List of fictional Scots

• Amy Pond is a companion of Doctor Who. The character was originally conceived as English but was changed to use the natural Inverness accent of the actress playing the part.{{citation|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-interviews/2010/03/22/new-doctor-who-star-karen-gillan-it-s-great-to-be-a-scots-redhead-in-the-tardis-86908-22129950/ |title=It's great to be a Scots redhead in the Tardis |date=Mar 22, 2010 |author=Rick Fulton |journal=Daily Record |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609185407/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-interviews/2010/03/22/new-doctor-who-star-karen-gillan-it-s-great-to-be-a-scots-redhead-in-the-tardis-86908-22129950/ |archivedate=2011-06-09 }}

• Bella Caledonia (Scotland as a woman) invokes Scots iconography, including plaid, thistles, and the Forth Railway Bridge. She is an artificial woman, Bella Baxter, in Alasdair Gray's 1992 novel Poor Things.{{cite book |title=Bella Caledonia: woman, nation, text |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D1UmQp5D9WwC&pg=PA87 |author=Kirsten Stirling |year=2008 |publisher=Rodopi |page=88 |isbn=978-90-420-2510-3}}

• Jean Brodie, the titular character in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, exemplifies aspects of both Calvinist and Roman Catholic influence in Scotland.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hHUQTMtwRFkC&dq=jean+brodie++calvinism+scottish&pg=PA128|title=Scottish literature|author=Gerard Carruthers|year=2009|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|page=128|isbn=978-0-7486-3309-8}}

• The Broons are a large, tenement-dwelling, extended family in the DC Thomson cartoon strip of the same name. The publisher's similar strips about the young lad, Oor Wullie, are set in the same fictional town of Auchenshoogle.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eCvFhR1bL0C&pg=PA225 |title=Kailyard and Scottish literature |author=Andrew Nash |year=2007 |page=225|isbn=978-9042022034 }}

• Connor and Duncan MacLeod were immortal Highlanders in film and television.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZyYz6l1D3UC&pg=PA195 |title=Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero |author=Shawn Shimpach|date=5 February 2010 |isbn=9781444320688 }}

• Donald Farfrae successfully romances the Mayor of Casterbridge's lover and daughter. Simultaneously "sentimental and astute", he is one of the earliest exemplars of Kailyardism.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hGIJjs2pQU4C&dq=scottish+%22donald+farfrae%22+sentimental+astute&pg=PA99|title=Scotland and nationalism: Scottish society and politics, 1707 to the present|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|author=Christopher Harvie|page=99|isbn=978-0-415-32725-1}}

• David Balfour is the central character of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was based upon the Appin Murder and so many of the other characters, such as Alan Breck Stewart, were real people. The sequel, Catriona, is also known as David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3l1bAAAAMAAJ |title=Robert Louis Stevenson and the fiction of adventure |author=Robert Kiely |year=1964|isbn=9780674775954 }}

• Davy Jones is a villain in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Initially asked to do a Dutch accent for the character, actor Bill Nighy instead decided to do a Scottish accent.{{Cite web |last=McKittrick |first=Chris |date=2012-05-15 |title=Bill Nighy on his 'Pirates' Accent: "I wanted something that didn't repeat anything anyone else had done" |url=https://www.dailyactor.com/film/bill-nighy-accents-pirates/ |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Daily Actor |language=en-US}}

• Desmond Hume is a character from the ABC television show Lost.{{citation|title=Desmond Hume from Lost|author=Mark Dykeman|year=2010|url=http://www.entertainmentscene360.com/index.php/desmond-hume-from-lost-14856/|access-date=2014-01-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202235050/http://www.entertainmentscene360.com/index.php/desmond-hume-from-lost-14856/|archive-date=2014-02-02|url-status=dead}} Henry Ian Cusick, the actor who portrays him, is of Peruvian and Scottish descent and was raised in Scotland.{{citation|title=Ten Facts About Henry Ian Cusick, Aka Desmond Hume on TV's Lost|author=Wanda Leibowitz|year=2007|url=http://voices.yahoo.com/ten-facts-henry-ian-cusick-aka-desmond-hume-357124.html|access-date=2014-01-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728214211/http://voices.yahoo.com/ten-facts-henry-ian-cusick-aka-desmond-hume-357124.html|archive-date=2014-07-28|url-status=dead}}

• Donald and Douglas are twin engines from the Caledonian Railway in The Railway Series by Rev. Wilbert Awdry{{citation |title=Thomas & Friends Character Encyclopedia |author1=Julia March |author2=Rona Skene |year=2018 |isbn=9781465466624 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley}}

• Dr. Finlay is the central character of stories by A.J.Cronin, set in the fictional village of Tannochbrae. Other characters included partner Dr Cameron, housekeeper Janet and rival Dr Snoddie.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Vm9C6s8Cf4C&pg=PA587 |title=Scotland's books: a history of Scottish literature |author=Robert Crawford|date=30 January 2009 |isbn=9780199727674 }} The television productions have been seen as an example of modern Kailyardism.{{citation |title=Kailyard and Scottish literature |page=234 |author=Andrew Nash |year=2007 |isbn=978-9042022034 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eCvFhR1bL0C&pg=PA234}}

• Fat Bastard is a grotesquely fat Scotsman in the Austin Powers comedies.{{citation |title=The media in Scotland |author=Neil Blain, David Hutchison |year=2008 |isbn=9780748627998 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxYcAQAAIAAJ}}

• Fingal is the hero of The Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-g01eG9Nt8C&pg=PA169 |title=Scottish Literature, Character & Influence |author=G. Gregory Smith|date=February 2008 |isbn=9781408649459 }} Notable features such as Fingal's Cave are named after him.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=orYTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA890 |title=The British Cyclopædia of Literature, History, Geography, Law, and Politics |author=Charles Frederick Partington |author-link=Charles Frederick Partington |year=1836 }}

• Groundskeeper Willie is a well-loved character in The Simpsons. He has flaming red hair and a powerful, muscular body.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bp-DmMgkNoEC&pg=PA28 |title=The Redhead Handbook |author=Cort Cass|year=2003 |isbn=9781587860119 }} A 2007 study conducted in the US concluded that Willie was the character that US residents "...most believe personifies the Scottish temperament."{{citation |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/groundskeeper-willie-classic-scot-americans-2467366 |publisher=The Scotsman |title=Groundskeeper Willie is the classic Scot for Americans |date=2007-09-19}}

• Jack Parlabane is the journalist hero of the novels by Christopher Brookmyre such as Quite Ugly One Morning.{{citation | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IL7DqC_mPzIC&pg=PA486 |title=The Routledge history of literature in English: Britain and Ireland |author=Ronald Carter, John McRae|year=2001 |isbn=9780415243186 }}{{citation |url=http://www.scotsman.com/books/The-greatest-work-of-fiction.3766588.jp |title=The greatest work of fiction? |date=12 February 2008 |author=Fiona MacGregor |journal=The Scotsman}}

• James Bond - following the success of Sean Connery in the role, author Ian Fleming gave Bond a mixed parentage - a Scottish father and Swiss mother. This background gave the character a colonial perspective, being an outsider in England.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NpkbHkuxYTUC |title=Ian Fleming & James Bond: the cultural politics of 007 |author=Vivian Halloran|year=2005 |isbn=0253217431 }}

• Jamie Fraser is the Laird of Broch Tuarach in the Outlander stories.{{citation |title=The Outlandish Companion |volume=1 |author=Diana Gabaldon |publisher=Random House |year=2015 |isbn=9781473535916 |page=263}}

• Jamie McCrimmon is an early companion of Doctor Who. He was a piper and wore a kilt.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emw38tQ_DwoC&pg=PA359 |title=The Edinburgh companion to contemporary Scottish literature |author=Berthold Schoene-Harwood|year=2007 |isbn=9780748623969 }}

• Lobey Dosser is the Sheriff of Calton Creek – an Arizona town loosely based on the Calton district of Glasgow and populated by Glaswegians. The cartoon strip by Bud Neill was a popular feature in the Glasgow Evening Times from 1949 to 1956 and is now commemorated by statues.{{r|SF}}

• Mr. Mackay is the stern prison officer in Porridge which also featured McClaren as a black Scottish inmate and hard man.{{citation |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-131777844 |title=TV Timewarp |journal=The Journal |date=April 21, 2005}}

• Malcolm Tucker is the aggressive, profane and feared Director of Communications in the BBC Comedy The Thick of It. He was played by Peter Capaldi, who is a Glaswegian, but who actually based the character on the behaviour of Hollywood agents and producers such as Harvey Weinstein.{{citation |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-01-31/peter-capaldi-reveals-true-inspiration-for-malcolm-tuckers-character/ |title=Peter Capaldi reveals true inspiration for Malcolm Tucker's character |journal=Radio Times |date=31 January 2012 |author=Tom Cole}}

• Minerva McGonagall is the head of Gryffindor house in the Harry Potter stories. She was named after the notorious Scottish poet William McGonagall.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jsE4vLO7MYC |title=Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Sparknotes |author=J.K. Rowling|date=July 2002 |isbn=9781586635183 }}

• Minnie the Minx is a mischievous tomboy with red hair, tam o' shanter and striped jersey. She is one of the longest-running characters in The Beano and there is a statue of her in Dundee.{{citation |url=https://www.scottishfield.co.uk/culture/10-of-the-best-scottish-cartoon-characters/ |title=10 of the best Scottish cartoon characters |journal=Scottish Field |author=Sam Booth |date=25 January 2019}}{{citation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39730388 |title=Leo Baxendale: Bash Street Kids and Minnie the Minx comic legend dies |publisher=BBC |date=27 April 2017}}

• Moira MacTaggert is the colleague and sometime fiancée of Professor X in the X-Men comic.{{citation |title=Survey of modern fantasy literature |author=Frank Northen Magill |year=1983 |isbn=9780893564506 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hLBkAAAAMAAJ}}

• Nicholas Rush is a scientist in Stargate Universe.

• John Rebus is the protagonist of the Inspector Rebus stories by Ian Rankin.{{citation |title=Dirty Work |author1=Ray Dexter |author2=Nadine Carr |publisher=Spinderella |year=2015 |isbn=9781326415211}}

• Montgomery Scott is the chief engineer in Star Trek, famous for the alleged catchphrase, "Beam me up, Scotty".{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XMIAAAAIAAJ |page=330 |title=Hollywood at your feet |author=Stacey Endres, Robert Cushman|year=1992 |isbn=9780938817086 }} The actor, James Doohan, was Canadian and auditioned with a variety of accents but suggested that Scottish would be best for the character, following the long tradition of Scottish nautical engineering. Producer Gene Roddenberry liked the accent and so it was settled.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uhlMoF0KM8cC |title=The Man Who Created Star Trek |author=James Van Hise |year=1992 |page=26|isbn=9781556983184 }}

• Para Handy is the captain of a puffer on the Clyde in stories by Neil Munro, which have been filmed many times.{{citation |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8r-3qjDwoMC&pg=PA40 |title=Scotland |chapter=Essential Scottish Reads |author=Neil Wilson, Alan Murphy|year=2004 |isbn=9781741041569 }} His crew included Dan Macphail, Dougie, Hurricane Jack, Sunny Jim and The Tar.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BgIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA177 |title=Scotland: a literary guide |author=Alan Norman Bold|date=January 1989 |isbn=9780415007313 }}

• Private Frazer is the miserly undertaker in Dad's Army{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bck6oHB6_AwC&pg=PA354 |title=Films and British national identity: from Dickens to Dad's army |author=Jeffrey Richards|date=15 September 1997 |isbn=9780719047435 }} who comes from the bleak Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJ6oGwAACAAJ |title=The complete A-Z of Dad's Army |author=Richard Webber |year=2001 |page=228|isbn=9780752846378 }}

• Rab C. Nesbitt is a dissolute Glaswegian in the eponymous comedy.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NHOepipqw5MC&pg=PA188 |title=Language and Scottish literature |author=John Corbett|year=1997 |isbn=9780748608263 }}

• Redgauntlet is a novel by Sir Walter Scott which contains numerous Scottish characters including the Laird of Redgauntlet, hero Darsie Latimer and musician Wandering Willie.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HZYPW17S34C |title=The mighty Scot |author=Maureen M. Martin |chapter=Redgauntlet, the Lowlands, and the Historicity of Scottish Nationhood |year=2009|isbn=9780791477304 }}

• Richard Hannay is a stalwart of the British Empire in the stories by John Buchan. He was born in Edinburgh like his real-life inspiration, the spy and general Edmund Ironside.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbj3blZ1LioC&pg=PA200 |title=Scottish fiction and the British Empire |author=Douglas S. Mack|year=2006 |isbn=9780748618149 }}

• Scrooge McDuck is the uncle of Disney's Donald Duck in a comics, film and TV where he is a billionaire businessman and treasure hunter.In DuckTales episode 26: "The Curse of Castle McDuck", Scrooge, the nephews, and Webby visit Scrooge's ancestral home in Scotland, only to be embroiled in a mystery surrounding Castle McDuck. Available on volume 1 DVD set. He was honoured by Glasgow council as a famous Glaswegian.{{citation |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7022173.stm |date=1 October 2007 |title=Glasgow claims McDuck as its own |publisher=BBC}} He was inspired by real life Andrew Carnegie and fictional Ebenezer Scrooge. His arch-enemy is Flintheart Glomgold, a kilt-wearing corrupt businessman.

• Shrek, although possessing a German name and being an ogre (thought to be a medieval stereotype of Hungarians), was portrayed as Scottish by Mike Myers in the Shrek film series.{{cite news |title=Best fictional Scots character |author=Lucy Hewitt |newspaper=The Scotsman |date=24 December 2008 |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/best-fictional-scots-character-2453590}}

• Super Gran is a grandmother with super powers in books written by Forrest Wilson. In the television adaption, she was played by actress Gudrun Ure.{{citation |url=https://www.eightieskids.com/super-gran-the-childhood-show-we-all-loved/ |title=Super Gran! The Childhood Show We All Loved? |author=Hayley Dodwell |work=80's kids}}

• Jim Taggart is the title character of the successful television drama about a Glaswegian detective, played by Mark McManus. The title persisted even after the lead character was killed off following McManus' death.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zG1ATKqBrQC |title=Group identities on French and British television |author=Adrienne Scullion |chapter=Scottish identity and representation in television drama|year=2003 |isbn=9781571817938 }}

• Tam Lin is a knight in thrall to the Queen of Faerie in the ballad of that name.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfTcKDzzqvIC&pg=PA244 |title=Encyclopedia of folk heroes |author=Graham Seal|year=2001 |isbn=9781576072165 }}

• Tam O'Shanter is the title character of the celebrated poem by Robert Burns - a drunken rustic.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvaWUM9odD8C&pg=PA166 |title=Three Centuries of Scottish Literature |author=Hugh Walker|date=August 2008 |isbn=9780554740966 }}
• Tavish Finnegan DeGroot aka The Demoman from Team Fortress 2, one of the 9 playable classes from the game, a demolitions expert originating from Ullapool, Scotland.{{Cite web |date=2007-10-09 |title=The Demoman from Team Fortress 2 is a Black Scottish cyclops! |url=https://www.destructoid.com/the-demoman-from-team-fortress-2-is-a-black-scottish-cyclops/ |access-date=2023-07-08 |website=Destructoid |language=en-US}}
• Several Scots stock characters are present in Brigadoon, first staged on Broadway in 1947. They are variously warriors, drunkards, overly thrifty as a result of Calvinism, or capable of unusual insights stemming from a close relationship to the natural world.{{cite book|title=Brigadoon, Braveheart and the Scots: distortions of Scotland in Hollywood cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XMOUo5VUkoQC&dq=scots+stock+characters&pg=PA107|author=Colin McArthur|year=2003|publisher=I.B.Tauris Publishers|page=107|isbn=978-1-86064-927-1}}

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• Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite young Pretender who appears in novels such as Redgauntlet.

• The Loch Ness Monster was sighted in 1933. Its existence has not been proven but it has since appeared in numerous fictional forms.{{citation |pages=383–387 |title=Loch Ness Monster |encyclopedia=The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters |author=Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock |year=2016 |isbn=9781317044260 |publisher=Taylor & Francis}}

• Macbeth as in Shakespeare's play.

• Mary, Queen of Scots, commonly portrayed as a romantic and tragic heroine.{{citation |title=Mary Queen of Scots as Feminine and National Icon: Depictions in Film and Fiction |pages=75–93 |author=Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir |doi=10.4000/etudesecossaises.603 |journal=Études écossaises |year=2012 |number=15|url=https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises/603 }}

• Rob Roy MacGregor as in Rob Roy.

• Sir Patrick Spens, heroic captain of a doomed voyage for the King of Scotland.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mG4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA151 |title=English and Scottish ballads |volume=3 |author=Francis James Child|year=1866 }}

• Thomas the Rhymer, a 13th-century prophet and poet who, in ballad, is led by the Queen of Faerie to Elfland.{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfTcKDzzqvIC&pg=PA248 |title=Encyclopedia of folk heroes |author=Graham Seal|year=2001 |isbn=9781576072165 }}

• William Wallace as in Braveheart.

• List of Scots
• Scottish mythology

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