–1719), founder of Bank of Scotland and Bank of England
  • Alexander Cameron Sim (1840–1900), pharmacist and entrepreneur active in Japan, founder of the Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club
  • Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin (born 1944), Chair of the Green Investment Bank
  • Brian Souter (born 1954), entrepreneur and co-founder of Stagecoach Group
  • James Stirling (1800–1876), builder of steam locomotives, brother of Robert Stirling
  • Thomas Sutherland (1834–1922), founder of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and HSBC Holdings plc
  • David Couper Thomson (1861–1954), proprietor of the newspaper and publishing company D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd
  • George Thomson (1815–1866), marine engineer and shipbuilder
  • William Walls (1819–1893), lawyer and industrialist, influenced the development of 19th-century Glasgow
  • William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir (1877–1959), industrialist, engineer and politician
  • George Watson (1654–1723), first chief accountant of the Bank of Scotland; founder of George Watson's College
  • Wilson, Sons, founded in 1837 by Edward and Fleetwood Pellow Wilson; one of South America's largest shipping brokers
  • Andrew Yule (1834–1902), businessman who founded Andrew Yule and Company in India
  • Sir David Yule, 1st Baronet (1858–1928), businessman based in India
  • George Yule (1829–1892), merchant in England and India, fourth President of the Indian National Congress

Composers
  • Robert Burns (1759–1796)
  • Robert Carver (c. 1485–c. 1570)
  • Ronald Center (1913–1973)
  • Erik Chisholm (1904–1965)
  • James Clapperton (born 1968)
  • John Clerk of Penicuik (1676–1755)
  • James Dillon (born 1950)
  • Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1732–1781)
  • Iain Hamilton (1922–2000)
  • Tobias Hume (c.1579–1645)
  • Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916)
  • John Blackwood McEwen (1868–1948)
  • Edward McGuire (born 1948)
  • Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935)
  • Charles Macintosh (1839–1922), composer, performer and naturalist
  • Robert Mackintosh (c.1745–1807)
  • James MacMillan (born 1959)
  • Stuart MacRae (born 1976)
  • William Marshall (1748–1833)
  • John McLeod (1934–2022)
  • Gordon McPherson (born 1965)
  • Stuart Mitchell (born 1965)
  • Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
  • James Oswald (1710–1769)
  • Morris Pert (1947–2010)
  • Francis George Scott (1880–1958)
  • James Scott Skinner (1843–1927), composer, dancing master, and fiddler
  • Robert Archibald Smith (1780–1829), composer known for his collection Scotish Minstrel
  • Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015)
  • William Sweeney (born 1950)
  • Julian Wagstaff (born 1970)
  • William Wallace (1860–1940)
  • Judith Weir (born 1954)
  • Thomas Wilson (1927–2001)

Criminals
  • William Armstrong of Kinmont (Kinmont Willie) (fl. 16th century), border reiver
  • Sawney Bean, semi-mythical head of a clan in 15th- or 16th-century Scotland, reportedly executed for mass murder and cannibalism
  • Bible John, nickname of supposed serial killer
  • Robert Black (born 1947), serial killer convicted of the kidnapping and murder of four girls
  • Geordie Bourne (died 1597), border reiver
  • Ian Brady (1938–2017), one of the Moors murderers
  • Deacon Brodie (1741–1788), Edinburgh city councillor and burglar
  • Michael Brown (born 1966), fraudster
  • Henry John Burnett (1942–1963), murderer, last man to be hanged in Scotland
  • Colonel Francis Charteris (c. 1675–1732), nicknamed "The Rape-Master General"
  • Robert Crichton, 8th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar (died 1612), peer, executed for the murder of a fencing teacher, John Turner
  • Williamina "Minnie" Dean (1844–1895), emigrant to New Zealand, found guilty of infanticide and hanged; the only woman to receive the death penalty in New Zealand
  • William John Duff (born 1962), dentist convicted for fraud and reckless endangerment
  • Paul John Ferris (born 1963), gangster and author
  • Donald Forbes (1935–2008), murderer, convicted of two separate murders
  • Arthur Furguson (1883–1938), con artist
  • Jimmy Gauld (1931–2004), footballer and match fixing ringleader
  • John Gow (c. 1698–1725), notorious pirate
  • Sir Robert Graham of Kinpont (died 1437), assassin of James I of Scotland
  • Sir Archibald Grant 2nd Baronet (1696–1778), fraudster, expelled from parliament, and agricultural improver
  • David Haggart (1801–1821), thief and murderer
  • Archibald Hall (a.k.a. Roy Fontaine) (1924–2002), serial killer and thief
  • James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh and Woodhouselee (died 1581) assassin of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland
  • Thomas Watt Hamilton (1952–1996), perpetrator of the Dunblane school massacre
  • John the Painter (1752–1777), highwayman, burglar, shoplifter, robber, and rapist, who committed acts of terror in British naval dockyards in 1776–77
  • William Kidd (1645–1701), mutineer and pirate
  • Sonny Leitch (born c. 1933), career criminal and jailbreaker
  • "Captain" James MacLaine (1724–1750), highwayman, known as the "Gentleman Highwayman"
  • Jamie Macpherson (1675–1700), outlaw
  • Peter Manuel (1927–1958), serial killer
  • John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell (c. 1583–1613), Catholic nobleman, murderer of the Laird of Johnstone
  • Edith McAlinden (born 1968), murderer, guilty of triple murder in Glasgow
  • Ian McAteer (born 1961), Glasgow gangster
  • William McCoy (c. 1763 – 1798), sailor and a mutineer on board HMS Bounty
  • Thomas McGraw (1952–2007), known as "The Licensee" or "Wan-Baw McGraw", gangster
  • Frank McPhee (1948–2000), Glasgow gangland boss
  • Patrick Meehan (1927–1994), safe blower, convicted of murder but given a royal pardon
  • Anthony Joseph Miller (1941–1960), the last teenager to be executed in the United Kingdom
  • Robert Mone (born 1948), convicted murderer
  • James Morrison (1760–1807) seaman and mutineer who took part in the Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Susan Newell (1893–1923), murderer, the last woman to be hanged in Scotland
  • Dennis Nilsen (born 1945), serial killer
  • Colin Norris (born 1976), nurse convicted of murdering four elderly patients in a hospital in Leeds
  • Dora Noyce (1900–1977), Edinburgh brothel keeper
  • Johnny Ramensky (1905–1972), career criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities as a commando during World War II
  • Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill (c. 1505–1576), lord of Parliament, murderer
  • Robert Stewart, Master of Atholl (died 1437), assassin of James I of Scotland
  • Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl (died 1437), assassin of James I of Scotland
  • Arthur Thompson (1931–1993), Glasgow gangster
  • Peter Tobin (born 1946), convicted serial killer and sex offender
  • Andrew Walker (1954–2021), army corporal who killed three colleagues in a payroll robbery

Economists
  • Sir Kenneth Alexander (1922–2001), university administrator
  • Adam Anderson (1692/1693–1765), economic historian
  • Duncan Black (1908–1991), social choice theorist
  • Sir Alexander Cairncross (1911–1998), founder of the UK Government Economic Service
  • Frances Anne Cairncross (born 30 August 1944), economist, journalist and academic
  • John Marcus Fleming (1911–1976), IMF deputy director of research
  • David Greenaway (born 1952), university administrator
  • John Law (c. 1671–1729), founder of Banque Générale in France
  • James Loch (1780–1855), economist, advocate, barrister, estate commissioner and Member of Parliament
  • Joseph Lowe (died 1831), journalist and political economist
  • Ronald MacDonald (born 1955)
  • Henry Dunning Macleod (1821–1902), credit theorist
  • Ailsa McKay (1963–2014), feminist economist, Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University and United Nations adviser
  • Sir James Mirrlees (1936–2018), Nobel Laureate
  • Anton Muscatelli (born 1962), Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow
  • Brian Quinn (born 1936), former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of Celtic FC
  • John Rae (1796–1872), polymath
  • Gavin Clydesdale Reid (born 1946)
  • Adam Smith (1723–1790), moral philosopher, author of The Wealth of Nations, the first modern work on economics

Engineers and inventors
Further information: Scottish inventions and discoveries
  • James Abernethy (1814–1896), civil engineer
  • Neil Arnott (1788–1874), physician and inventor of the Arnott waterbed
  • Sir William Arrol (1839–1913), bridge builder
  • Alexander Bain (1810–1877), inventor and engineer, first to invent and patent the electric clock and fax machine
  • Charles Baird (1766–1843), engineer who played an important part in the industrial and business life of St. Petersburg
  • Francis Baird (1802–1864), engineer in St. Petersburg; son of Charles Baird
  • Hugh Baird (1770–1827), civil engineer, who designed and built the Union Canal
  • John Logie Baird (1888–1946), television
  • Nicol Hugh Baird (1796–1849), surveyor, engineer and inventor who emigrated to Canada
  • Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), telephone, National Geographic Society, hydrofoil
  • Henry Bell (1767–1830), ran Europe's first commercially successful steamboat
  • Rev Patrick Bell (1799–1869), Church of Scotland minister, and inventor of the reaping machine
  • George Bennie (1891–1957), the Bennie Railplane
  • Sir James Black (1924–2010), beta-blockers
  • Robert Blair (1748–1828), aplanatic telescope
  • Benjamin Blyth (1819–1866), civil engineer
  • Benjamin Blyth II (1849–1917), civil engineer
  • Sir Thomas Bouch (1822–1880), railway engineer, designer of the original Tay Rail Bridge
  • Robert Henry Bow (1827–1909), civil engineer and photographer
  • James Braid (1795–1860), hypnosis
  • James Bremner (1784–1856), naval architect, harbour builder and ship-raiser
  • David Brewster (1781–1868), lenticular stereoscope
  • George Brown (1650–1730), arithmetician and inventor
  • Walter Brown (1886–1957), engineer and mathematician
  • Sir George Bruce of Carnock (c.1550–1625), merchant and mining engineer
  • Richard Henry Brunton (1841–1901), "father of Japanese lighthouses"
  • Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan (1899–1985), civil engineer, first woman member of the Institution of Civil Engineers
  • Duncan Cameron (1825–1901), inventor of the "Waverley" pen nib, owner of The Oban Times newspaper
  • James Chalmers (1782–1853), adhesive postage stamp
  • Sir Dugald Clark (a.k.a. Clerk) (1854–1932), first two stroke cycle engine (the Clark cycle)
  • Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald (1749–1831), made many general useful inventions, particularly in the navy
  • Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), designed many inventions to do with naval technology and steam engines
  • Dr James C. Crow (1789–1856), creator of the sour mash process for creating bourbon whiskey
  • 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
  • Captain Thomas Drummond (1797–1840) army officer, civil engineer, and pioneer in use of the Drummond light
  • Victoria Drummond (1894–1978), marine engineer, first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology
  • John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), the modern rubber tyre
  • Henry Dyer (1848–1918), engineer, contributor to Western-style technical education in Japan
  • Sir Peter Fairbairn (1799–1861), engineer and inventor, and mayor of Leeds, West Yorkshire
  • Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet (of Ardwick) (1789–1874), civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder
  • Patrick Ferguson (1744–1780), the Ferguson rifle
  • Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), isolated penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum
  • Sir Sandford Fleming, (1827–1915), engineer and inventor, who emigrated to Canada; he proposed worldwide standard time zones, and engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway
  • Alexander John Forsyth (1768–1843), Presbyterian clergyman who invented the percussion cap
  • William George Nicholson Geddes (1913–1993), civil engineer
  • David Gow (born 1957), inventor of the i-Limb prosthetic hand
  • Thomas Lomar Gray (1850–1908), engineer noted for his pioneering work in seismology
  • James Gregory (1638–1675), the Gregorian telescope
  • Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane (1897–1981), engineer
  • William Handyside (1793–1850), engineer involved in important construction projects in St. Petersburg
  • James Harrison (1816–1893), pioneer in mechanical refrigeration
  • George Johnston (1855–1945), engineer, designer and constructor of Scotland's first automobile
  • James Kennedy (1797–1886), locomotive and marine engineer
  • David Kirkaldy (1820–1897), engineer, whose pioneering testing works now houses the Kirkaldy Testing Museum
  • James Bowman Lindsay (1799–1862), inventor of the constant electric light bulb
  • Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), patented waterproofing
  • Kirkpatrick MacMillan (1813–1878), bicycle
  • John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), modern road construction
  • Sir Robert McAlpine (Concrete Bob) (1847–1934), road builder
  • Thomas McCall (1834–1904), cartwright, developer of the bicycle
  • Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), mechanical engineer, inventor of the threshing machine
  • Patrick Miller (1730–1815), steamboat pioneer
  • Thomas Morton (1781–1832), shipwright and inventor of the patent slip
  • William Murdoch (1754–1839), pioneer of gas lighting
  • David Napier (1790–1869), marine engineer
  • David Napier (1785–1873), engineer, founder of D. Napier & Son, an early precision engineering company which later made automobiles and aero engines
  • James Robert Napier (1821–1879), engineer and inventor of Napier's diagram
  • John Napier (1550–1617), Logarithm
  • Robert Napier (1791–1876), marine engineer, "the father of Clyde Shipbuilding"
  • Robert D. Napier (1821–1885), engineer
  • James Nasmyth (1808–1890), steam hammer
  • Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889), engineer, improved wire rope and submarine cable laying
  • James Newlands (1813–1871), civil engineer, Borough Engineer of Liverpool as Borough Engineer
  • Murdoch Paterson (1826–1898), Inverness engineer and architect, chief engineer of the Highland Railway
  • William Paterson (1658–1719), the Bank of England
  • William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872), developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines
  • John Rennie the Elder (1761–1821), engineer, designer of the "new" 19th-century London Bridge
  • John Shepherd-Barron (1925–2010), inventor of the automatic teller machine
  • Hugh Smellie (1840–1891), engineer, Locomotive Superintendent
  • Thomas Smith (1752–1814), early lighthouse engineer
  • Charles Spalding (1738–1783), Edinburgh confectioner and improver of the diving bell
  • Alan Stevenson (1807–1865), lighthouse engineer
  • Charles Alexander Stevenson (1855–1950), lighthouse engineer
  • David Stevenson (1815–1886), lighthouse designer
  • David Alan Stevenson (1854–1938), lighthouse engineer
  • Robert Stevenson (1772–1850), civil engineer, designer and builder of lighthouses
  • Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), pioneering lighthouse designer and meteorologist; father of Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Matthew Stirling (1856–1931), Locomotive Superintendent of the Hull and Barnsley Railway
  • Patrick Stirling (1820–1895), railway engineer, and Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway
  • Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790–1878), clergyman, and inventor of the Stirling engine
  • 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 (1811–1883), invented a way of extracting paraffin oil

Explorers

Humorists

Military

Monarchs and royalty
Main articles: List of Scottish monarchs and List of kings of the Picts
See also: List of heirs to the Scottish throne, List of legendary kings of Scotland, List of Scottish royal consorts, and List of Scottish royal mistresses

Philosophers

Physicians and medical professionals
  • David Abercromby (died c.1702), physician and writer
  • Francis Adams (1796–1861), medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works
  • Dr John Adamson (1809–1870), physician, pioneer photographer, physicist, lecturer and museum curator
  • James Ormiston Affleck (1840–1922), physician and medical author
  • Margaret Forbes Alexander (living), nurse, educator, researcher and writer
  • William Pulteney Alison (1790–1859), physician, social reformer and philanthropist
  • John Maxwell Anderson (1928–1982), surgeon and cancer specialist
  • Sir Thomas McCall Anderson (1836–1908), professor of practice of medicine at the University of Glasgow
  • Archibald Arnott (1772–1855), British Army surgeon best remembered as Napoleon's last doctor on St. Helena
  • Asher Asher (1837–1889), first Scottish Jew to enter the medical profession
  • Matthew Baillie (1761–1823), physician and pathologist
  • Sir Dugald Baird (1899–1986), specializing in obstetrics and fertility
  • Sir Andrew Balfour (1873–1931), medical officer who specialised in tropical medicine
  • Edward Balfour (1813–1889), surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India
  • George William Balfour (1823–1903), physician, known as a heart specialist
  • Thomas Graham Balfour (1813–1891), physician noted for his work in medical statistics
  • Sir George Ballingall (1780–1855), Regius Professor of military surgery
  • William Mitchell Banks (1842–1904), surgeon
  • Major General William Burney Bannerman (1858–1924), military surgeon
  • Andrew Whyte Barclay (1817–1884), physician, Lumleian Lecturer, and Harveian Orator
  • George Steward Beatson (died 1874), surgeon-general, Honorary Physician to the Queen
  • Colonel Sir George Thomas Beatson (1848–1933), physician, pioneer in the field of oncology
  • William Beattie (1793–1875), physician and writer
  • James Begbie (1798–1869), physician, president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  • James Warburton Begbie (1826–1876), physician
  • Benjamin Bell of Hunthill (1749–1806), considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon
  • Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842), surgeon, anatomist, neurologist and philosophical theologian
  • John Bell (1763–1820), anatomist and surgeon
  • Sir James Whyte Black (1924–2010), physician and pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Dame Emily Mathieson Blair (1892–1963), nurse, Matron-in-Chief of the Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service and the British Red Cross Society
  • Sir Gilbert Blane of Blanefield (1749–1834), physician who instituted health reform in the Royal Navy
  • James Borthwick of Stow (1615–1675), surgeon and first teacher of anatomy
  • James Braid (1795–1860), surgeon and "gentleman scientist", influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy
  • John Milne Bramwell (1852–1925), physician, surgeon and medical hypnotist
  • William A. F. Browne (1805–1885), one of the most significant asylum doctors of the nineteenth century
  • Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton (1844–1916), physician known for treatment of angina pectoris
  • William Buchan (1729–1805), physician, writer on medicine for a lay readership
  • Maura Buchanan (living), nursing administrator, former president of the Royal College of Nursing
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829), physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India
  • Sir Thomas Burnet (1638–1704), physician to Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Queen Anne
  • Ewan Cameron (1922–1991), physician who worked with Linus Pauling on Vitamin C research
  • Murdoch Cameron (1847–1930), Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow
  • Robina Thomson Cameron (1892–1971), district nurse, community leader and nursing inspector
  • Dugald Campbell (died 1940), doctor from the isle of Arran; government physician on Hawaii
  • Sir James Cantlie (1851–1926), physician, pioneer of First aid
  • John Cheyne (1777–1836), physician, and medical writer; identified Cheyne–Stokes respiration, with William Stokes
  • Colin Chisholm (1755–1825), surgeon, medical writer and Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Mairi Lambert Gooden-Chisholm of Chisholm (1896–1981), military nurse and ambulance driver during World War I, awarded the Military Medal
  • Sir Robert Christison (1797–1882), toxicologist and physician
  • Sir James Clark (1788–1870), physician who was Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria
  • Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn of Stravithie (1820–1895), physician, botanist, and forester who worked in India
  • Sir Thomas Smith Clouston (1840–1915), psychiatrist
  • Dr Samuel Cockburn (1823–1915), advocate and practitioner of homeopathy
  • John Coldstream (1806–1863), physician
  • James Copland (1791–1870), physician and prolific medical writer
  • John Craig (died 1620), physician and astronomer; physician to James VI of Scotland
  • David Craigie (1793–1866), physician and medical writer
  • Sir Alexander Crichton (1763–1856), physician, including the Emperor of Russia's personal physician, and author
  • Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840–1938), leading psychiatrist and medical psychologist
  • William Cumin (died 1854), Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow
  • David Douglas Cunningham (1843–1914), doctor and researcher in India, pioneer in aerobiology
  • Daniel John Cunningham (1850–1909), physician, zoologist, and anatomist; author of medical textbooks
  • Sir David Deas (1807–1876), medical officer in the Royal Navy
  • Ian Donald (1910–1987), physician, pioneer of the use of diagnostic ultrasound in medicine
  • Sir David Dumbreck (1805–1876), British Army medical officer
  • Andrew Duncan, the elder (1744–1828), physician, professor at Edinburgh University, pioneer of forensic medicine
  • Andrew Duncan, the younger (1773–1832), physician, first professor of medical jurisprudence at Edinburgh University
  • James Matthews Duncan (1826–1890), physician, practitioner of and author on obstetrics
  • William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (1889–1964), psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, central figure in the development of the object relations theory of psychoanalysis
  • Sir Walter Farquhar (1738–1819), physician, whose clientele included the future King George IV and William Pitt the Younger
  • William Fergusson (1773–1846), inspector-general of military hospitals; medical writer
  • Charles Finnigan (1901–1967), dental surgeon, Surgeon Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy, Honorary Dental Surgeon to the Queen
  • James Forbes (1779–1837), inspector-general of army hospitals
  • George Fordyce (1736–1802), physician, lecturer on medicine, and chemist
  • Sir William Fordyce (1724–1792), physician, voted a gold medal for his work on rhubarb by the Society of Arts
  • David Kennedy Fraser (1888–1962), psychologist, educator and amateur mathematician
  • Margaret Neill Fraser (1880–1915), First World War nurse and notable amateur golfer, who died in Serbia
  • John Gairdner (1790–1876), physician and president of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • Sir William Tennant Gairdner (1824–1907), Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow
  • Maxwell Garthshore (1732–1812), physician
  • Marion Gilchrist (1864–1952), first female graduate of the University of Glasgow; first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university; leading activist in Women's suffrage movement
  • Theodore Gordon (1786–1845), inspector of army hospitals
  • Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874), physician and biologist
  • James Gregory (1753–1821), physician and classicist
  • Jane Stocks Greig (1872–1939), medical doctor and public health specialist in Australia
  • Robert Marcus Gunn (1850–1909), ophthalmologist
  • Daniel Rutherford Haldane (1824–1887), prominent physician, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  • Evelina Haverfield (1867–1920), suffragette and World War I nurse in Serbia
  • Alexander Henderson (1780–1863), physician and author
  • David Kennedy Henderson (1884–1965), psychiatrist
  • Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon (1858–1928) eminent surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1914–1917
  • Thomas Charles Hope (1766–1844), physician and chemist, discoverer of the element strontium
  • Joseph Hume (1777–1855), physician and Radical MP
  • John Hunter (1728–1793), surgeon, after whom the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons is named
  • Sir Robert Hutchison (1871–1960), physician and paediatrician
  • Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), medical reformer and suffragette
  • John Scott Inkster, (1924-2011) anesthesiologist
  • Robert Jackson (1750–1827), physician-surgeon, reformer, and inspector-general of army hospitals
  • Louisa Jordan (1878–1915), nurse who died in Serbia during the First World War; NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital was named after her
  • James Keill (1673–1719), physician, philosopher, medical writer and translator
  • John Martin Munro Kerr (1868–1960), Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow
  • R. D. Laing (1927–1989), psychiatrist and author
  • Thomas Latta (1796–1833), pioneer of the saline solution method of treatment
  • John Lauder (1683–1737), surgeon, deacon of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • Robert Lee (1793–1877), obstetrician, and personal physician to Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Governor-General of the Crimea
  • Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), pathologist and army medical officer
  • Sir John Liddell (1794–1868), Director-General of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy; senior medical officer of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich
  • James Lind (1716–1794), physician, pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy
  • Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn (1826–1914), surgeon, forensic scientist and public health pioneer
  • Robert Lumsden (1903–1973), ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon
  • Sir William Macewen (1848–1924), surgeon, pioneer in modern brain surgery
  • Jessie MacLaren MacGregor (1863–1906), one of the first women to be awarded an MD from the University of Edinburgh
  • William Mackenzie (1791–1868), ophthalmologist, who wrote one of the first British textbooks of ophthalmology
  • Sir William Alexander Mackinnon (1830–1897), Director-General of the British Army Medical Service
  • Thomas John MacLagan (1838–1903), Dundee doctor and pharmacologist
  • Patrick Manson (1844–1922), physician who made important discoveries in parasitology, founder of the field of tropical medicine
  • Mary Adamson Anderson Marshall (1837–1910), physician, one of the members of the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh
  • Douglas Mary McKain (1789–1873), New Zealand nurse, midwife and businesswoman
  • Agnes McLaren (1837–1913), doctor, first to give medical assistance to women in India
  • Gavin Milroy (1805–1886), physician and medical writer
  • Alexander Monteith of Auldcathie (1660–1713), surgeon, deacon of the Incorporation of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • Neil Gordon Munro (1863–1942), physician and anthropologist, who studied the Ainu people
  • Flora Murray (1869–1923), medical pioneer, and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes
  • Sir Robin MacGregor Murray (born 1944), psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatric Research
  • Duncan Napier, Victorian botanist and medical herbalist
  • Sir Alexander Nisbet (1795–1874), naval surgeon, H.M. Inspector of Hospitals for the Royal Navy
  • William Nisbet (1759–1822), physician, author of widely used medical books that emphasized practice
  • Sir Alexander Ogston (1844–1929), surgeon, famous for his discovery of Staphylococcus
  • Alexander Pennycuik (1605–1695), military surgeon, Surgeon General of the Scots forces in Ireland
  • David Pitcairn (1749–1809), physician
  • Archibald Pitcairne (1652–1713), physician and author
  • Richard Poole (1783–1871), physician, psychiatrist, and phrenologist
  • George Hogarth Pringle (1830–1872), surgeon, pioneer of antiseptic surgery in Australia
  • John James Pringle (1855–1922), dermatologist
  • Laidlaw Purves (1842–1917), aural and ophthalmic surgeon
  • John Rattray (1707–1771), surgeon, surgeon to Prince Charles Edward Stuart and golfer
  • David Boswell Reid (1805–1863), physician, chemist and inventor
  • Agnes Reston (1771–1856), wartime nurse during the Peninsular War, known as the Heroine of Matagorda, for her outstanding bravery
  • John Roberton (1776–1840), physician and social reformer
  • John Roberton (1797–1876), physician and social reformer
  • Thomas Ferguson Rodger (1907–1978), physician, Royal Army Medical Corps brigadier, and Professor of Psychological Medicine
  • Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross (1878–1915), physician who worked in Persia, and died in Serbia
  • Catherine Murray Roy, military nurse during World War I, awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry
  • John Rutherford (1695–1779), physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School; grandfather of Sir Walter Scott
  • Helenus Scott (1760–1821), physician, active in India
  • Lyall Stuart Scott (1920–1977), surgeon and urologist
  • Thomas Shortt (1788–1843), army physician, who drafted Napoleon's official autopsy report
  • James Young Simpson (1811–1870), introduced chloroform into surgery
  • David Skae (1814–1873), physician who specialised in psychological medicine
  • Alexander Small (1710–1794), surgeon and scholar
  • John Smith (1825–1910), dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator, founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry
  • James Carmichael Smyth (1741–1821), physician and medical writer
  • William Somerville (1771–1860), physician, inspector of the Army Medical Board, husband of Mary Somerville
  • James Syme (1799–1870), pioneering surgeon
  • Michael Waistell Taylor (1824–1892), physician and antiquary
  • Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862), physician, chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist, zoologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence
  • Gordon Turnbull, psychiatrist and author
  • Andrew Ure (1778–1857), physician, scholar and chemist
  • Charles Howard Usher (1865–1942), ophthalmologist
  • James Wardrop (1782–1869), surgeon and ophthalmologist
  • Robert Watt (1774–1819), physician and bibliographer
  • Alexander Allan Innes Wedderburn (9 May 1935 – 23 February 2017), psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Heriot-Watt University.
  • Sir David Wilkie (1882–1938), surgeon, pioneer of surgical research and undergraduate teaching
  • Robert Willis (1799–1878), physician, librarian, and medical historian
  • James Wilson (1765–1821), anatomist
  • Professor Nairn Hutchison Fulton Wilson (born 1950), Honorary Professor of Dentistry, former Dean and Head of King's College London Dental Institute
  • Alexander Wood (1725–1807), surgeon, and friend of the poet Robert Burns
  • Alexander Wood (1817–1884), physician, inventor of the first true hypodermic syringe
  • John McLeod (surgeon) (c. 1777 – 1820), naval surgeon and travel writer

Rulers and politicians

Sportspeople

Television and radio personalities
  • Kaye Adams (born 1962)
  • Ronni Ancona (born 1968)
  • Dougie Anderson (born 1976)
  • Fiona Armstrong (born 1956)
  • Jackie Bird (born 1962)
  • Edith Bowman (born 1975)
  • Frankie Boyle (born 1972), comedian
  • Gordon Buchanan (born 1972), wildlife filmmaker
  • Bryan Burnett, television and radio presenter
  • Nicky Campbell (born 1962)
  • Kelly Cates (born 1975)
  • Kate Copstick
  • Stuart Cosgrove (born 1952)
  • Tam Cowan (born 1969)
  • Cat Cubie (born 1981)
  • Romana D'Annunzio (born 1972)
  • Jim Delahunt
  • Dominik Diamond (born 1969)
  • Jack Docherty (born 1962)
  • John Dunn (1934–2004), radio presenter
  • Kieron Elliot
  • Jenni Falconer (born 1976)
  • Craig Ferguson (born 1962)
  • Tommy Flanagan (born 1965)
  • Sandy Gall (born 1927)
  • Kirsty Gallacher (born 1976)
  • George Galloway (born 1954)
  • Graeme Garden (born 1943)
  • Muriel Gray (born 1959), journalist
  • Amanda Hamilton (born 1974)
  • Sarah Heaney (born 1971)
  • Stuart Henry (1942–1995), disc jockey
  • Mikey Hughes (born 1974)
  • Hazel Irvine (born 1965)
  • Stephen Jardine (born 1963)
  • Alan Johnston (born 1962), journalist
  • Nicci Jolly (born 1981)
  • Lorraine Kelly (born 1959)
  • Fiona Kennedy
  • Ross King (born 1961)
  • John Leslie (born 1965)
  • Viv Lumsden (born 1952)
  • Fred MacAulay (born 1956)
  • Cathy MacDonald
  • Phil MacHugh (born 1985)
  • Sarah Mack (born 1973)
  • John MacKay
  • Aggie MacKenzie (born 1955)
  • Sally Magnusson (born 1955)
  • Eddie Mair (born 1965)
  • Andrew Marr (born 1959)
  • Colin McAllister (born 1968)
  • Ian McCaskill (1938–2016)
  • Scottie McClue (born 1956)
  • Sheena McDonald (born 1954)
  • Gail McGrane (born 1975)
  • Paul McGuire
  • Gillian McKeith (born 1959)
  • Andrea McLean (born 1969)
  • Rhona McLeod
  • Michelle McManus (born 1980)
  • Cameron McNeish
  • Aasmah Mir (born 1971)
  • Paul Mitchell (born 1968)
  • Arthur Montford (1929–2014)
  • Nick Nairn (born 1959), celebrity chef
  • Shereen Nanjiani (born 1961)
  • Neil Oliver (born 1967)
  • Dawn Porter (born 1979)
  • Gail Porter (born 1971)
  • Angus Purden (born 1974)
  • Judith Ralston
  • Gordon Ramsay (born 1966), celebrity chef
  • Heather Reid (born 1969)
  • Fyfe Robertson (1902–1987)
  • Tom Russell (born 1948)
  • Justin Ryan (born 1967)
  • Isla St Clair (born 1952)
  • Catriona Shearer (born 1981)
  • Angus Simpson
  • Carol Smillie (born 1961)
  • Sarah Smith (born 1968)
  • Iain Stirling (born 1988)
  • Grant Stott
  • Cameron Stout (born 1971)
  • Heather Suttie
  • Brian Taylor (born 1955)
  • Bill Torrance (born 1946)
  • Alison Walker (born 1963)
  • Kirsty Wark (born 1955), journalist
  • Tom Weir (1914–2006)
  • Jim White
  • Kirsty Young (born 1968)

Theologians, pastors and missionaries
See also: List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
  • David Laird Adams (1837–1892), minister and academic, professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at the University of Edinburgh.
  • Patrick Adamson, 16th-century Archbishop of St Andrews
  • Reverend William Menzies Alexander (1858–1929), medical and theological writer, Professor of Divinity
  • Tom Allan (died 1965), minister and evangelist, pioneer of practical church outreach in social work, primarily in the city of Glasgow
  • Charles Arbuthnot (1737–1820), Scottish abbot of the Scots Monastery, Regensburg
  • George Husband Baird (1761–1840), minister, educational reformer, linguist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
  • Donald Macpherson Baillie (1887–1954), theologian, ecumenist, and parish minister
  • John Baillie (1886–1960), theologian and Church of Scotland minister
  • James Bannerman, (1807–1868), Free Church of Scotland theologian
  • William Barclay (1907–1978), author, Church of Scotland minister, Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow
  • James Barr (1924–2006)
  • John Blackadder (c. 1622–1685), eminent Presbyterian Covenanter preacher
  • Robert Blackadder (d. 1508), first archbishop of Glasgow
  • Hugh Blair (1718–1800), minister of religion, author and rhetorician
  • James Blair (1656–1743), Church of England clergyman, missionary and founder of the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia
  • Robert Blair (1837–1907), Church of Scotland minister
  • David Bogue (1750–1825), nonconformist leader, and missionary to Penang
  • Thomas Boston (1676–1732), pastor and theologian
  • Claudius Buchanan (1766–1815), theologian, minister of the Church of England, and missionary to India
  • William Chalmers Burns (1815–1868), revival preacher, missionary to China
  • Richard Cameron (c. 1648–1680), a leader of the Covenanters
  • Andrew Cant (1590–1663), Presbyterian minister and leader of the Covenanters
  • Very Rev Alexander Carlyle (1722–1805), church leader, and autobiographer
  • James Chalmers (1841–1901), missionary, active in New Guinea
  • Dugald Christie (1855–1936), medical missionary in Mukden, China
  • William Robinson Clark (1829–1912), Dean of Taunton and later professor in Toronto
  • Thomas Richardson Colledge (1796–1879), medical missionary in China, founder and first president of the Medical Missionary Society of China
  • Daniel "Dan" Crawford (1870–1926), known as 'Konga Vantu', missionary of the Plymouth Brethren in central-southern Africa
  • William Cunningham (1805–1861), leading Free Church pastor and professor
  • David Dickson (c. 1583–1663), theologian and Covenanter
  • David Dickson (1780–1842), minister and writer
  • John Dudgeon (1837–1901), doctor, surgeon, translator, and medical missionary
  • Rev Alexander Duff (1806–1878), first overseas missionary of the Church of Scotland to India
  • Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754), minister whose actions led to the establishment of the Secession Church
  • Ralph Erskine (1685–1752), preacher and poet
  • Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838–1912), theological scholar, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford
  • Patrick Fairbairn (1805–1874), minister and theologian
  • Henry Faulds (1843–1930), missionary to Japan, physician, and scientist noted for the development of fingerprinting
  • Alexander Penrose Forbes (1817–1875)
  • George Hay Forbes (1821–1875), priest of the Scottish Episcopal Church, founder of the Pitsligo Press
  • John Forbes (1571–1606), Capuchin friar, known as Father Archangel
  • Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848–1921), theologian, principal of Hackney College, London
  • James Frazer (1854–1941), anthropologist of comparative religion and myth
  • Alexander Geddes (1737–1802), theologian and scholar
  • Alexander Gerard (1728–1795), minister, academic and philosophical writer
  • John George Govan (1861–1927), founder of the Faith Mission
  • Patrick Graham (d. 1478), first Archbishop of St Andrews
  • Daniel Gunn (1774–1848), Scottish congregational minister, latterly in Christchurch, Hampshire
  • Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873), divine and philanthropist
  • William Guthrie (1620–1665), author of "The Christian's Great Interest"[10]
  • James Alexander Haldane (1768–1851), independent church leader
  • Robert Haldane (1764–1842), missionary preacher and lecturer; wrote a commentary on Romans
  • Patrick Hamilton (1504–1528), first Protestant martyr in Scotland, burnt at the stake in 1528
  • William Hastie (1842–1903), clergyman, theologian and translator of the Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven by Immanuel Kant
  • Alexander Henderson (1583–1646)
  • James Hog (c. 1658–1734), minister at Carnock, known for his role in the Marrow controversy within the Church of Scotland
  • Richard Holloway (born 1933)
  • William Irvine (1863–1947), evangelist and founder of the Cooneyite and Two by Two sects
  • Robert Reid Kalley (1809–1888), physician and Presbyterian missionary notable for work in Portuguese-speaking territories
  • Dr John Kennedy (1819–1884), Highland preacher, author of Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire
  • John Knox (c. 1513–1572), leader of the Scottish Reformation
  • Thomas Leishman (1825–1904), minister and liturgical scholar
  • David Lindsay, 1st Duke of Montrose (1440–1495), first Scottish non-royal duke, Lord High Admiral of Scotland, Master of the Royal Household of Scotland, Great Chamberlain and Justiciar
  • David Livingstone (1813–1873), missionary and explorer in Africa
  • Alexander Mackay (1849–1890), Presbyterian missionary to Uganda
  • Hugh Martin (1822–1885), pastor and writer
  • Matilda, Countess of Angus, (fl. 13th century), heiress of Maol Choluim, countess in her own right
  • Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843), minister of the Gospel, missionary to the Jewish people
  • Thomas M'Crie the Elder (1772–1835), pastor and historian (wrote the 'Life of John Knox')
  • William Milligan (1821–1892), theologian, professor at the University of Aberdeen
  • Robert Moffat (1795–1883), missionary to Africa
  • Saint Mungo (also known as Saint Kentigern) (d. 614)
  • John Murray (1898–1975), Calvinist theologian and Presbyterian minister
  • George Newlands
  • John Paton (1824–1907), Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific
  • Alexander Peden (1626–1686), leading figures in the Covenanter movement
  • William Pettigrew (1869–1943), missionary to the Tangkhul Naga
  • Dr John Philip (1775–1851), missionary in South Africa
  • Robert Pont (or Kylpont) (1524–1606), reformer, lord of session, minister in Edinburgh and St. Andrews
  • The Revd Professor Norman Walker Porteous (1898–2003), translator of the Bible
  • Andrew Purves (born 1946), theologian
  • James Renwick (1662–1688), covenanter and martyr
  • Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600–1661), Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly
  • John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308)
  • James Sharp (1613–1679), assassinated Archbishop of St Andrews
  • John Simson (c. 1668–1740), New Licht theologian, involved in a long investigation for heresy
  • Mary Slessor (1848–1915), missionary and advocate for women's rights
  • George Washington Sprott (1829–1909), minister and liturgical scholar
  • George Thomson (1819–1878), missionary and botanist in Cameroon
  • Thomas Torrance (1871–1959), missionary to China
  • Thomas F. Torrance (1913–2007), theologian
  • James Wedderburn (1585–1639), bishop of Dunblane, grandson of the poet James Wedderburn
  • John Welsh of Ayr (1568–1622), pastor exiled for faithful preaching; son-in-law to John Knox
  • John Willock (c. 1515–1585), Protestant reformer
  • George Wishart (1513–1546), Protestant reformer and martyr

Writers
Main article: List of Scottish writers

Other notable people
  • John Adair (c. 1655–1722), surveyor and cartographer
  • Dr Hely Hutchinson Almond (1832–1903), educator and rugby union promoter
  • Jane Arthur (1827–1907), feminist and activist
  • Col. David Barclay (1610–1686), 1st Laird of Urie, a convert to Quakerism
  • Robert Barclay (1648–1690), Quaker, governor of the East Jersey colony
  • Andrew Bell (1753–1832), developer of the Madras system of education
  • Harry Benson (born 1929), celebrity and pop culture photographer
  • John Boyd (1925–2018), milliner based in London
  • James Braidwood (1800–1861), founder of the world's first municipal fire service in Edinburgh in 1824, and first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment
  • Thomas Braidwood (1715–1806), teacher of the deaf
  • John Brown (1826–1883), servant of Queen Victoria
  • John Brown (1627–1685), Covenanter martyr
  • Kenn Burke, ballet dancer
  • John Cairncross (1913–1995), intelligence officer and spy during World War II, alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five
  • Charles Cameron (1927–2001), magician, godfather of bizarre magic
  • Ajahn Candasiri (born 1947), Theravāda Buddhist nun who co-founded Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
  • Michael Caton-Jones (born 1957), film director
  • William Chambers (born 1979), award-winning hat designer
  • Walter Chepman (fl. c. 1500), merchant, notary and civil servant; in partnership with Androw Myllar in Scotland's first printing press
  • Mary Crudelius (née Maclean, 1839–1877), campaigner for women's education, and a supporter of women's suffrage
  • Alexander Cruden (1699–1770), compiler of an early concordance to the Bible
  • Lord Curriehill (1549–1617), prosecutor, ambassador, and judge
  • Alexander Dalrymple (1737–1808), geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty
  • James Dawson (1806–1900), prominent champion of Australian Aborigines' interests
  • Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210–1290), a 'lady of substance' in 13th-century Scotland, mother of king John I of Scotland, and founder of Sweetheart Abbey
  • Alexander Donaldson (1727–1794), appellant in the copyright case, Donaldson v Beckett; founder/publisher of the Edinburgh Advertiser
  • James Donaldson (1751–1830), publisher of the Edinburgh Advertiser; founder of Donaldson's Hospital
  • Bill Douglas (1934–1991), film director
  • The Rev. John Archibald Dunbar-Dunbar (1849–1905), philatelist, one of the "Fathers of Philately"
  • Helen Duncan (1897–1956), last woman to be tried under the Witchcraft Act 1735
  • William Dunlop (c. 1654–1700), Covenanter, adventurer, and Principal of the University of Glasgow
  • John Fairbairn (1794–1864), newspaper proprietor, educator, financier and politician of the Cape Colony
  • Sir David Ferrier (1843–1928), pioneering neurologist and psychologist
  • Donald Findlay (born 1951)
  • John Finlaison (1783–1860), first president of the Institute of Actuaries
  • Alexander Kinloch Forbes (1821–1865), scholar of the Gujarati language
  • William Forsyth (1737–1804), horticulturist, founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society, after whom the genus Forsythia is named
  • Lord Fountainhall (1646–1722), one of Scotland's leading jurists
  • Alexander Yule Fraser (1857–1890), mathematician, one of the founders of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  • Jenny Geddes (c. 1600–c. 1660), market trader, threw a stool at the Dean of Edinburgh in protest against the new prayer book
  • Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner
  • Sir Andrew Gilchrist (1910–1993), diplomat
  • Gilleasbaig of Menstrie (fl. 13th century), earliest attested member Campbell family, father of Sir Colin Campbell
  • Ewen Gillies (born 1825), serial emigrant and adventurer from St. Kilda, Scotland
  • Anna Gordon or Brown (1747–1810), ballad collector
  • Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580–1661), cartographer, poet, mathematician, antiquary, and geographer
  • Janet Gourlay (1863–1912) Egyptologist, born in Glasgow
  • Patrick Grant (born 1972), fashion designer
  • Angelica Gray (born 1990), model
  • Alasdair George Hay (born 1961), first and current Chief Fire Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
  • Robert Hay (1799–1863), traveller, antiquarian, and Egyptologist
  • Margaret Henderson (1921–2007), Scottish dancer
  • Amanda Hendrick (born 1990), model
  • William Vallance Douglas Hodge (1903–1975), mathematician, geometer
  • Isobel Hoppar (born c. 1490), landowner, governess and political figure
  • John Horrocks (1816–1881), founder and innovator of modern European fly fishing
  • Kirsty Hume (born 1976), model
  • Sir John Ritchie Inch (1911–1993), police officer, Chief Constable of Edinburgh City Police
  • David Jones (born 1966), games programmer and entrepreneur, known for creating the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise
  • Princess Kaiulani Cleghorn of Hawaii (1876–1899), daughter of Archibald Cleghorn and Princess Miriam Likelike (sister of Queen Lili'iuokalani)
  • Christopher Kane (born 1982), fashion designer
  • James Kennedy (1930–1973), security guard for British Rail Engineering Limited, posthumously awarded the George Cross
  • Simon Somerville Laurie (1829–1909), educator
  • Mikhail Lermontov, 19th-century Russian author of Scottish origin
  • Hercules Linton (1837–1900), surveyor, designer, shipbuilder, antiquarian and local councillor, designer of the Cutty Sark
  • James Loch (1780–1855), economist, advocate, barrister, estate commissioner
  • Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970), diplomat, journalist and secret agent
  • Mary Lyon (1797–1849), first woman principal in America
  • Flora Macaulay (1859–1958), editor of The Oban Times newspaper
  • Flora MacDonald (1722–1790), Jacobite and United Empire Loyalist
  • Gillies MacKinnon, film director, writer and painter
  • Iain Macmillan (1938–2006), photographer, took the photograph for The Beatles' album Abbey Road
  • Jamie Macpherson (1675–1700), outlaw and author of MacPherson's Lament or Rant
  • Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair (1846–1941), campaigner for women's education and women's suffrage
  • Gary McKinnon (born 1966), computer hacker
  • Lorna McNee, chef
  • Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield (1722–1799), advocate and judge
  • James Murdoch (1856–1921), journalist and teacher
  • William McMaster Murdoch (1873–1912), First Officer aboard the RMS Titanic
  • Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven (1903–1993), academic and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford
  • Androw Myllar (fl.1503–1508), first Scottish printer, in partnership with Walter Chepman
  • Eunice Olumide (born 1987), model
  • James Orrock (1829–1913), collector of art and Oriental ceramics
  • Robert Paterson (1715–1801), stonemason, who suggested to Sir Walter Scott the character of "Old Mortality"
  • Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854), United States most celebrated cabinetmaker
  • Natalie Pike (born 1983), model
  • James Pillans (1778–1864), classical scholar and educational reformer
  • Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), North American detective
  • Timothy Pont (c. 1565–1614), cartographer and topographer, the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland
  • John Charles Walsham Reith (1889–1971), first Director General of the BBC
  • John Rennie (1842–1918), naval architect, Naval Constructor and Instructor for the Chinese Government
  • Jonathan Saunders, fashion designer
  • James Small (1835–1900), last laird of Dirnanean
  • Archibald Smith (1813–1872), mathematician and lawyer
  • William Stewart Easton Stephen (1903–1975), philatelist
  • Flora Stevenson (1839–1905), social reformer, interested in education
  • Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908), campaigner for women's university education, women's suffrage and well-organised nursing
  • Jock Stewart (1918–1989), executioner
  • Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929), author, and campaigner for women's rights
  • Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880–1958), author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights
  • John Guthrie Tait (1861–1945), educator, principal of the Central College of Bangalore, and sportsman
  • Stella Tennant (born 1970), model
  • Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912–2000), philanthropist, mother of Donald Trump[11]
  • John Thomson (1837–1921), photographer
  • James Tytler (1745–1804), apothecary, editor of the second edition of Encyclopædia Britannica; first person in Britain to fly (by ascending in a hot air balloon)
  • John Walker (1731–1803), minister of religion, natural historian and professor
  • Albert Watson (born 1942), fashion and celebrity photographer
  • Alexander Wilson (d. 1922), noted amateur photographer, working in Dundee
  • Margaret Wilson (c. 1667–1685), Covenanter martyr
  • Roderick Wright (1940–2005), disgraced Catholic bishop

See also

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