Have you ever thought about the fact that many Scots are descendants of the Vikings?! Or how different the language Gaelic language is from English. A Scotsman might tell you: Fàilte gu Alba! But would you understand? That it means Welcome to Scotland! ?
Anyways, this article is about the Scots people, not the country or the language(s) this time around. Here follows a list of famous Scots, all the way from the 13th century to our times. We give you max five names per decade. There are also videos between some of the centuries, so hope you enjoy those as well - all to do with Scotland of course:
1210-0722 Joan of England* Queen of Scotland (1238/27)
1241-0904 Alexander III of Scotland* King of Scots – Roxburgh Castle, Roxburghshire (1286/44)
1316-0303 Robert II of Scotland* King of Scots – Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire (1390/74)
1321-0705 Joan of the Tower* sister of Edward III/first wife&Queen consort of David II of Scotland – Tower of London, England (1362/41)
1324-0305 David II of Scotland* King of Scotland – Dunfermline Abbey, Fife (1371/46)
1430-1016 James II of Scotland* King of Scotland – Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh (1460/29)
1451-0710** James III of Scotland*** – Stirling or St Andrews Castle (1488/36) date and place of birth in dispute
1500-0423 Alexander Ales* theologian – Edinburgh (1565/64)
1512-0410 James V of Scotland* – Linlithgow Palace, Linlithgow (1542/30)
1513-xxxx John Knox* minister/founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland – Haddington, East Lothian (1572/c.58)
1545-0801 Andrew Melville* scholar/ theologian/religious reformer – Baldovie (1622/c.76)
1560-0819 James Crichton* polymath – Clunie, Pertshire (1582/21)
1562-0113 Mark Alexander Boyd* poet/soldier of fortune – Ayrshire (1601/39)
1566-0619 James VI and I* the first monarch to rule both Scotland and England – Edinburgh Castle (1625/58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGr-3CzO_Yg
1641-0113 Patrick Hume* nobleman/ politician/statesman – Polwarth, Berwickshire (1724/83)
1644-1209 Robert Kirk* minister/Gaelic scholar/folklorist – Aberfoyle, Stirling (1692/47)
1649-0211 William Carstares* minister of the Church of Scotland/politician – Cathcart (1715/66)
1655-0122 William Kidd* sailor/captain executed for piracy – Dundee (1701/47)
1659-0603 David Gregory* mathematician/ astronomer – Aberdeen (1708/49)
1665-1225 Lady Grizel Baillie* songwriter – Redbraes Castle, Berwickshire (1746/80)
1671-0307 Rob Roy MacGregor (B) outlaw/folk hero/cattleman- Glengyle (1734/63)
1673-0808 John Ker* (b Crawford) Scottish spy – Crawfurdland, Ayrshire (1726/52)
1676-xxxx Alexander Selkirk* Royal Navy officer/inspiration for Robinson Crusoe – Lower Largo, Fife (1721/45)
1680-0622 Ebenezer Erskine* minister/religious activist – Dryburgh (1754/73)
1686-1101 Colin Campbell* co-founder of the Swedish East India Company – Edinburgh (1757/70)
1689-0402 Arthur Dobbs* the 7th governor of the Province of North Carolina – Girvan, South Ayrshire (1765/75)
1692-0511 James Stirling* mathematician – Garden, Stirlingshire (1770/78)
1696-0611 James Francis Edward Keith* Prussian field marshal/ Governor of Berlin – Inverugie Castle (1758/62)
1699-0417 Robert Blair* poet – Edinburgh (1746/46)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR1YEOrYOdw
1700-0911 James Thomson* poet/playwright – Ednam, Roxburghshire (1748/47)
1711-0507 David Hume* philosopher – Edinburgh, (1776/65)
1712-0704 George Hadow* British historian/professor of Hebrew and oriental languages – Scotland? (1780/68)
1716-1004 James Lind* physician/pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy – Edinburgh (1794/77)
1719-0505 Andrew Meikle* mechanical engineer/inventor of the threshing machine – East Linton (1811/92)
1723-0205 John Witherspoon* Scottish-American signer of the Declaration of Independence – Gifford (1794/72)
1723-0616 Adam Smith (B) economist/ philosopher – Kirkcaldy (1790/67)
1725-0317 Lachlan McIntosh* Scottish American military and political leader – Raits, Badenoch (1806/80)
1728-0703 Robert Adam* architect/interior designer/furniture designer – Kirkcaldy, Fife (1792/63)
1730-1214 James Bruce* travel writer who traced the origins of the Blue Nile – Kinnaird, Stirlingshire (1794/63)
1735-0920 James Keir* chemist/ industrialist/inventor – Stirlingshire (1820/85)
1736-0130 James Watt* inventor/engineer/ chemist – Greenock, Renfewshire (1819/83)
1737-0323 Arthur St. Clair* Scottish-American soldier/politician – Thurso, Caithness (1818/81)
1742-0914 James Wilson* legal theorist/signer of the United States Declaration of Independence – Carskerdo (1798/55)
1744-1006 James McGill* businessman/ philanthropist/founder of McGill University in Montreal – Glasgow (1813/69)
1747-0706 John Paul Jones* Scottish-American naval commander – Arbigland, Kirkcudbrightshire (1792/45)
1749-1103 Daniel Rutherford* physician/chemist/botanist – Edinburgh (1819/70)
1750-0124 Helen Gloag* slave Empress of Morocco – Muthill, Perthshire (1790/40)
1754-0821 William Murdoch* engineer/inventor – Cumnock, East Ayshire (1839/85)
1756-0923 John Loudon McAdam* engineer/road builder/inventor of _macadamisation _– Ayr (1836/80)
1759-0125 Robert Burns* poet – Alloway, Ayshire (1796/37)
1762-0131 Lachlan Macquarie* army officer/colonial administrator in New South Wales – Ulva, Inner Hebrides (1824/62)
1766-0720 Thomas Bruce* known for the removal of the Elgin Marbles from Parthenon – Broomhall, Fife (1841/75)
1768-0503 Charles Tennant* chemist/industrialist/discovered bleaching powder – Alloway, Ayrshire (1838/70)
1768-0923 William Wallace* mathematician/astronomer/inventor – Dysart, Fife (1843/74)
1771-0815 Sir Walter Scott* novelist/poet/historian – Edinburgh (1832/61)
1772-0829 James Finlayson* founder of the Finlayson textile factory in Tampere, Finland – Glasgow (1852/79)
1773-0723 Thomas Brisbane* astronomer/Governor of New South Wales – Largs, Ayrshire (1860/86)
1779-0502 John Galt* political novelist/ entrepreneur – Irvine, Ayrshire (1839/59)
1780-1226 Mary Somerville* science writer/polymath – Jedburgh (1872/91)
1783-0527 John Crawfurd* physician/ colonial administrator/last British Resident of Singapore – Islay, Argyll (1868/84)
1785-0518 John Wilson* advocate/writer – Paisley (1854/68)
1785-1118 David Wilkie* painter – Pitlessie, Fife (1841/55)
1792-0615 Thomas Mitchell* surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia – Grangemouth (1855/63)
1794-1028 Robert Liston* pioneering surgeon – Ecclesmachan, West Lothian (1847/53)
1795-1204 Thomas Carlyle* philosopher/writer – Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire (1881/85)
1799-0321 David Nasmith* founder of City Mission – Glasgow (1839/40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc7XKiNrHQc
1800-0426 Elizabeth Sinclair* plantation owner/purchased the island Ni’ihau from the Kingdom of Hawaii – Glasgow (1892/92)
1806-0705 James Dawson* farmer/champion of Aboriginal interests in Australia – Bonnytown, Linlithgow (1900/93)
1813-0319 David Livingstone* pioneer medical missionary – Blantyre (1873/60)
1817-1210 Alexander Wood* physician/co-inventor of the first true hypodermic syringe – Cupar, Fife (1884/66)
1818-0722 Thomas Stevenson* lighthouse designer/ meteorologist/father of R L Stevenson – Edinburgh (1887/68)
1819-0825 Allan Pinkerton* detective/spy – Glasgow (1884/64)
1822-0128 Alexander Mackenzie* politician/2nd prime minister of Canada – Logierait (1892/70)
1824-1210 George MacDonald* author/poet/pioneer in the field of fantasy literature – Huntly, Aberdeenshire (1905/80)
1827-0107 Sandford Fleming* Scottish Canadian engineer/inventor/ standardizer – Kirkcaldy (1915/88)
1829-1031 Andrew Bannatyne* Scottish-Canadian fur trader/politician/ active in Winnipeg – South Ronaldsay, Orkney (1889/59)
1831-0507 Richard Norman Shaw* architect – Edinburgh (1912/81)
1833-0101 Robert Lawson* Scottish-New Zealandese architect – Newburgh, Fife (1902/69)
1834-0427 Margaret Macpherson Grant* heiress/philanthropist – Garbity, Banffshire (1877/42)
1835-1125 Andrew Carnegie* Scottish-American industrialist/ philanthropist – Dunfermline, Fife (1919/83)
1840-0205 John Boyd Dunlop* veterinarian/inventor – Dreghorn (1921/81)
1847-0303 Alexander Graham Bell* engineer/scientist/ inventor – Edinburgh (1922/75)
1847-0525 John Alexander Dowie* evangelist/faith healer – Edinburgh (1907/59)
1848-0510 Thomas Lipton* entrepreneur (Lipton teas)/yachtsman – Glasgow (1931/83)
1850-1113 Robert Louis Stevenson* novelist/travel writer – Edinburgh (1894/44) Samoa
1852-1002 William Ramsay* chemist/N – Glasgow (1916/63)
1857-0515 Williamina Fleming* astronomer active in the United States – Dundee (1911/54)
1859-0522 Arthur Conan Doyle* writer (Sherĺock Holmes) – Edinburgh (1930/71)
1866-1130 Robert Broom* doctor/palaeontologist/anthropologist – Paisley, Renfrewshire (1951/84)
1869-0214 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson* physicist/N – Glencorse (1959/90)
1869-0719 James Kyd Duncan Ingram* physician active in Tenerife – Urquhart, Aberdeenshire (1933/63)
1870-0804 Harry Lauder* singer/comedian – Edinburgh (1950/79)
1873-0228 William McMaster Murdoch* First Officer of the RMS Titanic – Dalbeattie (1801-1922) (1912/39)
1876-0906 John Macleod* biochemist/physiologist/N – Clunie, Perthshire (1935/58)
1880-0923 John Boyd Orr* doctor/biologist/N – Kilmaurs, East Ayshire (1971/90)
1881-0806 Alexander Fleming* physician/microbiologist/N – Darvel, East Ayrshire (1955/73)
1883-0930 Doris Mackinnon* zoologist – Aberdeen (1956/72)
1888-0813 John Logie Baird* color-TV innovator – Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute (1946/57)
1892-0413 Robert Watson-Watt* pioneer of radar technology – Brechin, Angus (1973/81)
1895-0617 George MacLeod* soldier/ clergyman – Glasgow (1991/96)
1897-0606 Jane Haining* Church of Scotland missionary active in Hungary – Dunscore (1944/47)
Let’s continue the list after this neat video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROoWGPsyzFg
1907-1002 Alexander R. Todd* biochemist/N – Glasgow (1997/89)
1908-0427 Mary Docherty* communist activist – Cowdenbeath (2000/91)
1921-0930 Deborah Kerr* actress – Glasgow, Lanarkshire (2007/86)
1924-0614 James Black* physician/ pharmacologist – Uddingston, Lanarkshire (2010/85)
1924-1006 Margaret Fulton* Australian food writer/commentator – Nairn (2019/94)
1928-0424 Tommy Docherty* football player/manager – Glasgow (2020/92)
1930-0821 Princess Margaret* – Glamis Castle, Angus (2002/71)
1930-0825 Sean Connery* actor – Edinburgh (2020/90)
1931-0313 Helen Renton* flying officer at WRAF – Denny, Falkirk (2016/85)
1933-0919 David McCallum* actor – Glasgow
1939-0611 Jackie Stewart* racing driver/WC – Milton, Dunbartonshire
1947-0204 John Campbell Brown* astronomer/solar physicist – Dumbarton (2019/72)
1947-0810 Ian Anderson* musician (Jethro Tull) – Dunfermline
1948-0127 Johnny Melville* comedian/ mime/clown – Leith
1948-0325 Lynn Faulds Wood* journalist/ television presenter – Glasgow (2020/72)
1950-0330 Robbie Coltrane* actor – Rutherglen
1954-1225 Annie Lennox* singer (Eurythmics)/activist – Aberdeen
1957-0209 Gordon Strachan* football player/manager – Edinburgh
1959-0427 Sheena Easton* singer – Bellshill, North Lanarkshire
1959-1102 Peter Mullan* actor – Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
1961-0401 Susan Boyle* singer (BGT3) – Blackburn, West Lothian
1963-0919 Paul McGuigan* film director – Bellshill
1963-1121 Andrew Fairlie* chef – Perth (2019/55)
1963-1128 Armando Iannucci* satirist/director/ radio producer – Glasgow
1965-0127 Alan Cumming* actor – Aberfeldy, Pertshire
1970-0101 Fiona Dolman* actress – Findhorn, Moray
1970-0719 Nicola Sturgeon* politician/First Minister of Scotland – Irvine, Ayrshire
1971-0331 Ewan McGregor* actor – Crieff, Perthshire
1971-0418 David Tennant* actor – Bathgate, West Lothian
1979-0421 James McAvoy* actor – Glasgow
1986-0618 Richard Madden* actor – Elderslie, Renfrewshire
1986-0724 Jai McDowall* singer-songwriter – Irvine, North Ayrshire
1987-0515 Andy Murray* tennis player – Glasgow
1989-0403 James McArdle* actor – Glasgow
1989-0618 Jordan Patrick Smith* Scottish-Australian actor – Fife
1990-0629 Kim Little* football player – Mintlaw
1992-0622 Callum Hawkins* long-distance runner – Elderslie, Renfrewshire
LINKS
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Updated 22.7.2021