List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Daniel Edwin Rutherford

First Name Daniel
Last Name Rutherford
Born on July 4, 1906
Died on November 9, 1966 (aged 60)

Daniel "Dan" Edwin Rutherford FRSE was a Scottish mathematician, known for his work on the representation theory of symmetric groups.

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Alan Grafen

First Name Alan
Last Name Grafen
Born on November 30, 1955 (age 70)

Alan Grafen is a Scottish ethologist and evolutionary biologist. He currently teaches and undertakes research at St John's College, Oxford. Along with regular contributions to scientific journals, Grafen is known publicly for his work as co-editor of the 2006 festschrift Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, honouring the achievements of his colleague and former academic advisor. He has worked extensively in the field of biological game theory, and, in 1990, devised a model showing that Zahavi's well-known handicap principle could theoretically exist in natural populations.

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Dave Duncan

First Name Dave
Last Name Duncan
Born on June 30, 1933
Died on October 29, 2018 (aged 85)

David John Duncan was an award-winning Scottish Canadian fantasy and science fiction author.

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Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie

First Name Thomas
Last Name Kellie
Born on September 1, 1732
Died on October 9, 1781 (aged 49)

Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, styled Viscount Fentoun and Lord Pittenweem until 1756, was a Scottish musician and composer whose considerable talent brought him international fame and his rakish habits notoriety, but nowadays is little known. Recent recordings of his surviving compositions have led to him being re-evaluated as one of the most important British composers of the 18th century, as well as a leading exponent of Scotland's music.

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Tom Clarke

First Name Tom
Last Name Clarke
Born on January 10, 1941 (age 85)

Sir Thomas Clarke, is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1982 until 2015, representing Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill from 2005 until losing his seat to Philip Boswell of the SNP in the May 2015 general election.

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Helen Adam

First Name Helen
Last Name Adam
Born on December 2, 1909
Died on September 19, 1993 (aged 83)

Helen Adam was a Scottish poet, collagist and photographer who was part of a literary movement contemporaneous to the Beat Generation that occurred in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s. Though often associated with the Beat poets, she would more accurately be considered one of the predecessors of the Beat Generation.

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William M. Hutchison

First Name William
Last Name Hutchison
Born on July 2, 1924
Died on December 28, 1998 (aged 74)
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Tom Fleming

First Name Tom
Last Name Fleming
Born on June 29, 1927
Died on April 18, 2010 (aged 82)

Thomas Kelman Fleming, FRSAMD was a Scottish actor, director, and poet, and a television and radio commentator for the BBC.

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Menzies Campbell

First Name Menzies
Last Name Campbell
Born on May 22, 1941 (age 85)

Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem,, often known as Ming Campbell, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, advocate and former athlete. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from 1987 to 2015 and was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007.

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Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

First Name Thomas
Last Name Dewar
Born on January 6, 1864
Died on April 11, 1930 (aged 66)

Thomas Robert "Tommy" Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar was a Scottish whisky distiller who, along with his brother John Dewar, built their family label, Dewar's, into an international success. They blended their whisky to make it more appealing to the international palate and Dewar demonstrated particular skills in marketing, travelling the world to find new markets and promote his product, exploiting romantic images of Scotland and tartan in his advertising.

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