Memorials and blue plaques in Aberdeen
Blue plaques, memorials and monuments across Aberdeen. A quiet place to read about the lives held in this Scotland city, and to visit them in person.
151 locations, organised A to Z.
A

Aberdeen Association Football Club
11 Correction Wynd

Aberdeen Association Football Club
The Chanonry

Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company
81 Waterloo Quay

Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company
83 Waterloo Quay

Adelphi Court
off Union Street

Alberto Morrocco
Causewayend School, Causewayend

Alexander Cruden MA
Cruden's Court, off Concert Court, Broad Street

Alexander Ellis
66 Springbank Terrace

Alexander Ogston
252 Union Street

Andrew Thomson
Guestrow, off Broad Street

Archibald Reith
Gallowgate

Archibald Simpson
Bon-Accord Square
B

Back Wynd
Back Wynd side of Screen in front of St Nicholas Churchyard

Bannerman's Bridge
Marischal Street

Benholm's Lodge
Netherkirkgate

Benholm's Lodge
Tillydrone Road

Bishop Samuel Seabury
Marischal College Quadrangle, East Wall

Bishop Samuel Seabury
21 Castle Street

Black plaque № 75812
72 Broomhill Road

Bob Cooney
Castle Street

Brebner's Court, Aberndeen
Castlegate

Brig o' Balgownie
Brig o' Balgownie
C

Captain William Penny RN
1 South Crown Street

Carmelite Friary, Aberdeen
Car Park of Flats off Rennie's Wynd, the Green

Caroline Phillips
41 1/2 Union Street

Catherine Hollingworth
31 King Street

Charles Hamilton Sorley
Powis Community Centre, 11 Powis Circle

Chivas Regal
13-19 King Street

Christian Farquharson-Kennedy
99 Westburn Road
D

Dame Louisa Lumsden DBE
214 Union Street

David Cairns
Former Christ's College, Alford Place

David Grant
St Clement's Church, St Clement Street

Dee Ferry Boat Disaster
west side of Victoria Bridge, under lamp post

Denburn Road improvement
Woolmanhill

Donald Colman
342 King Street

Dr Agnes B. V. Thomson
Aberdeen

Dr Alexander Gordon
17 Belmont Street

Dr Elizabeth Latto Ewen
26 Chapel Street

Dr John Macleod FRS FRSE LLD
32 Cairn Road, Cults

Dr Laura Sandeman
22 Waverley Place

Dr Mary Esslemont
30 Beechgrove Terrace

Drum's Lane, Aberdeen
Upperkirkgate
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G

G. S. McLennan
2 Bath Street

General Hugh Mercer
Quadrangle, Marischal College, Broad Street

George Davidson
St. Clement's Street

George Jamesone
22 Schoolhill

George Jamesone
22 Schoolhill

George Milne Fraser
Central Library, Rosemount Viaduct

George Russell Gowans
119 Broomhill Road

George Thompson
35 Marischal Street

George Washington Wilson
Clydesdale Bank, 1 Queen's Cross

Grammar School of Aberdeen
Robert Gordon's College, Schoolhill

Great North of Scotland Railway Company
Station Hotel
H

harbour lighthouses, Aberdeen
Sinclair Road

harbour lighthouses, Aberdeen
Greyhope Road

Hardgate Well, Aberdeen
Hardgate

Harry Gordon
Guild Street

Harry Gordon
Music Hall, South Silver Street

Helena Mennie Shire
98 Leslie Terrace

Henry Scougall
King's College

House of Correction, Aberdeen
Back Wynd, off Union Street

Hugo of Aberdeen
Ruthrieston Outdoor Centre
I
J

Jacobite troops, Aberdeen
17 Castle Street

James Clerk Maxwell
131 Union Street, Back Wynd Steps

James Clerk Maxwell
Back Wynd Stairs, off Union Street

James Cowie
8 Fonthill Road

James Cromar Watt
71 Dee Street

James Fenton Wyness
45 Salisbury Terrace

James Gibbs
West St Nicholas Church, West Wall, Union Street

James Giles
64 Bon Accord Street

James Leatham
68 Schoolhill

James Matthews
15 Albyn Terrace

James McBey
42 Union Grove

James McGrigor
Grammar School, Esslemont Avenue side

James Scorgie Meston
Elphinstone Road

Jeannie Robertson MBE
90 Hilton Road

John Barbour
53 Castle Street

John Farquhar
Upperkirkgate

John Forbes White
60 Frederick Street

John Morgan
Rubislaw House, 50 Queen's Road

John Phillip RA
21 Skene Square

John Ross
Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Shiprow

John Smith
St Nicholas Church Frontage, Union Street
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R

R. D. Lawrence
10 Ferryhill Place

R. V. Jones
Elphinstone Road

Rachel Annand Taylor
Harlaw Academy, 18-20 Albyn Place

Religious House of the Knights Templars and of the Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
Rear Wall of exterior of St Peter's Churchyard

Robert Brown
Cruikshank Building, Chanonry

Robert Burns
Aberdeen Journals Building, Lang Stracht

Robert Laws
39 Thistle Street

Ronald Center
16 Elmbank Road

Royal Exchequer, Scotland
Exchequer Row
S

Sir Alexander Anderson
North Pier

Sir Alexander Robertson
Marischal College, Quadrangle, West Wall, Broad Street

Sir Dr David Gill KCB FRS FRSE LLD
50 Skene Terrace

Sir Dugald Baird
38 Albyn Place

Sir Edward Wright FRSE
Dunbar Street

Sir George Paget Thomson FRS
Marischal College, Broad Street

Sir George Reid PRSA
Gordon Highlanders Museum, Viewfield Road

Sir George Skene
off Broad Street

Sir John Ninian Comper
17 Spital, St Margaret's Convent

Sir Patrick Manson GCMG
Cruickshank Building, Chanonry

Sir Thomas Taylor
High Street

Stephen Kemble
Theatre Lane, Virginia Street end

Sugar House, Aberdeen
Sugarhouse Lane
T

The Crabstone
Langstane Place

The Rt Rev. James Grant
Chapel Court, off Castle Street (Castlegate)

Thomas Blake Glover
Glover House, Balgownie Road

Thomas Blake Glover
79 Balgownie Rd, Bridge of Don, AB22 8JH

Thomas Fraser
16 Albyn Place

Thomas Reid
The Pend of King's College Quadrangle, Old Aberdeen

Thomas Scott Sutherland
27 Albyn Place

Town House, Aberdeen
Union Street
W

William Alexander
3 Belvidere Street

William Dyce
48 Marischal Street

William Elphinstone
High Street

William Fraser
51 Union Street

William Guild
William Guild Building, 581 King St

William Jackson
Thorngrove, 500 Great Western Road

William Kennedy
46 Marischal Street

William MacGillivray
110 High Street

William Meff
40 Fonthill Road

William Robertson Smith
Former Christ’s College, Alford Place
Data sources
Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.
- Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
- Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.
Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.