100 GREATEST SCOTS OF ALL TIME

Robert the Bruce  (1274 – 1329) Leader of Revolt against English

Alexander Fleming  (1881 – 1955) Discovered Penicillin

John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946) Inventor of TV and fibre optics

David Hume (1711 – 1776) Philosopher and leading figure of European enlightenment.

William Wallace (1274 – 1305) Rebel and leader of the Scottish

Alexander Graham Bell  (1847 – 1922) Invented telephone

Alex Ferguson (1941 – ) Football manager of Aberdeen and Manchester Unite)

Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Poet and Writer.

James Watt (1736 – 1819) Invented Steam Engine

Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) Economist

J.K. Rowling (1961 – ) Writer. Born England, but lives in Scotland

Arthur James Balfour (1848 – 1930) British Prime Minister (1902 to 1906)

Eric Henry Liddell (1902 – 1945) Olympic athlete in 1924 Paris Games. Immortalized in film ‘Chariots of Fire’

Rev. Patrick Bell  (1800 – 1869) Invented the reaping machine a forerunner of combine harvester.

Billy Connolly (1942 – ) comedian

Sean Connery (1930 – ) Oscar winning Actor.

Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881) Writer

Joseph Black (1728 – 1799) Chemist.   Regarded as the Father of Quantitative Chemistry.

Andrew Bonar-Law (1858 – 1923) British Prime  Minister

Sir James Dewar (1842 – 1923) Invented vacuum flask.

Lord John Boyd-Orr (1880 – 1971) Nobel Peace prize in 1947, as Director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

Robert Stevenson (1772 – 1850) Engineer

James Boswell (1740 – 1795) Biographer and Traveller.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) Author

Jackie Stewart (1939 – ) World Champion Racing Driver

Robert William Thomson (1822 – 1873) Invented the vulcanised rubber pneumatic tyre.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) Author. Creator of  Sherlock Holmes.

Tony Blair (1953 – British Prime Minister)

John Boyd Dunlop (1840 – 1921) Invented improvement to pneumatic tyre.

Sir David Brewster (1781 – 1868) Physicist and inventor of kaleidoscope.

William Spiers Bruce (1867 – 1921) Oceanographer and Polar Explorer.

John Buchan   (1875 – 1940) – Author, biographer and politician.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836 – 1908) Prime Minister of Britain between 1906 and 1908.

Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1918) U.S. Steel magnate and philanthropist.

Gordon Brown (1951 – ) British Prime Minister from 2007

James Chalmers (1782 – 1853) Inventor of adhesive postage stamp

James Braid (1795 – 1860) Surgeon and developed process of Hypnosis.

James  Clark (1936 – 1968) World Racing Champion.

Bill Shankly (1913 – 1981) Football Manager

George Cleghorn (1716 – 1794) Doctor who helped discover Quinine as cure for Malaria

Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane (1895 – 1977) Air Chief in World War Two. Planned Dambusters raid in 1943

James Keir Hardie (1856 – 1915) Socialist, founder of Independent labour party, forerunner of British Labour Party.

Donald Crisp (1880 – 1974) Oscar Winning Actor for role in “How Green is my Valley “ 1941.

James Ramsay MacDonald (1866 – 1937) First British Labour Prime Minister. Led the first Labour government in 1924.

Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 – 1981) Author.

Kenny Dalglish (1951 – ) Scottish Football player

John Knox (1505 – 1572) Instrumental in Protestant reformation in Scotland.

Sir Hugh Dalrymple (Lord Drummore) (1700 – 1753) – Invented better drainage system for agriculture.

David Douglas (1798 – 1834)

William Whitelaw (1918 – ) Conservative British Politician

Air Chief Marshall Hugh Dowding (1882 – 1970) Commander in Chief of Fighter Command during Battle of Britain.

Donald Caskie (1902 – 1983) Scottish Minister who helped British servicemen flee occupied France.

Sir Patrick Geddes (1854 – 1932) Father of Town Planning

Willie Carson (1942 – ) Race horse jockey.

Charles Mackintosh (1766 – 1843) Invented Mac Rain coat

James Gregory (1638 – 1675) Inventor of the first reflecting telescope.

Earl Douglas Haig (1861 – 1928) Commander of allied troops on Western Front in World War. Later found the Poppy fund for ex-servicemen.

William Hunter (1718 – 1783) – Pioneer in the field of Obstetrics.

Elsie Inglis (1864 – 1917) Suffragette and leading surgeon

James VI (1566 – 1625) King of England and Scotland.

Saint Kentigern (c. 518 – 613) The Apostle of Cumbria and Founder of Glasgow.

Kenneth Graham (1859 – 1932) Author. Including “The Wind in the Willows”

James Lind (1716 – 1794) Naval doctor. Helped prevent scurvy on naval expeditions.

Mary, Queen of Scots (1542 – 1587) Monarch of Scotland.

Joseph Lister (1827 – 1912) Pioneered use of antiseptics reducing infections after operations.

Sir Alexander Douglas Home (1903 – 1995) British Prime Minister (1963).

David Livingstone (1813 – 1873) Explorer

James Ure (Midge), (1953 – ) Musician.

John McAdam (1756 – 1836) Surveyor and builder of roads.

Bonnie Charlie (1720 – 1788) The Young Pretender to the throne of Great Britain

David Niven, (1909-1983) Actor

Sir Chris Hoy (Cyclist)

Sir Robert McAlpine (1847 – 1934) Construction Firm.

Norman MacCaig (1910 – 1996) Poet

Ronald Balfour Corbett (Ronnie), (1930) Comic

Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 – 1978) Poet. A founder of SNP

Flora MacDonald (1722 – 1790)

Dr. William McEwan (1827 – 1913) – Brewer and Philanthropist.

Sir John Alexander MacDonald (1815 – 1891) First Prime Minister of Canada.

Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813 – 1878) Inventor of the Bicycle.

James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879] Mathematician and Physicist.

Andrew Meikle (1719 – 1811) Inventor of the threshing machine.

Sir William Ramsay (1852 – 1916) Chemist

Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) Writer and Poet

Muriel Spark (1918 – ) Author

Ewan McGregor, (1971) Actor

Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), invented radar

Robbie Coltrane, (1950) Actor

Donovan, (1946) Singer

Sir Thomas Lipton (1850 – 1931) Retail Grocery trade.

Annie Lennox, (1954 – ) Individual Singer

Lulu (Marie McDonald Lawrie) (1948 – ) Pop singer

Graham Obree – Cyclist – World Pursuit Champion and broke world hour record

Jo Grimond, (1913-1993), Liberal Party leader from 1956 to 1967

Alex Salmond, Nationalist (SNP leader 1990-2000)

Sir John Sholto Douglas (8th Marquis of Queensberry) (1844 – 1900) Devised the “Queensberry Rules” for boxing in 1867.

Sir William Arrol (1839 – 1913) Engineer.

George Wishart (1513 – 1546) Lutheran Martyr

Sir Harry Lauder (1870 – 1950) Singer and Music Hall Entertainer.

James Young (1811 – 1883) Chemical Engineer.