20th-century Scottish LGBTQ people

Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor, filmmaker and presenter. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, five Emmy Awards, and two Tony Awards. He also won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for the West End production of Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1991). His other Olivier-nominated roles are in The Conquest of the South Pole (1988), La Bête (1992), and Cabaret (1994). Cumming won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for reprising his role as the Emcee on Broadway in Cabaret (1998). His other performances on Broadway include Design for Living (2001), and Macbeth (2013).

Belgium musician

Scottish-American actor, author, and singer

Scottish pop singer

German writer (1864–1933)

Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years; this recommendation was later changed to a whole life tariff in December 1994. In his later years, Nilsen was imprisoned at HM Prison Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Scottish Canadian animator (1914-1987)

Scottish comic book writer and playwright (born 1960)

Scottish poet and novelist

British artist (1885-1978)

British actor (1926–2025)

Scottish actor

Scottish Labour Party politician (1966-2011)

Scottish politician and journalist (born 1961)

British Army general from the Black Isle, Scotland (1853–1903)

Scottish singer (1957–1997)

Irish republican activist

British historian (1904–1976)

British politician (1845-1916)

British naturalist (1914–1969)

British singer (1955-2021)

Scottish actor (born 1931)

British Conservative politician (1900-1986)

Scottish writer (1889-1930)

British egyptologist

Scottish musician (1953–1989)

British actor

Scottish painter and watercolorist (1892–1980)

Scottish musician, songwriter

British hymnwriter

Scottish writer (1919–2002)

Scottish female singer-songwriter.

British comedian and actress

Scottish opera director

11th Baronet of Craigievar, 1968 to 1991

Scottish serial killer

Scottish journalist

British journalist

Scottish artist (born 1963)

Scottish politician

British businessman (1938-2009)