The former county town, after which it is named, had been Berwick-upon-Tweed - but the royal burgh changed hands when it was lost by Scotland to England in 1482, subsequently becoming part of the county of Northumberland, in England.
Coldstream railway station served the town of Coldstream in Berwickshire, Scotland although the station was across the River Tweed in Northumberland, England.
General Francis Dundas (c.1759, Sanson, Berwickshire – 15 January 1824, Dumbarton, Scotland was a British general and acting governor of the Cape Colony between 1798 and 1803.
Grandfather Thomas is shown in 1891 census to have been born in Whitsome, Berwickshire around 1835.
Geoffrey is noted as the sacrist of Coldingham Priory in Berwickshire on three 14th-century manuscripts of his chronicle.
Born in Berwickshire, Scotland, Gillie moved to the United States with his parents, who settled in Kankakee, Illinois, in 1882 and in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1884.
In the early 1880s he painted the rocky coastal scenes of Berwickshire whilst he was living in Coldingham.
Edgar, the fourth son of the Rev. John Edgar of Hutton, Berwickshire, was born in 1834.
Pearlin Jean is the name given to a ghost, who purportedly haunts the Allanbank Courtyard, situated in Allanton, Berwickshire, Scotland.
The latter estate, which he named Bassendean after the Berwickshire residence of an ancestor, is now the suburb of Bassendean.
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His father being Thomas Logan, Abraham Logan was born in Hattan Hall, Berwickshire, Scotland.
Scion of the ancient Borders family of Nisbet of Nisbet House, near Duns, Berwickshire, Alexander Nisbet was a grandson of Adam Nisbet, an Edinburgh lawyer.
In 1573 he was made a Privy Councillor and Sheriff of Berwickshire; in 1574 Lieutenant-General in Scotland; in 1577 Warden of the West Marches and Steward of Fife; and in 1578 Lieutenant-General of the realm.
The surname Nesbitt is derived from the barony and lands near Edrom in Berwickshire.
Eventually, in about 672, Æthelthryth persuaded Ecgfrith to allow her to become a nun, and “she entered the monastery of the Abbess Æbbe, who was aunt to King Ecgfrith, at the place called the city of Coludi (Coldingham, Berwickshire), having received the veil of the religious habit from the hands of the aforesaid Bishop Wilfrid”.
Colonel Palmer married, May 6, 1950, in Duns, Lorna Eveline Hope, daughter of Charles William Hugh Bailie, of Manderston, Berwickshire, by which marriage the Palmer family came into possession of Manderston.
Hutton Castle, also known as Hutton Hall, a castle in Berwickshire, Scotland
On 16 November 1958, Nyon was on a voyage from Leith, Midlothian to Dakar, Senegal when she ran aground at St. Abbs Head, Berwickshire.
He was nephew to George Tate (1805–1871), naturalist and archaeologist, an active member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club.
Stuart Herriot (25 April 1812, Swinton & Simprim, Berwickshire – 21 February 1885 in Penang, Malaysia) was a British born trader based in Penang since the 1830s.