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13 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 -
Walter SCOTT
Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
1771 - 1832 -
Archibald COCHRANE
Scottish nobleman and inventor
1748 - 1831 -
John Loudon MCADAM
Scottish engineer and road-builder, he invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads
1756 - 1836 -
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 -
Thomas Graham
Scottish aristocrat, politician and British Army officer
1748 - 1843 -
James Clerk MAXWELL
Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics
1831 - 1879 -
Mary Victoria DOUGLAS-HAMILTON
Scottish great-grandmother of Prince Rainier III of Monaco
1850 - 1922 -
Charles TENNANT
Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician
1823 - 1906 -
Charles TENNANT
Scottish chemist and industrialist
1768 - 1838 -
Allan PINKERTON
Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
1819 - 1884 -
Andrew CARNEGIE
Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry
1835 - 1919