1926 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt until post abolished 26 July
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal, from 15 July – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Munro MacRobert

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

  Events

• 29 January – Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire by-elections: Conservatives retain the seats.
• 26 March – Bothwell by-election: Labour retains the seat.
• 3 – 12 May: 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Some violence in Glasgow.
• 26 November – launch, under the auspices of the Scots National League, of a new monthly Nationalist newspaper entitled The Scots Independent.
• Findhorn Bridge near Tomatin completed.
• First stage of Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme constructed.
• Scotland's only sugar beet processing plant is opened at Cupar.
• Sacramento River sternwheel paddle steamers Delta King and Delta Queen are shipped from William Denny and Brothers' yard at Dumbarton to California.
• The post of Secretary for Scotland upgraded to a full Secretary of State appointment

  Births

• 13 January – Craigie Aitchison, painter
• 17 January – Moira Shearer, ballet dancer
• 11 February – Alexander Gibson, conductor and opera intendant
• 19 February – Charlie Cox, footballer
• 8 March - Edith MacArthur, actress
• 12 March – Gudrun Ure, actress
• 22 March – Alastair Reid, poet and scholar of South American literature
• 3 April - Andrew Keir, actor
• 22 April – James Stirling, architect
• May – Duncan Campbell, trumpet player
• 24 May – Stanley Baxter, comic actor
• 2 July - Morag Beaton, dramatic soprano
• 3 August - Rona Anderson, actress
• 15 August - D. E. R. Watt, historian
• 4 September – George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of liquid crystal technology
• 12 September – Dave Valentine, international rugby player
• 17 October - Archie Duncan, historian
• 9 November - Johnny Beattie, comedian

  Deaths

• 2 January – John Gray McKendrick, physiologist, Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow
• 3 February – Archibald White Maconochie, businessman and MP
• 4 April – John McTavish footballer
• 31 July – John McPherson, international footballer
• 4 September – Alexander Morison McAldowie, physician, folklorist and ornithologist

  The arts

• 22 November – Hugh MacDiarmid's Scots language poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is published.