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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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Norman Baker
Born 1957
Anneliese Dodds
Born 1978
Kirsty Blackman
Born 1986
Kezia Dugdale
Born 1981
Nicol Stephen
Born 1960
Callum McCaig
Born 1985
Eilidh Whiteford
Born 1969
Stuart Donaldson (Scottish politician)
Born 1991
Ross Thomson
Born 1987
Richard Shepherd
Born 1942
George McCrae (politician)
1860 - 1928
Alexander Duff (British Army officer)
1777 - 1851
John Stevenson (British politician)
Born 1963
Maureen Watt
Born 1951
Walter Coutts
1912 - 1988
Kevin Stewart (Scottish politician)
Born 1968
James Cran
Born 1944
Keith Raffan
Born 1949
Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside
Born 1932
Alexander Mackenzie Fraser
1756 - 1809
Sheila Gilmore
Born 1949
Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld
1938 - 2008
Richard Alexander (British politician)
1934 - 2008
James Moir Ferres
1813 - 1870
Jenny Gilruth
Born 1984
Colin Clark (politician)
Born 1968
Graeme Dey
Born 1962
Andrew Bowie (politician)
Born 1988
James Ferguson (Scottish politician)
1735 - 1820
Alexander Bannerman
1788 - 1864
Andrew Leith Hay
1785 - 1862
Dennis Robertson (politician)
Born 1956
Sir John Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet
1912 - 1992
Duncan Pirie
1858 - 1931
Peter Bevan-Baker
Born 1962
Michael Fraser, Baron Fraser of Kilmorack
1915 - 1996
James Hutchison (Australian politician)
1859 - 1909
James Forrester (politician)
1937 - 2011
John William Crombie
1858 - 1908
Francis Ormond
1827 - 1889
John McPherson
1860 - 1897
Alexander Thomson (pioneer)
1800 - 1866
Robert Morrison, 1st Baron Morrison
1881 - 1953
Nanette Milne
Born 1942
Alexander Allardyce (British MP)
1743 - 1801
Alfred Balfour
1885 - 1963
Horace Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes
1829 - 1914
George Thompson (shipowner)
1804 - 1895
Wallace Nelson
1856 - 1943
John G. Williams
Born 1946
Rosemary Hall (political activist)
1925 - 2011
James Macandrew
Died 1887
Nora Radcliffe
Born 1946
John Letford
Born 1935
John Black (Lower Canada politician)
Born 1764
Matthew Dymond
1911 - 1996
Sue Mackay
Born 1960
James W. Robison
1831 - 1909
Bruce Watson (politician)
1910 - 1988
William Bain Scarth
1837 - 1902
Stephen Robertson (politician)
Born 1962
John Milne (politician)
1839 - 1922
Frank Findlay
1884 - 1945
John Skene (New Jersey)
1649 - 1695
John Black (merchant)
1765 - 1823
Bisset Berry
1839 - 1922
Roy Hendry Thomson
1932 - 2009
Robert Gardiner (politician)
1879 - 1945
William Dawson (New Zealand politician)
1852 - 1923
Ian Strachan (Newfoundland and Labrador politician)
Born 1940
William Bruce Wood
1848 - 1928
James Aiken
1888 - 1974
William James Lovie
1868 - 1938
Joseph Petrie
1848 - 1908
William Davidson (British Columbia politician)
Born 1867
Alexander Duff Connon
1891 - 1975
John Salmon (politician)
1808 - 1873
John Watson (Queensland politician)
1833 - 1912
George Sangster (politician)
1845 - 1915