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Alexander Bayne of Rires, Fife, was admitted as an Advocate on 10 July 1714. In January 1722 he was appointed Curator of the Advocates' Library, and in November 1722 he was elected as the first occupant of the Chair of Scots Law at Edinburgh University although he had been engaged in lecturing privately on the law of Scotland before he was made Professor. His publications include an edition of Sir Thomas Hope's Minor practicks (1726) to which was appended the Discourse on the rise and progress of the law of Scotland and the method of studying it, and Institutions of the criminal law of Scotland (1730). Professor Alexander Bayne died in June 1737. One of his daughters became the first wife of Allan Ramsay (1713-1784) the painter.

Baptised at Cupar on 20 May 1667 and succeeded his father as Sheriff Clerk of Fife, He acquired the lands of Logie c, 1692 and married on 29 March 1684 to Cecil Gibson.

John George Bartholomew FRSE FRGS (22 March 1860 – 14 April 1920) was a Scottish cartographer and geographer. As a holder of a royal warrant, he used the title "Cartographer to the King"; for this reason he was sometimes known by the epithet "the Prince of Cartography".

Bartholomew's longest lasting legacy is arguably naming the continent of Antarctica, which until his use of the term in 1890 had been largely ignored due to its lack of resources and harsh climate.

George Barker, who was born in Leicester in 1812, was a London based composer. He was highly successful as a writer of ballads, the most popular of which included 'White Squall' and 'The Irish Emigrant'. Barker also composed the music for 'Yon Tower on the Abbey Craig High' which was written for the opening of the Wallace Monument in 1869. He died in 1876.

School and college councils were appointed by each regional or islands council education authority, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65), to manage the schools or educational establishments in their area. The members of the council included pupils, parents, teachers and suitable representatives from the local community.

Bannockburn Public School was in operation between 1873 and 1965. Bannockburn Primary School was built in 1965 with an extension to the main building completed in November 1993.

Following on from the Free Church's union with the United Presbyterian Church in 1900, Bannockburn United Free Kirk Session was established. The congregation remained in the Ladywell Church on Main Street and united with the Church of Scotland in 1929 to form Bannockburn Ladywell Kirk Session.

When the United Free Church united with the Church of Scotland in 1929, Bannockburn Ladywell Kirk Session was formed.

For a time in the early 1940s, the congregation was forced to worship in Bannockburn School due to a fire that caused damage to the church, the church reopened in September of 1941. The current Bannockburn Ladywell church replaced the Main Street premises in 1957 in order to accommodate a newly built housing area, Hillpark, and is in full ecclesiastical use.

It was in the Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane but is now a part of the Presbytery of Stirling.

Bannockburn Junior Secondary School opened on 22nd November 1956. The new building cost £250,000. Bannockburn High School was brought into use on Wednesday 15th August 1979.

Bannockburn High School was brought into use on Wednesday 15th August 1979 replacing Bannockburn Junior Secondary School.