List of Aberdonians

King Lear and the Fool in the Storm, by artist William Dyce

Astronomer James Gregory

Singer Annie Lennox

Thomas Blake Glover, founder of Mitsubishi

There are many notable Aberdonians from Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire in Scotland. In modern times the British Open winning golfer Paul Lawrie and the musician Annie Lennox are the most famous names. However in the past Aberdeen has produced many important people such as Thomas Blake Glover, the founder of Mitsubishi, and Bertie Charles Forbes who founded the Forbes publishing empire.

Architects

• James Gibbs
• Archibald Simpson

Artists and sculptors

• Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), sculptor
• William Dyce (1806–1864), artist
• George Jamesone (ca.1587-1644), Scotland's first eminent artist
• Alberto Morrocco (1917–1998), artist and teacher
• William Keith (1838-1911), landscape artist

Astronomers

• Sir David Gill (1843–1914), astronomer
• David Gregory (1659–1708), astronomer
• James Gregory (1638–1675), astronomer and mathematician

Authors, journalists and writers

• Lord Byron (1788-1824), poet, raised in Aberdeen (ages 2-10), though not born there.
• Alexander Chalmers (1759–1834), journalist
• Simon Farquhar (born 1972), writer
• B.C. Forbes (1880–1954), journalist (founder of Forbes Magazine)
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–1935), author
• David Masson (1822–1907), author
• William Matthews (1822–1896), bookbinder and author, gold medal winner at The Crystal Palace Exhibition.^[1]
• Rachel Annand Taylor (1876–1960), poet

Musicians

• Mary Garden (1874-1967), opera singer
• Ronald Center (1913-1973), composer
• Ian Campbell (born 1933), singer
• John McLeod (born 1934), composer
• Stanley Robertson (1940-2009), ballad singer and storyteller
• Neil Mackie (born 1946), tenor, professor at Royal College of Music
• Annie Lennox (born 1954), singer
• Evelyn Glennie (born 1965), virtuoso percussionist
• Calvin Goldspink (born 1989), singer and American-based actor
• Emeli Sandé, singer
• Yvie Burnett (born 1963), vocal coach, Britain's Got Talent, X factor, BBCs Last Choir Standing and Who Dares Sing

Politicians

• Sir John Anderson (1858 - 1915), Governor of Straits Settlements
• Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet (1912–1992), politician
• William Mortimer Clark (1836–1917), Canadian politician
• James Forrester (born 1937), North Carolina politician
• Sir William MacGregor (1846–1919), Governor of British New Guinea, Lagos, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Queensland
• Alexander Mitchell (1817-1887), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
• Thomas Smith (1745–1809), US politician
• Nicol Stephen, Baron Stephen (born 1960), Deputy First Minister of Scotland, 2005-07, Leader of Scottish Liberal Democrats, 2005-08

Sports

• Jim Bett (born 25 November 1959 in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire - think again!), footballer
• Martin Buchan (born 1949), footballer
• David Carry (born 1981), swimmer and Commonwealth Gold Medal winner in 2006
• Peter Craigmyle (born 1893) referee
• Chris Cusiter (born 1982), rugby union footballer
• John Hewitt (born 1963), footballer and scorer of winning goal in European Cup Winners Cup 1983
• Stuart Holden (born 1985), footballer who plays for the USA
• Denis Law (born 1940), footballer
• Paul Lawrie (born 1969), golfer
• Gavin Rae (born 1977), footballer
• John Rattray (born 1978), professional skateboarder
• Jason White (born 1978), rugby union footballer
• Russell Anderson (born 1978), footballer

Others

• John Henry Anderson (1814–1874), magician
• David Baird (1757–1829), soldier
• William Barclay (1546–1608), jurist
• John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Historiographer Royal
• Oswald Chambers (1874–1917), seminarian
• Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet (1826–1893), physician
• Alexander Cruden (1699–1770), theologian
• Alexander Ewing (1814–1873), church leader
• John Ferguson (1852-1925), Presbyterian minister and Acting Principal of St Andrew's College at the University of Sydney^[2]
• Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911), trader in Meiji era Japan and founder of Mitsubishi corporation
• William MacGillivray (1796–1852), naturalist
• Francis Masson (1741–1805), botanist
• Rev Scott Rennie (born 1972), theologian
• George Croom Robertson (1842–1892), philosopher
• Michael Sheard (1938 - 2005), actor
• Archibald Simpson (1790-1847), architect, responsible for many Aberdeen buildings
• George Smith (1806–1899), financier
• John Strachan, first Anglican Bishop of Toronto.
• George Washington Wilson (1823–1892), photographer

References

1. ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963. 
2. ^ Dougan, Alan (1981). "Ferguson, John (1852 - 1925)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 8 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 486–487. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080512b.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-26.