Significant and Famous Scots

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• Wallace, James
  Usually called Colonel Wallace, leader of the Covenanters at the battle of Pentland hills.
• Wallace, Robert
  Celebrated as the author of a work on the numbers of mankind, and for his exertions in establishing the Scottish Ministers’ Widows’ Fund.
• Wallace, Robert
  Minister, M.P., Journalist
• Wallace, William
  A talented mathematician.
• Wallace, William
  Scots patriot in the time of Robert the Bruce.
• Wardlaw, Henry
  Bishop of St Andrews, and founder of the university there.
• Wardlaw, Ralph
  An able controversialist, eloquent preacher, and graceful popular writer.
• Watson, James
  Printer and Publisher
• Watson, Robert
  Author of the History of the Reign of Philip II. of Spain.
• Watson, William J.
  Professor and A toponymist, one of the greatest Scottish scholars of the 20th century, and was the first scholar to place the study of Scottish place names on a firm linguistic basis.
• Watson-Watt, Sir Robert
  Inventor of the radar.
• Watt, Hugh
  The Very Reverend Principal and Moderator of the Church of Scotland
• Watt, James
  When Edison's generator was coupled with Watt's steam engine, large scale electricity generation became a practical proposition. James Watt, the Scottish inventor of the steam condensing engine, was born in 1736. His improvements to steam engines were patented over a period of 15 years, starting in 1769 and his name was given to the electric unit of power, the Watt.
• Watt, Robert
  The author of the BIBLIOTHECA BRITANNICA, and of several medical treatises.
• Watt, William
  Joint proprietor and editor of the Aberdeen Free Press from 1872-1906.
• Waugh, Alexander
  An eminent divine of the United Secession church.
• Webster, Alexander
  An eminent divine and statistical inquirer.
• Wedderburn, Alexander
  First earl of Rosslyn.
• Wedderburn, David
  A poet of considerable eminence.
• Wedderburn, James
  A poet of the sixteenth century.
• Weir, Tom
  Climber, Photographer, Broadcaster
• Welch, John
  A celebrated divine of the seventeenth century.
• Wellwood, Sir Henry Moncrieff
  An eminent divine.
• Welsh, David
  A distinguished scholar and divine.
• West, John
  Pioneer and salmon canner
• Whyte, Henry
  Gaelic Scholar
• Whyte-Melville, George John
  Author
• Wilkie, Sir David
  The Burns of Scottish Painting.
• Wilkie, William
  The "Scottish Homer," as he has been called, from the circumstance of his having been the author of a poem in the style of the Iliad entitled the "Epigoniad."
• William, the Lion
  One of the most distinguished of our early monarchs.
• Williamson, Charles
  One man brought Rochester, Carroll and Fitzhugh to the Genesee Valley. Williamsburgh owed its existence to one man. The New York State towns and cities of Sodus, Geneva, Bath, Caledonia and Lyons also owed their presence to one man. Charles Williamson.
• Willison, John
  An eminent divine, and author of several well known religious works.
• Willock, John
  One of the earliest Scottish reformers.
• Wilson, Alexander
  The celebrated ornithologist.
• Wilson, Charles Thomas Rees
  Nobel Prize Winner
• Wilson, Florence
  An author of some note.
• Wilson, James
  the greatest of all U.S. secretaries of agriculture
• Wilson, Sir James
  British civil servant in British India, where he spent most of his career in the Punjab. After his return to the United Kingdom he was a senior civil servant under the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, representing the country at the International Institute of Agriculture.
• Wilson, James Grant
  Author and Editor and American Colonel in the Union Army.
• Wilson, John
  Professor of Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh.
• Wilson, William Rae
  A popular traveller and writer.
• Winning, Cardinal Thomas
  The Scottish Cardinal called "Cardinal Controversy".
• Winram, John
  Superintendent of Fife and Stratherne.
• Wishart, George
  A learned divine, and educated writer of the seventeenth century.
• Wishart, George
  A distinguished protestant martyr.
• Wishart, Robert
  Bishop
• Witherspoon, Dr John
  Born 1723. Clergyman born in Gifford, East Lothian. Minister at Beith, then Paisley. Emigrated to U.S.A. in 1768 to become President of Princeton University (then the College of New Jersey). He taught and influenced many future leaders of the US. Helped frame the US Declaration of Independence and was one of the signatories. Also coined the word "Americanism".
• Wodrow, Robert
  The faithful and laborious author of the "History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland."
• Wood, Alexander
  Scottish physician Alexander Wood introduced the hypodermic syringe in 1853.
• Wood, Sir Andrew
  Admiral to James III. and James IV.
• Wylie, Sir James
  Doctor to the Czar's of Russia.
• Wyntoun, Andrew
  The venerable rhyming chronicler of Scotland.

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