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TOP 100
1. Sir William Arrol 1839 - 1939 Forth & Tay Bridges - 2 most substantial bridges in World at time.
2. John Logie Baird 1888 - 1946 Invented Television and fibre optics communication.
3. Arthur James Balfour 1848 - 1930 Prime Minister 1902/06. Balfour Declaration - Israel
4. Sir James Barrie 1860 - 1937 Author & Playright - Peter Pan benefactor of Great Ormond Stree Hospital
5. Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - 1922 Invented telephone.
6. Lord John Boyd-Orr 1880 - 1971 Director of United Nations. Nobel Prize winner. Helped starvation globally.
7. Sir William Burrell 861 - 1951 Ship owner & collector. Gave 8000 items to Glasgow museum + paintings.
8. Sir Henry Campbell - 1836 - 1908 British Prime Minister 1906/08
Bannerman
9. Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1918 US Steel magnate and benefactor of Scotland. Donated 10,000 Church organs
and £millions to Scottish education. Carnegie Hall named after him.
10. Willie Carson 1942 Champion Jockey. 3828 winners incl 4 Derbies, 27 Classics,
11. Donald Caskie 1902 - 1983 "The Tartan Pimpernell" Scots Kirk Minister in Paris, helped servicemen escape
Nazis in WW2.
12. Jim Clark 1936 - 1968 Regarded as greatest motor racing champion ever. Won 2 world championships
and became 1st to win 7 GPs in succession. Won 25 GPs. Most ever at time.
13. Sir Dugald Clerk 1854 - 1932 Developed 2 stroke engine and was key engineer in WW1
14. Sir Ralph Alexander 1895 - 1977 Chief Marshall of RAF. Planned WW2 bombing raids including Dambusters
Cochrane
15. Billy Connelly 1942 - Comedian, entertainer supporter of Scottish globally.
16. Sir Sean Connery 1930 - Actor, best James Bond, supporter of Scottish Nationalism.
17. Donald Crisp 1880 - 1974 Scotlands Forgotten Actor - best supporting Oscar 1941
18. Archibald Joseph Cronin 1896 - 1981 Trained as Doctor, became author, gave us Dr. Finlays Casebook.
19. Kenny Dalglish 1951 - Footballer - Celtic & Liverpool. 1st to score 100 goals in both 1st Divisions
Managed liverpool to Double in 1986, won 102 caps.
20. Sir James Dewar 1842 - 1923 Invented Vacuum Flask.
21. Sir John Sholto Douglas 1844 - 1900 Gave us Queensberry Rules for boxing.
8th Marquis Queensberry
22. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 - 1930 Author. Gave us Sherlock Holmes
23. Air Chief Marshall Hugh 1882 - 1970 Directed defeat of German Air Force including "Battle of Britain"
Dowding (Lord)
24. John Boyd Dunlop 1840 - 1921 Developed pneumatic tyres.
25. Sir Alexander Fleming 1881 - 1955 Invented first antibiotic drug - penicillin.
26. Sir Sandford Fleming 1827 - 1915 Chief Engineer of canadian Pacific Railway. Set International Standard Time.
27. Alistair Forbes-Mackay 1878 - 1914 Reached magnetic South Pole 3yrs before Scott & Amoundson.
28. Bill Fosryth 1946 - Film writer and maker - "Gregory's Girl", "Local Hero"
29. Will Fyffe 1885 - 1947 Comedian & singer, gave us "I belong to Glasgow"
30. Sir Patrick Geddes 1854 - 1932 Father of Town Planning - ie. Edinburgh
31. Evelynn Glennie 1965 - World famous musician & percussionist, even though deaf since childhood.
32. Thomas Blake Glover 1838 - 1911 Won "Order of Rising Sun" Japan's highest honour - modernising Japan.
33. Earl Haig 1861 - 1928 Commander In Chief of British Army in WW1. Later devoted to ex serviscemen throgh
Field Marshall Sir Douglas Royal British Legion. Gave name to "Poppy" Appeal.
34. James Keir Hardie 1856 - 1915 Miner and founder of Labour Party.
35. Sir Alexander Douglas 1903 - 1995 Prime Minister 1963 - denounced peerage to serve in Commons
Home (Lord Home)
36. Elsie Inglis 1864 - 1917 Leading surgeon and suffragette. Improved health & maternity or women in Scotland
and set up hospitals in Russia in WW1
37. Sir Harry Lauder 1870 - 1950 Singer and entertainer.
38. Eric Henry Lidell 1902 - 1945 Olympic athlete, won Gold & Bronze in Paris 1924. Subject of "Chariots of Fire".
39. Sir Thomas Lipton 1850 - 1931 Revolutionised Retail Grocery Trade, Lipton's Tea and started Football World Cup.
40. Joseph Lister 1827 - 1912 Pioneered us of antiseptics.
41. Sir Henry Duncan 1826 - 1914 Medical health pioneer - improved city sanitation.
Littlejohn
42. Lulu - Marie McDonald 1948 - Singer, actress & entertainer. No.1 PopStar.
McLaughlin Lawrie
43. Sir Robert McAlpine 1847 - 1934 Builder of roads and buildings. Builder of Britain.
44. Hugh MacDiarmid 1892 - 1978 Poet, nationalsit & socialist, founder of Scottish Natioanl Party
45. Dr William McEWan 1827 - 1913 Brewer & philanthropist - gave us McEwan's Export beer.
46. James Ramsay MacDonald 1866 - 1937 First Labour Prime Minister 1924
47. Sir John Alexander 1815 - 1891 1st Canadian Prime Minister.
MacDonald
48. William Topaz McGonagall 1830 - 1902 World's Worst Poet - Tay Bridge Disaster
49. Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868 - 1928 Famous Designer
50. John Muir 1834 - 1914 Naturalist and conservationalist - founder of US National Parks.
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