1937 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George VI
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Walter Elliot

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper
• Solicitor General for Scotland – James Reid

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord MacGregor Mitchell

  Events

• 17 April – A crowd of 149,547 spectators watch the Scotland national football team defeat England 3-1 at Hampden Park, Glasgow.
• 5 July – The rival operators of the East and West Coast Main Line railway routes between London and Scotland introduce streamlined express passenger trains hauled by steam locomotives: the London and North Eastern Railway's The Coronation between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway's Coronation Scot between Euston and Glasgow Central.
• 16 October – Jimmy McGrory plays his last match with Celtic F.C., achieving a United Kingdom record of 550 goals scored during his senior career.
• 4 December – The first issue of children's comic The Dandy, including the character Desperate Dan, is published by Dundee-based publisher D. C. Thomson & Co.
• 10 December – Castlecary rail crash: an express on the Edinburgh to Glasgow line collides into the rear of a local train standing at Castlecary in the snow, due primarily to a signalman's error; thirty-five people are killed.
• Hydroelectricity scheme of Galloway Water Power Company commences operation.
• Nigel Nicolson purchases the uninhabited Shiant Isles from fellow writer Compton Mackenzie.
• The National Trust for Scotland acquires its first part of the site of the Battle of Culloden.
• Among the definitive coins of the United Kingdom issued for the new reign are shillings carrying a Scottish crest.
• A. G. Macdonell publishes My Scotland.

  Births

• 3 February – Alex Young, footballer
• 10 February – Anne Anderson, physiologist
• 16 February – Jimmy Frizzell, footballer and football manager
• 6 April - Angus Grossart, businessman
• 8 April - Claire Nielson, actress
• 18 April – Teddy Taylor, Conservative politician
• 28 April – Jean Redpath, folk singer
• 6 May - Robin Fulton, poet and translator
• 7 July – Sheila Stewart, folk singer
• 12 July – Gordon Millar, story-teller, "Laird of Dunbar"
• 21 August – Donald Dewar, Labour politician and First Minister of Scotland
• 24 August - George Kerr judo expert
• 3 September – Willie Bell, footballer
• 4 October – Jim Sillars, politician
• 9 October - Fiona Cumming, television director
• 21 December
• *Jimmy Collins, footballer
• *Sheila Reid, actress
• date unknown
• * James Goodfellow, inventor
• * Kate Macintosh, architect
• * Colette O'Neil, actress
• * Dorothy Paul, actress

  Deaths

• 6 January – Robert Urie, steam locomotive engineer
• 21 February - Wallace Lindsay, classical scholar
• 23 February - John Begg, architect, who practised in London, South Africa and India
• 10 April - Ernest Auldjo Jamieson, architect
• 19 June – J. M. Barrie, author best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan
• 28 July – Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle, politician
• 21 September – Chrystal Macmillan, mathematician, suffragist, politician, barrister and pacifist
• 30 October - Sir Herbert Maxwell, novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist and Conservative politician
• 8 November - Alasdair Tayler, historical writer
• 9 November – Ramsay MacDonald, Labour politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 6 December – Francis Cadell, Colourist painter
• John Stevenson Rhind, sculptor

  The arts

• August – the film The Edge of the World is released. The first major solo project by English director Michael Powell, it dramatises the depopulation of the Scottish islands and was largely filmed on Foula in Shetland.
• A. J. Cronin's medical novel The Citadel is published.
• Robert McLellan's play Jamie the Saxt is first performed, in Glasgow, starring Duncan Macrae.