List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

William Turnbull

First Name William
Last Name Turnbull
Born on January 11, 1922
Died on November 15, 2012 (aged 90)

William Turnbull was a Scottish artist.

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Thomas Chalmers

First Name Thomas
Last Name Chalmers
Died on May 31, 1847

Thomas Chalmers, was a Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland. He has been called "Scotland's greatest nineteenth-century churchman".

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Bruce Anderson

First Name Bruce
Last Name Anderson
Born on September 23, 1998 (age 27)

Bruce Anderson is a Scottish footballer who plays as a forward for Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen.

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Kenneth McLeish

First Name Kenneth
Born on January 1, 1940
Died on January 1, 1997 (aged 57)

John Kenneth Tyrrell McLeish, known as Kenneth McLeish (1940-1997) was a British writer, playwright and translator. McLeish, "the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain", translated all the surviving classical Greek plays, most plays by Henrik Ibsen and Georges Feydeau, and individual plays by Plautus, Molière, Alfred Jarry, August Strindberg, Ödön von Horváth and Eugène Marin Labiche.

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Gregory Burke

First Name Gregory
Last Name Burke
Born on January 1, 1968 (age 58)

Gregory Burke is a Scottish playwright from Rosyth, Fife, Scotland.

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Greg McHugh

First Name Greg
Last Name McHugh
Born on January 5, 1980 (age 46)

Greg McHugh is a Scottish actor and writer. He is the creator, writer and star of the BBC1 comedy series Gary: Tank Commander. He also played Howard in the Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat.

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Martin Millar

First Name Martin
Last Name Millar
Born on January 1, 1956 (age 70)

Martin Millar is a Scottish writer from Glasgow, now resident in London. He also writes the Thraxas series of fantasy novels under the pseudonym Martin Scott.

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Gene Bates

First Name Gene
Last Name Bates
Born on July 4, 1981 (age 44)

Gene Bates Is an Australian cyclist, last riding for the Drapac Porsche Cycling. Bates is currently the directeur sportif for UCI Women's team Team BikeExchange and has been since 2014.

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Gray O'Brien

First Name Gray
Last Name O'Brien
Born on August 11, 1968 (age 57)

Gray O'Brien is a Scottish television and film actor, best known for his portrayal of the villainous Weatherfield businessman Tony Gordon in the popular ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2007–2010, and as Dr. Richard McCaig on the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1996–1998.

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Alasdair Allan

First Name Alasdair
Last Name Allan
Born on May 6, 1971 (age 55)

Alasdair James Allan is the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency. He was the Scottish Government's Minister for International Development and Europe from 2016-18. He is quadrilingual, and is able to speak: Scottish Gaelic, Norwegian, Scots and English.

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