1945 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George VI
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Tom Johnston until 23 May; then The Earl of Rosebery until 26 July; then vacant until 3 August; then Joseph Westwood

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Reid until August; then George Reid Thomson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray until September; then Daniel Blades

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cooper
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

  Events

• March – Bruce Report published, proposing massive regeneration and rebuilding in central Glasgow.
• 13 April – the Motherwell by-election results in the first Scottish National Party Member of Parliament, Robert McIntyre, being elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom after taking the seat from Labour.
• 14 April – German submarine U-1206 sinks off Peterhead.
• 7 May – at 23:00 the is torpedoed and sunk by off the Firth of Forth with two killed, the last British-flagged merchant ship lost to German action.
• 8 May – V-E Day is celebrated throughout the U.K.
• 10 May – German U-boats begin to surrender at Loch Eriboll.
• 12 May – official inauguration of Churchill Barriers on Orkney.
• 20 May – 30 surrendered German U-boats are escorted into Kyle of Lochalsh from Loch Eriboll for onward movement to Londonderry Port.
• 30 May–6 June – 64 surrendered German U-boats from Norway are processed at Scapa Flow for onward movement to Londonderry Port or Cairnryan. Until 30 June, U-boats are escorted directly to these ports from Norway and Germany via the Pentland Firth.
• 13 June – a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, returning from Prestwick to the United States, crashes over the Fairy Lochs with the loss of all 15 on board.
• 26 July – results of 1945 United Kingdom general election, declared. In Scotland, as throughout the U.K., Labour have a majority of the seats with an 11% swing in their favour, and regain the Motherwell seat. Ernest Brown, leader of the National Liberal Party, loses his seat at Leith to Labour and Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of the U.K. Liberal Party, comes third in the poll at Caithness and Sutherland.
• 14 August – George Reid Thomson installed as Lord Advocate, replacing James Reid
• 15 August – V-J Day is celebrated throughout the U.K.
• December – Alexander Fleming shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

  Births

• 6 January – Martin O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Clackmannan, politician
• 5 February – Joe Fascione, footballer
• 7 February – Ian Jack, journalist
• 19 February – Jon Whiteley, child actor and art historian
• 24 March – Alexander Morton, actor
• 21 April – Alasdair Morgan, politician
• 24 April – Graeme Catto, physician and academic
• 12 May – Jimmy Ryan, footballer
• 3 June – Bill Paterson, actor
• 4 June – Gordon Waller, singer-songwriter
• 10 June – Benny Gallagher, singer-songwriter
• 28 June – Ken Buchanan, undisputed world lightweight boxing champion
• 3 July – Michael Martin, Speaker of the House of Commons
• 19 July – Richard Henderson, molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 30 July – Tom Devine, historian
• 1 August – David Anderson, actor, playwright and jazz musician
• 7 August – Kenny Ireland, actor and theatre director
• 5 September – Al Stewart, folk rock singer-songwriter
• 18 September – John McAfee, computer programmer
• 18 October – Sam Galbraith, brain surgeon, Labour MP and MSP and long-term lung transplantation survivor
• 19 October – Angus Deaton, economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• 27 October – John Kane, actor and writer
• 27 October – Andrew McCulloch, television writer and actor
• 23 November – Dennis Nilsen, serial killer
• 7 December – Clive Russell, actor

  Deaths

• 21 February – Eric Liddell, athlete, international rugby union player and missionary
• 13 March – Andrew Wilson, international footballer
• 20 March – Dorothy Campbell, golfer
• 31 March – G. Topham Forrest, architect, chief architect for the London County Council
• 20 April – Kenneth Mackenzie, bishop of Argyll and The Isles
• 26 May – Robert MacKenzie, rugby union player
• 31 May – Lachlan Grant, physician
• 16 September – Sir David Young Cameron, painter
• 4 October – John Guthrie Tait, educator, principal of the Central College of Bangalore, and sportsman
• 30 October – Atholl MacGregor, colonial judge
• George Johnston, engineer, constructor of Scotland's first automobile

  The arts

• 11 September – the Citizens Theatre opens in Glasgow under this name.
• Ena Lamont Stewart's play Starched Aprons is premiered by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.

  Sport

• Stirling Albion F.C. established.