Significant and Famous Scots

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• Rae, John
  Explorer
• Raeburn, Sir Henry
  A celebrated portrait-painter.
• Ramsay, Allan
  The celebrated poet.
• Ramsay, Allan
  An eminent portrait-painter.
• Ramsay, Sir William
  Born 1852. Chiefly responsible for the discovery of the rare gases Helium, Argon, Neon, Krypton and Xenon. Also worked in radio-activity.
• Randolph, Charles
  Shipbuilder and Philanthropist
• Randolph, Thomas
  This ancient Scottish paladin, who occupies so prominent a part in the wars of Robert Bruce, was sister’s son of that great sovereign.
• Rankine, William John MacQuorn
  Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics in Glasgow University.
• Rankine, William J.M.
  Watt's engines used the reciprocating piston, however, today's thermal power stations use steam turbines, following the Rankine cycle, worked out by another famous Scottish engineer, William J.M Rankine, in 1859.
• Rattray, John
  Captain of  Golf
• Reid, David Boswell
  Doctor and Inventor
• Reid, James
  Scottish trade union activist, orator, politician, and journalist.
• Reid, John
  Chandos Professor of Anatomy and Medicine in the University of St. Andrews.
• Reid, Thomas
  An eminent metaphysician and moral philosopher, and professor of the latter science in the universities of Aberdeen arid Glasgow successively.
• Rennie, John
  A celebrated civil engineer.
• Renwick, James
  A celebrated non-conforming clergyman.
• Renwick, Robert
  Depute Town Clerk, Glasgow
• Richardson, William
  An elegant miscellaneous writer, and professor of humanity in the university of Glasgow.
• Ridpath, George
  Minister and Author
• Rhind, Alexander Henry
  Historian and Archaelogist
• Riddoch, Alexander
  Provost of Dundee 1787-1819
• Roberton, Hugh Stevenson
  Father and Son, the father being the creator of the Orpheus Choir and the son a famous farmer and politician in Australia.
• Robertson, Alexander
  A distinguished Highland chief and poet.
• Robertson, Joseph
  Antiquarian and Author
• Robertson, William
  The historian of Scotland and Charles V.
• Robison, Dr John
  An eminent mechanical philosopher, and professor of natural philosophy in the university of Edinburgh.
• Roebuck, Dr John
  An industrial benefactor
• Rogers, Charles
  Scottish Author
• Rollock, Robert
  An early and zealous promoter of Scottish literature.
• Ronald, James
  Baillie, Historian, Stonemason and Housing Developer in Stirling
• Rorie, David
  Doctor, Poet and Folk-Lorist
• Rose, George
  An eminent modern political character.
• Ross, Alexander
  A very voluminous writer.
• Ross, Alexander
  Bishop of Aberdeen in 1639.
• Ross, Alexander
  A poet of some eminence.
• Ross, John of Brucefield
  This is a link to an online book about John Ross of Brucefield who was born in Dornoch in 1821
• Ross, John Merry
  Scottish Writer
• Row, John
  A celebrated divine.
• Roxburgh, William
  A physician and eminent botanist.
• Roy, William
  A Major General and distinguished practical mathematician and antiquary.
• Ruddiman, Thomas
  A celebrated philologist and Latin grammarian.
• Runciman, Walter
  Sailor and Shipowner.
• Russell, William
  A historical and miscellaneous writer.
• Russell, Scot
  Grandfather of modern communications
• Rutherford, John
  A learned physician of the eighteenth century.
• Rutherford, Ernest (Sir)
  Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances.
• Rutherford, Samuel
  A celebrated divine.
• Rymer, Thomas
  Of Ercildon, commonly called Thomas the Rhymer, and otherwise styled Thomas Learmont, was a distinguished person of the thirteenth century.

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