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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William Dyce
1806 - 1864
George Jamesone
1587 - 1644
William Aikman (painter)
1682 - 1731
John Phillip
1817 - 1867
Alberto Morrocco
1917 - 1998
Archibald Robertson (painter)
1765 - 1835
James Giles (painter)
1801 - 1870
Cosmo Alexander
1724 - 1772
George Fiddes Watt
1873 - 1960
John Finnie (painter)
1829 - 1907
John Macdonald Aiken
1880 - 1961
John Alexander (painter)
1686 - 1766
James Cadenhead
1858 - 1927
Archibald David Reid
1844 - 1908
Andrew Robertson (miniaturist)
1777 - 1845
Berthe des Clayes
1877 - 1968
Gertrude des Clayes
1879 - 1949
William Mosman
1727 - 1771
Esther Blaikie MacKinnon
1885 - 1934
Robert Murray (educator)
1888 - 1967