List of Famous people named Sir

Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet of Scorborough Hall, near Driffield, Yorkshire, was an English Member of Parliament who was Governor of Hull in 1642 shortly before the start of the Civil War. He refused to allow King Charles I or any member of his entourage to enter the town, thereby depriving the king of access to the large arsenal contained within. Later in the Civil War he and his son John Hotham the younger were accused of treachery to the Parliamentarian cause, found guilty and executed on Tower Hill.

Sir John Dalrymple of Cousland, 4th Baronet FRSE FSA(Scot) was a Scottish advocate, judge, chemist and author, best known for his Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland from the dissolution of the last parliament of Charles II until the sea battle of La Hogue, first published in 1771. A new edition of 1790 carried on to the capture of the French and Spanish navies at Vigo. The Dalrymples formed a dynasty in the Scottish legal profession. Though he was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and a friend of persons like David Hume and Adam Smith, Dalrymple's writings were little appreciated – he has been seen as an irritating member of the Edinburgh literati.

Sir Erskine William Gladstone of Fasque and Balfour, 7th Baronet, was a teacher and an officer in the Royal Navy. He was Chief Scout of the United Kingdom from 1972 to 1982.

General Sir Robert Brownrigg, 1st Baronet, GCB was an Irish-born British statesman and soldier. He brought the last part of Sri Lanka under British rule.