Editing Scottish Enlightenment (section)

==Key figures==
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* [[William Adam (architect)|William Adam]] (1689–1748) architect 
* [[John Adam (architect)|John Adam]] (1721–1792) architect 
* [[Robert Adam]] (1728–1792) architect and artist 
* [[James Adam (architect)|James Adam]] (1732–1794) architect and designer 
* [[Archibald Alison (author)|Archibald Alison]] (1757–1839) essayist 
* [[David Allan (painter)|David Allan]] (1744–1796) painter and illustrator 
* [[James Anderson (lawyer)|James Anderson]] (1662–1728) lawyer, antiquary and historian 
* [[James Anderson of Hermiston|James Anderson]] (1739–1808) agronomist, lawyer 
* [[John Arbuthnot]] (1667–1735) physician, satirist and polymath 
* [[John Armstrong (poet)|John Armstrong]] (1709–1779) physician, poet and satirist 
* [[Joanna Baillie]] (1762–1851) poet and dramatist 
* [[George Husband Baird]] (1761–1840) minister, educational reformer and linguist 
* [[James Beattie (poet)|James Beattie]] (1735–1803) philosopher and poet 
* [[Andrew Bell (educationalist)|Andrew Bell]] (1753–1832) priest and educationalist 
* [[Sir Charles Bell]] (1774–1842) surgeon, physiologist and neurologist
* [[Henry Bell (engineer)|Henry Bell]] (1767–1830) engineer 
* [[John Bell (traveller)|John Bell]] of Antermony (1691–1780) doctor and traveller 
* [[Joseph Black]] (1728–1799) physicist and chemist, first to isolate carbon dioxide 
* [[Thomas Blackwell (scholar)|Thomas Blackwell]] (1701–1757) classical scholar and historian 
* [[William Blackwood]] (1776–1834) publisher, founder of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
* [[Hugh Blair]] (1718–1800) minister, author
* [[Gilbert Blane|Sir Gilbert Blane of Blanefield, 1st Baronet]] (1749–1834) physician 
* [[James Boswell]] (1740–1795) lawyer, author of ''[[Life of Johnson]]''
* [[John Broadwood]] (1732–1812) piano manufacturer 
* [[Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux]] (1778–1868) Englishman born, educated and active in Edinburgh, advocate, journalist and statesman 
* [[Robert Brown (Scottish botanist from Montrose)|Robert Brown]] (1773–1858) botanist 
* [[Thomas Brown (philosopher)|Thomas Brown]] (1778–1820) philosopher
* [[James Bruce]] of Kinnaird (1730–1794) African explorer 
* [[Jacob Bruce|James Daniel (Yakov) Bruce]] (1669–1735) Moscow-born Scot, Count of the Russian Empire, statesman, general, diplomat and scientist 
* [[Patrick Brydone]] (1736–1818) traveller and author 
* [[David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan]] (1742–1829) founder of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 
* [[Robert Burns]]<ref name="Manning">{{cite web |url=http://www.scibooks.org/manwhofoundtime.html |title=A Toast To Times Past |author=Phillip Manning |work=[[Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Chapel Hill]] News |date=28 December 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184701/http://www.scibooks.org/manwhofoundtime.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 }}</ref> (1759–1796) poet
* [[John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute]] (1713–1792) politician, botanist, literary and artistic patron, first President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
* [[Charles Cameron (architect)|Charles Cameron]] (1746–1812) architect, active in Russia 
* [[George Campbell (Presbyterian minister)|George Campbell]] (1719–1796) philosopher 
* [[Thomas Campbell (poet)|Thomas Campbell]] (1777–1844) poet 
* [[Alexander Carlyle]] (1722–1805) church leader and autobiographer 
* [[Thomas Carlyle]] (1795–1881) historian and philosopher 
* [[Thomas Chalmers]] (1780–1847) minister and political economist 
* [[Sir William Chambers]] (1723–1796) architect 
* [[John Cleland]] (1709–1789) writer, author of ''Fanny Hill''
* [[Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, 2nd Baronet]] (1676–1755) politician, lawyer, judge and antiquary 
* [[John Clerk of Eldin|Sir John Clerk of Eldin]] (1728–1812) artist, navalist 
* [[John Clerk, Lord Eldin]] (1757–1832) advocate, judge and collector 
* [[Archibald David Constable]] (1774–1827) publisher 
*[[William Cruickshank (chemist)|William Cruickshank]] (c 1740-1810/1) chemist
*[[James Craig (architect)|James Craig]] (1739–1795) architect, designer of the Edinburgh New Town 
* [[William Cullen]] (1710–1790) physician, chemist, medical researcher 
* [[David Dale]] (1739–1806) industrialist, merchant and philanthropist 
* [[Alexander Dalrymple]] (1737–1808) geographer 
* [[James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair]] (1619–1695) lawyer and statesman
* [[Sir Alexander Dick, 3rd Baronet|Sir Alexander Dick, 3rd Baronet of Prestonfield]] (1703–1785) doctor, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
* [[Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet|Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, 6th Baronet]] (1694–1770) genealogist 
* [[Alexander Dow]] (1735/6 – 1779) writer and Orientalist
* [[George Drummond (politician)|George Drummond]] (1688–1766) accountant-general and politician, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 
* [[James Elphinston]] (1721–1809) educator and linguist 
* [[Robert Erskine (doctor)]] (1677–1718) doctor and naturalist, head and reformer of Russian medicine, compiled first herbarium in Russia and discovered mineral waters 
* [[Henry Erskine (lawyer)|Henry Erskine]] (1746–1817) advocate and politician 
* [[Henry Farquharson]] (c.1675–1739) mathematician, active in Russia where he introduced Arabic numerals and logarithms 
* [[Adam Ferguson]] (1723–1816) considered the founder of sociology 
* [[James Ferguson (Scottish astronomer)|James Ferguson]] (1710–1776) astronomer and instrument maker 
* [[Robert Fergusson]] (1750–1774) poet 
* [[Andrew Fletcher (politician)|Andrew Fletcher]] of Saltoun (1653–1716) forerunner of the Scottish Enlightenment,<ref name="Fletcher">{{cite web |url= http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521439947 |title= Andrew Fletcher: Political Works |author= Cambridge University Press |author-link= Cambridge University Press }}</ref> writer, patriot, commissioner of Parliament of Scotland 
* [[George Fordyce]] (1736–1802) physician and chemist 
* [[Andrew Foulis]] (1712–1775) printer 
* [[Robert Foulis (printer)|Robert Foulis]] (1707–1776) printer and publisher 
* [[John Galt (novelist)|John Galt]] (1779–1839) novelist
* [[Alexander Gerard]] (1728–1795) minister, academic and philosophical writer 
* [[James Gillray]] (1756–1815) caricaturist and printmaker 
* [[Walter Goodall]] (1706?–1766) historical writer 
* [[Alexander Gordon (general)|Alexander Gordon]] of Auchintoul (1669/70–1752) general and memoirist
* [[Alexander Gordon (antiquary)|Alexander Gordon]] (1692?–1755) antiquary and singer 
* [[Thomas Gordon (writer)]] (c.1691–1750) writer and translator from Latin
* [[Thomas Gordon (philosopher)|Thomas Gordon]] (1714–1797) philosopher, mathematician and antiquarian 
* [[John Gregory (moralist)|John Gregory]] (1724–1773) physician, medical writer and moralist 
* [[John Grieve (physician)|John Grieve]] (1753–1805) physician 
* [[Matthew Guthrie]] (1743–1807) physician, mineralogist and traveller 
* [[Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes]] (1726–1792) advocate, judge and historian 
* [[Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet]] (1761–1832) geologist, geophysicist 
* [[Alexander Hamilton (Scottish physician)|Alexander Hamilton]] (1739–1802) physician 
* [[Gavin Hamilton (artist)|Gavin Hamilton]] (1723–1798) painter and archaeologist 
* [[William Hamilton (diplomat)|Sir William Hamilton]] (1730–1803) diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist 
* [[Matthew Hardie]] (1755–1826) violin maker, called the 'Scottish Stradivari'
* [[James Hogg]] (1770–1835) writer, author of ''The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner''
* [[Francis Home]] (1719–1813) physician 
* [[John Home]] (1722–1808) minister and writer, author of ''Douglas'' 
* [[John Hope (botanist)|John Hope]] (1725–1786) physician and botanist 
* [[Francis Horner]] (1778–1817) politician, lawyer and political economist
* [[John Hunter (surgeon)|John Hunter]] (1728–1793) surgeon 
* [[William Hunter (anatomist)|William Hunter]] (1718–1783) anatomist, physician
* [[David Hume]] (1711–1776) philosopher, historian and essayist
* [[Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)|Francis Hutcheson]] (1694–1746) philosopher
* [[James Hutton]]<ref name="Repcheck"/><ref name="Manning"/> (1726–1797) founder of modern geology 
* [[John Jamieson]] (1759–1838) minister, philologist and antiquary 
* [[Robert Jameson]] (1774–1854) Scottish naturalist and mineralogist 
* [[Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey]] (1773–1850) advocate, journalist and literary critic, founder of the ''Edinburgh Review''
* [[Henry Home, Lord Kames]] (1696–1782) philosopher, judge, historian and agricultural improver 
* [[John Kay (caricaturist)|John Kay]] (1742–1826) caricaturist and engraver 
* [[James Keir]] (1735–1820) chemist, geologist, industrialist and inventor 
* [[Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie]] (1732–1781) composer and virtuoso violinist 
* [[John Law (economist)|John Law]] of Lauriston (1671–1729) economist, banker, active in France 
* [[Sir John Leslie]] (1766–1832) mathematician, physicist
* [[James Lind]] (1716–1794) doctor, pioneer of naval hygiene
* [[James Lind (naturalist)|James Lind]] (1736–1812) naturalist and physician
*[[Charles Lyell (botanist)]] (1767–1849) botanist and translator of Dante
* [[John Loudon MacAdam]] (1756–1836) engineer and road-builder 
* [[Zachary Macaulay]] (1768–1838) statistician, abolitionist 
* [[Colin Macfarquhar]] (1745?–1793) printer, co-founder of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''
* [[Sir Alexander Mackenzie]] (1764–1820) explorer of North America 
* [[Henry Mackenzie]] (1745–1831) lawyer and writer 
* [[Charles Mackie (historian)|Charles Mackie]] (1688–1770) first Professor of History at Edinburgh University and in the British Isles
* [[Sir James Mackintosh]] (1765–1832) jurist, politician and historian 
* [[Charles Macintosh]] (1766–1843) chemist, inventor of waterproof fabrics 
* [[Colin Maclaurin]] (1698–1746) mathematician
* [[James Macpherson]] (1736–1796) writer, author of ''Ossian''
* [[David Mallet (writer)|David Mallet]] (Malloch) (c.1705–1765) writer 
* [[Francis Masson]] (1741–1805) botanist 
* [[William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield]] (1705–1793) jurist, judge and politician 
* [[Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville]] (1742–1811) advocate and statesman 
* [[Andrew Meikle]] (1719–1811) engineer and inventor
* [[Adam Menelaws]] (1749/56–1831) architect, active in Russia 
* [[James Mill]] (1773–1836) philosopher 
* [[Andrew Millar]] (1705–1768) publisher 
* [[John Millar (philosopher)|John Millar]] (1735–1801) philosopher, historian 
* [[James Burnett, Lord Monboddo]] (1714–1799) judge, founder of modern comparative historical linguistics 
* [[Alexander Monro (primus)|Alexander Monro]] I (1697–1767) physician, founder of Edinburgh Medical School 
* [[Alexander Monro (secundus)|Alexander Monro]] II of Craiglockhart and Cockburn (1733–1817) anatomist, physician 
* [[John Monro (advocate)|John Monro of Auchinbowie]] (1725–1789) advocate 
* [[Jacob More]] (1740–1793) painter 
* [[James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton]] (1702–1768) astronomer, patron of science, President of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Society 
* [[James Mounsey]] (1709/10–1773) physician and naturalist 
* [[Thomas Muir (radical)|Thomas Muir]] of Huntershill (1765–1799) political reformer 
* [[William Murdoch]] (1754–1839) engineer and inventor 
* [[Alexander Murray (linguist)|Alexander Murray]] (1775–1813) minister and philologist
* [[John Murray (1778–1843)|John Murray]] (1778–1843) publisher 
* [[Carolina Nairne]] Lady Nairne, née Oliphant (1766–1845) writer and song collector 
* [[William Napier (musician)|William Napier]] (c.1741–1812) musician and music publisher 
* [[William Nicholson (poet)|William Nicholson]] (1782–1849) poet 
* [[Alexander Nisbet]] (1657–1725) lawyer, antiquarian and heraldist 
* [[William Ogilvie of Pittensear]] (1736–1819) classicist, numismatist and land reformer
* [[James Oswald (composer)|James Oswald]] (1710–1769) composer, cellist and music publisher 
* [[Mungo Park (explorer)|Mungo Park]] (1771–1806) explorer of West Africa 
* [[Thomas Pennant]] Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian (1726–1798), whose travel writings and collected pictorial representations of Scotland inspired the 'petit' grand tour fueling philosophical and artistic re-interpretation of landscape appreciation in Scotland. 
* [[John Pinkerton]] (1758–1826) antiquarian, cartographer and historian 
* [[Archibald Pitcairne]] (1652–1713) physician and bibliophile 
* [[John Playfair]] (1748–1819) mathematician, geologist 
* [[James Playfair (architect)|James Playfair]] (1755–1794) architect 
* [[William Playfair]] (1759–1823) engineer, political economist, founder of graphical methods of statistics
* [[Jane Porter]] (1776–1850) historical novelist 
* [[Sir Robert Ker Porter]] (1777–1842) artist, author, diplomat and traveller
* [[Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet]] (1707–1782) physician 
* [[Allan Ramsay (poet)|Allan Ramsay]]<ref name="DavidAllan">{{cite web|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/history/scothist/hons/4111.shtml |title=A Hotbed of Genius: Culture and Society in the Scottish Enlightenment |author=Dr David Allan |publisher=[[University of St Andrews]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927202608/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/history/scothist/hons/4111.shtml |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> (1686–1758) poet
* [[Allan Ramsay (artist)|Allan Ramsay]] (1713–1784) portrait painter
* [[Andrew Michael Ramsay]] (1686–1743) writer, based in France
* [[Henry Raeburn]]<ref name="Magnusson"/> (1756–1823) portrait painter
* [[Thomas Reid]] (1710–1796) philosopher, founder of the [[Scottish School of Common Sense]]
* [[John Rennie the Elder|John Rennie]] (1761–1821) civil engineer 
* [[William Richardson (classicist)|William Richardson]] (1743–1814) author and literary scholar
* [[William Robertson (historian)|William Robertson]] (1721–1793) historian, minister and Principal of the University of Edinburgh 
* [[John Robison (physicist)|John Robison]] (1739–1805) physicist, mathematician and philosopher, first General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 
* [[Sir John Ross]] (1777–1856) Arctic explorer 
* [[William Roxburgh]] (1751–1815) surgeon and botanist, founding father of Indian botany 
* [[Thomas Ruddiman]] (1674–1757) classical scholar 
* [[Alexander Runciman]] (1736–1785) painter 
* [[John Runciman]] (1744–1768/9) painter 
* [[John Rutherford (physician)|John Rutherford]] (1695–1779) physician
* [[Daniel Rutherford]] (1749–1819) physician, chemist and botanist 
* [[Paul Sandby]] (1731–1809) English Topographical and landscape painter, among the first to depict Scotland as a place of landscape appreciation in its natural state, influencing Robert Adam and John Clerk of Eldin.
* [[Sir Walter Scott]] (1771–1832) novelist, poet
* [[Sir Robert Sibbald]] (1641–1722) physician and antiquary
* [[Sir John Sinclair]] of Ulbster (1754–1835) writer, statistician
* [[George Sinclair (mathematician)|George Sinclair]] (1630–1696), mathematician, engineer, demonologist and professor 
* [[William Skirving]] (c.1745–1796) political reformer 
* [[William Smellie (encyclopedist)|William Smellie]] (1740–1795) editor of the first edition of ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''
* [[Adam Smith]] (1723–1790) philosopher and political economist 
* [[Sydney Smith]] (1771–1845) English writer, co-founder of ''Edinburgh Review''
* [[Tobias Smollett]] (1721–1771) writer
* [[Mary Somerville]] (1780–1872) science writer, astronomer, polymath
* [[Dugald Stewart]] (1753–1828) philosopher 
* [[James Stirling (mathematician)|James Stirling]] (1692–1770) mathematician
* [[Sir Robert Strange]] (1721–1792) engraver 
* [[Gilbert Stuart]] (1742–1786) journalist and historian 
* [[William Symington]] (1764–1831) engineer, inventor, builder of the first practical steamboat
* [[Robert Tannahill]] (1774–1810) poet 
* [[James Tassie]] (1735–1799) gem engraver and modeller 
* [[Thomas Telford]] (1757–1834) civil engineer and architect 
* [[James Thomson (poet, born 1700)|James Thomson]] (1700–1748) poet, author of ''The Seasons'' 
* [[George Thomson (musician)|George Thomson]] (1757–1851) collector and publisher of the music of Scotland
* [[Thomas Trotter (physician)|Thomas Trotter]] (1760–1832) physician
* [[George Turnbull (theologian)|George Turnbull]] (1698–1748) theologian, philosopher and writer on education
* [[William Tytler]] (1711–1792) lawyer and historian 
* [[Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee]] (1747–1813) advocate, judge, writer and historian 
* [[David Ure]] (1750–1798) Reverend, Natural History and History, 1st Statistical Account. First to represent entrochi for Scotland and appreciate Scottish natural history in any detail in History of Rutherglen & East Kilbride, 1793.
* [[Richard Waitt]] (died 1732) painter 
* [[John Walker (naturalist)]] (1731–1803) minister and natural historian 
* [[James Watt]] (1736–1819) inventor of a more efficient, practical steam engine 
* [[James Wilson (Founding Father)|James Wilson]] (1742–1798) a Founding Father of the United States, signer of [[United States Declaration of Independence]] 
* [[John Witherspoon]] (1723–1794) a Founding Father of the United States, signer of US Declaration of Independence
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* [[Alexander J. Dallas (statesman)|Alexander James Dallas]] (1759–1817) American statesman 
* [[Erasmus Darwin]] (1731–1802) English physician, botanist, philosopher, grandfather of [[Charles Darwin]]
* [[Semyon Efimovich Desnitsky]] (c. 1740–1789) native of Ukraine, University of Glasgow graduate, "Father of Russian jurisprudence" 
* [[Benjamin Franklin]] (1706–1790) polymath, one of the [[Founding Fathers of the United States]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Atiyah |first1=Michael |year=2006 |title=Benjamin Franklin and the Edinburgh Enlightenment |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |volume=150 |issue=3|pages=591–606}}</ref> 
* [[Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova]] (1743–1810) Director of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, first President of the Russian Academy