Events from the year 1876 in Scotland.
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- 23 March – Muirhead Bone, etcher (died 1953)
- 13 April – Robert Smyth McColl, footballer and retail store founder (died 1959)
- 19 June – Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer (died 1941)
- 6 September – John James Rickard Macleod, physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
- 3 October – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (died 1967)
- 22 October – Cecilia Loftus, born Marie Cecilia Loftus Brown, actress in music hall and legitimate theatre (died 1943 in the United States)
- 4 November – Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, soldier and Chief of the Name (died 1951)
- 7 November – Alex Smith, international footballer (died 1954)
- 17 December – Archibald Main, ecclesiastical historian (died 1947)
- 18 December – Henry Wade, surgeon (died 1955)
- Joseph Lee, poet and journalist (died 1949)
Thomas, John (1971). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Volume VI Scotland: The Lowlands and the Borders (1st ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5408-6.