Significant and Famous Scots

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• Hackston, David
  A name of considerable celebrity in the annals of Scotland, from its connexion with the events of 1679-80, and from its pre-eminence in some of the most remarkable transactions of that stormy period.
• Hadden, James Cuthbert
  Wrote 98 articles for the Dictionary of National Biography and other publications.
• Haig, Earl Douglas
  A career officer and one of the most influential characters in World War I.
• Haldane, James
  A ships captain and eminent Minister.
• Halket, Lady Anne
  Whose extensive learning and voluminous theological writings, place her in the first rank of female authors.
• Hall, Captain Basil
  A naval Captain and prolific traveller and writer.
• Hall, Sir James
  Author of Origin, Principles, and History of Gothic Architecture.
• Halyburton, Thomas
  An eminent author and divine, and professor of divinity in the university of St Andrews.
• Hamilton, Count Anthony
  A pleasing describer of manners, and writer of fiction.
• Hamilton, Gavin
  A distinguished painter.
• Hamilton, James
  Third marquis, and first duke of Hamilton.
• Hamilton, James
  Fourth duke of Hamilton.
• Hamilton, John
  Archbishop of St Andrews, and the last Scottish primate of the Roman catholic faith.
• Hamilton, John
  A secular priest, made himself remarkable in the 16th century by his furious zeal in behalf of the church of Rome.
• Hamilton, Patrick
  One of the first martyrs to the doctrines of the reformed religion.
• Hamilton, Robert
  A mathematician and political economist.
• Hamilton, William
  A celebrated surgeon, and lecturer on anatomy and chemistry in the university of Glasgow.
• Hamilton, William
  A poet of considerable merit.
• Hamilton, Sir William
  British ambassador at the court of Naples, and celebrated for his patronage of the fine arts, and his investigations on the subject of volcanoes.
• Hannah, William
  Musician
• Hannay, James Ballantyne
  Chemist
• Hardy, James Keir
  Born 1856. A miner who became a founder of the British Labour Party.
• Harrison, John
  Master Clothier and Author
• Hart, Andrew
  One of the most distinguished of our early typographers.
• Harvey, Alex
  Singer and entertainer.
• Harvey, William
  Journalist and Author
• Henderson, Alexander
  One of the most eminent of the many eminent men whose names are interwoven with the annals of Scotland at probably the most interesting period of her history, (the middle of the17th century.)
• Henderson, Ebenezer
  Minister and Missionary to Russia, Denmark and Iceland
• Henderson, Hamish
  Folklorist, poet and songwriter.
• Henderson, Thomas
  Professor of Practical Astronomy, Edinburgh.
• Hendry, Stephen
  Believed by many to be the greatest snooker player the game has ever seen.
• Henry
  The minstrel, more commonly styled BLIND HARRY, was a wandering poet of the fifteenth century, who wrote a well-known narrative of the life of Sir William Wallace.
• Henry, Robert
  An eminent historian.
• Henryson, Edward
  An eminent civilian and classical scholar, and a senator of the College of Justice.
• Henryson, Robert
  A poet of the fifteenth century.
• Hepburn, James
  Of the order of the Minims, said to have been an extensive linguist, lexicographer, grammarian, and biblical commentator.
• Hepburne, James
  Earl of Bothwell
• Hepburn, Robert
  A fugitive writer, who at a very early age distinguished himself by the exhibition of strong talents, and an original genius.
• Herd, David
  An ingenious and useful inquirer into our national antiquities
• Heriot, John
  A talented and industrious writer in miscellaneous literature.
• Heriot, George
  Founder of the excellent hospital in Edinburgh which bears his name, and jeweler to king James VI.
• Heron, Robert
  A miscellaneous writer.
• Heugh, Hugh
  An estimable divine.
• High, Sir William
  Lord Provost of Dundee.
• Hill, George
  An eminent leader of the church of Scotland, and principal of St Mary’s college, St Andrews.
• Hilson, Lindsy
  Librarian
• Hog, Robert
  Lord Harcarse, a judge and statesman.
• Hogg, James
  One of the greatest literary talents to come out of Scotland, more prolific a poet than Burns and arguably a more powerful teller of tales than Scott, yet Hogg’s outspoken manner and quaint rustic image as the Ettrick Shepherd kept him ultimately from the accolade he deserved.
• Holybush, John
  A celebrated mathematician and astronomer.
• Home, John
  An eminent dramatic poet.
• Home, Henry
  A lawyer and metaphysican.
• Home, David Milne
  Advocate, geologist and meteorologist
• Hope, Sir John
  Latterly earl of Hopetoun, a celebrated military commander.
• Hope, Sir Thomas
  An eminent lawyer and statesman of the fifteenth century, and the founder of a family distinguished for its public service.
• Hope-Scott, James Robert
  Advocate
• Horner, Francis
  Whose virtues, talents, and eloquence, raised him to an eminent rank in public life.
• Horsburgh, James
  An eminent hydrographer.
• Horsley, John
  An eminent antiquary, historian, and divine.
• Hume, Alexander
  Second earl of Marchmont.
• Hume, David
  A poet and historical writer.
• Hume, David
  The celebrated metaphysician, historian, and political economist.
• Hume, Hugh Campbell
  Third and last earl of Marchmont.
• Hume, Patrick
  An individual who adorned the literature of his country at the close of the seventeenth century.
• Hume, Patrick
  A distinguished patriot and statesman.
• Hunter, Henry
  A divine highly distinguished in literature.
• Hunter, William & John
  Two eminent physicians.
• Hutchison, Francis
  Philosopher
• Hutton, James
  Born 1726. Father of modern Geology. His theory of Uniformitarianism was the basis of the explanation of the geological history of the earth, which had in his words "no vestige of a beginning, no concept of an end".

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