List of Scots (1338 items)report

• James Adam (1732–1794), son of William Adam (Architects and master masons)

• John Adam (1721–1792), eldest son of William Adam (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Adam (1728–1792), architect, son of William Adam (Architects and master masons)

• William Adam (1689–1748), father of James, John and Robert; architect and mason (Architects and master masons)

• John Macvicar Anderson (1835–1915) (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921) (Architects and master masons)

• Howard Ashley, architect practicing in Malaya, who worked for the Public Works Department of Malaysia (Architects and master masons)

• George Ashdown Audsley (1838–1925), architect, artist, illustrator, writer, and pipe organ designer (Architects and master masons)

• William James Audsley (1833–1907) (Architects and master masons)

• Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton (1874–1960), FRIBA (Architects and master masons)

• John Baird (1798–1859), influential figure in the development of Glasgow Georgian and Victorian Architecture (Architects and master masons)

• Andrew Balfour (1863–1943), architect, work including Holmlea Primary School, Glasgow (Architects and master masons)

• Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie (1900–1970), possibly the first woman to practise architecture in Scotland (Architects and master masons)

• John Begg (1866–1937), architect who practised in London, South Africa and India, and taught at Edinburgh College of Art (Architects and master masons)

• William Bryce Binnie (c. 1885–c. 1963) (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander Black (c.1790–1858) (Architects and master masons)

• Hippolyte Blanc (1844–1917) (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas Bonnar (c.1770–1847), interior designer and architect (Architects and master masons)

• James MacLellan Brown (c. 1886–1967), city architect of Dundee, designer of the Mills Observatory (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas Brown (1781–1850), architect, works including Bellevue Church, Edinburgh (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas Brown (1806–1872), architect notable for prison design (Architects and master masons)

• Sir George Washington Browne (1853–1939) (Architects and master masons)

• Sir William Bruce (c. 1630–1710) (Architects and master masons)

• David Bryce (1803–1876) (Architects and master masons)

• William Burn (1789–1870) (Architects and master masons)

• John Burnet (1814–1901), architect who lived and practised in Glasgow (Architects and master masons)

• Sir John James Burnet (1857–1938), Edwardian architect, son of John Burnet (Architects and master masons)

• James Burton (1761–1837), famous London property developer and architect; father of Decimus Burton and James Burton (Egyptologist) (Architects and master masons)

• James Byres of Tonley (1733–1817), architect, antiquary and dealer in Old Master paintings and antiquities (Architects and master masons)

• Edward Calvert (c. 1847–1914) (Architects and master masons)

• Charles Cameron (1743–1812) (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander Buchanan Campbell (1914–2007) (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander Lorne Campbell (1871–1944), architect founder of Scott & Campbell (Architects and master masons)

• Colen Campbell (1676–1729) (Architects and master masons)

• Colin Robert Vaughan Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor (born 1962) (Architects and master masons)

• John Campbell (1857–1942) (Architects and master masons)

• John Chesser (1819–1892), architect largely based in Edinburgh (Architects and master masons)

• Sir John Ninian Comper (1864–1960), Gothic Revival architect (Architects and master masons)

• George Corson (1829–1910) (Architects and master masons)

• David Cousin (1809–1878), architect, landscape architect and planner (Architects and master masons)

• James Craig (1739–1795) (Architects and master masons)

• James Hoey Craigie (1870–1930) (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander Hunter Crawford (1865–1945), architect and businessman, owner of Crawford's Biscuits (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander Davidson (1839–1908), architect active in Australia (Architects and master masons)

• William Gordon Dey (1911–1997), architect who specialised in college buildings (Architects and master masons)

• John Douglas of Pinkerton (c.1709–1778), architect who designed and reformed several country houses (Architects and master masons)

• Sir Robert Drummond of Carnock (died 1592), Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland (Architects and master masons)

• Sir James Duncan Dunbar-Nasmith, (born 1927), leading conservation architect (Architects and master masons)

• Alan Dunlop (born 1958) (Architects and master masons)

• John Murray Easton (1889–1975), architect, winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander Edward (1651–1708), Episcopalian clergyman, draughtsman, architect and landscape designer (Architects and master masons)

• Archibald Elliot (1760–1823) (Architects and master masons)

• Reginald Francis Joseph Fairlie (1883–1952), architect of the National Library of Scotland (Architects and master masons)

• James Fergusson (1808–1886) (Architects and master masons)

• Claude Waterlow Ferrier (1879–1935), architect, specialising in the Art Deco style (Architects and master masons)

• James Leslie Findlay (1868–1952) (Architects and master masons)

• Kathryn Findlay (born 1954) (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Findlay (1859–1951) (Architects and master masons)

• George Topham Forrest (1872–1945) (Architects and master masons)

• William Fowler (1824–1906), architect (Architects and master masons)

• Malcolm Fraser (born 1959) (Architects and master masons)

• Patrick Allan Fraser (1812–1890), architect and painter (Architects and master masons)

• Andrew Frazer (died 1792) (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas Gildard (died 1895), architect of Britannia Music Hall (Architects and master masons)

• James Gibbs (1682–1754) (Architects and master masons)

• Charles Lovett Gill (1880–1960) (Architects and master masons)

• James Gowan (1923–2015), postmodernist architect of the "engineering style" (Architects and master masons)

• Sir James Gowans (1821–1890), maverick Edinburgh architect and builder (Architects and master masons)

• James Gillespie Graham (1776–1855) (Architects and master masons)

• John Edgar Gregan (1813–1855) (Architects and master masons)

• David Hamilton (1768–1843) (Architects and master masons)

• Sir James Hamilton of Finnart (c1495–1540), Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas Hamilton (1784–1858) (Architects and master masons)

• John Henderson (1804–1862), architect chiefly remembered as a church architect (Architects and master masons)

• William Hastie (1753/1763–1832) (Architects and master masons)

• Gareth Hoskins (1967–2016), architect, UK Architect of the year 2006 (Architects and master masons)

• Edith Mary Wardlaw Burnet Hughes (1888–1971), considered Britain's first practising woman architect, who established her own firm in 1920 (Architects and master masons)

• Ernest Auldjo Jamieson (1880–1937), architect specialising in country houses, largely for wealthy family friends (Architects and master masons)

• George Meikle Kemp (1795–1844), carpenter, draughtsman, and architect, best known as the designer of the Scott Monument (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Kerr (1823–1904), co-founder of the Architectural Association (Architects and master masons)

• Sir William Hardie Kininmonth (1904–1988), architect whose work mixed a modern style with Scottish vernacular (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander Laing (1752–1823), architect (Architects and master masons)

• William Leiper (1839–1916) (Architects and master masons)

• David Lennox (1788–1873), bridge-builder and master stonemason, working in Australia (Architects and master masons)

• John Lessels (1809–1883) (Architects and master masons)

• Ian G Lindsay (1906–1966) (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Lorimer (1864–1929) (Architects and master masons)

• David MacGibbon (1831–1902) (Architects and master masons)

• Kate Macintosh (born 1937), architect of Dawson's Heights in Southwark (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander George Robertson Mackenzie (1879–1963), architect, in London and Aberdeen (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander Marshall Mackenzie (1848–1933) (Architects and master masons)

• Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), architect, designer and watercolourist; husband and business partner of Margaret McDonald (Architects and master masons)

• James Marjoribanks MacLaren (1853–1890), associated with the Arts and Crafts movement and Scottish Vernacular architecture (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas MacLaren (1863–1928), architect who worked in worked in London, and the United States (Architects and master masons)

• Andy MacMillan (1928–2014), architect, educator, writer and broadcaster (Architects and master masons)

• Ebenezer James MacRae (1881–1951), City Architect for Edinburgh (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas P. Marwick (1854–1927), architect based in Edinburgh, important to the architectural character of Marchmont (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Matheson (1808–1877), architect and Clerk of Works for Scotland (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Matthew (1906–1975) (Architects and master masons)

• 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 (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander McGill (died 1734), mason and architect, who worked in partnership with James Smith (Architects and master masons)

• John McLachlan (1843–1893), architect (Architects and master masons)

• George McRae (1858–1923), architect who migrated to Australia and pursued his career in Sydney (Architects and master masons)

• Sir Frank Charles Mears (1880–1953) (Architects and master masons)

• Adam Menelaws (born between 1748 and 1756–1831) (Architects and master masons)

• James Miller (1860–1947) (Architects and master masons)

• Sydney Mitchell (1856–1930) (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Morham (1839–1912), City Architect for Edinburgh (Architects and master masons)

• Richard Murphy (born 1955), architect, winner of the 2016 RIBA House of the year (Architects and master masons)

• Gordon Murray (born 1954) (Architects and master masons)

• Sir James Murray of Kilbaberton (died 1634), master wright and architect (Architects and master masons)

• John Mylne (died 1621), master mason (Architects and master masons)

• John Mylne of Perth (c. 1585–1657), master mason (Architects and master masons)

• John Mylne (1611–1667), master mason and architect (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Mylne (1633–1710), stonemason and architect, last Master Mason to the Crown of Scotland (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Mylne (1733–1811), architect and civil engineer, remembered for Blackfriars Bridge, London (Architects and master masons)

• Walter Newall (1780–1863) (Architects and master masons)

• Peter Nicholson (1765–1844) (Architects and master masons)

• John Paterson (died 1832) (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Hamilton Paterson (1843–1911), partner in the architectural practice, Hamilton-Paterson and Rhind (Architects and master masons)

• David Paton (1801–1882), architect and builder, who worked in the United States in the 1830s (Architects and master masons)

• John Dick Peddie (1824–1891) (Architects and master masons)

• John More Dick Peddie (1853–1921) (Architects and master masons)

• Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832–1898) (Architects and master masons)

• James Playfair (1755–1794), father of William Henry (Architects and master masons)

• William Henry Playfair (1790–1857) (Architects and master masons)

• B. Marcus Priteca (1889–1971) (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Reid Raeburn (1819–1888), architect who worked in and around Edinburgh (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Reid (1774–1856), King's architect and surveyor for Scotland (Architects and master masons)

• David Rhind (1808–1883) (Architects and master masons)

• James Robert Rhind (1854–1918) (Architects and master masons)

• John Rhind (1836–1889), architect from Inverness (Architects and master masons)

• George Richardson (c. 1737–c. 1813), architectural and decorative draftsman (Architects and master masons)

• John Thomas Rochead (1814–1878) (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas Ross (1839–1930) (Architects and master masons)

• Fred Rowntree (1860–1927), Arts and Crafts architect (Architects and master masons)

• Witold Rybczynski (born 1943) (Architects and master masons)

• James Salmon (1873–1924), grandson of James Salmon (1805–1888) (Architects and master masons)

• James Salmon (1805–1888), grandfather of James Salmon (1873–1924) (Architects and master masons)

• William Schaw (c. 1550–1602), Master of Works to James VI of Scotland for building castles and palaces (Architects and master masons)

• John Scrimgeour of Myres (fl. 16th century), Master of Work for royal buildings for James V and Mary, Queen of Scots (Architects and master masons)

• James Robb Scott (1882–1965), chief architect of the Southern Railway (Architects and master masons)

• James Sellars (1843–1888) (Architects and master masons)

• Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912), architect known for his country houses and for commercial buildings (Architects and master masons)

• Archibald Simpson (1790–1847), one of the major architects of Aberdeen (Architects and master masons)

• James Smith (c. 1645–1731) (Architects and master masons)

• James Smith of Jordanhill (1782–1867), architect, merchant, antiquarian, geologist, biblical critic and man of letters (Architects and master masons)

• John Smith (1781–1852), first official city architect of Aberdeen (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Smith (1722–1777), emigrant to America (Architects and master masons)

• William Smith (1817–1891) (Architects and master masons)

• John Soutar (1881–1951) (Architects and master masons)

• James Souttar (1840–1922), worked in Sweden (Architects and master masons)

• Basil Spence (1907–1976) (Architects and master masons)

• John James Stevenson (1831–1908) (Architects and master masons)

• James Stirling (1926–1992) (Architects and master masons)

• John Tait (1787–1856), architect based in Edinburgh (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas S. Tait (1882–1954) (Architects and master masons)

• Bruce James Talbert (1838–1881), architect and interior designer (Architects and master masons)

• Sir Andrew Thomas Taylor (1850–1937), architect and Conservative Party municipal councillor (Architects and master masons)

• Alexander "Greek" Thomson (1817–1875) (Architects and master masons)

• James Thomson (died 1927), City Engineer, City Architect, and Housing Director of Dundee (Architects and master masons)

• Ramsay Traquair, architect and academic with strong links to Canada (Architects and master masons)

• James Campbell Walker (1821–1888), architect specialising in poorhouses and schools (Architects and master masons)

• William Wallace (died 1631) (Architects and master masons)

• Frederick Walters (1849–1931), notable for Roman Catholic churches (Architects and master masons)

• George Henry Walton (1867–1933) (Architects and master masons)

• Thomas Lennox Watson (c. 1850–1920) (Architects and master masons)

• William Weir (1865–1950) (Architects and master masons)

• Charles Wilson (1810–1863) (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Wilson (1834–1901), architect for the Edinburgh Board of Education (Architects and master masons)

• George Wittet (1878–1926), architect working mostly in Bombay, India (Architects and master masons)

• William Young (1843–1900), designer of Glasgow City Chambers (Architects and master masons)

• Robert Aitken (1734–1802), Philadelphia printer, the first to publish an English language Bible in the United States (Businesspersons)

• Alexander Aikman (1755–1838), Jamaican printer, newspaper publisher, and landowner. (Businesspersons)

• Arthur Anderson (1792–1868), co-founder of P&O (Businesspersons)

• Alexander Arbuthnot (died 1585), printer, work including George Buchanan's first History of Scotland (Businesspersons)

• Sir George Gough Arbuthnot (1848–1929), businessman and civic leader in British India (Businesspersons)

• Keith Arbuthnott, 17th Viscount of Arbuthnott (born 1950), peer and businessman (Businesspersons)

• John Bartholomew, Sr. (1805–1861), cartographer and engraver, founder of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd (Businesspersons)

• John Bartholomew Jr. (1831–1893), cartographer (Businesspersons)

• John Christopher Bartholomew (1923–2008), cartographer and geographer (Businesspersons)

• John George Bartholomew (1860–1920), cartographer and geographer (Businesspersons)

• John (Ian) Bartholomew (1890–1962), cartographer and geographer (Businesspersons)

• William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn (1856–1936), founder of William Beardmore and Company engineers and shipbuilders (Businesspersons)

• James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795–1872), founder and publisher of the New York Herald (Businesspersons)

• Alexander Berry (1781–1873), town of Berry is named after him, possibly the first millionaire in Australia (Businesspersons)

• David Berry (1795–1889), livestock breeder, landowner and benefactor; brother of Alexander Berry (Businesspersons)

• Peter Buchan (1790–1854), editor, publisher, and collector of ballads and folktales (Businesspersons)

• David Buick (1854–1929), founded the Buick car company (Businesspersons)

• Sir George Burns, 1st Baronet (1795–1890), shipping magnate (Businesspersons)

• Sir James Burns (1846–1923), businessman, shipowner and philanthropist in Australia (Businesspersons)

• James Burns (1789–1871), shipowner born in Glasgow (Businesspersons)

• John Burns, 1st Baron Inverclyde (1829–1901), shipowner, chairman of Cunard (Businesspersons)

• Agnes Campbell, Lady Roseburn (1637–1716), printer, described as "Scotland's wealthiest early modern printer". (Businesspersons)

• Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), steel magnate, major philanthropist (Businesspersons)

• Thomas Catto, 1st Baron Catto (1879–1959), businessman, Governor of the Bank of England. (Businesspersons)

• William Chambers of Glenormiston (1800–1883), publisher (Businesspersons)

• Sir Arnold Clark (1928–2017), founder of Arnold Clark motor group (Businesspersons)

• Catherine Cranston (1849–1934), leading figure in the development of tea rooms, patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and others (Businesspersons)

• William Cunninghame of Lainshaw (1731–1799), tobacco merchant (Businesspersons)

• David Dale (1739–1806), merchant and businessman, established the weaving community of New Lanark (Businesspersons)

• William Davidson (1740–1890), entrepreneur and founder of the first colony in New Brunswick, Canada (Businesspersons)

• Adam Dawson (1793–1873), Linlithgow and owner of St Magdalene distillery (Businesspersons)

• George Dempster of Dunnichen and Skibo (1732–1818), advocate, landowner, agricultural improver, politician and business man (Businesspersons)

• Peter Denny (1821–1895), shipbuilder and shipowner, with William Denny and Brothers (Businesspersons)

• John Dewar, Sr. (1805–1880), founder of John Dewar & Sons, Scotch whisky distillers (Businesspersons)

• Dr. Henry Duncan (1774–1846), Church of Scotland Minister; started the world's first savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfries and Galloway (Businesspersons)

• John Elder (1824–1869), marine engineer and shipbuilder (Businesspersons)

• Sir Tom Farmer (born 1940), entrepreneur (Businesspersons)

• B. C. Forbes (1880–1954), founder of Forbes magazine (Businesspersons)

• Alexander Fordyce (died 1789), banker, involved in the bank run on Neal, James, Fordyce and Down in 1772 (Businesspersons)

• Hugh Fraser (1817–1853), founder of House of Fraser group of department stores (Businesspersons)

• Anita Margaret Frew (born 1957), businessperson (Businesspersons)

• Martin Gilbert (born 1955), Chief Executive of Aberdeen Asset Management (Businesspersons)

• James Gillespie (1726–1797), snuff-maker and philanthropist (Businesspersons)

• Ann Gloag (born 1942), co-founder of Stagecoach Group, born in Perth (Businesspersons)

• Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911), Nagasaki-based trader in 19th-century Japan (Businesspersons)

• Robert Gordon (1668–1731), founder of the Robert Gordon University (Businesspersons)

• Sir Angus Grossart (born 1937), chairman of merchant bank Noble Grossart (Businesspersons)

• Andrew Halyburton (died 1507), merchant, 'Conservator of the Scottish privileges in the Low Countries' (Businesspersons)

• Willie Haughey (born 1956), entrepreneur and founder of City Refrigeration Holdings (Businesspersons)

• George Heriot (1563–1624), goldsmith and founder of George Heriot's School (Businesspersons)

• Tom Hunter (born 1961), entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Sports Division (Businesspersons)

• John Lawson Johnston (1839–1900), creator of Bovril (Businesspersons)

• Irvine Laidlaw (born 1942), Scotland's 6th richest man and founder of the modern conference company (Businesspersons)

• John Law (1671–1729), advocate of paper money and founder of the Mississippi Company (Businesspersons)

• Thomas Leishman, founder of United Breweries, India (Businesspersons)

• Sir Thomas Lipton (1848–1931), founder of Lipton's Tea (Businesspersons)

• Sir George Mathewson, (born 1940), former chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland (Businesspersons)

• Jim McColl (born 1951), founder of Clyde Blowers (Businesspersons)

• William McEwan (1827–1913), founder of McEwans brewers (Businesspersons)

• Stewart Milne (born 1950), founder of Stewart Milne Group and majority shareholder of Aberdeen F.C. (Businesspersons)

• Michelle Mone (born 1971), founder of Ultimo (Businesspersons)

• Sir David Murray (born 1951), founder of Murray International Metals (Businesspersons)

• Thomas Napier (1802–1881), builder, emigrant to Australia (Businesspersons)

• William Paterson (1658–1719), founder of Bank of Scotland and Bank of England (Businesspersons)

• Alexander Cameron Sim (1840–1900), pharmacist and entrepreneur active in Japan, founder of the Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (Businesspersons)

• Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin (born 1944), Chair of the Green Investment Bank (Businesspersons)

• Brian Souter (born 1954), entrepreneur and co-founder of Stagecoach Group (Businesspersons)

• James Stirling (1800–1876), builder of steam locomotives, brother of Robert Stirling (Businesspersons)

• Thomas Sutherland (1834–1922), founder of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and HSBC Holdings plc (Businesspersons)

• David Couper Thomson (1861–1954), proprietor of the newspaper and publishing company D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (Businesspersons)

• George Thomson (1815–1866), marine engineer and shipbuilder (Businesspersons)

• William Walls (1819–1893), lawyer and industrialist, influenced the development of 19th-century Glasgow (Businesspersons)

• William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir (1877–1959), industrialist, engineer and politician (Businesspersons)

• George Watson (1654–1723), first chief accountant of the Bank of Scotland; founder of George Watson's College (Businesspersons)

• Wilson, Sons, founded in 1837 by Edward and Fleetwood Pellow Wilson; one of South America's largest shipping brokers (Businesspersons)

• Andrew Yule (1834–1902) was a businessman who founded Andrew Yule and Company in India (Businesspersons)

• Sir David Yule, 1st Baronet (1858–1928), businessman based in India (Businesspersons)

• George Yule (1829–1892), merchant in England and India, fourth President of the Indian National Congress (Businesspersons)

• Robert Burns (1759–1796) (Composers)

• Robert Carver (c. 1485–c. 1570) (Composers)

• Ronald Center (1913–1973) (Composers)

• Erik Chisholm (1904–1965) (Composers)

• James Clapperton (born 1968) (Composers)

• John Clerk of Penicuik (1676–1755) (Composers)

• James Dillon (born 1950) (Composers)

• Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1732–1781) (Composers)

• Iain Hamilton (1922–2000) (Composers)

• Tobias Hume (c.1579–1645) (Composers)

• Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916) (Composers)

• John Blackwood McEwen (1868–1948) (Composers)

• Edward McGuire (born 1948) (Composers)

• Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935) (Composers)

• Charles Macintosh (1839–1922), composer, performer and naturalist (Composers)

• Robert Mackintosh (c.1745–1807) (Composers)

• James MacMillan (born 1959) (Composers)

• Stuart MacRae (born 1976) (Composers)

• William Marshall (1748–1833) (Composers)

• John McLeod (born 1934) (Composers)

• Gordon McPherson (born 1965) (Composers)

• Stuart Mitchell (born 1965) (Composers)

• Thea Musgrave (born 1928) (Composers)

• James Oswald (1710–1769) (Composers)

• Morris Pert (1947–2010) (Composers)

• Francis George Scott (1880–1958) (Composers)

• James Scott Skinner (1843–1927), composer, dancing master, and fiddler (Composers)

• Robert Archibald Smith (1780–1829), composer known for his collection Scotish Minstrel (Composers)

• Ronald Stevenson (born 1928) (Composers)

• William Sweeney (born 1950) (Composers)

• Julian Wagstaff (born 1970) (Composers)

• William Wallace (1860–1940) (Composers)

• Judith Weir (born 1954) (Composers)

• Thomas Wilson (1927–2001) (Composers)

• William Armstrong of Kinmont (Kinmont Willie) (fl. 16th century), border reiver (Criminals)

• Sawney Bean, semi-mythical head of a clan in 15th- or 16th-century Scotland, reportedly executed for mass murder and cannibalism (Criminals)

• Bible John, nickname of supposed serial killer (Criminals)

• Robert Black (born 1947), serial killer convicted of the kidnapping and murder of four girls (Criminals)

• Geordie Bourne (died 1597), border reiver (Criminals)

• Ian Brady (1938–2017), one of the Moors murderers (Criminals)

• Deacon Brodie (1741–1788), Edinburgh city councillor and burglar (Criminals)

• Michael Brown (born 1966), fraudster (Criminals)

• Henry John Burnett (1942–1963), murderer, last man to be hanged in Scotland (Criminals)

• Colonel Francis Charteris (c. 1675–1732), nicknamed "The Rape-Master General" (Criminals)

• 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 (Criminals)

• William John Duff (born 1962), dentist convicted for fraud and reckless endangerment (Criminals)

• Paul John Ferris (born 1963), gangster and author (Criminals)

• Donald Forbes (1935–2008), murderer, convicted of two separate murders (Criminals)

• Arthur Furguson (1883–1938), con artist (Criminals)

• Jimmy Gauld (born 1931), footballer and match fixing ringleader (Criminals)

• John Gow (c. 1698–1725), notorious pirate (Criminals)

• Sir Robert Graham of Kinpont (died 1437), assassin of James I of Scotland (Criminals)

• Sir Archibald Grant 2nd Baronet (1696–1778), fraudster, expelled from parliament, and agricultural improver (Criminals)

• David Haggart (1801–1821), thief and murderer (Criminals)

• Archibald Hall (a.k.a. Roy Fontaine) (1924–2002), serial killer and thief (Criminals)

• James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh and Woodhouselee (died 1581) assassin of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland (Criminals)

• Thomas Watt Hamilton (1952–1996), perpetrator of the Dunblane school massacre (Criminals)

• John the Painter (1752–1777), highwayman, burglar, shoplifter, robber, and rapist, who committed acts of terror in British naval dockyards in 1776–77 (Criminals)

• William Kidd (1645–1701), mutineer and pirate (Criminals)

• Sonny Leitch (born c. 1933), career criminal and jailbreaker (Criminals)

• "Captain" James MacLaine (1724–1750), highwayman, known as the "Gentleman Highwayman" (Criminals)

• Jamie Macpherson (1675–1700), outlaw (Criminals)

• Peter Manuel (1927–1958), serial killer (Criminals)

• John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell (c. 1583–1613), Catholic nobleman, murderer of the Laird of Johnstone (Criminals)

• Edith McAlinden (born 1968), murderer, guilty of triple murder in Glasgow (Criminals)

• Ian McAteer (born 1961), Glasgow gangster (Criminals)

• William McCoy (c1763–1798), sailor and a mutineer on board HMS Bounty (Criminals)

• Thomas McGraw (1952–2007), known as "The Licensee" or "Wan-Baw McGraw", gangster (Criminals)

• Frank McPhee (1948–2000), Glasgow gangland boss (Criminals)

• Patrick Meehan (1927–1994), safe blower, convicted of murder but given a royal pardon (Criminals)

• Anthony Joseph Miller (1941–1960), the last teenager to be executed in the United Kingdom (Criminals)

• Robert Mone (born 1948), convicted murderer (Criminals)

• James Morrison (1760–1807) seaman and mutineer who took part in the Mutiny on the Bounty (Criminals)

• Susan Newell (1893–1923), murderer, the last woman to be hanged in Scotland (Criminals)

• Dennis Nilsen (born 1945), serial killer (Criminals)

• Colin Norris (born 1976), nurse convicted of murdering four elderly patients in a hospital in Leeds (Criminals)

• Dora Noyce (1900–1977), Edinburgh brothel keeper (Criminals)

• Johnny Ramensky (1905–1972), career criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities as a commando during World War II (Criminals)

• Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill (c. 1505–1576), lord of Parliament, murderer (Criminals)

• Robert Stewart, Master of Atholl (died 1437), assassin of James I of Scotland (Criminals)

• Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl (died 1437), assassin of James I of Scotland (Criminals)

• Arthur Thompson (1931–1993), Glasgow gangster (Criminals)

• Peter Tobin (born 1946), convicted serial killer and sex offender (Criminals)

• Andrew Walker (living), army corporal who killed three colleagues in a payroll robbery (Criminals)

• Sir Kenneth Alexander (1922–2001), university administrator (Economists)

• Adam Anderson (1692/1693–1765), economic historian (Economists)

• Duncan Black (1908–1991), social choice theorist (Economists)

• Sir Alexander Cairncross (1911–1998), founder of the UK Government Economic Service (Economists)

• Frances Anne Cairncross (born 30 August 1944), economist, journalist and academic (Economists)

• John Marcus Fleming (1911–1976), IMF deputy director of research (Economists)

• David Greenaway (born 1952), university administrator (Economists)

• John Law (c. 1671–1729), founder of Banque Générale in France (Economists)

• James Loch (1780–1855), economist, advocate, barrister, estate commissioner and Member of Parliament (Economists)

• Joseph Lowe (died 1831), journalist and political economist (Economists)

• Ronald MacDonald (born 1955) (Economists)

• Henry Dunning Macleod (1821–1902), credit theorist (Economists)

• Ailsa McKay (1963–2014), feminist economist, Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University and United Nations adviser (Economists)

• Sir James Mirrlees (born 1936), Nobel Laureate (Economists)

• Anton Muscatelli (born 1962), Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow (Economists)

• Brian Quinn (born 1936), former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of Celtic FC (Economists)

• John Rae (1796–1872), polymath (Economists)

• Gavin Clydesdale Reid (born 1946) (Economists)

• Adam Smith (1723–1790, moral philosopher, author of The Wealth of Nations, the first modern work on economics (Economists)

• James Abernethy (1814–1896), civil engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• Neil Arnott (1788–1874), physician and inventor of the Arnott waterbed (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir William Arrol (1839–1913), bridge builder (Engineers and inventors)

• Alexander Bain (1810–1877), inventor and engineer, first to invent and patent the electric clock and fax machine (Engineers and inventors)

• Charles Baird (1766–1843), engineer who played an important part in the industrial and business life of St. Petersburg (Engineers and inventors)

• Francis Baird (1802–1864), engineer in St. Petersburg; son of Charles Baird (Engineers and inventors)

• Hugh Baird (1770–1827), civil engineer, who designed and built the Union Canal (Engineers and inventors)

• John Logie Baird (1888–1946), television (Engineers and inventors)

• Nicol Hugh Baird (1796–1849), surveyor, engineer and inventor who emigrated to Canada (Engineers and inventors)

• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), telephone, National Geographic Society, hydrofoil (Engineers and inventors)

• Henry Bell (1767–1830), ran Europe's first commercially successful steamboat (Engineers and inventors)

• Rev Patrick Bell (1799–1869), Church of Scotland minister, and inventor of the reaping machine (Engineers and inventors)

• George Bennie (1891–1957), the Bennie Railplane (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir James Black (1924–2010), beta-blockers (Engineers and inventors)

• Robert Blair (1748–1828), aplanatic telescope (Engineers and inventors)

• Benjamin Blyth (1819–1866), civil engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• Benjamin Blyth II (1849–1917), civil engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir Thomas Bouch (1822–1880), railway engineer, designer of the original Tay Rail Bridge (Engineers and inventors)

• Robert Henry Bow (1827–1909), civil engineer and photographer (Engineers and inventors)

• James Braid (1795–1860), hypnosis (Engineers and inventors)

• James Bremner (1784–1856), naval architect, harbour builder and ship-raiser (Engineers and inventors)

• David Brewster (1781–1868), lenticular stereoscope (Engineers and inventors)

• George Brown (1650–1730), arithmetician and inventor (Engineers and inventors)

• Walter Brown (1886–1957), engineer and mathematician (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir George Bruce of Carnock (c.1550–1625), merchant and mining engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• Richard Henry Brunton (1841–1901), "father of Japanese lighthouses" (Engineers and inventors)

• Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan (1899–1985), civil engineer, first woman member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Engineers and inventors)

• Duncan Cameron (1825–1901), inventor of the "Waverley" pen nib, owner of The Oban Times newspaper (Engineers and inventors)

• James Chalmers (1782–1853), adhesive postage stamp (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir Dugald Clark (a.k.a. Clerk) (1854–1932), first two stroke cycle engine (the Clark cycle) (Engineers and inventors)

• Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald (1749–1831), made many general useful inventions, particularly in the navy (Engineers and inventors)

• Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), designed many inventions to do with naval technology and steam engines (Engineers and inventors)

• Dr James C. Crow (1789–1856), creator of the sour mash process for creating bourbon whiskey (Engineers and inventors)

• Robert Davidson (1804–1894), first electric locomotive (Engineers and inventors)

• James Dewar (1842–1923), inventor of the Thermos flask and co-developer of cordite (Engineers and inventors)

• William Dickson (1860–1935), motion picture camera and the world's first film (Engineers and inventors)

• Captain Thomas Drummond (1797–1840) army officer, civil engineer, and pioneer in use of the Drummond light (Engineers and inventors)

• Victoria Drummond (1894–1978), marine engineer, first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (Engineers and inventors)

• John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), the modern rubber tyre (Engineers and inventors)

• Henry Dyer (1848–1918), engineer, contributor to Western-style technical education in Japan (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir Peter Fairbairn (1799–1861), engineer and inventor, and mayor of Leeds, West Yorkshire (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet (of Ardwick) (1789–1874), civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder (Engineers and inventors)

• Patrick Ferguson (1744–1780), the Ferguson rifle (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), isolated penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum (Engineers and inventors)

• 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 (Engineers and inventors)

• Alexander John Forsyth (1768–1843), Presbyterian clergyman who invented the percussion cap (Engineers and inventors)

• William George Nicholson Geddes (1913–1993), civil engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• David Gow (born 1957), inventor of the i-Limb prosthetic hand (Engineers and inventors)

• Thomas Lomar Gray (1850–1908), engineer noted for his pioneering work in seismology (Engineers and inventors)

• James Gregory (1638–1675), the Gregorian telescope (Engineers and inventors)

• Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane (1897–1981), engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• William Handyside (1793–1850), engineer involved in important construction projects in St. Petersburg (Engineers and inventors)

• James Harrison (1816–1893), pioneer in mechanical refrigeration (Engineers and inventors)

• George Johnston (1855–1945), engineer, designer and constructor of Scotland's first automobile (Engineers and inventors)

• James Kennedy (1797–1886), locomotive and marine engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• David Kirkaldy (1820–1897), engineer, whose pioneering testing works now houses the Kirkaldy Testing Museum (Engineers and inventors)

• James Bowman Lindsay (1799–1862), inventor of the constant electric light bulb (Engineers and inventors)

• Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), patented waterproofing (Engineers and inventors)

• Alan MacMasters (1865–1927), inventor of the toaster (Engineers and inventors)

• Kirkpatrick MacMillan (1813–1878), bicycle (Engineers and inventors)

• John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), modern road construction (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir Robert McAlpine (Concrete Bob) (1847–1934), road builder (Engineers and inventors)

• Thomas McCall (1834–1904), cartwright, developer of the bicycle (Engineers and inventors)

• Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), mechanical engineer, inventor of the threshing machine (Engineers and inventors)

• Patrick Miller (1730–1815), steamboat pioneer (Engineers and inventors)

• Thomas Morton (1781–1832), shipwright and inventor of the patent slip (Engineers and inventors)

• William Murdoch (1754–1839), pioneer of gas lighting (Engineers and inventors)

• David Napier (1790–1869), marine engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• David Napier (1785–1873), engineer, founder of D. Napier & Son, an early precision engineering company which later made automobiles and aero engines (Engineers and inventors)

• James Robert Napier (1821–1879), engineer and inventor of Napier's diagram (Engineers and inventors)

• John Napier (1550–1617), Logarithm (Engineers and inventors)

• Robert Napier (1791–1876), marine engineer, "the father of Clyde Shipbuilding" (Engineers and inventors)

• Robert D. Napier (1821–1885), engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• James Nasmyth (1808–1890), steam hammer (Engineers and inventors)

• Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889), engineer, improved wire rope and submarine cable laying (Engineers and inventors)

• James Newlands (1813–1871), civil engineer, Borough Engineer of Liverpool as Borough Engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• Murdoch Paterson (1826–1898), Inverness engineer and architect, chief engineer of the Highland Railway (Engineers and inventors)

• William Paterson (1658–1719), the Bank of England (Engineers and inventors)

• William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872), developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines (Engineers and inventors)

• John Rennie the Elder (1761–1821), engineer, designer of the "new" 19th-century London Bridge (Engineers and inventors)

• John Shepherd-Barron (1925–2010), inventor of the automatic teller machine (Engineers and inventors)

• Hugh Smellie (1840–1891), engineer, Locomotive Superintendent (Engineers and inventors)

• Thomas Smith (1752–1814), early lighthouse engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• Charles Spalding (1738–1783), Edinburgh confectioner and improver of the diving bell (Engineers and inventors)

• Alan Stevenson (1807–1865), lighthouse engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• Charles Alexander Stevenson (1855–1950), lighthouse engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• David Stevenson (1815–1886), lighthouse designer (Engineers and inventors)

• David Alan Stevenson (1854–1938), lighthouse engineer (Engineers and inventors)

• Robert Stevenson (1772–1850), civil engineer, designer and builder of lighthouses (Engineers and inventors)

• Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), pioneering lighthouse designer and meteorologist; father of Robert Louis Stevenson (Engineers and inventors)

• Matthew Stirling (1856–1931), Locomotive Superintendent of the Hull and Barnsley Railway (Engineers and inventors)

• Patrick Stirling (1820–1895), railway engineer, and Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway (Engineers and inventors)

• Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790–1878), clergyman, and inventor of the Stirling engine (Engineers and inventors)

• William Symington (1764–1831), engineer, built the first practical steam boat (Engineers and inventors)

• Thomas Telford (1757–1834), architect, civil engineer, bridge designer (Engineers and inventors)

• Robert William Thomson (1822–1873), (Engineers and inventors)

• Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1893–1973), developed radar (Engineers and inventors)

• James Watt (1736–1819), engineer, significantly improved the steam engine (Engineers and inventors)

• James Young (1811–1883), invented a way of extracting paraffin oil (Engineers and inventors)

• Albert Armitage (1864–1943), Royal Navy Captain who was part of the Jackson–Harmsworth Expedition, which explored Franz Josef Land and rescued Fridtjof Nansen and his men from certain death; later part of the Discovery Expedition in Antarctica (Explorers)

• John Arthur, OBE (1881–1952), British Army Captain and medical missionary for over thirty years in Kenya; known simply as Doctor Arthur to generations of Africans (Explorers)

• William Balfour Baikie (1824–1864), naturalist, philologist and surgeon on the 1854 Niger Expedition; explored the Benue River and helped open up Nigeria to British trade while supporting the abolition of the slave trade (Explorers)

• Peter Belches (1796–1890), Royal Navy Lieutenant who explored the Swan River and its surrounding area while aboard Admiral Sir James Stirling's HMS Success (Explorers)

• Alexander Berry (1781–1873), merchant and surgeon who established the first European settlement on the south coast of New South Wales (Explorers)

• Henry Robertson Bowers (1883–1912), Royal Navy Lieutenant who was part of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, which attempted to be the first to reach the South Pole (Explorers)

• Robert Brown (1842–1895), scientist, explorer, and author (Explorers)

• James Bruce (1730–1794), traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and then Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile (Explorers)

• William Speirs Bruce (1867–1921), naturalist, oceanographer, polar scientist and leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition; established the first permanent weather station there and became the first to widely explore the Weddell Sea (Explorers)

• David Buchan (1780–1838), Royal Navy Captain who conducted expeditions in Newfoundland and Labrador and Spitsbergen (Explorers)

• Colin Campbell (1686–1757), entrepreneur, merchant and co-founder of the Swedish East India Company, the largest trading company in Sweden throughout the 18th century; King Frederick I of Sweden's ambassador to the Emperor of China (Explorers)

• Hugh Clapperton (1788–1827), Royal Navy Captain and traveller who explored many lakes and rivers in Africa; one of the first white people to see Lake Chad (Explorers)

• John Dundas Cochrane (1793–1825), Royal Navy Captain and traveller who crossed Eurasia on foot to reach the Kamchatka Peninsula (Explorers)

• William Cormack (1796–1868), agriculturalist, author and philanthropist; first European to explore the interior of Newfoundland and Labrador, while also building friendly relations with the native Beothuk people (Explorers)

• Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936), Don Roberto, adventurer, journalist, politician and writer who carried out many activities in Argentina, Mexico, Morocco, Spain and the United States (Explorers)

• David Douglas (1799–1834), botanist and gardener who explored parts of the remote Scottish Highlands, as well as North America and Hawaii; second person to summit Mauna Loa volcano; introduced hundreds of plants to Great Britain, including the Douglas fir (Explorers)

• Douglas Douglas–Hamilton (1903–1973), Lord Clydesdale, aviator and the first to see Mount Everest from above while carrying out the first detailed scientific survey of the Himalayas, the extremities he endured also helped demonstrate the need for pressurised cabins inside aircraft (Explorers)

• Alexander Forbes (1778–1862), author and merchant; first British consul to Mexico; published one of the first accounts in English of California (then a province of Mexico) (Explorers)

• Henry Ogg Forbes (1851–1932), botanist and ornithologist in both the Maluku Islands and New Guinea; director of the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand for three years (Explorers)

• Simon Fraser (1776–1862), fur trader who was employed by the North West Company and charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia; built the area's first trading ports; explored the 854-mile Fraser River (Explorers)

• George Glas (1725–1765), adventurer, merchant and seaman who traded between Brazil, the Canary Islands and north-western Africa (Explorers)

• Sir Alexander Richard Glen (1912–2004), explorer of the Arctic, and wartime intelligence officer (Explorers)

• Robert Gordon (1580–1661), antiquary, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and poet who created and revised many maps, including the first atlas of Scotland after being asked via a letter from King Charles I of England (Explorers)

• James Augustus Grant (1827–1892), British Army Lieutenant who accompanied John Hanning Speke in the search and discovery of the source of the River Nile; the Grant's gazelle is named in his honour (Explorers)

• Sir James Hector (1834–1907), geologist, naturalist and surgeon on the Palliser Expedition, the main goal of which was to find possible routes for the Canadian Pacific Railway; went on to manage what is now the Royal Society of New Zealand for thirty-five years (Explorers)

• Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889–1982), Arctic traveller and botanist (Explorers)

• Alexander Keith Johnston (1844–1879), cartographer and geographer to a commission for the survey of Paraguay; died while leading the Royal Geographical Society's expedition to Lake Malawi (Explorers)

• John Kirk (1832–1922), botanist, naturalist and physician; British administrator in Zanzibar; supported the abolition of the slave trade along with his associate David Livingstone (Explorers)

• Alexander Gordon Laing (1793–1826), British Army Major who was the first Westerner to discover the ancient city of Timbuktu (Explorers)

• Macgregor Laird (1808–1861), merchant and shipbuilder; pioneered British trade on the Niger River; his ship Sirius was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean run entirely on steam power; supported the abolition of the slave trade (Explorers)

• William Lithgow (1582–1645), alleged spy, traveller and writer who claimed to have peregrinated over 35,000 miles throughout various parts of the world (Explorers)

• David Livingstone (1813–1873), medical missionary and one of Africa's most celebrated explorers; discovered Victoria Falls, among other things; strongly opposed the slave trade; his meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the quotation "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" (Explorers)

• Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845), adventurer, coloniser, land speculator and soldier who fought in South America during the Spanish American wars of independence, before later helping to colonise parts of the continent (Explorers)

• John MacGregor (1825–1892), artist, barrister, philanthropist and travel writer; descendant of Rob Roy MacGregor; developed canoe sailing and popularised canoeing as a recreational sport, paddling and sailing them in both Europe and the Middle East (Explorers)

• Alistair Mackay (1878–1914), doctor and polar explorer, one of the first expedition to reach the South Magnetic Pole (Explorers)

• Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1764–1820), merchant who traced the 1,080-mile Mackenzie River and completed the first east to west overland crossing of the Americas (north of Mexico) to reach the Pacific Ocean; this predated the Lewis and Clark Expedition by a decade (Explorers)

• Harry McNish (1874–1930), carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans–Antarctic Expedition; later responsible for much of the work that ensured the crew's survival after the ship was destroyed (Explorers)

• Archibald Menzies (1754–1852), botanist, naturalist and surgeon on the Vancouver Expedition, which circumnavigated the globe, touched five continents and changed the course of history for the American indigenous people and the continent's European colonisation (Explorers)

• Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792–1855), British Army Lieutenant Colonel and surveyor in south-eastern Australia who became the Surveyor General of New South Wales; led several expeditions along the Darling River and beyond (Explorers)

• John Muir (1838–1914), author and naturalist whose conservation and preservation activism led to the creation of many national parks in the United States; founded the Sierra Club in California, one of the most important conservation organisations in America (Explorers)

• Sir John Murray (1841–1914), pioneering limnologist, marine biologist and oceanographer who assisted Charles Wyville Thomson on the Challenger expedition; first to note the existence of oceanic trenches, as well as the Mid–Atlantic Ridge (Explorers)

• William Hutchison Murray (1913–1996), mountaineer and writer who helped discover a route through the ice fields of Khumbu Glacier to the South Col of Mount Everest's summit, later used by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay during their historic ascent (Explorers)

• Walter Oudney (1790–1824), physician and African explorer, one of the first Europeans to accomplish a north–south crossing of the Sahara Desert (Explorers)

• Mungo Park (1771–1806), botanist and surgeon who conducted many journeys to Africa and was the first Westerner to encounter the central portion of the Niger River (Explorers)

• William Paterson (1755–1810), botanist, British Army Colonel and lieutenant governor, best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania (Explorers)

• John Rae (1813–1893), physician who explored Northern Canada, mainly surveying parts of the Northwest Passage; later reported the fate of the lost Franklin Expedition (Explorers)

• Sir John Richardson (1787–1865), naturalist and naval surgeon; traveled with Sir John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822; they later surveyed 1,878 miles of previously unmapped coast and made many natural history discoveries (Explorers)

• Sir James Clark Ross (1800–1862), Royal Navy Admiral who led the first successful expedition to reach the North Magnetic Pole; discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and volcanoes Mount Erebus and Mount Terror in Antarctica (Explorers)

• Sir John Ross (1777–1856), Royal Navy Admiral who discovered the Boothia Peninsula, the Gulf of Boothia and King William Island while exploring the Arctic (Explorers)

• John Ross (1817–1903), drover who explored deserts, mountain ranges and rivers in South Australia, before later leading an expedition to establish a route for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line (Explorers)

• Alexander Selkirk (1676–1721), sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile; his story is the inspiration behind Daniel Defoe's well-known character and novel Robinson Crusoe (Explorers)

• Henry Sinclair (c. 1345–c. 1400), nobleman rumoured to have explored Greenland and North America one hundred years before Christopher Columbus (Explorers)

• Sir James Stirling (1791–1865), colonial administrator and Royal Navy Admiral who established the Swan River Colony and became the first Governor of Western Australia (Explorers)

• John McDouall Stuart (1815–1866), surveyor and one of Australia's most famous explorers; led the first expedition to successfully traverse the continent from south to north and return (Explorers)

• Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (1830–1882), marine zoologist, natural historian and the chief scientist on the pioneering Challenger Expedition, which lay the foundation for modern oceanography (Explorers)

• Joseph Thomson (1858–1895), geologist and an important figure in the Scramble for Africa; headed many expeditions, including taking over one following the death of Alexander Keith Johnston; the Thomson's gazelle is named in his honour (Explorers)

• Tom Weir, MBE (1914–2006), author, broadcaster and climber who is best known for his long-running television series, Weir's Way, which helped popularise hillwalking and the great outdoors (Explorers)

• Thomas Braidwood Wilson (c. 1792–1843), surgeon and explorer in Australia (Explorers)

• John Wood (1812–1871), cartographer, naval officer and surveyor who explored many Asian rivers and compiled several maps of South Asia, which remained standard for most of the 19th century (Explorers)

• Sir James Wordie (1889–1962), geologist, chief of scientific staff on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans–Antarctic Expedition (Explorers)

• Stanley Baxter (born 1926) (Humorists)

• Danny Bhoy (born 1974) (Humorists)

• Frankie Boyle (born 1972) (Humorists)

• Rory Bremner (born 1961) (Humorists)

• Kevin Bridges (born 1986) (Humorists)

• Janet Brown (1924–2011) (Humorists)

• Fred Cairns (1857–1896) (Humorists)

• Susan Calman (Humorists)

• Rhona Cameron (born 1965) (Humorists)

• Stephen Carlin (Humorists)

• Des Clarke (Humorists)

• Alun Cochrane (born 1975) (Humorists)

• Billy Connolly (born 1942) (Humorists)

• Ronald Balfour Corbett (born 1930), known better as Ronnie Corbett (Humorists)

• Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) (Humorists)

• Karen Dunbar (1971) (Humorists)

• Craig Ferguson (born 1962) (Humorists)

• Gregor Fisher (born 1953), known better as the character Rab C. Nesbitt (Humorists)

• Rikki Fulton (1924–2004) (Humorists)

• George Gale (1929–2003), political cartoonist (Humorists)

• Graeme Garden (born 1943) (Humorists)

• Janey Godley (born 1961) (Humorists)

• Greg Hemphill (born 1969) (Humorists)

• Craig Hill (Humorists)

• Armando Iannucci (born 1963) (Humorists)

• Phil Kay (Humorists)

• Ford Kiernan (born 1962) (Humorists)

• Harry Lauder (1870–1950) (Humorists)

• David Law (1908–1971), cartoonist (Humorists)

• Brian Limond (born 1974) (Humorists)

• Jimmy Logan (1928–2001) (Humorists)

• Fred MacAulay (born 1956) (Humorists)

• Doon Mackichan (born 1962) (Humorists)

• Chic Murray (1919–1985) (Humorists)

• Jerry Sadowitz (born 1961) (Humorists)

• Iain Stirling (born 1988) (Humorists)

• Ian Tough (born 1947), one half of The Krankies (Humorists)

• Janette Tough (born 1947), A.K.A. Wee Jimmy Krankie (Humorists)

• Danny Wallace (born 1976) (Humorists)

• General James Abercrombie (1706–1781), British Army commander-in-chief of forces in North America during the French and Indian War (Military)

• Sir James Abercrombie, 1st Baronet of Edinburgh (died 1724), British Army officer and politician (Military)

• Major Sir Ralph Anstruther, 7th Baronet (1921–2002), British Army officer and courtier, awarded the Military Cross (Military)

• Major General Robert Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott (1897–1966), senior British Army officer, serving in both World War I and World War II (Military)

• William Baillie, professional soldier in Swedish and Scottish Covenanter service (Military)

• General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet (1757–1829), military leader (Military)

• Gilbert Balfour, 16th-century mercenary captain, probably having a leading role in the murder of Lord Darnley (Military)

• Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian Field Marshal and Minister of War during Napoleon's invasion in 1812 and War of the Sixth Coalition (Military)

• Sir Andrew Barton (c. 1466–1511), sailor from Leith, served as High Admiral of the Kingdom of Scotland (Military)

• King Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), Scotland's hero king and greatest warrior (Military)

• Calgacus (Military)

• Donald Cameron of Lochiel (c.1700–1748), Jacobite commander during the 1745 rising (Military)

• Richard Cameron (c. 1648–1680), Republican Covenanter and founder of the "Cameronians" (Military)

• Lady Agnes Campbell (1526–1601), military leader in Ireland (Military)

• Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792–1863) (Military)

• Sir Colin Campbell (died 1296), warrior of Clan Campbell (Military)

• Sandy Campbell (1898–1940), Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, 9th Bomb Disposal Company; awarded the George Cross (Military)

• Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane (1758–1832), senior Royal Navy commander during the Napoleonic Wars, achieving the rank of admiral (Military)

• Captain Archibald Cochrane (1783–1829), Royal Navy officer (Military)

• Colonel Hugh Stewart Cochrane (1829–1884), recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Indian Mutiny (Military)

• Air Chief Marshal the Honourable Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane (1895–1977), pilot and Royal Air Force officer (Military)

• Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775–1860), Admiral in the Royal Navy (Military)

• Sir Thomas John Cochrane (1789–1872), Royal Navy First Sea Lord (Military)

• Ninian Cockburn (died 1579), soldier, officer of the Garde Écossaise, political intriguer (Military)

• Major General Samuel Cockburn (or Cobron) (c. 1574–1621), soldier in the service of Sweden (Military)

• General Sir James Henry Craig (1748–1812), British military officer and colonial administrator (Military)

• General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887–1983), British Army officer (Military)

• Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883–1963), admiral of the World War II, brother of Alan (Military)

• James Currie (1756–1805), biographer of Robert Burns, early advocate of hydropathy (Military)

• Mark John Currie (1795–1874), explorer, founder settler of Western Australia, Admiral in the Royal Navy (Military)

• Field Marshal John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair (1673–1747), soldier and diplomat, commander at the Battle of Dettingen (Military)

• Tam Dalyell of the Binns (1615–1685), general (Military)

• Sir Archibald Douglas (c. 1298–1333), Regent of Scotland and leader of Scots forces at the Battle of Halidon Hill (Military)

• Sir James Douglas (c. 1287–1329), Warden of the Scottish Marches, military leader (Military)

• Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (Military)

• George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith (1746–1823), admiral active throughout the Napoleonic Wars (Military)

• Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone (1782–1842), British Army officer (Military)

• Sir Adam Ferguson (1771–1855), keeper of the regalia in Scotland (Military)

• John Forbes (1707–1759), general (Military)

• Captain Douglas Ford (1918–1943), Royal Scots officer, prisoner of war, awarded the George Cross (Military)

• Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat (1911–1995), prominent British Commando during the World War II (Military)

• Air Vice Marshal Sir Matthew Brown Frew (1895–1974), senior officer in the Royal Air Force and World War I flying ace (Military)

• Sir James Alexander Gordon (1782–1869), distinguished British officer in the Royal Navy (Military)

• Patrick Leopold Gordon of Auchleuchries (1635–1699), general and rear admiral in Russia (Military)

• James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650), Covenanter and Royalist leader of Highland Armies (Military)

• John Graham, Viscount (Bonnie) Dundee (c. 1648–1689), Jacobite Highland Army leader (Military)

• General Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch (1748–1843), leading Napoleonic General (Military)

• Aleksey Samuilovich Greig (1775–1845), Russian admiral (Military)

• Samuel Greig (1736–1788), Russian admiral (Military)

• Douglas Haig (1861–1928), Commander of British Forces during World War I (Military)

• General Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane (1862–1950), senior British Army officer (Military)

• Lieutenant General Sir David Henderson (1862–1921), British Army officer, authority on tactical intelligence, first commander of the Royal Flying Corps, instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force (Military)

• Captain Ian Henry David Henderson (1896–1918), World War I flying ace (Military)

• General Henry Sinclair Horne, 1st Baron Horne (1861–1929), World War I general (Military)

• James Innes (c. 1700–1759), military commander and political figure in the Province of North Carolina (Military)

• James John McLeod Innes (1830–1907), recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (Military)

• John Paul Jones (1747–1792), father of the American Navy (Military)

• Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (1582–1661), general, soldier in Dutch, Swedish and Scottish Covenanter service (Military)

• David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (c. 1600–1682), cavalry officer and general in Swedish and Scottish Covenanter service (Military)

• Major-General Edward Douglas Loch, 2nd Baron Loch (1873–1942), senior British Army officer (Military)

• Granville Gower Loch (1813–1853), captain in the Royal Navy, killed in action in Burma (Military)

• Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch (1827–1900), soldier and colonial administrator (Military)

• Alasdair Mac Colla (c. 1610–1647), Royalist soldier (Military)

• Rob Roy MacGregor (1671–1734) (Military)

• Hugh Mackay (c. 1640–1692), general who served during the Revolution of 1688 (Military)

• Colin Mackenzie (c. 1754–1821), soldier in British India (Military)

• Alexander Slidell MacKenzie, U.S. Navy (Military)

• Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, U.S. Cavalryman (Military)

• General Sir Harry Aubrey de Vere Maclean (1848–1920), general, commander of the Moroccan Army (Military)

• Major-General Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet (1911–1996), soldier, writer and politician; reputed to be one of the men comprising the compound of "Commando types" who inspired the Ian Fleming character James Bond (Military)

• Sam McDonald (1762–1802), "Big Sam", fencibles and gatekeeper for the Prince of Wales, noted for his unusual height (Military)

• Archie McKellar (1912–1940), Battle of Britain ace pilot (Military)

• Hugh Mercer (1726–1777), Continental Army General, fatally wounded at the Battle of Princeton (Military)

• Bill Millin (1922–2010), personal piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat (Military)

• Robert Monro (died c. 1680), general (Military)

• Richard Montgomery, Continental army (Military)

• Admiral Sir Graham Moore (1764–1843), career officer in the Royal Navy, brother of Sir John Moore (Military)

• Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore (1761–1809), General, victor of the Battle of Corunna (Military)

• Andrew Moray (died 1297), military leader during the Scottish Wars of Independence (Military)

• Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1278–1332), fought with King Robert I and James Lord of Douglas to regain Scotland's independence (Military)

• Admiral Sir Charles John Napier (1786–1860), naval officer and MP (Military)

• Captain Ian Patrick Robert Napier (1895–1977), World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories (Military)

• William Napier, 9th Lord Napier (1786–1834), Royal Navy officer, politician and diplomat (Military)

• John Pitcairn (1722–1775), Marine officer, killed at the battle of Bunker Hill (Military)

• John Reid (1721–1807), British general and musical composer, who left a bequest to fund a chair in Music at the University of Edinburgh (Military)

• Acting Sergeant John Rennie (1920–1943), posthumously awarded the George Cross (Military)

• Roderick Sinclair, 19th Earl of Caithness (1906–1965), British brigadier, 1st Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (Military)

• Sir James Shaw Kennedy (1788–1865), general and military writer (Military)

• John Small (died 1796), British Army officer and Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey (Military)

• Dr John Small (1823–1879), British Deputy Surgeon General (Military)

• James Dunlop Smith (1858–1921), official in the Indian Army (Military)

• Somerled (died 1164), 12th-century warlord (Military)

• Sir David Stirling (1915–1990), British Army Colonel and founder of the Special Air Service (Military)

• Sir James Stirling (1791–1865), 1st Governor of Western Australia, Admiral in the Royal Navy (Military)

• Lord Stirling, American Revolutionary War General (Military)

• Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720–1788), Jacobite Field Marshal and heir to the throne of Great Britain (Military)

• Sir John Urry (or Hurry) (died 1650), professional soldier (Military)

• William Wallace (c. 1270–1305), a.k.a. The Wallace (Military)

• Sir Andrew Wood of Largo (died 1515), sea captain and Lord High Admiral of Scotland (Military)

• John Abercrombie (1780–1844) (Philosophers)

• John Anderson (1726–1796), philosopher, radical and benefactor of Anderson's Institution (Philosophers)

• John Anderson (1893–1962) (Philosophers)

• Alexander Bain (1818–1903), philosopher and educationalist (Philosophers)

• Hector Boece (1465–1536), known in Latin as Boethius, first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen (Philosophers)

• Thomas Brown (1778–1820) (Philosophers)

• William Cleghorn (1718–1754), philosopher (Philosophers)

• Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) (Philosophers)

• Sir William Hamilton (1788–1888) (Philosophers)

• Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) (Philosophers)

• David Hume (1711–1776), inspired Immanuel Kant (himself of Scottish Heritage through his mother) (Philosophers)

• Alasdair MacIntyre (born 1929) (Philosophers)

• John Macmurray (1891–1976) (Philosophers)

• John Mair, otherwise known as Major (1467–1550), teacher of George Buchanan, John Knox, and influencer of Calvin and Loyola (Philosophers)

• William Manderstown (c. 1485–1552), philosopher and Rector of the University of Paris (Philosophers)

• James McCosh (1811–1894) (Philosophers)

• Thomas Reid (1710–1796), played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment (Philosophers)

• Duns Scotus (1265–1308), teacher of William of Ockham (Philosophers)

• William Small (1734–1775), Professor of Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary and member of the Lunar Society (Philosophers)

• Adam Smith (1723–1790), economist, free trade, division of labour (Philosophers)

• Dugald Stewart (1753–1828), common sense philosopher (Philosophers)

• David Abercromby (died c.1702), physician and writer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Francis Adams (1796–1861), medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Dr John Adamson (1809–1870), physician, pioneer photographer, physicist, lecturer and museum curator (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Ormiston Affleck (1840-1922), physician and medical author (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Margaret Forbes Alexander (living), nurse, educator, researcher and writer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Pulteney Alison (1790–1859), physician, social reformer and philanthropist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Maxwell Anderson (1928–1982), surgeon and cancer specialist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Thomas McCall Anderson (1836–1908), professor of practice of medicine at the University of Glasgow (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Archibald Arnott (1772–1855), British Army surgeon best remembered as Napoleon's last doctor on St. Helena (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Asher Asher (1837–1889), first Scottish Jew to enter the medical profession (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Matthew Baillie (1761–1823), physician and pathologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Dugald Baird (1899–1986), specializing in obstetrics and fertility (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Andrew Balfour (1873–1931), medical officer who specialised in tropical medicine (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Edward Balfour (1813–1889), surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India (Physicians and medical professionals)

• George William Balfour (1823–1903), physician, known as a heart specialist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Thomas Graham Balfour (1813–1891), physician noted for his work in medical statistics (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir George Ballingall (1780–1855), Regius Professor of military surgery (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Mitchell Banks (1842–1904), surgeon (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Major General William Burney Bannerman (1858–1924), military surgeon (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Andrew Whyte Barclay (1817–1884), physician, Lumleian Lecturer, and Harveian Orator (Physicians and medical professionals)

• George Steward Beatson (died 1874), surgeon-general, Honorary Physician to the Queen (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Colonel Sir George Thomas Beatson (1848–1933), physician, pioneer in the field of oncology (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Beattie (1793–1875), physician and writer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Begbie (1798–1869), physician, president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Warburton Begbie (1826–1876), physician (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Benjamin Bell of Hunthill (1749–1806), considered to be the first Scottish scientific surgeon (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842), surgeon, anatomist, neurologist and philosophical theologian (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Bell (1763–1820), anatomist and surgeon (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir James Whyte Black (1924–2010), physician and pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Physicians and medical professionals)

• 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 (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Gilbert Blane of Blanefield (1749–1834), physician who instituted health reform in the Royal Navy (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Borthwick of Stow (1615–1675), surgeon and first teacher of anatomy (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Braid (1795–1860), surgeon and "gentleman scientist", influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Milne Bramwell (1852–1925), physician, surgeon and medical hypnotist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William A. F. Browne (1805–1885), one of the most significant asylum doctors of the nineteenth century (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton (1844–1916), physician known for treatment of angina pectoris (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Buchan (1729–1805), physician, writer on medicine for a lay readership (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Maura Buchanan (living), nursing administrator, former president of the Royal College of Nursing (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829), physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Thomas Burnet (1638–1704), physician to Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Queen Anne (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Ewan Cameron (1922–1991), physician who worked with Linus Pauling on Vitamin C research (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Murdoch Cameron (1847–1930), Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Robina Thomson Cameron (1892–1971), district nurse, community leader and nursing inspector (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Dugald Campbell (died 1940), doctor from the isle of Arran; government physician on Hawaii (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir James Cantlie (1851–1926), physician, pioneer of First aid (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Cheyne (1777–1836), physician, and medical writer; identified Cheyne–Stokes respiration, with William Stokes (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Colin Chisholm (1755–1825), surgeon, medical writer and Fellow of the Royal Society (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Mairi Lambert Gooden-Chisholm of Chisholm (1896–1981), military nurse and ambulance driver during World War I, awarded the Military Medal (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Robert Christison (1797–1882), toxicologist and physician (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir James Clark (1788–1870), physician who was Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn of Stravithie (1820–1895), physician, botanist, and forester who worked in India (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Thomas Smith Clouston (1840–1915), psychiatrist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Dr Samuel Cockburn (1823–1915), advocate and practitioner of homeopathy (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Coldstream (1806–1863), physician (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Copland (1791–1870), physician and prolific medical writer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Craig (died 1620), physician and astronomer; physician to James VI of Scotland (Physicians and medical professionals)

• David Craigie (1793–1866), physician and medical writer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Alexander Crichton (1763–1856), physician, including the Emperor of Russia's personal physician, and author (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840–1938), leading psychiatrist and medical psychologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Cumin (died 1854), Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow (Physicians and medical professionals)

• David Douglas Cunningham (1843–1914), doctor and researcher in India, pioneer in aerobiology (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Daniel John Cunningham (1850–1909), physician, zoologist, and anatomist; author of medical textbooks (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir David Deas (1807–1876), medical officer in the Royal Navy (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Ian Donald (1910–1987), physician, pioneer of the use of diagnostic ultrasound in medicine (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir David Dumbreck (1805–1876), British Army medical officer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Andrew Duncan, the elder (1744–1828), physician, professor at Edinburgh University, pioneer of forensic medicine (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Andrew Duncan, the younger (1773–1832), physician, first professor of medical jurisprudence at Edinburgh University (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Matthews Duncan (1826–1890), physician, practitioner of and author on obstetrics (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (1889–1964), psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, central figure in the development of the object relations theory of psychoanalysis (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Walter Farquhar (1738–1819), physician, whose clientele included the future King George IV and William Pitt the Younger (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Fergusson (1773–1846), inspector-general of military hospitals; medical writer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Charles Finnigan (1901–1967), dental surgeon, Surgeon Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy, Honorary Dental Surgeon to the Queen (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Forbes (1779–1837), inspector-general of army hospitals (Physicians and medical professionals)

• George Fordyce (1736–1802), physician, lecturer on medicine, and chemist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir William Fordyce (1724–1792), physician, voted a gold medal for his work on rhubarb by the Society of Arts (Physicians and medical professionals)

• David Kennedy Fraser (1888–1962), psychologist, educator and amateur mathematician (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Margaret Neill Fraser (1880–1915), First World War nurse and notable amateur golfer, who died in Serbia (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Gairdner (1790–1876), physician and president of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir William Tennant Gairdner (1824–1907), Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Maxwell Garthshore (1732–1812), physician (Physicians and medical professionals)

• 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 (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Theodore Gordon (1786–1845), inspector of army hospitals (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874), physician and biologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Gregory (1753–1821), physician and classicist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Jane Stocks Greig (1872–1939), medical doctor and public health specialist in Australia (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Robert Marcus Gunn (1850–1909), ophthalmologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Daniel Rutherford Haldane (1824–1887), prominent physician, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Evelina Haverfield (1867–1920), suffragette and World War I nurse in Serbia (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Alexander Henderson (1780–1863), physician and author (Physicians and medical professionals)

• David Kennedy Henderson (1884–1965), psychiatrist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon (1858–1928) eminent surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1914–1917 (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Thomas Charles Hope (1766–1844), physician and chemist, discoverer of the element strontium (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Joseph Hume (1777–1855), physician and Radical MP (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Hunter (1728–1793), surgeon, after whom the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons is named (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Robert Hutchison (1871–1960), physician and paediatrician (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), medical reformer and suffragette (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Robert Jackson (1750–1827), physician-surgeon, reformer, and inspector-general of army hospitals (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Louisa Jordan (1878–1915), nurse who died in Serbia during the First World War; NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital was named after her (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Keill (1673–1719), physician, philosopher, medical writer and translator (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Martin Munro Kerr (1868–1960), Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow (Physicians and medical professionals)

• R. D. Laing (1927–1989), psychiatrist and author (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Thomas Latta (1796–1833), pioneer of the saline solution method of treatment (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Lauder (1683–1737), surgeon, deacon of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Robert Lee (1793–1877), obstetrician, and personal physician to Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Governor-General of the Crimea (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), pathologist and army medical officer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir John Liddell (1794–1868), Director-General of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy; senior medical officer of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Lind (1716–1794), physician, pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn (1826–1914), surgeon, forensic scientist and public health pioneer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Robert Lumsden (1903–1973), ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir William Macewen (1848–1924), surgeon, pioneer in modern brain surgery (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Jessie MacLaren MacGregor (1863–1906), one of the first women to be awarded an MD from the University of Edinburgh (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Mackenzie (1791–1868), ophthalmologist, who wrote one of the first British textbooks of ophthalmology (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir William Alexander Mackinnon (1830–1897), Director-General of the British Army Medical Service (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Thomas John MacLagan (1838–1903), Dundee doctor and pharmacologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Patrick Manson (1844-1922), physician who made important discoveries in parasitology, founder of the field of tropical medicine (Physicians and medical professionals)

• 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 (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Douglas Mary McKain (1789–1873), New Zealand nurse, midwife and businesswoman (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Agnes McLaren (1837–1913), doctor, first to give medical assistance to women in India (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Gavin Milroy (1805–1886), physician and medical writer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Alexander Monteith of Auldcathie (1660–1713), surgeon, deacon of the Incorporation of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Neil Gordon Munro (1863–1942), physician and anthropologist, who studied the Ainu people (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Flora Murray (1869–1923), medical pioneer, and a member of the Women's Social and Political Union suffragettes (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Robin MacGregor Murray (born 1944), psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatric Research (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Duncan Napier, Victorian botanist and medical herbalist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Alexander Nisbet (1795–1874), naval surgeon, H.M. Inspector of Hospitals for the Royal Navy (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Nisbet (1759–1822), physician, author of widely used medical books that emphasized practice (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir Alexander Ogston (1844–1929), surgeon, famous for his discovery of Staphylococcus (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Alexander Pennycuik (1605–1695), military surgeon, Surgeon General of the Scots forces in Ireland (Physicians and medical professionals)

• David Pitcairn (1749–1809), physician (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Archibald Pitcairne (1652–1713), physician and author (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Richard Poole (1783–1871), physician, psychiatrist, and phrenologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• George Hogarth Pringle (1830–1872), surgeon, pioneer of antiseptic surgery in Australia (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John James Pringle (1855–1922), dermatologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Laidlaw Purves (1842–1917), aural and ophthalmic surgeon (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Rattray (1707–1771), surgeon, surgeon to Prince Charles Edward Stuart and golfer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• David Boswell Reid (1805–1863), physician, chemist and inventor (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Agnes Reston (1771–1856), wartime nurse during the Peninsular War, known as the Heroine of Matagorda, for her outstanding bravery (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Roberton (1776–1840), physician and social reformer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Roberton (1797–1876), physician and social reformer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Thomas Ferguson Rodger (1907–1978), physician, Royal Army Medical Corps brigadier, and Professor of Psychological Medicine (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Elizabeth Ness MacBean Ross (1878–1915), physician who worked in Persia, and died in Serbia (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Catherine Murray Roy, military nurse during World War I, awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Rutherford (1695–1779), physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School; grandfather of Sir Walter Scott (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Helenus Scott (1760–1821), physician, active in India (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Lyall Stuart Scott (1920–1977), surgeon and urologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Thomas Shortt (1788–1843), army physician, who drafted Napoleon's official autopsy report (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Young Simpson (1811–1870), introduced chloroform into surgery (Physicians and medical professionals)

• David Skae (1814–1873), physician who specialised in psychological medicine (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Alexander Small (1710–1794), surgeon and scholar (Physicians and medical professionals)

• John Smith (1825–1910), dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator, founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Carmichael Smyth (1741–1821), physician and medical writer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• William Somerville (1771–1860), physician, inspector of the Army Medical Board, husband of Mary Somerville (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Syme (1799–1870), pioneering surgeon (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Michael Waistell Taylor (1824–1892), physician and antiquary (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862), physician, chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist, zoologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Gordon Turnbull, psychiatrist and author (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Andrew Ure (1778–1857), physician, scholar and chemist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Charles Howard Usher (1865–1942), ophthalmologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Wardrop (1782–1869), surgeon and ophthalmologist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Robert Watt (1774–1819), physician and bibliographer (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Alexander Allan Innes Wedderburn (born 9 May 1935), psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Heriot-Watt University. (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir David Wilkie (1882–1938), surgeon, pioneer of surgical research and undergraduate teaching (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Robert Willis (1799–1878), physician, librarian, and medical historian (Physicians and medical professionals)

• James Wilson (1765–1821), anatomist (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Professor Nairn Hutchison Fulton Wilson (born 1950), Honorary Professor of Dentistry, former Dean and Head of King's College London Dental Institute (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Alexander Wood (1725–1807), surgeon, and friend of the poet Robert Burns (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Alexander Wood (1817–1884), physician, inventor of the first true hypodermic syringe (Physicians and medical professionals)

• Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (1766–1829), Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Lord Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh (Rulers and politicians)

• James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline (1776–1858), barrister and Speaker of the House of Commons between 1835 and 1839 (Rulers and politicians)

• Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th Baronet (1793–1849), politician and prominent promoter of Sunday Sabbatarianism (Rulers and politicians)

• James Alexander (1691–1756), attorney general of New Jersey (Rulers and politicians)

• John Baird (1790–1820), revolutionary (Rulers and politicians)

• Robert Barton of Over Barnton (died 1540), merchant, sailor and politician; as Comptroller, Master of the Mint and Lord High Treasurer (Rulers and politicians)

• Cardinal David Beaton (c. 1494–1546) (Rulers and politicians)

• Dr. James Beaton (1473–1539), church leader, and the Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland (Rulers and politicians)

• Sir Robert Duncan Bell (1878–1953), colonial administrator in India; Acting Governor of Bombay in 1937 (Rulers and politicians)

• Tony Blair (born 1953), Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007) (Rulers and politicians)

• Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), statesman, one of the founders of the Edinburgh Review, Lord Chancellor (Rulers and politicians)

• Gordon Brown (born 1951), Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007–2010) (Rulers and politicians)

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• John Swinney (born 1964), Scottish National Party (SNP) politician (Rulers and politicians)

• Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn (1733–1805), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1793 to 1801 (Rulers and politicians)

• Sir William Wedderburn, 4th Baronet (1838–1918), civil servant in India and politician (Rulers and politicians)

• Elizabeth (Eliza) Wigham (1820–1899), leading suffragist and abolitionist (Rulers and politicians)

• Jane Wigham (née Smeal) (1801–1888), leading Scottish abolitionist (Rulers and politicians)

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• Robert Crichton Wyllie (1798–1865), physician and businessman, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawaii (Rulers and politicians)

• John Cowie (born 1954), Phantoms Legend (Sportspeople)

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• Drew Galloway (born 1985), professional wrestler (Sportspeople)

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• Wyndham Halswelle (1882–1915), Olympic champion runner (Sportspeople)

• Dougal Haston (1940–1977), mountaineer (Sportspeople)

• Joe Hendry, footballer (Sportspeople)

• Stephen Hendry (born 1969), professional snooker player, 7 time world champion (Sportspeople)

• John Higgins (born 1975), professional snooker player, three-time world champion (Sportspeople)

• Chris Hoy (born 1976), world, Olympic and Commonwealth champion track cyclist (Sportspeople)

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• Gary Jacobs, Scottish, British, Commonwealth, and European (EBU) welterweight champion boxer (Sportspeople)

• Jimmy Johnstone (1944–2006), football player (Sportspeople)

• George Kerr (born 1937), judo expert, winner of the 1957 gold medal in the European Judo Championships (Sportspeople)

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• Dominic Kinnear (born 1967), former soccer player, now the head coach of Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer (Sportspeople)

• Billy Kirkwood (born 1958), football player (Sportspeople)

• Martin Laird (born 1982), golfer (Sportspeople)

• Denis Law (born 1940), football player (Sportspeople)

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• Patricia Littlechild (born 1965), sport shooter (Sportspeople)

• Jackie Lockhart (born 1965), curler, skip of Scotland team which won the 2002 world championships (Sportspeople)

• Sandy Lyle (born 1958), golfer, winner of 1985 Open Championship and 1988 Masters Tournament (Sportspeople)

• Benny Lynch (1913–1946), world champion boxer (Sportspeople)

• Hamish MacInnes (born 1930), mountaineer (Sportspeople)

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• Catriona Matthew (born 1969), golfer (Sportspeople)

• Ally McCoist (born 1962), football player (Sportspeople)

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• William McGregor (1846–1911), founder of the Football League in England (Sportspeople)

• Neil McMenemy, triple jumper (Sportspeople)

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• Allan McNish (born 1969), racing driver (Sportspeople)

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• Steven Vidler (born 1977), middleweight judo expert, Commonwealth games bronze medallist (Sportspeople)

• Andrew Watson (born 1857), world's first black international football player, captain and administrator (Sportspeople)

• Jim Watt (born 1948), world champion boxer, won the WBC World Lightweight title (Sportspeople)

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• Kaye Adams (born 1962) (Television and radio personalities)

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• David Laird Adams (1837–1892), minister and academic, professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at the University of Edinburgh. (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Patrick Adamson, 16th-century Archbishop of St Andrews (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Reverend William Menzies Alexander (1858–1929), medical and theological writer, Professor of Divinity (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Tom Allan (died 1965), minister and evangelist, pioneer of practical church outreach in social work, primarily in the city of Glasgow (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Charles Arbuthnot (1737–1820), Scottish abbot of the Scots Monastery, Regensburg (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• George Husband Baird (1761–1840), minister, educational reformer, linguist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Donald Macpherson Baillie (1887–1954), theologian, ecumenist, and parish minister (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Baillie (1886–1960), theologian and Church of Scotland minister (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Bannerman, (1807–1868), Free Church of Scotland theologian (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• William Barclay (1907–1978), author, Church of Scotland minister, Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Barr (1924–2006) (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Blackadder (c. 1622–1685), eminent Presbyterian Covenanter preacher (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Robert Blackadder (died 1508), first archbishop of Glasgow (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Hugh Blair (1718–1800), minister of religion, author and rhetorician (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Blair (1656–1743), Church of England clergyman, missionary and founder of the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Robert Blair (1837–1907), Church of Scotland minister (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• David Bogue (1750–1825), nonconformist leader, and missionary to Penang (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Thomas Boston (1676–1732), pastor and theologian (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Claudius Buchanan (1766–1815), theologian, minister of the Church of England, and missionary to India (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• William Chalmers Burns (1815–1868), revival preacher, missionary to China (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Richard Cameron (c. 1648–1680), a leader of the Covenanters (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Andrew Cant (1590–1663), Presbyterian minister and leader of the Covenanters (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Very Rev Alexander Carlyle (1722–1805), church leader, and autobiographer (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Chalmers (1841–1901), missionary, active in New Guinea (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Dugald Christie (1855–1936), medical missionary in Mukden, China (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• William Robinson Clark (1829–1912), Dean of Taunton and later professor in Toronto (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Thomas Richardson Colledge (1796–1879), medical missionary in China, founder and first president of the Medical Missionary Society of China (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Daniel "Dan" Crawford (1870–1926), known as 'Konga Vantu', missionary of the Plymouth Brethren in central-southern Africa (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• William Cunningham (1805–1861), leading Free Church pastor and professor (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• David Dickson (c. 1583–1663), theologian and Covenanter (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• David Dickson (1780–1842), minister and writer (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Dudgeon (1837–1901), doctor, surgeon, translator, and medical missionary (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Rev Alexander Duff (1806–1878), first overseas missionary of the Church of Scotland to India (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754), minister whose actions led to the establishment of the Secession Church (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Ralph Erskine (1685–1752), preacher and poet (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838–1912), theological scholar, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Patrick Fairbairn (1805–1874), minister and theologian (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Henry Faulds (1843–1930), missionary to Japan, physician, and scientist noted for the development of fingerprinting (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Alexander Penrose Forbes (1817–1875) (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Forbes (1571–1606), Capuchin friar, known as Father Archangel (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848–1921), theologian, principal of Hackney College, London (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Frazer (1854–1941), anthropologist of comparative religion and myth (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Alexander Geddes (1737–1802), theologian and scholar (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Alexander Gerard (1728–1795), minister, academic and philosophical writer (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John George Govan (1861–1927), founder of the Faith Mission (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Daniel Gunn (1774–1848), Scottish congregational minister, latterly in Christchurch, Hampshire (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873), divine and philanthropist (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• William Guthrie (1620–1665), author of "The Christian's Great Interest" (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Alexander Haldane (1768–1851), independent church leader (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Robert Haldane (1764–1842), missionary preacher and lecturer; wrote a commentary on Romans (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Patrick Hamilton (1504–1528), first Protestant martyr in Scotland, burnt at the stake in 1528 (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• William Hastie (1842–1903), clergyman, theologian and translator of the Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven by Immanuel Kant (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Alexander Henderson (1583–1646) (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Hog (c. 1658–1734), minister at Carnock, known for his role in the Marrow controversy within the Church of Scotland (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Richard Holloway (born 1933) (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• William Irvine (1863–1947), evangelist and founder of the Cooneyite and Two by Two sects (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Robert Reid Kalley (1809–1888), physician and Presbyterian missionary notable for work in Portuguese-speaking territories (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Dr John Kennedy (1819–1884), Highland preacher, author of Days of the Fathers in Ross-shire (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Knox (c. 1513–1572), leader of the Scottish Reformation (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Thomas Leishman (1825–1904), minister and liturgical scholar (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• David Livingstone (1813–1873), missionary and explorer in Africa (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Alexander Mackay (1849–1890), Presbyterian missionary to Uganda (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Hugh Martin (1821–1885), pastor and writer (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843), minister of the Gospel, missionary to the Jewish people (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Thomas M'Crie the Elder (1772–1835), pastor and historian (wrote the 'Life of John Knox') (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• William Milligan (1821–1892), theologian, professor at the University of Aberdeen (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Robert Moffat (1795–1883), missionary to Africa (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Saint Mungo (also known as Saint Kentigern) (died 614) (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Murray (1898–1975), Calvinist theologian and Presbyterian minister (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• George Newlands (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Paton (1824–1907), Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Alexander Peden (1626–1686), leading figures in the Covenanter movement (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Dr John Philip (1775–1851), missionary in South Africa (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Robert Pont (or Kylpont) (1524–1606), reformer, lord of session, minister in Edinburgh and St. Andrews (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• The Revd Professor Norman Walker Porteous (1898–2003), translator of the Bible (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Andrew Purves (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Renwick (1662–1688), covenanter and martyr (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600–1661), Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308) (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Sharp (1613–1679), assassinated Archbishop of St Andrews (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Simson (c. 1668–1740), New Licht theologian, involved in a long investigation for heresy (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Mary Slessor (1848–1915), missionary and advocate for women's rights (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• George Washington Sprott (1829–1909), minister and liturgical scholar (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• George Thomson (1819–1878), missionary and botanist in Cameroon (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Thomas Torrance (1871–1959), missionary to China (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• Thomas F. Torrance (1913–2007), theologian (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• James Wedderburn (1585–1639), bishop of Dunblane, grandson of the poet James Wedderburn (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Welsh of Ayr (1568–1622), pastor exiled for faithful preaching; son-in-law to John Knox (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Willock (c. 1515–1585), Protestant reformer (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• George Wishart (1513–1546), Protestant reformer and martyr (Theologians, pastors and missionaries)

• John Adair (c. 1655–1722), surveyor and cartographer (Other notable people)

• Dr Hely Hutchinson Almond (1832–1903), educator and rugby union promoter (Other notable people)

• Jane Arthur (1827–1907), feminist and activist (Other notable people)

• Col. David Barclay (1610–1686), 1st Laird of Urie, a convert to Quakerism (Other notable people)

• Robert Barclay (1648–1690), Quaker, governor of the East Jersey colony (Other notable people)

• Andrew Bell (1753–1832), developer of the Madras system of education (Other notable people)

• Harry Benson (born 1929), celebrity and pop culture photographer (Other notable people)

• John Boyd (1925–2018), milliner based in London (Other notable people)

• 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 (Other notable people)

• Thomas Braidwood (1715–1806), teacher of the deaf (Other notable people)

• John Brown (1826–1883), servant of Queen Victoria* John Cairncross (1913–1995), intelligence officer and spy during World War II, alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five (Other notable people)

• John Brown (1627–1685), Covenanter martyr (Other notable people)

• Kenn Burke, ballet dancer (Other notable people)

• Charles Cameron (1927–2001), magician, godfather of bizarre magic (Other notable people)

• Michael Caton-Jones, (born 1957) film director (Other notable people)

• William Chambers (born 1979), award-winning hat designer (Other notable people)

• Walter Chepman (fl. c. 1500), merchant, notary and civil servant; in partnership with Androw Myllar in Scotland's first printing press (Other notable people)

• Mary Crudelius (née Maclean, 1839–1877), campaigner for women's education, and a supporter of women's suffrage (Other notable people)

• Alexander Cruden (1699–1770), compiler of an early concordance to the Bible (Other notable people)

• Alexander Dalrymple (1737–1808), geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty (Other notable people)

• James Dawson (1806–1900), prominent champion of Australian Aborigines' interests (Other notable people)

• 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 (Other notable people)

• Alexander Donaldson, (1727–1794) appellant in the copyright case, Donaldson v Beckett; founder/publisher of the Edinburgh Advertiser (Other notable people)

• James Donaldson (1751–1830), publisher of the Edinburgh Advertiser; founder of Donaldson's Hospital (Other notable people)

• Bill Douglas (1934–1991), film director (Other notable people)

• The Rev. John Archibald Dunbar-Dunbar (1849–1905), philatelist, one of the "Fathers of Philately" (Other notable people)

• Helen Duncan (1897–1956), last woman to be tried under the Witchcraft Act (Other notable people)

• William Dunlop (c. 1654–1700), Covenanter, adventurer, and Principal of the University of Glasgow (Other notable people)

• John Fairbairn (1794–1864), newspaper proprietor, educator, financier and politician of the Cape Colony (Other notable people)

• Sir David Ferrier (1843–1928), pioneering neurologist and psychologist (Other notable people)

• Donald Findlay (born 1951) (Other notable people)

• John Finlaison (1783–1860), first president of the Institute of Actuaries (Other notable people)

• Alexander Kinloch Forbes (1821–1865), scholar of the Gujarati language (Other notable people)

• William Forsyth (1737–1804), horticulturist, founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society, after whom the genus Forsythia is named (Other notable people)

• Lord Fountainhall (1646–1722), one of Scotland's leading jurists (Other notable people)

• Alexander Yule Fraser (1857–1890), mathematician, one of the founders of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (Other notable people)

• Jenny Geddes (c. 1600-c. 1660), market trader, threw a stool at the Dean of Edinburgh in protest against the new prayer book (Other notable people)

• Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner (Other notable people)

• Sir Andrew Gilchrist (1910–1993), diplomat (Other notable people)

• Ewen Gillies (born 1825), serial emigrant and adventurer from St. Kilda, Scotland (Other notable people)

• Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580–1661), cartographer, poet, mathematician, antiquary, and geographer (Other notable people)

• Janet Gourlay (1863–1912), Egyptologist, born in Glasgow (Other notable people)

• Patrick Grant (born 1972), fashion designer (Other notable people)

• Angelica Gray (born 1990), model (Other notable people)

• Alasdair George Hay (born 24 1961), first and current Chief Fire Officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (Other notable people)

• Robert Hay (1799–1863), traveller, antiquarian, and Egyptologist (Other notable people)

• Amanda Hendrick (born 1990), model (Other notable people)

• William Vallance Douglas Hodge (1903–1975), mathematician, geometer (Other notable people)

• Isobel Hoppar (born c. 1490), landowner, governess and political figure (Other notable people)

• John Horrocks (1816–1881), founder and innovator of modern European fly fishing (Other notable people)

• Kirsty Hume (born 1976), model (Other notable people)

• Sir John Ritchie Inch (1911–1993), police officer, Chief Constable of Edinburgh City Police (Other notable people)

• David Jones (born 1966), games programmer and entrepreneur, known for creating the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise (Other notable people)

• Princess Kaiulani Cleghorn of Hawaii (1876–1899), daughter of Archibald Cleghorn and Princess Miriam Likelike (sister of Queen Lili'iuokalani) (Other notable people)

• Christopher Kane (born 1982), fashion designer (Other notable people)

• James Kennedy (1930–1973), security guard for British Rail Engineering Limited, posthumously awarded the George Cross (Other notable people)

• Simon Somerville Laurie (1829–1909), educator (Other notable people)

• Mikhail Lermontov, 19th-century Russian author of Scottish origin (Other notable people)

• Hercules Linton (1837–1900), surveyor, designer, shipbuilder, antiquarian and local councillor, designer of the Cutty Sark (Other notable people)

• James Loch (1780–1855), economist, advocate, barrister, estate commissioner (Other notable people)

• Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, (1887–1970), diplomat, journalist and secret agent (Other notable people)

• Mary Lyon (1797–1849), first woman principal in America (Other notable people)

• Flora Macaulay (1859–1958), editor of The Oban Times newspaper (Other notable people)

• Flora MacDonald (1722–1790), Jacobite and United Empire Loyalist (Other notable people)

• Gillies MacKinnon, film director, writer and painter (Other notable people)

• Iain Macmillan (1938–2006), photographer, took the photograph for The Beatles' album Abbey Road (Other notable people)

• Jamie Macpherson (1675–1700), outlaw and author of MacPherson's Lament or Rant (Other notable people)

• Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair (1846–1941), campaigner for women's education and women's suffrage (Other notable people)

• Gary McKinnon (born 1966), computer hacker (Other notable people)

• Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield (1722–1799), advocate and judge (Other notable people)

• James Murdoch (1856–1921), journalist and teacher (Other notable people)

• William McMaster Murdoch (1873–1912), First Officer aboard the RMS Titanic (Other notable people)

• Keith Murray, Baron Murray of Newhaven (1903–1993), academic and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford (Other notable people)

• Androw Myllar (fl.1503–1508), the first Scottish printer, in partnership with Walter Chepman (Other notable people)

• Eunice Olumide (born 1987), model (Other notable people)

• James Orrock (1829–1913), collector of art and Oriental ceramics (Other notable people)

• Robert Paterson (1715–1801), stonemason, who suggested to Sir Walter Scott the character of "Old Mortality" (Other notable people)

• Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854), United States most celebrated cabinetmaker (Other notable people)

• Natalie Pike (born 1983), model (Other notable people)

• James Pillans (1778–1864), classical scholar and educational reformer (Other notable people)

• Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), North American detective (Other notable people)

• Timothy Pont (c. 1565–1614), cartographer and topographer, the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland (Other notable people)

• John Charles Walsham Reith (1889–1971), first Director General of the BBC (Other notable people)

• John Rennie (1842–1918), naval architect, Naval Constructor and Instructor for the Chinese Government (Other notable people)

• Jonathan Saunders, fashion designer (Other notable people)

• James Small (1835–1900), last laird of Dirnanean (Other notable people)

• Archibald Smith (1813–1872), mathematician and lawyer (Other notable people)

• William Stewart Easton Stephen (1903–1975), philatelist (Other notable people)

• Flora Stevenson (1839–1905), social reformer, interested in education (Other notable people)

• Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908), campaigner for women's university education, women's suffrage and well-organised nursing (Other notable people)

• Jock Stewart (1918–1989), executioner (Other notable people)

• Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929), author, and campaigner for women's rights (Other notable people)

• Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880–1958), author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights (Other notable people)

• John Guthrie Tait (1861–1945), educator, principal of the Central College of Bangalore, and sportsman (Other notable people)

• Stella Tennant (born 1970), model (Other notable people)

• Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (born 1912), philanthropist, mother of Donald Trump (Other notable people)

• John Thomson (1837–1921), photographer (Other notable people)

• 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) (Other notable people)

• John Walker (1731–1803), minister of religion, natural historian and professor (Other notable people)

• Albert Watson (born 1942), fashion and celebrity photographer (Other notable people)

• Alexander Wilson (died 1922), noted amateur photographer, working in Dundee (Other notable people)

• Margaret Wilson (c. 1667–1685), Covenanter martyr (Other notable people)

• Roderick Wright (1940–2005), disgraced Catholic bishop (Other notable people)

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