1907 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Edward VII
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

  Events

• 5 February – epidemic of meningitis in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast
• 24 April – Titan Clydebank crane first operates at John Brown & Company's shipyard
• 24 August – last horse trams in Edinburgh operate
• 18 September – Andrew Carnegie receives the freedom of Burntisland
• New Ayr Racecourse opens
• Edinburgh College of Art gains its present name and site
• The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discovered
• Scottish wildcat first scientifically classified
• Limited Partnership Act regulates Scottish limited partnerships

  Births

• 2 January – Robert Wilson, tenor
• 4 January – Walter Donaldson, snooker player
• 28 January – Robert McLellan, playwright
• 4 February – James McIntosh Patrick, landscape painter
• 16 April – Martin Boddey, film and television actor
• 22 May – Huw Lorimer, sculptor
• 13 August – Sir Basil Spence, architect
• 28 August – Tom Hanlin, novelist
• 2 October – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 7 October – Helen MacInnes, espionage novelist
• 4 November – Ferguson Rodger, physician
• 5 December – William Barclay, Professor of Divinity
• 25 December – Andrew Cruickshank, actor
• Jameson Clark, character actor
• Dr Catherine Gavin, academic historian, war correspondent and historical novelist
• Betty Henderson, actress

  Deaths

• 21 January – John Hunt, cleric, theologian and historian
• 4 April – Alexander Macbain, philologist
• 13 May – Alexander Buchan, meteorologist oceanographer and botanist
• 19 July – William Gunion Rutherford, classicist
• 30 August – James Adam, classicist
• 6 October – David Masson, literary critic and historian
• 4 November – Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, minister of religion and Gaelic scholar
• 6 November – James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon
• 17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist
• Jane Arthur, feminist and activist