1976 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross until 8 April; then Bruce Millan

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Ronald King Murray
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John McCluskey, ennobled as Lord McCluskey

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 18 January – the Scottish Labour Party is formed.
• 6 February – Hunterston B nuclear power station begins generating electricity.
• 7 July – Scottish MP David Steel is elected as new leader of the Liberal Party.
• 14 October – Post Office Telephones take the UK's last manual public telephone exchange out of service on Portree.
• 11 November – Brent oilfield production begins in the East Shetland Basin.
• The Signet Office is merged into the Court of Session.
• Inverkip power station is commissioned.
• Whalsay Golf Club, Britain's most northerly, is founded in Shetland.

  Births

• 20 January – Kirsty Gallacher, television presenter
• 23 February – Kelly Macdonald, actress
• 23 March – Chris Hoy, Olympic gold medal winning cyclist
• 3 June – Gregg McClymont, historian and politician
• 5 June – Jack Ross, footballer and manager
• 20 July – Damian Barr, writer
• 24 July – Laura Fraser, actress
• 8 August – Laura Kuenssberg, Italian-born political journalist
• 10 August – Ian Murray, Labour MP for Edinburgh South
• 16 November – Danny Wallace, comedian and broadcast presenter
• date unknown – Chris Stout, fiddle player

  Deaths

• 11 February – Charlie Naughton, actor
• 18 February – William Robb, footballer
• 13 March – Ann Henderson, sculptor
• 22 April – Stanley Cursiter, painter and curator
• 28 May – Oliver Brown, nationalist political activist
• 20 October – Jane Duncan, novelist