List of cultural icons of Scotland
Three tartans
Harris Tweed
Scotch thistle
Falkirk Wheel
Scott Monument
Oatcakes
Whisky
The Tartan Army in Milan, Italy
A shinty game in progress
This List of cultural icons of Scotland is a list of links to potential cultural icons of Scotland.
Animals
- capercaillie [1]
- osprey [2]
- ptarmigan [3]
- red deer [4]
- golden eagle
- red kite [5]
- red squirrel [6]
- Scottish wild cat [7]
Arts, craft
- John Bellany [8]
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh[9]
- Edwin Morgan [10]
- Andy Scott [11][12]
Buildings and structures
- Balmoral Castle [13]
- Balmoral Hotel [14]
- Broch [15]
- Clyde Tunnel [16]
- Edinburgh Castle [17]
- Falkirk Wheel [18]
- Forth Rail Bridge
- Scott Monument[19]
- Scottish Parliament [20]
- Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre [21]
Clan
Clothing
Dance
Emblems
Festivals
- Beltane [25]
- Braemar Gathering [26]
- Burns Night [27][28]
- Edinburgh Festival [29][30]
- Edinburgh Fringe (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) [31][32]
- Edinburgh Tattoo [33]
- Highland Games
- Hogmanay [34]
- Royal Highland Show [35]
- Royal National Mòd
- Saint Andrew's day [36]
- Tartan Day
Folklore
- Big grey man of Ben Macdui
- Kelpie
- Nessie [37]
- Sawney Bean
Food and drink
- Cullen skink [38]
- Deep fried Mars Bar
- Haggis [39]
- Irn Bru
- Oatcakes
- Porridge
- Scotch pie
- Selkirk Bannock [40]
- Shortbread
- Whisky
Government
History
- Antonine Wall [42]
- Auld Alliance [43]
- Battle of Bannockburn [44]
- Battle of Stirling Bridge
- Charles Edward Stuart [45]
- Culloden [46]
- Declaration of Arbroath [47][48]
- Hadrian's Wall - often used as a metaphor, but none of which is actually in Scotland.
- John Knox [49]
- John Paul Jones [50]
- Massacre of Glencoe [51]
- Red Clydeside
- Rob Roy MacGregor [52]
- Robert the Bruce [53]
- William Wallace [54]
Industry, science
- Hugh Baird (engineer)
- John Logie Baird [55]
- Alexander Graham Bell
- John Loudon Macadam [56]
- William Thomson
- James Watt [57]
Language
Literature, poetry
- Robert Burns [58]
- Greyfriars Bobby
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Oor Wullie [59]
- Selkirk Grace
- Sir Walter Scott
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Neil Gunn
- Edwin Morgan (poet)
- Hugh MacDiarmid
Money
- Scottish coinage
- Three Scottish banks issue their own Pound Sterling banknotes: Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland
Music
People
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Keir Hardie [60]
- John Macadam [61]
- John Napier [62]
- Winnie Ewing, the first Scottish Nationalist MP to be elected to Westminster in 1967 [63]
Places
- Ben Nevis
- Edinburgh Castle
- Gretna Green
- St Andrews
- Bannockburn
- Stirling Castle
- Loch Lomond
- The Forth Rail Bridge, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015
- Calton Hill
- The Clyde Auditorium, known colloquially as 'The Armadillo'
Royal
Sport
See also: Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
- Andy Murray
- Curling
- Kenny Dalglish [66]
- Caber toss
- Sir Chris Hoy
- Archie Gemmill
- Golf
- Hampden Park
- Highland Games [67]
- Eric Liddell [68]
- Murrayfield Stadium
- Old Firm
- Scottish Cup
- Shinty
- Tartan Army [69]
Television, radio, theatre, film
- 7:84 (theatre company, closed in 2008)
- Balamory
- Black Watch (play)
- Brigadoon
- Billy Connolly [70]
- Sean Connery[71]
- Dr Finlay's Casebook [72]
- Ricky Fulton [73]
- The Krankies
- Local Hero
- Ewan McGregor [74]
- Rab C Nesbitt [75]
- Para Handy [76]
- Still Game [77]
- Tannochbrae [78]
- Trainspotting (film)
- Whisky Galore! (film)
Transport
- Royal Yacht Britannia[79]
- Caledonian MacBrayne[80]
- Cutty Sark[81][82]
- RRS Discovery
- Flying Scotsman
- QEII[83]
- Queen Mary
Footnotes
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- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4078359.stm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6320000/newsid_6325200/6325299.stm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/5110890.stm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3188838.stm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7192232.stm
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/jun/02/guardianspecial4.guardianspecial240
- ↑ http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/internet/Leisure/Museums_and_galleries/Monuments/Scott_monument/CEC_the_scott_monument
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/uk/scottish_parliament/newsid_1646000/1646785.stm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4382642.stm
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/256592.stm
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- ↑ "1953: Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia". BBC News. 16 April 1953. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
- ↑ Kit Fraser (4 September 2008). "Calls for end to ferry monopoly". BBC News. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
- ↑ "Restoring the Cutty Sark". BBC London. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
- ↑ "Cutty Sark is saved by £3.3m gift". BBC News. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
- ↑ James Cook (10 July 2001). "Rough times for Clyde workforce". BBC News. Retrieved 7 June 2009.
See also
- Scottish national identity
- National symbols of Scotland
- Cultural icon
- List of cultural icons of England
- List of cultural icons of Canada
- List of cultural icons of France
- List of cultural icons of Germany
- List of cultural icons of Italy
- List of cultural icons of the Netherlands
- List of cultural icons of Northern Ireland
- List of cultural icons of Russia
- List of cultural icons of Wales
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