Notable People
King James V was born in Linlithgow Palace.
Mary, Queen of Scots, was born and christened in Linlithgow.
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray was assassinated in the town in 1570.
A monument on the ridge 2 km north of the town commemorates the Hon. Adrian Hope, killed in the Indian Mutiny in 1858, ancestor of the current Adrian Hope, 4th Marquess of Linlithgow
Sir Charles Wyville Thomson FRS FRSE FLS FGS FZS, natural istorian and marine zoologist and chief scientist on the Challenger Expedition
Linlithgow was the birthplace and childhood home of the current First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond.
In September 2007, a plaque and exhibition commemorating the fictional Star Trek character Scotty, the Enterprise's chief engineer, who will be born in Linlithgow in 2222.
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