1934 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Wilfrid Normand
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Douglas Jamieson

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans, then Lord MacGregor Mitchell

  Events

• 14 & 16 January – Christina MacLennan gives birth to twins, the first on the island of Scarp in the county of Inverness-shire and the second in Stornoway in the county of Ross and Cromarty.
• 3 April – work on construction of "Hull 534", the ocean liner, at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank resumes after more than 2 years' suspension due to the Great Depression following a financial agreement between the Cunard Line and the British government.
• 7 April – the Scottish National Party is formed by merger of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party. On 20 April it holds its first public meeting, in Edinburgh.
• 21 April – the "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, much later admitted to be a hoax, is published in the Daily Mail.
• 29 May – first regular domestic airmail service, inaugurated by Highland Airways between Inverness and Kirkwall.
• 28 & 31 July – Gerhard Zucker launches rocket mail experimentally between the Outer Hebridean islands of Scarp and Harris; in both attempts the powder rockets explode.
• 26 September – launching of the at Clydebank.
• 25 December – dedication of the permanent St Columba's Cathedral at Oban, Mother Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles.
• Sandray becomes uninhabited.
• Gordonstoun school established in Moray.
• Original Barrowland Ballroom building is opened in Glasgow by "Barra Queen" Maggie McIver.
• Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes the historical biography Robert Bruce, King of Scots.

  Births

• 12 January – I. Howard Marshall, theologian
• 2 February – Hugh McIlvanney, sports journalist
• 12 February – Annette Crosbie, actress
• 11 March – John D. Burgess, bagpipe player
• 17 March – Pat Gerber, author mainly known for children's books
• 7 April – Ian Richardson, actor
• 17 April – Bill Douglas, film director,
• 24 April – John Cameron, Lord Coulsfield, judge
• 5 May – Jim Reid, folk musician
• 10 May – Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet, businessman
• 11 May – Mark Boyle, artist
• 28 August – John Stephen, menswear entrepreneur
• 21 September – David J. Thouless, condensed-matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• 14 November – Dave Mackay, footballer and manager
• 30 November – Aileen Paterson, writer and illustrator, best known for her series of children's books about Maisie MacKenzie the kitten
• 28 December – Alasdair Gray, novelist, artist, playwright, academic, teacher and poet
• Tom Alexander of The Alexander Brothers, folk singer
• John McLeod, composer
• Alasdair Grant Taylor, artist and sculptor

  Deaths

• 18 April – Catherine Cranston, tearoom proprietor
• 3 November – Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, founder of the construction firm now called Sir Robert McAlpine
• 14 November – John Joy Bell, writer, creator of Wee Macgreegor
• 18 December – Peter Hodge, referee and football manager
• Esther Blaikie MacKinnon, artist, known for her paintings and engravings

  The arts

• September – English actor John Le Mesurier makes his professional stage debut, with the Millicent Ward Repertory Players at the Palladium Theatre, Edinburgh, in J. B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner.
• Helen Cruickshank's poems Up the Noran Water published.
• Hugh MacDiarmid's Stony Limits and Other Poems published.
• Nan Shepherd's poems In the Cairngorms published.