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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 1940s Clear ×
Denis Law
Born 1940
Christopher Malcolm
1946 - 2014
J. Michael Kosterlitz
Born 1943
David Rintoul
Born 1948
Graeme Garden
Born 1943
Henry Cecil
1943 - 2013
Martin Buchan
Born 1949
Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood
1941 - 2018
John Grant (author)
1949 - 2020
Billy Bremner (musician)
Born 1946
Jocky Scott
Born 1948
Vincent Winter
1947 - 1998
Malcolm Rennie
Born 1947
Richard Keith Ellis
Born 1949
Richard Shepherd
Born 1942
Andrew Linklater
Born 1949
Michael Lynch (historian)
Born 1946
Adrian Elrick
Born 1949
Iain Torrance
Born 1949
Andro Linklater
1944 - 2013
Elizabeth Thornton
1940 - 2010
James Cran
Born 1944
Keith Raffan
Born 1949
Sheila Gilmore
Born 1949
Robin Lyth Hudson
Born 1940
Dave Smith (footballer, born 1943)
Born 1943
Helen Hodgman
Born 1945
Ian Taylor (footballer, born 1948)
Born 1948
Alex Dawson
1940 - 2020
Niall Duthie
Born 1947
Sheena Blackhall
Born 1947
Stanley Robertson (folk singer)
1940 - 2009
Ernie Winchester
1944 - 2013
Duncan Rice
Born 1942
Ian Wood (businessman)
Born 1942
Isabel Hilton
Born 1949
Neil Mackie
Born 1946
Ian Moir (footballer)
1943 - 2015
John Fitzpatrick (footballer, born 1946)
Born 1946
Ronnie Watt
Born 1947
Robert Walmsley
Born 1941
Nanette Milne
Born 1942
Alex Stuart (footballer)
Born 1941
Bryan Buchan
Born 1945
Johnny Stuart (author)
1940 - 2003
John Mantle (bishop)
1946 - 2010
Doug Fraser (Scottish footballer)
Born 1941
John G. Williams
Born 1946
Nora Radcliffe
Born 1946
Henry John Burnett
1942 - 1963
Harry Bannerman
Born 1942
Barry Reamsbottom
Born 1949
Mike Biggar
Born 1949
Ben Anderson (footballer)
Born 1946
Barrie Mitchell
Born 1947
Graeme Catto
Born 1945
Davie Johnston (footballer, born 1948)
Born 1948
Willie Watt (footballer, born 1946)
Born 1946
John Sjoberg
1941 - 2008
Gordon Kerr (British Army officer)
Born 1948
Billy Pirie
Born 1949
Stuart Monro
Born 1947
Dennis Hay
Born 1940
Tom Dalgliesh
Born 1945
Laurie Macmillan
1947 - 2001
George Scott (footballer, born 1944)
Born 1944
Gordon Low
Born 1940
Gordon Cramond
1949 - 1989
Ian Strachan (Newfoundland and Labrador politician)
Born 1940
Ron Still
Born 1943
A. Graeme Auld
Born 1941
Ranald Roderick Macdonald
1945 - 2007