Significant and Famous Scots

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• Malvoisin, William
  Chancellor of Scotland and Archbishop of St. Andrews
• MacAdam, John Loudon
  Inventor of MacAdamized roads.
• M'Cheyne, Rev Robert Murray
  A young devine.
• McCrae, John
  Physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces.
• M'Crie, Thomas
  A most able and eloquent writer.
• McCombie, William
  Editor
• MacDiarmid, John
  A miscellaneous writer.
• MacDonald, Allan
  Father Allan as a Gaelic scholar, poet and folklorist
• MacDonald, Andrew
  A dramatic and miscellaneous writer.
• MacDonald, Arthur B.
  2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
• MacDonald, Duncan Black
  Christian missionary who promoted a new approach to relating to the Muslim world
• MacDonald, George 
  A popular Scots author.
• MacDonald, James Ramsay
  First labour prime minister of Great Britain.
• MacDonald, John
  A scientific soldier and voluminous writer.
• MacDonald, Captain John
  Of Glenalladale
• MacDonald, Margo
  Politician
• MacDonell, James
  Journalist
• MacDuff, Alistair
  Born in Glasgow, raised in Helensburgh on the Clydebank, Macduff is a potter, an author, a dealer in fine art, collector and art consultant. Alistair Macduff has travelled the Canadian Arctic Circle, China, Spain and the islands of Samoa. He is a businessman, raconteur, bon vivant, matador, musician, soldier.
• MacFarlane, Charles
  Author and Traveller
• MacFarlane, Robert
  A political and miscellaneous writer.
• McGahey, Michael
  Miners activist
• M'Gavin, William
  A modern controversial and miscellaneous writer.
• MacGill, Stevenson
  Professor of theology in the university of Glasgow.
• MacGillivray, James Pittendrigh
  King's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland in 1921.
• MacGregor, Rev. Alexander
  Minister at Inverness
• Macgregor, John
  Partner in the firm Tod & Macgregor, builders of the ground breaking ocean-going iron screw ship; the City of Glasgow (1850).
• Macgregor, William York
  A leader of the "Glasgow Boys" group of painters. "The Vegetable Stall" (1883) is on permanent display at the Scottish National Gallery.
• McColl, Jim
  Businessman
• McHugh, Edward
  Famous Gospel Singer in the USA.
• MacIntosh, Charles
  An inventor of several chemical manufactures.
• MacIntosh, William
  Professor in the field of Marine Zoology and Fishery Science
• McIntyre, Alastair Ian
  Web publisher and historian
• McIntyre, Dr Robert
  The SNP's first Member of Parliament.
• M'Kail, Hugh
  Young martyr for the cause of religious liberty.
• Mackay, George Leslie
  Missionary in China. Known as the Black Bearded Barbarian.
• MacKay, Dr. James A.
  Prolific writer on philatelic subjects and biographer of Burns.
• MacKay, James
  Explorer
• MacKenzie, Alexander
  Explorer who completed the first known transcontinental crossing of America north of Mexico.
• MacKenzie, Alister
  British golf course architect
• MacKenzie, Colin
  The man who mapped India.
• MacKenzie, George
  First earl of Cromarty, a distinguished political and literary character.
• MacKenzie, Sir George
  A celebrated lawyer and state officer, and perhaps the first Scotsman who wrote the English language in a style approaching to purity.
• MacKenzie, Henry
  One of the most illustrious names connected with polite literature in Scotland.
• Mackenzie, Wm. Lyon
  The life and times of Wm. Lyon Mackenzie: with an account of the Canadian rebellion of 1837, and the subsequent frontier disturbances, chiefly from unpublished documents.
• Mackie
  Two very interesting families in Dunfermline, Fife – MACKIE and SYME - where a member of each of three generations contribute significantly to Scottish literature in prose, poetry and history.
• MacKinnon, Colonel Daniel
  A brave soldier, who acquired high military reputation in the Peninsular war and at Waterloo.
• Mackintosh, Ewart Alan
  War Poet
• MacKintosh, Sir James
  A distinguished historian and statesman.
• MacKnight, Dr James
  A learned scriptural commentator.
• MacLagan, Alexander
  Poet
• McLaren, William
  Scottish Rugby Commentator
• MacLaurin, Colin
  An eminent mathematician and philosopher.
• MacLean, Calum Iain
  Pioneering fieldworkers of the School of Scottish Studies
• McLennan John Ferguson
  Sociologist
• MacLeod, Angus
  MBE, Crofter, Seaman, Harris Tweed manufacturer, founder of the Scottish Crofting Union, and the driving force behind the memorials to the heroes of the Land Struggle.
• MacLeod, John James Rickard
  inventor of insulin
• MacLeod, Norman
  A minister and one of the chaplains to Queen Victoria and also an author.
• Macmillan, Kirkpatrick
  Born 1813. Invented the bicycle, but never patented it and it was therefore widely copied.
• McNeil, Duncan
  Minister, Hymnist and Gospel Singer
• McNeil, John Charles
  Poet, born in Scotland County, near Laurinburg, North Carolina, on 26 July 1874, and died on 17 October 1907.
• MacNeil, Hector
  A poet and miscellaneous writer.
• McNeill, John
  Famous preacher
• MacNish, Robert
  A physician, philosopher, poet, and miscellaneous writer.
• Maconachie, Alexander
  A social prison reformer before his time.
• MacPherson, James
  A literary character of celebrity is, in nearly the strictest sense of the word, the author of the English Poems of Ossian.
• MacTaggart, William
  Painter and Artist
• Mair, John
  A celebrated name of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
• Maitland, John
  Duke of Lauderdale
• Maitland, Sir John
  The collector and preserver of our early Scottish poetry, and himself a poet of no mean rank.
• Maitland, William
  An antiquarian writer of some note.
• Malcolm III
  Canmore, King of Scotland
• Malcolm, Sir Charles
  A distinguished naval commander.
• Malcolm, Sir John
  A distinguished soldier and diplomatist.
• Malcolm, Sir Pulteney
  Admiral of the Blue, G.C.B. and G.C.M.G.
• Mallet, David
  A poet and miscellaneous writer.
• Man or Main, James
  Philologist
• Mar
  A number of Mar's
• Margaret
  Queen's of Scotland
• Martin, Hugh
  Minister
• Martin, Michael
  Mr. Martin was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons on 23rd October 2000 and is the first Catholic to hold the office since the Reformation.
• Maxwell, James Clerk
  Born 1831. Mathematician and Physicist. Contributed significantly to the study of electro-magnetism and prepared the way for quantum physics. Ranks along with Newton and Einstein as one of the World's greatest physicists.
• Maxwell, Thomas
  President of the Scottish Church History Society
• Mayne, John
  An amiable and talented poet.
• Meikle, Andrew
  Born 1719. Inventor of the threshing machine.
• Melville, Andrew
  One of the most illustrious of the Scottish reformers, whose name stands next to that of Knox in the history of the Reformation.
• Melville, James
  With whose history are connected many most interesting facts in the ecclesiastical and literary history of Scotland.
• Melville, Sir James
  A courtier of eminence, and author of the well known memoirs of his own life and times which bear his name.
• Melvin, James
  Rector of the Grammar School of Aberdeen
• Meston, William
  An ingenious and learned poet of the eighteenth century.
• Mickle, William Julius
  (originally Meikle,) The translator of Camoens’ Lusiad, and an original poet of considerable merit.
• Middleton, John
  Earl of Middleton.
• Mill, James
  A talented writer, who distinguished himself as a historian, philosopher, and political economist.
• Millar, John
  Professor of law in the university of Glasgow, and author of the Historical View of the English Government.
• Miller, Hugh
  The learned stonemason of Scotland who devoted his spare time to the study of fossils and so became an expert geologist.
• Milligan, Jean Callander LL.D.
  Founder of the The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.
• Mitchell, Joseph
  A dramatist of the eighteenth century.
• Moir, David Macbeth
  A gentle, amiable, and talented poet and physician.
• Moncrieff, Sir James Wellwood
  An eminent judge.
• Monro, Alexander
  An eminent medical writer and teacher.
• Monteath, George Cunningham
  Author of a Manual of the Diseases of the Human Eye.
• Montgomery, Alexander
  An early poet of considerable fame.
• Montgomery, James
  A brilliant poet.
• Moodie, Robert
  Doctor
• Moonlight, Thomas
  Governor of Wyoming
• Moore, John
  A miscellaneous writer.
• Moore, Sir John
  A distinguished military commander.
• More, James
  An eminent Greek scholar.
• Morison, Charles
  Inventor of the Telegraph
• Morison, Robert
  An eminent botanist of the seventeenth century.
• Motherwell, William
  A poet, antiquary, and journalist.
• Muir, John
  Born 1834. Naturalist and Conservationist, born in Dunbar. Founder of the U.S. National Park system and regarded as the father of the modern environmental movement. Read "My first Summer in the Sierra" and "Our National Parks".
• Muir, Thomas
  Advocate, one of the first and most distinguished Reformers in Scotland
• Muirhead, Ian Adair
  Distinguished and learned minister and historian
• Muirhead, Roland E.
  Who was largely responsible for A Constitution for Scotland.
• Munro, Neil
  Journalist, Editor and Author
• Munro, Dr Neil Gordon
  A Scottish doctor who died in 1942 after spending a lifetime administering medicine to an ancient Japanese people.
• Munro, Thomas
  A celebrated civil and military officer in the service of the East India Company.
• Murdoch, James
  Professor of Oriental Studies in the University of Sydney.
• Murdoch, John G [Gloag]
  Did great service to the musical trade
• Murdoch, William
  William Murdock constructed the first steam-engine that moved on wheels and invented coal gas lighting.
• Mure, Sir William
  A poet.
• Murison, Alexander Falconer
  Professor in Roman Law and Master of English at The Aberdeen Grammar School.
• Murray, Alexander
  An eminent philologist.
• Murray, Colin & Grace
  Scottish Theatre Entertainers
• Murray, Sir Charles
  Diplomatist, scholar, traveller, courtier, and sportsman
• Murray or MacMurray, John
  An eminent publisher (this is an e-text)
• Murray, Sir George
  A gallant soldier and able statesman.
• Murray, Dr James
  The originator of the Oxford Dictionary.
• Murray, Patrick
  Fifth lord Elibank, a nobleman distinguished by erudition and literary taste.
• Murray, Sir Robert
  A statesman and natural philosopher.
• Murray, William
  Earl of Mansfield, and lord chief justice of the King’s Bench.
• Murray, William Hutchison OBE
  Scottish mountaineer and writer
• Mushet, David
  Discoverer of the Black Band Iron Stone
• Mylne, Robert
  A distinguished architect.

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