The Scottish Sports Hall of Fame is the national sports hall of fame

Hall of Fame

A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...

 in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, initiated on St Andrew's Day (30 November) 2001. It is a joint project organised by sportscotland

Sportscotland

Sportscotland , formerly the Scottish Sports Council, is the national agency for sport in Scotland. Their stated aim is to help everyone in Scotland enjoy sport's many benefits....

, the national governmental body for Scottish sport, and the National Museums of Scotland

National Museums of Scotland

National Museums Scotland is the organization that runs several national museums of Scotland. It is one of the country's National Collections, and holds internationally important collections of natural sciences, decorative arts, world cultures, science and technology, and Scottish history and...

. It is also funded by BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...

 and donations from the general public. The patron

Patrón

Patrón is a luxury brand of tequila produced in Mexico and sold in hand-blown, individually numbered bottles.Made entirely from Blue Agave "piñas" , Patrón comes in five varieties: Silver, Añejo, Reposado, Gran Patrón Platinum and Gran Patrón Burdeos. Patrón also sells a tequila-coffee blend known...

s are Anne, Princess Royal

Anne, Princess Royal

Princess Anne, Princess Royal , is the only daughter of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...

, a notable supporter of the Scotland national rugby union team

Scotland national rugby union team

The Scotland national rugby union team represent Scotland in international rugby union. Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The Scotland rugby union team is currently ranked eighth in the IRB World Rankings as of 19 September 2011...

; First Minister

First Minister of Scotland

The First Minister of Scotland is the political leader of Scotland and head of the Scottish Government. The First Minister chairs the Scottish Cabinet and is primarily responsible for the formulation, development and presentation of Scottish Government policy...

 Alex Salmond

Alex Salmond

Alexander Elliot Anderson "Alex" Salmond MSP is a Scottish politician and current First Minister of Scotland. He became Scotland's fourth First Minister in May 2007. He is the Leader of the Scottish National Party , having served as Member of the Scottish Parliament for Gordon...

; and Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

 legend Jackie Stewart

Jackie Stewart

Sir John Young Stewart, OBE , better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scotsman, is a Scottish former racing driver and team owner. He competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am...

.

The goal is to inspire new generations of Scottish sportspeople by creating a permanent home for the Hall of Fame in the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

.

The permanent exhibition will consist of four major elements:

• A display about the members of the Hall of Fame, including key objects relating to their sporting careers and information about their successes
• A Sporting Moments display through which visitors will be able to replay their favourite sporting moment, or find out more about their sporting hero or heroine
• An interactive area to enable visitors to pit themselves against the best and feel what it is like to be the fastest runner
  Running
  Running is a means of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground...
  
  , highest jumper
  Jumper
  -Clothing:*Sweater or heavy sweater pulled on over the head, used in the UK and Commonwealth*Jumper , in the USA, a sleeveless, collarless dress, known elsewhere as a pinafore or pinafore dress* Part of the uniform of the United States Navy...
  
  , most accurate putter or strongest lifter
  Lifter
  Lifter can mean:* Ionocraft, a device that can generate thrust using ionised air with no moving parts* Tappet, part of an internal combustion engine that actuates a poppet valve through rocker arms and pushrods...
  
  
• A programme of activities including the annual induction ceremonies to introduce new names to the Hall of Fame.

The Sports Gallery at the Museum of Scotland was opened in 2006.

To date there have been 5 rounds of inductions into the Hall of Fame:

1. 2002: initial 50 inductees
2. 2003: 14 inductees
3. 2004: 6 inductees
4. 2007: 8 inductees
5. 2008: 4 inductees
6. 2010: 6 inductees

All-rounders

• Leslie Balfour-Melville
  Leslie Balfour-Melville
  Leslie Melville Balfour-Melville , born Leslie Melville Balfour, was an outstanding all-round Scottish amateur sportsman. The finest moment in his sporting career was on 29 July 1882. As captain, opening batsman and wicket-keeper, he led Scotland to victory over Australia at cricket...
  
   (1854–1937), captained Scotland to victory over Australia at cricket; international cap
  Scotland national rugby union team
  The Scotland national rugby union team represent Scotland in international rugby union. Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The Scotland rugby union team is currently ranked eighth in the IRB World Rankings as of 19 September 2011...
  
   in rugby; captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club; and many other achievements
• Isabel Barr (Newstead) (1955–2007), 14 Paralympic medals, in swimming, athletics and shooting
• Kenneth Grant MacLeod (1888–1967), rugby union, cricket, football, athletics and golf

Athletics

Athletics (track and field)

Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...

 and Highland games

Highland games

Highland games are events held throughout the &Highland games are events held throughout the &Highland games are events held throughout the &(-è_çà in Scotland and other countries as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and heritage, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. Certain...

• Bill Anderson
  Bill Anderson (Highland games)
  Bill Anderson is a Scottish heavyweight sportsman. He won the World Highland Games Championships in 1981 and the Scottish Highland Games Championships 16 times. He has also held every possible Scottish record in Highland Games.-Biography:Bill was born on Greenferns Farm, Bucksburn, close to...
  
   (born 1937)
• Donald Dinnie
  Donald Dinnie
  Donald Dinnie was a Scottish strongman, born at Balnacraig, Birse, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. He has been recognized as "The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Athlete"...
  
   (1837–1916)
• Wyndham Halswelle
  Wyndham Halswelle
  Wyndham Halswelle was a British athlete, winner of the controversial 400m race at the 1908 Summer Olympics, becoming the only athlete to win an Olympic title by a walkover....
  
   (1882–1915)
• Eric Liddell
  Eric Liddell
  Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary.Liddell was the winner of the men's 400 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris...
  
   (1902–1945)
• Liz McColgan
  Liz McColgan
  Elizabeth McColgan MBE is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal over the same distance at the 1988 Olympic Games...
  
   (born 1964)
• George McNeill (born 1947)
• Yvonne Murray
  Yvonne Murray
  Yvonne Murray MBE , is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won a bronze medal in the 3000 metres at the 1988 Olympic Games, and gold medals at this distance at the 1993 World Indoor Championships and the 1990 European Championships...
  
   (born 1964)
• Arthur James Robertson (1879–1957)
• Ian Stewart
  Ian Stewart (athlete)
  Ian Stewart is a Scottish athlete. Ian Stewart was one of the world's leading distance runners between the late 1960s and mid-1970s. Stewart won the bronze medal in the Men's 5000 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich...
  
   (born 1949)
• Lachie Stewart
  Lachie Stewart
  Joseph Laughlin Stewart is a Scottish former distance runner, and an inductee in the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame....
  
   (born 1943)
• Allan Wells
  Allan Wells
  Allan Wipper Wells MBE is a former Scottish athlete, who became Olympic Champion in the 100 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1952)

Baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

• Bobby Thomson
  Bobby Thomson
  Robert Brown "Bobby" Thomson was a Scottish-born American professional baseball player. Nicknamed "The Staten Island Scot", he was an outfielder and right-handed batter for the New York Giants , Milwaukee Braves , Chicago Cubs , Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles .His season-ending three-run...
  
   (born 1923), hit baseball's most famous walk-off home run
  Walk-off home run
  In baseball, a walk-off home run is a home run that ends the game. It must be a home run that gives the home team the lead in the bottom of the final inning of the game—either the ninth inning, or any extra inning, or any other regularly scheduled final inning...
  
  , the 'Shot Heard Round the World
  Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)
  In baseball, the "Shot Heard 'round the World" is the term given to the walk-off home run hit by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds to win the National League pennant at 3:58 p.m...
  
  '; voted an All-Star
  Major League Baseball All-Star Game
  The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by a combination of fans, players, coaches, and managers...
  
   in 1948, 1949 and 1952

Boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

The men who pioneered the use of Scotland the Brave

Scotland the Brave

"Scotland the Brave" is a Scottish patriotic song. It was one of several songs considered an unofficial national anthem of Scotland.Scotland the Brave is also the authorised pipe band march of The British Columbia Dragoons of the Canadian Forces, and is played during the Pass in Review at Friday...

as the national anthem

National anthem

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.- History :Anthems rose to prominence...

.

• Ken Buchanan
  Ken Buchanan
  Ken Buchanan is a former boxing undisputed world lightweight champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland.- Early career :...
  
  
• Benny Lynch
  Benny Lynch
  Benny Lynch was a Scottish professional boxer who fought in the flyweight division. He is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and Ring Magazine has described him as the greatest fighter that Scotland has ever produced...
  
  
• Walter McGowan
  Walter McGowan
  Walter McGowan, MBE , is a retired Scottish boxer. He is renowned for having been WBC world flyweight champion.He was the son of Thomas McGowan, who had boxed under the name of 'Joe Gans'....
  
  
• Dick McTaggart
• Jackie Paterson
  Jackie Paterson
  Jackie Paterson was a Scottish boxer who was world flyweight boxing champion. He was also British champion at flyweight and bantamweight.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jim Watt

Cycling

Bicycle racing

Bicycle racing is a competition sport in which various types of bicycles are used. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, bike trials, and cycle speedway. Bicycle racing is recognised as an Olympic sport...

 

• Robert Millar
  Robert Millar
  Robert Millar is a former Scottish professional cyclist who won the “King of the Mountains” competition in the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall – sharing the highest Tour position for a British cyclist with Bradley Wiggins, and the first time a Briton had won a major Tour...
  
   (born 1958), King of the Mountains
  King of the Mountains
  The King of the Mountains is the title given to the best climber in a cycling road race; usually and officially known as the Mountains classification...
  
   and 4th overall at the 1984 Tour de France
  1984 Tour de France
  The 1984 Tour de France was the 71st Tour de France, run over 4020.9 km in 23 stages and a prologue, from 29 June to 22 July 1984.French rider Laurent Fignon won his second consecutive Tour, beating former teammate Bernard Hinault by over 10 minutes. Hinault was pursuing his fifth Tour...
  
  ; King of the Mountains and 2nd overall at the 1987 Giro d'Italia
  1987 Giro d'Italia
  The 1987 Giro d'Italia of cycling, the 70th running of the race, was held from 21 May to 13 June 1987, consisting of 22 stages. It was won by Stephen Roche.The defending champion Roberto Visentini returned with a strong team to win his second Giro...
  
  ; 2nd overall at the Vuelta a España
  Vuelta a España
  The Vuelta a España is a three-week road bicycle racing stage race that is one of the three "Grand Tours" of Europe and part of the UCI World Ranking calendar. The race lasts three weeks and attracts cyclists from around the world. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages...
  
   in both 1985
  1985 Vuelta a España
  The 40th Vuelta a España , a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from 23 April to 12 May 1985...
  
   and 1986
  1986 Vuelta a España
  The 41st Vuelta a España , a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from April 22 to May 13, 1986. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 3,666 km, and was won by Álvaro Pino of the Zor cycling team....
  
  
• Graeme Obree
  Graeme Obree
  Graeme Obree is a Scottish racing cyclist who twice broke the world hour record, in July 1993 and April 1994, and was the individual pursuit world champion in 1993 and 1995. He was known for his unusual riding positions and for the "Old Faithful" bicycle he built which included parts from a...
  
   (born 11 September 1965), nicknamed "The Flying Scotsman" is a Scottish racing cyclist who twice broke the world hour record, in July 1993 and April 1994, and was the individual pursuit world champion in 1993 and 1995.

Football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

Football managers and players:

• Jim Baxter
  Jim Baxter
  James Curran Baxter was a left-footed Scottish footballer who played as a midfielder. He is regarded by some as the country's greatest ever footballer...
  
   (1939–2001)
• Billy Bremner
  Billy Bremner
  William John "Billy" Bremner was a Scottish professional footballer, most noted for his captaincy of the Leeds United team of the 1960s and 1970s. He has since been voted Leeds United's greatest player of all time and has a statue outside the South East corner of Elland Road...
  
   (1942–1997)
• Matt Busby
  Matt Busby
  Sir Alexander Matthew "Matt" Busby, CBE, KCSG was a Scottish football player and manager, most noted for managing Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–1971 season...
  
   (1909–1994)
• Kenny Dalglish
  Kenny Dalglish
  Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish MBE is a Scottish former footballer and the current manager of Liverpool F.C.. In a 22-year playing career, he played for two club teams, Celtic and Liverpool, winning numerous honours with both. He is the most capped Scottish player, with 102 appearances, and...
  
   (born 1951)
• John Greig
  John Greig
  John Greig MBE is a Scottish former professional football player who, despite his boyhood allegiance to hometown team Heart of Midlothian, spent his entire career in Glasgow with Rangers as a player, manager and director.Greig was voted "The Greatest Ever Ranger" in 1999 by the Rangers supporters...
  
   (born 1942)
• Jimmy Johnstone
  Jimmy Johnstone
  James Connolly "Jimmy" Johnstone was a Scottish football player. Johnstone was best known for his time with Celtic, and was voted their best ever player by the club's fans in 2002...
  
   (1944–2006)
• Denis Law
  Denis Law
  Denis Law is a retired Scottish football player, who enjoyed a long and successful career as a striker from the 1950s to the 1970s....
  
   (born 1940)
• Ally McCoist
  Ally McCoist
  Alistair Murdoch "Ally" McCoist, MBE ; 24 September 1962) is a Scottish football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Rangers in Scotland....
  
   (born 1962)
• Jimmy McGrory
  Jimmy McGrory
  James Edward "Jimmy" McGrory was a Scottish football player and manager for Celtic who holds the record for most career goals in British football...
  
   (1904–1982)
• Billy McNeill
  Billy McNeill
  William "Billy" McNeill MBE is a former Scottish footballer and manager. He is best known for captaining Celtic to the European Cup triumph in 1967 and he later went on to manage the club. He is now the official Club Ambassador at Celtic....
  
   (born 1940)
• Rose Reilly
  Rose Reilly
  Rose Reilly , whose married name is Rose Peralta, is a Scottish-born former women's association football player, who represented both the Scottish women's football team and Italian women's football team.-Club career:...
  
   (born 1955)
• Bill Shankly
  Bill Shankly
  William "Bill" Shankly, OBE was a Scottish football player and manager, most noted for managing Liverpool between 1959 and 1974. One of Britain's most successful and respected football managers, Shankly was also a fine player whose career was interrupted by the Second World War...
  
   (1913–1981)
• Gordon Smith (1924–2004)
• Jock Stein
  Jock Stein
  John 'Jock' Stein CBE was a Scottish association football player and manager. He became the first manager of a British side to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967...
  
   (1922–1985)

Golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

• Tommy Armour
  Tommy Armour
  Thomas Dickson Armour was a Scottish-American professional golfer. He was nicknamed The Silver Scot.Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh....
  
  
• James Braid
  James Braid (golfer)
  James Braid was a Scottish professional golfer and a member of the Great Triumvirate of the sport alongside Harry Vardon and John Henry Taylor. He won The Open Championship five times...
  
  
• Sandy Lyle
  Sandy Lyle
  Alexander Walter Barr "Sandy" Lyle, MBE is a Scottish professional golfer. Lyle has won two major championships during his career. Along with Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam, he became one of Britain's top golfers during the 1980s...
  
  
• Old Tom Morris
• Young Tom Morris
• Belle Robertson
• Jessie Valentine

Motorsport

Motorsport

Motorsport or motorsports is the group of sports which primarily involve the use of motorized vehicles, whether for racing or non-racing competition...

• Louise Aitken-Walker
  Louise Aitken-Walker
  Louise Aitken-Walker MBE is a British rally and saloon car racing driver. Aitken-Walker entered competition in 1979 and finished 19th in her first Rally GB two years later...
  
   (born 1960), FIA Ladies World Rally Champion 1990
• Jim Clark
  Jim Clark
  James "Jim" Clark, Jr OBE was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965....
  
   (1936–1968), Formula One World Champion 1963 & 1965 and Indianapolis 500 winner 1965
• Jimmie Guthrie
  Jimmie Guthrie
  Andrew James "Jimmie" Guthrie was a Scottish motorcycle racer famous for 19 motorcycle Grand Prix wins and 3 victories in the North West 200 and 6 wins at the Isle of Man TT Races in his career.-Biography:...
  
   (1897–1937), 19 Motorcycle Grand Prix wins and 6 Isle of Man TT
  Isle of Man TT
  The International Isle of Man TT Race is a motorcycle racing event held on the Isle of Man and was for many years the most prestigious motorcycle race in the world...
  
   wins
• Bob McIntyre (1928–1962), first Isle of Man TT rider to break 100 mph for a lap; 2 Motorcycle Grand Prix wins and 3 TT wins
• Colin McRae
  Colin McRae
  Colin Steele McRae, MBE was a Scottish rally driver born in Lanark.The son of five-time British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae and brother of rally driver Alister McRae, Colin McRae was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion and, in 1995, became the first British person and the youngest to win the...
  
   (1968–2007), World Rally Champion in 1995; the inspiration behind the pioneering Colin McRae Rally
  Colin McRae Rally
  Colin McRae Rally and more recently; Dirt, is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters.Started in 1998, the franchise has been a critical and commercial success and is generally acknowledged as a pioneer of realistic rally sports racing games...
  
   series of racing games
• Jackie Stewart
  Jackie Stewart
  Sir John Young Stewart, OBE , better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scotsman, is a Scottish former racing driver and team owner. He competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am...
  
   (born 1939), Formula One World Champion 1969, 1971 and 1973; co-founder of the Stewart Grand Prix
  Stewart Grand Prix
  Stewart Grand Prix is a former Formula One constructor and racing team. The team was formed by three times Formula One champion Jackie Stewart and his son Paul Stewart in 1996. The team competed in F1, as the Ford works-supported team, for only three seasons, from 1997 to 1999...
  
   team
• Steve Hislop
  Steve Hislop
  Steven 'Hizzy' Hislop was a Scottish motorcycle racer. Hislop won the Isle of Man TT eleven times and also the British 250cc Championship and British Superbike championship ....
  
   (1962–2003), Won Isle of Man TT
  Isle of Man TT
  The International Isle of Man TT Race is a motorcycle racing event held on the Isle of Man and was for many years the most prestigious motorcycle race in the world...
  
   11 times

Mountaineering

Mountaineering

Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

 and Hillwalking

Hillwalking

In the British Isles, the terms hillwalking or fellwalking are commonly used to describe the recreational outdoor activity of walking on hills and mountains, often with the intention of visiting their summits...

• Robert Barclay Allardice
  Robert Barclay Allardice
  Robert Barclay Allardice , the 6th Laird of Ury, generally known as Captain Barclay, was a notable Scottish walker of the early 19th century, known as the celebrated pedestrian. His most famous feat was the walking of in 1000 hours for 1000 guineas in 1809...
  
  
• Dougal Haston
  Dougal Haston
  Dougal Haston, , was a Scottish mountaineer born in Currie, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.-Climbing achievements:...
  
  
• Hamish MacInnes
  Hamish MacInnes
  Dr Hamish MacInnes is a Scottish mountaineer, leading mountain search and rescuer, author and advisor. He is the leading Scottish winter mountaineer of the generation following W. H. Murray....
  
  

Rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

• Finlay Calder
  Finlay Calder
  Finlay Calder is a Scottish former rugby union player.Born in Haddington, East Lothian and educated at Stewart's Melville College, Calder played at open side flanker and won 34 caps representing Scotland from 1986-91. He captained the British Lions tour to Australia in 1989...
  
  
• Douglas Elliot
  Douglas Elliot
  Douglas Elliot also known as W.I.D. Elliot and Doug Elliot is a former Scottish international rugby union player, who played for . He was capped 29 times for Scotland between 1947-54...
  
  
• Gavin Hastings
  Gavin Hastings
  Andrew Gavin Hastings, OBE is a former Scotland rugby union player. He is frequently considered one of the best, if not the best, rugby player to come out of Scotland. His nickname is "Big Gav".Hastings was born in Edinburgh...
  
  
• Andy Irvine
  Andy Irvine (rugby player)
  Andrew Robertson "Andy" Irvine MBE is a former President of the Scottish Rugby Union , and a former Scottish international rugby player. He earned fifty one Scottish caps, and scored over 250 points for .-Background:...
  
  
• George MacPherson
  George MacPherson
  George MacPherson also known as GPS MacPherson was a Scottish rugby union footballer who played for Scotland in 26 Tests between 1922 and 1932....
  
  
• Mark Morrison
• David Sole
  David Sole
  David Sole is a former Scottish rugby union footballer. He was educated at Blairmore prep school and Glenalmond College, a private school in Perthshire....
  
  
• Robert Wilson Shaw
  Robert Wilson Shaw
  Robert Wilson Shaw CBE was a Scottish rugby union footballer who played for Scotland in 19 Tests between 1934 and 1939. Shaw played club for Glasgow High School Former Pupils, and could play in several positions in the backline; including wing, centre and fullback...
  
  

Swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 and Diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

• Ian Black
  Ian Black (swimmer)
  Ian MacIntosh Black is a Scottish former swimmer. He was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1958 at the age of only seventeen and is still to this date the youngest winner of the award...
  
  
• Catherine Gibson
  Catherine Gibson
  Catherine Brown was a Scottish swimmer. In 2008 she was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.Gibson represented Great Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, held in London...
  
  
• Elenor Gordon
  Elenor Gordon
  Helen Orr Gordon was a Scottish swimmer, who later became known as Elenor Gordon. She was the daughter of the Hamilton Baths manager, and in 1952 won an Olympic bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke....
  
  
• Peter Heatly
  Peter Heatly
  Sir Peter Heatly, CBE, DL is a retired Scottish diver and former Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation.Born in Leith, Heatly was educated at Leith Academy and studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He began his diving career with Portobello Amateur Swimming Club and was...
  
  
• Ellen King
  Ellen King
  Ellen Elizabeth King was a Scottish swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1930 British Empire Games...
  
  
• Bob McGregor
  Bob McGregor
  Robert Bilsand McGregor MBE , known as Bob or Bobby and nicknamed the Falkirk Flyer, was a Scottish swimmer of the 1960s who won a silver medal in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1964 Olympic Games. He finished second in the 1963 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. In 2002 he was inducted...
  
  
• Nancy Riach
• David Wilkie
  David Wilkie (swimmer)
  David Andrew Wilkie MBE is a Scottish former swimmer, who was Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion in the 1970s.He is a member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jack Wardrop
  Jack Wardrop
  John Caldwell "Jack" Wardrop is a former Scottish swimmer. Wardrop won a silver and bronze medal at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver....
  
  

Tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

• Winnie Shaw
  Winnie Shaw
  Winifred Mason Shaw was a Scottish tennis player. In 2002 she was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. She was born in Glasgow....
  
   (1947–1992), French Open finalist in both Mixed Doubles and Women's Doubles; Australian Open
  Australian Open
  The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
  
   semi-finalist in Singles; Wimbledon
  The Championships, Wimbledon
  The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
  
   semi-finalist in Women's Doubles, and quarter-finalist in Singles

Weightlifting

Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...

 and Wrestling

Wrestling

Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

• Launceston Elliot
  Launceston Elliot
  Launceston Elliot was a Scottish weightlifter. He was the first British Olympic champion.Launceston Elliot was born in India. His family was an established part of the Scottish aristocracy with Lord Minto being head of the family which had strong connections with India. The 4th Earl Minto served...
  
  
• John McNiven

External links

• Scottish Sports Hall of Fame official website