List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar

First Name Arthur
Last Name Dewar
Born on March 14, 1860
Died on June 14, 1917 (aged 57)

Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar KC was a Scottish politician and judge, who served as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South as well as Solicitor General for Scotland and later a Senator of the College of Justice.

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John Robertson

John Grant Robertson
First Name John
Last Name Robertson
Born on October 2, 1964 (age 61)
Height 169 cm | 5'7

John Grant Robertson is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the sporting director of Inverness Caledonian Thistle. His playing career included spells at Newcastle United, Dundee and Livingston, but he is best known for his two spells at Heart of Midlothian totalling about 18 years, where he is the club's all-time leading goalscorer. He has since managed Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Heart of Midlothian, Ross County, Livingston, Derry City and East Fife.

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Sinead Kerr

First Name Sinead
Born on August 30, 1978 (age 47)

Sinead Houston Kerr is a Scottish former competitive ice dancer who represented Great Britain. She teamed up with her brother John Kerr in 2000. They are two-time European bronze medalists and the 2004–2010 British national champions. They placed 10th at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and 8th at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Robert Garioch

First Name Robert
Last Name Garioch
Born on May 9, 1909
Died on April 26, 1981 (aged 71)

Robert Garioch Sutherland was a Scottish poet and translator. His poetry was written almost exclusively in the Scots language, he was a key member in the literary revival of the language in the mid-20th century. However, his biggest influences were the 18th-century poet Robert Fergusson and the Italian dialect sonneteer Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.

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Susan Fleetwood

First Name Susan
Born on September 21, 1944
Died on September 20, 1995 (aged 50)

Susan Maureen Fleetwood was a British stage, film, and television actress, best known as a performer in classical theatre. She received popular attention in the television series Chandler & Co and The Buddha of Suburbia.

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Robert Hamilton

First Name Robert
Last Name Hamilton
Born on August 30, 1836
Died on April 22, 1895 (aged 58)

Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton KCB, was the sixth Governor, and the Commander-in-Chief of the then British colony of Tasmania from 11 March 1887, until 30 November 1892, during which time he oversaw the ministries of two Tasmanian premiers, Sir Philip Fysh and Henry Dobson.

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Gus Macdonald

First Name Gus
Born on August 20, 1940 (age 85)

Angus John "Gus" Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston, CBE, PC is a Scottish television executive, life peer and former Labour member of the House of Lords.

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Adam Ingram

Adam Hamilton Ingram
First Name Adam
Last Name Ingram
Born on May 1, 1951 (age 75)

Adam Hamilton Ingram is a Scottish politician who was a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2016. He was first a MSP for the South of Scotland region from 1999 to 2011, then the MSP for the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley constituency from 2011 to 2016.

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Constance Gordon-Cumming

Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming
First Name Constance
Last Name Gordon-Cumming
Died on September 4, 1924

Constance Frederica “Eka” Gordon-Cumming was a noted Scottish travel writer and painter. Born in a wealthy family, she travelled around the world and painted described scenes and life as she saw them. She was a friend and influencer of the travel writers and artists Marianne North and Isabella Bird.

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James George Frazer

First Name James
Last Name Frazer
Born on January 1, 1854
Died on May 7, 1941 (aged 87)

Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the world. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.

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