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- William Aiton (1731-1793), botanist
- Alexander Anderson (mathematician), (c. 1582-1620?) mathematician
- John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884), botanist
- Eric Temple Bell (Scotland, USA, 1883 - 1960), mathematician
- Joseph Black, discoverer of carbon dioxide
- David Brewster, (1781-1868), founder of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
- Robert Brown discoverer of Brownian Motion and botanist
- John Craig (1663 - 1731), mathematician and friend of Newton
- James Dewar, (1842-1923), low temperature physicist, invented the vacuum flask
- James Alfred Ewing, (1855-1935), physicist and engineer
- Hugh Falconer, (1808-1865), paleontologist
- Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), microbiologist
- James David Forbes (1809-1868), physicist and geologist
- Professor George Forbes, (1849-1936), electrical engineering, hydro-electric power generation
- Robert Fortune (1813-1880), botanist
- Thomas Graham, (1805-1869), chemist
- James Hall (geologist), (1761-1832), geologist
- Thomas Henderson, (1798–1844), astronomer
- James Hutton, (1726-1797), put geology on a scientific basis
- Robert T. A. Innes, astronomer (1861-1933)
- James Ivory (mathematician)(1765 - 1842)) mathematician
- William Jardine (naturalist) (1800-1874), naturalist
- Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882-1957), zoologist
- John Leslie (physicist), (1766-1832), mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat
- Joseph Lister, (1827-1912), surgeon, pioneered antisepsis techniques and antibiotics
- John Macadam (1827-1865), Scottish-born Australian botanist
- William MacGillivray (1796-1852), naturalist
- Sheila Scott Macintyre (1910-1960), mathematician
- Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 1746), mathematician, developed maclaurin series
- William Maclure, (1760-1843), geologist
- Francis Masson (1741-1805?), botanist
- James Clerk Maxwell, (1831-1879), thermodynamics and electromagnetic theorist
- Archibald Menzies, (1754-1852) explorer and botanist
- Philip Miller (1691-1771), botanist
- Roderick Murchison, (1792-1871), geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian era.
- John Napier, (1550-1617), mathematician (see logarithms)
- William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863-1924), ornithologist
- Sir William Ramsay Nobel prize for Chemistry 1904
- John Richardson (naturalist) (1787-1865), naturalist
- William Roxburgh (1759-1815), botanist
- Andrew Smith (zoologist) (1797-1872), zoologist
- Robert Angus Smith, environmental chemist, and discoverer of acid rain
- Mary Fairfax Sommerville, mathematician and astronomer
- Matthew Stewart (1717 - 1785), mathematician
- James Stirling (mathematician), (1692 - 1770), mathematician
- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), mathematician, physicist, engineer
- Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), invented radar
- Joseph Wedderburn (1882-1948), mathematician
- Alexander Wilson, (1766-1813), arguably the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon
- Charles Wilson, physicist
- Paraffin Young a.k.a. James Young, James (Paraffin) Young
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