Events from the year 1740 in Scotland.
- 28 March (bapt.) – James Small, inventor (died 1793)
- 15 July – Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton (died 1819)
- 29 October – James Boswell, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson (died 1795)
- James Cannon, mathematician and a principal draftsman of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (died in 1782 in the United States)
- William Davidson, settler, lumberman, shipbuilder and politician in New Brunswick (died 1790 in Canada)
- William Smellie, master printer, naturalist, antiquary, editor and encyclopedist (died 1795)
- Christopher Wyvill, cleric, landowner and political reformer in England (died 1822)
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