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Baikie, William Balfour
Naturalist, traveller, and philologist
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Baillie,
Matthew
A distinguished modern physician and anatomist, was the son of the
Rev. James Baillie, D.D. Professor of Divinity in the University of
Glasgow.
- Baillie,
Robert
One of the most eminent, and perhaps the most moderate, of all the
Scottish presbyterian clergy during the time of the civil war.
- Baillie,
Robert of Jerviswood
An eminent patriot of the reign of Charles II.
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Bain, Alexander
Invented the Facsimile.
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Bain, James Leith
Composer of "Brother James' Air" for the 23rd Psalm, 'The Lord's My
Shepherd'
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Baine, James
One of the most distinguished ministers of the second great secession
from the church of Scotland
- Baird,
David
A distinguished commander during the wars of the French Revolution.
- Baird,
John
Logie
The Scottish inventor who obtained the world's first real television picture in his
laboratory in October, 1925, and demonstrated it to the British public on January 26,
1926. The image obtained was a small 30-line vertically-scanned red and black image, but
it was television. Mechanical television based on Baird's systems dominated international
television for the next few years into the early 30's.
- Balcanquel,
Walter D.D.
An eminent divine of the seventeenth century.
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Bald, Alexander
Poetical Writer
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Ballenden, William
Prefect-apostolic of the catholic mission in Scotland
- Balfour,
Alexander
An esteemed miscellaneous writer, was born March 1st, 1767, in
the parish of Monikie, Forfarshire.
- Balfour,
Andrew
Who first introduced the dissection of the human body into Scotland,
and that at a very superstitious period; who projected the first
hospital in the country, for the relief of disease and poverty at the
public expense; who was the founder of the botanic garden at
Edinburgh, and almost the father of the science in Scotland; who
planned the royal college of physicians at Edinburgh; and bequeathed
to the public a museum, which at that time would have been an ornament
to any university, or any metropolis.
- Balfour,
James
An eminent lawyer and public character of the sixteenth century.
- Balfour,
James
An eminent antiquary, herald, and annalist, was born about the
close of the sixteenth century.
- Balfour,
Robert
A distinguished philosopher of the seventeenth century, was principal of
Guyenne college, Bourdeaux, and is mentioned by Morhof as a celebrated
commentator of Aristotle.
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Balfour, Dr Robert
Distinguished minister of the Church of Scotland.
- Baliol,
Edward
Son of King John Baliol.
- Baliol,
John
King of Scotland.
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Ballantine, James
Glass Stainer, Poet and Author
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Ballantyne, Sir Henry
Provost of the Royal Burgh of Peebles
- Ballantyne,
John
Acted as the confidant of Sir Walter Scott, and managed all the
business of the communication of his works to the public.
- Ballentyne,
John
An eminent poet of the reign of James V., and the translator of Boece’s
Latin History.
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Ballingall, Sir George
Regius professor of military surgery
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Balmer, Robert
A profound theologian and valued ornament of the Secession church.
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Balmyle or Balmule, Nicholas De
Chancellor of Scotland and Bishop of Dunblane
- Balnaves,
Henry
An eminent lay reformer, and also a prose-writer of some eminence.
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Baltroddi, Walter De
Bishop of Caithness.
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Banks, Iain
Writer
- Bannatyne,
George
It is to this person that we are indebted for the preservation of
nearly all the productions of the Scottish poets of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries.
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Bannerman, Anne
Scottish poetical writer
- Barbour,
John
A name of which Scotland has just occasion to be proud, was Archdeacon
of Aberdeen in the later part of the fourteenth century.
- Barclay,
John
Extraordinary genius, who seems to have combined the perfervidum
inqueium of his father’s country, with the mercurial vivacity of
his mother’s.
- Barclay,
John
The founder of a religious sect in Scotland, generally named Bereans,
but sometimes called from the name of this individual, Barclayans.
- Barclay,
John M.D.
An eminent lecturer on anatomy, was the nephew of John Barclay, the
Berean, after whom he was named.
- Barclay,
Robert
The celebrated Apologist for the Quakers.
- Barclay,
William
An eminent civilian, and father of the still more celebrated author of
the Argenis, was descended from one of the best families in
Scotland under the rank of nobility.
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Barnard, Lady Anne
Authoress of the ballad of 'Auld Robin Gray'
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Baron, Robert
Divine
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Barrie, Sir James
A famous author and creator of Peter Pan.
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Barry, James
Inspector general of the Army Medical Department, a woman who passed
through life as a man
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Bartholomew, David Ewen
Captain in the Royal Navy
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Barton, Andrew
High Admiral of Scotland.
- Bassantin,
James
Astronomer and mathematician.
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Bassendyne, Thomas
Printer of the earliest translation of the New Testament published in
Scotland
- Bassol,
John
A distinguished disciple of the famous Duns Scotus.
- Baxter,
Andrew
An ingenious moral and natural philosopher.
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Bayne, Alexander
First tenant of the chair of Scots law in the university of Edinburgh
- Bayne,
James
A divine of some note.
- Beaton,
David
Who held the rectory of Campsie, the abbacy of Aberbrothick, the
bishopric of Mirepoix in France, the cardinalship of St Stephen in
Monte Caelio, and the chancellorship of Scotland, and who was the
chief of the Roman Catholic party in Scotland in the earlier age of
the reformation.
- Beaton,
James
Uncle to the preceding, and himself an eminent prelate and statesman.
- Beaton,
James
Archbishop of Glasgow.
- Beatson,
Robert
An ingenious and useful author.
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Beattie, George
A poet, a humourist, and a man of genius
- Beattie,
James
Poet and moral philosopher.
- Bell,
Alexander
Graham
Bell is best known for his invention of
the telephone. Many inventors had been working on the idea of sending human speech by
wire, but Bell was the first to succeed.
- Bell,
Alexander Melville
Creator of "Visible Speech, the Science of Universal Alphabetics,"
- Bell,
Andrew
Author of the "Madras System of Education."
- Bell,
Andrew & Macfarquhar, Colin
The Encyclopædia Britannica was
conceived and founded in 1768 in Edinburgh, Scotland, by Colin Macfarquhar, a printer, and
Andrew Bell, an engraver. The two formed a "Society of Gentlemen" to publish the
work and engaged William Smellie to edit it.
- Bell,
Benjamin
A distinguished surgical author.
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Bell, Sir Charles
His subsequent publications on the "Nervous Circle," and "On the Eye,"
completely established the existence of a sixth sense.
- Bell,
Henry
The first successful applier of steam to the purposes of navigation in
Europe.
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Bell, James
An indefatigable geographer.
- Bell,
John
A traveller of the eighteenth century.
- Bell,
John
An eminent surgeon in Edinburgh, and of distinguished literary
qualifications.
- Bell,
Joseph
The man who inspired Conan Doyle to create the famous detective
Sherlock Holmes.
- Bell,
Joseph William
Chief Engineer of the Titanic.
- Bell, Rev Patrick
Invented the reaping machine which was a direct precursor of the modern combine
harvester.
- Bellenden,
William
One of those learned and ingenious Scotsmen of a former age, who are
esteemed in the general literary world as an honour to their country,
but with whom that country itself is scarcely at all acquainted.
- Bernard
First chancellor of king Robert Bruce after his assumption of the
crown in 1306.
- Berry,
William
An ingenious artist, was born about the year 1730, and bred to
the business of a seal-engraver.
- Binning,
Hugh
This excellent young preacher left behind him a reputation for piety,
virtue, and learning and his treatise on Christian love.
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Birnie, Sir Richard
A distinguished metropolitan police magistrate.
- Bissat,
Peter
Professor of the Canon Law in the University of Bononis.
- Bisset,
Charles
An ingenious physician and writer on Fortification.
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Black, Charles
Publisher
- Black,
Joseph
"the illustrious Nestor (as he has been termed by Lavoisier) of
the chemical revolution."
- Blackadder,
John
A distinguished preacher of the Line of the perrecution, was
the representative of an ancient but decayed fainily—Blackadder of
Tulliallan.
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Blackie, John Stuart
Professor of Greek and a great Scotsman
- Blacklock,
Thomas
An ingenious blind poet, was born, November 10th, 1721, at Annan.
- Blackwell,
Alexander and Elizabeth
He was significant in the study of physic, and also formed schemes for
the improvement of waste lands and she was noted for her engravings.
- Blackwell,
Thomas
The restorer of Greek literature in the North of Scotland, and a
learned writer of the eighteenth century.
- Blackwood,
Adam
A learned writer of the sixteenth century.
- Blackwood,
Henry
Dean of the medical faculty at Paris.
- Blackwood,
William
An eminent publisher, and originator of the magazine which bears his
name.
- Blair,
Hugh
One of the most eminent divines and cultivators of polite literature,
of the eighteenth century.
- Blair,
James
An eminent divine.
- Blair,
John
A churchman of noble family and chaplain to Sir William Wallace.
- Blair,
John LL.D
An eminent chronologist.
- Blair,
Norman MacPhail
Gaelic Singer, Crooner of Popular Ballads, and a Teacher of Music
- Blair,
Patrick
An eminent botanist in the earlier period of the existence of that
science in Britain.
- Blair, Robert
An eminent divine of the seventeenth century.
- Blair,
Robert
Author of "The Grave, a Poem."
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Blane, Sir Gilbert
An eminent physician.
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Blow, James
Printer
- Boece, Hector
Whose name was otherwise spelled Boyis, Boyes, Boiss, and Boice, an
eminent, though credulous, historian, was born about the year 1465-6,
at Dundee, and hence he assumed the surname of Deidonanus.
- Bogue,
David
The Father, as he has been called, of the London Missionary Society.
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Boott,
David
Author
- Boston,
Thomas
An eminent doctrinal writer, was born in the town of Dunse, March 7th,
1676.
- Boswell,
Alexander & James
Sons of James Boswell.
- Boswell,
James
The friend and biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson.
- Bower,
Archibald
A man of considerable merit in a literary point of view.
- Bower,
Walter
An historical writer of the fifteenth century.
- Boyd,
Mark
An extraordinary genius, who assumed the additional name of ALEXANDER,
from a desire of assimilating himself to the illustrious hero of
Macedon.
- Boyd,
Robert
An eminent divine of the seventeenth century.
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Boyd, William
Educationalist
- Boyd,
Zachary
An eminent divine and religious writer of the seventeenth century.
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Boyle, Hugh
Founder and Chairman of Zoom Airlines
- Brebner,
William
Brebner fully understood the difficulties
a prisoner faces on liberation. He was particularly concerned with the
aftercare of juveniles and established a House of Refuge for those
leaving prison. This was a stepping stone which was to prove highly
successful. Such was his reputation that young men and women who had
undergone a period of corrective treatment were in high demand with the
city’s tradespeople and merchants.
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Brown, Eric
Has flown 487 different types of aircraft.
- Brown,
George
Politician and founding father of Canada, born and educated in Edinburgh.
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Brown, George Douglas
Journalist, Teacher, Novelist, Short Story
Writer, Critic
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Brown, George Mackay
He rarely left
Orkney, his birthplace, but his journeyings into history, myth and
legend produced a vast body of lyrical novels, short stories, poems and
essays.
- Brown,
James
A traveler and scholar of some eminence.
- Brown,
John
An ingenious artist, was the son of Samuel Brown, goldsmith and
watch-maker at Edinburgh, where be was born in 1752.
- Brown,
John
Author of the "Self-Interpreting Bible," and many popular
religious works.
- Brown,
John M.D.
Founder of what is termed the Brunonian system in medicine, and one of
the most eccentric and extraordinary men of his time.
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Brown, Peter Hume
Historian and biographer
- Brown,
Thomas
A distinguished modern
philosophical writer.
- Brown,
William Lawrence
An eminent theological and miscellaneous writer.
- Bruce,
James
Discoverer of the source of the Blue Nile.
- Bruce, Michael
Whose name as a poet is associated with every regret that can be inspired by
the early extinction of genius of a high order.
- Bruce, Robert the
An account of this famous Scottish king.
- Bruce,
William Spiers
Headed the remarkably
successful Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of
1902-1904.
- Brunton,
Mary
An eminent moral novelist of the 19th century.
- Bryce,
(the Rev) Alexander
An eminent geometrician born in the year 1713.
- Brydone,
Patrick
The well known author of A Tour in Sicily and Malta, one of the most
entertaining works in the language, was the son of a clergyman in the
neighbourhood of Dumbarton, and born in 1741.
- Buchan,
Elspith
Born in 1738 and the leader of a small sect of fanatics.
- Buchan, John
Author of the Thirty-Nine Steps and other novels and one of the fathers of the
modern detective thriller.
- Buchan,
William M.D.
A popular medical writer of great celebrity, born in 1729.
- Buchanan,
Claudius
Few persons have engaged with greater zeal, or met with greater success, in
the business of the civilization of India, in spreading the knowledge of the
Christian Religion through the eastern world, and in making Europeans better
acquainted with that interesting country.
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Buchanan, David
Newspaper Editor and Publisher
- Buchanan,
Dugald
A Highland poet of eminent merit, born in the early part of the eighteenth
century.
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Buchanan, Edmund Pullar
Colonel
- Buchanan,
Francis
Author of Travels in the Mysore and a History of Nepal.
- Buchanan,
George
One of the most distinguished reformers, political and religious, of the
sixteenth century, and the best Latin poet which modern Europe has produced.
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Buchanan, Dr. Watson
An authority on rheumatic diseases
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Burgess, John D.
Famous Piper
- Burnet,
Gilbert
Bishop of Salisbury, and an historian of great eminence, was born at
Edinburgh on the 18th of September, 1643.
- Burnet,
James
Better known by his judicial designation of Lord Monboddo.
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Burnet, James
Landscape Painter.
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Burnes, Sir Alexander
A distinguished officer, whose varied talents were so available to the
administration of the British government in India.
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Burns, Allan
Talented anatomist and surgical writer.
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Burns, John
A distinguished medical writer.
- Burns,
Robert
Scotland's famous poet
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Burton, John Hill
Historiographer of Scotland
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