1944 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

• 17 February – Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election is held. The Scottish National Party candidate Douglas Young comes close to winning the seat.
• 26–30 June – World War II: the 15th Infantry Division spearhead Operation Epsom, also known as the First Battle of the Odon, during the Battle of Normandy.
• September – Churchill Barriers on Orkney completed, together with the Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm.
• 9 November – The House of the Binns becomes the first estate house given to the National Trust for Scotland.
• 12 November – World War II: sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz at Tromsø by Lancaster bombers of No. 9 and 617 Squadrons flying from RAF Lossiemouth.
• 30 November – is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank by the Princess Elizabeth. The Royal Navy's largest, fastest and last battleship, she was laid down in October 1941 and will be in commission from 1946-60.
• December – 97 Italians tunnel out of a prisoner-of-war camp at Doonfoot but are quickly recaptured.

  Births

• 23 January – John McCluskey, boxer
• 31 January – Robin Murray, psychiatrist
• 25 February – Campbell Armstrong, author
• 2 March – Stuart McGugan, actor
• 11 March – Graham Lyle, singer-songwriter
• 23 March – Maoilios Caimbeul writer of poetry, prose and children's literature, in Scottish Gaelic
• 3 May – Carl Forgione, actor
• 13 May – Vivien Heilbron, actress
• 17 May – Jimmy Boyle, sculptor, writer and murderer
• 5 June – Jim Brogan, footballer
• 3 July – Paul Young, actor
• 7 July – George Logan, stage entertainer
• 8 August – Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin, businessman, chairman of the Green Investment Bank
• 17 August – Bobby Murdoch, international footballer
• 22 August – Tom Leonard, poet
• 21 September – Susan Fleetwood, British stage, film, and television actress
• 21 September – Christopher Harvie, historian and Scottish National Party politician
• 23 September – Eric Bogle, folk singer-songwriter in Australia
• 30 September – Jimmy Johnstone, international footballer
• 3 October – Harry Hood, footballer
• 17 November – Malcolm Bruce, Liberal politician
• 23 November – Christopher Rush, writer
• 28 November – James Smillie, actor and singer
• 12 December – Kenneth Cranham, actor
• 29 December – Gilbert Adair, novelist, poet, film critic and journalist
• Alison Fell, poet and novelist
• Shena Mackay, novelist

  Deaths

• 8 February – John Watson, advocate and sheriff, Solicitor General for Scotland 1929–31
• 29 February - Durward Lely, opera singer and actor
• 16 March – David Prain, botanist
• 23 June - J. Storer Clouston, Scottish author and historian
• 5 July – Robert William Hamilton, Liberal politician and MP
• 6 July - Alexander Lorne Campbell, architect
• 11 July – Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson, shipbroker, Liberal politician and philanthropist
• 11 August – William Fife, yacht designer
• 16 August – Walter Robberds, Bishop of Brechin and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church