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Air chief marshal (Air Chf Mshl or ACM) GBE, KCB, AFC (24 February 1895 – 17 December 1977) was a British aviator and Royal Air Force officer, perhaps best known for his role in Operation Chastise,...
Eric Liddell Biography Eric Liddell (1902 – 1945) was a Scottish Olympic champion at 400 m and a famous Christian missionary; his inspirational life was captured in...
William Cunninghame of Lainshaw (1731–1799) was a leading Tobacco Lord who headed one of the major Glasgow syndicates that came to dominate the transatlantic tobacco trade. Most of the tobacco...
Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. He has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, where he gained recognition for...
Tony Blair is a British politician who served as Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007. He was the leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to...
“If I am a great man, then a good many great men of history are frauds.” Andrew Bonar Law was the Canadian-born son of a Scottish...
Eric Liddell (1902 – 1945) was a Scottish Olympic champion at 400 m and a famous Christian missionary; his inspirational life was captured in the film ‘Chariots of...
Arguably Scotland’s most famous architect and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was known to control every aspect of an architectural project, from light fittings to clocks and...
John Boyd Dunlop, (born Feb. 5, 1840, Dreghorn, Ayrshire, Scot.—died Oct. 23, 1921, Dublin), inventor who developed the pneumatic rubber tire. In 1867 he settled in Belfast...
Albert Borlase Armitage (2 July 1864 – 31 October 1943) was a Scottish polar explorer and officer in the Merchant Navy. Early life Armitage was born...
Robert Aitken (1734–1802) was a Philadelphia printer and the first to publish an English language Bible in the newly formed United States. He was born in...
Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan (probably died c. 1314) was a significant figure in the Wars of Scottish Independence. She was the daughter of Donnchadh III,...
Alexander Graham Bell (/ˈɡreɪ.əm/; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born[N 2] inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting...
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson CBE (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former football manager and player, widely known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is considered by many to...
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist....
