Events from the year 1959 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 31 January â Heather Anderson, SNP politician
- 12 April â Jackson Carlaw, politician, leader of the Scottish Conservatives
- 16 April â Alison Ramsay, field hockey player
- 27 April â Sheena Easton, singer
- 27 May â Gerard Kelly, television and pantomime actor (died 2010 in London)
- 9 July â Jim Kerr, rock singer-songwriter
- 16 July â James MacMillan, composer
- 27 July â Siobhan Redmond, actress
- 28 July â Lorraine Fullbrook, Conservative politician
- 31 July â Andrew Marr, print and television journalist
- 29 August â Eddi Reader, folk singer-songwriter
- 7 September â Rona Munro, dramatist and screenwriter
- 8 September â Judy Murray, tennis player and coach
- 10 October â Mark Johnston, racehorse trainer
- 25 November â Charles Kennedy, politician, leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK) (died 2015)
- 30 November â Lorraine Kelly, television presenter
- date unknown
- Meg Bateman, Gaelic writer and poet
- Robert Crawford, poet and literary scholar
- Andy Gray, actor (died 2021)
- Pam Hogg, fashion designer (died 2025)
- Alexander Stoddart, sculptor
Deaths
The arts
See also
References