Events from the year 1943 in Scotland.
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- 23 January – Ernie Hannigan, footballer (died 2015 in Australia)
- 31 January – Peter McRobbie, screen actor in the United States
- 18 February – Graeme Garden, author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, one of The Goodies
- 1 March – Witold Rybczynski, Canadian American architect, born in Edinburgh
- 3 April – John Hughes, footballer (died 2022))
- 16 April – Morris Stevenson, footballer (died 2014)
- 19 April – Margo MacDonald, politician (died 2014)[8]
- 1 May – Ian Dunn, gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the Scottish Minorities Group (died 1998)[9]
- 5 May – Kay Ullrich, politician (died 2021)
- 10 May – Jack Bruce, rock musician (died 2014)
- 22 June – J. Michael Kosterlitz, Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- 16 July – Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins, comedy writer
- 18 July – Robin MacDonald, pop guitarist (died 2015)
- 20 August – Sylvester McCoy, born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith, actor
- 16 October – Tommy Gemmell, footballer (died 2017)
- 24 November – Robin Williamson, acoustic musician
- 28 November – George T. Miller, film director (died 2023 in Australia)
- Alan Bold, poet and biographer (died 1998)
- G. C. Peden, historian
- D. R. Thorpe, biographer