List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Sir John Richardson FRS FRSE was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.

Roger MacDougall was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter and director.

Angus MacKay is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Finance and Local Government from 2000 to 2001. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh South constituency from 1999 to 2003.

John Ramsay Swinney is a Scottish politician serving as Deputy First Minister of Scotland since 2014 and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills since 2016. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Swinney has also served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Perthshire North since 2011, having previously represented North Tayside from 1999 to 2011.

Sarah Herriot Boyack is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region since 2019, and previously from 2011 to 2016. She formerly represented the Edinburgh Central constituency from 1999 to 2011.

Rhona Brankin is a former Labour Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Midlothian constituency. She was first elected in 1999 and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007. She was one of six female Labour MSPs to stand down in 2011.

James Bruce of Kinnaird was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the first European to trace the origins of the Blue Nile from Egypt and Sudan.

James Murdoch MacGregor, was a Scottish journalist and author best known for writing science fiction under the pen name J.T. McIntosh.

Alexander Stuart FRS FRCP (1673–1742) was a British natural philosopher and physician.

Neil Primrose is the drummer of the Scottish rock quartet Travis.