List of Scots
Scotland, part of the United Kingdom, seems to have more than its fair share of famous men and women for its size and population. The following is a list of some of the best known.
Actors
- Robbie Coltrane
- Sean Connery
- Billy Connolly
- Tom Conti
- Brian Cox
- James Robertson Justice
- Deborah Kerr
- Ewan MacGregor
- Alistair MacLean
Artists
Inventors
Musicians
Scientists
- Alexander Fleming
- Joseph Lister
- John Napier -- mathematician
Sportsmen and -women
Theologians
Writers
Others
- Ian Anderson
- Tony Blair
- David Byrne
- Andrew Carnegie
- Donald Crisp
- James Dewar
- John Boyd Dunlop
- Thomas Graham
- David Hume
- James Hutton
- John Paul Jones
- Captain Kidd
- David Livingstone
- James Clerk Maxwell
- MacAdam
- Charles Macintosh
- John James Richard Macleod
- William Topaz McGonagall
- A. A. Milne
- Robert Noble
- Allan Pinkerton
- Sir William Ramsay
- James Clark Ross
- Sir Walter Scott
- Alexander Selkirk inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
- Moira Shearer
- Alastair Sim
- Adam Smith
- Josephine Tey
- Robert William Thomson
- William Wallace a.k.a. Braveheart
- Robert Watson-Watt
- James Watt
- Paraffin Young a.k.a. James Young, James (Paraffin) Young
See also: Biographical Listing