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Group, Community / Clubs, Craft / Design, Ireland, Scotland

Sir John Steell

Born John Robert Steell, Aberdeen. Queen Victoria's official sculptor in Scotland, his work includes the Walter Scott statue at the Scott Monument in Edinburgh and Robert Burns in Albert Square, Du...

Person, Sculpture, Scotland

John Stephen

Founder of Carnaby Street as world centre for men's fashion in the 1960s. From Glasgow. The V&A hold his archive.

Person, Commerce, Craft / Design, Scotland

Robert Louis Stevenson

Born Edinburgh's New Town. Never a well man, he tried living in various places looking for a climate that would suit: Bournemouth, France, New York State. He died on a small Samoan island in the Pa...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous, Samoa, Scotland

Marie Stopes

Born in Edinburgh. Scientist, writer, dramatist and poet. Publicist of the campaign for sexual education. Advocate of family planning and founder of pioneer birth control clinic. Courageous crusade...

Person, Gender Issues, Medicine, Science, Scotland

William Strahan

The Aldersgate printer of John Wesley's Journal. Born Edinburgh.  Also printed the works of Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edward Gibbon.

Person, Commerce, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Religion, Scotland

William Strang

Painter and etcher. Born  Dumbarton, aged 17 came to the Slade School of Art and stayed in London. Illustrated the works of John Bunyan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Rudyard Kipling. A Google image ...

Person, Art, Scotland

Joe Strummer

Co-founder and lead singer of The Clash. Born as John Graham Mellor in Turkey and raised in Scotland. "London Calling" is his. Died suddenly of a heart defect at his home in Somerset.

Person, Music / songs, Scotland, Turkey

Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

The Young Pretender. Bonnie Prince Charlie. Born Rome of a rich Polish mother. Grandson of King James II who, being Catholic, was driven out of Britain, thus setting the scene for the Jacobite upr...

Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous, Italy, Scotland

John McDouall Stuart

Australian explorer.  Born Scotland. Trained as a civil engineer and aged 23 emigrated to Australia where 1858 - 62 he made 6 expeditions into the interior searching out new pastures and surveying ...

Person, Exploring, Australia, Scotland