Scotland has produced a large number of well known people across all industries from philosophy, music, film and science. View our galleries and see how many of them you can name.
Robert Carlyle, OBE (born Glasgow, 14 April, 1961) is a Scottish film and television actor. He is known for a variety of roles including those in Trainspotting, The Full Monty, The World is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes, The 51st State, and 28 Weeks Later. Carlyle is also well know for his eponymous role in the mid-nineties TV series Hamish MacBeth.
Perhaps the world's best-known Scot, Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August, 1930), more commonly known as Sean Connery, is the award-winning actor who most famously played the character James Bond. The former milkman, factory worker and lorry driver from Edinburgh has starred in many films including The Untouchables, Marnie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Connery has been voted as "The Greatest Living Scot," and was knighted in July.
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