Eric Liddell - Scotland's most popular sporting hero
Louise Aitken-Walker, MBE, world champion rally driver;
Alister Allan, MBE, shooter and Scotland’s most successful Commonwealth Games competitor;
Captain Robert Barclay Allardice, long-distance walking champion;
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Hide AdTommy Armour, winner of the Open and US Open golf championships;
Leslie Balfour-Melville, Scotland’s greatest-ever all-round sportsman;
Jim Baxter, Rangers and Scotland footballer;
Ian Black, Commonwealth gold medal-winning swimmer;
Sir Chay Blyth, CBE, MBE, Atlantic rower, round-the-world yachtsman;
James Braid, five times Open golf champion;
Billy Bremner, perhaps Scotland’s greatest football captain;
Ken Buchanan MBE, world lightweight boxing champion;
Sir Matt Busby, European Cup-winning manager of Manchester United;
Willie Carson, OBE, Derby winner and five times champion jockey;
Dr John Cattanach, perhaps the finest exponent of shinty;
Jim Clark, OBE, twice Formula One world champion;
Kenny Dalglish, MBE, Scotland’s most-capped footballer;
Mike Denness, captain of England’s cricket team;
Donald Dinnie, heavyweight athlete of the Victorian era;
Launceston Elliot, weightlifter and Britain’s first Olympic champion;
John Greig, MBE, captain of Rangers and Scotland;
Gavin Hastings OBE, Scottish rugby captain and record points-scorer;
Dougal Haston, first Scot to climb Everest;
Sir Peter Heatly, Commonwealth diving gold medallist;
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Hide AdAndy Irvine, MBE, nominated by Bill McLaren as the greatest Scottish rugby internationalist;
Jimmy Johnstone, officially the greatest Celtic player;
Ellen King, Olympic swimming medallist;
Denis Law, Scotland’s joint top-scorer and arguably the greatest striker of them all;
Benny Lynch, tragic world flyweight boxing champion;
Walter McGowan, world flyweight boxing champion of 1966;
Bobby McGregor, Olympic and Commonwealth swimming medallist;
Bob McIntyre, champion motor-cyclist;
Billy McNeill, MBE, captain of Celtic’s 1967 European Cup-winning side;
GPS Macpherson, captain of Scotland’s first rugby Grand Slam winners in 1925;
Dick McTaggart, Scotland’s greatest amateur boxer and Olympic gold medallist;
Young Tom Morris, four times Open golf champion;
Mark Morrison, one of Scotland’s greatest rugby forwards;
Jackie Paterson, world flyweight boxing champion;
Rodney Pattisson, Olympic gold medal-winning yachtsman;
Nancy Riach, holder of 28 Scottish and British swimming records;
Belle Robertson, Curtis Cup team winner and multiple amateur golfing champion;
Bill Shankly, manager of Liverpool;
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Hide AdWilson Shaw, Scottish rugby legend, captain of the Triple Crown- winning side of 1937;
Winnie Shaw, Scotland’s finest woman tennis player;
Jock Stein, who managed Celtic to European Cup victory in 1967;
Ian Stewart, 5000-metres Commonwealth gold and Olympic bronze medallist;
Jackie Stewart, three times Formula One world champion;
Jim Watt, world lightweight boxing champion;
Allan Wells, Olympic champion sprinter; and
David Wilkie, Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer from Montreal Olympics in 1976.