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Hamish Brown (born 1934), first person to walk all the Munros in a single trip; Kathryn Bryce (born 1997), cricketer in Scotland women's national cricket team, first Scots cricketer in the top ten of the ICC Women's Player Rankings; Sarah Bryce (born 2000), cricketer in Scotland women's national cricket team; Ken Buchanan (born 1945), world ...
Between 1984 and 1996 it had its own show similar to the BBC Sports Personality of the Year with postal votes, a live audience and hosted by Dougie Donnelly, Archie Macpherson (until 1989), Hazel Irvine (from 1990) and Rob MacLean and for most years, it was often shown a week before the network version in December.
Scottish Politician of the Year is an annual awards ceremony established in 1999. It is held by The Herald newspaper in Prestonfield House , Edinburgh . Although the initial awards ceremony in 1999 was held at the National Museum of Scotland , Prestonfield House Hotel is considered to be the home of the event, hosting every ceremony since 2000.
The winner is the sportsperson, judged by a public vote, to have achieved the most that year. The recipient must either be British or reside and play a significant amount of their sport in the United Kingdom. The winner is selected from a predetermined shortlist. The most recent award-winner is 800m runner Keely Hodgkinson, who won the 2024 award.
Burns Cottage in Alloway, South Ayrshire. Burns was born two miles (3 km) south of Ayr, in Alloway, Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland, the eldest of the seven children of William Burnes (1721–1784), a self-educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar in the Mearns, and Agnes Broun (1732–1820), the daughter of a Kirkoswald tenant farmer.
Roseanna Cunningham – Scottish National Party MP, MSP [137] Donald Dewar – Secretary of State for Scotland, First Minister [138] Pearse Doherty – Sinn Féin politician [139] Winnie Ewing – Scottish National Party MP, MEP and MSP [140] Margaret Ferrier – Scottish National Party MP [141]
The Scottish Sports Hall of Fame is the national sports hall of fame of Scotland, set up in 2002. [1] It is a joint project organised by sportscotland, the national governmental body for Scottish sport, and National Museums Scotland. [2] It is also funded by BBC Scotland and donations from the general public.
Of the many notable Aberdonians from Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire in Scotland, The Open winning golfer Paul Lawrie and the musician Annie Lennox are the most famous in modern times. However, Aberdeen has produced many earlier important people, such as Thomas Blake Glover, an assisting figure in the foundation of Mitsubishi.