Scotland's Greatest Export
The People Who Changed the World
Industrialists, explorers, founders — the Scots who exported ingenuity abroad.
Migration routes from Scotland to Canada, USA, Australia, Japan and beyond.
Andrew Carnegie
1835–1919
Steel industrialist & philanthropist (USA).
Coming SoonDavid Dunbar Buick
1854–1929
Founder of Buick Motors (USA).
Coming SoonAllan Pinkerton
1819–1884
Detective agency founder (USA).
Coming SoonAlexander Graham Bell
1847–1922
Telephone (Canada/USA).
Coming SoonJohn Muir
1838–1914
Father of the American national parks.
Coming SoonJohn Witherspoon
1723–1794
Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Coming SoonSir Alexander Mackenzie
1764–1820
Mapped much of Canada.
Coming SoonRobert Dunsmuir
1825–1889
British Columbia coal industrialist.
Coming SoonLachlan Macquarie
1762–1824
Father of Australia.
Coming SoonJohn Boyd Dunlop
1840–1921
Pneumatic tyre (Ireland).
Coming SoonThomas Blake Glover
1838–1911
Industrialist who helped modernise Japan.
Coming SoonJames McGill
1744–1813
Founder of McGill University.
Coming SoonAlexander Mitchell
1817–1887
Industrialist and US railroad magnate.
Coming SoonDonald Smith (Lord Strathcona)
1820–1914
Drove the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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