Scottish civil servants

Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)

Scottish politician and civil servant (1812–1860)

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 lawyer and Indologist (1879-1944)

Scottish soldier and colonial administrator

British scientist, traveller and author (1736-1818)

Governor of Jamaica and Madras (1739-1791)

Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and director of its Institute for Gravitational Research since 2009

British poet

Scottish civil servant and Liberal Party politician (1824-1892)