Top 30 most important and famous people from Scotland - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Queen of Scotland from 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567	Mary	93%
Engineer, inventor of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	91%
The first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film	Sean Connery	91%
Writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle	87%
Microbiologist, who discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, the penicillin.	Alexander Fleming	82%
The first king of Scotland and England unified	James VI/James I	80%
Tennis player, winner of three Grand Slam titles	Andy Murray	79%
Chef known for presenting Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef	Gordon Ramsay	79%
The national poet of Scotland, known for his poems written in Scots language	Robert Burns	78%
Economist, pioneer of political economy named The Father of Capitalism	Adam Smith	76%
Engineer, inventor of steam engine	James Watt	76%
Knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence	William Wallace	75%
Football manager of Manchester United from 1986 to 2013	Alex Ferguson	74%
Christian missionary and explorer of Africa, one of the most popular British heroes of the Victorian era	David Livingstone	74%
Actor famous for his roles in Trainspotting and Moulin Rouge!	Ewan McGregor	73%
Lead vocalist and lyricist of the hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980	Bon Scott	71%
Writer, author of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	67%
Historian and writer, author of Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley and Old Mortality	Walter Scott	67%
First Minister of Scotland from 2014	Nicola Sturgeon	59%
Industrialist and philanthropist who led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late XIX century and became one of the richest Americans in history	Andrew Carnegie	58%
Driver, three times Formula One champion in 1960s/1970s	Jackie Stewart	58%
Footballer, legend of Liverpool in 1980s	Kenny Dalglish	53%
Actor famous for his roles in Olympus Has Fallen and 300	Gerard Butler	48%
Footballer, legend of Manchester United, winner of Ballon d'Or in 1964	Denis Law	47%
Footballer of Liverpool, captain of Scotland National Team	Andrew Robertson	41%
Enlightenment philosopher and historian who is best known for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, scepticism and naturalism	David Hume	41%
Founder, lead guitarist, songwriter and only remaining original member of the hard rock band AC/DC	Angus Young	40%
Minister, reformed theologian and writer who was the leader of the country's Reformation	John Knox	35%
Mathematician responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon	James Maxwell	26%
Singer, Giant, Summer	Calvin Harris	21%

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