1906 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Edward VII
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

  Events

• 27 January – Canadian Pacific steamship is launched at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's yard at Govan.
• 23 May – Boyd's Automatic tide signalling apparatus is inaugurated at Irvine, North Ayrshire.
• 7 June – Cunard liner is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank as the world's largest ship.
• 26 June – new Argyll Motor Works is opened for production of the Argyll car at Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire.
• 19 July – 1906 Dundee fire: a major fire breaks out in a bonded warehouse.
• 18 August – Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway opened to passengers.
• 21 August – the Education of Defective Children Act, a permissive act allowing local school boards, either alone or in combination, to make special provision for the education and medical inspection of 'epileptic, crippled or defective' children between the ages of 5 and 16.
• 28 December – Elliot Junction rail accident between Arbroath and Carnoustie railway stations kills 22.
• Yarrow Shipbuilders begin their move from London to Scotstoun.
• Rest and Be Thankful Speed Hill Climb first held.

  Births

• 4 March – Fionn MacColla, novelist connected to the Scottish Renaissance
• 13 March – Alex Massie, international footballer
• 22 June – Gilbert Highet, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian
• 26 June – Joan du Plat Taylor, pioneer of maritime archaeology
• 1 July – Ritchie Calder, socialist author, journalist and academic
• 18 July – Belle Stewart, née McGregor, traditional singer
• 29 July – Ian Gordon Lindsay, architect
• 30 September – J. I. M. Stewart, novelist and academic critic
• 12 December – Robert Matthew, modernist architect
• Molly Urquhart, actress

  Deaths

• 15 May – James Blyth, electrical engineer
• 30 November – William Stewart Ross, writer and publisher

  The arts

• 3 December – His Majesty's Theatre opens in Aberdeen.
• Stan Laurel makes his stage debut, at the Britannia Panopticon in Glasgow.
• Hugh S. Roberton forms the Glasgow Orpheus Choir.