1955 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – James Stuart

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Latham Clyde until January; then William Rankine Milligan
• Solicitor General for Scotland – William Rankine Milligan until January; then William Grant

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Thomson
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

  Events

• 24 February – a big freeze across the UK results in many roads being blocked with snow; Caithness is practically cut off. The Royal Air Force works to deliver food and medical supplies to the worst affected areas.
• 21 March – American evanglist Billy Graham begins a seven-week Scottish crusade at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
• 1 April – the South of Scotland Electricity Board is formed by merger.
• 23 April – the Scottish Cup Final is broadcast live on television for the first time. Clyde F.C. draw 1-1 with Celtic, winning the replay 1-0.
• 19 May – Greenock Coin Hoard found.
• 27 May – United Kingdom general election: In Scotland, as throughout the UK as a whole, the Conservatives have a majority of seats.
• 25 June – the Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer STOL transport aircraft, built at Prestwick, first flies.
• 30 June – two Hawker Sea Hawk jet fighters flying from RNAS Lossiemouth independently crash into the North Sea; one pilot is killed.
• 25–27 July – 'Operation Sandcastle': The first load of deteriorating captured Nazi German bombs filled with Tabun is shipped from Cairnryan on the for scuttling in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 30 September – first electricity supply to the isolated railway community at Riccarton Junction.
• 10 November – a major fire in Edinburgh destroys the footwear warehouse of C. W. Carr Aitkman in Jeffrey Street.
• 11 November – a second major fire in Edinburgh largely destroys the C&A fashion store in Princes Street.
• 9 December – Cumbernauld is designated a New town.
• 14 December – RMS Carinthia is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard on Clydebank for the Cunard Line's Canadian service.
• The collection of the world's first Museum of Childhood is established on Edinburgh's Royal Mile by optician Patrick Murray.
• Archaeological excavations on St Ninian's Isle begin.

  Births

• 18 January – Robin Wales, Labour politician, mayor of the London Borough of Newham
• 3 February – Kirsty Wark, television presenter
• 19 March – John Burnside, writer
• 31 March – Angus Young, rock musician
• 23 April – Allan Forsyth, footballer
• 2 May – Willie Miller, footballer
• 5 May – John Stroyan, Anglican bishop
• 14 May – Alasdair Fraser, fiddler
• 4 June – Val McDermid, crime novelist
• 13 June – Alan Hansen, footballer and television presenter
• 1 July – Candia McWilliam, fiction writer
• 8 July – Douglas Flint, banker
• 12 July – Robin Robertson, poet, novelist and editor
• 25 August – John McGeoch guitarist
• 11 October – Sally Magnusson, journalist and broadcast presenter
• 12 October – Aggie MacKenzie, television presenter
• 28 October – Jeff Stewart, actor
• 12 November – Les McKeown, pop-rock singer
• 22 November – Mary Macmaster, harpist
• 2 December – Janice Galloway, writer
• 6 December – Anne Begg, Labour politician
• 23 December – Carol Ann Duffy, poet

  Deaths

• 21 February – Sir Henry Wade, surgeon
• 26 February – Agnes Mure Mackenzie, writer and historian
• 3 March – Lewis Spence, writer and folklorist
• 11 March – Sir Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 22 April – Herbert MacNair, artist
• 11 October – Hector McNeil, politician
• Mary Newbery Sturrock, artist and designer
• Salvador Ysart, glassblower

  The arts

• Robin Jenkins's novel The Cone Gatherers is published.
• Sandy MacMillan, Thomas Limond and Ross Taylor's Scots language nursery rhyme collection Bairnsangs is published, as by Sandy Thomas Ross.
• Edith Anne Robertson's Scots language poetry collections Voices frae the city o trees; and ither voices frae nearbye and Poems Frae the Suddron O Walter De La Mare Made Ower Intil Scots are published.