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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Alexander Garden (naturalist)
1730 - 1791
John Abercrombie (physician)
1780 - 1844
George Cheyne (physician)
1671 - 1743
John Gregory (moralist)
1724 - 1773
Alexander Stuart (scientist)
1673 - 1742
James Gregory (physician)
1753 - 1821
William Fordyce
1724 - 1792
Alexander Henderson (physician)
1780 - 1863
Robert Daniel Lawrence
1892 - 1968
John Gray McKendrick
1841 - 1926
Alexander Taylor (Scottish physician)
1802 - 1879
Patrick Dun
1642 - 1713
Graeme Catto
Born 1945
Mary Esslemont
1891 - 1984
W. Ironside Bruce
1876 - 1921
Robert Dyce
1798 - 1869
Alexander Morison McAldowie
1852 - 1926
George Skene (physician)
1741 - 1803