| 1913–2007 | Thomas Torrance |
| 1850–1894 | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 1918–2006 | Dame Muriel Spark |
| 1812–1904 | Samuel Smiles |
| 1801–1877 | Robert Dale Owen |
| 1883–1973 | A. S. Neill |
| 1837–1915 | Sir James Murray |
| fl. c. 1806–c. 1873 | John Stuart Mill |
| 1913–1994 | Donald MacKinnon |
| 1813–1873 | David Livingstone |
| 1927–1989 | R. D. Laing |
| 1916–1995 | James Herriot |
| 1859–1932 | Kenneth Grahame |
| 1885–1978 | Duncan Grant |
| 1854–1941 | Sir James Frazer |
| 1859–1930 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Born 1930 | Sean Connery |
| 1795–1881 | Thomas Carlyle |
| 1875–1940 | John Buchan |
| 1880–1971 | John Boyd Orr |
| 1847–1922 | Alexander Graham Bell |
| 1819–1905 | Alexander Melville Bell |
| 1888–1946 | John Baird |
| 1818–1903 | Alexander Bain |
| 1874–1960 | Katherine Atholl |
