Editing List of Scots (section)

==Engineers and inventors==
{{Further|Scottish inventions and discoveries}}
* [[James Abernethy]] (1814–1896), civil engineer
* [[Neil Arnott]] (1788–1874), physician and inventor of the [[Arnott waterbed]]
* Sir [[William Arrol]] (1839–1913), bridge builder
* [[Alexander Bain (inventor)|Alexander Bain]] (1810–1877), inventor and engineer, first to invent and patent the electric clock and fax machine
* [[Charles Baird (engineer)|Charles Baird]] (1766–1843), engineer who played an important part in the industrial and business life of [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]
* [[Francis Baird]] (1802–1864), engineer in St. Petersburg; son of Charles Baird
* [[Hugh Baird (engineer)|Hugh Baird]] (1770–1827), civil engineer, who designed and built the [[Union Canal (Scotland)|Union Canal]]
* [[John Logie Baird]] (1888–1946), television
* [[Nicol Hugh Baird]] (1796–1849), surveyor, engineer and inventor who emigrated to Canada
* [[Alexander Graham Bell]] (1847–1922), telephone, National Geographic Society, hydrofoil
* [[Henry Bell (engineer)|Henry Bell]] (1767–1830), ran Europe's first commercially successful steamboat
* [[Patrick Bell|Rev Patrick Bell]] (1799–1869), Church of Scotland minister, and inventor of the [[reaping machine]]
* [[Bennie Railplane|George Bennie]] (1891–1957), the Bennie Railplane
* [[Sir James Black]] (1924–2010), beta-blockers
* [[Robert Blair (astronomer)|Robert Blair]] (1748–1828), aplanatic telescope
* [[Benjamin Blyth]] (1819–1866), civil engineer
* [[Benjamin Blyth II]] (1849–1917), civil engineer
* [[Thomas Bouch|Sir Thomas Bouch]] (1822–1880), railway engineer, designer of the original [[Tay Rail Bridge]] 
* [[Robert Henry Bow]] (1827–1909), civil engineer and photographer
* [[James Braid (surgeon)|James Braid]] (1795–1860), hypnosis
* [[James Bremner]] (1784–1856), naval architect, harbour builder and ship-raiser
* [[David Brewster]] (1781–1868), lenticular stereoscope
* [[George Brown (inventor)|George Brown]] (1650–1730), [[arithmetic]]ian and inventor
* [[Walter Brown (mathematician)|Walter Brown]] (1886–1957), engineer and mathematician
* [[George Bruce of Carnock|Sir George Bruce]] of [[Carnock]] (c.1550–1625), merchant and mining engineer
* [[Richard Henry Brunton]] (1841–1901), "father of Japanese lighthouses"
* [[Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan]] (1899–1985), civil engineer, first woman member of the [[Institution of Civil Engineers]]
* [[Duncan Cameron (Scottish inventor)|Duncan Cameron]] (1825–1901), inventor of the "Waverley" pen [[Nib (pen)|nib]], owner of ''[[The Oban Times]]'' newspaper
* [[James Chalmers (inventor)|James Chalmers]] (1782–1853), adhesive postage stamp
* [[Dugald Clark|Sir Dugald Clark]] (a.k.a. ''Clerk'') (1854–1932), first [[two stroke cycle]] engine (the [[Clark cycle]])
* [[Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald]] (1749–1831), made many general useful inventions, particularly in the navy
* [[Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald]] (1775–1860), designed many inventions to do with naval technology and steam engines
* [[James C. Crow|Dr James C. Crow]] (1789–1856), creator of the [[sour mash]] process for creating [[bourbon whiskey]]
* [[Robert Davidson (inventor)|Robert Davidson]] (1804–1894), first [[electric locomotive]]
* [[James Dewar]] (1842–1923), inventor of the [[vacuum flask|Thermos flask]] and co-developer of [[cordite]]
* [[William Dickson (film pioneer)|William Dickson]] (1860–1935), motion picture camera and the [[Dickson Greeting|world's first film]]
* [[Thomas Drummond|Captain Thomas Drummond]] (1797–1840) army officer, civil engineer, and pioneer in use of the [[Drummond light]]
* [[Victoria Drummond]] (1894–1978), marine engineer, first woman member of [[Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology]]
* [[John Boyd Dunlop]] (1840–1921), the modern rubber tyre
* [[Henry Dyer]] (1848–1918), engineer, contributor to Western-style [[technical education in Japan]]
* [[Peter Fairbairn|Sir Peter Fairbairn]] (1799–1861), engineer and inventor, and mayor of [[Leeds, West Yorkshire]]
* [[William Fairbairn|Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet (of Ardwick)]] (1789–1874), civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder
* [[Patrick Ferguson]] (1744–1780), the [[Ferguson rifle]]
* [[Alexander Fleming|Sir Alexander Fleming]] (1881–1955), isolated [[penicillin]] from the fungus ''[[Penicillium notatum]]''
* [[Sandford Fleming|Sir Sandford Fleming]], (1827–1915), engineer and inventor, who emigrated to Canada; he proposed worldwide standard [[time zones]], and engineered much of the [[Intercolonial Railway]] and the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]]
* [[Alexander John Forsyth]] (1768–1843), Presbyterian clergyman who invented the [[percussion cap]]
* [[William George Nicholson Geddes]] (1913–1993), civil engineer
* [[David Gow]] (born 1957), inventor of the i-Limb [[prosthetic]] hand
* [[Thomas Lomar Gray]] (1850–1908), engineer noted for his pioneering work in seismology
* [[James Gregory (mathematician)|James Gregory]] (1638–1675), the [[Gregorian telescope]]
* [[Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane]] (1897–1981), engineer
* [[William Handyside]] (1793–1850), engineer involved in important construction projects in St. Petersburg
* [[James Harrison (engineer)|James Harrison]] (1816–1893), pioneer in mechanical [[refrigeration]]
* [[George Johnston (engineer)|George Johnston]] (1855–1945), engineer, designer and constructor of Scotland's first automobile
* [[James Kennedy (engineer)|James Kennedy]] (1797–1886), locomotive and marine engineer
* [[David Kirkaldy]] (1820–1897), engineer, whose pioneering testing works now houses the [[Kirkaldy Testing Museum]]
* [[James Bowman Lindsay]] (1799–1862), inventor of the constant electric [[light bulb]]
* [[Charles Macintosh]] (1766–1843), patented waterproofing
* [[Kirkpatrick MacMillan]] (1813–1878), bicycle
* [[John Loudon McAdam]] (1756–1836), modern road construction
* Sir [[Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet|Robert McAlpine]] (''Concrete Bob'') (1847–1934), road builder
* [[Thomas McCall (inventor)|Thomas McCall]] (1834–1904), [[Wainwright (occupation)|cartwright]], developer of the bicycle
* [[Andrew Meikle]] (1719–1811), mechanical engineer, inventor of the [[threshing machine]]
* [[Patrick Miller of Dalswinton|Patrick Miller]] (1730–1815), steamboat pioneer
* [[Thomas Morton (shipwright)|Thomas Morton]] (1781–1832), [[shipwright]] and inventor of the [[patent slip]]
* [[William Murdoch]] (1754–1839), pioneer of [[gas lighting]]
* [[David Napier (marine engineer)|David Napier]] (1790–1869), marine engineer
* [[David Napier (precision engineer)|David Napier]] (1785–1873), engineer, founder of [[D. Napier & Son]], an early precision engineering company which later made automobiles and aero engines
* [[James Robert Napier]] (1821–1879), engineer and inventor of Napier's diagram
* [[John Napier]] (1550–1617), [[Logarithm]]
* [[Robert Napier (engineer)|Robert Napier]] (1791–1876), marine engineer, "the father of Clyde Shipbuilding"
* [[Robert D. Napier]] (1821–1885), engineer
* [[James Nasmyth]] (1808–1890), [[steam hammer]]
* [[Robert Stirling Newall]] (1812–1889), engineer, improved wire rope and submarine cable laying
* [[James Newlands]] (1813–1871), civil engineer, Borough Engineer of Liverpool as Borough Engineer
* [[Murdoch Paterson]] (1826–1898), Inverness engineer and architect, chief engineer of the [[Highland Railway]]
* [[William Paterson (banker)|William Paterson]] (1658–1719), the [[Bank of England]]
* [[William John Macquorn Rankine]] (1820–1872), developed a complete theory of the steam engine and indeed of all heat engines
* [[John Rennie the Elder]] (1761–1821), engineer, designer of the "new" [[London Bridge#"New" (19th-century) London Bridge|19th-century London Bridge]]
* [[John Shepherd-Barron]] (1925–2010), inventor of the [[automatic teller machine]]
* [[Hugh Smellie]] (1840–1891), engineer, [[Chief mechanical engineer|Locomotive Superintendent]]
* [[Thomas Smith (engineer)|Thomas Smith]] (1752–1814), early [[lighthouse]] engineer
* [[Charles Spalding]] (1738–1783), [[Edinburgh]] confectioner and improver of the [[diving bell]]
* [[Alan Stevenson]] (1807–1865), lighthouse engineer
* [[Charles Alexander Stevenson]] (1855–1950), lighthouse engineer
* [[David Stevenson (engineer)|David Stevenson]] (1815–1886), lighthouse designer
* [[David Alan Stevenson]] (1854–1938), lighthouse engineer
* [[Robert Stevenson (civil engineer)|Robert Stevenson]] (1772–1850), civil engineer, designer and builder of lighthouses
* [[Thomas Stevenson]] (1818–1887), pioneering lighthouse designer and meteorologist; father of [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]
* [[Matthew Stirling (railway engineer)|Matthew Stirling]] (1856–1931), Locomotive Superintendent of the [[Hull and Barnsley Railway]] 
* [[Patrick Stirling (railway engineer)|Patrick Stirling]] (1820–1895), railway engineer, and Locomotive Superintendent of the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]]
* [[Robert Stirling|Reverend Dr Robert Stirling]] (1790–1878), clergyman, and inventor of the [[Stirling engine]]
* [[William Symington]] (1764–1831), engineer, built the first practical steam boat
* [[Thomas Telford]] (1757–1834), architect, civil engineer, bridge designer
* [[Robert William Thomson]] (1822–1873)
* Sir [[Robert Watson-Watt]] (1893–1973), developed radar
* [[James Watt]] (1736–1819), engineer, significantly improved the steam engine
* [[James Young (Scottish chemist)|James Young]] (1811–1883), invented a way of extracting paraffin oil