List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet, was a British administrator in India. He was the acting Governor-General of Bengal from 1785 to 1786.

John Lunn is an Emmy Award winning Scottish composer, known for the music of the series Downton Abbey and many other television and movie soundtracks.

Alexander Hugh Norton is a Scottish actor. He is known for his roles as DCI Matt Burke in the STV detective drama series Taggart, Eric Baird in BBC Two sitcom Two Doors Down, DCS Wallace in Extremely Dangerous, Gerard Findlay in Waterloo Road and Eddie in the Renford Rejects. He has also had roles in internationally successful films including Braveheart, Local Hero and Les Misérables.

James Hamilton Speirs MM was a Scottish footballer who represented his country on one occasion, scored the winning goal in the 1911 FA Cup Final, and received the Military Medal during the First World War.

Sir William Alexander Craigie was a philologist and a lexicographer.

John Clark is a Scottish former international footballer and member of the Celtic team nicknamed the Lisbon Lions.

Sir Arthur Keith FRS was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, and a proponent of scientific racism. He was a fellow and later the Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was a strong proponent of Piltdown Man, which was proved to be a forgery shortly before his death.

Brian Smith is a Scottish former racing cyclist turned commentator and manager.

Sir William Bruce of Kinross, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish gentleman-architect, "the effective founder of classical architecture in Scotland," as Howard Colvin observes. As a key figure in introducing the Palladian style into Scotland, he has been compared to the pioneering English architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren, and to the contemporaneous introducers of French style in English domestic architecture, Hugh May and Sir Roger Pratt.