Category

20th-century Scottish businesspeople

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John Logie Baird

Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)

Scottish racing driver

British film director (1886–1960)

John Boyd Dunlop

Scottish inventor

British tea merchant and yacht racer (1848-1931)

Compton Mackenzie

Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist (1883-1972)

Bertie Charles Forbes

American financial journalist, founder of Forbes Magazine (1880–1954)

Scottish racing driver

British politician (born 1942)

Scottish documentary pioneer (1898–1972)

James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife

Scottish noble (1929-2015)

racecar driver (1946-2010)

Thomas Blake Glover

Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan

Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird

Scottish footballer (1847–1923)

British-American banking executive, Chief Executive Officer of Citi

British merchant banker and rower (1889-1971)

British game programmer and co-founder of Grand Theft Auto

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Scottish distiller and politician (1864-1930)

Scottish footballer (1930-1984)

John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

British broadcasting executive and politician (1889–1971)

George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth

British politician (1921–2008)

Scottish medium (1897–1956)

Catherine Stihler

Scottish politician, member of the European Parliament 1999-2019

James Key Caird

British mathematician (1837–1916)

Alexander Winton

British automotive pioneer (1860–1932)

Scottish photographer (born 1942)

Thomas Sutherland

British politician (1834-1922)

David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home

Earl of Home from 1995 to 2022

John Giannandrea

Scottish computer scientist

Gordon Holmes MacMillan

Professional soldier who rose to become a general in the British Army (1897-1986)

Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan

British politician (1871-1940)

Scottish business executive

British politician (1839-1913)

David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie

British politician (1926–2023)

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician (1894-1973)

John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician (1923-2007)

rally driver, founder of Mitsubishi Ralliart Europe (1936-2019)

Stewart Stevenson

Scottish politician (born 1946)

Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian

British politician (1922-2004)

Charles Forte, Baron Forte

British/Italian caterer and hotelier (1908-2007)

William Fife III

Scottish yacht designer (1857-1944)

George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie

British politician (1931-2003)

British politician (1907-1955)

William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn

British baron (1856-1936)

James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane

Scottish businessman (1936-2020)

George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland

British duke (1888-1963)

John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard

British diplomat (born 1942)

joint General Secretary of the UEFA (1954-2014)

Scottish footballer and manager (1885-1934)

James Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay

British peer (born 1955)

British businessman, Scottish Gaelic language activist (1935-2010)

Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway

Scottish lawyer, politician, and industrialist (1850-1934)

Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll

Scottish peer (1903-1973)

Scottish footballer (1944-2019)

Sidney Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone

British peer (1869–1955)

British businessperson (born 1971)

Andrew Mackenzie

Scottish businessman

Harry Robertson

musician, bandleader, music director and composer (1932–1996)

George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie

British politician (1851-1929)

British politician (1825–1909)