Famous Scots
Famous Scots & Scottish Achievers From Virtual Scotland
Throughout history there have been countless famous Scots. The Scottish people are possibly the most widely travelled in the world, it is therefore not uncommon to find that a high achiever in another country is of Scottish birth or Scattish parentage. I have gathered together a large list of famous Scots (and a couple of infamous Scots) from a multitude of sources but one unfortunate fact has hampered my progress - most publications list Scottish achievers as British! This would not be so annoying if it was not for two facts; 1) English achievers are listed as such and 2) most people assume (incorrectly) that British means English.
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.
John Abercrombie - A famous Scottish philosopher
Ralph Abercromby - Army general and reformer
John Adair - Scottish surveyor
Robert Adam - Architect
William Adam - Scottish lawyer and politician
Patrick Adamson - Scottish divine
Robert Adamson - Scottish philosopher
Robert Aitken - Bible Publisher
Alexander Ales - Scottish divine
King Alexander I, II and III - Kings of Scotland
William Lindsay Alexander - Scottish divine
David Allan - Scottish Painter
Archibald Alison - Scottish author
John Anderson - Scientist
Robert Anderson - Scottish author and critic
Earls of Angus - one of the seven original earldoms
Alexander III - King of Scots
George Denholm Armour - Painter
Margot Asquith - Society figure and wit
William Aytoun - Scottish poet
John Baillie of Leys - Professor
Matthew Baillie - Doctor
Robert Baillie - Scottish Divine
Robert Baillie - Scottish conspirator
David Baird - Scottish General
Dugald Baird - Pioneer of maternity and neonatal care
John Logie Baird - Inventor of television
Francis Maitland Balfour - Biologist
Sir James Balfour - Scottish judge
General Nisbet Balfour - Scottish General
Robert Balfour - Scottish philosopher
John de Baliol - King of Scotland
Robert Michael Ballantyne - Scottish writer of fiction
John Barbour - Scottish poet
John Barclay - Founder of the Berean sect
Robert Barclay of Ury - Quaker
J. M. Barrie - Novelist and playwright
Andrew Baxter - Scottish metaphysician
Ethel Baxter - A famous Scottish businesswoman
Sawney Bean - Cannibal
David Beaton - Prelate and Statesman
James Beattie - Poet
James Begg - Minister
Alexander Melville Bell - Educationalist
Alexander Graham Bell - Inventor of the telephone
Andrew Bell - Scottish divine and educationalist
Sir Charles Bell - Scottish anatomist
Henry Bell - Engineer and Pioneer of Steam Navigation
Henry Glassford Bell - Scottish lawyer
George Joseph Bell - Scottish jurist
John Bell - Scottish traveller
John Bell - Scottish anatomist and surgeon
George Bennie - Inventor
Adam Black - Scottish publisher
Joseph Black - Chemist
William Black - Author
John Stuart Blackie - Scottish scholar
Thomas Blacklock - Scottish poet
Thomas Blackwell - Scottish classical scholar
William Blackwood - Publisher
William Garden Blaikie - Scottish divine
Anthony Charles Lynton (Tony) Blair - Middle East Envoy & Former Prime Minister Of Great Britain
Hugh Blair - Scottish Presbyterian divine
James Blair - Divine and educationalist
Robert Blair - Scottish poet
Sir Gilbert Blane - Scottish physician
Horatius Bonar - Scottish Presbyterian divine
Thomas Boston - Scottish Divine
James Hepburn Bothwell - Duke of Orkney and Shetland
John Bradbury - Botanist
James Braid - Golfer
James Braid - Hypnotist
James Braidwood - Mining Engineer
John Broadwood - Piano manufacturer
Samuel Murphy Bodie - Music Hall entertainer
James Boswell - Writer, and biographer
Walter Bower - Scottish chronicler
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Scottish author
Robert Boyd - Scottish statesman
Sir David Brewster - Scottish natural philosopher
Deacon Brodie - Thief
Lord Henry Peter Brougham - Scottish Jurist and Polititian
Alexander Crum Brown - Professor of Chemistry
John Brown - Royal retainer
Robert Brown - Scottish botanist
Thomas Brown - Scottish philosopher
Robert Browne - Brownism
Sir David Bruce - Famous Scottish Physician
James Bruce - Explorer
Robert I, the Bruce - King of Scots
Michael Bruce - Poet
William Bruce - Architect
William Speirs Bruce - Polar explorer
Alexander Buchan - Meteorologist
Elspeth Buchan - Founder of the Buchanites
George Buchanan - Scholar
John Buchan - Writer and statesman
Peter Buchan - Scottish editor
Claudius Buchanan - Scottish divine
Robert Burns - Poet
William Chalmers Burns - Missionary
William Burrell - Shipping magnate
John Caird - Minister
John Cairns - Principal
John Caldwell - Preacher
Richard Cameron - Scottish Covenanter
George Campbell - Scottish theologian
Henry Campbell-Bannerman - Prime Minister
John Campbell - Scottish author
John Francis Campbell - Gaelic scholar
John McLeod Campbell - Scottish divine
John Campbell - First Earl of Loudon
Lewis Campbell - Classical scholar
Thomas Campbell - Scottish poet
Robert Smith Candlish - Scottish divine
Donald Cargill - Scottish Covenanter
Alexander Carlyle - Scottish Divine
Thomas Carlyle - Essayist and historian
Gershom Carmichael - Scottish philosopher
Andrew Carnegie - Industrialist and philanthropist
William Carstares - Scottish clergyman
George Paul Chalmers - Artist
James Chalmers - Missionary
Thomas Chalmers - Founder of the Free Church
Bonnie Prince Charlie - Stuart restoration
Hugh Clapperton - Explorer
Jim Clark - World champion racing driver
William Cleland - Scottish soldier and poet
David Clerk - Doctor
James Clinkskill - Politician
Thomas Cochrane - Naval commander
Alicia Cockburn - Ballad writer
Lord Cockburn - Judge
William Collins - A famous Scottish philanthropic publisher
St. Columba - Missionary to Scotland
John Comyn - Scottish baron
Sean Connery - Actor
Billy Connolly - Comedian, Entertainer, Actor
James Connolly - Rebel leader
George Lillie Craik - Man of Letters
John Craig - Scottish reformer
Sir Thomas Craig - Scottish jurist and poet
Kate Cranston - Tearoom owner
Neill Cream - "The Strychnine Specialist"
James Crichton - Prodigy
A. J. Cronin - Writer
William Cullen - Scottish physician
Alexander Cunningham - The 1st Earl of Glencairn
R. B. Cunninghame Graham - Traveller, writer
David Dale - Industrialist and philanthropist
Robert Dall - Preacher
David Dalrymple - Scottish lawyer
Thomas Dalyell - Soldier
Lord Darnley - Second husband of Mary Queen of Scots
King David I - Scottish Kings
King David II - Scottish King
Thomas Dempster - Scottish scholar
James Dewar - Inventor of the vacuum flask
John Dewar - Spirit merchant and distiller
Robert Dick - Naturalist
Thomas Dick - Scottish writer on astronomy
David Dickson - Minister
Donald Dinnie - Scotland's Greatest Athlete
Sir James Donaldson - Scottish classical scholar
Douglas - Scottish Family Name
Alexander Douglas - Professor of Hebrew
Archibald Douglas - 3rd Earl Of Douglas
Archibald Douglas - 4th Earl of Douglas
Archibald Douglas - 5th Earl of Douglas
Sir Charles Douglas - Admiral
David Douglas - Botanist
Gavin Douglas - Scottish poet
James Douglas - Commander in Wars of Independence
James Douglas - 9th Earl of Douglas
John Douglas - Scottish man of letters
Norman Douglas - Scottish writer
William Douglas - First Lord Douglas
William Douglas - First Earl of Douglas
Sir Hugh Dowding - Air Chief Marshall
Arthur Conan Doyle - Scottish Writer
Henry Drummond - Scottish evangelical writer
Thomas Drummond - Inventor and administrator
William Drummond - Poet
Alexander Duff - Scottish missionary
William Dunbar - Poet
Adam Duncan - Naval commander
Henry Duncan - Clergyman
King Duncan I - Scottish King
King Duncan II - Scottish King
Thomas Duncan - Scottish portrait painter
Viscount Dundee - Royalist commander
John Dunlop - Inventor of the pneumatic tyre
Duns Scotus - Philosopher and theologian
Thomas Edward - Natural Historian
Ebenezer Erskine - Scottish divine
Henry Erskine - Lord advocate of Scotland
John Erskine - Scottish Divine
John Erskine of Carnock - Scottish jurist
John Erskine of Dun - Scottish reformer
Ralph Erskine - Scottish divine
Thomas Erskine of Linlathen - Scottish theologian
Thomas Erskine - Lord chancellor
Andrew Martin Fairbairn - Nonconformist divine
Sir William Fairbairn - Scottish engineer
Adam Ferguson - Scottish philosopher and historian
James Ferguson - Scottish astronomer
Robert Ferguson - Conspirator and pamphleteer
James Fergusson - Scottish writer on architecture
Robert Fergusson - Scottish poet
Sir William Fergusson - Surgeon
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier - Scottish novelist
Saint Fillan - Scottish Saint
Andrew Findlater - Scottish editor
John Ritchie Findlay - Scottish newspaper owner
Andrew Fisher - A famous Scottish political visionary
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrator
Alexander Fleming - Discoverer of pennicillin
Sir Sandford Fleming - Engineer and publicist
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun - Scottish politician
Robert Flint - Scottish divine
Alexander Forbes - Explorer
Archibald Forbes - War correspondent
Bertie Charles Forbes - A famous Scottish magazine magnate
Duncan Forbes of Culloden - Scottish Statesman
James David Forbes - Scottish Physicist
Sir John Forbes - Scottish physician
Patrick Forbes - Laird of Corse of Aberdeenshire
Bill Forsyth - Film-maker
Andrew and Robert Foulis - Printers and publishers
David Fowler - Businessman
William Fowler - Scottish poet
Alexander Campbell Fraser - Scottish philosopher
James Baillie Fraser - Traveller and author
Peter Fraser - Scottish born politician
James Frazier - Anthropologist
John Galt - Scottish Novelist
John Gau - Scottish translator
William Ged - Inventor of stereotyping
Andrew Geddes - Scottish painter
James Lorraine Geddes - Soldier and writer
John Geddes - Bishop
Sir Archibald Geikie - Scottish Geologist
James Geikie - Scottish Geologist
Walter Geikie - Scottish painter
George Gilfillan - Scottish author
Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Writer
James Gibbs - Architect
John Gillies - Scottish historian and scholar
St Giles - [Egidius
Thomas Gillespie - Minister
George Glas - Scottish seaman
John Glas - Sandemanian
Hugh Glass - Fur Trader
Sir John Goodsir - Scottish anatomist
Alexander Gordon - Scottish antiquary
George Hamilton Gordon - Prime Minister
Sir John Watson Gordon - Scottish painter
Alexander Gosman - Professor
Neil Gow - Fiddler
John Ruthven Gowrie - Scottish conspirator
James Graham - Marquess of Montrose
Thomas Graham - Scottish chemist
James Grahame - Scottish poet
Kenneth Grahame - Scottish Writer
Anne Grant - Scottish writer
Charles Grant - Politician
Duncan Grant - Painter
Sir Francis Grant - Portrait-painter
James Grant - Novelist
James Augustus Grant - Scottish explorer
Sir James Hope Grant - General
Sir Patrick Grant - Field marshal
Robert Grant - Astronomer
David Gray - Poet
Sir Patrick Gray - 6th Baron
John Grierson - Film-maker
William Guild - Theologian
Douglas Haig - First World War commander
Jane Haining - A missionary who died at Aushwitz
Alexander Chinnery-Haldane - Minister
James and Robert Haldane - Evangelists
John Hamilton - Scottish prelate
Patrick Hamilton - Lutheran martyr
Robert Hamilton - Scottish economist
Thomas Hamilton - Scottish writer
Sir William Hamilton - Scottish metaphysician
William Hamilton - Scottish poet
Keir Hardie - Socialist and labour leader
Sir George Harvey - Scottish Painter
George Hay - Bishop
Francis Hay - 9th Earl of Errol
Sir Gilbert Hay of Erroll - Patriot
Matthew Forster Heddle - Scottish mineralogist
Alexander Henderson - Scottish ecclesiastic
Arthur Henderson - Scottish Politician
Ebenezer Henderson - Scottish divine
Hamish Henderson - Songwriter
John Murdoch Henderson - Collector
Thomas Henderson - Astronomer
Robert Henryson - Scottish Poet
John Hepburn - Founder and leader of the Hebronites
Sir John Hepburn - Scottish Soldier
David Octavius Hill - Painter and photographer
Sir Roger Hog - Lord of Session
James Hogg - Poet
Richard Holland - Scottish Writer
Alexander Home - 1st earl of Home
Daniel Home - Scottish spiritualist
John Home - Scottish dramatic poet
John Hope - Writer to the Signet
David Hume - Philosopher
John Hunter - Minister
John Hunter - Anatomist
William Hunter - Anatomist
Francis Hutcheson - Philosopher
James Hutton - Founder of modern geological science
Elsie Inglis - Medical reformer and suffragette
John Inglis - Lord Glencorse
John of Ireland - Scottish Writer
Edward Irving - Pentecostalist
David Jack - Benefactor
David Jacks - Benefactor
King James I, II, III, IV, V, VI, - Kings of Scotland
King James I - King of Scotland
King James II - King of Scotland
King James III - King of Scotland
King James IV - King of Scotland
King James V - King of Scotland
King James VI - King of Scotland
George Jameson - Painter
Leander Starr Jameson - Colonial statesman
Francis Jamieson - Musician and Athlete
John Jamieson - Scottish lexicographer
William Jardine (1784 - 1843) - A famous Scottish trader and M.P.
Charles Fleeming Henry Jenkins - Engineer
Alexander Keith Johnston - Scottish geographer
Arthur Johnston - Scottish physician
Robert Johnston - Historian
Alexander Jolly - Bishop of Moray
John Paul Jones - Hero of War of American Independence
Captain Keay - Mariner
Francis Edward James Keith - Scottish soldier
George Keith - Scottish divine
George Keith - Viscount Elphinstone
Sir John Scott Keltie - Scottish Geographer
Thomas Francis Kennedy - Scottish politician
Walter Kennedy - Scottish Poet
Captain Kidd - Pirate, adventurer and merchant
Sir John Kirk - Naturalist
Sir William Kirkcaldy - Of Grange
John Knox - Protestant reformer
Robert Knox - Anatomist
William Laidlaw - Friend of Sir Walter Scott
Alexander Gordon Laing - Scottish explorer
David Laing - Scottish antiquary
Malcolm Laing - Scottish historian
Samuel Laing - Scottish author and railway administrator
MacGregor Laird - Scottish merchant pioneer
Harry Lauder - Entertainer
Sir Thomas Lauder - Scottish Author
William Lauder - Scottish literary forger
John Law - Scottish economist
Robert Lee - Scoto-Catholic
Robert Leighton - Minister
Alexander Leslie - Scottish General
David Leslie - Scottish General
John Lesley - Scottish bishop and historian
Sir John Leslie - Scottish Mathematician and Physicist
Eric Liddell - Athlete and missionary
Robert Lindesay - Scottish historian
David Lindsay - Scottish Poet
Sir Thomas Lipton - Scottish merchant
Robert Liston - Scottish surgeon
William Lithgow - Scottish traveller and writer
Clement Litill - Advocate
David Livingstone - Missionary and explorer
George Lockhart - Scottish writer and politician
John Gibson Lockhart - Scottish writer and editor
Sir William Lockhart - General
John Logan - Scottish poet
Robert Lorimer - Architect
John Campbell Loudoun - Scottish politician
David Lyndsay - Poet and playwright
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 - 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 - 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 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
James Nairn - Librarian
Lady Nairne - Songwriter
John Napier - Discoverer of logarithms
Alexander Nasmyth - Painter
James Nasmyth - Scottish engineer
St Ninian - Missionary and saint
St John Ogilvie - Catholic martyr
Margaret Oliphant - Writer
John Boyd Orr - Nutritionist
Mungo Park - Explorer
Willie Park - Golfer
Robert Paterson - Scottish stone-mason
William Paterson - Founder of the Bank of England
Sir Joseph Paton - Scottish Painter
John Phillip - Scottish Painter
Allan Pinkerton - Founded Pinkerton Detective Agency
John Pinkerton - Scottish archaeologist
Archibald Pitcairne - Scottish physician
John Playfair - Scottish mathematician
Robert Pont - Scottish reformer
John Pringle - Doctor
Duke of Queensberry - Rake
John Rae - Scottish Arctic explorer
Henry Raeburn - Artist
Allan Ramsay - Scottish poet
Allan Ramsay - Artist
Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay - Scottish geologist
Andrew Michael Ramsay - writer
Robert Ramsay - Australian statesman
Sir William Ramsay - Chemist
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay - Archaeologist
Thomas Randolph - First Earl of Moray
William John MacQuorn Rankine - Scottish engineer
Sir George Reid - Scottish artist
Sir Robert Gillespie Reid - Canadian railway contractor
Thomas Reid - Scottish philosopher
Sir William Reid - Scottish administrator
John Rennie - Scottish engineer
James Renwick - Scottish covenanting leader
John Richardson - Businessman
Charles Thomson Ritchie - Politician
David George Ritchie - Scottish philosopher
Robert I, the Bruce - King of Scots
King Robert II and III - Scottish Kings
David Roberts - Scottish painter
Douglas Argyll Roberston - Surgeon
George Croom Robertson - Scottish philosopher
Joseph Robertson - Scottish antiquary
William Robertson - Scottish historian
William Bruce Robertson - Scottish divine
James Robertson-Justice - Actor
John Robison - Professor of Natural Philosophy
Captain Alexander Rodger - Mariner
Thomas Rodger - Photographer
Alexander Ross - Scottish Poet
Sir John Ross - Arctic explorer
John Clunies Ross - King of the Cocos Islands
John Ruthven - 3rd Earl of Gowrie
Alexander Scott - Poet
David Scott - Painter
Michael Scott - Wizard
Michael Scott - Author
Walter Scott - Writer
William Bell Scott - Poet and artist
Alexander Selkirk - Castaway/Robinson Crusoe
Thomas Douglas - 5th Earl of Selkirk
Patrick Sellar - Sutherland factor during the Clearances
William Young Sellar - Scottish classical scholar
James Sempill - Scottish poet
Robert Sempill - Scottish poet
Sir Robert Sibbald - Scottish physician and antiquary
James Young Simpson - Pioneer of anaesthesia
Sir John Sinclair - Writer on Finance
Robert Simson - Sheep Farmer
William Simson - Painter
William Forbes Skene - Scottish historian
J. Scott Skinner - Dancer
Mary Slessor - Missionary
Samuel Smiles - Social reformer
Adam Smith - Economist and philosopher
Adam George Smith - Scottish divine
Alexander Smith - Poet
Colvin Smith - Scottish portrait-painter
George Smith - Whisky distiller
Madeleine Smith - Alleged poisoner
William Robertson Smith - Scottish philologist
Sir William Alexander Smith - Founder of the Boy's Brigade
Tobias Smollett - Writer
John Snell - Founder of the Snell exhibitions
John Spottiswoode - Archbishop of St Andrews
The Stevenson Family - Engineers
Robert Louis Stevenson - Writer
Balfour Stewart - Scottish physicist
Sir Donald Martin Stewart - British field marshal
Dugald Stewart - Scottish philosopher
William Stewart - Scottish poet and translator
Sir William Stewart - Scottish politician
James Stirling - Scottish mathematician
James Hutchison Stirling - Philosopher
William Stirling-Maxwell - Scottish man of letters
Robert Herbert Story - Scottish divine
Sir Robert Strange - Scottish line engraver
Robert Tannahill - Poet and weaver
Thomas Telford - Engineer
Charles Tennant - Chemist
William Tennant - Poet
Thomas the Rhymer - Poet and seer
Alexander ' Greek ' Thomson - Architect
Joseph Thomson - Scottish explorer
Thomas Thomson - Scottish chemist
Sir James Turner - Scottish soldier
Alexander Fraser Tytler - Scottish judge
Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scottish historian
William Tytler - Scottish historian
David Urquhart - Diplomat
Sir Thomas Urquhart - Author
William Wallace - Patriot
Elizabeth Wardlaw - Scottish Author
Archibald Johnston Warriston - Scottish judge
Captain John Watson - Whaler
Robert Watson-Watt - Pioneer of radar
James Watt - Pioneer of the steam engine
Nora Wattie - Pioneer in social medicine
John Wedderburn - Religious Reformer
Jane Whyte - Heroine
John Willock - Scottish reformer
Sir Daniel Wilson - Archaeologist
George Washington Wilson - Photographer
James Wilson - Administrator
James Wilson - Statesman and jurist
John Wilson - Scottish writer "Christopher North."
John Witherspoon - Divine and educationalist
Robert Wodrow - Scottish historian
Sir Andrew Woods - Scottish admiral
Sir James Wylie - Surgeon
James Young - Discoverer of paraffin