List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Ralph Milne

First Name Ralph
Last Name Milne
Born on May 13, 1961
Died on September 6, 2015 (aged 54)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Ralph Milne was a Scottish professional footballer whose clubs included Dundee United, Charlton Athletic, Bristol City and Manchester United. He played as both an attacking midfielder or a winger.

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John Gordon Sinclair

First Name John
Last Name Sinclair
Born on February 4, 1962 (age 64)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

John Gordon Sinclair is a Scottish actor and novelist, best known for playing Gregory in Gregory's Girl. There was a Gordon Sinclair already registered with Equity, so he took John Gordon Sinclair as his professional name.Sinclair recently played Drew Cubbin in the BBC drama Traces

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Jack D. Dunitz

First Name Jack
Last Name Dunitz
Born on March 29, 1923
Died on September 12, 2021 (aged 98)

Jack David Dunitz FRS was a British chemist and widely known chemical crystallographer. He was Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the ETH Zurich from 1957 until his official retirement in 1990. He held Visiting Professorships in the United States, Israel, Japan, Canada, Spain and the United Kingdom.

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Emun Elliott

Emun Mohammadi
First Name Emun
Born on November 28, 1983 (age 42)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Emun Elliott is a Scottish actor, known for portraying Dr. Christian King in Paradox, Richie in Threesome, John Moray in The Paradise and Kenny in Guilt.

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Fraser Stoddart

First Name Fraser
Last Name Stoddart
Born on May 24, 1942 (age 84)

Sir James Fraser Stoddart is a British chemist who is Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States. He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. Stoddart has developed highly efficient syntheses of mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures such as molecular Borromean rings, catenanes and rotaxanes utilising molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly processes. He has demonstrated that these topologies can be employed as molecular switches. His group has even applied these structures in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). His efforts have been recognized by numerous awards including the 2007 King Faisal International Prize in Science. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

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Old Tom Morris

First Name Old
Last Name Morris
Born on June 16, 1821
Died on May 24, 1908 (aged 86)

Thomas Mitchell Morris, otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of the St Andrews Links, and died there as well. Young Tom Morris, also a golfer, was his son.

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Ann Coffey

First Name Ann
Last Name Coffey
Born on August 31, 1946 (age 79)

Margaret Ann Coffey is a British politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport from 1992 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, she defected to form Change UK. She is now an Independent politician.

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Graham McTavish

First Name Graham
Last Name McTavish
Born on January 4, 1961 (age 65)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Graham James McTavish is a Scottish actor, voice actor and author. He is known for his roles as Dwalin in The Hobbit film trilogy, Dracula in the Netflix's animated series Castlevania, The Saint of Killers in the AMC series Preacher, and Dougal Mackenzie in the Starz series Outlander. He is also known for his roles in the video game franchise Uncharted as the main antagonist Zoran Lazarević in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Charlie Cutter in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

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Martin Laird

First Name Martin
Last Name Laird
Born on December 29, 1982 (age 43)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Martin Laird is a Scottish professional golfer, playing on the PGA Tour. He has won four PGA Tour events in his career, most recently the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in 2020. Until Russell Knox earned his card via the 2011 Nationwide Tour, Laird was the only Scottish player on the PGA Tour.

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David Hagen

First Name David
Last Name Hagen
Born on May 5, 1973
Died on July 24, 2020 (aged 47)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

David James Hagen was a Scottish professional footballer.

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