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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Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park
1860 - 1938
James Staats Forbes
1823 - 1904
Charles Mitchell (shipbuilder)
1820 - 1895
James Abernethy
1814 - 1896
James Charles Inglis
1851 - 1911
Charles Thomas Brock Sangster
1872 - 1935
David Carnegie (scientist)
1868 - 1949
Robert Walmsley
Born 1941
Robert Absalom Thom
1873 - 1955
Louis Harper
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George Fraser (New Zealand engineer)
1832 - 1901
John Dodds (engineer)
1905 - 1983