List of cultural icons of Scotland
This list of cultural icons of Scotland is a list of objects, topics or people identified as cultural icons of Scotland.
Animals
Arts and crafts
Buildings and structures
Festivals
- Beltane[24]
- Braemar Gathering[25]
- Burns Night[26][27]
- Edinburgh Festival[28][29]
- Edinburgh Fringe (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)[30][31]
- Edinburgh Tattoo [29]
- Hogmanay[32]
- Royal Highland Show [5]
- Saint Andrew's day[33]
Food and drink
Government
History
- Antonine Wall[40]
- Auld Alliance[41]
- Battle of Bannockburn[42]
- Battle of Stirling Bridge
- Charles Edward Stuart[43]
- Culloden[44]
- Declaration of Arbroath[45][46]
- Hadrian's Wall - often used as a metaphor, but none of which is actually in Scotland.
- John Knox[47]
- John Paul Jones[48]
- Massacre of Glencoe[49]
- Rob Roy MacGregor[50]
- Robert the Bruce[51]
- William Wallace [46]
Industry, science
Literature, poetry
People
- Keir Hardie[57]
- John Macadam[58]
- John Napier[59]
- Winnie Ewing, the first Scottish Nationalist MP to be elected to Westminster in 1967[60]
Royal
Television, radio, theatre, film
Transport
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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- "UK | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Dalglish tees off revamped course". BBC News. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
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