List of Famous people with last name Macaskill

Kenneth Wright MacAskill is a Scottish politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian since 2019. He served as Cabinet Secretary for Justice from 2007 to 2014. He was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Eastern, formerly Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, constituency from 2007 to 2016. A former member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he previously represented the Lothians region from 1999 to 2007. On 27 March 2021, MacAskill defected from the SNP to the Alba Party.

William MacAskill is a Scottish philosopher, ethicist, and one of the originators of the effective altruism movement. He is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a researcher at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford and Director of the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research.