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Patrick Geddes
Sir Patrick Geddes (October 2, 1854 - 1932) was a Scottish biologist, known also for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and education. He was responsible for introducing the concept of "region" to architecture and planning and...
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- Oct 2, 1854
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James Young
James Young (13 July 1811 – 13 May 1883) was a Scottish chemist best known for his method of distilling paraffin from coal.
James Young was born in the Drygate area of Glasgow, the son of John Young, a cabinetmaker and joiner. He became his father's...
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- Jul 13, 1811
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Colin Maclaurin
Colin Maclaurin (February, 1698 – June 14, 1746) was a British mathematician. Due to changes in orthography since that time (his name was originally rendered as e.g. "M'Laurine"), his surname is alternatively written MacLaurin. In Gaelic the name is...
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- Feb 1698
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Charles Piazzi Smyth
Charles Piazzi Smyth (January 3, 1819 – February 21, 1900), was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well-known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Charles...
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- Jan 3, 1819
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James Gregory
James Gregory (November 1638 – October 1675), was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. It has been said that "Of the British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, Gregory was only excelled by Newton."
James Gregory was born at Drumoak,...
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- Nov 1638
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Thomas Brown
Thomas Brown (January 9, 1778 - April 2, 1820) was a Scottish metaphysician.
He was born at Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, where his father Rev. Samuel Brown was parish clergyman. He was a wide reader and an eager student. Educated at several schools...
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- Jan 9, 1778
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James David Forbes
James David Forbes FRS (20 April 1809 – 31 December 1868) was a Scottish physicist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat, seismology and glaciology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at the University and a...
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- Apr 20, 1809
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Robert Noble
Robert Laing Noble (February 3, 1910 – December 11, 1990) was a Canadian physician who was involved in the discovery of vinblastine.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1934 and a Ph.D. in 1937 from the...
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- Feb 3, 1910 (age 99 years)
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith (baptised 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790 [OS: 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790]) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral...
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1723
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David Hume
David Hume (7 May 1711 [26 April O.S.] – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, historian and a key figure in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley,...
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- Apr 26, 1711
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John Byrne
John Byrne (born 6 January 1940) is a Scottish playwright and artist.
John Byrne was born to an Irish Catholic family in Paisley, Renfrewshire. He grew up in the Ferguslie Park housing scheme and was educated at the town's St Mirin's Academy before...
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- Jan 6, 1940 (age 69 years)
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William Jardine
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire (February 23, 1800, Edinburgh to November 21, 1874, Sandown, Isle of Wight) was a Scottish naturalist.
Jardine made natural history available to all levels of Victorian society by editing...
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- Feb 23, 1800
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John James Richard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod (September 6, 1876 – March 16, 1935) was a Scottish physician, physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Macleod was born at Clunie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. He was the son of the Rev....
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1876 (age 133 years)
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Alexander Murray
Alexander Murray, CMG (2 June 1810 – 18 December 1884) was a Scottish geologist.
Murray was born in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. He worked as a geologist in the United Kingdom and Canada, before coming to Newfoundland in 1864 to become the first...
Date of birth:
- Jun 2, 1810
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Adam Ferguson
Adam Ferguson, also known as Ferguson of Raith (20 June 1723 (O.S.) (July 1, N.S.) - 22 February 1816) was a philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment. He is sometimes called "the father of modern sociology."
Born at Logierait in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1723
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James Ivory
James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an award-winning American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth...
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- Jun 7, 1928 (age 81 years)
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Mungo Park
Mungo Park (September 11, 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. He was credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River.
Mungo Park was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland at Foulshiels on the Yarrow Water, near...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1771
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Williamina Fleming
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (May 15, 1857 – May 21, 1911), astronomer, was born in Dundee, Scotland, to Robert Stevens and Mary Walker Stevens. She attended public schools in Dundee, and at the age of 14, she became a pupil-teacher. She married...
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- May 15, 1857
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Thomas Brisbane
Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, GCH, GCB FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860) was a Scottish soldier, colonial Governor and astronomer.
Brisbane was born at Brisbane House, near Largs in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son...
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1773
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Robert Brown
Robert Brown FRS (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include the discovery of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic...
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- Dec 21, 1773
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Johann von Lamont
Johann von Lamont (December 13, 1805 – August 6, 1879) was a Scottish-German astronomer and physicist.
Von Lamont was born John Lamont at Corriemulzie near Inverey in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The son of Robert Lamont (forester to James Duff) and...
Date of birth:
- Dec 13, 1805
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Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older...
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- Jul 3, 1728
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Robert Colquhoun
Robert Colquhoun (20 December 1914 – 20 September 1962) was a Scottish painter, printmaker and theatre set designer.
Colquhoun was born in Kilmarnock and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He won a scholarship to study at the Glasgow School of Art,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1914 (age 95 years)
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John Anderson
John Anderson (1 November 1893 – 6 July 1962) was a Scottish-born Australian philosopher who occupied the post of Challis Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University in the years 1927-1958. He founded the empirical brand of philosophy known as ...
Date of birth:
- Nov 1, 1893 (age 116 years)
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John Richardson
Sir John Richardson (November 5, 1787 – June 5, 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.
Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University , and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1787
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Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano OBE born Jack Hoggan (born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter.
Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer. Vettriano only took up...
Date of birth:
- Nov 17, 1951 (age 58 years)
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William Maclure
William Maclure, American - British social experimenter on new types of community life together with British social reformer Robert Owen, (1771 - 1854), in Indiana State, U. S. A..Maclure , (Born 1763 in Ayr, Scotland – March 23, 1840), aged 77, at...
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- Oct 27, 1763
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David Brewster
Sir David Brewster FRS (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer.
David Brewster was born at Jedburgh, where his father, a teacher of high reputation, was rector of the grammar...
Date of birth:
- Dec 11, 1781
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Joseph John Thomson
Sir Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. He was awarded the 1906...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1856
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James Alfred Ewing
Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB (27 March 1855 - 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis.
(Note:...
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- Mar 27, 1855
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.
Wilson was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian to...
Date of birth:
- Feb 14, 1869 (age 140 years)
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Mary Somerville
Mary Fairfax Somerville (26 December 1780 – 28 November 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and was the second woman scientist to...
Date of birth:
- Dec 26, 1780
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Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson (born May 17, 1962) is a Scottish-American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, director and actor. He is the present host of CBS's The Late Late Show, a role that earned him an Emmy nomination in 2006.
Before his career as a...
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- May 17, 1962 (age 47 years)
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Hugh Falconer
Hugh Falconer MD FRS (February 29, 1808 – July 31, 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna and geology of India, Assam and Burma, and was the first to suggest the modern...
Date of birth:
- Feb 29, 1808
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Stanley Baxter
Stanley Baxter, (born 24 May 1926, Glasgow, Scotland) is a comic actor and impressionist, best known for his UK TV shows.
The son of an insurance manager, Baxter was educated at Hillhead High School, Glasgow and schooled for the stage by his mother....
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1926 (age 83 years)
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Robert Watson-Watt
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, LLD, DSc, Order of the Bath, FRS, FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". Radar development was first started elsewhere (see History of radar), but, on 1...
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- Apr 13, 1892 (age 117 years)
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John Leslie
Sir John Leslie (10 April 1766 – 3 November 1832) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat.
Leslie gave the first modern account of capillary action in 1802 and froze water using an air-pump in 1810, the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1766
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Greg Hemphill
Gregory "Greg" Hemphill (born 1969)is a Scottish comedian. He has also presented on television and radio. Along with his comedy partner, Ford Kiernan, he is best known in the United Kingdom for his appearances in Still Game and Chewin' the Fat....
Date of birth:
- 1969 (age 40 years)
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE, (28 October 1925 - 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.
Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas of Scottish parents. He was educated in Scotland at Dollar Academy. At the age of 13, with the outbreak...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1925 (age 84 years)
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Walter Scott
Malachi Malagrowther was a pseudonym used by Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) in a series of letters written to the Edinburgh Weekly News in 1826, successfully defending the right of the Scottish banks to issue banknotes with a face value of less than...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1771
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Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1881 (age 128 years)
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James Dewar
Sir James Dewar FRS (20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a British chemist and physicist. He is probably best-known today for his invention of the Dewar flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases....
Date of birth:
- Sep 20, 1842
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Eric Temple Bell
Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883, Peterhead, Scotland - December 21, 1960, Watsonville, California) was a mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the U.S. for most of his life. He published his non-fiction under his...
Date of birth:
- Feb 7, 1883 (age 126 years)
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William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay, KCB (2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" ...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1852
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Carlos Finlay
Carlos Juan Finlay (born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barrés; December 3, 1833, Puerto Principe, Cuba – August 20, 1915, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban physician and scientist, recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research.
Finlay was born in Puerto Principe,...
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- Dec 3, 1833
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James Nasmyth
James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (August 19, 1808 – May 7, 1890) was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer.
His father Alexander Nasmyth was a landscape and portrait...
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- Aug 19, 1808
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Colen Campbell
Colen Campbell (1676–1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect who spent most of his career in England, and is credited as a founder of the Georgian style. A descendent of the Campbells of Cawdor Castle, he initially trained as a lawyer, and then...
Date of birth:
- 1676
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Ronni Ancona
Veronica 'Ronni' Ancona (born 4 July 1968, Troon, Ayrshire), sometimes credited as 'Ronnie Ancona' in early work, is a Scottish impressionist and actress of Italian/Jewish ancestry who won the Best TV Comedy Actress award at the 2003 British Comedy...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Henry Home, Lord Kames
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696 – 27 December 1782) was a Scottish philosopher of the 18th century. Born at Kames House, between Eccles and Birgham, Berwickshire, and educated at home by a private tutor, he became an advocate and was one of the leaders...
Date of birth:
- 1696
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William Murdoch
William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. It is believed he Anglicised his name to Murdock when he moved to England.
Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 21, 1754
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James Hutton
James Hutton MD (Edinburgh, 3 June 1726 OS (14 June 1726 NS) – 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, physician, naturalist, chemist and experimental farmer. He is considered the father of modern geology. His theories of geology and geologic time...
Date of birth:
- Jun 14, 1726
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John Napier
John Napier of Merchistoun (1550 – 4 April 1617) - also signed as Neper, Nepair - named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer/astrologer and 8th Laird of Merchistoun, son of Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston. He...
Date of birth:
- 1550
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John Law
John Law (usually pronounced Jean Lass by contemporary French) (bap. 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth...
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1671
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William Cullen
William Cullen (15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790) was a Scottish physician and chemist.
Cullen was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. His father William was a lawyer retained by the Duke of Hamilton and his mother was Elizabeth Roberton of Whistlebury....
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1710
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James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician. His most significant achievement was the development of the classical electromagnetic theory, synthesizing all previous unrelated...
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- Jun 13, 1831
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Doon Mackichan
Doon Mackichan (born Sarah-Doon Mackichan 1962 in Surrey) is an English comedienne and actress.
Aged 9, she moved with her family to Upper Largo, Fife. She is probably best known as one of the writers and stars of the Channel 4 comedy series Smack...
Date of birth:
- 1962 (age 47 years)
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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...
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- 1266
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Thomas James Henderson
Thomas James Alan Henderson (28 December 1798 – 23 November 1844) was a Scottish astronomer noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, and for being the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 28, 1798
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Ford Kiernan
Ford John Kiernan (born 1962) is a Scottish comedian. Along with his comedy partner, Greg Hemphill, he is best known in the United Kingdom for his appearances in Still Game and Chewin' The Fat.
Born in Dennistoun, Glasgow, Kiernan was educated at...
Date of birth:
- 1962 (age 47 years)
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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer.
He is best known for portraying the character James Bond in cinema, starring in seven...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1930 (age 79 years)
