List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

David Douglas was a Scottish botanist, best known as the namesake of the Douglas-fir. He worked as a gardener, and explored the Scottish Highlands, North America, and Hawaii, where he died. The standard author abbreviation Douglas is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

William Hunter was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He managed the Dutch national side, Austrian club side Hakoah Vienna, Swiss club side Lausanne Sports, the Turkish national side and Galatasaray.

John Reid Smith was a Scottish footballer, who played as a centre forward and helped Bolton Wanderers win the FA Cup in 1923 and 1926. His son and grandson also played for the Bolton Wanderers.

Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet, KCB was a Scottish physician who was Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria between 1837 and 1860, and was previously physician to poet John Keats in Rome.

Vice Admiral John Hunter RN was an officer of the Royal Navy, who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second governor of New South Wales, Australia and served from 1795 to 1800.

Mary Garden was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She spent the latter part of her childhood and youth in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, although she lived in France for many years and eventually retired to Scotland, where she died.

James "Tama Jim" Wilson was a Scottish-American politician who served as United States Secretary of Agriculture for sixteen years during three presidencies, from 1897 to 1913. He holds the record as the longest-serving United States Cabinet member.

Steven Dick was a British diplomat who was the deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Budapest.

Colonel William Fleming was an American physician, soldier, politician and planter who served as a local justice of the peace in the mountains of southwestern Virginia and Kentucky, as well as in the Senate of Virginia and briefly acted as the Governor of Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

Thomas Dempster was a Scottish scholar and historian. Born into the aristocracy in Aberdeenshire, which comprises regions of both the Scottish highlands and the Scottish lowlands, he was sent abroad as a youth for his education. The Dempsters were Catholic in an increasingly Protestant country and had a reputation for being quarrelsome. Thomas' brother James, outlawed for an attack on his father, spent some years as a pirate in the northern islands, escaped by volunteering for military service in the Low Countries and was drawn and quartered there for insubordination. Thomas' father lost the family fortune in clan feuding and was beheaded for forgery.