List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Kathleen Dawson is a Scottish backstroke swimmer. She won gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay in a world record time. She is also the European champion at the 2020 Budapest Championships and holder of the European record in 100 m backstroke (58.08).

Stephen Maguire is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won six major ranking tournaments, including the 2004 UK Championship, reaching the final of that event a further two times. Maguire turned professional in 1998 after winning the IBSF World Snooker Championship. Maguire has been ranked in the top 16 of the snooker world rankings consecutively for 11 years from 2005 to August 2016. As a prolific break-builder, Maguire has compiled more than 400 century breaks, including three maximum breaks.

David William Logan "Davey" Johnstone is a rock guitarist and vocalist, best known for his long-time collaboration with Elton John.

Alistair John Dawson was a Scottish professional football defender who spent most of his career at Rangers.

James "Jimmy" Sinclair, was a Canadian politician and businessman. He was the maternal grandfather of current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Claire Goose is a British actress from Edinburgh, Scotland. She played Tina Seabrook, a nurse in BBC One's Casualty, DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead, and Inspector Rachel Weston in ITV's The Bill. She also narrated the last two series of Road Wars for digital satellite channel Sky 1 in 2009 and 2010.

Alexander Young, better known as George Alexander, was a Scottish singer, songwriter, saxophonist, bassist, guitarist and session musician. He was an elder brother of George Young, the rhythm guitarist and founding member of the Easybeats, as well as Malcolm and Angus Young, founding members of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, and the younger brother of Stephen Young, the father of Stevie Young, who is also a member of AC/DC.

Gordon Brand Jnr was a Scottish professional golfer. He played on the European Tour, winning eight times, and later the European Senior Tour, winning twice. He played in the 1979 Walker Cup and played twice in the Ryder Cup, in 1987 and 1989.

Michelle Rhonda Thomson is a Scottish businesswoman and former politician. She is the co-founder of Momentous Change Ltd, a consultancy she set up with Professor Roger Mullin in 2017 to help organisations manage change. In 2018, Momentous Change published its first report, Brexit and Scottish Business.

Gordon Lewis Aikman BEM was a British political researcher and campaigner. He was Director of Research for the Better Together campaign during the Scottish Independence Referendum. During that campaign he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Aikman successfully lobbied the Scottish Government to double the number of MND nurses in Scotland, and to fund them via the NHS. He also raised more than £500,000 for medical research.