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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- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Lawson Robertson
1883 - 1951
Doris Mackinnon
1883 - 1956
James Angus Gillan
1885 - 1981
Robert Clark (zoologist)
1882 - 1950
James Soutter
1885 - 1966
William Miller Macmillan
1885 - 1974
William McMillan (sculptor)
1887 - 1977
Percival R. Kirby
1887 - 1970
Mary Helen Young
1883 - 1945
John Murray Easton
1889 - 1975
John Macdonald Aiken
1880 - 1961
Robert Morrison, 1st Baron Morrison
1881 - 1953
Robert Burton (athlete)
1885 - 1950
Alfred Balfour
1885 - 1963
James Anson Otho Brooke
1884 - 1914
Esther Blaikie MacKinnon
1885 - 1934
Walter J. Dilling
1886 - 1950
Colin M. Selbie
1889 - 1916
John W. Brown
1882 - 1949
George Chalmers (baseball)
1888 - 1960
Patrick Ashley Cooper
1887 - 1961
John Christie Wright
1889 - 1917
Robert Grierson Combe
1880 - 1917
John Maconnachie
1885 - 1956
Theodore Grant Gray
1884 - 1964
Alice Creswick
1889 - 1973
Wilf Low
1884 - 1933
Arch Dale
1882 - 1962
Herbert Murray (footballer)
1886 - 1918
Robert Murray (educator)
1888 - 1967
Edward Wyllie Fenton
1889 - 1962
Stewart Davidson
1886 - 1960
Allan Lawrie
1886 - 1915
Frank Findlay
1884 - 1945
Wilfred Bleaden
1887 - 1965
Fred Watson (Scottish footballer)
1888 - 1917
Jean Elmslie Henderson Findlay
1885 - 1944
Andrew Hamilton (footballer, born 1882)
1882 - 1915
Harry Low
Born 1882
Archibald Gordon (missionary)
1882 - 1967
John Murdoch (athlete)
1885 - 1939
Willie Ritchie (golfer)
1884 - 1966
Arthur Murray (footballer)
1880 - 1930
James Aiken
1888 - 1974
William Jaffray (footballer)
1885 - 1968
James Gray Kyd
1882 - 1968