Significant and Famous Scots

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• Gall, Richard
  A poet of considerable merit.
• Galloway, Sir Archibald
  An approved soldier and excellent writer.
• Galt, John
  Author (1779-1839) Wrote interesting commentary on Scottish social life.
• Garden, Francis
  A distinguished judge under the designation of Lord Gardenstone.
• Gardiner, James
  A distinguished military officer, and Christian hero.
• Gardner, George
  An eminent botanist.
• Ged, William
  The inventor of stereotype printing.
• Geddes, Alexander
  Celebrated as a poet, a critic, and miscellaneous writer.
• Geddes, James
  An advocate of the Scottish bar.
• Geddes, Michael
  A distinguished divine of the church of England.
• Geddes, Sir Patrick
  Born 1854. Regarded as the father of town planning; Living in Edinburgh, he did much of his pioneering work in Edinburgh's Old Town. Planned building and cities in many countries including India and Palestine.
• Geddie, John
  Journalist and Author
• Geikie, Sir Archibald
  Head of the Geological Survey of Great Britain
• Geikie, Walter
  Whose droll and homely sketches are to be found upon the table of every Edinburgh drawing-room.
• Gerard, Alexander D.D.
  An eminent divine and writer.
• Gerard, Gilbert
  A divine, son of Rev. Alexander Gerard, D.D.
• Gib, Adam
  Long distinguished as leader of the religious party called Anti-burghers.
• Gibbons, Lewis Grassic
  Author
• Gibbs, James
  A celebrated architect.
• Gibson, Patrick
  An eminent artist and writer upon art.
• Gibson, Sir Alexander
  Lord Durie, an eminent lawyer and judge
• Gibson, Douglas
  Canadian Publisher and writer
• Gilchrist, Marion
  The University of Glasgow's first woman graduate.
• Gilchrist, William Sidney
  A medical missionary who spent 38 years in Africa.
• Gilfillan, Robert
  An amiable poet of domestic life, and popular song-writer.
• Gillespie, George
  An eminent divine at a time when divines were nearly the most eminent class of individuals in Scotland.
• Gillespie, Thomas
  Was the first relief minister, and founder of the Synod of Relief.
• Gillespie, Thomas
  Country divine and professor.
• Gillespie, William
  Minister of Kells in Galloway.
• Gillies, John
  Member of many foreign societies, and historiographer to his Majesty for Scotland.
• Gladstone, W. E.
  Prime Minister of Britain
• Glass, John
  Founder of a sect still known by his name.
• Gleghorn, George
  Born in 1716. Discovered that quinine bark acted as a cure for Malaria.
• Glen, Sir Alexander
  Explorer and businessman
• Glennie, Evelyn
  Percustionist
• Glennie, James
  A distinguished geometrician.
• Glover, Joseph Johnstone
  Provost of Dumfries
• Glover, Thomas Blake
  The Scottish Samurai
• Goodal, Walter
  Well known as an historical antiquary.
• Gordon, Alexander
  Author of various learned and useful antiquarian works.
• Gordon, Colin
  Colin Gordon has worked in the field of acoustics research and noise and vibration for thirty-five years.
• Gordon, George
  Commonly called lord George Gordon, one of the most remarkable Scotsmen who have flourished in modern political history.
• Gordon, Harry
  Singer
• Gordon, James
  A member of the noble family of Gordon, and distinguished for his erudition.
• Gordon, Robert
  An eminent geographer and antiquary.
• Gordon Robert
  Founder of the hospital in Aberdeen which bears his name.
• Gordon, Robert
  An acute original thinker and eloquent preacher.
• Gordon, Thomas
  An eminent party writer, and translator of Tacitus.
• Gordon, William
  A zealous defender of the covenant.
• Gow, Nathaniel
  Who, as a violinist and composer, well deserves a place in any work intended to perpetuate the names of Scotsmen who have done honour or service to their country.
• Gow, Neil
  A celebrated violin player and composer of Scottish airs.
• Graham, Dougal
  The rhyming chronicler of the last rebellion.
• Graham, James
  The celebrated marquis of Montrose born in the year 1612.
• Graham, John
  Viscount of Dundee, was the elder son of Sir William Graham of Claverhouse.
• Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame
  Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer.
• Graham, Thomas
  Born 1805. Formulated "Graham's Law" on the diffusion of gases. Father of colloid chemistry.
• Graham, Thomas
  This venerable warrior was descended from a common ancestor with the Dukes of Montrose.
• Grahane, Kenneth
  Author
• Grahame, Rev. James
  The author of "The Sabbath" and other poems.
• Grainger, James
  A physician and poet of some eminence.
• Grant, David
  Teacher, Journalist, Poet
• Grant, Sir Francis
  A judge and political writer.
• Grant, James
  Author and historian.
• Grant, Sir William
  This able lawyer was a descendant of the Grants of Beldornie, a sept of the parent clan.
• Gregor, Walter
  Minister, Teacher and Folklorist.
• Gregory, David
  The able commentator on Newton’s Principia, and Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford.
• Gregory, James
  Whose valuable discoveries served so much to accelerate the progress of the mathematical and physical science in the seventeenth century.
• Gregory, James
  Born 1638. Inventor of the reflecting telescope.
• Gregory, James
  An eminent modern medical teacher.
• Gregory, Dr John
  A distinguished physician of the eighteenth century.
• Greig, Sir Samuel
  A distinguished naval officer in the Russian service.
• Grey, Alexander
  A surgeon in the service of the honourable East India Company, and founder of an hospital for the sick poor of the town and county of Elgin.
• Guild, William
  An eminent divine.
• Gunn, Neil Miller
  One of the foremost Scottish novelist of the 20th century.
• Guthrie, Henry
  Afterwards bishop of Dunkeld.
• Guthrie, James
  One of the most zealous of the protesters, as they were called, during the religious troubles in the 17^th century.
• Guthrie, William
  Author of the well known work entitled, "The Christian’s Great Interest".
• Guthrie, William
  A political, historical, and miscellaneous writer.