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Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
William Ramsay
Scottish chemist (1852–1916)
William Wallace
Scottish knight and leading figure in the First War of Scottish Independence
Robert I of Scotland
King of Scotland (1306–1329)
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797–1875)
John Boyd Orr
Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (1880-1971)
Patrick Geddes
British biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
Alexander Mackenzie
Scottish explorer
John Ross
Scottish naval officer and polar explorer (1777–1856)
Henry Raeburn
British portrait painter (1756-1823)
Eduardo Paolozzi
British artist (1924-2005)
David Stirling
World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service (1915-1990)
Edward Bruce
medieval Scottish nobleman and soldier
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Scottish metaphysician (1788-1856)
James Young Simpson
British obstetrician (1811–1870)
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar (*1860 – †1948)
Charles Wyville Thomson
Scottish marine zoologist (1830-1882)
James Wordie
Scottish polar explorer (1889–1962)
William Edmond Logan
British-Canadian geologist (1798–1875)
James Angus Gillan
British colonial administrator (1885–1981)
Thomas Urquhart
Scottish writer and translator
William Wilson Hunter
Scottish historian and statistician (1840-1900)
James Edward Alexander
Scottish soldier, traveller and author (1803-1885)
David Lyndsay
Scottish noble and poet (c. 1490 – c. 1555)
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
British broadcasting executive and politician (1889–1971)
John Malcolm
British/Scottish politician and historian (1769-1833)
Robert Sibbald
Scottish physician and antiquary (1641-1722)
Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet
Scottish soldier and colonial administrator
Basil Spence
Scottish architect (1907–1976)
David Young Cameron
British artist (1865-1945)
William Bruce
Scottish architect (1630-1710)
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell
British politician (1779-1861)
Neil MacCormick
Scottish legal scholar and politician (1941-2009)
William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
Scottish courtier and poet
Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet
British field marshal (1824–1900)
James Guthrie
Scottish artist (1859–1930)
George Taylor
British botanist (1904-1993)
Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet
British Army general
George Watt
Scottish botanist (1851-1930)
John Flett
Scottish physician and geologist (1869–1947)
Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, 2nd Baronet
Scottish sailor (1878–1954)
George Simpson
Scottish colonial administrator and explorer
Alasdair Mac Colla
Scottish knight
William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas
Scottish nobleman and warlord
William Macewen
Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (1848–1924)
Archibald Campbell
Governor of Jamaica and Madras (1739-1791)
William Drummond of Logiealmond
Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philosopher
Andrew Barton
Scottish admiral
William Reid Dick
Scottish sculptor (1879-1961)
Gilbert Blane
Scottish physician
John Steell
British artist (1804–1891)
Henry Littlejohn
British surgeon and forensic scientist (1826–1914)
Wilson Jameson
British physician (1885–1962)
William Abbott Herdman
Scottish marine zoologist, oceanographer (1858–1924)
Daniel Macnee
British artist (1806-1882)
Ken Collins
environmentalist, politician (born 1939)
Robert Rowand Anderson
British architect (1834-1921)
Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet
British politician and slave plantation owner
Alexander Gibson
Scottish conductor and opera intendant (1926-1995)
Muirhead Bone
Scottish artist (1876–1953)