This page is to acknowledge the important work of the following Scottish inventors, academics and sports people:
| Charles MacIntosh | - patented the rain coat |
James Watt | - Steam engine | William Murdoch | - gaslight |
John Macadam | - road surfaces |
John Boyd Dunlop | - pneumatic tyres |
John Chalmers | - adhesive postage stamps |
Alexander Graham Bell | - telephone |
Kirkpatrick MacMillan | - bicycle |
John Logie Baird | - television |
John Paul Jones | - founded the US Navy |
George Stephenson | - locomotives |
Patrick Ferguson | - breech loading rifle |
Alexander Fleming | - Penicillin |
James Maxwell | - took 1st coloured photo |
James Young | - Chloroform |
David Brewster | - Kaleidoscope |
James Dewar | - Vacuum flask |
David Hume | - philosopher |
Adam Smith | - economist |
Robert Adam | - architect |
James Boswell | - biographer |
Robert Burns | - Poet |
Mungo Park | - explorer |
Walter Scott | - Writer & novelist |
David Livingstone | - Explorer/missionary |
Andrew Carnegie | - Industrialist |
Robert Louis Stevenson | - Novelist/poet |
Arthur Conan Doyle | - Novelist |
J S Barrie | - Writer/playright |
Jock Stein | - football acheivements |
Bill Shankly | - football acheivements |
Matt Busby | - football acheivements |
