Famous People from Edinburgh, Scotland

• Bell, Alexander Graham

  The inventor of the telephone

• Blair, Tony

  British prime minister, 1997-2007

• Connery, Sean

  The first and greatest movie James Bond

• Doig, Peter

  The Scottish-born Tahiti-based painter of 'The Architect's Home in the Ravine'

• Dolly the Sheep

  The first cloned mammal

• Doyle, Arthur Conan

  The creator of Sherlock Holmes

• Hume, David

  Scottish skeptic who wrote A Treatise of Human Nature

• Maxwell, James Clerk

  The physicist who came up with the theory of electromagnetism

• Scott, Sir Walter

  The author of Ivanhoe

• Stevenson, Robert Louis

  The author of Treasure Island

• Stopes, Marie

  The UK birth control pioneer who wrote 'Married Love'

• Sutcliffe, Stuart

  The bassist who left The Beatles just before the band became famous

See also: Born in Scotland