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20 famous people found
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John NAPIER
Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1550 - 1617 -
Walter SCOTT
Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
1771 - 1832 -
Archibald COCHRANE
Scottish nobleman and inventor
1748 - 1831 -
Thomas COCHRANE
Scottish naval flag officer of the Royal Navy and radical politician
1775 - 1860 -
John Loudon MCADAM
Scottish engineer and road-builder, he invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads
1756 - 1836 -
John WITHERSPOON
Scots Presbyterian minister and a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey
1723 - 1794 -
John STUART
Scottish nobleman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain
1713 - 1792 -
Frederick Lewis Maitland
Officer in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1777 - 1839 -
John Playfair
Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician
1748 - 1819 -
David Beaton
Archbishop of St Andrews and the last Scottish cardinal prior to the Reformation
1494 - 1546 -
Hugh Mercer
Scottish soldier and physician who participated in the Seven Years' War and American Revolution
1726 - 1777 -
Thomas Graham
Scottish aristocrat, politician and British Army officer
1748 - 1843 -
George GILLESPIE
Scottish theologian
1613 - 1648 -
Simon FRASER
Scottish Jacobite and Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat
1667 - 1747 -
George MACKENZIE OF ROSEHAUGH
Scottish lawyer, Lord Advocate, essayist and legal writer
1636 - 1691 -
John STEWART
Scottish nobleman and soldier who fought alongside Scotland's French allies during the Hundred Years War
1381 - 1424 -
William WALLACE
Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence
1270 - 1305 -
Charles TENNANT
Scottish chemist and industrialist
1768 - 1838 -
Robert ADAM
Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer
1728 - 1792 -
John LAW
Scottish economist
1671 - 1729