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page 1People of the Scottish Enlightenment
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
Robert Burns
Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)

James Mill
Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (1773-1836)
Tobias Smollett
18th-century poet and author from Scotland
James Macpherson
British writer, poet, translator and politician (1736-1796)
Francis Hutcheson
Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)

Robert Adam
British neoclassical architect (1728–1792)

Thomas Reid
Scottish philosopher (1710–1796)
Charles Bell
Scottish physician, painter and theologian (1774–1842)
James Thomson
Scottish writer (1700–1748)

John Playfair
Scottish scientist and mathematician
Henry Raeburn
British portrait painter (1756-1823)
James Wilson
Justice on the US Supreme Court (1742-1798)
Dugald Stewart
Scottish philosopher and mathematician

John Leslie
British mathematician and physicist (1766–1832)
Allan Ramsay
Scottish portrait painter (1713-1784)
David Allan
Scottish painter (1744-1796)
James Steuart
Scottish economist
David Wilkie
Scottish painter (1785-1841)
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Scottish philosopher, judge and agricultural improver (1696–1782)
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Scottish advocate and politician (1742-1811)
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet (1686-1758)
Thomas Brown
Scottish philosopher and poet, born 1778
Robert Fergusson
Scottish poet and writer (1750-1774)
James Adam
Scottish architect; (1732-1794)
Robert Blair
Scottish writer (1699-1746)
Gavin Hamilton
Scottish neoclassical history painter, trader in sculptures and paintings (1723–1798)
Alexander Nasmyth
British artist based in Edinburgh (1758-1840)
John Walker
Scottish natural historian (1731-1803)
John Anderson
scientist, philosopher, and educator of the Scottish Enlightenment; (1726-1796)
Pieter Teyler van der Hulst
Dutch Mennonite cloth merchant and art collector (1702-1778)
Alison Cockburn
Scottish poet, wit and socialite (1712-1794)
David Mallet
Scottish writer, editor and spy

John Home
Scottish playwright and Presbyterian minister; (1722-1808)

George Campbell
figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, born 1719

Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture (1754–1835)

Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet
Scottish geologist and politician (1761-1832)

John Millar
Scottish philosopher, jurist and historian
Alexander Gerard
Scottish minister, academic and philosophical writer
David Martin
British painter and engraver (1737-1797)
Thomas Blackwell
Scottish classical scholar and historian (1701-1757)
Andrew Fletcher
Scottish politician and noble
Patrick Ferguson
British Army officer
John Adam
Scottish architect
Alexander Runciman
British artist (1736-1785)
David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan
British antiquarian; (1742-1829)
Archibald Alison
Scottish minister and essayist (1757-1839)

Jan Hope
Dutch art collector, member of science societies, and banker (1737-1784)
John Thomson
Scottish minister and landscape painter (1778-1840)
Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet
Scottish advocate, landowner and politician (1729-1805)
Alexander Carlyle
Scottish church leader (1722-1805)