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Famous Scots
- Robert Adam [r]: (1728-1792) Neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. [e]
- John Anderson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Logie Baird [r]: Scottish engineer (1888-1946), best known as the inventor of the first practical, publicly demonstrated electromechanical television system in the world. [e]
- Andrew Carnegie [r]: 1835-1919, Scottish-American steel maker, philanthropist and peace activist [e]
- William Cullen [r]: (1710-1790) The leading British physician of the 18th century. [e]
- Adam Fergusson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Andrew Fletcher [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Keir Hardie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Knox [r]: Scottish clergyman (1514-1572), leader of the Scottish Reformation and founder of Scottish Presbyterianism. [e]
- Mary, Queen of Scots [r]: (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1857) Mary Stuart (or Stewart), Queen of Scotland (1542–67) and queen consort of France (1559–60); forced to flee to England after a rebellion among Scottish nobles, she was finally beheaded as a Roman Catholic threat to the English throne. [e]
- John Muir [r]: (1838-1914) U.S. naturalist and conservationist, born in Scotland; founded the Sierra Club. [e]
- Thomas Muir [r]: (1765 – 1799) Scottish political reformer, and the most notable victim of political repression in the years after the French Revolution. [e]
- Robert Owen [r]: (1771-1858) Welsh industrialist and early socialist, who established several utopian communities; at his New Lanark cotton mill in Scotland, experimented with social and industrial welfare programs. [e]
- Adam Smith [r]: Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790), a major contributor to the modern perception of free market economics; author of Wealth of Nations (1776). [e]
- James Watt [r]: Scottish engineer and inventor (1736-1819), best known for major innovations in re the steam engine; the watt (unit of power) is named after him. [e]
- Francis Hutcheson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Fleming [r]: Scottish biologist and pharmacologist (1881-1955), best-known for the discovery of penicillin for which he won the Nobel Prize. [e]
- John Napier [r]: (1550 – 4 April 1617) The eighth Laird of Merchistoun, a mathematician, physicist, and astrologer. [e]
- Thomas Telford [r]: Scottish civil engineer (1757-1834) who gained fame as a road, bridge, and canal builder; he is regarded as the father of Civil Engineering. [e]
Literature
- James Boswell [r]: (1740 - 1795) Scottish author, best known as Samuel Johnson’s biographer, and for the detailed and frank diaries that he kept for much of his life. [e]
- Robert Burns [r]: The National poet of Scotland (1759-96); writer of Auld Lang Syne. [e]
- John Prebble [r]: Hugely popular writer (1915-2001) of mainly historical fiction works on themes related to Scottish history, esp that of the Highlands. [e]
- Walter Scott [r]: (1771-1832) A prolific Scottish poet and novelist, considered the originater of the genre of historical fiction. [e]
- Robert Louis Stevenson [r]: British 19th-century writer whose works included Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [e]
Philosophers
- John Duns Scotus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Hume [r]: (1711—1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. [e]
- Thomas Reid [r]: Scottish philosopher (1710-1796), one of the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, best known as the founder of the "school of common sense". [e]