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37 famous people found
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Sean CONNERY
Scottish actor
1930 - 2020 -
LULU
Scottish singer-songwriter
1948 -
Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
Annie LENNOX
Scottish singer, songwriter, political activist and philanthropist
1954 -
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 -
Walter SCOTT
Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
1771 - 1832 -
Jack Bruce
Scottish musician, primary lead vocalist and bassist of rock band Cream
1943 - 2014 -
David TENNANT
Scottish actor
1971 -
Peter CAPALDI
Scottish actor and film director
1958 -
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 -
John Crichton-Stuart
Scottish peer and racing driver
1958 - 2021 -
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