Famous Scots & Scottish Achievers
Famous Scots & Scottish Achievers From Virtual Scotland
Below is a comprehensive list of famous Scottish people, if there is somebody who should be included in this list please contact us with the details and we will try to include the ommitted famous Scot.
King Malcolm III - King of Scotland
John McAdam - Road builder
Kenneth MacAlpin - First King of Scotland
Kenneth II - Son of Malcolm I., king of Alban
James McCosh - Scottish philosophical writer
Macbeth - King of Scots
Malcolm MacColl - Scottish clergyman
William McCombie - Scottish agriculturist
Thomas McCrie - Historian and Divine
Horatio MacCulloch - Artist
Hamish MacCunn - Composer
Hugh MacDiarmid - Poet
Flora Macdonald - Jacobite heroine
George Macdonald - Writer
Sir Hector Macdonald - Soldier
Hugh Macdonald - Bishop
John Macdonald - Canadian statesman
Ramsay MacDonald - First Labour Prime Minister
James MacDonell - Scottish journalist
Alestair MacDonnell - Chief of Glengarry
Sorley Boy MacDonnell - Scoto-Irish chieftain
William MacEwen - Pioneer of neurosurgery
Donald Macfarlane - Minister
William MacGillivray - Naturalist
William McGonagall - Poet
Rob Roy Macgregor - Outlaw and adventurer
Charles MacIntosh - Inventor of waterproof materials
Charles Macintosh - Perthshire Naturalist
Charles Mackay - Writer
Hugh Mackay - General
Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Explorer
Alexander Mackenzie - Statesman
Alexander Campbell Mackenzie - Composer
Compton Mackenzie - Writer
Sir George Mackenzie - Scottish lawyer
William Lyon Mackenzie - Politician
Sir James Mackintosh - Publicist
Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Architect, and artist
Charles Maclaren - Editor
Ian Maclaren - Author
Colin Maclaurin - Scottish mathematician
Henry Normand McLaurin - Doctor
Sorley MacLean - Gaelic Poet
Ronald MacLennan - A famous Scottish assassin "The Stormy Petrel"
George MacLeod - Founder of the lona Community
Henry Dunning Macleod - Scottish economist
John MacLeod - Minister
J. J. R. Macleod - Co-discoverer of insulin
Norman Macleod - Scottish divine
William Maclure - Geologist
Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, Publishers
Sir Daniel MacNee - Painter
Hector MacNeill - Scottish poet
James Macpherson - Scottish " translator "
Sir Richard Maitland - Lawyer and Poet
William Maitland - Scottish Statesman
Patrick Manson (1844 - 1922) - A famous Scottish opportunist
St Margaret - Saint and Queen of Scots
David Martin - Portrait Painter
Mary Queen of Scots - Queen of Scots
Patrick Matthew - Natural Philosopher
James Clerk Maxwell - Physicist
Willielma Maxwell - Lady Glenorchy
James McCosh - Scottish philosophical writer
Thomas McCrie - Scottish historian and divine
David McIntyre - A famous Scottish aviation pioneer
Archie McKellar (1912 - 1940) - A not-so-famous Scottish flying ace
Andrew Melville - Religious and academic reformer
Arthur Melville - Painter
Henry Dundas Melville - Statesman
James Melville - Scottish reformer
Sir James Melville - Scottish diplomat
Archibald Menzies - Botanist
Hugh Miller - Geologist
William Miller - Engraver
Robert Moffat - Missionary
Alexander Moncrieff - Seceder
Alexander Montgomerie - Scottish Poet
James Montgomery - Scottish Poet
Marquis of Montrose - Royalist soldier and poet
Tom Morris - Golfer
James Douglas, Earl of Morton - Scottish statesman
John Muir - Ecologist and conservationist
John Muir - Scottish Orientalist
Sir William Muir - Scottish Orientalist
St Mungo - Patron saint of Glasgow
Sir Thomas Munro - Scottish Soldier
Sir Hugh Thomas Munro - A Famous Scottish Mountaineer
Sir Willam Mure - Scottish Writer
William Mure - Scottish classical scholar
Alexander Stuart Murray - Scottish archaeologist
David Murray - Scottish painter
John Murray - Scottish chemist
Lord George Murray - Jacobite commander
Sir Robert Murray - a founder of the Royal Society
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