1928 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

• 11 February – formation of the National Party of Scotland, a predecessor the Scottish National Party. On 23 June it holds a demonstration at Stirling marking the anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.
• 31 March – the Scotland national football team defeat England 5-1 at Wembley Stadium.
• 28 April – June: Motorcycle speedway racing staged at Celtic Park.
• May
• * The Scottish county of Forfarshire resolves to revert to its historic name of Angus.
• * Carntyne Stadium in Glasgow opened for greyhound racing. Dirt track motorcycle speedway is also staged here, as is the first Scottish Greyhound Derby.
• 1 May – the London and North Eastern Railway's Flying Scotsman steam-hauled express train begins to run non-stop over the of the East Coast Main Line from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley.
• 18 June – transatlantic liner SS Duchess of Richmond is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank for Canadian Pacific Steamships.
• 20 July – Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal overturns Oscar Slater's 1909 murder conviction.
• 26 August – in Paisley, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v. Stevenson.
• 25 October – a passenger express runs into the rear of a derailed freight train near Dinwoodie railway station with 4 deaths.
• Grampian hydroelectricity scheme initiated.
• First high-voltage electricity pylon for the UK National Grid is erected near Edinburgh.
• Reconstruction of Paisley Abbey completed.
• Politics of Edinburgh: Progressives form a group on the local council.

  Births

• 1 January – Iain Crichton Smith, poet
• 17 January – Matt McGinn, folk singer
• 29 February – Irene Sunters, actress
• 10 March – Alex McAvoy, actor
• 11 March – Sandy Mactaggart, Scottish-Canadian educator and philanthropist
• 4 April – Jimmy Logan, born James Allan Short, entertainer
• 7 April – Gael Turnbull, poet
• 11 April – Duncan Williamson, storyteller and singer
• 22 May – John Mackenzie, film director
• 27 May – Thea Musgrave, classical composer
• 2 June – Calum Kennedy, singer
• 5 June – James Kennaway, novelist and screenwriter
• 29 June – Ian Bannen, character actor and occasional leading man
• 16 July – Bryden Thomson, orchestral conductor
• 8 August – Peter Keenan, boxer
• 21 September – Con Devitt, Scottish-born New Zealand trade unionist
• 6 October – Flora MacNeil, singer in Scottish Gaelic
• 9 October – Joseph Brady, actor
• 28 October – Lawrie Reilly, international footballer
• 11 December – Andy MacMillan, architect
• 27 November – Sir Arnold Clark billionaire car dealer
• 28 December – Ian Steel, road racing cyclist
• John Maxwell Anderson, consultant surgeon

  Deaths

• 2 January – Thomas McMillan, footballer
• 14 January – Andrew MacLeish, businessman
• 13 April – Charles Sims, painter
• 26 May – John Burnet, classicist
• 28 May – Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon, Scottish surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh,
• 26 August – Colin Campbell, film director
• 29 October – John Macintyre, laryngologist and pioneer radiographer
• 13 November – Alexander William Mair, academic
• 10 December – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and watercolourist
• 24 December – Thomas Corsan Morton, painter

  The arts

• The Fife Miner Players begin to tour Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, concerning the effect of the 1926 United Kingdom general strike in the Fife Coalfield.
• Nan Shepherd's first novel The Quarry Wood is published.