Important people
Important people:
George Buchanan (1506–82) John Craig (c.1512–1600) John Durie (c.1537–1600) Andrew Melville (1545–1622) Robert Bruce (1554–1631)
Robert Rollock (1555–99) Alexander Henderson (1583–1646) David Dickson (c.1583–1663) Robert Baillie (1599–1662) Samuel Rutherford
(1600–61) John Livingstone (1603–72) John Brown of Wamphray (c.1610– 79) Robert Leighton (1611–84) James Guthrie (1612–61)
George Gillespie (1613–48) John Blackadder (1615–86) John Welsh (c.1624–81) Alexander Peden (1626–86) Donald Cargill (c.1627–81) James Kirkton
(1628–99) Richard Cameron (c.1648–80) William Carstares (1649–1715) Henry Scougal (1650–78) James Renwick (1662–88) Margaret Lauchlison (d.1685) Margaret Wilson (d.1685)
Political and military James Douglas, Earl of Morton (c.1525–81) Sir John Maitland of Thirlstane (1543–95) King James VI (1567–1625)
John Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino (d.1649) Alexander Leslie (1582– 1661) Archibald Campbell, Lord Lorne, Marquis of Argyll (1607–61)
Alistair Macdonald "MacColla" (1610–47) Archibald Johnston of Wariston (1611–63) James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612–50) King Charles I (1625–49) King Charles II (1649–85) James Graham of Claverhouse (1648–89) King James VII (1685–89)