1927 in Scotland

Events from the year 1927 in Scotland.

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28â30 January â gale-force winds batter the British Isles, with a gust of 90 kn (100 mph; 170 km/h) recorded in Paisley and 23 killed.^[1]
23 March â Leith by-election: Liberals hold seat.
16 April â the Scottish Cup Final is broadcast live on radio for the first time. Celtic F.C. beat East Fife 3â1.^[2]
12 July â official opening in Glasgow of the new Kelvin Hall exhibition venue and George V Bridge.^[3]
14 July â the Scottish National War Memorial is opened at Edinburgh Castle (architect: Robert Lorimer).
26 September â David MacBrayne's paddle steamer Grenadier (1885) catches fire and sinks at her overnight mooring in Oban with the loss of three crew.^[2]
October â a school of pilot whales runs aground in the bay between Bonar Bridge and Ardgay.^[4]
Undated
- The Gillespie, Kidd & Coia architectural practice in Glasgow assumes this name.
- Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association formed.
- The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary, revised edition.

24 January â Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, clan chief (died 2007)
16 February â Pearse Hutchinson, poet, broadcaster and translator (died 2012 in Ireland)
23 February â Willie Ormond, international footballer and manager (died 1984)
27 February â Jimmy Halliday, Scottish National Party leader (died 2013)
5 March â Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, politician (died 2023)
5 April â Colin Young, film educator (died 2021)
6 April â Nancy Riach, swimmer (died at 1947 European Aquatics Championships in Monte Carlo)
12 April â Patrick Meehan, criminal, victim of a miscarriage of justice (died 1994 in Swansea)
23 June â Kenneth McKellar, tenor (died 2010)
29 June â Tom Fleming, actor, director, poet and broadcast commentator (died 2010)
2 July â James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1 October â Sandy Gall, television journalist (born in Penang) (died 2025)
5 October â Bruce Millan, Labour Secretary of State for Scotland (died 2013)
7 October â R. D. Laing, psychiatrist (died 1989 in Saint-Tropez)
10 October â Thomas Wilson, composer (died 2001)
31 October â Charles Cameron, bizarre magician (died 2001)
7 November â Melissa Stribling, film and television actress (died 1992 in Watford)
27 November â Arnold Clark, businessman (died 2017)
24 December â John Glashan, born McGlashan, cartoonist (died 1999)
Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, conservation architect (died 2023)

16 January â Haldane Burgess historian, poet, novelist, violinist, linguist and socialist, a noted figure in Shetland's cultural history (born 1862)^[5]
16 March â Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet, civil servant, writer and Unionist politician (born 1846; died in London)
17 March â James Scott Skinner, dancing master, fiddler and composer (born 1843)
26 June â Thomas P. Marwick, architect (born 1854)
8 July â Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll, soldier and Conservative politician (born 1852)
21 July â William Campbell, Lord Skerrington, judge (born 1855)
September â John George Govan businessman and evangelist, founder of The Faith Mission in 1886 (born 1861)
10 November â James Thomson, City Engineer, City Architect and Housing Director of Dundee (born 1852)

15 September â Green's Playhouse opens in Glasgow, the largest cinema in Europe at this date.^[6]
Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, showing the effect of the General Strike on the Fife coal mining community, is first performed; and his The Image o' God and Other Poems is published.
Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland formed.