1933 in Scotland

Events from the year 1933 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Craigie Mason Aitchison until October; then Wilfrid Normand
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Wilfrid Normand until October; then Douglas Jamieson

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness, then Lord Aitchison
 * Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

Events

 * 2 February – East Fife by-election: The seat is retained by the National Liberal Party; Eric Linklater stands for the National Party of Scotland.
 * 3 April – Two British aircraft piloted by Squadron Leader the Marquess of Clydesdale and Flight Lieutenant David MacIntyre make the first flight over Mount Everest.
 * 30 April – First domestic flight service in Scotland, Renfrew to Campbeltown, operated by Midland & Scottish Air Ferries Ltd. Winifred Drinkwater, "the world's first female commercial pilot", is hired to fly the route.
 * 2 May – First modern "sighting" of the Loch Ness Monster.
 * 28 July – Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act 1933 receives the Royal Assent.
 * 9 August – Hoard of silver denarii and a contemporaneous fragment of tartan cloth found at Falkirk.
 * 2 November – Kilmarnock by-election: The seat is retained by the National Labour Organisation; Sir Alexander MacEwen stands for the Scottish Party with the endorsement of the National Party of Scotland.
 * Scottish Democratic Fascist Party founded by William Weir Gilmour and Major Hume Sleigh to oppose Irish Catholic emigration to Scotland.

Births

 * 11 January – Duncan Glen, poet, literary editor and Professor of Visual Communication (died 2008)
 * 4 February – Jimmy Murray, footballer (died 2015)
 * 18 February – Mary Ure, actress (died 1975 in London)
 * 7 March – Donald Douglas, actor
 * 2 April – Donald Gorrie, Liberal Democrat politician and MSP (died 2012)
 * 10 May – Harold Davis, Scottish football player, manager (died 2018)
 * 10 June – Ian Campbell, folk singer (died 2012)
 * 30 June – Dave Duncan, fantasy and science fiction writer, resident in Canada (died 2018 in Canada)
 * 13 July – Patricia Leitch writer, best known for children's books (died 2015)
 * 12 August – Frederic Lindsay, writer of crime fiction (died 2013)
 * 12 September – Felix Reilly, footballer (died 2018)
 * 19 September – David McCallum, actor (died 2023 in the United States)
 * 11 November – Alexander Goudie, painter (died 2004)
 * 26 November – Richard Holloway, Bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church
 * 19 December – Christopher Smout academic, historian, author and Historiographer Royal in Scotland
 * 24 December – Nicholas Fairbairn, lawyer and Conservative politician (died 1995)
 * 30 December – Andy Stewart, singer (died 1993)
 * Michael Deacon, actor (died 2000 in London)
 * Alan Watson, legal scholar (died 2018)

Deaths

 * 10 January – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, artist and designer (born 1864)
 * 16 February - George Beatson, physician, pioneer in the field of oncology (born 1848 in Trincomalee)
 * 16 February - Dorothy Carleton Smyth, artist and designer (born 1880)
 * 4 May - Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, architect (born 1848)
 * 30 June – Edward Atkinson Hornel, painter (born 1864 in Australia)
 * 25 July – John May, international footballer (born 1878)
 * 31 July – Robert Fleming, financier (born 1845)
 * 30 December – Dugald Cowan, educationalist and Liberal politician (born 1865)
 * Janet Milne Rae, novelist (born 1844)

The arts

 * May – the first radio play in Gaelic, Dunach, is broadcast by the BBC.
 * The Curtain Theatre (Glasgow) presents its first season.
 * Erik Chisholm composes his Straloch Suite.
 * Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes An Historical Survey of Scottish Literature to 1714.
 * Nan Shepherd publishes her last novel A Pass in the Grampians.