Arts
- John Stephen - Fashion designer - (King of Carnaby St)
- Gray O'Brien - actor (Coronation Street)
- John Amabile - Interior designer and television presenter
- Freddie Anderson - Writer
- John Barrowman- Singer and Actor (The Producers, Torchwood)
- Sean Biggerstaff - Actor (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
- Morris Blythman - Poet (nom de plume was Thurso Berwick)
- Billy Boyd - Actor (The Lord of the Rings)
- Frankie Boyle - Comedian
- James Bridie - Writer
- Gerard Butler - Actor (300, The Phantom of the Opera)
- Graeme Campbell - Musician
- Peter Capaldi - Actor (The Thick of It, In The Loop)
- Robert Carlyle - Actor (Trainspotting, The World Is Not Enough)
- James Carroll - Professional ring piece to the stars
- Catherine Carswell - Writer
- Robbie Coltrane - Actor (Harry Potter, Cracker)
- Billy Connolly - Comedian (The Man Who Sued God)
- A. J. Cronin - Doctor, Writer
- Tony Curran - Actor (Underworld: Evolution)
- Henry Ian Cusick - Actor (Lost, The Gospel of John, Half Light, 24)
- Ivor Cutler - Poet, songwriter, humourist
- Donald Dewar - Politician
- Paul Rodger - Astronaut
- Donovan - Folk Singer
- Lawrence Donegan - Journalist, Author
- Patrick Doyle - Film composer
- Craig Ferguson- Comedian, Actor, Writer, Director
- Niall Ferguson - Historian, Writer
- Gregor Fisher - Comedian
- Tommy Flanagan - Actor
- Bill Forsyth - Film director
- Hannah Frank - Artist and Sculptor
- Laura Fraser- Actress
- Rikki Fulton - Comedian
- George Galloway - Politician
- John Glashan - Cartoonist
- Janey Godley- Comedian and writer
- Alasdair Gray - Novelist
- Clare Grogan - Singer, Actress, TV presenter
- David Hamilton - Architect
- John Hannah - Actor
- Johann Hari - Journalist and playwright
- Sarah Heaney - TV presenter
- Janey Godley - Comedian and physical abuse victim
- Greg Hemphill - Actor
- Jack House - Writer
- Pearse Hutchinson - Poet
- Lorraine Kelly - Television presenter
- James Kelman - Novelist
- Ford Kiernan - Actor
- Tom Leonard - Poet
- Gary Lewis - Actor
- Liz Lochhead - Poet, Playwright
- Angus MacFadyen - Actor
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Architect and Designer
- Peter May - Writer
- James McAvoy - Actor
- David McCallum - Actor
- David McCallum, Sr. - Concertmaster violinist and father of David McCallum
- Rory McCann - Actor
- Brian McCardie - Actor
- Kelly MacDonald - Actor - (Trainspotting, Boardwalk Empire)
- Helen Marnie - Singer - Ladytron
- Tom McGee - Editor, Publisher BGH
- Mark Millar - Comic Book Author
- Edwin Morgan - Poet and Translator
- Grant Morrison - Comic Book Author
- Bud Neill - Cartoonist (Lobey Dosser)
- David O'Hara - Actor
- Frank Quitely - Comic Book Artist
- Edward Rainey - Tetraplegic painter
- Shantha Roberts - Television presenter
- Tony Roper - Actor, television writer, & Author
- Maurice Roëves - Actor
- Suhayl Saadi - Physician, novelist, playwright, anthologist and co-editor of A Fictional Guide to Scotland
- Jerry Sadowitz - Comedian and Magician
- John Gordon Sinclair - Actor
- Jimmy Somerville - Singer
- Sharleen Spiteri - Singer
- Dawn Steele - Actress
- May Miles Thomas - Screenwriter, Filmmaker
- Alexander "Greek" Thomson - Architect
- Nigel Tranter - Historian, Writer
- Elaine C Smith- Comedian
- Midge Ure - Rock Singer
- Jack Webster - Journalist
- Angus Young - Rock Guitarist
- Malcolm Young - Rock Guitarist
- George Young - Rock Guitarist
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“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”
—William Morris (1834–1896)
“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)