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List of Scots is an incomplete list of notable people from Scotland.

Actors (see also humorists)

Please refer to List of Scottish actors

Architects

Artists

Business

Composers

Engineers and inventors

Further information: Scottish inventors

Explorers

Humorists

Musicians

Please refer to List of Scottish musicians

Philosophers

Photographers

Rulers, politicians, soldiers

Scientists

Please refer to List of Scottish scientists

Sportspeople

See also Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

Television and radio personalities

Theologians

Writers

Please refer to List of Scottish writers

Other notable people

References

1. ^ (1963) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 

See also

Motto
Nemo me impune lacessit   (Latin)
"No one provokes me with impunity"
"Cha togar m'fhearg gun dioladh"   
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  • Ian Bannen (1928–1999)

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Robert Adam (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.

Biography

Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William Adam (1689–1748), a stonemason and architect who was
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William Adam

William Adam, painted 1727 by William Aikman
Personal information
Name William Adam
Nationality Scottish
Birth date October 1689
Birth place Linktown of Abbotshall
(now Kirkcaldy), Fife
Date of death June 24, 1748

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Robert Rowand Anderson (1834 – 1921) was an important Scottish Victorian architect. Anderson trained in the office of George Gilbert Scott in London. He left Scott's office in 1859 and set up his own practice in Edinburgh in 1860.
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For other people with this name, see Edward Calvert.


Edward Calvert (born circa late 1847 – early 1848; died 26 June 1914) was a Scottish domestic architect.
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Charles Cameron (1743-1812) was a Scottish architect who introduced the Adam style into Russian architecture.

Little is known of Cameron's early life in Europe, except for the fact that he studied in Italy and France.
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James Leslie Findlay (30 April 1868 - 19 September 1952) was a Scottish architect and soldier.

James Leslie Findlay was the younger son of John Ritchie Findlay and Susan Leslie. He practiced as an architect in Edinburgh between 1885-1915.
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Ian Gordon Lindsay 29 July 1906 - 28 August 1966 was a Scottish architect.

He was born in Edinburgh in 1906, son of George Herbert Lindsay, distiller and baillie or town councillor. Educated at Malborough and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Robert Stodart Lorimer (1864 - 1929) was a prolific Scottish architect noted for his restoration work on historic houses and castles, and for promotion of the Arts and Crafts style.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868 – December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist who was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland.
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An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a building's construction. The word "architect" (Latin: architectus) derives from the Greek arkhitekton (arkhi (chief) + tekton (builder))")[1]
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Designer is a broad term for a person who designs any of a variety of things. That usually implies the task of creating or of being creative in a particular area of expertise.
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Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (1865–1933) was a Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s.

Born Margaret MacDonald, near Wolverhampton, her father was a colliery manager and engineer.
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Sir Robert Hogg Matthew (1906 - 1975) was a Scottish architect and a leading proponent of modernism.

Biography

Matthew was born and brought up in Edinburgh, and attended the Edinburgh College of Art.
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James Miller (1860-1947) was a Scottish architect and artist.[1] He is noted for his many buildings in Glasgow and for his Scottish railway stations. Among these are the heavily American-influenced Union Bank building at 110-20 St Vincent Street, Glasgow Central railway
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James Playfair (1755 - 1794) was a Scottish architect who worked largely in the Neoclassical tradition. He was born in Benvie near Dundee, where his father was the parish minister. He was the brother of William Playfair the engineer, and the mathematician John Playfair.
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William Henry Playfair (1790-1857) was one of the greatest Scottish architects of the 19th Century. His father James Playfair was also an architect and his uncle was John Playfair the famous scientist.
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David Rhind was a Scottish architect, born in Edinburgh in 1808 to parents John Rhind (a cashier to the Edinburgh Friendly Insurance Company) and his wife Marion Anderson. David Rhind was married twice, to Emily Shoubridge in 1840, then Mary Jane Sackville-Pearson in 1845.
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James Robert Rhind, architect, was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1854 and trained as an architect in his father's local practice.

He was successful in the architectural competition for new libraries to be constructed in Glasgow following Andrew Carnegie’s gift of
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Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA, (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.
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Sir James Frazer Stirling FRIBA (22 April 1926 in Glasgow – 25 June 1992 in London) was among the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20th century.
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Thomas Smith Tait (1882 – 1954) was a prominent Scottish architect.

Born in Paisley, he was educated at the John Neilson Institution, following which he entered apprenticeship as an architect with James Donald in Paisley.
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Alexander “Greek” Thomson (April 9 1817–March 22 1875) was a prominent Glaswegian architect and architectural theorist. Thomson’s work was confined to Glasgow and the Firth of Clyde.
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Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832-98), was a Scottish architect, practising in the Victorian High Gothic revival style. His notable buildings include:

In Edinburgh:
  • Barclay Church 1862-4
  • 38 (Pilkington's own house), and 48-50 Dick Place, 1864

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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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John Amabile (prenounced Am-ab-illy) is a Scottish interior designer. He is best known in Scotland and the UK for his work on many TV shows.

Biography

Born in 1964, John grew up in the Ralston district of Paisley, Renfrewshire.
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Muirhead Bone (23 March, 1876 - 21 October, 1953) was a Scottish etcher, drypoint and watercolour artist.

The son of a printer, Bone was born in Glasgow and trained initially as an architect, later going on to study art at Glasgow School of Art.
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Mark Boyle (May 11, 1934 - May 4, 2005) was an artist born in Glasgow and known for his work in the cultural UK Underground of the 1960s around the Traverse Theatre, and latterly in the Boyle Family projects.
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John Byrne (born January 6, 1940) is a Scottish artist and playwright.

Born a Catholic in Paisley, Byrne grew up in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme and was educated at the town's St Mirin's Academy before attending Glasgow School of Art from 1958 to 1963.
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