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65 William Thomson 1824 - 1907 Lord Kelvin of Largs - mathmetician and scientist - gave us Kelvin temperature scale.
66 Sir Robert Alexander Watson 1892 - 1973 Developed Rado Detection and ranging - RADAR.
- Watt
67 Jim Watt 1948 World Boxing Champion
68 Roy Williamson 1937 - 1990 Scottish folk singer, half of "Corries" gave us "Flower of Scotland".
69 Princess Margaret 1930 - 2002 Younger sister of HM The Queen. Born in Glamis Castle.
70 Oor Wullie 1936 - Cartoon character, Sunday Post, created by Dudley D Watkins "jings Crivvens! Help ma Boab!"
71 Stephen Hendry 1969 - World Champion Snooker Player 7 times champion - regarded as Greatest Player of all time.
72 Denis Law 1940 "The King". Enigmatic footballer, Scotland and Manchester United, member of Wee Blue Devils who thrahed England 3-2 at Wembley 1967.
73 Sir Matt Busby 1909 - 1994 Regarded by many as greatest manager of all time, built Manchester United, won European Cup 1968 10 years after Munich crash.
74 Bil Shankley 1913 - 1981 Football manager - built Liverpool into great team, penned "Football is more important than life or death".
75 Sir Alex Ferguson 1941 Most succesful football manager in British history, Success at Aberdeen breaking Auld Firm domination then unprecedented success with Man Utd.
76 Archibald Philip Primrose 1847 - 1929 Lord Rosebery, born in London but of Scottish nobility. Prime Minister 1894/95, promoted Scottish culture, Scottish footbal eam wore
Rosebery colours (primrose and pink) several times incl. Home Champions 1900. Richest PM ever when died.
77 Jim Baxter 1939 - 2001 Football icon - Rangers & Scotland - remembered for eepie uppie in front of Royal Box at Wembley in 1967.
78 Graeme Obree 1965 - Cycling champion - World pursuit champion (twice) and World Hour Record holder (twice). Developed crouching and superman styles.
79 Liz McColgan 1964 - Athlete. Commonwealth games golds in 1986 and 1990, Olympic silver and World Gold in 1991 in Tokyo just 3 montsh after having a baby -
Brendan Foster described it as "the greatest ever by a British Distance Runner" Won London and New York Marathons.
80 Alan Wells 1952 - Olympic sprint champion in 1980 as oldest ever, also won 100m and 200m at Commonwealth Games. Sports Personality winner
81 Desperate Dan 1939 - World's strongest man. Could lift a cow into the air with one hand. Statue of him in Dundee City Centre.
82 Peter Nicol 1973 - Squash Champion. World and British Opens, World No.1 and won Commonwealth Golds for both Scotland and England
83 Andrew Murray 1987 - Promising Tennis Star - already in Top Ten and has beaten Federer and Rodick and won two ATP championships.
84 Katherine Marjore Athol 1874 - 1960 First woman Conservative Minister. Campaigner for better health and wealth for poorer women o British Empire.
Duchess of Atholl
85 Winnie Margaret Ewing 1929 - President of Scottish Nationalist Party. Politician and promoter of Scotland.
86 Dr Ann Souter Gloag McCleary 1942 - Co-founder of Stagecoach bus company (with brother Brian), businesswoman of year and donated milions to world health, benefactor
of Mercy Ships - hospital ships visiting places without hospitals.
87 Lena Zavaroni 1963 - 1999 Singer and entertainer. Youngest pop star ever o have top ten album. Famous for "ma he's making eyes at me". Suffered anorexia.
88 Tony Blair 1953 - Labour's longest serving Prime Minister 1997/2007. Only Labour PM to win 3 consecutive elections.
89 Jocky Wilson 1950- World Darts Champion (twice) and won British Professional Darts Championship a then record 4 times in 1980's.
90 Jimmy McGrory 1904 - 1982 Greatest goalscorer in British History. Scored 550 goals for Celtic incl. record 410 in 408 league games. Became Celtic manager.
91 Sir David Stirling 1915 - 1990 Founder of the SAS. Comando during WW2, formed idea of small groups of highly trained soldiers operating behind enemy lines.
92 Sir Jimmy Shand 1908 - 2000 Synonimous with Scottish music, most famous accordianist in World, Jimmy Shand and his band.
93 Margaret Oliphant 1828 - 1897 Writer of more than 120 novels.
94 Chic Murray 1919 - 1985 Comedian and entertainer, had double act with wife Maidi Dickson, "Tall Droll with Short Doll". Later starred in films.
95 Sandy Lyle 1958 - Golfer - won British Open in 1985 and became 1st British golfer to win US Masters in 1988.
96 Naomi Mitchison 1897 - 1999 Writer and socialite. Wrote variety of books, science fiction, biographical, children,s, novellist and poet. Social campaigner.
Baroness Mitchison Carradale And great Party giver.
97 Yvonne Murray 1964 - Athlete, gold medallist at European and Commonwealth Games, bronze at Olympics and World championships.
98 Sir Chay Blyth 1940 - Yachtsman. First person ever to attempt (and complete) to sail westward against tides and winds continuously around the Globe.
Won Round the World Yacht Races and has also rowed across Atlantic, west to east .
99 Moira Shearer - Lady Kennedy 1929 - 2006 Famous actress and ballerina, starred in "The Red Shoes" in 1948. Married Sir Ludovic Kennedy in 1950.
100 Marie Stopes 1880 - 1958 Campaigner for better sexual health and birth control - Marie Stopes International clinics worldwide.
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