57.1501° N, 2.1018° W
ABERDEEN
Most Famous People Born in Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 885
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1911
- Most distinctive
- Surgeon 7.8×
Granite-city overachievers: the Surgeon and Physician benches reflect the medical school that trained the founders of modern anaesthesia and tropical medicine, and the Botanist cluster comes from Kew-adjacent plant hunters who combed the empire. The Golf reading is simply what happens when your coastline invented the sport.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Aberdeen during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Aberdeen Is Known For
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Football is Aberdeen's biggest profession — 22% of all notables (195).
Aberdeen over-indexes on surgeon — 7.8× the global rate.
Aberdeen under-produces actor — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Aberdeen's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Politics & Law
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- Art & Design
- Music
- Other
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William Dyce
1806 - 1864
John Hill Burton
1809 - 1881
John Steell
1804 - 1891
John Cumming (clergyman)
1807 - 1881
James Giles (painter)
1801 - 1870
John Longmuir (poet)
1803 - 1883
Robert Davidson (inventor)
1804 - 1894
David Brown (Free Church of Scotland)
1803 - 1897
William Spalding (writer)
1809 - 1859
George Moir
1800 - 1870
Alexander Thomson (pioneer)
1800 - 1866
Andrew Gray (19th-century divine)
1805 - 1861
George Thompson (shipowner)
1804 - 1895
Alexander Taylor (Scottish physician)
1802 - 1879
Peter Gray (writer)
1807 - 1887
George Smith (financier)
1808 - 1899
Forbes Falconer
1805 - 1853
John Salmon (politician)
1808 - 1873