List of Scottish rugby union players
This is a list of notable Scottish rugby union players, not necessarily all of whom have represented the Scotland national rugby union team, arranged by decade, most recent first. Some players are included for being notable for other reasons, e.g. Bill McLaren as a broadcaster. Scottish players for other countries are included, e.g. Dugald MacDonald who played for, while his brother Donald played for, uncapped Scottish players e.g. Hefin O'Hare and Scotland caps who are notable for reasons other than being on the national rugby union team, e.g. Bill Gammell is better known as a businessman, and Norman Mair as a journalist.
Many players were active in two decades, and so are included in both listings.
By decade
2000s
- John Barr, shinty internationalist
- Hefin O'Hare
1980s
- David Changleng, referee
- Malcolm Changleng, referee
- Frank Hadden, coach
1970s
- Bill Gammell, businessman
- Dugald MacDonald, played for
- Ian Robertson, commentator
1960s
- Ian Robertson, commentator
- Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell, politician
- Rob Valentine, rugby league player
1950s
- Charles Renilson
1940s
- Bill McLaren, commentator and writer
1920s
- J.M. Bannerman, Liberal politician
- PS Douty
- R.G. Henderson
- RF Kelly
- DJ MacMyn
- GA McIlwaine
- EG Taylor
1910s
- C.G. Timms
1900s
- George Cunningham, governor
- J.C. Hosack
- James Youll Turnbull, VC
1890s
- H.G.S. Gray
- David Robertson, golfer
1880s
- H. Brooks
- R. Burnett
- W. Burnett
- Ned Haig, inventor of rugby sevens
- A.J. Laing
- J. Smith
- Angus Stuart
1870s
- Hely Hutchinson Almond
- Henry Renny-Tailyour
1860s
- Hely Hutchinson Almond
Scottish cricket and rugby union players
| Name | Cricket team/club | Rugby team |
| Cecil Abercrombie | Hampshire County Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Thomas Anderson | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Alex Angus | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| A.G.G. Asher | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Leslie Balfour-Melville | Scotland national cricket team / Marylebone Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Edward Bannerman | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| David Bell | Scotland national cricket team / Oxford University Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| John Bruce Lockhart | Scotland national cricket team / Cambridge University Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Rab Bruce Lockhart | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Angus Buchanan | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| James Stewart Carrick | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Thomas Chalmers | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Paul Robert Clauss | Oxford University | Scotland national rugby union team British Isles |
| Gerard Crole | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| James Norman Grieve Davidson | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Norman Davidson | ? | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Maurice Dickson | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Andrew Ramsay Don-Wauchope | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Alexander William Duncan | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Kim Elgie | South African national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| James Gowans | Marylebone Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| William St Clair Grant | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Thomas Hart | Scotland national cricket team / Federated Malay States cricket team/ Oxford University Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Duncan Hodge | Grange / Watsonians CC | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Frank Hunter | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| A.B.M. Ker | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Jimmy Kerr | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Eric Liddell | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Ross Logan | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Ian Lumsden | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Gregor MacGregor | England cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| K.G. MacLeod | Lancashire County Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Bill Maclagan | Scotland cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team British and Irish Lions |
| Alexander Simpson Bell McNeil | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Norman Mair | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Kenneth Walker Marshall | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Thomas R. Marshall | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Stuart Moffat | Scotland national cricket team / Cambridge University Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| James Reid Kerr | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Henry Renny-Tailyour | Kent County Cricket Club / Marylebone Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Gordon Ross | Scotland national rugby union team | |
| Ken Scotland | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| D. Somerville | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Hugo Southwell | Sussex | Scotland national rugby union team |
| Henry Stevenson | Scotland national cricket team / Marylebone Cricket Club | Scotland national rugby union team |
| J.M. Tennant | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |
| James George Walker | Scotland national cricket team | Scotland national rugby union team |