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Famous Scots
The following is a list of some of the famous people from Scotland:
Actors
- Robert Carlyle, (born 1961)
- Robbie Coltrane, (born 1950)
- Sean Connery, (born 1930)
- Tom Conti, (born 1941)
- Ewan McGregor, (born 1971)
Architects
- Robert Adam, (1728-1792)
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh, (1868-1928)
Artists
- Alexander Nasmyth, (1758-1840), landscape painter
Business
- Arthur Anderson, (1792-1868), co-founder of P&O
- David Buick, founded the Buick car company
- Andrew Carnegie, (1835-1919), steel magnate and philanthropist
Engineers and Inventors
- Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), telephone, National Geographic, Hydrofoil
- John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), television
- Sir Robert McAlpine (Concrete Bob), (1847-1934), road builder
- Thomas Telford, (1757-1834) architect, civil engineer, bridge designer
- James Watt, (1736-1819), engineer, significantly improved the steam engine
Philosophers
Rulers, Politicians
- Tony Blair, (born 1953), UK Prime Minister
- Gordon Brown, (born 1951), Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Robert the Bruce, Robert I of Scotland
- Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender to the throne of Great Britain
- Donald Dewar, (born 1937), Scotland First Minister
- James VI of Scotland and I of England, (1603-1625)
- Mary, Queen of Scots, (1542-1587)
- John Smith, (1938-1994) Labour Party leader
- David Steel, (born 1938), Liberal Party leader from 1976 to 1988
- William Wallace, (c. 1270-1305), a.k.a. Braveheart
Scientists
- Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), biologist
- Thomas Graham, (1805-1869), chemist
- James Clerk Maxwell, (1831-1879), thermodynamics and electromagnetic theorist
- John Napier, (1550-1617), mathematician
Theologians
- John Knox, (c.1513-1572)
- John Duns Scotus, (c.1266-1308)
- George Wishart, (1513-1546)
Writers
Others
- Douglas Haig, (1861-1928), commander-in-chief of British forces during WW I
- Elsie Inglis, medical reformer and suffragette
- David Livingstone, (1813-1873), explorer, missionary
- Flora Macdonald, jacobite and empire loyalist
- Rob Roy MacGregor, romantic outlaw
- Adam Smith, (1723-1790), economist, free trade, laisser-faire, division of labour
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