Scottish Biography: Index by Year of Birth

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1830-99

1830: Alexander Smith 1830: Charles Wyville Thomson 1831: David MacGibbon 1831: James Clerk Maxwell 1831: Peter Guthrie Tait 1834: Robert Rowand Anderson 1834: James Hector 1835: Alfred Barnard 1835: Andrew Carnegie 1835: Sir Archibald Geikie 1835: Madeleine Smith 1836: Hercules Linton 1837: Joseph Bell 1837: John Thomson 1838: Alexander Crum Brown 1838: Thomas Blake Glover 1838: John Muir 1839: Sir William Arrol 1839: Thomas Ross 1840: John Boyd Dunlop 1842: James Dewar 1842: Osgood Mackenzie 1843: James Scott Skinner 1844: Hippolyte Blanc 1844: Andrew Lang 1845: Lady Emily Gordon Cathcart 1846: William McGregor 1847: 3rd Marquess of Bute 1847: Alexander Graham Bell 1847: John Hamilton-Gordon 1847: Sir Robert McAlpine

1848: Arthur Balfour 1848: Mary Slessor 1849: Kate Cranston 1849: George Forbes 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson 1851: Lord Leverhulme 1852: Sir William Cheyne 1852: R. Cunninghame Graham 1853: James Robert Rhind 1854: David Dunbar Buick 1854: Sir Patrick Geddes 1855: James Alfred Ewing 1856: Keir Hardie 1856: Sir Hugh Munro 1856: James Murdoch 1857: Williamina Fleming 1857: Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon 1858: Joseph Thomson 1859: J. Norman Collie 1859: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859: Annie S Swan 1860: J.M. Barrie 1860: James Miller 1861: Sir William Burrell 1861: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig 1863: Violet Jacob 1863: Neil Munro 1864: Margot Asquith 1864: Elsie Inglis 1864: Sir Robert Lorimer 1864: Margaret Macdonald 1865: Walter Wingate 1866: John Begg 1866: Ramsay MacDonald 1868: James Connolly 1868: Frederic Lamond 1868: Hamish MacCunn 1868: Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1870: James Braid 1870: Sir Harry Lauder 1872: Chrystal Macmillan 1873: Captain Bertram Dickson 1873: William McMaster Murdoch 1874: John Duncan Fergusson 1874: Agnes Hardie 1874: Dame Louise McIlroy 1874: Harry McNish 1875: John Buchan 1875: Isabel Kerr 1875: Jessie King 1876: John Macleod 1878: Christina Kay 1878: Dame Flora MacLeod 1879: Catherine Carswell 1879: John Maclean 1879: Mairi Sawyer 1881: John Arthur 1881: Alexander Fleming 1881: Willie Gallacher 1881: Tom Johnston 1882: Thomas S Tait 1883: Eric Temple Bell 1883: Honoria Keer 1883: Compton Mackenzie 1884: Georgina MacKinnon 1885: Nan Hughes 1885: James Maxton 1886: Seton Gordon 1886: Helen Low 1887: Jessie Jordan 1887: Jessie Kesson 1887: Edwin Muir 1888: John Logie Baird 1889: Isabel Hutchison 1889: John MacGregor V.C.1889: John Reith, 1st Reith 1890: Archibald Sinclair 1891: Neil M. Gunn 1891: Agnes Mackenzie 1892: Dorothy Johnstone 1892: Robert Watson-Watt 1892: Hugh MacDiarmid 1893: William Lamb 1893: Nan Shepherd 1894: Victoria Drummond 1895: Jean Roberts 1896: A.J. Cronin 1896: Sheina Marshall 1897: Helen Duncan 1897: Jane Haining 1897: John Laurie 1898: John Grierson 1899: Eric Linklater 1899: Doris Reynolds

1900-99

1900: Dame Margaret Kidd 1900: Alastair Sim 1901: Lewis Grassic Gibbon 1902: Eric Liddell 1902: Nan MacKinnon 1902: Margaret Thomson 1903: 14th Duke of Hamilton 1903: Marion Ross 1903: Margaret Fay Shaw 1904: Jennie Lee 1906: Robert Matthew 1907: Helen Holm 1907: Hew Lorimer 1907: Helen MacInnes 1907: Robert McLellan 1907: Sir Basil Spence 1909: Sir Matt Busby 1909: Ethel McDonald 1910: Jane Duncan 1910: Sheila Scott Macintyre 1910: Alan Reiach 1910: Anne Robertson 1911: Fitzroy Maclean 1911: Sorley MacLean 1912: Flora Sadler 1913: Alastair Borthwick 1913: Robert MacBryde 1913: W.H. Murray 1913: Bill Shankly 1914: Robert Colquhoun 1914: Gavin Maxwell 1914: Tom Weir 1915: Colonel Sir David Stirling 1917: Edward Callander 1918: Muriel Spark 1919: Chic Murray 1920: Wallace McIntosh 1921: Joan Eardley 1922: Alistair MacLean 1922: Jock Stein 1923: Dorothy Dunnett 1923: Gordon Jackson 1924: Eduardo Paolozzi 1925: George MacDonald Fraser 1925: Alexander Trocchi 1936: Jim Clark 1937: Donald Dewar 1938: John Smith 1946: Bon Scott

1000-99

1005: King Macbeth 1009: Thorfinn Sigurdsson 1029: King Lulach 1031: Malcolm III Canmore 1033: King Donald III 1045: St Margaret of Scotland 1060: King Duncan II 1070: King Edmund 1074; King Edgar 1077: King Alexander I

1100-99

1113: Somerled 1124: King David I 1134: Bishop Jocelin 1141: King Malcolm IV 1143: William the Lion, William I 1198: King Alexander II

1200-99

1200: Clement of Dunblane 1204: King Håkon IV of Norway 1210: Devorgilla, Lady of Galloway 1220: Thomas the Rhymer 1239: King Edward I of England 1241: King Alexander III 1245: Marjorie, Countess Carrick 1250: King John Balliol 1265: John Duns Scotus 1270: John III Comyn of Badenoch 1270: Andrew Murray 1272: Sir William Wallace 1273; Lady Christian Bruce 1274: Robert the Bruce or Robert I 1280: William de Soulis 1283: King Edward Balliol 1283: Margaret, Maid of Norway 1290: Sir Andrew Murray

1300-99

1305: John, Lord of the Isles 1312: Agnes Randoph of Dunbar 1315: Walter de Coventre 1316: King Robert II 1320: John Barbour 1324: King David II 1328: 3rd Earl of Douglas 1330: John of Fordun 1337: King Robert III 1340: R. Stewart, 1st Duke Albany 1343: The Wolf of Badenoch 1345: H. Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney 1350: Donald, Lord of the Isles 1378: David, 1st Duke of Rothesay 1385: Walter Bower 1394: King James I 1390: Alexander "Sawney" Bean 1390: Alexander, Lord of the Isles

1400-99

1404: Queen Joan Beaufort 1408: Bishop James Kennedy 1425: W. Douglas, 8th Earl Douglas 1430: King James II 1431: Bishop William Elphinstone 1434: John MacDonald II 1450: Sir Andrew Wood 1451: King James III 1470: Isabella Hoppringle 1473: King James IV 1475: Gavin Douglas 1485: Alison Rough 1488: John Lauder 1489: Margaret Tudor 1490: Bishop Robert Reid 1491: King Henry VIII of England 1494: Cardinal David Beaton

1500-99

1500: Marion Ogilvy 1506: George Buchanan 1508: Euphemia Leslie 1512: King James V 1513: John Knox 1513: George Wishart 1515: Marie de Guise 1525: J. Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton 1526: Lady Agnes Campbell 1530: Coinneach Odhar 1530: Katherine Ruthven, Glenorchy 1531: J. Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray 1533: Elizabeth I of England 1533: David Rizzio 1533: R. Stewart, 1st Earl Orkney 1536: Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell 1537: John Maitland, 1st Thirlestane 1540: Lady Agnes Keith 1542: Mary, Queen of Scots 1545: Jean Gordon 1545: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley 1547: Margaret Stewart, Ochiltree 1550: John Napier 1558: George Keith, 5th Marischal 1563: George Heriot 1565: Timothy Pont 1566: King James VI/I 1569: P. Stewart, 2nd Earl Orkney 1570: Sir William Alexander 1574: Anne of Denmark 1580: Robert Gordon of Straloch 1580: Alexander Leslie, Leven 1582: Elizabeth Melville 1583: Alexander Henderson 1599: Oliver Cromwell

1600-99

1600: King Charles I 1600: Jenny Geddes 1600: Samuel Rutherford 1601: General David Leslie 1604: John Hans Makeléer 1608: General George Monck 1611: Sir Thomas Urquhart 1612: 1st Marquess of Montrose 1615: Tam Dalyell of the Binns 1620: Lady Barbara MacKay 1629: Mary Erskine 1630: Sir William Bruce 1630: King Charles II 1630: Captain Robert Campbell 1631: Anne Hamilton, 3rd Hamilton 1633: King James VII/II 1643: Gilbert Burnet 1645: Captain William Kidd 1648: Sir John Dalrymple, Earl Stair 1648: 1st Viscount Dundee 1648: Richard Cameron 1650: William III/II of Orange 1650: The Brahan Seer 1653: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun 1654: George Watson 1658: Sir William Paterson 1660: Daniel Defoe 1660: King George I 1662: Queen Mary II 1662: James Renwick 1665: Lady Grisell Baillie 1667: Simon Fraser, 11th Lovat 1668: Robert Gordon 1669: Sir William Keith 1669: Martin Martin 1671: John Law 1671: Rob Roy MacGregor 1673: General George Wade 1675: John Erskine, 23nd Earl Mar 1675: Penelope Mackenzie 1675: James Macpherson 1676: Alexander Selkirk 1680: Lady Winifred Maxwell 1683: King George II 1684: Sir Robert Munro 1686: Colin Campbell 1686: Allan Ramsay the Elder 1688: James Stuart, "James VIII"1689: William Adam 1689: Colin Maclaurin 1694: Francis Hutcheson 1695: Captain John Porteous 1695: Elizabeth Tollemache 1696: Henry Home, Lord Kames 1696: Field Marshal James Keith

1700-99

1700: Alexander MacDonald 1707: General John Forbes 1709: Samuel Johnson 1710: William Cullen 1710: James Ferguson 1710: Thomas Reid 1711: David Hume 1713: Allan Ramsay the Younger 1714: James Burnett, Monboddo 1716: Dugald Buchanan 1716: James Lind 1720: Charles Stuart, "Charles III"1721: Duke of Cumberland 1721: Tobias Smollett 1722: Flora MacDonald

1722: Margaret MacKay 1723: Adam Ferguson 1723: Lady Anne Mackintosh 1723: Adam Smith 1723: John Witherspoon 1725: Henry Stuart, "Henry IX"1725: Alestair MacDonnell: "Pickle"1726: John Anderson 1726: James Hutton 1726: Hugh Mercer 1726: Thomas Pennant 1727: Niel Gow 1728: Robert Adam 1728: Joseph Black 1730: James Bruce 1730: John Walker 1730: Peter Williamson 1731: William Aiton 1731: 1st Viscount Duncan 1735: Janet Keiller 1736: James Macpherson 1736: James Watt 1738: King George III 1739: Elspeth Buchan 1739: James Craig 1739: David Dale 1740: James Boswell 1740: William Davidson 1741: Deacon Brodie 1741: Francis Masson 1742: Henry Dundas, Melville 1742: John Kay 1745: Henry Mackenzie 1747: John Paul Jones 1748: John Playfair 1750: Robert Fergusson 1750: Helen Gloag 1751: William Roxburgh 1754: Colin Mackenzie 1753: Dugald Stewart 1754: Archibald Menzies 1754: William Murdoch 1755: Grace Elliott 1755: James Playfair 1756: John Loudon McAdam 1756: Sir Henry Raeburn 1757: Thomas Telford 1758: Alexander Nasmyth 1759: Robert Burns 1759: William Playfair 1761: Sir James Hall 1761: John Rennie 1762: King George IV 1762: Lachlan Macquarie 1764: Sir Alexander Mackenzie 1764: William Symington 1765: James Ivory 1765: Étienne MacDonald 1765: Elizabeth Sutherland 1765: King William IV 1765: C. Oliphant, Baroness Nairne 1766: Charles Macintosh 1766: Alexander Wilson 1767: Henry Bell 1769: Sir John Malcolm 1770: James Hogg 1771: Robert Owen 1771: Mungo Park 1771: Sir Walter Scott 1773: Sir Thomas Brisbane 1773: Robert Brown 1776: Sir John Leslie 1774: Robert Allan 1774: Thomas Dick 1774: Henry Duncan 1774: Robert Jameson 1774: Robert Tannahill 1775: 10th Earl of Dundonald 1778: Bishop William Skinner 1778: Andrew Ure 1780: Patrick Sellar 1780: Mary Somerville 1781: Alexander Berry 1781: Sir David Brewster 1781: Isobel Gunn 1782: James Chalmers 1782: Susan Ferrier 1784: George Hamilton-Gordon 1784: William Jardine 1784: Sir Thomas Dick Lauder 1785: Ewan MacPhee 1785: Sir David Wilkie 1786: Gregor MacGregor 1787: Patrick Nasmyth 1788: Lord Byron 1788: Hugh Clapperton 1788: Sir William Hamilton 1789: William Burn 1789: Mary Macdonald 1790: William Henry Playfair 1791: Robert Knox 1791: Robert Napier 1792: Arthur Anderson 1792: William Burke 1792: Colin Campbell, Clyde 1792: William Hare 1792: Edward Irving 1792: Betsy Miller 1792: Thomas Mitchell 1792: Sir Roderick Murchison 1794: Robert Liston 1795: James Gordon Bennett 1795: Thomas Carlyle 1795: James Braid 1795: John Sobieski Stuart 1796: William MacGillivray 1796: Christina Robertson 1797: Sir Andrew Smith 1798: Thomas James Henderson 1799: David Douglas

1800-29

1800: James Braidwood 1800: William Chambers 1800: Sir William Jardine 1802: David Octavius Hill 1802: John Macgregor 1802: Hugh Miller 1803: David Bryce 1805: Thomas Graham 1805: Johann von Lamont 1808: Hugh Falconer 1808: Macgregor Laird 1808: James Nasmyth 1809: James David Forbes 1811: Alexander Bain 1811: James McCosh 1811: Andrew Meikle 1811: Sir James Young Simpson 1811: James Young 1812: Robert Fortune 1812: Kirkpatrick Macmillan 1812: Robert Stirling Newall 1812: Samuel Smiles 1813: Dr John Rae 1813: David Livingstone 1814: Fanny McIan 1815: Sir John A. Macdonald 1815: John McDouall Stuart 1817: Robert Angus Smith 1817: Alexander "Greek" Thomson 1819: Allan Pinkerton 1819: Charles Piazzi Smyth 1819: Queen Victoria 1819: William Walls 1820: Amelia Hill 1821: Old Tom Morris 1822: Alexander Mackenzie 1824: William Balfour Baikie 1824: George MacDonald 1824 : Lord Kelvin 1825: Angus MacAskill 1825: William McGonagall 1825: John MacGregor 1825: May Moar 1825: Catherine Helen Spence 1826: John Brown 1826: Sir James David Marwick 1827: James Augustus Grant 1827: John Macadam 1828: Isabella Elder

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