David Tennant is the stage name of David John McDonald (born 18 April 1971), a Scottish actor from Bathgate, West Lothian, best known as the tenth actor to portray the Doctor in the television series "Doctor Who". Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV roles in "Casanova" and "Doctor Who", as well as his film role as Barty Crouch Jr in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".

James Andrew McAvoy (April 21, 1979) is a BAFTA-nominated Scottish actor.

Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish actor known for his film roles in "GoldenEye", as Boris Grishenko; in "X2: X-Men United", as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler; and on the stage with his Tony Award-winning performance as the Emcee in the highly successful revival of "Cabaret". Cumming has directed, produced, and written films, TV series and plays, voiced several soundtracks, written a book, developed a stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe, …

David Hayman (born 1950) is a Scottish film and television actor and director. Hayman studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. He began his acting career at the Citizens' Theatre in the city, playing a variety of roles, including Hamlet, Figaro and Al Capone. He gained national prominence playing notorious Barlinnie Prison convict turned sculptor, Jimmy Boyle, in the film "A Sense of Freedom".

Ian William Richardson CBE (7 April 1934 - 9 February 2007) was a Scottish actor best known for playing the machiavellian conservative politician Francis Urquhart in the "House of Cards" trilogy for the BBC. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989.

Andy Stewart (30 December 1933 - 11 October 1993) was a Scottish singer and entertainer. The use of tartan patriotism and stereotypical Scottish humour goes back to Sir Harry Lauder and music hall songs. In the 1960s this strand was continued by entertainer Andy Stewart. He was born in Glasgow in 1933, the son of a teacher. He moved to Arbroath as a child and then trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr on April 27, 1959, Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish-American Grammy Award-winning pop singer and theatre & television actress. Sheena became famous for being the focus of an episode of the United Kingdom television programme "The Big Time", a 1980 reality TV series which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and got her a deal with EMI.

Billy Boyd (born 28 August, 1968 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing Peregrin Took (Pippin), in the film adaptations of "The Lord of the Rings" and Barrett Bonden in "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World".

Sir Alexander Gibson, CBE (February 11, 1926 - January 14, 1995) was an orchestral and opera music director and conductor. Gibson was born 1926 in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. He later studied music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow, London, Salzburg and Siena, Italy. He was appointed in 1957 as the youngest musical director of Sadlers Wells English National Opera.

Henry Ian Cusick (born April 17, 1967) is a Peruvian actor of stage, television, and motion pictures.

Louise Delamere (born 1969) is an English actress most famous as the character Lia in the Channel 4 comedy drama, "No Angels". Delamere is from Wallasey, Merseyside, and was a classmate of the Boo Radleys at St Mary's College. She studied acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, where she was a contemporary of David Tennant. She has since worked prolifically in television, as well as in some film and stage productions.

Martyn Bennett (February 17 1971 - January 30 2005) was a Scottish musician who was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He was extremely influential in the evolution of modern Celtic Fusion, a blending of traditional Celtic and modern music. He began playing bagpipes at the age of 10 and by the time he was 12 he was winning prizes at junior bagpiping competitions in Scotland.

Lady Marion Anne Fraser, LT (born 17 October 1932) is a figure of note in Scotland, particularly in church and music circles. She was educated at Hutchesons' Girls' Grammar School, Glasgow, at the University of Glasgow, and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She is married to Sir William Kerr Fraser, former Permanent Secretary at the Scottish Office. She was Her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1994 and 1995.

Gordon Cree (born 14th July 1977, Irvine, North Ayrshire) is a Scottish arranger, orchestrator, conductor and composer.

Jimmy Logan OBE (4 April 1928 - 13 April 2001), born James Short in Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland was an entertainer, theatre owner, producer, director, and actor. Logan was part of a family of entertainers beginning with his parents who were the music hall act Short and Dalziel. His aunt from whom he took his stage surname, was Ella Logan, star of Broadway musicals. His sister is the actress and jazz singer Annie Ross.

Irvin Duguid (born 18 December 1969, Aberchirder, Aberdeenshire) is a Scottish musician. He studied piano and violin at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow before going on to become keyboard player in the live line-up of Stiltskin, a rock band with the number 1 hit single "Inside" in the UK in 1994. Duguid went on to work with other Scottish acts such as Gun (later to change their name to g.u.n. in the wake of the Dunblane massacre) and then Fish, …

Bill Paterson (June 3, 1945 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actor who has appeared in many films, plays and television series.

Moira Anderson, OBE (born 5 June 1938 in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire) is a Scottish singer. After leaving school, Anderson quickly established herself at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow before getting her big break in the media after a successful audition at the BBC. She landed her first job in the media, presenting the radio programme "Can't Help Singing" where she sang with some prestigious names from the world of opera.

Professor Neil Mackie CBE, CStJ, FRSE, FRCM, FRSAMD is a Scottish tenor. Born in Aberdeen, Neil studied piano at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and later as a postgraduate singer at the Royal College of Music in London. He is currently Head of Vocal Studies at the Royal College of Music and at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School.

Patrick Doyle (born April 6, 1953, Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) is an Academy Award nominated Scottish musician and film score composer. His collaboration with Kenneth Branagh and the Shakespearean community is well known, but his scoring talents are versatile, and he has composed orchestral scores for a variety of films and film genres, from Disney's "Shipwrecked" to "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein".

Marina Nadiradze (born 1978) is a Georgian pianist. She studied at the State Conservatoire in Tbilisi and later at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. Now based in Scotland, she performs solo works in concerts throughout Europe. Recently recorded live at recitals in Glasgow and at the Musique-Cordiale Festival in Seillans, France. She is acclaimed for her playing of romantic pieces, notably by Schubert, Ravel, Scarlatti, Scriabin, Schumann, …

David McVicar (1967, Glasgow) is a Scottish opera and theatre director. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 2007 The Independent ranked him among the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.

Margaret Anne Marshall OBE (born January 4, 1949, Stirling) is a Scottish soprano who has appeared in a number of operatic performances. Marshall was educated at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow before beginning her professional career. Her achievements were recognised in 1999 when she received the Order of the British Empire.

Ian Parker (born in Irvine, North Ayrshire on 26 November 1953) is a Scottish keyboard player. He showed a natural ability to play the piano from a very young age. He started piano lessons when he was seven. His early influences were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Stax and Atlantic Soul. In 1964 he played in the school rock band "Timor Mortis" playing covers of such artistes as Deep Purple, Cream and Black Sabbath, …

Tony Curran is a Scottish actor. He is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He stands 6 feet, 2½ inches (1.89 m) tall and has red hair and blue eyes. In the BBC television series "This Life", Curran played a homosexual plumber. To play The Invisible Man in "LXG", he donned a special suit that turned him into a walking bluescreen (according to his commentary on the DVD, he looked like a "smurf on acid").

Dawn Anne Steele (born December 11 1975 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actress.

Michelle Gomez is a Scottish actress.

Stella Gonet (born 8 May 1963 in Greenock, Scotland) is a Scottish theatre, film and TV actress. She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and is best known for playing "Bea" in the television series "The House Of Eliott". She has also appeared in "Casualty", "The Crow Road" and played a villain in the mini series "The Secret". Her nephew, Stefan, is currently a goalkeeper with Greenock Morton Football Club.

Daniela Nardini (born April 26, 1968 in Largs) is a Scottish actress of Italian ancestry, best known for playing Anna Forbes in the BBC Two television series "This Life". The role earned her a BAFTA Best Actress award in 1998. She trained as an actress at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. She appeared as Lady Huntly in the four-hour BBC epic "Gunpowder, Treason & Plot" (2004).

Roddy Lorimer (b. May 19 1953 in Glasgow) is a Scottish musician who has performed with a number of bands, including Blur, Gene, The Rolling Stones, Suede and The Waterboys. He is currently a member of the band Kick Horns. Lorimer studied the trumpet at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. His classical music background can be heard in his work on The Waterboys' single "The Whole of the Moon", the band's greatest commercial success.

James Fleet (born 1954) is an English actor. Fleet was born in Wolverhampton to a Scottish mother and an English father, and raised in Aberdeenshire. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film "Four Weddings and a Funeral", and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series "The Vicar of Dibley".

Yla Steven is a violinist and professional musician based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was born in 1066, during the Battle of Hastings, which, contrary to popular belief, was actually ended by one of the Normans holding her up and the enemy running away in fear. She is currently festering at the tender age of 1941.