List of Famous people born in Scotland, United Kingdom

Lady Anna Mackenzie (1621–1707) was a Scottish courtier and memoirist, wife of the first Earl of Balcarres and the mother of the second and third. After her first husband died, she married Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll. She was a governess to William III when he was a child. Mackenzie suffered because she was a Jacobite and her second husband was executed for leading a rising against James VII and II which was intended to support the Monmouth Rebellion. She worked to keep together the estates of Balcarres despite the tumultuous times in which she lived and her family's support of the Jacobite cause. Her memoirs were published more than a century after her death.

Lieutenant-General James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon, styled as Lord James Murray until 1821, was a British Army officer, Member of Parliament and peer.

Sigurd Hlodvirsson, popularly known as Sigurd the Stout from the Old Norse Sigurðr digri, was an Earl of Orkney. The main sources for his life are the Norse Sagas, which were first written down some two centuries or more after his death. These engaging stories must therefore be treated with caution rather than as reliable historical documents.

James Ross, 6th Lord Ross of Halkhead was a Scottish nobleman.

Sir William Augustus Forbes Erskine was the first British ambassador to the Republic of Poland.

John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute,, KGCHS, was a landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist, and architectural patron.

Phyllida Ann Law is a Scottish actress, known for her numerous roles in film and television.

Charles Walter Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre, DL, styled Master of Blantyre from birth until 1830, was a Scottish politician and landowner with 14,100 acres (57 km²).

Major Charles Murray Kennedy St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, CVO, DL was a Scottish peer who spent his entire life in the service of the Crown; as a soldier, an officer of arms, an equerry in the Queen Mother's Household, a representative peer and as a Lord Lieutenant.

Jane Arthur, was a Scottish feminist, philanthropist and activist. She was the first woman to be elected to a Scottish school board.