List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Adam Paterson Ingram is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow from 1987 to 2010.

Patricia Marwick, commonly known as Tricia Marwick, is a Scottish politician who served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2011 to 2016. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2016, initially elected for the Mid Scotland and Fife region and then for the Mid Fife and Glenrothes, formerly Central Fife, constituency after 2007. Elected as a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she suspended her membership in 2011 upon her election as presiding officer, following the tradition of the presiding officer being nonpartisan.

Maureen Elizabeth Watt is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and former Minister for Mental Health in the Scottish Government. She is the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) representing the constituency of Aberdeen South and North Kincardine since 2011, having previously served as a regional for North East Scotland from 2006 until 2011.

Mario Joseph Conti is the Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Metropolitan see of Glasgow, Scotland. Conti was succeeded as Metropolitan Archbishop of Glasgow in September 2012, with the installation of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, who was previously the Bishop of Paisley.

James Finlay Weir Johnston, FRS FRSE was a Scottish agricultural chemist and mineralogist.

William Chambers of Glenormiston or William Chambers was a Scottish publisher and politician, the brother of Robert Chambers. The brothers were influential in the mid-19th century, in both scientific and political circles.

Henry Baird McLeish is a Scottish politician, author and academic who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2000 to 2001. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Fife from 1987 to 2001 and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the equivalent seat from 1999 to 2003.

James Robert Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness,, FRSE is a British politician and former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords. He was formerly Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland, Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Orkney, the first Deputy First Minister of Scotland in the Scottish Executive and Advocate General for Scotland. He is Moderator Designate of the Church of Scotland for 2021.

Robert Broom FRS FRSE was a South African doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow.

Helen Brodie Cowan Bannerman was a Scottish author of children's books. She is best known for her first book, Little Black Sambo (1899).