Hall of Fame A-Z
Hall of Fame A-Z
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Robert Adam (1728-1792), architect
William Adam (1689-1748), builder and architect
William Alexander (c1567-1641), poet and politician
Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), surgeon and suffragette
Johnny Armstrong (died 1529), Border Reiver, in the entry on hairy thyme
Sir William Arrol (1839-1913), civil engineer
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Dame Isobel Baillie (1895-1983), singer
Robert Baillie of Jerviswood (1634-1684), conspirator
John Logie Baird (1888-1946), television engineer
Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), Prime Minister
Lady Eve Balfour (1898-1990), promoter of organic farming and co-founder of the Soil Association
James Ballantyne (1772-1833), printer and newspaper editor
John Ballantyne (1774-1821), publisher and literary agent
Charles Glover Barkla (1877-1944), physicist and Nobel laureate
J M Barrie (1860-1937), playwright and novelist
John George Bartholomew (1860-1920). geographer and cartographer
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), educator of the deaf and inventor of the telephone
Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), physiologist and surgeon
Joseph Black (1728-1799), chemist and physician
William Blackwood (1776-1834), publisher and founder of 'Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine'
James Boswell (1740-1795), lawyer, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson
Sir Thomas Bouch (1822-1880), civil engineer
Harry Bowers (1883-1912), polar explorer
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), natural philosopher and academic administrator
John Broadwood (1732-1812), harpsichord and piano manufacturer
Henry Brougham (1778-1868), Lord Chancellor
George Douglas Brown (1869-1902), writer
George Mackay Brown (1921-1996), poet and writer
John Brown (1826-1883), personal servant to Queen Victoria
Alexander Buchan (1829-1907), meteorologist
John Buchan (1875-1940), author, publisher and Governor-General of Canada
David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929), inventor and Motor Industry pioneer
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury and historian
Robert Burns (1759-1796), poet
Sir William Burrell (1861-1958), art collector
Sir Matt Busby (1909-1994), football manager
C
Grace Cadell (1855-1918), physician and suffragist
Robert Cadell (1788-1849), bookseller and publisher
William Cadell (1708-1777), industrialist
Sir Hall Caine (1853-1931), writer
David Calderwood (1575-1650), Church of Scotland minister and historian
Archibald Campbell (1658-1703), nobleman and politician
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908), Prime Minister
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), poet
Alexander Carlyle (1722-1805), Church of Scotland minister and memorialist
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), author, biographer and historian
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), manufacturer and philanthropist
William Carstairs (1649-1716), Church of Scotland minister and political adviser
James Chalmers (1782-1853), Post Office reformer
Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), founder of the Free Church of Scotland
Robert Chambers (1802-1871), publisher and writer
William Chambers (1800-1883), publisher
Agatha Christie (1890-1976), writer
Jim Clark (1936-1968), world champion racing driver
Sir John Clerk of Penicuik (1676-1755), politician and antiquary
George Coats, Baron Glentanar (1849-1918), industrialist
Thomas Cochrane, tenth earl of Dundonald (1775-1860), Naval Officer
Alison Cockburn (1717-1794), writer and literary hostess
Henry Cockburn (1779-1854), author and judge
Patrick Colquhoun (1745-1820), provost of Glasgow, tobacco merchant, reformer and statistician in the entry on hazel
Robert Colquhoun (1914-1962), artist, in the entry on hazel
Archibald Constable (1774-1827), publisher
Archibald Scott Couper (1831-1892), chemist
Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), banker
James Craig (1739-1795), architect and designer of Edinburgh's New Town
William Creech (1745-1815), bookseller and magistrate
Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1859-1914), novelist
A J Cronin (1896-1981), novelist
William Cullen (1710-1790), chemist and physician
Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976), painter, museum director and cartographer
D
David Dale (1739-1806), industrialist and philanthropist
James Dalrymple (1619-1695), lawyer and politician
Sir John Dalrymple (1648-1707), politician and Lord Advocate
Henry Stewart, lord Darnley (1545/6-1567), second consort of Mary Queen of Scots
Randall Davidson (1848-1930), Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), essayist
William Denny (1815-1854), shipbuilder and shipowner
Sir James Dewar (1842-1923), chemist and physicist
George Dick (1914-1997), pathologist and virologist
Catherine Dickens (1815-1879), wife of Charles Dickens
James Donaldson (1751-1830), newspaper editor and philanthropist
Archibald Douglas (1694-1761), landowner
David Douglas (1799-1834), plant collector
James Douglas (1662-1711), politician
Margaret Douglas (d 1775), noblewoman
Thomas Millie Dow (1848-1919), artist
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), writer
Flora Drummond (1878-1949), suffragette
Victoria Drummond (1894-1978), marine engineer
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), poet and pamphleteer
Henry Duncan (1774-1846), founder of the first savings bank run on business principles
Henry Dundas (1742-1811), politician
John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921), inventor and pioneer of the pneumatic rubber tyre
E
Isabella Elder (1827-1905), champion of women's education
Ena, princess of Battenberg (1887-1969), granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Queen of Spain
Mary Erskine (1629-1707), businesswoman and philanthropist
Thomas Erskine (1732-1781), composer
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William Farquhar (1774-1839). colonial administrator in Singapore
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816), philosopher and historian
Robert Fergusson (1750-1774), poet
Susan Ferrier (1782-1854), novelist
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), artist and writer, in the entry on the Guelder rose
James Finlayson (1887-1953), actor
Andrew Fisher (1862-1928), Prime Minister of Australia
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin and Nobel laureate
Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969), artist
Duncan Forbes of Culloden (1644-1704), genealogist and politician
George Forrest (1873-1932), plant collector
Robert Foulis (1707-1776) and Andrew Foulis (1712-1775), printers and book-sellers
Robert Foulis (1796-1866), inventor of the steam-operated fog alarm in the entry for the Robert and Andrew Foulis, printers and book-sellers
Simon Fraser (1773-1852), editor of traditional music and composer
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), social anthropologist and classical scholar
Edmund Fresson (1891-1963), airline executive
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Robert Garioch (1909-1981), poet and translator
Jenny Geddes (c 1600-c 1660), market trader in the entry on the lesser periwinkle
Patrick Geddes (1854-1932), social evolutionist and city planner
Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), geologist and historian
James Geikie (1839-1915), geologist
Lewis Grassic Gibbon - pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), writer
James Gilchrist (1832-1894), violin maker
Thomas Blake Glover (1838-1911), merchant
Harry Goodsir (1819-c 1847-48), surgeon and naturalist
Niel Gow (1727-1807), music-seller and composer
James Gillespie Graham (1776-1855), architect
James Grahame (1790-1842), historian
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), writer and Secretary of the Bank of England
Anne Grant (1755-1838), author
Sir Samuel Greig (1735-1788), Father of the Russian Navy
Sir Nigel Gresley (1876-1941), railway engineer
Jimmie Guthrie (1897-1937), racing motorcyclist
Thomas Guthrie (1803-1873), Free Church of Scotland minister and philanthropist
H
Jane Haining (1897-1944), missionary
Basil Hall (1788-1844), naval officer and author
John Hamilton (1656-1708), politician
Thomas Hamilton (1563-1637), lawyer and politician
William Hamilton (1704-1754), poet and Jacobite army officer
James Hannay (died 1661), Dean of St Giles in Edinburgh, in the entry on the lesser periwinkle
Keir Hardie (1856-1915), founder of the Labour Party
Adam Hepburn (d 1513), Master of the Royal Stables
Andrew Heriot (died c1531), laird
George Heriot (1563-1624), jeweller and philanthropist
David Octavius Hill (1802-1870), painter and photographer
Johnny Hill (1905-1929), world boxing champion
James Hogg (1770-1835), poet and novelist
Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1903-1995), Prime Minister
Francis Horner (1778-1817), politician
David Hume (1711-1796), philosopher and historian
Joseph Hume (1777-1855), radical and politician
John Hunter (1728-1793), surgeon and anatomist
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist
James Hutton (1726-1797), geologist
I
Elsie Inglis (1864-1917), physician, surgeon and suffragette
J
David "Monterey" Jack (1822-1909), businessman
Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850), writer and judge
Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912), physician and campaigner for women’s rights
Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874-1938), sinologist and tutor to the last Emperor of China
Samuel Johnston (1733-1816), American lawyer and statesman
Louisa Jordan (1878-1915), nurse
K
John Kay (1742–1826), portrait etcher and miniature painter
Lord Kelvin see William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), mathematician and physicist
John Knox (d 1572), religious reformer
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Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864-1945), Archbishop of Canterbury
Sir Harry Lauder (1870-1950, music hall entertainer
Sir John Lauder (1646-1742), judge and political commentator
Bonar Law (1858-1923), Prime Minister
Jennie Lee (1904-1988), politician
David Leslie (1601-1682), army officer
George Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), landowner
James Lind (1716-1794), naval surgeon and physician
James Bowman Lindsay (1799-1862), experimenter with electricity and writer on theology
Joseph Lister (1827-1912), surgeon and founder of a system of antiseptic surgery
David Livingstone (1813-1873), explorer and missionary
George Lockhart of Carnwath (1681-1731), Jacobite politician and memoirist
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), writer and literary editor
Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), geologist
Benny Lynch (1913-1946), world boxing champion
M
John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), builder and administrator of roads
Zachary MacAulay (1768-1838), slavery abolitionist
Norman MacCaig (1910-1996), poet
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978), poet and writer
George MacDonald (1824-1905), poet and novelist
Sir Hector MacDonald (1853-1903), Army officer
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1815-1891), first Prime Minister of Canada
Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), Prime Minister
Alexander MacDonell (1725-1761), soldier and Jacobite
William MacGillivray (1796-1852), ornithologist and natural historian
Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734), outlaw and folk hero
Charles Macintosh (1766-1843), chemist and inventor of waterproof fabric
Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820), explorer
Alexander Mackenzie (1822-1892), Prime Minister of Canada
George Mackenzie (d 1651), chief of Clan Mackenzie
Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831), writer
Osgood Mackenzie (1842-1922), founder of the garden at Inverewe, in the entry on ling (white heather)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), architect, decorative artist and watercolour painter
Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), mathematician and natural philosopher
Agnes Maclehose (1758-1841), letter-writer and poet
Anna Macleod (1917-2004), professor of brewing and distilling
John James Rickard Macleod (1876-1935), physiologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate
Kirkpatrick McMillan (1812-1878), inventor of the pedal cycle
Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824), army officer and colonial governor
Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield (1722-1799), judge
John Maitland (1616-1682), politician
Alexander Mann (1853-1908), artist
Martin Martin (died 1719), author of 'A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland' (1703) in the entries on ling (white heather) and wild flag iris
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)
Francis Masson (1741-1805), botanist, in the entry on the African blue lily
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), physicist
Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867), landscape painter
William Topaz McGonagall (c 1825–1902), poet and actor
Andrew Meikle (1719-1811), millwright and inventor of the threshing machine
John Middleton (1619-1674), army officer
Hugh Miller (1802-1856), geologist, evangelical journalist and writer
James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), writer
Dr James Moffatt (1870-1944), Bible scholar
Alexander Monro (1697-1767), founder of the University of Edinburgh's Medical School
Sir John Moore (1761-1809), Army officer
Sir Alexander Morison (1779-1866), pioneer of psychiatric medicine
Old Tom Morris (1821-1908), golfer
Young Tom Morris (1851-1875), Scottish golf champion
Agnes Mowbray (d 1595), wife of Robert Crichton of Eliok, Lord Advocate
John Muir (1838-1914), conservationist
Thomas Muir (1765-1798), political reformer
William Murdoch (1754-1839), engineer and discoverer of coal gas
Alexander Murray (1775-1813), linguist
Flora Murray MD (1869-1923), physician and suffragette
John Murray (1737-1793), bookseller and publisher
Sir John Murray (1841-1914), marine scientist and oceanographer
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Lady Caroline Nairne (1766-1845), songwiter
Thomas Nelson (1780-1861), publisher and printer
James Newlands (1813-1871), architect and civil engineer
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Sir John Boyd Orr (1880-1971), nutritional physiologist and Nobel laureate
Robert Owen (1771-1858), philanthropist
P
Mungo Park (1771-1806), explorer in Africa
Sir Robert William Philip (1857-1939), physician and founder of tuberculosis dispensaries
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), private detective
Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713), physician
John Playfair (1748-1819), mathematician and geologist
William Henry Playfair (1790-1857), architect
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R
John Rae (1813-1893), Arctic explorer
Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823), portrait painter
Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet
Allan Ramsay of Kinkell (1713-1784), portrait painter
Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), physical chemist and Nobel laureate
Sir George Houstoun Reid (1845-1918), Prime Minister of Australia
Thomas Reid (1710-1796), natural and moral philosopher
Lord John Reith (1889-1971), first Director-General of the BBC
John Rennie (1761-1821), engineer
David Riccio (1533-1566), musician and courtier
William Robertson (1721-1793), historian and minister of the Church of Scotland
Dr John Rogerson (1741-1823), physician
Sir John Ross (1777-1851), naval officer and Arctic explorer
Marion Ross (1903-1994), physicist
John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic and social critic
Lord John Russell (1792-1878), Prime Minister
Daniel Rutherford (1749-1819), physicist and chemist
Samuel Rutherford (c 1600-1661), Church of Scotland minister and political theorist
S
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), poet and novelist
Patrick Sellar (1780-1851), sheep farmer and agent of the Highland Clearances
Bill Shankly (1913-1981), football manager
James Sharp (1618-1679), Archbishop of St Andrews
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet
Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), author and college teacher
Alastair Sim (1900-1976), actor and director
Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), physician and obstetrician
James Scott Skinner (1843-1927), traditional fiddler, in the entry on the Scotch thistle
Mary Slessor (1848-1915), missionary
John Slezer (d 1717), army officer and topographical draughtsman
Adam Smith (1723-1790), moral philosopher and political economist
Nicol Smith (1873-1905), footballer
Sir William Alexander Smith (1854-1914), founder of the Boys' Brigade
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), writer
Mary Somerville (1780-1872), science writer and mathematics expositor
Dr William Clark Souter (1880-1959), ophthalmic surgeon
Dame Muriel Spark (1918-2006), poet and novelist
Sir Basil Spence (1907-1976), architect
John Spottiswoode (1565-1639), Archbishop of St Andrews and historian
Group Captain James Stagg (1900-1975), meteorologist
Jock Stein (1922-1985), football manager
Flora Clift Stevenson (1839-1905), philanthropist and educationalist
Robert Stevenson (1772-1850), civil engineer
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), writer
Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), philosopher
Marie Stopes (1880-1958), scientist and advocate of birth control
Lord Strathcona (1820-1914), businessman and politician in Canada
John Stuart, third earl of Bute (1713-1792), Prime Minister
Elizabeth Sutherland (1765-1839), landowner
Robert Garioch Sutherland see Robert Garioch (1909-1981), poet and translator
Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson (1847-1927), composer
T
Archibald Campbell Tait (1811-1882), Archbishop of Canterbury
Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder (1890-1967), Air Force officer
Thomas Telford (1757-1834), civil engineer
Charles Tennant (1768-1838), chemical manufacturer
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), novelist
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson (1817-1875), architect
Andrew Mitchell Thomson (1778-1831), Church of Scotland minister and journalist
Joseph Thomson (1858-1895) explorer in Africa
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), mathematician and physician
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948), zoologist and classical scholar, in the entry on the grape hyacinth
Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852-1936), artist
James Tytler (1745-1804), editor second edition of 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'
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Johnnie Walker (1805-1857), whisky blender
Dudley D Watkins (1907-1969), comic artist
Andrew Watson (1856-1921), footballer and marine engineer
Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973), developer of radar
James Watt (1736-1819), engineer
Sir David Webster (1903-1971), theatre and opera house administrator
Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841), painter of genre historical subjects and portraits
Peter Williamson (1730-1799), publisher and adventurer
Alexander Wilson (1714-1786), astronomer and type founder
Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), ornithologist and poet
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), physicist and Nobel laureate
George Washington Wilson (1823-1893), miniature painter and photographer
James Wilson (1742-1798), signatory to the American Declaration of Independence
John Witherspoon (1723-1794), signatory to the American Declaration of Independence
Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian
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James Young (1811-1883), chemist and philanthropist
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