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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Alexander Bain
1818 - 1903
John Phillip
1817 - 1867
Duncan Gregory
1813 - 1844
George Dickie (botanist)
1812 - 1882
Arthur Henfrey (botanist)
1819 - 1859
Alexander Ewing (bishop)
1814 - 1873
James Moir Ferres
1813 - 1870
James Abernethy
1814 - 1896
James Craigie Robertson
1813 - 1882
George Grub
1812 - 1892
John Murray Mitchell (missionary)
1815 - 1904
William Forsyth (writer)
1818 - 1879
Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth
1815 - 1896
Eliza Rennie
1813 - 1869
James Henry Skene
1812 - 1886
John Coutts (shipbuilder)
1810 - 1862