1936 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V, Edward VIII, George VI
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins until 29 October; then Walter Elliot

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Albert Russell until June; then James Reid

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord MacGregor Mitchell

  Events

• 27–31 January – the Combined Scottish Universities by-election sees Ramsay MacDonald returned to the House of Commons
• March – Scottish Ornithologists' Club founded
• 8 March – cartoon characters The Broons and Oor Wullie first appear in The Sunday Post
• 7 June – first radio outside broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC
• 10 June – first timetabled service to Barra Airport, on Traigh Mhòr beach, offered by Northern & Scottish Airways
• 23 September – Prince Albert and his wife, the Duchess of York, open a new wing of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while his brother Edward VIII meets Wallis Simpson at Aberdeen railway station en route to Balmoral Castle
• 29 October – Kincardine Bridge opened across the Firth of Forth
• 20 November – :File:The Maybury - geograph.org.uk - 33048.jpg|The Maybury roadhouse opens on the outskirts of Edinburgh, a notable example of Art Deco by Paterson & Broom
• Punjabi-born Dr Jainti Dass Saggar becomes the first non-white local authority councillor in Scotland, being elected for Labour in Dundee

  Births

• 7 January – Hunter Davies, writer
• 10 February
• * James Alexander Gordon, radio announcer
• * Euan MacKie, archaeologist and anthropologist
• 11 February – Sylvia Wishart, landscape artist
• 4 March – Jim Clark, motor racing driver
• 26 March – John Malcolm, film and television actor
• 17 April – Rona Lightfoot, bagpiper and singer
• 26 April – Pat Quinn, footballer
• 28 April – Kenneth White, poet, academic and writer
• 5 May – John Maxton, politician
• 8 May – George Mulhall, footballer
• 17 May – James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane, businessman and politician
• 27 May – Eric Anderson, born William Kinloch Anderson, educator, Provost of Eton College
• 10 June – Marion Chesney, novelist
• 25 June – Roy Williamson, folk musician
• 26 June – Robert Maclennan, Liberal Democrat politician
• 27 June – Robin Hall, folk singer
• 5 July – James Mirrlees, economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• 9 July – Richard Wilson, actor
• 18 September – Hugh Fraser, retailer
• 6 October – Sandra Voe, actress
• 21 November – James A. Mackay, writer and philatelist
• 25 November – William McIlvanney, novelist, short story writer and poet
• 1 December – Crawford Fairbrother, high jumper
• 2 December – Eileen McCallum actress
• 26 December – Tormod MacGill-Eain, Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster
• Stewart Conn, poet and playwright
• Brian Quinn, economist and Chairman of Celtic F.C.

  Deaths

• 6 February – Charles Bellany Thomson, international footballer
• 23 February – William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, Leader of the Labour Party and Secretary of State for Scotland in 1924 and 1929-1931
• 2 March – Donald Alexander Mackenzie, journalist and folklorist
• 9 April – William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, industrialist
• 25 May – Sir Robert Sangster Rait, historian, Historiographer Royal
• 4 November – John Henry Lorimer portrait and genre painter
• 22 November – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, soldier and clan chief
• 2 December – Dugald Christie, missionary in China, founder of the Shengjing Clinic and Mukden Medical College
• Joseph Morris Henderson, Glaswegian landscape, portrait, genre and coastal scenery oil and watercolour painter

  The arts

• Edwin Muir publishes Scott and Scotland.