Your Most Famous Scottish Men

[Glebeict]

I stole this from Facebook

Mine would be

Men from the past Prince Charlie

R L Stevenson

W Wallace

R Bruce

R R MacGregor

From the present Rod Stewart

Sean Connery

Robert Carlyle

Alex Fergusson

Billy Connelly

[SMEE]

Erm....wasnt Bonnie Prince Charlie italian?

Edited September 4, 2009 by SMEE

[Glebeict]

Not with the name Stuart he wasn't . They don't have to be born in Scotland to be Scottish.

[Yngwie]

Gordon Brown and Ewan McGregor are contenders for present day.

[Caley Mad In Berks]

Robert Burns

Adam Smith

Andrew Carnegie

[tm4tj]

Alexander Graham Bell

John Logie Baird

Alexander Fleming

John Napier

John Boyd Dunlop

Mark Knopfler

Jimmy Shand

Mary Queen of Scots

And the ICT connection, Thomas Telford.

[SMEE]

From the world of Music....have to add Angus Young (AC DC guitarist)

[caley100]

Sean Connery

Robert Burns

Ewan Mcgregor

The Krankies

JK Rowling

[Johnboy]

Sean Connery

Robert Burns

Ewan Mcgregor

The Krankies

JK Rowling

JK Rowling?

Has she had some kind of an operation?

[dead_ball_specialist]

The flyer for Belladrum had a 'famous scots' version of the sergeant peppers cover...

http://www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk/

Take your pick.

[Blacknred25]

What about Mel Gibson!!!! Born in America,brought up in Australia,most famous for portraying a scotsman

[davie]

Chic Murray,genius

Frances Begbie, cultural icon

George Galloway, political overweight

[Glebeict]

Some famous Canadian Scots

Alex MacKenzie

Simon Fraser

William MacGillivray

Donald Morrison

John A MacDonald

James MacGill

William Lyon MacKenzie

Tommy Douglas

Etc Etc

[caley100]

Sean Connery

Robert Burns

Ewan Mcgregor

The Krankies

JK Rowling

JK Rowling?

Has she had some kind of an operation?

Ehh... missed the men bit! my sub is William Wallace

[WYNESS101]

Famous Scottish Men/Women

[Alex MacLeod]

Macadam for smooth driving

Simpson for anaesthetic

Logie-Baird for communications

Watt for motorised transport

Johnny Walker for making me happy

[tm4tj]

Yo are not watching enough TV Alex

Did you mean Alexander Graham Bell for Communication

from wiki:-

In retrospect, Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.

Apparently IHE asked him............

"Hey Alex, what have you invented today",

"Oh just a telephone, but I'm not putting one of them in my study, keeps interrupting me, bloody thing"

"Fair do's Alex, stick them on eBay then"

[Alex MacLeod]

No I meant Logie-Baird. His television is the forerunner to the modern day computer screen and the wee screen on your mobile.

[PullMyFinger]

Ross Tokely

[Johnboy]

No I meant Logie-Baird. His television is the forerunner to the modern day computer screen and the wee screen on your mobile.

Baird's tv systems involved mechanical, as opposed to electronic scanning to produce a picture. Doesn't bear any resemblence to today's tv or computer screens

[PullMyFinger]

No I meant Logie-Baird. His television is the forerunner to the modern day computer screen and the wee screen on your mobile.

Baird's tv systems involved mechanical, as opposed to electronic scanning to produce a picture. Doesn't bear any resemblence to today's tv or computer screens

Actually Johnboy the first computer was wholly mechanical, invented by a Mr Babbage who never actually completed building it. It was like a large version of the dial darts scorer I remember from (The Seaforth?) Youth club on Planefield Road.

[DALNEIGHCALEY]

I remember that darts scorer from the Cameron Club , bloody dangerous contraption .

[Johnboy]

Early tv's were bl0ody dangerous contraptions...

Ask Alex... He'll remember what they were like.