1927 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Munro MacRobert

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

  Events

• 23 March – Leith by-election: Liberals hold seat.
• 16 April – the Scottish Cup Final is broadcast live on radio for the first time. Celtic F.C. beat East Fife 3-1.
• 12 July – official opening in Glasgow of the new Kelvin Hall exhibition venue and George V Bridge.
• 14 July – the Scottish National War Memorial is opened at Edinburgh Castle.
• 26 September – David MacBrayne's paddle steamer Grenadier catches fire and sinks at her overnight mooring in Oban with the loss of three crew.
• October – a school of pilot whales runs aground in the bay between Bonar Bridge and Ardgay.
• Undated
• * The Gillespie, Kidd & Coia architectural practice in Glasgow assumes this name.
• * Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association formed.
• * The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary, revised edition.

  Births

• 24 January – Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, lieutenant
• 16 February – Pearse Hutchinson, poet, broadcaster and translator
• 23 February – Willie Ormond, international footballer and manager
• 27 February – Jimmy Halliday, Scottish National Party leader
• 5 March – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, politician
• 5 April – Colin Young, film educator
• 6 April – Nancy Riach, swimmer
• 12 April – Patrick Meehan, criminal, victim of a miscarriage of justice
• 23 June – Kenneth McKellar, tenor
• 29 June – Tom Fleming, actor, director, poet and broadcast commentator
• 2 July – James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Chancellor
• 1 October – Sandy Gall, television journalist
• 5 October – Bruce Millan, Labour Secretary of State for Scotland
• 7 October – R. D. Laing, psychiatrist
• 10 October – Thomas Wilson, composer
• 31 October – Charles Cameron, bizarre magician
• 7 November – Melissa Stribling, film and television actress
• 27 November – Arnold Clark, businessman
• 24 December – John Glashan, born McGlashan, cartoonist
• Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, conservation architect

  Deaths

• 16 January – Haldane Burgess historian, poet, novelist, violinist, linguist and socialist, a noted figure in Shetland's cultural history
• 16 March – Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet, civil servant, writer and Unionist politician
• 17 March – James Scott Skinner, dancing master, fiddler and composer
• 26 June – Thomas P. Marwick, architect
• 8 July – Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll, soldier and Conservative politician
• 21 July – William Campbell, Lord Skerrington, judge
• September – John George Govan businessman and evangelist, founder of The Faith Mission in 1886
• 10 November – James Thomson, City Engineer, City Architect and Housing Director of Dundee

  The arts

• Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, showing the effect of the General Strike on the Fife coal mining community, is first performed; and his The Image o' God and Other Poems is published.
• Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland formed.