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8 famous people found
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Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
Arthur CONAN DOYLE
Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes
1859 - 1930 -
John NAPIER
Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1550 - 1617 -
John Loudon MCADAM
Scottish engineer and road-builder, he invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads
1756 - 1836 -
John Playfair
Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician
1748 - 1819 -
Hugh Mercer
Scottish soldier and physician who participated in the Seven Years' War and American Revolution
1726 - 1777 -
James Clerk MAXWELL
Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics
1831 - 1879 -
Charles TENNANT
Scottish chemist and industrialist
1768 - 1838