Significant and Famous Scots

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• Laing, Alexander Gordon
  Whose name is so mournfully connected with the history of African discovery.
• Laing, David
  Antiquary and Bibliographer
• Laing, Malcolm
  A lawyer and distinguished constitutional historian.
• Laing, William
  A well-known collector of rich and rare literary productions, whose shop was a Herculaneum of the treasures of past ages.
• Landsborough, David
  A successful cultivator of natural history.
• Lang, Andrew
  Writer and Journalist. His output was enormous and varied over many subjects from fairytales to anthropology and Greek literature.
• Lauder, Sir Harry
  Singer
• Lauder, Sir John
  Lord Fountainhall, an eminent lawyer and statesman.
• Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick
  An eminent writer.
• Lauder, William
  A man renowned in literary history, for having turned superior talents, and very high classical acquirements, to an attempt to defraud Milton of his fame.
• Law, Andrew Bonar
  Canadian born Prime Minister of Great Britain
• Law, John
  Comptroller-general of the finances of France.
• Learmonth, Lorenz Alexander
  The last commissioned officer of the Hudson Bay Company
• Lee, James Paris
  Inventor of the Lee-Enfield Rifle
• Lee, John Rose
  The Very Reverend The Principal of the University of Edinburgh
• Leishman, Matthew
  Of Govan
• Leitch, William
  Scientist.
• Lesley, George
  Of Monymusk, a capuchin friar, of the earlier part of the seventeenth century.
• Leslie, Alexander
  The celebrated military leader of the covenanters, during the civil wars of Charles I., created lord Balgonie, and afterwards earl of Leven.
• Leslie, Charles
  A celebrated non-juring divine, was the second son of the bishop of Clogher.
• Leslie, David
  A celebrated military commander during the civil wars, and the first lord Newark.
• Leslie, John
  Bishop of Clogher.
• Leslie, John
  Bishop of Ross, and distinguished for his indefatigable exertions in behalf of queen Mary.
• Leslie, John
  Professor of natural philosophy in the university of Edinburgh, and distinguished by his valuable writings and discoveries.
• Leyden, John
  A man of singularly varied genius and accomplishment.
• Liddel, Duncan
  A physician of eminence.
• Liddell, Eric
  The famous athlete and Christian.
• Lindsay, David
  A celebrated Scottish poet of the sixteenth century.
• Lindsay, John
  Eighteenth earl of Crawford, and fourth earl of Lindsay.
• Lindsay, Robert
  Author of the Chronicles of Scotland known by his name.
• Linklater, Eric Robert Russell
  Writer
• Lister, Joseph
  Born 1827. A surgeon who pioneered the use of antiseptics and thereby dramatically reduced the number of post-opertive deaths due to infection.
• Liston, Robert
  A great medical teacher and practitioner.
• Lithgow, William
  A well known traveller of the seventeenth century.
• Littlejohn, Sir Henry Duncan
  Medical officer of health and expert in forensic medicine.
• Livingston, David
  Famous missionary and explorer in Africa.
• Livingston, John
  One of the most revered names in Scottish ecclesiastical history.
• Livingston, James
  The Flax King
• Lockhart, George
  A distinguished constitutional lawyer, and lord president of the court of session.
• Lockhart, George
  A celebrated political partisan, and author of Memoirs concerning the Affairs of Scotland, Commentaries, &c.
• Lockhart, John
  A distinguished miscellaneous writer.
• Lockhart, William
  An eminent statesman under the Protectorate of Cromwell.
• Logan, George
  Chiefly celebrated as the controversial opponent of Ruddiman.
• Logan, Hamish
  A Heroic Edinburgh Army officer honoured by the Queen for his wartime exploits in the Far East.
• Logan, John
  A poet and sermon-writer of no mean eminence.
• Lothian, William
  Author of a History of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
• Loudon, John Claudius
  An eminent improver of our gardening and agriculture.
• Love, John
  A profound theologian and eloquent preacher.
• Low, George
  An ingenious naturalist.
• Lowe, John
  A poet of considerable celebrity.
• Lumsden, James
  East Lothian Author

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