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John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
David Brewster
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
Williamina Fleming
Scottish-American astronomer (1857–1911)
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
James Dunlop
Australian astronomer (1793–1848)
David Gill
Scottish astronomer (1843-1914)
Robert H. McNaught
British astronomer
James Ivory
Scottish mathematician
David Gregory
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1659-1708)
James Ferguson
Scottish astronomer (1710-1776)
Thomas Brisbane
British Army general
Thomas James Henderson
Scottish lawyer, astronomer and mathematician (1798-1844)
Astronomer Royal for Scotland
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William Wallace
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Rosemary Wyse
Scottish astrophysicist
Andrew Ure
Scottish doctor and chemist
Alexander Wilson
Scottish surgeon, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist (1714-1786)
John Jackson
Scottish astronomer (1887-1958)
John Keill
Scottish mathematician
John Campbell Brown
British astronomer (1947-2019)
Anneila Sargent
American astronomer
Annette Ferguson
astronomer
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
Scottish peer and astronomer (1702-1768)
Thomas Dick
British astronomer
Duncan Waldron
Scottish photographer and astronomer
Robert Grant
Scottish astronomer (1814-1892)
John A. Peacock
British cosmologist
Malcolm Longair
British astronomer (1941-)
Thomas David Anderson
British astronomer
John Pringle Nichol
Scottish educator, phrenologist, astronomer and economist (1804–1859)
Bill Napier
British astronomer and writer
Robert Blair
British astronomer
Duncan Liddel
Scottish mathematician and physician
John Campbell
British naval officer, navigational expert and colonial governor
Lennox Cowie
British astronomer
Arthur Butler Phillips Mee
British astronomer
Thomas Logie MacDonald
British politician (1901-1973)