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James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
John James Rickard Macleod
Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist; co-discoverer of insulin
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
David Brewster
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)
James Dewar
Scottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923)
John Boyd Dunlop
Scottish inventor
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Sandford Fleming
Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor (1827-1915)
William Murdoch
Scottish engineer and inventor (1754-1839)
John Loudon McAdam
Scottish engineer and road-builder (1756–1836)
Robert Stirling
clergyman, engineer, inventor of the Stirling engine (1790–1878)
James David Forbes
Scottish physicist and glaciologist (1809–1868)
John Scott Haldane
British physiologist (1860–1936)
Charles Macintosh
British chemist (1766–1843)
James Young Simpson
British obstetrician (1811–1870)
James Nasmyth
Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor (1808–1890)
John Robison
Scottish physicist and mathematician (1739–1805)
Thomas Thomson
Scottish chemist
Alexander Bain
British clockmaker
Robert Liston
Scottish surgeon (1794-1847)
John Rennie
engineer from Scotland (1761-1821)
Henry Faulds
Scottish physician, missionary and scientist (1843–1930)
William Nicol
Scottish geologist and physicist (1770-1851)
Fleeming Jenkin
Scottish engineer (1833-1885)
William Wallace
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
James Anderson
Scottish economist
Robert William Thomson
Scottish businessman and inventor (1822-1873)
Alexander Wilson
Scottish surgeon, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist (1714-1786)
Thomas Stevenson
British civil engineer, lighthouse designer and meteorologist
James Keir
Scottish chemist, geologist, industrialist and inventor
Andrew Meikle
Scottish engineer
James Young
Scottish chemist, born 1811 (1811–1883)
Alexander Winton
British automotive pioneer (1860–1932)
John Anderson
scientist, philosopher, and educator of the Scottish Enlightenment; (1726-1796)
Dugald Clerk
British engineer (1854–1932)
William Symington
British engineer
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
British nobleman and inventor
Andrew Gordon
British physicist
Mungo Ponton
British photography pioneer (1801–1880)
Alexander Buchan
Scottish meteorologist, oceanographer and botanist (1829-1907)
Alexander Cumming
British inventor
William Ged
British printer
Charles Tennant
Businessperson, chemist, industrialist (1768-1838)
John Broadwood
Scottish founder of the piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons; (1732-1812)
Henry Bell
Scottish engineer (1767-1830)
Patrick Ferguson
British Army officer
James Chalmers
1782-1853; alleged Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp
Alexander Tilloch
Scottish inventor (1759-1825)
William Fergusson
British Baronet (1808–1877)
James Blyth
British engineer
Hamish MacInnes
Scottish mountain climber (1930–2020)
David Mushet
Scottish metallurgist
Robert Blair
British astronomer
David Ramsay
Scottish watchmaker
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton
Scottish electrical engineer (1863–1930)
Robert Francis Fairlie
British engineer and locomotive designer (1831–1885)
Thomas McCall
Scottish cartwright (1834–1904)