Scott

Famous Scots (see wikipedia.org)

Architects

• Robert Adam (1728–1792)
• William Adam (1689–1748) Father of Robert and architect and builder
• Robert Rowand Anderson (1834–1921)
• Sir William Bruce (c.1630-1710)
• Edward Calvert (c. 1847 – 1914)
• Charles Cameron (1743–1812)
• Colen Campbell (1676–1729)
• Alan Dunlop (1958-present)
• James Leslie Findlay (1868–1952)
• James Gibbs (1682-1754)
• Ian G Lindsay (1906–1966)
• Robert Lorimer (1864–1929)
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928), architect, designer and watercolourist, husband of Margaret MacDonald (Artist)
• Robert Matthew (1906–1975)
• James Miller (1860–1947)
• Gordon Murray (1954-present)
• James Playfair (1755–1794), father of William Henry
• William Henry Playfair (1790–1857)
• David Rhind (1808–1883)
• James Robert Rhind, (1854–1918)
• Basil Spence (1907–1976)
• James Stirling (1926–1992)
• Thomas S. Tait (1882–1954)
• Alexander 'Greek' Thomson (1817–1875)
• Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832–1898)

Artists

• Cosmo Alexander (c. 1724 – 1772), noted portraitist in the United States[1]
• John Amabile (born 1964), interior designer
• Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), etcher
• Mark Boyle (1934–2005)
• John Byrne (born 1940)
• Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), sculptor and installation artist
• George Heriot (1563-1624), Scottish goldsmith, jeweler, and philanthropist
• Peter Howson (born 1958)
• Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer
• Margaret MacDonald (1865–1933), wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
• Robert MacBryde (1913–1966)
• Dugald MacColl (1859–1948)
• James MacGillivray, sculptor (1856–1938)
• David Mach (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist
• William Miller, engraver (1796–1882)
• Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), landscape painter
• Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander
• Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), portrait painter
• Archibald Skirving (1749-1819), Scottish portrait painter
• Reverend John Thomson (1778–1840), landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk
• Jack Vettriano (born 1951)
• David Wilkie (1785–1841) painter

Business

• Arthur Anderson (1792–1868), co-founder of P&O
• James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795–1872) founder and publisher of the New York Herald
• Alexander Berry (1781–1873), town of Berry named after him, possibly first millionaire in Australia
• David Buick (1854–1929) founded the Buick car company
• Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), steel magnate, major philanthropist
• William Davidson (1740–1890) entrepreneur and founder of the first colony in New Brunswick, Canada
• Dr. Henry Duncan (1774–1846) Church of Scotland Minister. Started the world's first savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfries and Galloway
• Sir Tom Farmer (born 1940), entrepreneur
• Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911) Nagasaki-based trader in 19th century Japan
• Robert Gordon (1668–1731), founder of the Robert Gordon University
• George Heriot (1563–1624), goldsmith and founder of George Heriot's School
• Tom Hunter, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Sports Division
• Irvine Laidlaw (born 1943) Scotland's 6th richest man and founder of the modern conference company
• John Law (1671–1729), advocate of paper money and founder of the Mississippi Company
• Thomas Leishman, founder of United Breweries, India
• Stewart Milne, founder of Stewart Milne Group and majority shareholder of Aberdeen FC
• William Paterson (1658–1719), founder Bank of Scotland and Bank of England
• George Watson (1654–1723), first chief accountant of the Bank of Scotland, and founder of George Watson's College
• William Walls (1819–1893), lawyer and industrialist, influenced the development of 19th century Glasgow

Composers

• Robert Carver (c. 1485 – c. 1570)
• Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916)
• John Blackwood McEwen (1868–1948)
• James MacMillan (born 1959)
• William Wallace (1860–1940)
• Erik Chisholm (1904–1965)
• Robert Burns (1759–1796)

Engineers and inventors

Further information: Scottish inventors

• Sir William Arrol (1839–1913), bridge builder
• Alexander Bain (1818–1903), fax machine
• John Logie Baird (1888–1946), television
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), telephone, National Geographic, Hydrofoil
• Henry Bell (1767–1830), ran Europe's first commercially successful steamboat
• James Braid (1795–1860), hypnosis
• James Chalmers (1782–1853), adhesive postage stamp
• Sir Dugald Clark (aka Clerk), (1854–1932), first two stroke cycle engine (the Clark cycle)
• Robert Davidson (1804–1894), first electric locomotive
• James Dewar (1842–1923), inventor of the Thermos flask and co-developer of cordite
• William Dickson (1860–1935), motion picture camera and the world's first film
• John Boyd Dunlop (1840–1921), the modern rubber tyre
• Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), isolated Penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum
• James Harrison (1816–1893), pioneer in mechanical refrigeration
• James Bowman Lindsay (1799–1862), inventor of the constant electric light bulb
• Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), patented waterproofing
• Kirkpatrick MacMillan (1813–1878), the bicycle
• John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836), modern road construction
• Sir Robert McAlpine (Concrete Bob), (1847–1934), road builder
• Patrick Miller, steamboat pioneer
• William Murdoch (1754–1839), pioneer of gas lighting
• James Nasmyth (1808–1890), Steam Hammer
• Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889), engineer, improved wire rope and submarine cable laying.
• John Shepherd-Barron (born 1925), inventor of the Automatic Teller Machine
• William Symington (1764–1831), engineer, built the first practical steam boat
• Thomas Telford (1757–1834) architect, civil engineer, bridge designer
• Robert William Thomson (1822–1873)
• Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1893-1973), Developed Radar
• James Watt (1736–1819), engineer, significantly improved the steam engine
• James Young Simpson (1811–1870), introduced chloroform into surgery

Explorers

• William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling (1570–1640)
• William Alexander (the younger), (1602–1638)
• Albert Armitage
• John Arthur
• William Balfour Baikie (1824–1864), Africa, surgeon and naturalist on the 1854 Niger expedition
• Peter Belches
• Alexander Berry
• Henry Robertson Bowers
• James Bruce (1730–1794), traveller and travel writer
• William S. Bruce (1867–1921) Antarctica, first to widely explore the Weddell Sea
• David Buchan
• Colin Campbell (1686–1757), co-founder of the Swedish East India Company
• David Douglas (1799–1834), explorer, botanist, introduced about 240 species of plants to Great Britain, including the Douglas-fir
• Hugh Clapperton
• John Dundas Cochrane
• William Cormack
• Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham ("Don Roberto"), (1852–1936)
• William Kennedy Dickson
• Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton (1903–1973), Mount Everest, aviator and first man to see Everest from above
• Alexander Forbes, American Pacific coast
• Henry Ogg Forbes
• George Glas
• Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580–1661), map maker of Scotland
• James Augustus Grant (1827–1892), eastern Africa, member of the exhibition that found the sources of the Nile
• James Hector
• Alexander Keith Johnston (1844–1879)
• John Kirk
• Alexander Gordon Laing (1793–1826), first European to reach Timbuktu
• Macgregor Laird
• William Lithgow
• David Livingstone (1813–1873), explorer, missionary in Africa, discovered Victoria Falls
• John MacGregor
• Gregor MacGregor
• Alexander Mackenzie (1764–1820), Canada & Arctic Ocean
• Harry McNish
• Archibald Menzies (1754–1852)
• Major Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792–1855), Australia
• John Muir (1838–1914)
• John Murray
• Mungo Park (1771–1806), Africa, first European to reach the Niger
• William Paterson
• John Rae (1813–1893), Canadian Arctic
• John Richardson
• Sir James Clark Ross (born in London), (1800–1862), Antarctica, discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Mount Erebus and Mount Terror
• Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney (c. 1345 – c. 1400), allegedly explored North America in 1398
• John McDouall Stuart (1815–1866), most famous of all Australia's inland explorers, led the first expedition to successfully traverse the continent from south to north
• Joseph Thomson
• John Wood
• James Wordie
• Charles Wyville Thomson
• Tom Weir (1914–2006), climber, author and broadcaster

Humorists

• Stanley Baxter (born 1926)
• Rory Bremner (born 1961)
• Janet Brown (born 1924)
• Des Clarke
• Billy Connolly (born 1942)
• Ronald Balfour Corbett (Ronnie), (born 1930)
• Ivor Cutler (born 1923)
• Graeme Garden (born 1943)
• Janey Godley (born 1961)
• Greg Hemphill (born 1969)
• Ford Kiernan (born 1962)
• Brian Limond (born 1975)
• Doon Mackichan (born 1962)
• Chic Murray (1919–1985)
• Frankie Boyle
• Rikki Fulton
• Harry Lauder

Musicians

Please refer to List of Scottish musicians

Philosophers

• John Abercrombie (1780–1844)
• John Anderson (1893–1962)
• Thomas Brown (1778–1820)
• Adam Ferguson (1723–1816)
• Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856)
• Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782)
• David Hume (1711–1776), inspired Immanuel Kant (Himself of Scottish Heritage through his mother)
• John Mair, othewise known as Major, (1467–1550), teacher of George Buchanan, John Knox, and influencer of Calvin and Loyola
• Alasdair MacIntyre (born 1929)
• John Macmurray (1891–1976)
• James McCosh (1811–1894)
• Thomas Reid (1710–1796), played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment
• Duns Scotus (1266–1308)
• Adam Smith (1723–1790), Economist, Free Trade, Laissez-faire, Division of Labour

Photographers

• Albert Watson (born 1942), fashion and celebrity photographer
• Harry Benson World-renowned celebrity and pop culture photographer

Rulers, politicians, soldiers

• James Alexander (1691–1756), attorney general of New Jersey[1]
• Cardinal David Beaton (c. 1494 – 1546)
• Tony Blair (born 1953) (born in Scotland), Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997 - 2007)
• Gordon Brown (born 1951), Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (2007–present)
• Calgacus
• Richard Cameron (c. 1648 – 1680), Republican Covenanter and founder of the "Cameronians"
• Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792–1863)
• Colin Campbell
• Thomas Cochrane (1775–1860), Admiral in the Royal Navy
• James Connolly (1868–1916) Irish socialist leader, executed by firing squad following the Easter Rising.
• Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham ("Don Roberto"), (1852–1936), first socialist Member of Parliament (MP)
• Donald Dewar (1937–2000), former First Minister of Scotland
• Sir Archibald Douglas (c. 1298 – 1333), Regent of Scotland and leader of Scots forces at the Battle of Halidon Hill
• James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (1525–1581), Regent of Scotland
• Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995), British Prime minister
• Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653–1716)
• John Forbes (1707–1759), Scottish general
• Annabel Goldie (born 1950), leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
• James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650), Covenanter and Royalist leader of Highland Armies
• Viscount (Bonnie) Dundee (c. 1648 – 1689), Jacobite Highland Army leader
• Jo Grimond (1913–1993), Liberal Party leader from 1956-67
• Douglas Haig (1861–1928), Commander of British Forces during World War I
• James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (1516–1575), Regent of Scotland.
• Keir Hardie (1856–1915)
• David B. Henderson (1840-1906), Politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1899 to 1903
• King James IV (1473–1513)
• James VI of Scotland and I of England (1603–1625)
• Tom Johnston (Tam), (1882–1965), World War II Secretary of State for Scotland
• John Paul Jones (1747–1792), father of the American Navy
• Charles Kennedy (born 1959), leader of the Liberal Democrats 1999-2006
• Arthur MacArthur, Sr. Governor of Wisconsin and grandfather of Gen. Douglas MacArthur
• Macbeth of Scotland (c. 1005 – 1057), High King of Scotland
• Jack McConnell (born 1960), First Minister of Scotland (2001-2007)
• John MacCormick (1904–1961), nationalist
• John A. Macdonald (1815–1891), first Prime Minister of Canada
• Margo MacDonald (born 1943), nationalist
• Malcolm MacDonald (1901–1981)
• Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937), British Prime minister
• Rob Roy MacGregor (1671–1734)
• Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892), second Prime Minister of Canada
• Colin Mackenzie (c. 1754 – 1821), soldier in British India
• Alexander Slidell MacKenzie, US NAvy
• Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, US Cavalryman
• William McKinley, US President
• John MacLean (1879–1923), revolutionary
• Henry McLeish (born 1948) former First Minister
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587)
• Jimmy Maxton (1885–1946), leader of the Independent Labour Party
• Hugh Mercer Continental Army General
• Richard Montgomery Continental Army General
• Viscount Montgomery British Field Marshal
• Andrew Moray (died 1297) military leader during the Scottish Wars of Independence
• George Smith Patton US General-World War II
• Jerry Rawlings (born 1947), former president of Ghana; partly of Scottish descent
• Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), Robert I of Scotland
• Alex Salmond (born 1954), current First Minister
• Jim Sillars (born 1937), founder of Scottish Labour Party (1976), MP
• John Smith (1938–1994) Labour Party leader
• David Steel (born 1938), Liberal Party leader from 1976-88
• Nicol Stephen (born 1960), former leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
• Lord Stirling, American Revolutioanry War General
• Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720–1788), Jacobite Field Marshal and heir to the throne of Great Britain.
• Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (1890–1970), Liberal Party leader from 1935-45
• William Wallace (c. 1270 – 1305), a.k.a. The Wallace

Scientists

• Thomas Addis (1881–1949), physician, pioneer in [[hjkh
• William Aiton (1731–1793), botanist
• Alexander Anderson (mathematician) (c. 1582 – c. 1620) mathematician
• Ken Bairden (1943–2007), Parasitologist, epidemiologist, veterinarian
• John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884), botanist
• Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960), mathematician
• Joseph Black (1728–1799), discoverer of carbon dioxide
• David Brewster (1781–1868), founder of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
• Thomas Brisbane (1773–1860), astronomer
• Robert Brown (1773–1858), discoverer of Brownian Motion and botanist
• David Bruce (1855–1931), pathologist and microbiologist
• Phillip Clancey (1917–2001), pioneering ornithologist
• John Craig (1663–1731), mathematician and friend of Newton
• Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922), Organic chemist
• William Cullen (1710–1790), physician and chemist
• James Dewar (1842–1923), low temperature physicist, invented the vacuum flask
• James Alfred Ewing (1855–1935), physicist and engineer
• Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), paleontologist
• James Ferguson (1710–1776), Scottish astronomer and instrument maker
• Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945
• Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), astronomer, contributed to the cataloguing of stars
• James David Forbes (1809–1868), physicist and geologist
• Professor George Forbes (1849–1936), electrical engineering, hydro-electric power generation
• Robert Fortune (1813–1880), botanist
• Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), biologist and urban theorist
• Sir David Gill (1843–1914), pioneer in astrophotography
• Thomas Graham (1805–1869), chemist, discovered dialysis
• James Gregory (1638–1675), first described the Gregorian reflecting telescope eventually built by Robert Hooke
• James Hall (geologist) (1761–1832), geologist
• Thomas Henderson (1798–1844), astronomer, first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri
• James Hutton (1726–1797), put geology on a scientific basis
• Robert T. A. Innes (1861–1933), astronomer, discovered Proxima Centauri
• James Ivory (mathematician) (1765–1842), mathematician
• William Jardine (naturalist) (1800–1874), naturalist
• Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882–1957), zoologist
• Johann von Lamont (1805–1879), astronomer, calculated the orbits of the moons of Uranus and Saturn
• John Leslie (physicist) (1766–1832), mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat
• John Macadam (1827–1865), Scottish-born Australian botanist
• William MacGillivray (1796–1852), naturalist
• Sheila Scott Macintyre (1910–1960), mathematician
• Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746), mathematician, developed maclaurin series
• William Maclure (1760–1843), geologist
• Francis Masson (1741 – c. 1805), botanist
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), thermodynamics and electromagnetic theorist
• Archibald Menzies (1754–1852) explorer and botanist
• Philip Miller (1691–1771), botanist
• Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian era.
• Alexander Murray (geologist) (1810–1884), geologist
• John Napier (1550–1617), mathematician (see logarithms)
• William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), ornithologist
• Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916), Nobel prize in Chemistry, 1904
• John Richardson (naturalist) (1787–1865), naturalist
• William Roxburgh (1759–1815), botanist
• Andrew Smith (zoologist) (1797–1872), zoologist
• Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900), Astronomer Royal of Scotland
• Robert Angus Smith (1817–1884), environmental chemist, discovered acid rain
• Mary Somerville, mathematician and astronomer
• Matthew Stewart (1717–1785), mathematician
• James Stirling (mathematician) (1692–1770), mathematician
• John Struthers (anatomist) (1823-1899), anatomist
• Hunter Thomson (1986-), chemist
• William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907), mathematician, physicist, engineer
• James Watt (1736–1819), mathematician and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine contributed to a key stage in the Industrial Revolution.
• Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973), invented radar
• Joseph Wedderburn (1882–1948), mathematician
• Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), arguably the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon
• Charles Wilson (1869–1959), physicist, invented the cloud chamber
• James 'Paraffin' Young (1811–1883), chemist