Alex Salmond will announce the date of the Scottish independence referendum vote on Thursday no doubt boosting feelings of national pride across the border.
As Scotland prepares to tread the route towards deciding the future of the union the Huffington Post UK asks:
Who is your favourite Scot?
Some serious, some silly, have a look through our slideshow and let us know who gets your vote…
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Robert Burns
Poet and writer
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Robert the Bruce
Leader of the Revolt against the English
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Sean Connery
Actor and the the best Bond. Period.
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Tony Blair
Former PM Blair was born in Edinburgh, don’t you know.
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Groundskeeper Willie
Angry man.
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Mel Gibson
He is Scottish, right?
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John Logie Baird
Inventor of TV What did couch potatoes do before this man worked his magic?
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Alex Ferguson
Football manager and copious chewer of gum
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Mary Slessor
Scottish missionary and face of the ten pound note
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J.K Rowling
Author, previously habitual coffee shop inhabitant
