Other Notable People
- Andrew Bell (1753–1832), developer of the Madras system of education
- Charles Cameron Scottish Magician (1927–2001), godfather of bizarre magic.
- Alexander Donaldson, appellant in the copyright case, Donaldson v Beckett; founder/publisher of the Edinburgh Advertiser
- James Donaldson, publisher of the Edinburgh Advertiser; founder of Donaldson's Hospital
- Bill Douglas (1934–1991), film director
- Helen Duncan (1897–1956), last woman to be tried under the Witchcraft Act
- Donald Findlay (born 1951)
- Alexander Kinloch Forbes (1821–1865) scholar of the Gujarati language
- Sir Andrew Gilchrist (1910–1993) diplomat
- John George Govan (1861–1927), founder of the Faith Mission
- Angelica Gray (born 1990), Model
- Amanda Hendrick (born 1990), Model
- Kirsty Hume (born 1976), Model
- Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), medical reformer and suffragette
- William Irvine (1863–1947), evangelist and founder of the Cooneyite and Two by Two sects
- Christopher Kane, Fashion designer
- Princess Kaiulani Cleghorn of Hawaii (1876–1899), Daughter of Archibald Cleghorn and Princess Miriam Likelike (sister of Queen Lili'iuokalani)
- Captain Kidd (1645–1701), pirate
- Mary Lyon (1797–1849) First Woman Principal in America
- Flora MacDonald (1722–1790), Jacobite and United Empire Loyalist
- William Miller Macmillan, leading scholar of the liberal South African historiography that emerged in the 1920s and started diminishing in the 1970s
- Jamie Macpherson (1675–1700), outlaw and author of MacPherson's Lament or Rant
- Kate and Gerry McCann, Parents of Madeleine McCann (both born 1967)
- Gary McKinnon (born 1966), Computer hacker
- James Murdoch (1856–1921) Journalist and Teacher
- Natalie Pike (born 1983), Model
- Duncan Phyfe (1768–1854) A foremost cabinetmaker in the USA
- Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), North American detective
- John Charles Walsham Reith (1889–1971), First Director General of the BBC
- Jonathan Saunders, Fashion designer
- Alexander Selkirk (1676–1723), Inspiration for Robinson Crusoe
- Mary Slessor (1848–1915), missionary and advocate for women's rights
- James Small, last laird of Dirnanean
- Stella Tennant (born 1970), model
- Betty Miller Unterberger (born 1922), historian, born in Scotland but reared in the United States, first woman professor at Texas A&M University
- Roderick Wright (1940–2005), Disgraced Catholic bishop
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