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Allan Ramsay, was born in Leadhills, Lanarkshire, he was a poet and literary antiquary who maintained Scotland's poetic traditions by not only writing poetry in the original Scots, but also by preserving the work of earlier Scottish poets such as the famous Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and others. Robert Burns, was known to have read his work and to have been tremendously influenced by the passion and the ordinary Scots language that Ramsay always used, Burns thought that Allan Ramsay's work was the most important poetry ever written in Scotland, for it was produced during a time when most Scottish poetry was becoming heavily Anglicised, especially in Lowland Scotland.

Allan Ramsay, the name would most probably be better known in the literary world as that of the famous Scottish Jacobite Poet, but this name refers to his son who was not a poet but an artist. He was born in the Capital City of Scotland , Edinburgh with its famous castle steeped in Scotland's history. Sir Henry Raeburn and Ramsay jockeyed for the spot of foremost Scottish artist unlike the mostly self-taught Raeburn, however, Ramsay was well tutored in his craft, having studied in London and Italy before settling in London to produce his portraits, mainly of royalty.

Thomas Reid, was from Strachan, Kincardineshire, much of his work is overshadowed by fellow Scots philosopher David Hume, whose scepticism Reid tried to counteract. Thomas Reid, who was also a Presbyterian minister as well as a university lecturer, was one of those who argued in favour of a "philosophy of common sense." His first critique of Hume, An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense in the year of 1764, was favourably received in British philosophical circles, not quite ready for Hume's radically disquieting theories.

John Rennie was from Phantassie, East Lothian , he was one of the outstanding engineers at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. He built a harbour on the canal which runs from Maryhill in Glasgow , which also incorporated a dry dock. In addition to building and improving a network of canals throughout Scotland and England , he also built bridges, docks, locks, harbours including three crossings across the Famous River Thames at London . Rennie also supervised extensive drainage projects in the Fens of Lincolnshire.

James Renwick, from Moniaive, Dumfries , was a very brave Scot of amazing personal conviction. He was hanged at the Capital City of Edinburgh, thus staking his claim to fame as the last of the prominent Covenanter martyrs of Scotland .

Sir John Richardson, from the town of Dumfries , near the Scottish border, was a naval surgeon and naturalist, who made accurate surveys of more of the Canadian Arctic coast than any other explorer of that particular time. The history of the exploration of Canada is saturated with the names of the Scottish explorers who charted these lands. Richardson 's long career in the Royal Navy, where he rose from assistant surgeon to inspector of hospitals and fleets, put him in the teeth of battle at Copenhagen , the blockade of the Tagus and in many other naval operations.

John Ross was from Inch,Balsarroch, Wigtownshire, His name can be added to those of the other Scotsmen who did so much to inform the world of northern Canada and the Arctic . Ross's expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage , the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans , led to the location of the north magnetic pole which was amazingly discovered by his nephew James Clark Ross, and to important contributions to the fangled oceanography. This new science was sweeping the world and it was contributing to making the world if not a smaller place, easier to move about in and accurately know where you were and what the terrain was likely to be..

Although not physically born in Scotland this person could not be omitted from a list of famous Scots. Both Scotland and the Cherokee Nation can claim as one of its illustrious sons John Ross, a famous Cherokee chief. John Ross was born of a Scottish father and an Indian mother near Lookout Mountain , Tennessee , John grew up as an Indian though he did attend Kingston Academy . He married a full-blooded Cherokee and was able to bridge the severe gap between the cultures of the white settler and the native Indian; he actually spoke the language of Scotland and the Native American tongue of his people there.

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