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Famous Scots in history

find out more about the lives of some of Scotland’s greatest historical figures.


Adam Ferguson
Arthur Conan Doyle
David Hume
James Adam
Robert Adam
William Adam
James Wilson
John Casper Leyden
Sir Walter Scott
William and Robert Chambers
William Cullen
Andrew Fletcher
Catherine Helen Spence
George Heriot
James Braidwood
James Graham
James Murray
John Buchan
Robert Louis Stevenson
St Columba
William Chambers
Dugald Stewart

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