With Germany, after that sad excuse of a carbon based life form, Hitler, I’d have to say Heino
*don’t hurt me.
Who’s Heino.
What about Michael Schumacher or Franz Beckenbauer?
… or Claudia Schiffer?
Um . . . or Einstein?
For what it’s worth, Einstein gets 8.38 million hits on Google, to Hitler’s 6.95 million
Ha ha.
But again, wasn’t Hitler Austrian? I suppose it depends on whether you go by country of birth or “association”.
Did we allow fictional characters? If so, surely Hercule Poirot is the most famous Belgian.
Not sure who the most famous Scottish person is.
I’d say the contenders are (in no particular order):
Sean Connery
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
John Logie Baird
Robert the Bruce
William Wallace
Robert Burns
Andrew Carnegie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
David Hume
John Knox
Adam Smith
And bizarrely enough (this surely can’t be right?)
Saint Patrick (c. 410 - c.450)
The Patron Saint of Ireland. He is said to have been born near Kirkpatrick on the River Clyde. Went to Ireland in 432.
If we’re going to be sticklers about what country a person was born in, we certainly couldn’t count George Washington or Benjamin Franklin as Americans.