1943 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George VI
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Tom Johnston

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Reid
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cooper
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

  Events

• 11 February – At the Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, the radical socialist Common Wealth Party candidate Tom Wintringham comes close to winning the seat.
• 24 February – Royal Navy submarine is lost with all 37 crew on sea trials in the Sound of Bute; she would not be located until 1994.
• 27 March – Royal Navy escort carrier is destroyed by an accidental explosion in the Firth of Clyde, killing 379 of the crew of 528.
• 21 April – "Big Blitz" bombing of Aberdeen.
• 30 May – Royal Navy submarine is lost with all hands on a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde.
• 19 June – Jackie Paterson wins the world flyweight boxing title by a knockout in the first minute at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
• 5 August – North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board established by Act of Parliament.
• 11 November – Total evacuation of an area near Portmahomack in Easter Ross begins, to make way for rehearsal of the Normandy Landings.
• 2 December – Broughty Ferry pigeon Winkie, serving with the Royal Air Force, is among the first recipients of the Dickin Medal, instituted to honour the work of animals in war.
• The last crofting family leaves the island of South Rona.
• Ferranti open a plant at Crewe Toll in Edinburgh, originally to manufacture gyro gunsights for aircraft.

  Births

• 23 January – Ernie Hannigan, footballer
• 18 February – Graeme Garden, author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, one of The Goodies
• 1 March - Witold Rybczynski, Canadian American architect, born in Edinburgh
• 16 April – Morris Stevenson, footballer
• 19 April – Margo MacDonald, politician
• 1 May – Ian Dunn, gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the Scottish Minorities Group
• 10 May – Jack Bruce, rock musician
• 22 June – J. Michael Kosterlitz, Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• 16 July - Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins, comedy writer
• 18 July – Robin MacDonald, pop guitarist
• 20 August – Sylvester McCoy, born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith, actor
• 16 October – Tommy Gemmell, footballer
• 24 November – Robin Williamson, acoustic musician
• Alan Bold, poet and biographer
• G. C. Peden, historian
• D. R. Thorpe, biographer

  Deaths

• 17 June – Annie S. Swan, novelist
• 8 September - Anderson Gray McKendrick, military physician and epidemiologist,
• 15 October – William Soutar, poet
• 23 December – George Henry, painter
• Ann Scott-Moncrieff, author

  The arts

• November – Sorley MacLean's first collection of Gaelic poems, Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile, is published.
• Glasgow Citizens Theatre founded.
• Poetry Scotland magazine founded in Glasgow by Maurice Lindsay.