Famous Scots. Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Isobel Wylie Hutchison Isobel Hutchison in Arctic gear, circa 1927 Born 30 May 1889 Died 20 February 1982 (aged 92) Nationality Scottish Occupation(s) Arctic...
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30 April 2025
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2025
Famous Scots. John Elder.
John Elder (8 March 1824 – 17 September 1869) was a Scottish marine engineer and shipbuilder. He was born at Glasgow on 8 March 1824. His...
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17 April 2025
Famous Scots. Hamish MacCunn.
Hamish MacCunn, né James MacCunn (22 March 1868 – 2 August 1916) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher. He was one of the...
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30 March 2025
Famous Scots. Stanley Baxter.
Hi friends. In the ’70s and 80’s I grew up with this very funny man, he was on TV every...
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17 March 2025
Famous Scots. Robert Findlay (architect).
Robert Findlay (1859–1951) was a Scottish-born Canadian architect. He was born in Inverness, Scotland, and moved to Montreal in 1885. He won the competition to expand the first...
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8 March 2025
Famous Scots. Stuart Mitchell.
Stuart Mitchell (21 December 1965 – August 2018) was a Scottish pianist and composer who was born in Edinburgh and who is...
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5 February 2025
Famous Scots. Earl of Kellie.
Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1 September 1732 – 9 October 1781), styled Viscount Fentoun and Lord Pittenweem until 1756, was...
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15 January 2025
Famous Scots. James Gordon Bennett Sr.
James Gordon Bennett Sr. Bennett c. 1851 Born September 1, 1795Newmill, Banffshire, Scotland Died June 1, 1872 (aged 76)Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Occupation...
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7 January 2025
2024
Famous Scots.John Burns.
John Burns, 1st Baron Inverclyde, FRGS (24 June 1829 – 12 February 1901) was a Scottish ship owner. Biography Born in Glasgow he was...
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13 December 2024
Famous Scots. William Young.
William Young (baptized 25 March 1843 – 1 November 1900) was a Scottish architect, the designer of Glasgow City Chambers. Biography Early...
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2 December 2024
Famous Scots. Sorley Maclean.
1911 Sorley MacLean Born. Sorley MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Somhairle MacGill-Eain, sometimes “MacGilleathain” in earlier publications) was born at Osgaig on...
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12 November 2024
Famous Scots. Peter Buchan.
Peter Buchan (4 August 1790 – 19 September 1854) was a Scottish editor, publisher, and collector of ballads and folktales. Biography...
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1 November 2024
Famous Scots. John Macvicar Anderson
John Macvicar Anderson FRSE (11 July 1835, Glasgow – 9 June 1915, London) was a Scottish architect. He was born in Glasgow in 1835, the...
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24 October 2024
Famous Scots. Sir William Thomson.
‘To measure is to know.’ – William Thomson William Thomson, who became Baron Kelvin of Largs, was a physicist, mathematician,...
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6 October 2024
Famous Scots. Frederick Walters.
Walters was born on 5 February 1849 at 6 South Terrace, Brompton, London, the son of the architect Frederick Page Walters—with...
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28 September 2024
Famous Scots.Tommy Douglas.
Voted “the Greatest Canadian” in 2004, the diminutive Tommy Douglas was in fact born in Scotland and spent most of...
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11 September 2024
Famous Scots. Joseph Knight.
Joseph Knight was born in Africa, captured and enslaved in his youth and sent to the Caribbean, but he ended...
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30 August 2024
Famous Scots.Dr John Forrest.
From outlaw to royal physician – Dr John Forrest From body snatching to royal physician: the changing fortunes of Dr...
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20 August 2024
Famous Scots: The Legacy of Francis George Scott.
Francis George Scott (25 January 1880 – 6 November 1958) was a Scottish composer often associated with the Scottish Renaissance. Born at...
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3 August 2024
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, ‘Le Loup des Mers’ and Naval Exploits.
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM, OSC(14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was...
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24 July 2024
Famous Scots. Andy Murray.
Sir Andrew Barron Murray OBE (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of...
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11 July 2024
Famous Scots. Rona Anderson.
Rona Anderson (3 August 1926 – 23 July 2013) was a Scottish stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in TV series and on...
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6 July 2024
famous scots. William Balfour baikie
Baikie was born at Kirkwall, Orkney, eldest son of Captain John Baikie, R.N. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and, on obtaining his M.D. degree, joined...
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29 June 2024
Famous Scots. Sir Sean Connery.
Sir Thomas Sean Connery CBE (born 25 August 1930) is a Scottish retired actor and producer, who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA...
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18 June 2024
Famous Scots. Sir Robert Watson Watt.
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRs FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) was a British pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology. Watt began...
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6 June 2024
Famous Scots . Alexander Bain.
Alexander Bain lived from October 1811 to 2 January 1877. He was an instrument maker, an inventor and a clockmaker...
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28 May 2024
Famous Scots. William Wallace.
William Wallace was born in 1270 in a Scottish Town called Ayr, or in the immediate area of Ayrshire and...
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1 May 2024
Famous Scots William Adams.
William Adam (1689 – 24 June 1748) was a Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur. He was the foremost architect of his time in...
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12 April 2024
Famous Scots. James Chalmers.
James Chalmers (2 February 1782, in Arbroath – 26 August 1853, in Dundee) was a Scotsman (buried on 1 September 1853 in plot 526 Dundee Howff)...
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26 March 2024
Famous Scots. Kirkpatrick Macmillan.
(1812 – 1878) Macmillan was a Scottish blacksmith who is credited with the invention of the pedal bicycle. Kirkpatrick Macmillan...
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23 March 2024
Famous Scots . James Watt.
James Watt (1736–1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist. He is famous for developing a separate condensing chamber...
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3 March 2024
Famous Scots. Kaye Adams.
Kaye Adams (born 28 December 1962) is a Scottish television presenter and journalist. She was an anchor on ITV topical discussion show Loose Women from 1999 to...
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15 February 2024
Famous Scots. Peter Denny.
Peter Denny FRSE LLD (25 October 1821 – 22 August 1895) was a shipbuilder and shipowner based in Dumbarton, Scotland. Parents and education Denny...
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23 January 2024
Famous Scots. Sir John Clerk.
Sir John Clerk 2nd Baronet (c. 1676 – 4 October 1755) was a Scottish politician, lawyer, judge and composer. He was Vice-President of...
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9 January 2024
2023
Famous Scots. Stephen Brand.
Steven Brand is a Scottish actor. His feature debut was The Scorpion King (2002), where he portrayed Memnon. He has had many guest...
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30 December 2023
Famous Scots.William Beardmore.
William Beardmore 1st Baron Invernairn, DL (16 October 1856 – 9 April 1936), known as Sir William Beardmore, Bt, between 1914 and 1921,...
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15 December 2023
Famous Scots. Arthur Anderson.
Arthur Anderson (1792, Shetland – 27 February 1868, London) was a Scottish businessman and Whig politician. He was co-founder of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Career. He...
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19 November 2023
Famous Scots.(Robert Anderson).
Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, FRSE RSA (5 April 1834 – 1 June 1921) was a Scottish Victorian architect. Anderson trained in the office of George Gilbert...
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14 November 2023
Famous Scots. (Gerard Butler)
Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting...
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4 November 2023
Famous Scots.Thomas Carlyle.
A tiny house in Ecclefechan, near Lockerbie, is the birthplace of one of the most significant thinkers in Scottish history, and has...
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13 October 2023