This is a list of notable people hailing from Aberdeen, Scotland, and the surrounding area.

• David Baird (1757–1829) Soldier
• William Barclay (1546–1608) Jurist
• Alexander Chalmers (1759–1834) Journalist
• Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) Seminarian
• Andrew Clark (1826–1893) Physician
• Alexander Cruden (1699–1770) Theologian
• Alexander Ewing (1814–1873) Church leader
• B.C. Forbes (1880–1954) Journalist (founder of Forbes Magazine)
• James Forrester (b. 1937) North Carolina politician
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–1935) Author
• David Gregory (1659–1708) Astronomer
• James Gregory (1638–1675) Astronomer and Mathematician
• Annie Lennox (b. 1954) Singer
• William MacGillivray (1796–1852) Naturalist
• David Masson (1822–1907) Author
• Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923) Sculptor
• William Mortimer Clark (1836–1917) Canadian politician
• George Croom Robertson (1842–1892) Philosopher
• Thomas Smith (1745–1809) US politician
• Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911) Trader and founder of Mitsubishi corporation