Explorers
- Albert Armitage
- John Arthur
- William Balfour Baikie (1824–1864), Africa, surgeon and naturalist on the 1854 Niger expedition
- Peter Belches
- Alexander Berry
- Henry Robertson Bowers
- James Bruce (1730–1794), traveller and travel writer
- William S. Bruce (1867–1921) Antarctica, first to widely explore the Weddell Sea
- David Buchan
- Colin Campbell (1686–1757), co-founder of the Swedish East India Company
- David Douglas (1799–1834), explorer, botanist, introduced about 240 species of plants to Great Britain, including the Douglas-fir
- Hugh Clapperton
- John Dundas Cochrane
- William Cormack
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham ("Don Roberto"), (1852–1936)
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton (1903–1973), Mount Everest, aviator and first man to see Everest from above
- Alexander Forbes, American Pacific coast
- Henry Ogg Forbes
- Simon Fraser, Canada, Fraser River in British Columbia
- George Glas
- Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580–1661), map maker of Scotland
- James Augustus Grant (1827–1892), eastern Africa, member of the exhibition that found the sources of the Nile
- James Hector
- Alexander Keith Johnston (1844–1879)
- John Kirk
- Alexander Gordon Laing (1793–1826), first European to reach Timbuktu
- Macgregor Laird
- William Lithgow
- David Livingstone (1813–1873), explorer, missionary in Africa, discovered Victoria Falls
- John MacGregor
- Gregor MacGregor
- Alexander Mackenzie (1764–1820), Canada & Arctic Ocean
- Harry McNish
- Archibald Menzies (1754–1852)
- Major Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792–1855), Australia
- John Muir (1838–1914)
- John Murray
- Mungo Park (1771–1806), Africa, first European to reach the Niger
- William Paterson
- John Rae (1813–1893), Canadian Arctic
- John Richardson
- Sir James Clark Ross (born in London), (1800–1862), Antarctica, discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Mount Erebus and Mount Terror
- Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney (c. 1345 – c. 1400), allegedly explored North America in 1398
- John McDouall Stuart (1815–1866), most famous of all Australia's inland explorers, led the first expedition to successfully traverse the continent from south to north
- Joseph Thomson
- John Wood
- James Wordie
- Charles Wyville Thomson
- Tom Weir (1914–2006), climber, author and broadcaster
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