John Barbour was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots. His principal surviving work is the historical verse romance, The Brus, and his reputation from this poem is such that other long works in Scots which survive from the period are sometimes thought to be by him. He is known to have written a number of other works, but other titles definitely ascribed to his authorship, such as The Stewartis Oryginalle and The Brut (Brutus), are now lost.
John Barbour (poet)
St Machar's Cathedral, where Barbour was archdeacon.
Robert II of Scotland, Barbour's royal patron.
An 18thC edition of The Brus in the National Museum of Scotland
The Scottish people or Scots are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland in the 9th century. In the following two centuries, Celtic-speaking Cumbrians of Strathclyde and Germanic-speaking Angles of Northumbria became part of Scotland. In the High Middle Ages, during the 12th-century Davidian Revolution, small numbers of Norman nobles migrated to the Lowlands. In the 13th century, the Norse-Gaels of the Western Isles became part of Scotland, followed by the Norse of the Northern Isles in the 15th century.
St. Kildans sitting on the village street Victorian-era Property of the National Trust for Scotland taken in 1886.
The Covenanters were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement
Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.