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David Bell

David Bell was a Scottish television producer and director in the light entertainment genre. In the mid 1980s, he became head of light entertainment at LWT. Live From Her Majesty's, Copy Cats and The Stanley Baxter Show number amongst his successes....
x Date of birth:
1936
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Deceased Person,
TV Producer,
Influence Node

George T. Miller

George Trumbull Miller (born 1943) is a Scottish-born Australian film and television director and producer. He has directed The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Man from Snowy River and Prey.
x Date of birth:
1943
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Film director,
Film producer,
Influence Node

Eric Cullen

Eric Robertson Cullen (12 July 1965 — 16 August 1996) was a Scottish actor who was famous for his role as Wee Burney in BBC's Rab C Nesbitt. He was born with achondroplasia - a type of dwarfism. He was born to a single mother and was adopted by a...
x Date of birth:
Jul 12, 1965
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Deceased Person,
Influence Node
Duns Scotus

Duns Scotus

Blessed John (Johannes) Duns Scotus, O.F.M. (c. 1266 – December 8, 1308) was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. He was nicknamed Doctor Subtilis for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought. Scotus...
x Date of birth:
1266
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Deceased Person,
Influence Node,
Philosopher,
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Milind Soman

Milind Soman

Milind Soman (Marathi: मिलिंद सोमण) is an Indian model and actor. He was born in Scotland on November 4, 1965 and lived in England for seven years before his family moved back to India. Soman is considered one of the most successful models in India....
x Date of birth:
Nov 4, 1965
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Film actor,
Influence Node

James Smillie

James Smilie (born 1944 in Scotland) emigrated from the Glasgow tenements, carving out a career in Australia before returning to the United Kingdom to star in London's West End. A dynamic and versatile leading man, he has played the starring role in...
x Date of birth:
1944
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
TV Actor,
Influence Node
Sara Stewart

Sara Stewart

Sara Stewart (born 28 June 1966) is a Scottish actress, perhaps most famously known for her role as Stella in Sugar Rush. Stewart was born Sara Scott Griffith in Edinburgh, Scotland, to American parents. After spending some time in America, she...
x Date of birth:
Jun 28, 1966
x Gender:
Female
x Also Typed With:
Film actor,
Influence Node
Tommy Dysart

Tommy Dysart

Tommy Dysart is a Scottish-born actor, currently resident in Australia. Dysart has been a regular fixture on Australian television for several decades, frequently appearing in guest-starring roles in drama series and comedies, and in character roles...
x Date of birth:
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
TV Actor,
Influence Node

William Mackenzie

William Mackenzie (April 1791 – July 1868) was a Scottish ophthalmologist. He wrote Practical Treatise of the Diseases of the Eye, one of the first British textbooks of ophthalmology. Mackenzie was born in Queen Street, Glasgow, and studied medicine...
x Date of birth:
Apr 1791
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Deceased Person,
Influence Node,
Academic

Jack McElhone

Jack McElhone (born 1993) is a Scottish actor. He is famous for his role as Frankie in the 2004 film Dear Frankie, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award. He also had roles in Young Adam, The Book Group, Stacked and the Hovis advert....
x Date of birth:
1993
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Film actor,
Influence Node

Tom Steele

Tom Steele (12 June 1909 – 30 October 1990) was a stunt man and actor, best remembered for appearing in serials, especially those produced by Republic Pictures, in both capacities. Born Thomas B. Skeoch in Scotland, Steele came to America with his...
x Date of birth:
Jun 12, 1909
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Film actor,
Influence Node,
Deceased Person

Danny Bhoy

Danny Bhoy (born 1974) is an Indian-Scottish comedian who has found success in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He is half-Indian and half-Scottish. Danny grew up in Moffat, Scotland, as one of four children, and attended...
x Date of birth:
1976
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Influence Node

Michael J. Benton

Michael J. Benton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic...
x Date of birth:
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Influence Node,
Academic

Ashley Mulheron

Ashley Mulheron (born 8 February 1983) is a Scottish actress and television presenter. Mulheron trained as an actress at Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Mulheron was in the British Comedy Horror Lesbian Vampire Killers 2009, opposite...
x Date of birth:
Feb 8, 1986
x Gender:
Female
x Also Typed With:
TV Personality,
Influence Node

Lila Leslie

Lila Leslie (1 January 1890 – 8 September 1940) was a British actress of the silent era. She appeared in 71 films between 1913 and 1933. She was born in Scotland and died in Los Angeles, California.
x Date of birth:
Jan 1, 1890
x Gender:
Female
x Also Typed With:
Film actor,
Influence Node,
Deceased Person

Robert Florence

Robert Florence is a Scottish Presenter, Comedian and Writer best known for starring in popular video-game review shows Consolevania and Videogaiden. He was a core writer of Chewin' the Fat and with Iain Connell wrote the sitcom series Legit and...
x Date of birth:
Jul 29, 1977
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Influence Node
Heather Ripley

Heather Ripley

Heather Ripley (born 6 May 1959) is a Scottish actress whose only film role was as Jemima Potts in the 1968 children's musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. For this role, she adopted an English accent. She currently lives as a part of the Findhorn...
x Date of birth:
May 6, 1959
x Gender:
Female
x Also Typed With:
Film actor,
Influence Node

Myra Carter

Myra Carter (born October 27, 1930) is an award-winning American actress of stage, screen and television. Carter is most admired for her work on stage and in particular the works of Edward Albee including the original casts of Three Tall Women and...
x Date of birth:
Oct 27, 1930
x Gender:
Female
x Also Typed With:
Film actor,
TV Actor,
Influence Node

Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell (11 October 1859 – 26 August 1928) was a Scottish-born director and screenwriter. He directed 177 films between 1911 and 1924. He also wrote for 60 films between 1911 and 1922. He was born in Scotland, and died in Hollywood,...
x Date of birth:
Oct 11, 1859
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Film director,
Influence Node,
Deceased Person

Raymond Mearns

Raymond Mearns is a Scottish actor and comedian who is best known for his part in Scottish comedy sitcom Legit where he plays "Happy Boab". He has also appeard in Ae Fond Kiss... and It's a Free World... which were both directed by award winning Ken...
x Date of birth:
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Influence Node
Alan W. Black

Alan W. Black

Alan W Black is a Scottish computer scientist in the field of speech synthesis (AI), associate research professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, and co-founder of Cepstral LLP. He has over 100 referred...
x Date of birth:
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Influence Node,
Academic

Jessica Hart

Jessica Hart (b. Scotland) is a popular British writer of over 45 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1991. Jessica Hart was born in Cameroon, where her mother continues living. She has traveled by Australian Outback, Indonesia, Belize, Cameroon,...
x Date of birth:
x Gender:
Female
x Also Typed With:
Influence Node,
Author
Gus Ferguson

Gus Ferguson

Gus Ferguson (1940-) is a South African cartoonist, poet and pharmacist. He was born in Scotland, but moved with his parents to South Africa in 1949. His cartoons have been published widely in South Africa; he has also published poems accompanied by...
x Date of birth:
1940
x Gender:
Male
x Also Typed With:
Influence Node
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