List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom
John Ross, 1st Lord Ross
John Ross, 1st Lord Ross of Halkhead was a Scottish nobleman.
Donnchadh of Argyll
Donnchadh of Argyll or Donnchadh mac Dubhghaill was a late 12th and early 13th century Scottish noble. He was the son of Dubhghall mac Somhairle, son of Somhairle mac Gille Bhrighde. He is the first of the MacDougall lords of Argyll to take the title de Argadia, and can be regarded as the founder of the successful MacDougall lordship of Argyll. He was also a prominent builder, notable for his construction of Ardchattan Priory and Dunstaffnage Castle.
James Ross, 4th Lord Ross
James Ross, 4th Lord Ross of Halkhead was a Scottish nobleman and an adherent to the cause of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet, was a British geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and describing the Silurian, Devonian and Permian systems.
Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee
Henry James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee, was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician.
Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, QC, FRSA, HonFRSE, is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She served as Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford from 2011 to 2018.
William Mitchell Ramsay
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, FBA was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar. By his death in 1939 he had become the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament.
Alexander Macleay
Alexander Macleay MLC FLS FRS was a leading member of the Linnean Society, a fellow of the Royal Society and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
Mariotta Haliburton
Mariotta Haliburton, Lady Home was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman. She varied the spelling of her forename between Mariotta, Marion, and Mary. She is remembered for her defence and negotiation of the surrender of Hume Castle after the Battle of Pinkie when the castle was surrounded by an English army. Afterwards she continued to struggle for the rights of her people at the village of Hume in the Scottish Borders, writing both to the English commander and the Scottish leader.
Stephen Hislop
Stephen Hislop was a Scottish missionary who worked with the Free Church in India, an educationist and a keen geologist. Hislop College, Nagpur is named after him, as is the green mineral Hislopite. Among his geological discoveries is the fossil reptile, Brachyops laticeps which he found in his geological explorations of the Nagpur region.