Fleming, Wallace, Bruce... But Burns Is the Man for A' That

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AS WARRIORS, explorers and inventors, Scots have made their name across the globe over the centuries, achieving greatness at home and abroad for their accomplishments.

But from a litany of hopefuls, it is a humble wordsmith - Robert Burns - who has been judged the greatest-ever Scot in an exclusive poll of academics and historians, published today by Scotland on Sunday.

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Fleming, Wallace, Bruce... But Burns Is the Man for A' That

The Ayrshire poet narrowly edged out the scientist Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, as having the greatest significance in his homeland.

Philosophers, scientists and a missionary also feature prominently in the vote to identify the Greatest Scots. An online poll from today ...

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