There are quite a few famous persons / celebrities in history or at present who call Edinburgh city home.
- Charles Darwin, biologist
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock
- Tony Blair – a former British Prime Minister
- J K Rowling – author of Harry Potter
- Alexander Graham Bell – inventor of the telephone
- James Clerk Maxwell, physicist
- Adam Smith – Scottish economist and philosopher
- Sean Connery – actor
- Robert Louis Stevenson. Scottish novelist, poet
- David Hume. philosopher & historian
- Iain Glen. the most famous Scottish actors on TV
