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.
Andy Murray has to be in this list surely??
You can’t have a list of great Scots without Andy Stewart, Moira Anderson or Kenneth McKellar
Your forgot the person who physically transformed Scotland, Thomas Telford the Scottish civil engineer. Why?
A list of the greatest Scots ever and Good Sir James Douglas lord of Douglas isn’t included? He was Robert the Bruce’s right hand man. And besides the Bruce and William Wallace did more for the Scots in their war for independence than anyone else.