Category
page 119th-century Scottish businesspeople
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
William John Macquorn Rankine
civil engineer (1820–1872)
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
British politician (1784-1860)
John Boyd Dunlop
Scottish inventor
Alexander Mackenzie
2nd Prime Minister of Canada (1822-1892)
Thomas Lipton
British tea merchant and yacht racer (1848-1931)
John Loudon McAdam
Scottish engineer and road-builder (1756–1836)
Allan Pinkerton
Scottish-American civil war detective and spy
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
Scottish politician and civil servant (1812–1860)
Charles Macintosh
British chemist (1766–1843)
Robert Michael Ballantyne
Scottish author of juvenile fiction (1825-1894)
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
British nobleman and 4th Governor General of Canada (1845-1914)
James Nasmyth
Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor (1808–1890)
William McGregor
Scottish football administrator (1846–1911)
John Claudius Loudon
Scottish botanist (1782-1843)
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
Scottish peer, Liberal politician and writer on science, religion, and politics (1823-1900)
John Scott Russell
British naval engineer (1808–1882)
John Rennie
engineer from Scotland (1761-1821)
James Wilson
Scottish businessman, economist and Liberal politician (1805-1860)
John Galt
Scottish writer (1779-1839)
Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird
Scottish footballer (1847–1923)
Alexander Keith Johnston
Scottish geographer (1804–1871)
James Busby
Scottish/Australian/New Zealand viticulturalist, farmer and politician (1802-1871)
Thomas Blake Glover
Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Scottish distiller and politician (1864-1930)
Fleeming Jenkin
Scottish engineer (1833-1885)
Gregor MacGregor
British soldier, adventurer and confidence trickster (1786-1845)
John Ramsay McCulloch
Scottish economist, author and editor
James Thomson
British engineer (1822–1892)
Robert William Thomson
Scottish businessman and inventor (1822-1873)
George Elphinstone
1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (1746–1823)
William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch
British politician (1831-1914)
James Keir
Scottish chemist, geologist, industrialist and inventor
James Dickson
Scottish nurseryman and botanist (1738-1822)
William Fairbairn
Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder
James Key Caird
British mathematician (1837–1916)
James Young
Scottish chemist, born 1811 (1811–1883)
Alexander Winton
British automotive pioneer (1860–1932)
James Beaumont Neilson
Scottish inventor of the hot-blast process for smelting iron (1792-1865)
Thomas Sutherland
British politician (1834-1922)
Patrick Matthew
British scientist
Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch
Scottish politician and nobleman (1806-1884)
Andrew Bell
Scottish engraver and printer (1726–1809)
Francis Buchanan White
Scottish entomologist and botanist (1842–1894)
William Arrol
British politician (1839-1913)
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan
British politician (1871-1940)
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
British nobleman and inventor
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland
British politician (1828-1892)
Archibald Constable
Scottish printer and publisher
Alexander Cumming
British inventor
George Washington Wilson
Scottish painter and photographer (1823-1893)
Robert Gair
inventor
Charles Tennant
Businessperson, chemist, industrialist (1768-1838)
Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland
son of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (1851-1913)
John Henry Anderson
Scottish magician (1814–1874)
John Broadwood
Scottish founder of the piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons; (1732-1812)
William Fife III
Scottish yacht designer (1857-1944)
Peter Barr
British botanist (1826-1909)
William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn
British baron (1856-1936)
Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway
Scottish lawyer, politician, and industrialist (1850-1934)