1946 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George VI
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Joseph Westwood

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – George Reid Thomson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Daniel Blades

  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

• 16 March – American Liberty ship Byron Darnton runs aground off Sanda Island; all 54 aboard are rescued.
• 13 April – a crowd of 139,468 at Hampden Park, Glasgow, watch the Scotland national football team defeat England 1-0 in a Victory International series Association football match.
• 10 July – a crowd of 45,000 at Hampden Park watch Jackie Paterson defend his world flyweight boxing title.
• 25 July – a train collides with a bus which has crashed through level crossing gates at Balmuckety near Kirriemuir, killing 10.
• 27 August –, the first roll-on/roll-off ferry built for service in British waters, is launched at William Denny and Brothers' shipyard in Dumbarton.
• 22–27 November – the last election for a university constituency in the United Kingdom is held when the Combined Scottish Universities by-election is held. Walter Elliot wins decisively.
• 5 December
• * A Kilmarnock by-election results in Willie Ross holding the seat for Labour.
• * Scottish edition of the Daily Mail begins publication in Edinburgh.
• Drift mine opened in Machrihanish Coalfield.
• Naturalist Gavin Maxwell purchases the island of Soay, Skye, and attempts to start a commercial shark fishing enterprise there.
• The Hoover Company opens a factory at Cambuslang.

  Births

• 30 January – Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon, Lord Advocate
• 28 February – Robin Cook, Labour MP and Foreign Secretary
• May – Jock Brown, solicitor and football commentator
• 10 May – Donovan, singer, songwriter and guitarist
• 1 June – Brian Cox, actor
• 9 June – James Kelman, novelist
• 9 July – Bon Scott, hard rock musician in Australia
• 29 July – Bill Forsyth, film director
• 27 October – Margaret Bennett, ethnologist
• 6 November – George Young, rock musician in Australia
• 14 December – Peter Lorimer, international footballer

  Deaths

• 17 February – Sir George Pirie, painter
• 18 February – Catherine Carswell, biographer and journalist
• 20 May – Jane Findlater, novelist
• 5 June – James Craig Annan, photographer
• 14 June – John Logie Baird, television pioneer
• 23 July – James Maxton, MP and leader of the Independent Labour Party
• 6 August – Benny Lynch, flyweight boxer
• 18 August – Marion Angus, Scots language poet
• 9 September – Violet Jacob, historical novelist

  Arts and literature

• 22 May – English writer George Orwell leaves London to spend much of the next 18 months at Barnhill, Jura, working on his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• Summer – Robert McLeish's The Gorbals Story is premiered by Glasgow Unity Theatre at the Queens Theatre.
• Oriel Malet's fictionalised biography of Marjory Fleming is published.
• Janet Adam Smith's Life Among the Scots is published.
• The Central Office of Information short film The Glen is Ours is released.