| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edward Abbey |
Author |
29-Jan-1927 |
14-Mar-1989 |
Desert Solitaire |
| Ralph Abercromby |
Military |
7-Oct-1734 |
28-Mar-1801 |
British general |
| Robert Adam |
Architect |
3-Jul-1728 |
3-Mar-1792 |
Scottish Neoclassical architect |
| Mark Akenside |
Poet |
9-Nov-1721 |
23-Jun-1770 |
The Pleasures of the Imagination |
| Douglas Alexander |
Politician |
26-Oct-1967 |
|
British MP, Paisley and Renfrewshire South |
| Jane Alexander |
Actor |
28-Oct-1939 |
|
The Ring |
| John Anderson |
Politician |
8-Jul-1882 |
4-Jan-1958 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1943-45 |
| Tommy Armour |
Golf |
24-Sep-1894 |
12-Sep-1968 |
Winner of 3 Majors |
| Maria Bamford |
Comic |
3-Sep-1970 |
|
Comedians of Comedy |
| Hastings Banda |
Head of State |
1898 |
25-Nov-1997 |
First President of Malawi |
| J. M. Barrie |
Author |
9-May-1860 |
19-Jun-1937 |
Peter Pan |
| Thomas Bayes |
Mathematician |
1701 |
7-Apr-1761 |
Bayes' theorem |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor |
3-Mar-1847 |
2-Aug-1922 |
Inventor of the telephone |
| Sir Charles Bell |
Doctor |
Nov-1774 |
28-Apr-1842 |
New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain |
| Eugene Carson Blake |
Religion |
7-Nov-1906 |
31-Jul-1985 |
General Secretary, World Council of Churches, 1966-74 |
| James Boswell |
Author |
29-Oct-1740 |
19-May-1795 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson |
| George Mackay Brown |
Poet |
17-Oct-1921 |
13-Apr-1996 |
Time in a Red Coat |
| Gordon Brown |
Politician |
20-Feb-1951 |
|
UK Prime Minister, 2007-10 |
| Robert Brown |
Botanist |
21-Dec-1773 |
10-Jun-1858 |
Brownian motion |
| Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Astronomer |
15-Jul-1943 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
| Thomas Carlyle |
Historian |
4-Dec-1795 |
5-Feb-1881 |
The French Revolution |
| Thomas Chalmers |
Religion |
17-Mar-1780 |
30-May-1847 |
Free Church of Scotland |
| Ian Charleson |
Actor |
11-Aug-1949 |
6-Jan-1990 |
Chariots of Fire |
| Bruce Chatwin |
Author |
13-May-1940 |
18-Jan-1989 |
In Patagonia |
| William Cochran |
Physicist |
30-Jul-1922 |
28-Aug-2003 |
Crystallography |
| Cadwallader Colden |
Physicist |
7-Feb-1689 |
20-Sep-1776 |
Colonial scientist and statesman |
| Ralph Connor |
Author |
13-Sep-1860 |
31-Oct-1937 |
Canadian pulp author, Black Rock |
| Benjamin Constant |
Politician |
25-Oct-1767 |
8-Dec-1830 |
French political thinker |
| Robin Cook |
Politician |
28-Feb-1946 |
6-Aug-2005 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1997-2001 |
| Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
| Thomas Davidson |
Paleontologist |
17-May-1817 |
14-Oct-1885 |
British Fossil Brachiopoda |
| John William Dawson |
Geologist |
30-Oct-1820 |
20-Nov-1899 |
Air Breathers of the Coal Period |
| James Dewar |
Physicist |
20-Sep-1842 |
27-Mar-1923 |
Researcher of low temperatures |
| Peter C. Doherty |
Scientist |
15-Oct-1940 |
|
T-cells and antigens |
| James Donald |
Actor |
18-May-1917 |
3-Aug-1993 |
Third Man on the Mountain |
| Arthur Conan Doyle |
Novelist |
22-May-1859 |
7-Jul-1930 |
Creator of Sherlock Holmes |
| Robert G. Edwards |
Scientist |
27-Sep-1925 |
10-Apr-2013 |
In vitro fertilization |
| Edwin Feulner |
Activist |
12-Aug-1941 |
|
Heritage Foundation founder |
| James Finlayson |
Actor |
27-Aug-1887 |
9-Oct-1953 |
D'oh! |
| Henry FitzRoy |
Aristocrat |
6-Apr-1978 |
|
12th Duke of Grafton |
| Edward Forbes |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1815 |
18-Nov-1854 |
History of British Mollusca |
| John Fowles |
Novelist |
31-Mar-1926 |
5-Nov-2005 |
The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| Peter Fraser |
Politician |
29-May-1945 |
23-Jun-2013 |
Baron Fraser of Carmyllie |
| T. R. Fraser |
Scientist |
5-Feb-1841 |
4-Jan-1920 |
Made poison and venom into medicine |
| Klaus Fuchs |
Spy |
29-Dec-1911 |
28-Jan-1988 |
Manhattan Project scientist, spy for USSR |
| Robert Garioch |
Poet |
9-May-1909 |
26-Apr-1981 |
Scots dialect poet |
| Reuel Marc Gerecht |
Government |
? |
|
PNAC Middle East Initiative |
| John Gilmour |
Politician |
27-May-1876 |
30-Mar-1940 |
UK Home Secretary, 1932-35 |
| Oliver Goldsmith |
Author |
10-Nov-1730 |
4-Apr-1774 |
The Vicar of Wakefield |
| Hugh Grant |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Monsanto |
| Mark Haddon |
Author |
1962 |
|
The Curious Incident |
| John Scott Haldane |
Doctor |
3-May-1860 |
14-Mar-1936 |
Breathing regulated by CO2 |
| Richard Burdon Haldane |
Government |
30-Jul-1856 |
19-Aug-1928 |
Lord Chancellor, 1912-15 and 1924 |
| Marshall Hall |
Doctor |
18-Feb-1790 |
11-Aug-1857 |
Theory of reflex action |
| William Snow Harris |
Physicist |
1-Apr-1791 |
22-Jan-1867 |
Invented a lightning rod for ships |
| Tony Hayward |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of BP, 2007-10 |
| William Henry |
Chemist |
12-Dec-1775 |
2-Sep-1836 |
Henry's Law |
| Carole Hillenbrand |
Historian |
1943 |
|
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives |
| John Home |
Playwright |
21-Sep-1722 |
5-Sep-1808 |
Douglas |
| Francis Horner |
Economist |
12-Aug-1778 |
8-Feb-1817 |
Bullion Report |
| Leonard Horner |
Geologist |
17-Jan-1785 |
5-Mar-1864 |
Scottish geologist, educator |
| David Hume |
Philosopher |
7-May-1711 |
25-Aug-1776 |
Empiricist nonpareil |
| James Hutton |
Geologist |
3-Jun-1726 |
26-Mar-1797 |
Theory of the Earth |
| Edward Irving |
Religion |
4-Aug-1792 |
7-Dec-1834 |
Holy Catholic Apostolic Church |
| Sir James Ivory |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1765 |
21-Sep-1842 |
Ivory's Theorem |
| Kristina M. Johnson |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
Provost of Johns Hopkins University |
| Russell Johnston |
Politician |
28-Jul-1932 |
27-Jul-2008 |
Liberal MP from Inverness, 1964-97 |
| Stephen Jones |
Biologist |
24-Mar-1944 |
|
Geneticist and pop science writer |
| George Kelly |
Psychologist |
28-Apr-1905 |
6-Mar-1967 |
Personal Construct Theory of personality |
| Tom Kibble |
Mathematician |
23-Dec-1932 |
2-Jun-2016 |
Zurek-Kibble theory |
| Jonathan K. C. Knowles |
Business |
? |
|
Director of Research at Roche |
| Alexander Gordon Laing |
Explorer |
27-Dec-1793 |
26-Sep-1826 |
Explorer killed returning from Timbuktu |
| Robert Leighton |
Religion |
1611 |
25-Jun-1684 |
Archbishop of Glasgow |
| Eric Liddell |
Track and Field |
16-Jan-1902 |
21-Feb-1945 |
The Flying Scotsman |
| Bridget A. Macaskill |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Oppenheimer Funds, 1995-2001 |
| Hugh MacDiarmid |
Poet |
11-Aug-1892 |
9-Sep-1978 |
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle |
| Angus Macfadyen |
Actor |
21-Sep-1963 |
|
Braveheart |
| Robert Morrison MacIver |
Sociologist |
17-Apr-1882 |
15-Jun-1970 |
The Web of Government |
| Arthur Marwick |
Historian |
29-Feb-1936 |
17-Sep-2006 |
The Deluge |
| James Clerk Maxwell |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1831 |
5-Nov-1879 |
Maxwell's equations |
| Dave McCurdy |
Politician |
30-Mar-1950 |
|
Congressman from Oklahoma, 1981-95 |
| Ephraim McDowell |
Doctor |
11-Nov-1771 |
25-Jun-1830 |
Performed the first ovariotomy |
| Pippa Middleton |
Socialite |
6-Sep-1983 |
|
Sister of Kate Middleton |
| James Mill |
Philosopher |
6-Apr-1773 |
23-Jun-1836 |
History of India |
| James A. Mirrlees |
Economist |
5-Jul-1936 |
|
Asymmetric information in economics |
| Bill Moyers |
Journalist |
5-Jun-1934 |
|
NOW with Bill Moyers |
| Hermann J. Muller |
Scientist |
21-Dec-1890 |
5-Apr-1967 |
Genetic effects of radiation |
| Ian Nish |
Scholar |
3-Jun-1926 |
|
Japanese Foreign Policy specialist |
| Sir Richard Owen |
Naturalist |
20-Jul-1804 |
18-Dec-1892 |
A History of British Fossil Reptiles |
| Mungo Park |
Explorer |
10-Sep-1771 |
1806 |
Scottish explorer of the Niger |
| Kevin P. Phillips |
Pundit |
30-Nov-1940 |
|
Political commentator |
| Philip Syng Physick |
Doctor |
7-Jul-1768 |
15-Dec-1837 |
Father of American surgery |
| David E. I. Pyott |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Allergan |
| Jack N. Rakove |
Historian |
4-Jun-1947 |
|
Original Meanings |
| Malcolm Rifkind |
Politician |
21-Jun-1946 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1995-97 |
| Peter J. Robertson |
Business |
1947 |
|
Vice Chairman of Chevron |
| Peter Mark Roget |
Author |
18-Jan-1779 |
12-Sep-1869 |
Roget's Thesaurus |
| Elmo Roper |
Business |
31-Jul-1900 |
30-Apr-1971 |
American pollster |
| Benjamin Rush |
Politician |
4-Jan-1746 |
19-Apr-1813 |
Signed Declaration of Independence |
| Sir Robert Sibbald |
Doctor |
15-Apr-1641 |
Aug-1722 |
Scottish physician and antiquary |
| Ike Skelton |
Politician |
20-Dec-1931 |
28-Oct-2013 |
Congressman from Missouri, 1977-2011 |
| David Steel |
Politician |
31-Mar-1938 |
|
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1976-88 |
| Robert Stephenson |
Engineer |
16-Oct-1803 |
12-Oct-1859 |
Builder of railroad bridges |
| Robert Stevenson |
Engineer |
8-Jun-1772 |
12-Jul-1850 |
Scottish lighthouse designer |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
Author |
13-Nov-1850 |
3-Dec-1894 |
Treasure Island |
| Balfour Stewart |
Physicist |
1-Nov-1828 |
19-Dec-1887 |
Studied magnetism, radiant heat |
| James Syme |
Doctor |
7-Nov-1799 |
26-Jun-1870 |
Leading Scottish surgeon |
| Mike Synar |
Politician |
17-Oct-1950 |
9-Jan-1996 |
Congressman from Oklahoma, 1979-95 |
| Peter Guthrie Tait |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1831 |
4-Jul-1901 |
Treatise on Quaternions |
| Igor Y. Tamm |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1895 |
12-Apr-1971 |
Cherenkov radiation |
| D'Arcy Thompson |
Biologist |
2-May-1860 |
21-Jun-1948 |
On Growth and Form |
| William Thornton |
Architect |
20-May-1759 |
28-Mar-1828 |
First architect of the US Capitol |
| Charles Tupper |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1821 |
30-Oct-1915 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1896 |
| Immanuel Velikovsky |
Author |
10-Jun-1895 |
17-Nov-1979 |
Worlds in Collision |
| Vincent du Vigneaud |
Chemist |
18-May-1901 |
11-Dec-1978 |
Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin |
| William Walker |
Military |
8-May-1824 |
12-Sep-1860 |
American "filibuster" |
| Robert Willan |
Doctor |
12-Nov-1757 |
17-Apr-1812 |
Dermatologist, On cutaneous diseases |
| James Wilson |
Judge |
14-Sep-1742 |
28-Aug-1798 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1789-98 |
| Thomas Young |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1773 |
10-May-1829 |
Wave Theory of Light |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charles Glover Barkla |
Physicist |
7-Jun-1877 |
23-Oct-1944 |
X-ray scattering |
| Sir Charles Bell |
Doctor |
Nov-1774 |
28-Apr-1842 |
New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain |
| Ludwig Biermann |
Astronomer |
13-Mar-1907 |
12-Jan-1986 |
Solar winds |
| Max Born |
Physicist |
11-Dec-1882 |
5-Jan-1970 |
Pioneer of quantum mechanics |
| Kenneth E. Boulding |
Economist |
18-Jan-1910 |
18-Mar-1993 |
The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society |
| Gordon Childe |
Archaeologist |
14-Apr-1892 |
19-Oct-1957 |
The Dawn of European Civilisation |
| A. J. Clark |
Scientist |
19-Aug-1885 |
30-Jul-1941 |
Drug responses |
| William Cochran |
Physicist |
30-Jul-1922 |
28-Aug-2003 |
Crystallography |
| Edward Forbes |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1815 |
18-Nov-1854 |
History of British Mollusca |
| T. R. Fraser |
Scientist |
5-Feb-1841 |
4-Jan-1920 |
Made poison and venom into medicine |
| John H. Gaddum |
Scientist |
31-Mar-1900 |
30-Jun-1965 |
Drug antagonism |
| Richard Gregory |
Psychologist |
24-Jul-1923 |
17-May-2010 |
Optical illusions and "hands-on" science |
| Peter Higgs |
Physicist |
29-May-1929 |
|
Higgs boson and Higgs field |
| Carole Hillenbrand |
Historian |
1943 |
|
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives |
| Arthur Holmes |
Geologist |
14-Jan-1890 |
20-Sep-1965 |
Father of the geological timescale |
| Thomas Henry Huxley |
Scientist |
24-May-1825 |
29-Jun-1895 |
Debated Wilberforce over evolution |
| Nicholas Kemmer |
Physicist |
7-Dec-1911 |
21-Oct-1998 |
Nuclear weapons and reactors |
| Robert Leighton |
Religion |
1611 |
25-Jun-1684 |
Archbishop of Glasgow |
| Peter Mitchell |
Chemist |
29-Sep-1920 |
10-Apr-1992 |
ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondria |
| Arthur Pickard-Cambridge |
Scholar |
20-Jan-1873 |
7-Feb-1952 |
Dithyramb: Tragedy and Comedy |
| John Playfair |
Mathematician |
10-Mar-1748 |
20-Jul-1819 |
Huttonian Theory of the Earth |
| Joseph Rotblat |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1908 |
31-Aug-2005 |
Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist |
| George Saintsbury |
Critic |
23-Oct-1845 |
28-Jan-1933 |
A History of Criticism |
| Sir Robert Sibbald |
Doctor |
15-Apr-1641 |
Aug-1722 |
Scottish physician and antiquary |
| Alastair Sim |
Actor |
9-Oct-1900 |
19-Aug-1976 |
Scrooge in A Christmas Carol |
| Peter Guthrie Tait |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1831 |
4-Jul-1901 |
Treatise on Quaternions |
| Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nucleic acid, nucleotides |
