John Paul Jones, born in
Scotland, founded the American Navy.
Alan Pinkerton, born in
Glasgow, 1819, founded the world famous detective agency in the U.S.A.
John Campbell from Glasgow
founded the city of Auckland, New Zealand.
John Law, born in Edinburgh,
founded the Bank of France.
William Paterson, born
Dumfries, founded the Bank of England.
James MacDraw from Aberdeen
founded New Zealand's first University in Dunedin, 1869.
James McGill born in
Glasgow, founded the University in Montreal.
William Smith, born in
Thurso, Scotland, founded the Boys Brigade.
Samuel Craig from
Inverkeithing founded the Russian Navy.
The first Prime Minister of
Australia was Andrew Fisher, born in Lanarkshire , Scotland.
John McDonald, born in
Glasgow was the Prime Minister of Canada for nineteen years.
Thomas Brisbane, born on the
West Coast of Scotland, was the state governor in Australia, the city of Brisbane was
named after him.
James McDonald, born in
Dundee , Scotland, was the voice for Mickey Mouse for over 40 years.
Patrick Gordon from Aberdeen
was Peter the Great's adviser in Russia.
Robert Louis Stevenson, born
Edinburgh, wrote the world famous book Treasure Island.
Charles Cameron from
Aberdeen designed many buildings in Leningrad during the reign of Catherine the Great.
Scotland is the only country
in the World to invade England twice.
More than half of the
defenders of the Alamo were of Scottish decent, among them Davy Crocket and Jim Bowie.
Austin in Texas was built
from blueprints from Scotland.
