Born in Brechin, Angus, Scotland, Watson-Watt was a descendant of James Watt, the famous engineer and inventor of the practical steam engine.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of London where he achieved an MA degree in 1912.

Born in Tymouth, Scotland.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the sixth child and third son of John Stairs and Mary Morrow, he attended school at Fort Massey Academy in Halifax, Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, Student # 52

Born in Scotland, where he attended parish school and graduated from the Tain Royal Academy in 1869.

Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley.

Born in Scotland and educated as a philosopher, Balfour first entered parliament in the 1874 general election.

Born Jennie Kidd Gowanlock in Wooden Mills, Kelso, Scotland, Jennie ( whose name is variously spelled ' Jenny ') moved with her parents to Canada in 1847, settling near Stratford, Ontario.

Born at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Revd Dr George Reith, a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland ( later amalgamated with Church of Scotland, and not to be confused with the Free Church of Scotland ).

Born at Logierait in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland, he received his education at Logierait Parish School, Perth Grammar School, and at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews ( MA 1742 ).

Born in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland, the son of a policeman, he was educated at Dunoon Grammar School and studied Economics at the Queen's College, Dundee.

Born in Inverness, Scotland, he studied Scots law at the University of Glasgow and became involved in debating with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and at the Glasgow University Union, where he befriended contemporary Labourites Donald Dewar and John Smith.

Born Isobel Morag Marshall in Aberdeen, Scotland, the daughter of a doctor.

Born in Scotland, he emigrated to America from Rotterdam in 1687 and in 1697 married Margareta Schuyler, the daughter of Pieter Schuyler, the mayor of Albany.

Born in Montrose, Scotland, Nichol was the son of John Pringle Nichol, Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Henderson moved to Nottingham, England, at an early age when his Scottish father, a prominent Congregational minister, was appointed to a church there and later became Principal of Paton College in that city.

Born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland to a working class Roman Catholic family, Reid became a Communist in his twenties, joining the Young Communist League as a student in 1972.

Born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to a Presbyterian family, he received an M. A.

Born illegitimate and raised as a foster child, he subsequently advanced to the rank of a Dutch captain, a Swedish Field Marshal, and in Scotland became lord general in command of the Covenanters, privy councillor, captain of Edinburgh Castle, Lord Balgonie and Earl of Leven.

Born as Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith in Dunoon, Scotland on the Cowal peninsula, to an Irish mother and English father.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Falconer was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, Trinity College, Glenalmond, and Queens ' College, Cambridge.

Born to George Belaney and his wife Katherine ( Kittie ) Cox, Archie was mostly of English descent on both sides ; his paternal grandfather had come from Scotland and married in England.

Born in London in 1947, Cockburn grew up in County Cork, Ireland.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Cockburn was 32 years old, and a lieutenant in The Royal Canadian Dragoons, Canadian Army during the Second Boer War when the action took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Born in 1772 in London, George was the second son of Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet ( 1729 – 1804 ) and his second wife Augusta Anne Ayscough.

Shaking The Pumpkin featured Bruce Cockburn ( on " How the Violin Was Born "), Dalbello ( on " Rules Are Made to be Broken ") and singer Robert Palmer on a version of Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze ".

Born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Cockburn attended Stamford High School and began his football career as a forward with Goslings United in the early 1940s.

Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.

Born in Los Angeles, Holbrook grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, and began drawing at an early age.

Born in Paris, Eugene grew up around the French court of King Louis XIV.

Born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, Schmitt grew up in nearby Silver City.

Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Milford grew up in Winnetka, Illinois where he attended New Trier High School.

Born to Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, in 1630, Sophia grew up in the Dutch Republic, where her family had sought refuge after the sequestration of their Electorate during the Thirty Years ' War.

Born in New York City, Demme grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School.

Born to Alexander Beaton Ferguson, a plater's helper in the shipbuilding industry, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hardie, Alex Ferguson was born at his grandmother's home on Shieldhall Road, Govan, on 31 December 1941, but grew up in a tenement at 667 Govan Road ( which has since been demolished ) where he lived with his parents as well as his younger brother Martin.

Born in Paddington and brought up in Maida Vale, Collins grew up during the Second World War.

Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, Lessig grew up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and earned a B. A.

Born in Modena, Italy, Ferrari grew up with little formal education but a strong desire to race cars.

Born to the families of a goldsmith and a cabinet-maker, he grew up in the Barri Gòtic neighborhood of Barcelona.

Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, Kilby grew up and attended school in Great Bend, Kansas, graduating from Great Bend High School.

Born in Lund, Moodysson grew up in Åkarp, Skåne County as an outcast, expressing himself through poetry.

Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsi near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe.

Born in Simrishamn in Southern Sweden as the youngest of three children, he grew up in Uddevalla, north of Gothenburg, where his parents operated a small printing company.

Born in New York City, Penman grew up in New Jersey.

Born in Domburg, Bouterse grew up in District Suriname.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950, Hazel grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey because his mother, Grace Cook, wanted her son to grow up in an environment without the pressures of drugs and crime that she felt pervaded New York City.

* Nikki DeLoach, actress & singer ( b. 1979 ) Born in Waycross, but was raised in Blackshear, GA where she grew up.

* KaDee Strickland, actress ( b. 1975 ) Born in Blackshear but she grew up in Patterson and went to school in Pierce County.

Born in Los Angeles, Kavner grew up in Southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School and later San Diego State University.

* Kenny Brown – Born in 1989, he grew up on Zimmer Road.

Born in Marion, Indiana, Davis grew up on a small farm in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine ( Carter ) Davis, brother Dave and 25 cats.

Born in San Diego, he grew up in Rawlins.