List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Ben Torrance

First Name Ben
Last Name Torrance
Born on July 18, 1994 (age 31)

Ben Ciaran Torrance is a Scottish badminton player.

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Jean Cadell

Jean Dunlop Cadell
First Name Jean
Last Name Cadell
Born on September 13, 1884
Died on September 29, 1967 (aged 83)

Jean Dunlop Cadell was a Scottish character actress. Although her married name was Jean Dunlop Perceval-Clark she retained her maiden name in the context of acting.

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Kenneth Grahame

First Name Kenneth
Died on July 6, 1932

Kenneth Grahame was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a Scottish family. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon. Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall, based on part of The Wind in the Willows, was the first. Other adaptations include the Disney films The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Reluctant Dragon.

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Andrew Fisher

First Name Andrew
Last Name Fisher
Born on August 29, 1862
Died on October 22, 1928 (aged 66)

Andrew Fisher was an Australian politician who served three separate terms as Prime Minister of Australia – from 1908 to 1909, from 1910 to 1913, and from 1914 to 1915. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1907 to 1915.

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James Watson

First Name James
Last Name Watson
Born on April 16, 1970 (age 56)

James Watson is a British film and television actor.

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Frieda Inescort

First Name Frieda
Last Name Inescort
Born on June 29, 1901
Died on February 26, 1976 (aged 74)

Frieda Inescort was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape.

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Atta Yaqub

First Name Atta
Last Name Yaqub

Atta Yaqub is a Scottish model and actor of Pakistani/Punjabi descent. He played the lead role in the 2004 film Ae Fond Kiss....

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Laurence Rees

First Name Laurence
Last Name Rees
Born on January 1, 1957 (age 69)

Laurence Rees is an English historian. He is a BAFTA winning historical documentary filmmaker and a British Book Award winning author of several books about Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and the atrocities committed, especially by the Nazis and the Soviets, during the 20th century. He is the former Head of BBC TV History Programmes.

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William Borland

First Name William
Last Name Borland
Born on November 8, 1996 (age 29)

William Borland is a Scottish professional darts player who mainly plays in Professional Darts Corporation events.

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James Gregory

First Name James
Last Name Gregory
Born on January 1, 1638
Died on January 1, 1675 (aged 37)

James Gregory FRS was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelled as Gregorie, the original Scottish spelling. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite series representations for several trigonometric functions.

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