(Ian Flemming made the literary Bond a Scot after Sean Connery started playing him on film).
Fleming reportedly based Bond on a Scot, Panache -- General Sir Fitzroy Maclean, who served as a liason to Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia, although there are several candidates, including Fleming himself, who was involved in clandestine ops in WWII:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlConte...18/nbon18.html

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/74068.html

Cheers,

Todd