Memorials and blue plaques in Edinburgh
Blue plaques, memorials and monuments across Edinburgh. A quiet place to read about the lives held in this Scotland city, and to visit them in person.
408 locations, organised A to Z. Includes 1 war memorial.
A

Adam Smith
Panmure Close

Agnes McLehose
Potterrow

Alan A. Campbell Swinton
9 Albyn Place

Alastair Sim
88 Lothian Rd, EH3 9BZ

Alexander Bain
Hannover Street

Alexander Bain
21 Hanover Street

Alexander Graham Bell
14 South Charlotte Street

Alexander Mackenzie
22 Nelson Street

Alexander Maclean
Thistle Street

Alison Cockburn
Chapel Street

Anchor Tavern
Anchor Close

Andrew Lamb
Edinburgh

Andy Laidlaw
Rose Street

Anne Redpath
7 London Street
B

Balerno Burns Club
Main Street

Bank of Scotland
Edinburgh

Barony of Broughton
The Barony, Broughton Street

Barry Martin
McDonald Road

Benjamin Rush
George Square

Bessie Watson
11, Vennel

Bill Douglas
Whitehill Street

Black plaque № 30298
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Black plaque № 31350
Panmure Close

Black plaque № 31383
357 High Street

Black plaque № 39051
Edinburgh Waverley railway station

Black plaque № 40911
George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place

Black plaque № 40915
Wardrop's Court, Lawnmarket

Black plaque № 50169
Edinburgh

Black plaque № 50355
Lady Stair's Close

Black plaque № 50993
31 Lothian Road

Black plaque № 51355
St John Street

Black plaque № 51356
New Assembly Close

Black plaque № 51357
Mylne's Court

Black plaque № 51548
Holyrood Road

Black plaque № 51549
Holyrood Road

Black plaque № 51550
Holyrood Road

Black plaque № 51555
Holyrood Road

Black plaque № 51556
Holyrood Road

Black plaque № 51563
10 Melville Street

Black plaque № 51623
Cannongate

Black plaque № 56333
Edinburgh

Black plaque № 56334
Edinburgh

Black plaque № 56335
Edinburgh

Black plaque № 58799
St Mark's Bridge

Black plaque № 58824
Henderson Place

Blue plaque № 11878
Pilrig House, Pilrig House Close

Blue plaque № 12017
Infirmary Street

Blue plaque № 51332
Waverley Railway Station

Blue plaque № 56342
Edinburgh

Blue plaque № 58564
11 Water's Close

Blue plaque № 58572
Edinburgh

Blue plaque № 58795
59 Bernard Street

Blue plaque № 58818
36 Dalmeny Street

Blue plaque № 58944
Newhaven Main Street

Blue plaque № 59307
28 Wrights Houses

Blue plaque № 59782
Edinburgh Medical School

Blue plaque № 62574
18 Bristo Place

Blue plaque № 67755
140 Marchmont Road

Botanical Society of Edinburgh
15 Dundas Street

Brass plaque № 40916
Lothian Chambers, High Street

Brass plaque № 50119
Roseburn terrace

Brass plaque № 50230
Castle Esplanade

Brass plaque № 56357
Edinburgh

Brass plaque № 63036
1 Queensferry Street

Brian Meek
Bridge Road

Bronze plaque № 11845
Forrest Road

Bronze plaque № 30280
1 Moray Place

Bronze plaque № 31374
Cannongate

Bronze plaque № 31381
253 High Street

Bronze plaque № 50121
Ashley Terrace

Bronze plaque № 50235
Lothian Road

Bronze plaque № 50929
66 Queen Street

Bronze plaque № 51331
Carruber's Close

Bronze plaque № 56354
Edinburgh

Bronze plaque № 59019
St Andrews Square

Bronze plaque № 59603
Edinburgh Old Town

Bronze plaque № 73479
New College, Mound Place

Bronze plaque № 9868
Esplanade, Edinburgh Castle

Brushed metal plaque № 31360
Pleasance

Brushed metal plaque № 50110
Craiglockhart View

Brushed metal plaque № 50154
Edinburgh

Brushed metal plaque № 50170
Buckingham Terrace

Brushed metal plaque № 50204
Corstorphine High Street

Brushed metal plaque № 51061
Canonmills

Brushed metal plaque № 58823
West Silvermills Lane
C

Caiy Stone
Edinburgh

Cameo Cinema
Home Street

Canongate Mercat Cross
Canongate

Cape Club
Craig's Close

Cardinal David Beaton
Panmure St Ann's School, Cowgate

Catherine Sinclair
Edinburgh

Charles Darwin
Rear wall of National Museum of Scotland, South College Street

Charles Edward Stuart
Bonnie Prince Charlie's House, 8-10 The Causeway, Duddingston

Charles Edward Stuart
Slateford Road

Charles Glover Barkla FRS FRSE
Hermitage of Braid Nature Reserve, Braid Road

Charles Wyville Thomson
Ashworth Building, Charlotte Auerbach Road

Christian Isobel Johnstone
2 Walker Street

Christian Isobel Johnstone
12 Buccleuch Place

Christian Nimmo
92-98 St John's Road

City Walls, Edinburgh
Johnston Terrace

Clement Litil
30 George Square

Compton Mackenzie
31 Drummond Place

Convent of St Catherine of Sienna
Edinburgh

Corstorphine Hill Tower
Edinburgh

Covenanters' Prison
Edinburgh

Cramond Kirk
16 Cramond Glebe Road
D

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE
5 Brandon Street

Dame Muriel Spark DBE
Warrender Park Crescent

Dame Rebecca West DBE
2 Hope Park Square

Dancon
Edinburgh

David Hume
21 South St David Street, EH2 2BW

David Hume
Riddle's Court, 322 Lawnmarket, EH1 2PG

David Hume
David Hume Tower, George Square

David Laing
Laing Terrace

David Roberts RA
8 Gloucester Street

David Theodore Nelson Williamson
65 Gilmore Place

Destiny Marches
Edinburgh

Dorothy Emily Stevenson
14 Eglinton Crescent

Dougal Haston
Edinburgh

Douglas Haig
24 Charlotte Square

Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Surgeons' Hall Museums, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street

Dr Elsie Inglis
219 High Street

Dr Elsie Inglis
Surgeons' Square

Dr Elsie Inglis
219 High Street

Dr Elsie Inglis
2 Walker Street

Dr Henry Duncan Littlejohn
24 Royal Circus

Dr John Brown
23 Rutland Street, EH1 2AE

Dr Peter Mark Roget
George Square

Dr Samuel Johnson
Boyds Entry

Dr Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
The Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children, 90-94 Whitehouse Loan

Dr Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
Teviot Place

Drumsheugh Baths Club
5 Belford Road

Duddingston Curling Tower
Edinburgh

Duncan Ban MacIntyre
Roxburgh's Close, 341 High Street, EH1 1PW
E

Edinburgh College of Domestic Science
5 Atholl Crescent

Edinburgh Film Guild
88 Lothian Street

Edinburgh Gateway Interchange
Edinburgh Gateway Station

Edinburgh Physic Garden
Edinburgh Waverley railway station

Edinburgh Review
18 Buccleuch Place

Edinburgh Surgeons
Edinburgh

Elizabeth Wiskemann
George Square

Eric Liddell
Edinburgh University, George Square

Eric Lomax
11 Bedford Terrace, Portobello

Esmée Fairbairn
Heriot-Watt University The Fairway, Riccarton Campus,
F
G

General Charles De Gaulle
Edinburgh

General John Reid
Reid Museum of Musical Instruments, Bristo Square

George Edward Moore OM
11 Buccleuch Place

George Jamesone
High Street

George Saintsbury
2 Eton Terrace

Godfrey Hilton Thomson
Canongate

Gogarburn Hospital
Gogarburn

Grace Cadell
145 Leith Walk

Graham Priestley
Edinburgh

Green plaque № 58567
109 Leith Walk

Green plaque № 58568
106 Leith Walk

Grey plaque № 58946
6 Brunton Place

Greyfriars Bobby
1 Forrest Road

Greyfriars Bobby
Candlemaker Row

Greyfriars Bobby
Edinburgh
H

Hamish Henderson
29 George Square

Hanging Stanes
Braid Road

Hart Street Studios
Thomson House 4A Forth Street

Helen B. Cruickshank
7, Hillview Terrace

Helen Hopekirk
148 High Street, Portobello

Henry Cockburn
14 Charlotte Square

Henry Raeburn
32 York Place

High Street Wellhead
Edinburgh

Horace Gildard White
130 Leith Walk

Hugh Dewar
Edinburgh

Hugh MacDiarmid
Drummond Street

Hugh Miller
78-80 Portobello High Street, EH15 1AN

Hugh Miller
City Chambers, 253 High Street, EH1 1YJ
I
J

J. K. Rowling CH OBE FRSL
The Elephant House, 21 George IV Bridge

J. K. Rowling CH OBE FRSL
40 Victoria Street

J. K. Rowling CH OBE FRSL
Black Medicine Coffee Company, 108-110 Marchmont Rd

James Africanus Horton
7 Buccleuch Place

James Boswell
Witchery Restaurant, Castlehill

James Boswell
James Court

James Boswell
James's Court

James Boswell
Old College, South Bridge

James Clerk Maxwell
Edinburgh

James Clerk Maxwell
14 India Street

James Connolly
George IV Bridge arch, Cowgate

James Craig
Old Observatory House, Calton Hill

James Fairbairn
Grassmarket

James Finlayson
Nicolson Square

James Gillespie
231 High Street

James Hutton
Edinburgh

James Lind
Edinburgh

James Lorimer
Old College, South Bridge

James Miranda Barry
Old College, South Bridge

James Nasmyth
47 York Place

James Young Simpson
Parliament Square

James Young Simpson
52 Queen Street

James Young Simpson
North Bridge

Jane Haining
Edinburgh

Jane Welsh Carlyle
22 George Square

Jean Milligan
12 Coates Crescent

Jean Thomson Harris
9 Cumberland Street

Jeanie Deans
St Leonard's Lane

Jellicoe Express
Waverley Railway Station

Jennie Lee
9 Buccleuch Place

Jenny Ha
Edinburgh

Jessie Chrystal MacMillan
Joseph Black Building, David Brewster Road

Jock Porteous
Grassmarket

John Barlow
1 Pilrig Street

John G. Reid
14 Bristo Square

John Gibson Lockhart
25 Northumberland Street, EH3 6LR

John Gladstone FRSE
Edinburgh

John Home
Edinburgh

John Hughes Bennett
Teviot Place

John Hunter
Edinburgh

John Kay
231 High Street

John Kinross
2 Abercromby Place

John Knox
St Giles, High Street

John Knox
Warriston's Close, High Street, EH1 1PG

John Knox
car park, ex-burial ground of High Kirk of St. Giles

John Mackechnie
Thistle Foundation, Niddrie Mains Road

John McGrath
Great King St, New Town, EH3

John Miller
Edinburgh

John Napier
Merchiston Tower

John Scott Russell
Scott Russell Aqueduct

John Thomson
6 Brighton Street

John Wilson
10 Gloucester Place

Joppa Salt Pans
1, Musselburgh Road

Joseph Bell
2 Melville Crescent

Joseph Black
Edinburgh

Joseph Black
Joseph Black Building, David Brewster Road
K
L
M

Maggie Dickson
92 Grassmarket

Marble plaque № 50174
Edinburgh

Marble plaque № 60122
Lothian Road

Margaret Bayne
Edinburgh

Margaret Sackville
30 Regent Terrace

Margaret Tait
The Scotman's Steps, Market Street

Margaret Tait
91 Rose Street

Marie Stopes
3 Abercromby Place, EH3 6LB

Marjory Fleming
Brae Park

Mary Burton
Riccarton Campus, Heriot-Watt University

Mary Crudelius
Potterow Building, 1 Bristo Square

Mary Dunlop
Rutland Square

Mary Erskine School
68-73 Queen Street

Mary Fergusson
Sanderson Building, Robert Stevenson Road

Mary Isolen Fergusson
William Arrol Building, Heriot-Watt University

Mary of Lorraine
Edinburgh Castle

Mary Pickford
Old Medical School Quad, Teviot Place

Mary Somerville
53 Northumberland St

Max Born
84 Grange Loan

Mount Falcon Battery
Edinburgh

Multicoloured plaque № 60298
41 Constitution Street

Multicoloured plaque № 60299
29-35 Queen Charlotte Street

Mungo Park
Edinburgh

Mwalimu Julius Nyerere
21 George Square

Mwalimu Julius Nyerere
Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square
N
O
P

Patrick Geddes
Patrick Geddes Hall, 1846 Mound Place

Percy Bysshe Shelley
60 George Street

Peter Ware Higgs
5 Roxburgh Street

Philip Mountbatten OM
National Library of Scotland, 312-320 Lawnmarket

Phoebe Anna Traquair
25 Bridge Road

Phyllis Mary Bone
Belford Mews, Dean Village

plaque № 50168
Edinburgh

plaque № 50171
Edinburgh

plaque № 50173
Edinburgh

plaque № 50266
Edinburgh

plaque № 50267
Edinburgh

plaque № 50298
Edinburgh

Playhouse and Old Playhouse Close
Edinburgh

Portcullis Gate, Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh

Portobello Town Hall
High Street, Portobello
Q
R

Red plaque № 50172
Edinburgh

Red plaque № 50322
The Mound

Red plaque № 58563
Granton Square

Red plaque № 58817
Dryden Street

Red plaque № 60297
Victoria Swing Bridge

Red plaque № 64556
139 Leith Walk

Rev John Witherspoon
Assembly Hall, The Mound

Rev John Witherspoon
Edinburgh

Richard Scott
West Richmond Street

Robert Adam
Old College, South Bridge

Robert Adamson
Rock House, Calton Hill

Robert Burns
The White Hart Inn, 34 Grassmarket

Robert Burns
Sciennes House Place

Robert Burns
Lady Stair’s Close

Robert Chambers
1 Doune Terrace

Robert Donat
North Queensferry

Robert Garioch Sutherland
4 Nelson Street

Robert Lorimer
54 Melville Street

Robert Louis Stevenson
14 Canonmills, EH3 5LH

Robert Louis Stevenson
17 Heriot Row

Robert Louis Stevenson
8 Howard Place

Robert Louis Stevenson
7 George Square

Robert Louis Stevenson
Edinburgh

Robert Rollock
Old College, South Bridge

Robert Seton , Earl of Winton
Cannongate

Robert Sibbald
Teviot Place

Robert Stevenson
1-3 Baxter’s Place

Robert Stevenson
Edinburgh

Royal (Dick) Veterinary College
Edinburgh

Royal Medical Society
1 George IV Bridge

Royal Standard
Morningside Road

Rt Hon. Lord Henry Brougham PC FRS QC
21 St Andrew Square

Rt Hon. Lord Joseph Lister OM PC PRS
9 Charlotte Square

Rt Hon. Lord Joseph Lister OM PC PRS
Teviot Place

Russell House
Edinburgh
S

Sarah Siddons Mair
29 Abercromby Place

Scottish National War Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Scottish Parliament
Church of Scotland General Assembly Hall, Castle Hill

Sean Connery
Fountainbridge

Siegfried Sassoon
55 Baberton Avenue

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ DL
23 George Square

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ DL
15 Lonsdale Terrace

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ DL
Edinburgh

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ DL
Picardy Place

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ DL
Edinburgh Medical School

Sir Dr Robert William Philip
45 Charlotte Square

Sir Dr Robert William Philip
Bank Street

Sir Ernest Shackleton OBE CVO
14 South Learmonth Gardens

Sir Godfrey Thomson
Royal Mile

Sir Harry Lauder
3 Bridge Street, Portobello

Sir J. M. Barrie OM 1st Baronet
3 Great King Street

Sir Nigel Gresley CBE
Waverley Station

Sir Nigel Gresley CBE
32 Dublin Street

Sir Rudolf Bing
The Hub, Castlehill

Sir Walter Scott FRSE 1st Baronet
Guthrie Street

Sir Walter Scott FRSE 1st Baronet
37 Bellfield Street, Portobello

Sir Walter Scott FRSE 1st Baronet
High School Yards

Sir Walter Scott FRSE 1st Baronet
Princes Street

Sir Walter Scott FRSE 1st Baronet
25 George Square

Sir Walter Scott FRSE 1st Baronet
39 North Castle Street

Sir William Russell Flint RA PRWS
9 Rosefield Place, Portobello

Slate plaque № 30376
75 Belford Road

Slate plaque № 50321
79-80, Ladywell Avenue

Sorley MacLean
26 Viewforth

Sorley MacLean
19 George Square

South Gyle railway station
South Gyle Road

St Anne's Community Centre
Edinburgh

St. Margaret's Well
Edinburgh

Stone plaque № 50105
Dunsmuir Court

Stone plaque № 50106
219 Colinton Road

Stone plaque № 50120
1 Roseburn Cliff

Stone plaque № 51329
57 Henderson Row

Stone plaque № 56341
Edinburgh

Stone plaque № 9771
St Mary's St

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Clinton Road

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
East Morningside House

Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson
15 London Street, EH3 6LZ

Sydney Goodsir Smith
Drummond Place

Synod Hall
Castle Terrace
T

Tanfield Hall
1 Inverleith Row

Tessa Ransford
Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close

The Contour Canal
Edinburgh

Thomas Carlyle
22 Buccleuch Place

Thomas Carlyle
21 Comely Bank Road

Thomas David Anderson
21 East Claremont Street

Thomas Hamilton
Edinburgh

Thomas J. A. Henderson FRS FRSE
1 Hillside Crescent

Thomas Randolph
Edinburgh

Tobias Smollett
St John's Street

Tobias Smollett
St Johns Street
U
V
W

Walter Chepman
Blackfriars Street

Wendy Wood
former Royal High School Building, 5-7 Regent Road

Whiteford House
Edinburgh

Wilfred Owen MC
2 McLeod Street

William Alexander
Edinburgh

William Allan PRSA
72 Great King Street

William Brodie
Bank Street

William Dick
White Horse Close

William Edmonstoune Aytoun
13 Randolph Crescent

William Hay
18 Brunstane Road North

William Henry Playfair
Old College, South Bridge

William James
Old College, South Bridge

William MacTaggart
4 Drummond Place

William McEwan MP
Bristo Square

William McGonagall
5 South College Street

William Spiers Bruce
Edinburgh

William Surry
129 Leith Walk

Wong Fun
8 Buccleuch Place
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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.