* 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer ( d. 1622 )

* John Brown ( theologian ) ( 1722 – 1787 ), Scottish clergyman and Biblical commentator

* 1643 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish bishop, theologian, and historian ( d. 1715 )

* December 11 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian ( b. 1821 )

** James Sempill, Scottish theologian ( d. 1626 )

* March 15 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian ( d. 1892 )

** Samuel Rutherford, Scottish theologian and controversialist ( d. 1660 )

* April 23 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian ( d. 1565 )

* August 19 – Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian ( b. c. 1583 )

* March 17 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian ( b. 1500 )

** Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian ( d. 1646 )

* December 25 – Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian ( d. 1712 )

* August 1 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer ( d. 1622 )

* John Watson, who wrote under the pen name / pseudonym Ian Maclaren ( 1850 – 1907 ), Scottish reverend / minister, theologian and author

* John Anderson ( theologian and controversialist ) ( 1668 ?– 1721 ), Scottish theologian and controversialist

Facing suspicions about his " Irish " roots and his association with New Licht theologian John Simson ( then under investigation by Scottish ecclesiastical courts ), a ministry in Scotland was unlikely to be a success, so he left the church, returning to Ireland to pursue a career in academia.

Academics and graduates of the University include many distinguished figures, including: physicist James Clerk Maxwell ; Thomas Reid, the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment ; philosopher Robert Adamson ; Regius Chair in Logic, Lord Rector, educationalist and philosopher Alexander Bain ; and theologian William Robinson Clark.

* March 17-Gilbert Burnet, Scottish theologian and historian

* June 19-John Brown, Scottish theologian ( born 1722 )

** Henry Scougal, Scottish theologian ( died 1678 )

Thomas Erskine of Linlathen ( October 13, 1788 – March 20, 1870 ) was a Scottish advocate and lay theologian in the early part of the 19th century.

John McLeod Campbell ( May 4, 1800 – February 27, 1872 ) was a nineteenth century Scottish minister and Reformed theologian.

* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

* 1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy ( d. 1726 )

The Scottish forces reached the south coast of England at the port of Dover where in September 1216, Alexander paid homage to the pretender Prince Louis of France for his lands in England, chosen by the barons to replace King John.

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

* 1957 – John Wark, Scottish footballer

* 1671 – John Law, Scottish economist ( d. 1729 )

Calvin's follower John Knox brought Presbyterianism to Scotland when the Scottish church was reformed in 1560.

It was addressed by Labour MPs Jon Trickett, Emily Thornberry, John McDonnell ( politician ) | John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, and Elfyn Llwyd of Plaid Cymru and Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party.

In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.

In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

* 1585 – John Willock, Scottish reformer

A feature of these publications is the high-quality illustrations made by engravers like Wilson Lowry of art work supplied by specialist draftsmen like John Farey, Jr. Encyclopaedias were published in Scotland, as a result of the Scottish Enlightenment, for education there was of a higher standard than in the rest of the United Kingdom.

Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful Scottish merchant in Richmond, Virginia, who dealt in a variety of goods including tobacco, cloth, wheat, tombstones, and slaves.

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence

* 1972 – John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker ( b. 1898 )

* 1864 – John Henry Mackay, Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer ( d. 1933 )

* 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor ( d. 1921 )

* 1728 – John Hunter, Scottish surgeon ( d. 1793 )

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

Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work Life and Mind for publication, and she found solace with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent whose mother had recently died.