Events from the year 1850 in Scotland.
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- 4 February – Thomas Lomar Gray, seismologist (died 1908 in the United States)
- 24 April – Murdo MacKenzie, businessman (died 1939 in the United States)
- 30 April – George Gibb, transport administrator (died 1925 in London)
- 12 May – Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, jurist, landowner, industrialist and Unionist politician (died 1934 in London)[2]
- 27 May – Thomas Neill Cream, the "Lambeth Poisoner", serial killer (hanged 1897 in London)
- 14 June – Eliza Humphreys, née Gollan (pen name 'Rita'), novelist (died 1938 in England)
- 13 August – Peter Drummond, steam locomotive engineer (died 1918)
- 22 August – William Morrison, chemist, creator of an electric carriage (died 1927 in the United States)
- 13 November – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (died 1894 in Samoa)
- 11 December – Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, married into European nobility (died 1922 in Budapest)