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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.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Aberdeen during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 79 notable births.

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.

  1. Football195
  2. Politician79
  3. Actor27
  4. Painter20
  5. Writer19
  6. Physician18
  7. Poet15
  8. Historian15
  1. Surgeon97.8×
  2. Golf106.7×
  3. Botanist123.4×
  4. Physician183.0×
  5. Mathematician102.3×
  6. Engineer122.2×
  7. Football1952.0×
  8. Poet151.6×
  1. Actor270.6×
  2. Writer190.7×

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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0026 FOOTBALL

Kim Little

Born 1990

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0036 FOOTBALL

Ryan Fraser

Born 1994

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0038 FOOTBALL

Fraser Fyvie

Born 1993

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0041 FOOTBALL

Ryan Gauld

Born 1995

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0055 FOOTBALL

Ryan Jack

Born 1992

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0056 FOOTBALL

Graeme Shinnie

Born 1991

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0064 FOOTBALL

Clark Robertson

Born 1993

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0079 FOOTBALL

John Souttar

Born 1996

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0082 FOOTBALL

Cameron Burgess

Born 1995

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0095 FOOTBALL

Cammy Smith

Born 1995

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0104 FOOTBALL

Martin Boyle

Born 1993

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0137 ATHLETIC

Zoey Clark

Born 1994

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0147 FOOTBALL

Aaron Taylor-Sinclair

Born 1991

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0154 POLITICIAN

Stuart Donaldson (Scottish politician)

Born 1991

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0156 FOOTBALL

Harry Souttar

Born 1998

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0165 FOOTBALL

Jack Grimmer

Born 1994

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0189 FOOTBALL

Mitchel Megginson

Born 1992

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0196 SKIER

Alexandra Tilley

Born 1993

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0205 SWIMMER

Katherine Downie

Born 1996

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0228 FOOTBALL

Stewart Murdoch

Born 1990

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0238 ACTOR

Abigail Lawrie

Born 1997

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0268 FOOTBALL

Craig Murray (footballer)

Born 1994

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0282 SPORT

Deborah Herold

Born 1995

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0286 CRICKET

Josh Davey

Born 1990

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0290 FOOTBALL

Thomas Grant (footballer)

Born 1995

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0294 FOOTBALL

Michael Rose (footballer, born 1995)

Born 1995

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0348 CRICKET

Matthew Cross (cricketer)

Born 1992

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0368 CRICKET

Michael Leask

Born 1990

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0423 DRIVER

Glynn Geddie

Born 1990

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0458 FOOTBALL

Rachael Small

Born 1991

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0492 GUITAR

Connor Ball

Born 1996

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0527 GOLF

David Law (golfer)

Born 1991

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0561 FOOTBALL

Connor Rennie

Born 1990

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0692 PLAYER

Kieran Murphy (rugby union)

Born 1990

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0706 PLAYER

Adam Scott Nicol

Born 1997

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0715 PUBLISHER

Mike Small (author)

Born 1998

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0727 CRICKET

Peter Ross (cricketer)

Born 1992

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0867 BASEBALL

Maxwell Tyler

Born 1991

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