{"id":35,"date":"2010-07-21T19:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.librairc.net\/wordpress\/?p=35"},"modified":"2010-07-21T19:12:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:12:42","slug":"famous-people-of-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/famous-people-of-scotland","title":{"rendered":"Famous people of Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know some very famous people come from Scotland? Yep they did here are a few you may not have realised were Scottish.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

John Logie Baird :<\/span> Engineer and Inventor of that little box you sit and watch night after night (Television) <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Alexander-Graham-Bell<\/span> : Inventor of the most important thing we have to keep in touch other than our pc of course (The Telephone)<\/strong><\/span>8<\/p>\n

Robert The Bruce<\/span> : Crowned King of Scotland in 1306 he defeated the English king Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314 . He is supposed to have been encouraged towards perseverance and eventual victory by watching a spider build a web in a cave that he was hiding !<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Burns :<\/span> Known to scots as Rabbie Burns famous scots poet and writer. He wrote “Auld Lang Syne” which is now sung worldwide at the end of functions and particularly at the end of the year. The Scots celebrate “Burns Night” on 25th January where a feast is prepared of “Tatties , Neeps, and Haggis” . To those of you who dont know thats potatoes, turnip and haggis and those of you who dont know what haggis is made from probably dont want to know \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Billy Connelly :<\/span> Famous Scots comedien known as “The big Yin” He is Glasgow born and married to comedienne Pamela Stevenson.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sean Connery<\/span> : Loved by lots as he played the famous James Bond born and brough up in Edinburgh also a very keen golfer loves to play the famous St Andrews golf course.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Kenny Dalgleish<\/span> : One of Scotlands most succesful football players, he came from Glasgow and joined Jock Steins Celtic team in 1967 moving to English team “Liverpool in 1977.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

James VI :<\/span> Son of the catholic Mary Queen of Scots , who had been brought up a presbyterian. In 1603 on the death of Queen Elizabeth I, he acceded to the English throne as James I but his “Union of the Crows” resulted in him being the King of both countries, the countries remained seperate fro another 104 years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jackie Stewart<\/span> : Racing car driver who won the world championship 3 times , turned olympic clay pigeon shooter .In 1977 along with his son he launched his own formula one racing team. He was born in Dumbarton.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

William Wallace<\/span> : Outlaw and defender of Scottish independence. Defeated the army of Edward I at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Shortly after Wallace’s execution Robert the Bruce was able to re-establish Scotlands independence.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There are lots more I wouldnt have the space to tell you them all and probably cant remeber the history of them all anyway but<\/strong><\/span> <\/strong>those are a few of them anyway.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know some very famous people come from Scotland? Yep they did here are a few you may not have realised were Scottish. John Logie Baird : Engineer and Inventor of that little box you sit and watch night after night (Television) Alexander-Graham-Bell : Inventor of the most important thing we have to keep …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}