1930 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – William Adamson

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Craigie Mason Aitchison
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John Charles Watson

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

Events

• 10 April – Shetland ferry runs aground on Mousa and is lost.
• 30 April – first section of the 132kV AC National Grid, the Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, is switched on in Edinburgh.
• 16 May – Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 comes into effect. Parish councils and Commissioners of Supply are dissolved and other local government units reconstituted, merged or abolished. In policy matters, the counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire, and of Moray and Nairnshire, are to act jointly.
• 11 June – transatlantic liner RMS Empress of Britain is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company.
• 8 July – first official demonstration of the Bennie Railplane at Milngavie.
• 29 August – remaining inhabitants of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago are voluntarily evacuated to Morvern on the mainland. Boreray sheep are left to become feral animals.
• Formation of the Scottish Party by members of the Unionist Party favouring establishment of a Dominion Scottish Parliament.
• Rosemary Bank is discovered approximately 120 km west of Scotland by survey vessel HMS Rosemary.
• Dysart, Fife, amalgamated into Kirkcaldy.

Births

• 4 January – Iain Cuthbertson, actor
• 27 January – John Higgins, footballer
• 16 February – John Cairney, actor
• 3 March – John Howard Wilson, rugby union player
• 5 March – Isla Cameron, actress and folk singer
• 10 March – Jimmie Macgregor, folk singer
• 18 April – Angus Lennie, actor
• 1 May – Una McLean, actress
• 4 May – Lois de Banzie, actress
• 10 June – Hastie Weir, goalkeeper
• 26 June – Jimmy Deuchar, jazz trumpeter
• 3 July – Robert Robertson, actor
• 7 July – Hamish MacInnes, mountaineer, mountain search and rescuer, author and advisor
• 8 July – Bob Crampsey, historian, author and broadcaster
• 9 July – Richard Demarco artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts
• 25 July – Annie Ross, born Annabelle Allan Short, jazz singer
• 27 July – Andy White, session drummer
• 12 August – Stan Greig, pianist, drummer and bandleader
• 21 August – Princess Margaret
• 25 August – Sean Connery, film actor
• 13 November – Helena Carroll, actress
• 13 November – Adrienne Corri, actress
• 4 December – Ronnie Corbett, comic actor
• Mardi Barrie, artist and teacher,
• James Kennedy, security guard, posthumously awarded the George Cross

Deaths

• 8 January – Hughie Ferguson, footballer, by suicide
• 24 March – Henry Faulds, physician, missionary and scientist noted for the development of fingerprinting
• 30 March – James Hoey Craigie, architect,
• 28 April – Murdoch Cameron, Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow from 1894 to 1926
• 12 May – John Wheatley, socialist politician
• 7 July – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, in England
• 6 September – James Guthrie, painter
• 13 October – Sydney Mitchell, architect
• 22 November – Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, singer, composer and music teacher
• 4 December – Thomas Ross, architect
• 19 December – William Crozier, landscape painter
• 22 December – Neil Munro, writer

The arts

• 11 September – English detective fiction writer Agatha Christie marries her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, in Edinburgh.
• Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns is published, attracting criticism for its frank portrayal of the poet's life.
• Erik Chisholm's Piano Concerto No. 1, Piobaireachd, is composed.
• Nan Shepherd's novel The Weatherhouse is published.
• Hugh MacDiarmid's To Circumjack Cencrastus is published.