1975 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Ronald King Murray
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John McCluskey

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Emslie
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Wheatley
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay

  Events

• January – Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor begins to feed electric power to the National Grid.
• 5 May – the Scottish Daily News begins publication in Glasgow. It is Britain's first worker-controlled, mass-circulation daily, formed as a workers' cooperative by 500 staff made redundant when the Scottish Daily Express closed its printing operations in Scotland and moved to Manchester.
• 16 May – local government in Scotland reorganised under terms of the Local Government Act 1973: counties, large burghs and small burghs and existing districts are completely abolished and replaced by a uniform two-tier system of regional and district councils. The districts of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow are accorded city status in the United Kingdom; Elgin and Perth lose this status. County, burgh and amalgamated constabularies are merged into eight regional police forces.
• 11 June – the first North Sea oil is pumped ashore at the Sullom Voe Terminal in Shetland.
• 24 September – Currie-born climber Dougal Haston and Englishman Doug Scott become the first British people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, via the previously unclimbed south-west face.
• 3 November – a petroleum pipeline from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth Refinery is formally opened by the Queen.
• 8 November – the Scottish Daily News ceases publication.
• December
• * Ballachulish Bridge is opened in the West Highlands, replacing a ferry.
• * First production from the Auk oilfield in the North Sea.
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• * Reintroduction of the white-tailed eagle to the Isle of Rùm begins.
• * John Watson's Institution in Edinburgh closes

  Births

• 18 May – John Higgins, snooker player
• 23 June – KT Tunstall, born Kate V. Tunstall, rock singer-songwriter
• 9 October – Joe McFadden, actor
• 12 November – Katherine Grainger, rower
• 15 December – Ayesha Hazarika, comedian and political commentator
• Zoë Strachan, novelist

  Deaths

• 15 January – Sydney Goodsir Smith, Lallans poet
• 2 March – Helen Cruickshank, poet, suffragette and nationalist
• 5 March – George Friel, novelist
• 13 March – Jeannie Robertson, folk singer
• 28 March – Abe Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist
• 3 April – Mary Ure, actress
• 8 June – Douglas Guthrie, otolaryngologist and medical historian
• 21 June – Sir Robert Matthew, modernist architect
• 20 July – Fionn MacColla, novelist

  The arts

• John Quigley's historical novel King's Royal is published.