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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian K View Post
    Alexander Graham Bell came to mind immediately.
    Andrew Carnegie popped into my mind right off. He revolutionized industry, especially in North America. However, I don't think his influence had as much direct impact on his homeland as it did here, but I could be mistaken.

    Of course, being from this side of the pond I have not been emersed in Scottish history enough to cast a truly informed vote.

    For just being all around "cool" my vote would go to Sean Connery, but he is certainly not the "greatest ever." But he is the only real James Bond.

    It's a tough call to say "Greatest Ever." Perhaps the subject needs to be narrowed slightly by major area of work or influence(political, military, science/engineering, business, etc.) or by time frame(century, decade, era). Of course if one went with the latter wouldn't it be contrary to the title? "Best Scot Ever...um,...in the 19th century." It just doesn't fly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Whidbey78 View Post
    Andrew Carnegie popped into my mind right off. He revolutionized industry, especially in North America.
    I think James Watt deserves a lot of the credit for revolutionizing modern industry perhaps even more so than Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie was an amazing man though.
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    "...who was the greatest ever Scot."

    David Hume
    Adam Smith
    Robert Burns
    James VI
    Compton Mackenzie
    Hugh MacDiarmid

    in no particular order.

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    Seamus Mor/Hamish Henderson.

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    Well, you have all contributed to a significant list of great Scots, and I would not venture to name “the greatest”.
    But I would offer a few more names: John Logie Baird, who invented television, and who lived in South Africa for a while.
    Andrew Geddes Bain and his son Thomas, the greatest road builders that 19th-century South Africa was privileged to see.
    Charles Mackenzie, Bishop of Central Africa and martyr.
    And I would go along with the nomination of David Livingstone. There is a hospital named after him in Port Elizabeth. He stayed at the London Missionary Society’s Bethelsdorp mission station (now part of Port Elizabeth) while getting his wagons ready for the trek to Kuruman.
    I would also question the prominence given to Alexander Graham Bell. There are claims that he pinched someone else’s ideas to make the telephone.
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    Sir Simon Lockhart, who carried the key to the casket containing Bruce's heart on its way to Jerusalem, and who went on to become one of my ancestors.

    Which one is the greater accomplishment, do you think?
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    Seamus Mor/Hamish Henderson.
    Seconded! ;c)

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    We can't forget Montgomery Scott. If it weren't for him Capt. Kirk couldn't have saved the world multiple times.
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    Sorry, can't include Scotty, he has not been born yet

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    Beam me up, Scotty!
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