William Wallace1270 AD
Military Leader
Adam Smith16 June 1723
Economist and Philosopher
David Hume26 April 1711
Philosopher & Historian
Thomas Carlyle04 December 1795
Philosopher
Allan Octavian Hume04 June 1829
Founder of Indian National Congress
Alexander Bain - Philosopher11 June 1818
Scottish philosopher
Neil Oliver21 February 1967
TV Presenter
Duns Scotus1265 AD
philosopher, theologian, writer, cleric,
James Mill06 April 1773
Historian
John Buchan26 August 1875
Novelist
Angus Deaton19 October 1945
Economist
Mary Somerville26 December 1780
Mathematician, Linguist, Translator, Astronomer,
Patrick Geddes02 October 1854
Biologist
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane30 July 1856
Statesman
Thomas Reid07 May 1710
Philosopher
David Brewster11 December 1781
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
Abdalqadir as-Sufi1930 AD
theologian, philosopher, actor
W. D. Ross15 April 1877
Philosopher
James Wilson03 June 1805
Businessman
Mountstuart Elphinstone06 October 1779
Statesman
David Martin26 August 1954
Politician
Michael Scot1175 AD
Scholar
Dugald Stewart22 November 1753
Philosopher
Eric Linklater08 March 1899
Poet
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo25 October 1714
Judge
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet08 March 1788
Metaphysician
Edward Irving04 August 1792
Scottish minister
Nigel Tranter23 November 1909
Author
Hugh Blair07 April 1718
Author
Henry Home, Lord Kames1696 AD
Advocate
William Robertson Smith08 November 1846
Scholar
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Robert Morrison MacIver17 April 1882
Sociologist
John Macquarrie27 June 1919
Philosopher
Angus Calder05 February 1942
Writer
Alexander Dalrymple24 July 1737
Geographer and hydrographer
John Dunmore Lang25 August 1799
Writer
Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet10 April 1766
Mathematician
Hector Boece1465 AD
Scottish philosopher
James Moffatt1870 AD
Theologian
Andrew Melville01 August 1545
Linguist, Theologian, University teacher
Charles Wyville Thomson05 March 1830
Zoologist
James Frederick Ferrier16 June 1808
Philosopher
John Richardson05 November 1787
Surgeon and Explorer
James Murray07 February 1837
Lexicographer
James Crichton19 August 1560
Polymath
John George Bartholomew22 March 1860
Cartographer
Walter Bower1385 AD
Chronicler
Alastair Reid22 March 1926
Poet
George Finlay21 December 1799
Historian
John Ramsay McCulloch01 March 1789
Economist
P. T. Forsyth12 May 1848
Theologian
John Law21 April 1671
economist, banker, statistician
John Dury1596 AD
Minister
Andrew of Wyntoun1350 AD
Scottish writer
John Ferguson McLennan14 October 1827
Advocate
Edward Caird23 March 1835
Philosopher
George Gillespie21 January 1613
Theologian
John Home13 September 1722
Minister
Thomas Brown09 January 1778
Philosopher
William Balfour Baikie27 August 1825
Explorer
Robert Sibbald15 April 1641
Physician
William Cunningham29 December 1849
Economist
A.S. Neill17 October 1883
Educator
William Craigie13 August 1867
Lexicographer
Alexander Dyce30 June 1798
Literary Historian
Richard Maitland1496 AD
Poet
John McLeod Campbell04 May 1800
Theologian
James Beattie25 October 1735
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Philosopher, Writer
David Calderwood1575 AD
Minister
John Costello1943 AD
Military historian
William Robertson19 September 1721
Historian
Hugh Robert Mill28 May 1861
Geographer
William Archer23 September 1856
Writer
John Kirk19 December 1832
Physician
Alexander Henderson1583 AD
Theologian
Sir Mortimer Wheeler10 September 1890
Archaeologist
Thomas Gordon11 March 1918
psychologist
Robert Balfour1553 AD
Philosopher
Adam Cleghorn Welch14 May 1864
Biblical scholar
John Caird15 December 1820
Theologian
Arthur Thomson08 July 1861
Naturalist
James Steuart21 October 1712
Author
Robert Sandeman29 April 1718
Theologian
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane27 May 1862
Social reformer
Richard of Saint-Victor1110 AD
Philosopher
Harry The Minstrel1440 AD
Writer
John Of FordunChronicler