Artists
- Cosmo Alexander (c. 1724–1772), noted portraitist in the United States
- John Alexander ( -1733), painter and engraver
- David Allan (1744–1796), painter of historical subjects
- Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), etcher
- Mark Boyle (1934–2005)
- Robert Brough (1872–1905), painter
- John Byrne (born 1940)
- James Cadenhead (1858–1927), painter
- George Paul Chalmers (1836–1878), painter
- Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962)
- William (Bill) Crosbie (1915-1999)
- Jack M. Ducker (1890-unknown), painter who specialized in highland landscapes
- Ian Fairweather (1891–1974), Scottish/Australian painter
- Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), sculptor and installation artist
- John Watson Gordon (1788–1864), painter
- James Guthrie (1859–1930), painter
- Joseph Henderson (1832–1908),Scottish landscape painter
- Joseph Morris Henderson (1863–1936),Scottish landscape painter
- George Heriot (1563–1624), Scottish goldsmith, jeweler, and philanthropist
- Peter Howson (born 1958)
- John Kelso Hunter (1802–1873), self-taught portrait painter and author of two books
- Hew Lorimer (1907–1993), sculptor and brother of architect Robert Lorimer
- John Lowrie Morrison (born 1948)
- James McBey (1883–1959) painter, etcher and war artist
- Robert MacBryde (1913–1966)
- Dugald MacColl (1859–1948)
- Mark Flood (born 1996), animator
- Margaret MacDonald (1865–1933), wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- James MacGillivray(1856–1938), sculptor
- David Mach (born 1956), sculptor and installation artist
- William MacTaggart (1903–1981), landscape painter
- R. R. McIan (1803–1856), painter
- William McTaggart (1835–1910), landscape painter
- William Miller(1796–1882), engraver
- Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), landscape painter
- Patrick Nasmyth (1787–1831), landscape painter, son of Alexander
- James Campbell Noble (1846–1913), landscape and marine painter
- John Pettie (1839–1893), painter
- Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), portrait painter
- John Robertson Reid (1851–1926), painter
- Alexander Runciman (1736–1785), painter of historical and mythological subjects
- Archibald Skirving (1749–1819), Scottish portrait painter
- Reverend John Thomson (1778–1840), landscape painter and minister of Duddingston Kirk
- Jack Vettriano (born 1951)
- Alison Watt (1965– ), painter
- David Wilkie (1785–1841), painter
- Christopher Wood (born 1962), contemporary abstract landscape painter
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