List of Scots

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List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland.

Contents 1 Actors (see also humorists) 2 Architects 3 Artists 4 Business 5 Composers 6 Engineers and inventors 7 Explorers 8 Humorists 9 Musicians 10 Philosophers 11 Photographers 12 Rulers, politicians, soldiers 13 Scientists 14 Sportspeople 15 Television and radio personalities 16 Theologians 17 Writers 18 Other notable people 19 References 20 See also

[edit] Actors (see also humorists)

• Ian Bannen (1928-99)
• Billy Boyd (born 1968)
• Gerard Butler (born 1969)
• Peter Capaldi (born 1958)
• Robert Carlyle (born 1961)
• Hamish Clark (born 1967)
• Robbie Coltrane (born 1950)
• Sean Connery (born 1930)
• Billy Connolly (born 1942)
• Tom Conti (born 1941)
• James Cosmo (born 1948)
• Brian Cox (born 1946)
• Alan Cumming (born 1965)
• Craig Ferguson (born 1962)
• Rikki Fulton (1924-2004)
• Janey Godley (born 1961)
• John Hannah (born 1962)
• David Hayman (born 1950)
• Dougie Henshall (born 1965)
• Gordon Jackson (1923-90)
• Deborah Kerr (born 1921)
• John Laurie (1897-1980)
• Denis Lawson (born 1947)
• Katie Leung (born 1987)
• Fulton Mackay (1922-1987)
• James McAvoy (born 1979)
• David McCallum (born 1933)
• Ian McDiarmid (born 1944)
• Angus Macfadyen (born 1963)
• Paul McGillion (born 1968)
• Ewan McGregor (born 1971)
• Kevin McKidd (born 1973)
• Peter Mullan (born 1954)
• Daniela Nardini (born 1968)
• Bill Paterson (born 1945)
• Dougray Scott (born 1965)
• Moira Shearer (born 1926)
• Alastair Sim (1900-1976)
• John Gordon Sinclair (born 1962)
• David Tennant (born 1971)

[edit] Architects

• Robert Adam, (1728-92)
• William Adam, (1689-1748) Father of Robert and architect and builder
• Robert Rowand Anderson (1834-1921)
• Edward Calvert, (1847/8-1914)
• Charles Cameron, (1743-1812)
• Robert Lorimer (1864-1929)
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh, (1868-1928), architect, designer and watercolourist, husband of Margaret MacDonald (Artist)
• Robert Matthew, (1906-75)
• James Miller (1860-1947)
• James Playfair, (1755-94), father of William Henry
• William Henry Playfair, (1790-1857)
• David Rhind, (1808-83)
• James Robert Rhind, (1854-1918)
• Basil Spence, (1907-76)
• James Stirling, (1926-92)
• Thomas S. Tait, (1882-1954)
• Alexander 'Greek' Thomson , (1817-75)
• Frederick Thomas Pilkington, (1832-98)

[edit] Artists

• Cosmo Alexander, (circa 1724-72), noted portraitist in the United States^[1]
• John Amabile, (born 1964), interior designer
• Muirhead Bone, (1876-1953), etcher
• Mark Boyle, (1934-2005)
• John Byrne, (born 1940)
• Robert Colquhoun (1914-62)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay, (born 1925), sculptor and installation artist
• Peter Howson (born 1958)
• Hew Lorimer, (1907-93), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer
• Margaret MacDonald, (1865-1933), wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
• Robert MacBryde (1913-66)
• Dugald MacColl (1859-1948)
• James MacGillivray, sculptor (1856-1938)
• David Mach, (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist
• Alexander Millar, painter
• Alexander Nasmyth, (1758-1840), landscape painter
• Patrick Nasmyth, (1787-1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander
• Henry Raeburn, (1756-1823), portrait painter
• Reverend John Thomson (1778-1840), landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk
• Jack Vettriano, (born 1951)
• David Wilkie (1785-1841) painter

[edit] Business

• Arthur Anderson, (1792-1868), co-founder of P&O
• James Gordon Bennett, Sr., (1795-1872) founder and publisher of the New York Herald
• Alexander Berry, (1781-1873), town of Berry named after him, possibly first millionaire in Australia
• David Buick, (1854-1929) founded the Buick car company
• Andrew Carnegie, (1835-1919), steel magnate, major philanthropist
• William Davidson, (1740-90) entrepreneur and founder of the first colony in New Brunswick, Canada
• Dr. Henry Duncan, (1774-1846) Church of Scotland Minister. Started the worlds first savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfries and Galloway
• Sir Tom Farmer, (born 1940), entrepreneur
• Thomas Blake Glover, (1838-1911) Nagasaki-based trader in 19th century Japan
• Robert Gordon, (1668-1731), founder of the Robert Gordon University
• George Heriot, (1563-1624), goldsmith and founder of George Heriot's School
• Tom Hunter, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Sports Division
• Irvine Laidlaw (born 1943) Scotland's 6th richest man and founder of the modern conference company
• John Law, (1671-1729), advocate of paper money and founder of the Mississippi Company
• William Paterson, (1658-1719), founder Bank of Scotland and Bank of England
• George Watson, (1654-1723), first chief accountant of the Bank of Scotland, and founder of George Watson's College

[edit] Composers

• Robert Carver (c.1485-c.1570)
• Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916)
• John Blackwood McEwen (1868-1948)
• James MacMillan (born 1959)
• William Wallace (1860-1940)

[edit] Engineers and inventors

Further information: Scottish inventors

• Sir William Arrol, (1839-1913), bridge builder
• Alexander Bain, (1818-1903), fax machine
• John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), television
• Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), telephone, National Geographic, Hydrofoil
• Henry Bell, (1767-1830), ran Europe's first commercially successful steamboat
• James Braid, (1795-1860), hypnosis
• James Chalmers, (1782-1853), adhesive postage stamp
• Sir Dugald Clark (aka Clerk), (1854-1932), first two stroke cycle engine (the Clark cycle)
• Robert Davidson, (1804-94), first electric locomotive
• James Dewar, (1842-1923), inventor of the Thermos flask and co-developer of cordite
• William Dickson, (1860-1935), motion picture camera and the world's first film
• John Boyd Dunlop, (1840-1921), the modern rubber tyre
• Sir Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), isolated Penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum
• James Harrison, (1816-93), pioneer in mechanical refrigeration
• James Bowman Lindsay, (1799-1862), inventor of the constant electric light bulb
• Charles Macintosh, (1766-1843), patented waterproofing
• Kirkpatrick MacMillan, (1813–78), the bicycle
• John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), modern road construction
• Sir Robert McAlpine (Concrete Bob), (1847-1934), road builder
• Patrick Miller, steamboat pioneer
• William Murdoch, (1754-1839), pioneer of gas lighting
• James Nasmyth, (1808-90), Steam Hammer
• Robert Stirling Newall, (1812-89), engineer, improved wire rope and submarine cable laying.
• John Shepherd-Barron, (born 1925), inventor of the Automatic Teller Machine
• William Symington, (1764-1831), engineer, built the first practical steam boat
• Thomas Telford, (1757-1834) architect, civil engineer, bridge designer
• Robert William Thomson, (1822-73)
• James Watt, (1736-1819), engineer, significantly improved the steam engine
• James Young Simpson, (1811-70), introduced chloroform into surgery

[edit] Explorers

• William Balfour Baikie, (1824-64), Africa, surgeon and naturalist on the 1854 Niger expedition
• James Bruce, (1730-94), traveller and travel writer
• William S. Bruce, (1867-1921) Antarctica, first to widely explore the Weddell Sea
• Colin Campbell, founder of the Swedish East India Company
• David Douglas, (1799-1834), explorer, botanist, introduced about 240 species of plants to Great Britain, including the Douglas-fir
• Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton (1903-73), Mount Everest, aviator and first man to see Everest from above
• Alexander Forbes, American Pacific coast
• Robert Gordon of Straloch, (1580-1661), map maker of Scotland
• James Augustus Grant, (1827-92), eastern Africa, member of the exhibition that found the sources of the Nile
• Alexander Gordon Laing (1793–1826), first European to reach Timbuktu
• David Livingstone, (1813-73), explorer, missionary in Africa, discovered Victoria Falls
• Alexander Mackenzie, (1764-1820), Canada & Arctic Ocean
• Archibald Menzies (1754-1852)
• Major Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855), Australia
• John Muir, (1838-1914)
• Mungo Park (1771-1806), Africa, first European to reach the Niger
• Polly Murray b.1974, Perth, first Scottish woman to climb Everest, first person to make unsupported crossing Bylot island
• John Rae, (1813-93), Canadian Arctic
• Sir James Clark Ross (born in London), (1800-62), Antarctica, discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Mount Erebus and Mount Terror
• Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney, (c.1345-c.1400), allegedly explored North America in 1398
• John McDouall Stuart, (1815–66), most famous of all Australia's inland explorers, led the first expedition to successfully traverse the continent from south to north
• Tom Weir, (1914-2006), climber, author and broadcaster

[edit] Humorists

• Stanley Baxter, (born 1926)
• Rory Bremner, (born 1961)
• Janet Brown, (born 1924)
• Billy Connolly (born 1942)
• Ronald Balfour Corbett (Ronnie), (born 1930)
• Ivor Cutler (born 1923)
• Graeme Garden, (born 1943)
• Janey Godley, (born 1961)
• Doon Mackichan, (born 1962)
• Chic Murray (1919-85)

[edit] Musicians

Please refer to List of Scottish musicians

[edit] Philosophers

• John Abercrombie, (1780-1844)
• John Anderson, (1893-1962)
• Thomas Brown, (1778-1820)
• Adam Ferguson, (1723-1816)
• Sir William Hamilton, (1788-1856)
• Henry Home, Lord Kames, (1696-1782)
• David Hume, (1711-1776), inspired Immanuel Kant
• John Mair, othewise known as Major, (1467-1550), teacher of George Buchanan, John Knox, and influencer of Calvin and Loyola
• Alasdair MacIntyre, (born 1929)
• John Macmurray, (1891-1976)
• James McCosh, (1811-94)
• Thomas Reid, (1710-96), played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment
• Duns Scotus, (1266-1308)
• Adam Smith, (1723-90), Economist, Free Trade, Laissez-faire, Division of Labour

[edit] Photographers

• Albert Watson (born 1942), fashion and celebrity photographer

[edit] Rulers, politicians, soldiers

• James Alexander, (1691-1756), attorney general of New Jersey^[1]
• Cardinal David Beaton (c.1494-1546)
• Tony Blair, (born 6 May 1953), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1997 - present^[2]
• Gordon Brown, (born 1951), Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Calgacus
• Richard Cameron, (c.1648-80), Republican Covenanter and founder of the “Cameronians”
• Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792-1863)
• Colin Campbell
• Thomas Cochrane, (1775-1860), Admiral in the Royal Navy
• James Connolly (1868-1916)
• Robert Cunninghame-Graham ("Don Roberto"), (1852-1936), first socialist Member of Parliament (MP)
• Abbot Bernard de Linton, author of the Declaration of Arbroath
• Donald Dewar, (1937-2000), former First Minister of Scotland
• Sir Archibald Douglas, (c.1298- k.1333), Regent of Scotland and leader of Scots forces at the Battle of Halidon Hill
• James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (1525-81), Regent of Scotland
• Alec Douglas-Home, (1903-95), British Prime minister
• Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716)
• John Forbes, (1707-59), Scottish general
• James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, (1612-50), Covenanter and Royalist leader of Highland Armies
• Viscount (Bonnie) Dundee, (c.1648-1689), Jacobite Highland Army leader
• Jo Grimond, (1913-1993), Liberal Party leader from 1956-67
• Douglas Haig, (1861-1928), Commander of British Forces during World War I
• James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (1516-1575), Regent of Scotland.
• Keir Hardie (1856-1915)
• Glenda Jackson, (born 1936), MP and actress
• King James IV (1473-1513)
• James VI of Scotland and I of England, (1603-25)
• Tom Johnston (Tam), (1882-1965), World War II Secretary of State for Scotland
• John Paul Jones, (1747-92), father of the American Navy
• Charles Kennedy, (born 1959), leader of the Liberal Democrats 1999-2006
• Arthur MacArthur US Army
• Douglas MacArthur US Army
• Macbeth of Scotland, (c. 1005-1057), High King of Scotland
• Jack McConnell, (born 1960), current First Minister
• John MacCormick, (1904-1961), nationalist
• John A. Macdonald, (1815-1891), first Prime Minister of Canada
• Margo MacDonald, (born 1943), nationalist
• Malcolm MacDonald (1901-81)
• Ramsay MacDonald, (1866-1937), British Prime minister
• Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734)
• Alexander Mackenzie, (1822-92), second Prime Minister of Canada
• Colin Mackenzie, (c.1754-1821), soldier in British India
• Alexander Slidell MacKenzie, US NAvy
• Ranald Slidell MacKenzie, US Cavalryman
• William McKinley, US President
• John MacLean, (1879-1923), revolutionary
• Henry McLeish, (born June 15, 1948) former First Minister
• Mary, Queen of Scots, (1542-87)
• Jimmy Maxton, (1885-1946), leader of the Independent Labour Party
• Hugh Mercer Continental Army General
• Richard Montgomery Continental Army General
• Viscount Montgomery British Field Marshal
• George Smith Patton US General-World War II
• Jerry Rawlings, (born 1947), former president of Ghana; partly of Scottish descent
• Robert the Bruce, (1274-1329), Robert I of Scotland
• Alex Salmond, (born 1954), Scottish National Party leader
• Jim Sillars, (born 1937), founder of Scottish Labour Party, MP
• John Smith, (1938-94) Labour Party leader
• David Steel, (born 1938), Liberal Party leader from 1976-88
• Prince Charles Edward Stuart, (1720-1788), Jacobite Field Marshal and heir to the throne of Great Britain.
• Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (1890-1970), Liberal Party leader from 1935-45
• William Wallace, (c. 1270-1305), a.k.a. The Wallace

[edit] Scientists

Please refer to List of Scottish scientists

[edit] Sportspeople

See also Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

• Alain Baxter, (born 1973), alpine skier
• Jim Baxter, (1939-2001), footballer
• Ken Buchanan, (born 1945), world champion boxer
• Sir Matt Busby, (1909-94), football manager, won the European Cup in 1968
• Jim Clark, (1936-68), Formula 1 driver
• Davie Cooper, (1956-95), footballer
• David Coulthard, (born 1971), Formula 1 driver
• Kenny Dalglish, (born 1951), footballer and a manager of Liverpool F.C.
• Sir Alex Ferguson, (born 1941), footballer and a manager of Manchester United F.C.
• Roberto Frankowski, (born 1987), junior world champion boxer
• Wyndham Halswelle, (1882-1915), Olympic champion runner
• Robbie Harper (highest run scorer in Scottish one-day international history)
• Dougal Haston, (1940-77), mountaineer
• Stephen Hendry (born 1969), professional snooker player, 7 times World champion.
• Chris Hoy, (born 1976), world, Olympic and Commonwealth champion track cyclist
• Jimmy Johnstone, (1944-2006), football player
• Denis Law, (born 1940), football player
• Eric Liddell, (1902-45), athlete, one of the two subjects of Chariots of Fire
• Jackie Lockhart, (born 1965), curler, skip of Scotland team which won the 2002 world championships
• Benny Lynch, (1913-46), world champion boxer
• Hamish MacInnes, (born 1930), mountaineer
• Craig MacLean, (born 1971), world, Olympic and Commonwealth champion track cyclist
• Rhona Martin, (born 1966), curler, Olympic gold medallist
• Catriona Matthew, (born 1969), golfer
• Ally McCoist, (born 1962), football player
• Liz McColgan, (born 1964), athlete
• William McGregor, (1846-1911), founder of the Football League in England
• Billy McNeill, (born 1940), footballer and a manager of Celtic F.C.
• Colin McRae, (born 1968), world champion rally driver
• David Millar, (born 1977), road cyclist
• Robert Millar, (born 1958), professional cyclist, "King of the Mountains" in 1984 Tour de France
• Janice Moodie, (born 1973), golfer
• Andrew Murray, (born 1987), tennis player
• Graeme Obree (born 1965), world record holding cyclist
• Bill Shankly, (1914-81), football manager
• Jock Stein, (1922-85), football manager, won the European Cup with Celtic F.C.
• Sir Jackie Stewart, (born 1939), world champion Formula 1 driver
• Bobby Thomson, (born 1923), Scots-born American baseball player
• Andrew Watson, (1857-?) world's first black international football player, captain and administrator
• Jim Watt, (born 1948), world champion boxer, won the WBC World Lightweight title
• David Wilkie, (born 1954), swimmer

[edit] Television and radio personalities

• Ronni Ancona, (born 1968)
• Hardeep Singh Kohli, (born 1969)
• Dougie Anderson, (born c.1974)
• Edith Bowman, (born 1975)
• Nicky Campbell, (born 1962)
• Romana D'Annunzio, (born 1972)
• Kirsty Gallacher, (born 1976)
• Muriel Gray (born 1959), journalist
• Lorraine Kelly, (born 1959)
• John Leslie, (born 1965)
• Eddie Mair, (born 1965)
• Gail Porter, (born 1971)
• Carol Smillie, (born 1961)
• Cameron Stout, (born 1971)
• Kirsty Wark, (born 1955), journalist
• Craig Ferguson, (born 1962)

[edit] Theologians

• James Barr (1924-2006)
• William Robinson Clark, (1829-1912), Dean of Taunton
• Alexander Penrose Forbes (1817-75)
• James Frazer (1854-1941), anthropologist of comparative religion and myth
• Alexander Henderson (1583-1646)
• Richard Holloway (born 1933)
• John Knox, (c.1513-72)
• Thomas McCrie
• Saint Mungo (also known as Saint Kentigern), (?-614)
• George Newlands
• The Revd Professor Norman Walker Porteous (1898-2003), translator of the Bible
• Andrew Purves
• John Duns Scotus, (c.1266-1308)
• Thomas Torrance, (born 1913)
• George Wishart, (1513-46)

[edit] Writers

Please refer to List of Scottish writers

[edit] Other notable people

• Andrew Bell, (1753-1832), developer of the Madras system of education
• Veronica Deneuve, exotic dancer and political activist.
• Helen Duncan, (1897-1956), last woman to be tried under the Witchcraft Act
• Donald Findlay (born 1951)
• Alexander Kinloch Forbes, (1821-65) scholar of the Gujarati language
• Sir Andrew Gilchrist, (1910-1993) diplomat
• Elsie Inglis, (1864-1917), medical reformer and suffragette
• Captain Kidd, (1645-1701), pirate
• Flora Macdonald, (1722-90), Jacobite and United Empire Loyalist
• John James Richard Macleod, (1876-1935)
• James Murdoch, (1856-1921) Journalist and Teacher
• Robert Noble
• Allan Pinkerton, (1819-84), North American detective
• John Charles Walsham Reith, (1889-1971), First Director General of the BBC
• Alexander Selkirk, (1676-1723), Inspiration for Robinson Crusoe
• Mary Slessor, (1848-1915), missionary and advocate for women's rights
• Stella Tennant, (born 1970), model
• John Thomson (1837-1921), photographer
• Michael Kheirabi (born 1988), Designer of the Saint Brides Shamrock.

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} (1963) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 
2. ^ Biography: The Prime Minister Tony Charles Lynton Blair, 10 Downing Street. Retrieved 15 November 2006.

[edit] See also

• List of people by nationality
• List of Kings of the Picts
• List of monarchs of Scotland
• Scottish-American
• Scots-Quebecer
• Scottish-Canadian