1967 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Gordon Stott; then Henry Wilson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Wilson; then Ewan Stewart

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay

  Events

• 7 February – Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh, designed by Spence, Glover & Ferguson, is dedicated.
• March – Closure of Machrihanish Coalfield.
• 9 March – Glasgow Pollok by-election: Conservatives take the seat from Labour despite a fall in support as the Scottish National Party gains 28% of the vote.
• April–June – the Scottish Region of British Railways withdraws its last steam locomotives.
• 28 April – Third Lanark A.C. plays its last ever football match.
• 25 May – Celtic F.C. become the first British and Northern European team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time with the winning goal being scored by Steve Chalmers in Lisbon, Portugal.
• 27 May – closure of the last route served by trolleybuses in Glasgow.
• 20 September – the Queen Elizabeth 2, the largest ship ever built in Scotland and the last passenger ship built on the Clyde, is launched at John Brown & Company's yard at Clydebank.
• 2 November – Hamilton by-election: Winnie Ewing wins for the Scottish National Party, taking the seat from Labour.
• 13 November – University of Stirling chartered.
• Scott Lithgow shipbuilders on the River Clyde formed by merger of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows.
• Closure of Michael Colliery at East Wemyss in the Fife Coalfield due to a fire.
• Deepwater pier on Coll opened.
• Workers Party of Scotland formed.
• Scottish Civic Trust formed to promote protection and enhancement of the built environment.
• Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre established in Eskdalemuir.

  Births

• January – King Creosote, singer-songwriter
• 21 February – Neil Oliver, archaeologist and television presenter
• 11 March – John Barrowman, actor
• 8 June – Kathryn Imrie, golfer
• 15 August – Tony Hand, ice hockey player
• 23 August – Jim Murphy, Labour politician
• 26 August – Michael Gove, Conservative politician
• 26 October – Douglas Alexander, Labour politician
• 29 December – Carl Honoré, writer on current affairs
• Martin Boyce, sculptor
• Graeme Macrae Burnet, novelist
• Nathan Coley, installation artist

  Deaths

• 3 January – Mary Garden, operatic soprano
• 23 March – Duncan Macrae, actor
• 3 August – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo
• 13 August – Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, poet
• 6 September – Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist

  The Arts

• George Mackay Brown's first book of stories, A Calendar of Love, published