List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Jennie Kidd Trout

First Name Jennie
Born on April 21, 1841
Died on November 10, 1921 (aged 80)

Jennie Kidd Trout was the first woman in Canada to become a licensed medical doctor, on March 11, 1875. Trout was the only woman in Canada licensed to practice medicine until July 1880, when Emily Stowe completed the official qualifications.

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Paul di Resta

First Name Paul
Last Name Resta
Born on April 16, 1986 (age 40)

Paul di Resta is a British racing driver from Scotland who currently drives in the FIA World Endurance Championship with United Autosports. He drove in Formula One for Force India from 2011 to 2013, and became a reserve driver for the Williams F1 team in 2016, driving a single race for them as a substitute driver in 2017. A former Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) and Formula 3 Euroseries champion, di Resta did not secure a Formula One drive for 2014, and rejoined Mercedes to race again in DTM.

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Stephen O'Donnell

Stephen Gerard O'Donnell
First Name Stephen
Last Name O'Donnell
Born on May 11, 1992 (age 34)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Stephen Gerard O'Donnell is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Motherwell and the Scotland national team. He has previously played for Partick Thistle, Luton Town and Kilmarnock, and was capped once by the Scotland under-21 team in 2013.

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Shirley Manson

First Name Shirley
Last Name Manson
Born on August 26, 1966 (age 59)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Shirley Ann Manson is a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. She is best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and distinctive voice. For the majority of her career, Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh and the U.S. to record with Garbage, which originally formed in Madison, Wisconsin; she now lives and works primarily in Los Angeles, while maintaining a second home in Edinburgh.

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Clare Grogan

First Name Clare
Last Name Grogan
Born on March 17, 1962 (age 64)
Height 155 cm | 5'1

Claire Patricia Grogan, known professionally as Clare Grogan or sometimes as C. P. Grogan, is a Scottish actress and singer. She is best known as the lead singer of the 1980s new wave music group Altered Images and for supporting roles in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl and the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf as the first incarnation of Kristine Kochanski.

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Michael Kosterlitz

John Michael Kosterlitz
First Name Michael
Last Name Kosterlitz
Born on June 22, 1943 (age 82)

John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics.

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John Bethune

First Name John
Last Name Bethune
Born on November 30, 1750
Died on September 23, 1815 (aged 64)

John Bethune was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, who served and helped found Reformed congregations among the Scottish diaspora in the Colony of North Carolina, Quebec, and in Upper Canada.

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Ken Stott

First Name Ken
Last Name Stott
Born on October 19, 1954 (age 71)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Kenneth Campbell Stott is a Scottish stage, television and film actor who won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1995 in the play Broken Glass at Royal National Theatre. He is more recently known for his role as the dwarf Balin in The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), and as Ian Garrett in the 2014 BBC TV mini-series The Missing starring alongside James Nesbitt.

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Kirsty Young

First Name Kirsty
Born on November 23, 1968 (age 57)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Kirsty Jackson Young is a Scottish television and radio presenter.

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Stevie Chalmers

First Name Stevie
Born on December 26, 1935
Died on April 29, 2019 (aged 83)

Thomas Stephen Chalmers was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre-forward and spent the majority of his career with Celtic. He is the club's fifth-highest goalscorer with 236 goals and is considered one of their greatest players. He is particularly known for scoring the winning goal in the 1967 European Cup Final against Inter Milan. Chalmers later played for Morton and Partick Thistle. He also represented Scotland five times in international matches.

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