List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Andrew Lauder

First Name Andrew
Last Name Lauder
Born on May 8, 1702
Died on March 6, 1769 (aged 66)

Sir Andrew Lauder of Fountainhall, 5th Baronet was a Burgess of the Royal Burgh of Lauder, and also of Musselburgh.

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Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond

First Name Charlotte
Last Name Richmond
Born on September 20, 1768
Died on May 5, 1842 (aged 73)

Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond, was a British aristocrat and peeress best known as the hostess of the Duchess of Richmond's ball.

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Charlie Gallagher

First Name Charlie
Last Name Gallagher
Born on November 3, 1940
Died on July 11, 2021 (aged 80)

Charles Gallagher was a footballer who played as an inside forward. At club level he played mainly for Celtic, as well as Dumbarton. Born in Scotland, he represented the Republic of Ireland at international level, making two appearances for the team in 1967. He was a member of the renowned Lisbon Lions team that won the European Cup in May 1967.

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Simon McMenemy

First Name Simon
Last Name McMenemy
Born on December 6, 1977 (age 48)

Simon Alexander McMenemy is a Scottish football manager. Previously he had spells as manager of Bhayangkara FC, Maldivian side New Radiant, Indonesia Super League club Pelita Bandung Raya, Mitra Kukar in Indonesia, Đồng Tâm Long An in Vietnam, Loyola Meralco Sparks in Philippines, the Philippines national football team and the Indonesia national football team.

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Sir John Maclean, 1st Baronet

First Name Sir
Born on November 30, 1603
Died on July 7, 1666 (aged 62)

Sir John Maclean, 1st Baronet, also known as John Makeléer or Hans Makeléer in Sweden, was Lord of Gåsevadholm, and Hageby and Hammarö. He lived in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was made a Baronet by Charles II of England and was made Lord of Gåsevadholm, Hageby, and Hammarö by Christina of Sweden in 1649.

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John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute

First Name John
Last Name Bute
Born on June 30, 1744
Died on November 16, 1814 (aged 70)

John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute PC, FRS, styled Lord Mount Stuart until 1792 and known as The Earl of Bute between 1792 and 1794, was a British nobleman, coalfield owner, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1766 to 1776.

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

First Name Charles
Last Name Wilson
Born on February 14, 1869
Died on November 15, 1959 (aged 90)

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.

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Murray MacLehose

Crawford Murray MacLehose
First Name Murray
Last Name MacLehose
Died on May 27, 2000 (aged 30)

Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch,, was a British politician, diplomat and the 25th Governor of Hong Kong, from 1971 to 1982. He was the longest-serving governor of the colony, with four successive terms in office.

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John Hunter

First Name John
Last Name Hunter
Born on February 13, 1728
Died on October 16, 1793 (aged 65)

John Hunter was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. He was a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine. He is alleged to have paid for the stolen body of Charles Byrne, and proceeded to study and exhibit it against the deceased's explicit wishes. His wife, Anne Hunter, was a poet, some of whose poems were set to music by Joseph Haydn.

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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

First Name George
Last Name Aberdeen
Born on January 28, 1784
Died on December 14, 1860 (aged 76)

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen was a British statesman, diplomat and Scottish landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs. He served as Prime Minister from 1852 until 1855 in a coalition between the Whigs and Peelites, with Radical and Irish support. The Aberdeen ministry was filled with powerful and talented politicians, whom Aberdeen was largely unable to control and direct. Despite his trying to avoid this happening, it took Britain into the Crimean War, and fell when its conduct became unpopular, after which Aberdeen retired from politics.

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