- Birthplace of J M Barrie, author of 'Peter Pan'.
- Thomas Carlyle was born in 1795, Carlyle's Birthplace Ecclefechan,
south-east of Lockerbie
- Discovery Point is the home of Captain Scott's famous ship RRS
Discovery that took him on his heroic voyage to Antarctica in 1901.
- Birth place of Hugh Miller, Hugh Miller's Cottage Cromarty,
Ross-shire
- The Robert Burns Centre Dumfries
- Souter Johnnie's Cottage Kirkoswald, Near Ayr
- Abbotsford, on the River Tweed, is the house which Sir Walter Scott,
the 19th century novelist
- The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum Dunfermline
- MacBeth was King of Scotland from 1040-1057.
- Robert the Bruce 1274-1329, Born in Turnberry Castle
- William Wallace 1274-1305
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- Bonnie Prince Charlie 1720-1788
- John Paul Jones 1747-1792
- W.E. Gladstone 1809-1898
- Ramsay MacDonald 1866-1937
- Harold MacMillan 1894-1986
- Eric Liddell 1902-45
- Jim Clark 1936-68
- John Napier 1550-1617
- Adam Smith 1723-1790
- James Watt 1736-1819
- David Dale 1739-1806
- John "Tar" McAdam 1756-1836
- Thomas Telford 1757-1834
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