1911 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Alexander Ure
• Solicitor General for Scotland – William Hunter; then Andrew Anderson

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 27 January – opening of Scottish Motor Exhibition in Edinburgh.
• March–April – eleven thousand workers at the Singer Manufacturing Co. sewing machine factory on Clydebank go on strike in solidarity with twelve female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation; four hundred alleged ringleaders are dismissed.
• 2 May–4 November – Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry at Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow.
• 9 May – a fire at the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh kills eleven people, including illusionist Sigmund Neuberger and also his lion and horse; he is buried in Piershill Cemetery with his dog Beauty.
• 19 July – Thistle Chapel, designed by Robert Lorimer, dedicated in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
• 24 July – start of Scottish leg of first Daily Mail Circuit of Britain air race, Hendon–Harrogate–Newcastle–Edinburgh–Stirling–Glasgow–Carlisle.
• 11 September – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, buys the ruined Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull to restore as the seat of the Clan Maclean.
• 16 October – new building for the Mitchell Library opened in Glasgow.
• :File:The Pavilion, Ayr - geograph.org.uk - 160496.jpg|The Pavilion opened at Ayr.

  Births

• 11 February – Alec Cairncross, economist
• 11 March – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, soldier, writer and politician
• 24 January – Muir Mathieson, film composer
• 14 May – Sir John Ritchie Inch, police Chief Constable
• 31 May – Leonard Boden, portrait painter
• 16 June – Bobby Ancell football player and manager
• 9 July – Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat and Commando
• 26 October – Sorley MacLean, poet
• 4 December – William Baxter, Labour MP for West Stirlingshire

  Deaths

• 14 February – Eustace Balfour, architect
• 21 May – Williamina Fleming, astronomer, discoverer of the Horsehead Nebula
• 4 October – Joseph Bell, surgeon
• 11 December – William McGregor, football administrator and founder of the Football League
• Robert Hamilton Paterson, architect

  The arts

• Release of Rob Roy, the first British-made three-reel feature film, shot by the Scottish company United Films Ltd in studios at Rouken Glen on the edge of Glasgow and on location in Aberfoyle.
• Violet Jacob's historical novel Flemington is published.
• Harry Lauder writes the popular song "Roamin' In The Gloamin'".