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David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
Mungo Park
Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent
James Bruce
Scottish explorer and botanist (1730–1794)
John Richardson
Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer (1787–1865)
Hugh Clapperton
Royal Navy officer and explorer
John McDouall Stuart
British explorer (1815-1866)
Alexander Burnes
British explorer and political officer in British India (1805-1841)
Alexander Gordon Laing
Scottish explorer
John Murray
Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist (1841-1914)
John Anderson
Scottish anatomist and zoologist who worked in India as the curator of the Indian Museum (1833–1900)
Charles Wyville Thomson
Scottish marine zoologist (1830-1882)
Archibald Menzies
Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist (1754-1842)
Thomas Mitchell
Scottish surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia (1792–1855)
Aeneas Mackintosh
British Merchant Navy officer and Antarctic explorer (1879-1916)
Henry Ogg Forbes
Scottish explorer, ornithologist and botanist (1851-1932)
James Edward Alexander
Scottish soldier, traveller and author (1803-1885)
James Augustus Grant
Scottish explorer and collector (1827 – 1892)
John Kirk
Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to David Livingstone and administrator in Zanzibar (1832-1922)
Harry McNish
Scottish carpenter and participant in Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
British politician (1852–1936)
Albert Armitage
Scottish mariner (1864–1943)
William Paterson
Scottish soldier and botanist in Tasmania (1755-1810)
Robert Brown
British scientist, explorer, and author (1842-1895)
William Balfour Baikie
British explorer and scientist
John Clements Wickham
Explorer of Australia (1798-1864)
William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
Scottish courtier and poet
John Gillies
Scottish botanist (1792-1834)
Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney
Scottish and Norwegian nobleman
Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Scottish Arctic traveller and botanist (1889-1982)
Robert Clark
Scottish marine zoologist (1882–1950)
George Robert Milne Murray
British botanist (1858-1911)
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
British politician (1903-1973)
Gavin Maxwell
British naturalist (1914–1969)
James Marr
Scottish marine biologist and polar explorer (1902–1965)
Andrew Geddes Bain
South African scientist and engineer (1797–1864)
Patrick Brydone
British scientist, traveller and author (1736-1818)
Walter Oudney
British explorer (1790–1824)
James Murray
British biologist and explorer (1865-1914)
William Lithgow
British explorer
John Bell
18th century Scottish doctor and traveller (1691-1780)
John Wood
Scottish naval officer, surveyor, cartographer and explorer; (1812-1871)
Joseph Stenhouse
British explorer (1887-1941)
John Cunningham
Scottish polar explorer
Mary Livingstone
Missionary and explorer
Alexander Keith Johnston
Scottish explorer and geographer (1844-1879)
George Patterson
British missionary (1920-2012)
John Campbell
Scottish missionary and traveller
Alexander Kellas
Scottish mountain climber and chemist (1868-1921)
Macgregor Laird
British explorer (1808–1861)
William Penny
Scottish shipmaster, whaler and arctic explorer (1809-1892)
Thomas Edward Gordon
Scottish soldier, diplomat and artist (1832-1914)
John Goldie
Scottish botanist and author (1793-1886)
John Scouler
Scottish botanist, traveller, naturalist (1804-1871)
William Gordon Burn Murdoch
Scottish painter, travel writer and explorer (1862-1939)
John Duncan
Scottish traveller in Africa (1805-1849)
Osborn Maitland Miller
Scottish-American cartographer, surveyor, photographer and botanical collector
Thomas Drummond
Scottish botanist (1793–1835)
James Lamont
British politician and explorer (1828–1913)
John MacGillivray
British botanist (1821-1867)