Winner of three Formula One world titles 1969, 1971 and 1973 Sir Jackie Stewart 'The Flying Scot' was born here 11 June 1939

Rockview, Stirling Road, Milton, United Kingdom

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Jackie Stewart
(1939-present) Formula 1 racing driver

Christian Isobel Johnstone 1781-1857 [full inscription unknown]

2 Walker Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Christian Isobel Johnstone
(1781-1857)

Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley 1921-1963 [full inscription unknown]

1 South Row Cottage, Catterline, United Kingdom

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Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley
(1921-1963) artist

Mary Fairfax Somerville 1780 - 1872 "The Queen of 19th Century science" Astronomer, scientist & polymath. Lived here.

53 Northumberland St, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Mary Somerville
(1780-1872)

Colonel Sir George Thomas Beatson 1848-1933

7 Woodside Crescent, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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George Thomas Beatson
(1848-1933)

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton 1874-1922 [full inscription unknown]

14 South Learmonth Gardens, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Sir Ernest Shackleton OBE CVO
(1874-1922) Antarctic explorer

Charles Glover Barkla 1877-1944 Nobel Laureate in Physics lived here 1922-1938

Hermitage of Braid Nature Reserve, Braid Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Charles Glover Barkla FRS FRSE
(1877-1944) Fellow of the Royal Society

Willie Park Snr 1833-1903 [full inscription unknown]

23 Ravenshaugh Road, Musselburgh, United Kingdom

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Walter Macfarlane 1817-1885 [full inscription unknown]

22 Circus Park, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Margaret (Maggie) McIver nee Russell 1879-1958 [full inscription unknown]

244 Gallowgate, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Phyllis Mary Bone 1894-1972 [full inscription unknown]

Belford Mews, Dean Village, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Phyllis Mary Bone
(1894-1972) sculptor

Mary Burton 1778-1818 [full inscription unknown]

The Manse, 1 Greyfriars, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Robert Stevenson 1772-1850 civil engineer and engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board. Designed and built the Bell Rock Lighthouse.

1-3 Baxter’s Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Robert Stevenson
(1772-1850) lighthouse engineer

Dudley D. Watkins 1907-1969 Cartoonist of Oor Wullie & The Broons lived and worked here

Reres Road, Broughty Ferry, United Kingdom

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Sarah Siddons Mair 1846-1941 Campaigner for women's education and suffrage born in this house on 22 September 1846

29 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782–1854) Satirical Novelist Lived Here

East Morningside House, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
(1782-1854) novelist

Louisa Stevenson 1835-1908 Christian Guthrie Wright 1844-1907 Campaigner for women's education and founders of Queen Margaret University

5 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Louisa Stevenson
(1835-1908) Suffragist

Christian Guthrie Wright
(1844-1907)

Bram Stoker started writing Dracula here [full inscription unknown]

The Kilmarnock Arms, Bridge Street, Cruden Bay, United Kingdom

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Bram Stoker
(1847-1912) author of Dracula

The Edinburgh Seven. Britain's first female medical students 1869 - 1873. The Surgeons' Hall Riot occurred here 18th November 1870.

Surgeons' Hall Museums, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street , Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(1836-1917) Doctor - Bachelor of Medicine MBBS

Dr Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
(1840-1912) Doctor of Medicine

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell
(1821-1910) Doctor - Bachelor of Medicine MBBS

Dr Edith Mary Pechey
Doctor - Bachelor of Medicine MBBS

Dr Isabel Thorne
(1834-1910) Doctor - Bachelor of Medicine MBBS

Dr Matilda Chaplin
(1846-1883) Doctor - Bachelor of Medicine MBBS

Dr Emily Bovell
(1841-1885) Doctor - Bachelor of Medicine MBBS

Surgeons' Hall Riot
(1870) riot

Alexander Bain 1810-1877 Inventor of the fax machine had his workshop here

21 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Alexander Bain
(1811-1877) electric clock inventor

James Boswell 1740 - 1795, lawyer, diarist & biographer, lived here 1773 - 1786

James Court, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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James Boswell
(1740-1795) biographer

Francis C. B. Cadell 1883-1937, Scottish colourist, lived and worked here

6 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Francis C. B. Cadell
(1883-1937) house

Frederick Douglass 1818-1885. American author, orator, philosopher, freedom-fighter and statesman, lived here 1846. 'My part has been to tell the story of the slave.'

33 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Frederick Douglass
(1818-1895) human rights campaigner

Christian Maclagan 1809-

19 Clarendon Place, Stirling, United Kingdom

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Christian Maclagan
(1811-1901) antiquary

Lady Margaret Sackville (1881 - 1963) British poet and author whose works focused on the brutality of war and women’s social freedom, and member of the anti-war Union of Democratic Control. [full inscription unknown]

30 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley 1895-1915 born in Aberdeen and lived at Powis House, gifted student & war poet. "Say not soft things as other men have said, that you'll remember for you need not so."

Powis Community Centre, 11 Powis Circle, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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Charles Hamilton Sorley
(1895-1915) poet

Margaret Tait 1918-1999 filmmaker and poet was born here

25 Broad Street, Kirkwall, United Kingdom

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Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield. Known as Rebecca West. 1892-1983. Author, journalist and critic. Her childhood home and setting for her novel 'The Judge'.

2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Dame Rebecca West DBE
(1892-1983) Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Professor Max Born. 1882-1970. Nobel Laureate in physics lived here 1936-1954.

84 Grange Loan, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Max Born
(1882-1970) physicist

Mary Brunton. 1778-1818. Novelist. Lived here from 1813-1818.

35 Albany Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Christian Isobel Johnstone 1781-1857. Journalist and author died here

12 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Christian Isobel Johnstone
(1781-1857)

John Thomson FRGS 1837-1921. Photographer, writer and traveller. Lived Here 1841-1861

6 Brighton Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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John Thomson
(1837-1921) photographer

John Muir 1838 - 1914. 'Nature's apostle'. Father of America's National Parks, champion of world conservation & forever a Scot.

126 High Street, Dunbar, United Kingdom

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John Muir
(1838-1914) environmentalist

Patrick Geddes 1854 - 1932. Natural scientist, sociologist, town planner, activist saved Riddle's Court and established a University Hall here.

Riddle's Court, 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Patrick Geddes
(1854-1932) biologist