Scots of the Year 2007

ICS has established the Scottish Academy of Merit as a celebration of significant individual achievement in modern Scotland. Each year, 12 distinguished men and women, Scottish-born or working in Scotland, are admitted as Fellows of the Scottish Academy of Merit and recognised as ICS's Scots of the Year. In each case, the award has been named in memory of a founder of ICS (or of its journal, the Scottish Review).
    
The 2007 Scots of the Year are:

David Tedford Award for services to science and technology
Professor Grahame Bulfield, CBE
Geneticist

Tom Wright Award for services to the arts
John Byrne
Artist and playwright

David Kelbie Award for services to justice
Rt Hon Lord Hope of Craighead, PC
Judge

John Aitkenhead Award for services to education
Professor Walter Humes
Academic and educational thinker

Alastair Hetherington Award for humanitarian service
Kaliani Lyle
Champion of race equality and ethnic minorities

Brian K Parnell Award for services to the environment
Dr Patricia Macdonald
Biologist, environmental researcher and artist-photographer

George Younger Award for services to business and economics
Rt Hon Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden, KT
Industrialist, business leader and supporter of the arts

Iain Crichton Smith Award for services to literature
William McIlvanney
Novelist and poet

James Shaw Grant Award for services to the media
Sally Magnusson
Broadcaster and journalist

James A Whyte Award for services to religion
Revd Professor Frank Whaling
Churchman, academic and supporter of inter-faith activities

George Bell Award for services to medicine
Dr Elizabeth Wilson
Physician and medical reformer

Kenneth Alexander Award for public service
Canon Kenyon Wright, CBE
Churchman influential in the movement for Scottish devolution