List of fictional Scots

The following Scottish characters have appeared in fictional works:
 * Amy Pond - 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.


 * Conner and Duncan MacLeod were immortal Highlanders in film and television.


 * Dr. Finlay - the central character of popular stories by A.J.Cronin, set in the fictional village of Tannochbrae. Other characters included partner Dr Cameron, housekeeper Janet and rival Dr Snoddie.  The television productions have been seen as an example of modern Kailyardism.


 * Fat Bastard - a grotesquely fat Scotsman in the Austin Powers comedies.


 * Groundskeeper Willie - a well-loved character in The Simpsons. He has flaming red hair and a powerful, muscular body.


 * 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.


 * Jamie McCrimmon - a companion of Doctor Who. He was a piper and wore a kilt.


 * Minerva McGonagall - the head of Gryffindor house in the Harry Potter stories. She was named after the notorious Scottish poet William McGonagall.


 * Montgomery Scott - the chief engineer in Star Trek, who was regularly ordered with the famous catchphrase, "Beam me up, Scotty". 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.  Director Gene Roddenberry liked the accent and so it was settled.


 * Para Handy - the captain of a puffer on the Clyde in the popular stories by Neil Munro, which have been filmed many times. His crew included Dan Macphail, Dougie, The Tar, Sunny Jim and Hurricane Jack.


 * Private James Frazer - the miserly undertaker in Dad's Army who comes from the bleak Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides.


 * Rab C. Nesbitt - a dissolute Glaswegian in the eponymous comedy.


 * Richard Hannay - a stalwart of the British Empire in the stories by John Buchan, he comes from South Africa with Scottish parents.


 * Taggart - the title character of the successful television drama about a Glaswegian detective.


 * Tam O'Shanter - the title character of the celebrated poem by Robert Burns - a drunken rustic.

The following were real people whose doings have been extensively fictionalised or mythologised:


 * Macbeth as in Shakespeare's play


 * Rob Roy McGregor as in ''Rob Roy


 * William Wallace as in Braveheart