Kate "KT" Tunstall (born June 23, 1975) is a Grammy-nominated, BRIT Award-winning singer/songwriter from St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Hector Boece (or Hector Boyce was a Scottish philosopher. He was born in Dundee where he attended school. Later he left to study at the University of Paris where he met Erasmus, with whom he became close friends while they were both students at the austere Collège de Montaigu, to whose reforming Master, Jan Standonck Boece later became Secretary. By 1497 he had become a professor of philosophy at the university.

Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet (October 28, 1826 - November 6, 1893), Scottish physician and pathologist, was born at Aberdeen. His father, who also was a physician, died when he was only a few years old. After attending school in Aberdeen, he was sent by his guardians to Dundee, attending the High School of Dundee and was then apprenticed to a pharmacist; upon returning to Aberdeen he began his medical studies in the University there.

Alison Louise Kennedy (born October 22, 1965) in Dundee) is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is known for a characteristically dark tone, a blending of realism and fantasy, and for her serious approach to her work. Alison Kennedy lives in Glasgow with several cats, and occasionally contributes a column to "The Guardian". A. L. Kennedy is currently a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews University.

Andrew Marr (born 31 July 1959, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British journalist and political commentator. He edited "The Independent" for two years, until May 1998, and was the political editor for the BBC from 2000 until 2005. He then began hosting a political programme called "Sunday AM" on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005 onwards. In May 2007 he began a new political history series on BBC Two, "Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain".

David Duncan is a Canadian fantasy author. He was born in 1933 in Scotland, and educated there at the High School of Dundee and at the University of St Andrews. After graduating in 1955 he moved to Canada where he lived in Calgary, Alberta, and is currently situated on Vancouver Island in Victoria. He has been married since 1959 to his wife, Janet, and currently has one son, two daughters, and four grandchildren.

Robert Haldane (February 28, 1764 - December 12, 1842), was a Scottish churchman.

Andrew Douglas Nicol (born 12 March 1971 in Dundee), rugby union player, was the first British player to lift the Heineken Cup as captain of Bath Rugby. He also captained the Scotland national rugby union team from on the famous occasion in 2000 when Scotland beat England 19-13 at a rain-soaked Murrayfield and so prevented England from achieving the Grand Slam that year. He won 23 caps for Scotland. Andy retired at the end of the 2002/3 season, …

Frank Hadden (born 14 June 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is coach of the Scotland national rugby union team. He replaced Matt Williams and was appointed on 15 September, 2005. Hadden coached the Merchiston Castle School (MCS) 1st XV after being appointed Head of Physical Education at the school in 1983. He coached several Scottish age-group teams before being appointed assistant coach of the Caledonian Reds in 1997.

Henry Noel Brailsford (1873 - 1958) was the most prolific British right-wing journalist of the first half of the 20th century. The son of a Methodist preacher, he was born in Yorkshire and educated in Scotland, at the High School of Dundee. He abandoned an academic career to become a journalist, rising to prominence in the 1890s as a foreign correspondent for the "Manchester Guardian", specialising in the Balkans, France and Egypt.

Iain MacMillan (October 20, 1938 - May 8, 2006) also Iain Stewart MacMillan, was a British photographer best known for taking the cover of The Beatles' "Abbey Road", easily one of the most recognizable album covers in music history. MacMillan shot the famous "Abbey Road" album cover at 10 AM on August 8, 1969. John Lennon offered the job of photographing the album cover to MacMillan.

Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Knt., (1636-1691), known as Bluidy Mackenzie, was a Scottish lawyer, Lord Advocate, and legal writer.

Norman Kemp Smith was a philosopher who lectured at Princeton University and was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. He is best-known for his influential English translation of Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", which is often used as the standard English version of the text, and is considered by many to be the most readable rendering of the work. His commentaries on the "Critique" are also well regarded, …

Robert Fleming was a Scottish financier, the founder of merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. He was the grandfather of novelist Ian Fleming. Robert Fleming, once described as Scotland's Dick Whittington. Born in very modest circumstances in Dundee in 1845, he went on to become an international financier in London, …

Charles Coupar Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay KBE DL JP (1875 - 6 December 1940) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. The eldest son of Sir Charles Barrie, he was educated at the High School of Dundee and Blairlodge School, Polmont. Barrie was Liberal Member of Parliament for Elgin Burghs briefly during 1918, for Banffshire from 1918-1924 and for Southampton from 1931-1940.

William Douglas Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, PC (born 18 November, 1935), is one of the senior members of the Scottish Judiciary. He was appointed as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session in 2001. He is a cross bench member of the House of Lords and was created a life peer in 2003, as Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, of Whitekirk in East Lothian, …

James Alexander Haldane (July 14, 1768 - February 8, 1851) was a Scottish independent church leader.

Thomas James Henderson (December 28, 1798 - November 23, 1844) was a Scottish astronomer noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, and for being the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.

William Laughton Lorimer (1885-1967) was born at Strathmartine on the outskirts of Dundee, Scotland. He was educated at the High School of Dundee, Fettes College, and Trinity College, Oxford. He is best known for the translation of the New Testament into Lowland Scots. He spent his professional life as a scholar of Ancient Greek at various universities, ending his career as Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews.

Robert Fergusson (September 5, 1750 - October 16, 1774), Scottish poet, son of William Fergusson, a clerk in the British Linen Company, was born at Edinburgh.

Walter Laing MacDonald Perry, Baron Perry of Walton (June 16, 1921 - July 17, 2003) was a distinguished academic. He obtained a degree in Pharmacology at St Andrews University. Between 1944 and 1946 he worked as a Medical Officer in Nigeria. He later worked as a scientist for institutions like the Medical Research Council. In particular he became an expert on polio. He had a reputation for following the scientific method rigorously.

William Thomas Calman (December 29 1871 - September 29 1952) was a Scottish zoologist, specialising in the Crustacea. He was born in Dundee, studying at the High School. In the scientific societies in the city, he met D'Arcy Thompson. He later became Thompson's lab boy, which allowed him to attend lectures at the University of Dundee for free. After his graduation with distinction in 1895, he took on a lecturership at the University, where he remained for eight years.

Donald MacArthur Ross, Lord Ross, PC, FRSE was born in Dundee and educated at the High School of Dundee and Edinburgh University. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates and became a Queen's Counsel in 1964. He has been Sheriff Principal of Ayr and Bute, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and a Senator of the College of Justice. From 1985-1997, he was Lord Justice Clerk, Scotland's second most senior judge: in 1990 and 1991, …

David Coupar Thomson (born May 23 1861; died December 12 1954) was the proprietor of the newspaper and publishing company D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.

Sir James Alfred Ewing (27 March 1855 - 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, "hysteresis".

Jonathan Michael Petrie (born 19 October 1976 in Dundee) is a Scottish rugby union footballer who plays at flanker for Glasgow Warriors and Scotland. He has captained the Scottish national side but, following an injury, was replaced by Jason White. He had two seasons in Scotland's under-21 team, making his debut against the Irish in 1997 while he was playing in France with Colomiers.

George Dempster was a Scottish lawyer who was elected member of Parliament for the Perth Burghs. Dempster was educated at Dundee Grammar School (c.1739–c.1748) and possibly also at the small parish school at Leuchars, Fife. On 24 February 1748 he entered the University of St Andrews and studied there until about 1750, when he left without taking a degree and moved on to study law at the University of Edinburgh.

Professor Sir Alexander Gray CBE, FRSE (6 January 1882-17 February 1968) was a Scottish civil servant, economist, academic, translator writer and poet.

Fred (Frederick) Miller, (1863-1924), journalist and editor of "The Daily Telegraph" 1923-1924, was born in Dundee. He attended the High School of Dundee and the University of Edinburgh, and upon leaving joined "The Scotsman". Within a matter of weeks, he was recommended for the post of assistant sub-editor, beginning an association with the newspaper of over forty years.

Michael Goodall Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie, known as Mike Watson, (born 1 May, 1949) is a former Scottish Labour Party politician. He has sat in three legislatures in the United Kingdom and served as Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport in the [[Scottish Executive Cabinet. He was expelled from his party on 22 September 2005 following his conviction and imprisonment for fire-raising.

Preston Watson (1880-1915) was a Scottish aviation pioneer, which is sometimes said to have been the first true aviator. He is supposed to have made and controlled motorized flight with a heavier-than-air aircraft in 1903 - thus predating the Wright brothers flight. This claim has however been discredited by the aviation historian Charles Gibbs-Smith in the book "The Aeroplane". The man behind the "Powered Flight Before the Wrights" myth was Preston's brother, James, …

David Taylor from Scotland is currently the General Secretary of UEFA. He was appointed to this role from June 1, 2007 after the UEFA extra-ordinary congress in Zurich on May 29, 2007 voted to replace the role of Chief Executive with that of General Secretary. He was previously the Chief Executive of the Scottish Football Association (SFA).

Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan of Camperdown (1 July 1731 - 4 August 1804), born in Lundie, Angus, Scotland, and receiving his education in Dundee - defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown (north of Haarlem) on 11 October 1797. This victory was considered one of the most significant actions in naval history.