Philosopher. A professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburg and a member of the "Common Sense" school, he tried to organize an ethical system around the concept of "perfection" (as opposed to the then more current concept of "benevolence").
| 1795–1852 | Fanny Wright |
| 1766–1813 | Alexander Wilson |
| 1720–1788 | Prince Charles Stuart |
| 1753–1828 | Dugald Stewart |
| 1721–1771 | Tobias Smollett |
| 1723–1790 | Adam Smith |
| 1740–1795 | William Smellie |
| 1812–1904 | Samuel Smiles |
| 1771–1832 | Sir Walter Scott |
| 1671–1734 | Rob Roy |
| 1710–1796 | Thomas Reid |
| 1801–1877 | Robert Dale Owen |
| 1714–1799 | James Monboddo |
| fl. c. 1806–c. 1873 | John Stuart Mill |
| 1773–1836 | James Mill |
| 1722–1790 | Flora Macdonald |
| 1813–1873 | David Livingstone |
| 1711–1776 | David Hume |
| 1730–1803 | Sir William Hamilton |
| 1744–1828 | Andrew Duncan |
| 1780–1847 | Thomas Chalmers |
| 1795–1881 | Thomas Carlyle |
| 1792–1863 | Sir Colin Campbell |
| 1759–1796 | Robert Burns |
| 1738–1791 | Elspeth Buchan |
| 1778–1868 | Henry Brougham |
| 1795–1860 | James Braid |
| 1740–1795 | James Boswell |
| 1776–1834 | William Blackwood |
