20th-century Scottish autobiographers

Scottish association football manager and player

Scottish novelist (1896–1981)

Scottish author and politician (1875–1940)

Scottish novelist, short story writer, and screen writer (born 1952)

Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist (1883-1972)

Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years; this recommendation was later changed to a whole life tariff in December 1994. In his later years, Nilsen was imprisoned at HM Prison Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Scottish fiction, history and travel writer (1899–1974)

English-born author of Scottish descent

Scottish footballer and manager (born 1939)

Irish footballer

Australian singer

British aviator, Royal Navy officer, test pilot, author (1919–2016)

poet (1921–1996)

British socialite, author and wit (1864-1945)

Trade unionist, activist and communist (1881-1965)

Scottish actor, writer and comedian (1961–2024)

Irish republican activist

British naturalist (1914–1969)

Scottish poet, novelist, reformer (1843–1914)

Scottish writer, novelist and journalist, editor

British missionary (1920-2012)

Scottish actor (1924-2004)

Scottish minister (1902–1983)