The list below is from the book The Scottish 100: Portraits of History's Most Influential Scots, Carroll & Graf Publishers (2000), written by Duncan A. Bruce.
One hundred short biographies celebrate seven centuries of Scottish and world history, in a reference that features profiles of Robert the Bruce, John Paul Jones, John Knox, Andrew Carnegie, and Alexander Graham Bell.
Note that the people in this book are not ranked relative to each other. The biographies are simply grouped by category.
| Architecture-Design | ||
|---|---|---|
| Robert Adam | (1728-1792) | |
| Charles Rennie Mackintosh | (1868-1928) | |
| Art | ||
| Allan Ramsay and Henry Raeburn | (1713-1784, 1756-1823) | |
| Mary Cassatt | (1844-1926) | |
| Alexander Calder | (1898-1976) | |
| Jackson Pollock | (1912-1956) | |
| Business | ||
| William Paterson | (1658-1719) | |
| John Law | (1671-1729) | |
| William Jardine and James Matheson | (1784-1843, 1796-1878) | |
| Andrew Carnegie | (1835-1919) | Presbyterian |
| Thomas Blake Glover | (1838-1911) | |
| Elizabeth Arden | (1878-1966) | |
| Donald Douglas | (1892-1981) | Anglican |
| Thomas J. Watson and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. | (1874-1956, 1914-1993) | |
| Cinema | ||
| Sean Connery | (1930-) | Catholic |
| Conservation | ||
| John Muir | (1838-1914) | |
| Rachel Carson | (1907-1964) | Environmentalist |
| Diplomacy | ||
| Robert R. Livingston | (1746-1813) | ? |
| Engineering-Invention | ||
| James Watt | (1736-1819) | Presbyterian |
| Willam Murdoch | (1754-1839) | |
| William Symington | (1764-1831) | |
| Kirkpatrick Macmillan | (1813-1878) | |
| Sanford Fleming | (1827-1915) | |
| Alexander Graham Bell | (1847-1922) | Unitarian/Universalist |
| Thomas A. Edison | (1847-1931) | Congregationalist; agnostic |
| Guglielmo Marconi | (1874-1937) | Catholic; Anglican |
| John Logie Baird | (1888-1946) | |
| Robert Watson-Watt | (1892-1973) | |
| Exploration | ||
| Henry Sinclair (d. c. 1400) | ||
| James Cook (Captain Cook) | (1728-1779) | Anglican |
| Alexander Mackenzie | (1764-1820) | |
| David Livingstone | (1813-1873) | Calvinist |
| Intelligence | ||
| William Stephenson | (1896-1989) | |
| Journalism-Communications | ||
| James Gordon Bennett and James Gordon Bennett | (1795-1872, 1841-1918) | |
| Lila Acheson Wallace and De Witt Wallace | (1889-1984, 1889-1981) | |
| Rupert Murdoch | (1931-) | Jewish and/or Catholic and/or Presbyterian |
| Law | ||
| James Wilson | (1742-1798) | Episcopalian |
| John Marshall | (1755-1835) | Episcopalian |
| Literature | ||
| James Macpherson | (1736-1796) | |
| Robert Burns | (1759-1796) | unitarian (unofficial) |
| Walter Scott (Sir Walter Scott) | (1771-1832) | Anglican |
| Washington Irving | (1783-1859) | |
| George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) | (1788-1824) | atheist |
| Thomas Carlyle | (1795-1881) | Swedenborgian |
| Edgar Allan Poe | (1809-1849) | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | (1850-1894) | Presbyterian |
| Medicine | ||
| William Hunter and John Hunter | (1718-1783, 1728-1793) | |
| Ronald Ross | (1857-1932) | |
| John J. R. Macleod and Frederick Grant Banting | (1876-1935, 1891-1941) | |
| Alexander Fleming | (1881-1955) | |
| Ian Donald, Allan MacLeod Cormack, and James M. S. Hutchison | (1910-1987, 1924-1998, 1940-) | |
| Military-Naval | ||
| William Wallace (c. 1270-1305) | Catholic | |
| Robert Bruce (King Robert I) | (1274-1329) | |
| John Hepburn (c. 1589-1636) | ||
| John Paul Jones | (1747-1792) | |
| Mikhail Andreas Bogdanovich Barchlay de Tolly | (1761-1818) | |
| Winfield Scott | (1786-1866) | |
| Thomas Cochrane (Lord Dundonald) | (1775-1860) | |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant | (1822-1885) | Presbyterian (nominal) |
| Douglas MacArthur | (1880-1964) | |
| Music-Dance | ||
| Stephen Foster | (1826-1864) | |
| Edvard Grieg | (1843-1907) | Unitarian |
| Martha Graham | (1894-1991) | |
| Joan Sutherland | (1926-) | |
| Philosophy | ||
| Francis Hutcheson | (1694-1746) | |
| David Hume | (1711-1776) | Church of Scotland (Presbyterian); Deist |
| Thomas Reid | (1710-1796) | |
| Adam Smith | (1723-1790) | Liberal Protestant |
| Immanuel Kant | (1724-1804) | Lutheran; Pietist |
| John Stuart Mill | (1806-1873) | agnostic; Utilitarian |
| Religion | ||
| Michael Scot and John Duns Scotus | (1175?-1235?, c. 1265-1308) | Catholic |
| John Knox (c. 1514-1572) | Presbyterian | |
| Rulers-Statesmen | ||
| Mary Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots) | (1542-1587) | Catholic |
| James Stewart (King James VI & I) | (1566-1625) | |
| Patrick Gordon | (1635-1699) | |
| Robert Dinwiddie | (1693-1770) | |
| Patrick Henry | (1736-1799) | Episcopalian |
| Alexander Hamilton | (1755-1804) | Episcopalian |
| Lachlan Macquarie | (1761-1824) | |
| Andrew Jackson | (1767-1845) | Presbyterian |
| Sam Houston | (1793-1863) | |
| James Knox Polk | (1795-1849) | Presbyterian |
| William Ewart Gladstone | (1809-1898) | |
| James Bruce (8th Earl of Elgin) | (1811-1863) | |
| James Andrew Broun Ramsay (Lord Dalhousie) | (1812-1860) | |
| John A. Macdonald | (1815-1891) | Anglican |
| Allan Octavian Hume | (1829-1912) | |
| Arthur James Balfour | (1848-1930) | |
| Science | ||
| John Napier | (1550-1617) | Calvinist |
| James Hutton | (1726-1797) | |
| Joseph Black | (1728-1799) | |
| Joseph Henry | (1797-1878) | Presbyterian |
| William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) | (1824-1907) | Anglican |
| James Clerk Maxwell | (1831-1879) | Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist |
| William Ramsay | (1852-1916) | |
| Joseph J. Thomson | (1856-1940) | |
| Ernest Rutherford (Lord Rutherford) | (1871-1937) | |
| Mary Leakey | (1913-1996) | |
| James D. Watson | (1928-) | |
| Sports | ||
| James Naismith | (1861-1939) | |