List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Winifred Margaret Ewing is a Scottish nationalist, lawyer and prominent Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was a Member of Parliament, Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Scottish Parliament. Her election victory in 1967 was a significant by-election in Scottish political history and began a surge of support for the SNP. She is known for saying 'stop the world, Scotland wants to get on' when elected to UK parliament in 1967 and at the European parliament named Madame Ecosse. Ewing was the Scottish National Party President from 1987 to 2005.

James Copeland was a Scottish actor.

Gregor Peter John Townsend, is a Scottish rugby union coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of the Scotland national team having previously been an assistant coach from 2009 to 2012. As a player, he won 82 caps for Scotland and two for the British and Irish Lions. He is a former coach of Glasgow Warriors and was a player-coach for Border Reivers. As well as in Scotland, he played club rugby in Australia, England, France and South Africa. As coach of Scotland, his team won at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years in 2021.

Iain Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, adding the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. After the success of The Wasp Factory (1984), he began to write full time. His first science fiction book, Consider Phlebas, appeared in 1987, marking the start of the Culture series. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio and television. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In April 2013, Banks announced he had inoperable cancer and was unlikely to live beyond a year. He died on 9 June 2013.

Daniel Rutherford was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is known for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772.

Hilton McRae is a Scottish actor, working in theatre, television and film.

Vice-Admiral Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross, served as the Commodore and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in North America from 1757 to 1762. Colville wrote a well-preserved series of detailed, well-written letters to various other military leaders, his family, the King, and other influential people. These letters have provided more historical information about that time period than many other sources available. His writing was so prolific that many of his letters still surface in antique shops from London, to Halifax to New York City. He is a poorly remembered, but important, contributor to the UK control of the North American seas and the battles of the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763.

John Strachan was a notable figure in Upper Canada and the first Anglican Bishop of Toronto. He is best known as a political bishop who held many government positions and promoted education from common schools to helping to found the University of Toronto.

Thomas Thomson was a British surgeon with the British East India Company before becoming a botanist. He was a friend of Joseph Dalton Hooker and helped write the first volume of Flora Indica.

Edmund Frederick Robertson is a professor emeritus of pure mathematics at the University of St Andrews.