List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Sir James Key Caird, 1st Baronet was a Scottish jute baron and mathematician. He was one of Dundee's most successful entrepreneurs, who used the latest technology in his Ashton and Craigie Mills.

Mary Gordon was a Scottish actress who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950.

David Christie, was a Canadian politician.

John Menzies Strain (1810–1883) was a Roman Catholic clergyman who served as the first Archbishop of the Metropolitan see of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland.

Andrew Geddes Bain, was a South African geologist, road engineer, palaeontologist and explorer.

Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene was a British-American gynaecologist from Scotland who described what became known as Skene's glands.

David Bremner Henderson, a ten-term Republican Congressman from Dubuque, Iowa, was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1903. He was the first Congressman from west of the Mississippi River, the last Civil War veteran, the second foreign-born person, and so far the only Iowan to serve as Speaker.

Frank Spottiswoode Aitken was a Scottish-American actor of the silent era. He played Dr. Cameron in D. W. Griffith's epic drama The Birth of a Nation.

William Addison Phillips was a journalist, soldier and U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Jane Wurwand is the founder of Dermalogica, an American personal care company.