List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Peter Mullan

First Name Peter
Last Name Mullan
Born on November 2, 1959 (age 66)
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe (1998), for which he won Best Actor Award at 1998 Cannes Film Festival, and The Claim (2000). He is also winner of the World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances at 2011 Sundance Film Festival for his work on Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur (2011). Mullan appeared as supporting or guest actor in numerous cult movies, including Riff-Raff (1991), Braveheart (1995), Trainspotting (1996), Young Adam (2003), Children of Men (2006), War Horse (2011) and the Harry Potter film series (2010–11).

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Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig

First Name Robert
Last Name Kincraig
Born on July 29, 1926
Died on September 16, 2015 (aged 89)

Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, CBE was a British physician, educator, academician, and former President of the General Medical Council.

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Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

First Name Donald
Last Name Royal
Born on August 6, 1820
Died on January 21, 1914 (aged 93)

Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, known as Sir Donald A. Smith between May 1886 and August 1897, was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman who became one of the British Empire's foremost builders and philanthropists. He became commissioner, governor and principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company. He was president of the Bank of Montreal and with his first cousin, Lord Mount Stephen, co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and afterwards represented Montreal in the House of Commons of Canada. He was Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1896 to 1914. He was chairman of Burmah Oil and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. He was chancellor of McGill University (1889–1914) and the University of Aberdeen.

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Jimmy Finlayson

First Name Jimmy
Born on August 27, 1887
Died on October 9, 1953 (aged 66)

James Finlayson was a Scottish-American actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is known for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh", and as the best remembered comic foil of Laurel and Hardy.

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Rita Taketsuru

First Name Rita
Last Name Taketsuru
Born on December 14, 1896
Died on January 17, 1961 (aged 64)

Rita Taketsuru , born Jessie Roberta Cowan, was the Scottish wife of Masataka Taketsuru, the founder of Nikka Whisky.

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David Gregory

First Name David
Last Name Gregory
Died on October 10, 1708

David Gregory FRS was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and later Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford, and a proponent of Isaac Newton's Principia.

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Lawrence Gowan

First Name Lawrence
Last Name Gowan
Born on November 22, 1956 (age 69)

Lawrence Henry Gowan is a Scottish-Canadian musician, born in Glasgow and raised in Scarborough, Ontario. Gowan has been both a solo artist and lead vocalist and keyboardist of the band Styx since May 1999. His musical style is usually classified in the categories of pop and progressive rock.

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Helen Duncan

First Name Helen
Last Name Duncan
Born on November 25, 1897
Died on December 6, 1956 (aged 59)

Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 for fraudulent claims. She was famous for producing ectoplasm which was proven to be made from cheesecloth.

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Arthur Whitten Brown

First Name Arthur
Last Name Brown
Died on October 4, 1948

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, was the navigator of the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight.

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Stuart Christie

First Name Stuart
Last Name Christie
Born on July 10, 1946
Died on August 15, 2020 (aged 74)

Stuart Christie was a Scottish anarchist writer and publisher. When aged 18, Christie was arrested while carrying explosives to assassinate the Spanish caudillo, General Francisco Franco. He was later alleged to be a member of the Angry Brigade, but was acquitted of related charges. He went on to found the Cienfuegos Press publishing house, as well as radical publications The Free-Winged Eagle and The Hastings Trawler, and in 2006 the online Anarchist Film Channel, which hosts films and documentaries with anarchist and libertarian socialist themes. His memoir Granny Made Me an Anarchist was published in 2004.

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