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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.
5. David Wilkie
Swimmer David Wilkie claimed third place in two successiver years, in 1975 and 1976. He is the only person to have held British, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time, and took gold in the Olympic 200m breaststroke in 1976. | Getty Images
6. Kenny Dalglish
Helping Liverpool to the league and FA Cup double in 1986 was enough to see 'King' Kenny Dalglish to third place in the same year's Sports Personality of the Year Award. | Hulton Archive
7. Sandy Lyle
Scottish golfer Sandy Lyle probably didn't mind coming third behind snooker player Steve Davis and swimmer Adrian Moorhouse in 1988, given he triumphed at the US Masters that year. It was the second major title of his career, following the 1985 Open. | Getty Images
8. Stephen Hendry
Nobody was beating footballer Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne to the title in 1990, but Scottish snooker ace Stephen Hendry ran him close, coming second. It was the year in which he won his first World Championship, aged 21 years and 106 days, making him the sport's youngest ever champ. | Getty Images