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The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (or SPOTY) was first held in 1954 when around 14,500 voters decided to crown Christopher Chataway over fellow runner Roger Bannister.
Since then the winners read like a roll call of British sporting greats, with the likes of Mo Farah, Ian Botham, Nick Faldo, Steve Redgrave, Lewis Hamilton, Kelly Holmes and David Beckham all lifting the trophy.
This year will see darts player Luke Littler, Olympians Keely Hodgkinson and Alex Lee, footballer Jude Bellingham, cricketer Joe Root and Paralympian Sarah Storey contest the title by way of public vote.
Over the year’s several Scottish sporting stars have features in the ceremony, with 13 having been in the top three - and five of them winning the title at least once.
Here are all of them, starting with the earliest.
13. Eve Muirhead
It's not often that curlers take the spotlight, but skipping Team GB to a gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was enough to see her come third in the SPOTY award in the same year, behind footballer Beth Mead and cricketer Ben Stokes. | Getty Images