* 1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director

* 1951 – Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter

From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival, particularly associated with a group of Glasgow writers focused around critic, poet and teacher Philip Hobsbaum and editor Peter Kravitz.

* McEwan, Peter J. M. Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture.

Scottish politician Nicholas Fairbairn pointed out that the name was an anagram for " Monster hoax by Sir Peter S ".

* 1956 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor

* 1973 – Peter Dumbreck, Scottish racing driver

* The Great McGonagall ( 1974 ), untalented Scottish poet ( based on William Topaz McGonagall ) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.

* December 20 – Peter May, Scottish novelist and television dramatist

** Gordon Waller, Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist ( Peter and Gordon ) ( d. 2009 )

* Peter Bonetti, Post War English & Scottish Football League A-Z Player's Database

In fact, the figures and arrangement of modern Scottish country dances, while derived from a 300-year tradition, make it difficult to generalize because many newer dances feature new ideas such as partner changes ( you dance with a new partner on each new time through the dance, as in " Nighean Donn " ( by Peter Hastings ) or " Caddam Wood " ( by John Mitchell )), palindromic structure ( the sequence of figures is similar seen from the end to the beginning as it is seen from the beginning to the end, as in " The White Heather Jig " by Cosh ), fugues ( the sequence of figures for each couple is intricately intertwined to resemble the structure of a musical fugue ), canons ( a new couple begins their time through even though the couple before have not finished theirs yet ) and others, such as John Drewry's " Crossing the Line ", where the bottom of the set becomes the top for the next time through.

* Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Bt ( J M Barrie, Scottish author, creator of Peter Pan ) ( 1860 – 1937 )

Kelso was founded by Peter W. Crawford, a Scottish surveyor, who, in 1847, took up the first donation land claim on the Lower Cowlitz River.

* Peter Ritchie Calder, ( Lord Ritchie-Calder ) ( 1906 – 1982 ), Scottish author, journalist and academic, father of:

" South African-born MP Peter Hain, who campaigned for a Welsh Assembly, warned creating an English parliament or trying to stop Scottish and Welsh MPs from voting on England-only matters would break up the Union.

It was first introduced as " the Never Never Land " in the theatre play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, first staged in 1904.

For the Scottish, English, and Irish volumes, he worked with the BBC and folklorists Peter Douglas Kennedy, Scots poet Hamish Henderson, and with the Irish folklorist Séamus Ennis, recording among others, Margaret Barry and the songs in Irish of Elizabeth Cronin ; Scots ballad singer Jeannie Robertson ; and Harry Cox of Norfolk, England, and interviewing some of these performers at length about their lives.

At Vienna, in 1702, he picked up the Scottish general George Benedict Ogilvie, and enlisted him in Peter ’ s service.

* Scotlands fairgrounds-history of Scottish fairgrounds and lists of current and past rides by Peter Morran Honorary Member of the Showmen ’ s Guild of Great Britain ( Scottish section ).

Peter Doig ( ) ( b. 1959 ) is a Scottish artist.

Peter Arenella, in the Columbia Law Review ( 1977 p. 830 ), stated, " the defense diminished responsibility ... was first recognized by Scottish common law to reduce the punishment of the < nowiki >'</ nowiki > partially insane < nowiki >'</ nowiki >.

Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster.

Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE ( 28 April 1831 – 4 July 1901 ) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline.

; Ross McBride ( Jason Connery ): Marnie's Scottish father.

Her Scottish father Angus McBride is an ex-prospector ; he has run the town's newspaper ever since being crippled by his former mining partner Tex Hex.

James McBride ( 30 December 1873 – 25 May 1899 ) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Liverpool during the latter half of the 19th century.

On 6 October 1854, Scottish miner James Scobie was murdered at the Eureka hotel.

Early versions were constructed by the Scottish chemist John Stenhouse in 1854 and the physicist John Tyndall in the 1870s.

* 1785 – John Wilson, Scottish writer ( d. 1854 )

* 1941 – Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist ( b. 1854 )

* 1854 – Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys ' Brigade ( d. 1914 )

Scottish physicist Lord Kelvin was the first to formulate a concise definition of thermodynamics in 1854:

* May 18 – John Wilson, Scottish writer ( d. 1854 )

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer ( 1854 – 1941 ).

Stung by the defeat of her land bill, in 1854 and 1855 Dix traveled to England and Europe, where she reconnected with the Rathbones and conducted investigations of Scotland's madhouses that precipitated the Scottish Lunacy Commission.

Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn ( ; Cockpen, Midlothian, 26 October 1779 – Bonaly, Midlothian, 26 April / 18 July 1854 ) was a Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure.

The first oil refinery in the world was built in 1851 at Bathgate, Scotland, by Scottish chemist James Young shortly followed by Ignacy Łukasiewicz near Jasło, Poland from 1854 to 1856, but they were initially small as there was no real demand for refined fuel.

John Wilson of Ellerey FRSE ( 18 May 1785 – 3 April 1854 ) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

John Gibson Lockhart ( 12 July 1794 – 25 November 1854 ) was a Scottish writer and editor.

Sir James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.

* William Mitchell ( Scottish entrepreneur ) ( 1781 – 1854 ), co-founder of the Alloa Coal Company

* John Hay Forbes ( 1776 – 1854 ), Scottish judge

The numbering of the Scottish Lordship used by Clan Fraser differs from the legal numbering in that it ignores the attainder of 1747 — 1854, with the result that the 16th Lord is termed by them " 18th Lord Lovat ".

Sir Patrick Geddes ( 2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932 ) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner ( see List of urban theorists ).

The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854 – 1902, Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Professor Robert Jameson, FRS FRSE ( 1774 – 1854 ) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist.

* Patrick Geddes ( 1854 – 1932 ), Scottish biologist and town planner

* March 6-David Dunbar Buick ( born 1854 ), Scottish American automobile pioneer.

Peter Buchan ( 1790 – 19 September 1854 ), Scottish editor, was born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

* John Wilson ( Scottish writer ) ( 1785 – 1854 ), Scottish writer