Undiscovered Scotland

A

John Abercrombie (Doctor) Thomas G. Abercrombie (Arch.) Robert Adam (Architect) William Adam (Architect) Adomnán of Iona (Abbot) Saint Aebbe (St Abbs) King Aedh, Aodh or Aed Julius Agricola (Roman) Saint Aidan (Lindisfarne) William Aiton (Kew Gardens) Alan of Galloway (Noble) Prince Albert (Consort) King Alexander I King Alexander II King Alexander III Sir William Alexander (Nova Scotia) Robert Allan (Songwriter) Arthur Anderson (P&O) John Anderson (Educationalist) Robert Rowand Anderson (Arch.) Saint Andrew (Patron Saint) Saint Angus (Balquhidder) Queen Anne Anne of Denmark Sir John Anstruther (Industrialist) William Armstrong (Reiver) Sir William Arrol (Bridgebuilder) John Arthur (Missionary) King Arthur (Mythical leader) Margot Asquith (PM's Wife)

B

William Balfour Baikie (Africa) Lady Grisell Baillie (Poet) Alexander Bain (Fax Machine) John Logie Baird (Television) Saint Baldred (Tyninghame) Arthur Balfour (Prime Minister) Gilbert Balfour (Orkney) John Balliol (Noble) King John Balliol King Edward Balliol John Barbour (Ecclesiastic) Alfred Barnard (Whisky Writer) Frank Barnwell (Aviator) J.M. Barrie (Writer) Ethel Baxter (Baxters) Alexander Sawney Bean (Cannibal) Cardinal David Beaton Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland John Begg (Architect) Alexander Graham Bell (Telephone) Henry Bell (Steamboats) Joseph Bell (Deductive Medicine) Eric Temple Bell (Mathematician) Patrick Bell (Reaping Machine) James Gordon Bennett (News) Bernard, Abbot of Arbroath Alexander Berry (Australia) Baldred Bisset (Ecclesiastic) Joseph Black (Chemist) Andrew Blain Baird (Aviator) Hippolyte Blanc (Architect) Saint Blane (Dunblane) Hector Boece (Historian) Horatius Bonar (Clergyman) Alastair Borthwick (Mountaineer) James Boswell (Samuel Johnson) Thomas Bouch (Engineer) Walter Bower (Historian) The Brahan Seer (Seer) James Braid (Hypnosis) James Braid (Golfer) James Braidwood (Firefighter) Sir David Brewster (Optics) Saint Bride (Ireland) Sir Thomas Brisbane (Australia) Deacon Brodie (Thief) Alexander Crum Brown (Molecules) Captain Eric Brown (Test Pilot) John Brown (Balmoral) Robert Brown (Botanist) Samuel Brown (Bridgebuilder) Lady Christian Bruce Edward Bruce (King of Ireland) Sir George Bruce (Culross) James Bruce (African Explorer) Laurence Bruce (Shetland) Robert Bruce, 5th Annandale Robert Bruce, 6th Annandale Sir William Bruce (Architect) William Speirs Bruce (Explorer) David Bryce (Scots Baronial) Elspeth Buchan (Buchanites) John Buchan, 1st Tweedsmuir Dugald Buchanan (Poet) George Buchanan (Scholar) David Dunbar Buick (Cars) Bishop Alexander Bur (Moray) William Burke (Burke & Hare) William Burn (Scots Baronial) Gilbert Burnet (Historian) Sir John James Burnet (Architect) James Burnett, Lord Monboddo Robert Burns (Poet) Thomas Burns (New Zealand) Sir William Burrell (Shipping) Sir Matt Busby (Footballer) George Byron, 6th Baron (Poet)

C

Calgacus (Caledonian Chieftain) Edward Callander (RAF Airman) Richard Cameron (Presbyterian) Lady Agnes Campbell (Ireland) Colin Campbell (Sweden) Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde Captain Robert Campbell (Glencoe) Henry Campbell-Bannerman (PM) Thomas Carlyle (Philosopher) Andrew Carnegie (Philanthropist) Catherine Carswell (Novelist) Donald Caskie (Tartan Pimpernel) James Chalmers (Postage Stamp) William Chambers (Publisher) King Charles I King Charles II Sir William Cheyne (Surgeon) Hugh Clapperton (Africa) Jim Clark (Racing Driver) Clement of Dunblane (Bishop) Thomas Cochrane,10th Dundonald J. Norman Collie (Mountaineer) Robert Colquhoun (Artist) Saint Columba (Iona) John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch James Connolly (Irish Republican) King Constantine I King Constantine II King Constantine III Saint Conval (Inchinnan) Walter de Coventre (Ecclesiastic) James Craig (Architect) Kate Cranston (Tea Rooms) John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Bute Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector) A.J. Cronin (Novelist) Helen Cruickshank (Poet) Cúchulainn (Irish Hero) King Culen, Colin or Cuilean William Cullen (Hamilton) Prince William, Duke of Cumberland R Cunninghame Graham (SNP) Saint Cuthbert (Melrose)

D

David Dale (New Lanark) Sir John Dalrymple, 1st of Stair Tam Dalyell of the Binns John Damian (Alchemist) King David I King David II William Davidson (Canada) Daniel Defoe (Writer) William Denny (Shipbuilder) Devorgilla, Lady of Galloway Donald Dewar (First Minister) James Dewar (Physicist) Robert Dick (Naturalist) Thomas Dick (Astronomer) Captain Bertram Dickson (Aviator) Maggie Dickson (Fishwife) King Donald I King Donald II King Donald III Saint Donan (Eigg) Archibald Douglas, 3rd E. Douglas Archibald Douglas 6th Earl Angus David Douglas (Botanist) Gavin Douglas (Ecclesiastic) James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton William Douglas, 8th Earl Douglas Douglas Douglas-Hamilton Hugh Dowding (Air Chief Marshal) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Writer) Yolande de Dreux (Queen) Saint Drostan (Deer Abbey) Thomas Drummond (Ireland) Victoria Drummond (Mariner) King Duff, Duffus or Dubh King Duncan I King Duncan II Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan Henry Duncan (Savings Bank) Jane Duncan (Novelist) Helen Duncan (Spiritualist) Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville Sir Lawrence Dundas (Landowner) John Boyd Dunlop (Tyre) Dorothy Dunnett (Novelist) John Duns Scotus (Theologian) Saint Duthac (Tain)

E

Joan Eardley (Artist) King Edgar King Edmund King Edward I of England King Edward II of England King Edward III of England Euphemia Elphinstone (Mistress) Isabella Elder (Philanthropist) Queen Elizabeth I of England Grace Elliott (Courtesan) Bishop William Elphinstone King Eochaid, Eochu or Eochaidh Vera Eriksen (Double Agent) John Erskine, 23rd Earl of Mar Mary Erskine (Financier) Ensign Charles Ewart (Waterloo) James Alfred Ewing (Physicist)

F

Sir William Fairbairn (Engineer) Hugh Falconer (Botanist) Patrick Fea (Stronsay) Saint Fergus (Glamis) Adam Ferguson (Philosopher) James Ferguson (Astronomer) Major Patrick Ferguson (Soldier) John Duncan Fergusson (Artist) Robert Fergusson (Poet) Susan Ferrier (Novelist) Saint Fillan (Pittenweem) Lady Finella (Assassin) Walter Fitzalan (High Steward) Alexander Fleming (Penicillin) David Hay Fleming (Historian) Sir Sandford Fleming (Canada) Williamina Fleming (Astronomer) Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun Sir William Russell Flint (Artist) Duncan Forbes (Culloden) George Forbes (Engineer) James David Forbes (Physicist) Brigadier General John Forbes William Forbes, 7th Laird Tolquhon John of Fordun (Historian) William Fordyce (Politician) Alexander Forsyth (Inventor) Robert Fortune (Botanist) Sir John Fowler (Engineer) G. MacDonald Fraser (Novelist) Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat Thomas Fraser (Singer) Captain Ted Fresson (Aviator)

G

Willie Gallacher (Communist) Jenny Geddes (St Giles Riot) Sir Patrick Geddes (Town Planner) Sir Archibald Geikie (Geologist) King George I King George II King George III King George IV Saint Gilbert (Dornoch) Saint Giles (Edinburgh) King Giric, or Gregory the Great Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Author) Helen Gloag (Empress of Morocco) Thomas Blake Glover (Japan) Lady Emily Gordon Cathcart (Barra) Jean Gordon, of Sutherland Robert Gordon (Aberdeen) Robert Gordon of Straloch Seton Gordon (Writer) Niel Gow (Fiddler) James Graham, 1st M of Montrose John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee Thomas Graham (Graham's Law) James Augustus Grant (Africa) John Grierson (Film Maker) Marie de Guise (Regent) Isobel Gunn (Hudson's Bay) Neil M. Gunn (Author)

H

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Jane Haining (Auschwitz) King Håkon IV of Norway Sir James Hall (Geologist) Anne Hamilton, 3rd of Hamilton Sir William Hamilton (Philosopher) G. Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Aberdeen Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon John Hamilton-Gordon Agnes Hardie (Labour MP) Keir Hardie (Labour Leader) William Hare (Burke & Hare) James Hector (Geologist) Alexander Henderson (Theologian) Thomas Henderson (Astronomer) King Henry VIII of England James Hepburn, 4th Earl Bothwell George Heriot (Philanthropist) Amelia Hill (Sculptor) David Octavius Hill (Photographer) James Hogg (Writer) Helen Holm (Golfer) Henry Home, Lord Kames Isabella Hoppringle (Prioress) Nan Hughes (Socialist) David Hume (Philosopher) Francis Hutcheson (Enlightenment) Isabel Hutchison (Explorer) James Hutton (Geologist)

I

Elsie Inglis (Surgeon) King Indulf Edward Irving (Preacher) Alexander of Islay, Lord of Isles Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles John of Islay, Lord of the Isles James Ivory (Mathematician)

J

Gordon Jackson (Actor) Violet Jacob (Writer) King James I King James II King James III King James IV King James V King James VI/I King James VII/II Robert Jameson (Naturalist) William Jardine (Jardine Matheson) Sir William Jardine (Naturalist) Sophia Jex-Blake (Doctor/Educator) Bishop Jocelin (Bishop of Glasgow) Samuel Johnson (Writer) Tom Johnston (Secretary of State) Dorothy Johnstone (Artist) John Paul Jones (US Navy) Jessie Jordan (German Spy)

K

Christina Kay (Teacher) John Kay (Caricaturist) Honoria Keer (Surgeon) Janet Keiller (Marmalade) Lady Agnes Keith (Dunnottar) George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal Field Marshal James Keith (Prussia) Sir William Keith (Pennsylvania) Bishop James Kennedy (Chancellor) King Kenneth I, Kenneth Mac Alpin King Kenneth II King Kenneth III Isabel Kerr (Missionary) Saint Kessog (Luss) Jessie Kesson (Playwright) Dame Margaret Kidd (Lawyer) Captain William Kidd (Pirate) Jessie King (Artist) John Knox (Preacher) Robert Knox (Anatomist)

L

Alexander Gordon Laing (Timbuktu) Macgregor Laird (River Niger) William Lamb (Sculptor) Frederic Lamond (Pianist) Johann von Lamont (Astronomer) Andrew Lang (Historian) Sir Harry Lauder (Entertainer) John Lauder (Prosecuter) Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (Writer) John Laurie (Actor) John Law (Economist) Jennie Lee (Labour MP) Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven General David Leslie Euphemia Leslie (Prioress) Sir John Leslie (Physicist) William Lever, Lord Leverhulme Eric Liddell (Runner) James Lind (Naval Doctor) Eric Linklater (Novelist) Hercules Linton (Shipbuilder) Sir Thomas Lipton (Merchant) Robert Liston (Surgeon) David Livingstone (Missionary) Hew Lorimer (Sculptor) Sir Robert Lorimer (Architect) Helen Nora Low (Screenwriter) King Lulach

Mac/Mc

John Macadam (Australia) John Loudon McAdam (Roads) Sir Robert McAlpine (Engineer) Angus MacAskill (Giant) King Macbeth Robert MacBryde (Painter) James McCosh (Philosopher) Hamish MacCunn (Composer) Hugh MacDiarmid (Poet) Alexander MacDonald (Poet) Ethel McDonald (Anarchist) Étienne MacDonald (France) Flora MacDonald (Jacobite) George MacDonald (Author) John MacDonald II, Lord of Isles Sir John A. Macdonald (PM Canada) Margaret Macdonald (Artist) Mary Macdonald (Poet) Ramsay MacDonald (PM) Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell "Pickle" David MacGibbon (Architect) William MacGillivray (Naturalist) Gregor MacGregor (Poyais) John Macgregor (Shipbuilder) John MacGregor (Canoeist) John MacGregor V.C. (Soldier) Rob Roy MacGregor (Outlaw) William McGregor (Football) William McGonagall (Poet) Fanny McIan (Landscape Artist) Dame Louise McIlroy (Doctor) Helen MacInnes (Novelist) Charles Macintosh (Waterproofing) Wallace McIntosh (RAF Airman) Sheila Scott Macintyre (Maths) Lady Barbara MacKay (Balnakeil) Margaret MacKay (Clearances) Archie McKellar (Fighter Pilot) Agnes Mackenzie (Historian) Alexander Mackenzie (PM Canada) Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Canada) Colin Mackenzie (Surveyor of India) Compton Mackenzie (Author) Henry Mackenzie (Novelist) Osgood Mackenzie (Inverewe) Penelope Mackenzie (Benbecula) Georgina MacKinnon (Drambuie) Nan MacKinnon (Storyteller) Lady Anne Mackintosh (Jacobite) Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Arch.) Colin Maclaurin (Mathematician) Alistair MacLean (Novelist) Fitzroy Maclean (Diplomat John Maclean (Socialist) Sorley MacLean (Poet) Robert McLellan (Dramatist) Dame Flora MacLeod (Clan Chief) John Macleod (Nobel Prize) Chrystal Macmillan (Barrister) Kirkpatrick Macmillan (Bicycle) Harry McNish (Antarctic) Ewan MacPhee (Outlaw) James Macpherson (Outlaw) James Macpherson (Ossian) Lachlan Macquarie (Australia) Amy MacRuari (Castle Tioram)

M

Saint Machar (Aberdeen) Saint Maelrubha (Applecross) Saint Magnus (Orkney) John Mair (Philosopher) John Maitland, 1st Lord Thirlestane William Maitland of Lethington John Hans Makeléer (Sweden) King Malcolm I King Malcolm II King Malcolm III, Malcolm Canmore King Malcolm IV Sir John Malcolm (Diplomat) Sir Patrick Manson (Doctor) Margaret of Denmark (Queen) Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway St Margaret of Scotland (Queen) Marjorie, Countess of Carrick Sheina Marshall (Marine Biologist) Martin Martin (Writer) Sir James David Marwick (Glasgow) Mary of Modena (Queen) Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary I Queen Mary II Francis Masson (Plant Hunter) Sir James Matheson (Lewis) Robert Matthew (Architect) James Maxton (Socialist) Gavin Maxwell (Writer) James Clerk Maxwell (Physicist) Lady Winifred Maxwell (Jacobite) Andrew Meikle (Threshing Machine) Elizabeth Melville (Writer) James Melville (Cleric) Archibald Menzies (Naturalist) Hugh Mercer (American Revolution) Merlin (Bard) John Middleton, 1st Earl Middleton Betsy Miller (Mariner) Hugh Miller (Geologist) James Miller (Architect) William Miller (Poet) Saint Mirin (Paisley) Thomas Mitchell (Australia) May Moar (Shetland) Saint Molaise (Holy Island) Saint Moluag (Rosemarkie) General George Monck

Alexander Monro, I (Anatomist) Sir John Moore (General) Old Tom Morris (Golfer) Betty Mouat (Shetland) Edwin Muir (Poet) John Muir (Environmentalist) St Mungo or St Kentigern Sir Hugh Munro (Mountaineer) Neil Munro (Writer) Sir Robert Munro (Soldier) Sir Roderick Murchison (Geologist) James Murdoch (Japan) William McMaster Murdoch (Sailor) William Murdoch (Gas Supply) Andrew Murray (Stirling Bridge) Sir Andrew Murray (Guardian) Chic Murray (Entertainer) Lord George Murray (Jacobite) W.H. Murray (Mountaineer)

N

John Napier (Logarithms) Robert Napier (Shipbuilder) Alexander Nasmyth (Painter) James Nasmyth (Steam Hammer) Patrick Nasmyth (Painter) Saint Nathalan (Deeside) Robert Stirling Newall (Cables) Saint Ninian (Whithorn)

O

Coinneach Odhar (Brahan Seer) Marion Ogilvy (Mrs Beaton) Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne Saint Oswald (Northumbria) Robert Owen (New Lanark)

P

Eduardo Paolozzi (Sculptor) Mungo Park (African Explorer) Sir William Paterson (Darien) Thomas Pennant (Travel Writer) Pontius Pilate (Roman) Allan Pinkerton (Detective) James Playfair (Architect) John Playfair (Mathematician) William Henry Playfair (Architect) William Playfair (Graphs) Timothy Pont (Cartographer) Captain John Porteous (Edinburgh)

R

Dr John Rae (North-West Passage) Sir Henry Raeburn (Artist) Allan Ramsay the Elder (Poet) Allan Ramsay the Younger (Artist) Agnes Randoph of Dunbar Alan Reiach (Architect) Bishop Robert Reid (Orkney) Thomas Reid (Philosopher) John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (BBC) John Rennie (Engineer) James Renwick (Covenanter) Doris Reynolds (Geologist) James Robert Rhind (Architect) Thomas the Rhymer (Prophet) David Rizzio (Courtier) Robert the Bruce or Robert I King Robert II King Robert III Jean Roberts (Glasgow Provost) Anne Robertson (Archaeologist) Christina Robertson (Painter) Marion Ross (Physicist) Thomas Ross (Architect) Alison Rough (Murderer) William Roxburgh (Botanist) Saint Rule (St Andrews) Samuel Rutherford (Theologian) Katherine Ruthven, Lady Glenorchy

S

Flora Sadler (Astronomer) Mairi Sawyer (Inverewe) Scáthach (Warrior Queen) Scota (Foundation Myth) Bon Scott (Rock Musician) Sir Walter Scott (Author) Saint Serf (Culross) Alexander Selkirk (Castaway) Patrick Sellar (Clearances) Bill Shankly (Football) Margaret Fay Shaw (South Uist) Nan Shepherd (Author) Tibbie Shiel (Innkeeper) Thorfinn Sigurdsson (Earl Orkney) Alastair Sim (Actor) Archibald Sinclair, Viscount Thurso Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney James Scott Skinner (Fiddler) Bishop William Skinner (Aberdeen) Mary Slessor (Missionary) Samuel Smiles (Author) Adam Smith (Economist) Alexander Smith (Poet) Sir Andrew Smith (Naturalist) John Smith (Labour Leader) Madeleine Smith (Murderer?) Robert Angus Smith (Chemist) Tobias Smollett (Author) Charles Piazzi Smyth (Astronomer) Somerled, King of the Isles Mary Somerville (Scientist) William de Soules, (Hermitage) Muriel Spark (Author) Sir Basil Spence (Architect) Catherine Helen Spence (Australia) Jock Stein (Football) Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl Buchan David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay Dugald Stewart (Philosopher) James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray Margaret Stewart Ochiltree (Knox) Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney Colonel Sir David Stirling (SAS) Charles Stuart, "Charles III" C.E. Stuart, Count Roehenstart Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley Henry Stuart, "Henry IX" James Stuart, "James VIII/III" John McDouall Stuart (Australia) John Sobieski Stuart (Tartans) Elizabeth, Duchess of Sutherland Annie S Swan (Novelist) William Symington (Steamboat)

T

Peter Guthrie Tait (Physicist) Thomas S Tait (Architect) Saint Talarican (Bishop of Sodor) Robert Tannahill (Weaver Poet) Thomas Telford (Engineer) Princess Theneva (Traprain Law) Alexander "Greek" Thomson (Arch.) Charles Thomson (Oceanographer) John Thomson (Photographer) Joseph Thomson (Africa) Margaret Thomson (Doctor) Robert William Thomson (Tyre) William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Margaret Todd (Doctor/Author) Elizabeth Tollemache of Argyll Saint Triduana (Restalrig) Alexander Trocchi (Novelist) Margaret Tudor (Queen of Scots)

U

Andrew Ure (Doctor) Sir Thomas Urquhart (Author)

V

Queen Victoria

W

General George Wade (Roads) John Walker (Scientist) Sir William Wallace (Braveheart) William Walls (Glasgow) George Watson (Banker) Robert Watson-Watt (Radar) James Watt (Stream Engines) Alexander Webster (Statistician) Tom Weir (Broadcaster) Sir David Wilkie (Painter) William the Lion, William I William of Orange, William III/II King William IV Peter Williamson (Slave) Alexander Wilson (Ornithologist) Walter Wingate (Children's Poet) George Wishart (Martyr) John Witherspoon (US Congress) Sir Andrew Wood (Admiral) Sir James Wylie (Surgeon) Oswald Wynd (Novelist)

Y

James Young (Oil Shale) Sir James Young Simpson (Doctor)