Who’s the most famous Scot alive today?

by sloppybhoy99

26 comments

  1. Probably Gerard butler? Hold on I’m sure there was a university project that ranked the fame of people let me see.

    The royals claim to be Scottish when it suits them – but they don’t count.

    Edit: according to Pantheon (really interesting project) from MIT the answer is Alex Ferguson. (As far as I can tell they don’t allow you to search by constituent UK country just by “Great Britain” but they do list birthplace so you gotta just manually check haha).

    Edit 2: Butler was a bad guess there are far better guesses below.

  3. Brian Cox… Succession got pretty huge. Alan Cumming… Traitors is massive too

  6. James McAvoy might be a contender?

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  9. Nah, a lot of people don’t even realise that Tennant is even Scottish because he does *the voice* all the time

  17. I reckon many especially in the US would say Susan Boyle

  19. I was chatting to a couple girls I work with and they know who Alan Cumming is.

  20. Billy Connolly will always be up there. I’m 50 and i remember when I was young it was always a thing to go round my mates house and watch a Billy Connolly video with a few beers. I’ll be sad when he goes. It’ll be like a part of my childhood (and teen years) gone. I also like Gerard Butler too. He’s from my home town as is Tom Conti.

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