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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- Science
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Music
- Other
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John Barbour (poet)
1316 - 1395
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
1901 - 1935
Alexander Chalmers
1759 - 1834
Alexander Ross (writer)
1591 - 1654
Iain Levison
Born 1963
John Grant (author)
1949 - 2020
Rona Munro
Born 1959
Karen McCombie
Born 1963
Kerry Hudson
Born 1980
Elizabeth Thornton
1940 - 2010
James Logan (writer)
1794 - 1872
Niall Duthie
Born 1947
William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
1856 - 1914
Janet Teissier du Cros
1905 - 1990
Kathrine Sorley Walker
1920 - 2015
Bryan Buchan
Born 1945
Peter Gray (writer)
1807 - 1887
James Henry Skene
1812 - 1886
Jane Alexander (author)
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