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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George Washington Wilson
1823 - 1893
Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet
1826 - 1893
John MacGillivray
1821 - 1867
David Masson
1822 - 1907
James Staats Forbes
1823 - 1904
George Elphinstone Dalrymple
1826 - 1876
William Garden Blaikie
1820 - 1899
Walter Chalmers Smith
1824 - 1908
Robert Kerr (architect)
1823 - 1904
Charles Mitchell (shipbuilder)
1820 - 1895
James Matthews Duncan
1826 - 1890
Thomas Jamieson
1829 - 1913
John Finnie (painter)
1829 - 1907
William Duguid Geddes
1828 - 1900
Francis Ormond
1827 - 1889
John Paterson (Cape politician)
1822 - 1880
Horace Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes
1829 - 1914
Charles Macdonald (professor)
1828 - 1901
Hugh Martin (Scottish minister)
1822 - 1885
Charles Fraser (minister)
1823 - 1886
James Leith (VC)
1826 - 1869
Angelica Fraser
1823 - 1910
John Smith Walker
1826 - 1893