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III Famous People

Many people from Scotland or from Scottish heritage have done important things to make a name for themselves in different areas. Here are just a few:

Science
John McAdam invented blacktop paving.
James Pilans invented blackboards and colored chalk.
John Logie Baird invented the cathode ray tube used in televisions and also invented fiber optics.
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic.

Art
Robert Burns was the most famous poet in Scotland. People liked his poetry so much that many people have parties on his birthday every year.
Sir Walter Scott wrote many books, most of them biographies and history books.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote two very famous books, Treasure Island and Kidnapped.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about a detective he made up, Sherlock Holmes.
Sir James Barrie wrote the story of Peter Pan.
Sir Sean Connery is an actor who everyone knows best as James Bond.

Historical Achievement
Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, defeated the English.
William Kidd was a famous pirate, Captain Kidd.
John Witherspoon helped write and then signed the Declaration of Independence.
John Paul Jones came to America from Scotland and founded the U.S. Navy.
Allan Pinkerton started the first private investigator business in America, the Pinkerton Agency. That later became the F.B.I.
Dr. William Spiers Bruce was an explorer who went to Antarctica.