List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom
David A Stevenson
David Alan Stevenson FRSE MIME FRSSA MICE was a lighthouse engineer who built twenty six lighthouses in and around Scotland.
Adam Blackwood
Adam Blackwood (1539–1613) was a Scottish author and apologist for Mary, Queen of Scots.
Lorne MacLaine Campbell
Brigadier Lorne MacLaine Campbell, was a British Army officer and a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal politician. He served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He also served as Secretary of State for War twice, in the Cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery. He was the first First Lord of the Treasury to be officially called the "Prime Minister", the term only coming into official usage five days after he took office. He remains the only person to date to hold the positions of Prime Minister and Father of the House at the same time, and the last Liberal leader to gain a UK parliamentary majority.
Robert Grant Watson
James Ferguson, 1st Laird of Pitfour
James Ferguson was a Scottish lawyer and was also the 1st Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in the Buchan area of north-east Scotland, which became known as 'The Blenheim of the North'. Prior to the purchase of the Pitfour estate, he had the honorific 'James Ferguson of Badifurrow', the estate he eventually inherited after his grandfather cut all ties with Ferguson's uncle, Robert Ferguson, who was in hiding to attempt to avoid treachery charges.
Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton
Walter Ian Reid Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton, was a British judge.
John Loudon McAdam
John Loudon McAdam was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He was the inventor of "macadamisation", an effective and economical method of constructing roads.
Walter Biggar Blaikie
Walter Biggar Blaikie FRSE DL LLD was a Scottish civil engineer, printer, historian and astronomer.
John Ross, 2nd Lord Ross
John Ross, 2nd Lord Ross of Halkhead was a Scottish nobleman.