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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- Music
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- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Mary Garden
1874 - 1967
Oswald Chambers
1874 - 1917
John Esslemont
1874 - 1925
Andrew Thomas Gage
1871 - 1945
Stephen Reid (artist)
1873 - 1948
Douglas Strachan
1875 - 1950
Robert Scott Troup
1874 - 1939
George Fiddes Watt
1873 - 1960
Berthe des Clayes
1877 - 1968
Charles Thomas Brock Sangster
1872 - 1935
Archibald Reith Low
1878 - 1969
Gertrude des Clayes
1879 - 1949
John Dickie (theologian)
1875 - 1942
Muriel Thompson
1875 - 1939
Robert Absalom Thom
1873 - 1955
William Angus (Australian politician)
1871 - 1965
Alex Caie
1877 - 1912
John Davidson (botanist)
1878 - 1970
James Kessack
1879 - 1916
W. Ironside Bruce
1876 - 1921
Robert Gardiner (politician)
1879 - 1945
George S. Morris (musician)
1876 - 1958
John Barron (footballer)
1879 - 1908