Events from the year 1903 in Scotland.
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- 15 January – Hugh Fraser, retailer (died 1966)
- 3 February – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, peer and pioneering aviator, chief pilot of the first flight over Mount Everest in 1933 (born in London; died 1973)
- 15 March – Charles Donaldson, Conservative politician (died 1964)
- 9 April – Marion Ross, physicist (died 1994)[10]
- 23 April – Ian Collins, tennis player, representing Great Britain in the Davis Cup (died 1975)
- 24 April – Joseph Macleod, poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC newsreader (born in London; died 1984)
- 15 May – William MacTaggart, painter, known for his landscapes of East Lothian, France, Norway and elsewhere (died 1981)
- 17 June – William Vallance Douglas Hodge, mathematician, specifically a geometer (died 1975)
- 2 July – Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, British Conservative politician, Prime Minister from October 1963 to October 1964 (born in London; died 1995)
- 3 July – David Webster, arts administrator (died 1971 in England)
- 28 July – Keith Murray, academic and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford (died 1993)
- 9 August – Emil Fischbacher, Protestant Christian missionary to Xinjiang, with the China Inland Mission (died 1933)
- 5 September – Harry Harvey Wood, literary and artistic figure, a founder of the Edinburgh International Festival (died 1977)
- 31 October – Ian Smith, international rugby player (died 1972)
- 19 December – Andrew Murray, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1947 to 1951 (died 1977)
- 29 December – George Elrick, bandleader and disc jockey (died 1999)
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Nicolson, Murdoch; O'Neill, Mark (1987). Glasgow: Locomotive Builder to the World. Edinburgh: Polygon. ISBN 0-948275-46-4.
"Mr. Carnegie And Dunfermline". The Times. No. 37153. London. 7 August 1903. p. 10.