List of people from Glasgow

This list covers famous or notable people or groups who were born or raised in Glasgow, Scotland or have been connected with it.

Arts Architecture David Hamilton (17681843), architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (18681928), architect and designer Alexander "Greek" Thomson (18171875), architect

Film Bill Forsyth (born 1946), film director May Miles Thomas (born 1959), screenwriter, filmmaker Chris Quick (born 1988), independent filmmaker and director of Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance

Journalism Lawrence Donegan – journalist Ross Finlay – motoring journalist, travel writer and broadcaster Johann Hari – journalist Jack House – journalist, writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr – journalist, writer and television presenter Jack Webster – journalist

Literature Freddie Anderson – socialist playwright and poet originally from Ireland James Bridie – playwright Catherine Carswell – novelist and biographer of the Scottish Renaissance A. J. Cronin – doctor and novelist Ivor Cutler – poet, songwriter, humourist Lavinia Derwent – children's writer Alasdair Gray – artist, novelist and essayist Pearse Hutchinson – poet James Kelman – novelist Tom Leonard – poet Liz Lochhead – poet and playwright Peter May – crime writer Edwin Morgan – poet and translator Grant Morrison – comic book author Tony Roper – actor, television writer, author Suhayl Saadi – physician, novelist, playwright, anthologist; co-editor of A Fictional Guide to Scotland J David Simons – author Alan Spence – novelist and poet Douglas Stuart – novelist Nigel Tranter – historical novelist

Performing arts Moyo Akandé – actress John Barrowman – singer and actor (The Producers, Torchwood)Torchwood star's civil ceremony BBC News, 27 December 2006. Retrieved 19 August 2008. Sean Biggerstaff – actor (Harry Potter) Billy Boyd – actor (The Lord of the Rings) Frankie Boyle – comedian Kevin Bridges – comedian John Cairney – actor Peter Capaldi – actor (The Thick of It, In the Loop, Doctor Who) Robert Carlyle – actor (Trainspotting, The World Is Not Enough) Lawrence Chaney – drag queen and winner of the second series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK Morven Christie – actress Robbie Coltrane – actor (Harry Potter, Cracker) Billy Connolly – comedian (The Man Who Sued God) Kate Copstick – actress and director Tony Curran – actor Iain De Caestecker – actor (The Fades, Young James Herriot, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Karen Dunbar – comedian and actress Craig Ferguson – actor and writer Gregor Fisher – comedian Laura Fraser – actress Rikki Fulton – comedian Michelle Gomez – actress (Doctor Who, Green Wing) Greg Hemphill – actor Olaf Hytten – actor Ford Kiernan – actor Mark Knopfler – Musician, songwriter, soundtrack writer, guitarist Gary Lewis – actor Brian Limond – comedian and actor Marie Loftus – music hall entertainer Kelly Macdonald – actress (Trainspotting, Boardwalk Empire) Angus Macfadyen – actor Freya Mavor – actress (Skins) James McAvoy – actor David McCallum – actor, first noted for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin Rory McCann – actor Jane McCarry – actress Joe McFadden – actor (Holby City, Heartbeat) Des McLean – comedian and actor Graham McTavish – actor Alec Newman – actor David O'Hara – actor Daniel Portman – actor Richard Rankin – actor Maurice Roëves – actor Jerry Sadowitz – comedian John Gordon Sinclair – actor Dawn Steele – actress Brian Vernel – actor Susan Calman – comedian and actor Jonathan Watson – actor

Visual arts Jacqueline Donachie – artist Hannah Frank – artist and sculptor John Glashan – cartoonist Clare Hunter, writer and artist Lucy McKenzie – artist Bud Neill – cartoonist (Lobey Dosser) Cordelia Oliver – artist, writer and art critic Frank Quitely – comic book artist Joseph Urie – artist

Business William Beardmore – Beardmores, Parkhead Forge, Arrol-Johnston motor company George Bogle of Daldowie – wealthy tobacco merchant Sir William Burrell – shipping magnate and philanthropist Catherine Cranston – tearoom proprietor William Cunninghame – tobacco merchant John Glassford – wealthy tobacco merchant, partner in Thistle Bank Sir Thomas Lipton – entrepreneur, Lipton Tea Norman Macfarlane, Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden – entrepreneur James McAlpin – merchant tailor James McGill – businessman and philanthropist Robert Napier – co-founder of Cunard Line Reo Stakis – entrepreneur Charles Tennant – St. Rollox Chemicals Works

Civic Founder Saint Mungo – traditional founder of the city

Campaigners Janie Allan – suffrage activist Mary Barbour – rent strikes activist Ian Dunn – gay and paedophile rights activist Deborah Knox Livingston – temperance and suffrage activist

Crime and punishment Ian Brady – violent criminal Archibald Hall – murderer Allan Pinkerton – detective Edward William Pritchard – murderer who was publicly executed in Glasgow and was the last person to be publicly executed in Scotland

Law Madge Easton Anderson – lawyer

Provosts

George Elphinstone (died 1634) – Lord Provost and courtier

Education Mary Ellen Bews – New Zealand school principal and educationalist, born in Glasgow Mary Cranston Mason (1846–1932) – social reformer, temperance leader, Glasgow school board member

Humanities David Stow Adam – theologian C. A. Campbell – metaphysical philosopher William Purdie Dickson – scholar Niall Ferguson – historian and writer William MacAskill – philosopher and ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre – philosopher

Fictional figures Scrooge McDuck – fictional multi-billionaire cartoon duck"A council spokeswoman said some light-hearted research led to the discovery that he was from Glasgow... made in a US comic called The Life And Times of Scrooge McDuck, published in 1996.... [Scrooge McDuck] maintained the link to his Caledonian roots by buying a castle on Dismal Downs near Rannoch Moor – which was described as 'as desolate a piece o' real estate as ye'll find anywhere in Scotland'." Desmond Hume – fictional character in the TV series Lost.

Military William Anderson – recipient of the Victoria Cross Andrew Bogle – recipient of the Victoria Cross Robert Downie – recipient of the Victoria Cross Francis Farquharson – recipient of the Victoria Cross Herbert Henderson – recipient of the Victoria Cross John Knox – recipient of the Victoria Cross Donald MacKintosh – recipient of the Victoria Cross Henry May – recipient of the Victoria Cross John McAulay – recipient of the Victoria Cross John McDermond – recipient of the Victoria Cross Hugh McInnes – recipient of the Victoria Cross James Miller – recipient of the Victoria Cross Sir John Moore – British military officer James Park – recipient of the Victoria Cross Harry Ranken – recipient of the Victoria Cross William Reid – recipient of the Victoria Cross Walter Ritchie – recipient of the Victoria Cross George Rodgers – recipient of the Victoria Cross John Skinner – recipient of the Victoria Cross James Stokes – recipient of the Victoria Cross James Turnbull – recipient of the Victoria Cross William Young – recipient of the Victoria Cross

Musicians and bands

Politics Bashir Ahmad – first Asian MSP Mhairi Black – youngest Member of Parliament (MP) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom since at the Reform Act 1832 Sir Menzies Campbell – Leader of the Liberal Democrats (2006–2007) Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Roseanna Cunningham – Scottish National Party MP, MSP Donald Dewar – Secretary of State for Scotland, First Minister Pearse Doherty – Sinn Féin politician Winnie Ewing – Scottish National Party MP, MEP and MSP Margaret Ferrier – Scottish National Party MP George Galloway – MP for Glasgow Hillhead (1987–97) and Glasgow Kelvin (1997–2005) Nigel Griffiths – Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South Arthur Henderson – Chairman of the Labour Party Bonar Law – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John MacCormick – Scottish National Party Sir John A. Macdonald – first Prime Minister of Canada John Maclean – Socialist Michael Martin – Speaker of the House of Commons James Maxton – Independent Labour Party MP Tommy Sheridan – Scottish Socialist Party MSP Manny Shinwell – Labour MP Nicola Sturgeon – Scottish First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (2014–2023) Gordon Wilson - MP for Dundee East (1974-1987) and leader of the Scottish National Party (1979-1990) Humza Yousaf – Scottish First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party

Religion Sohaib Saeed – Islamic scholar, academic and chaplain

Sports

Athletics Angela Bridgeman – sprinter

Baseball Mac MacArthur – Major League Baseball player Jim McCormick – baseball player Bobby Thomson – baseball player

Boxing Scott Harrison – boxer Benny Lynch – boxer Jim Watt – boxer

Cricket James Stewart Carrick (1855–1923) – first-class cricketer William Foster (born 1934) – first-class cricketer David Livingstone (1927–2011) – international cricketer for Scotland

Cycling Philippa York – cyclist

Football

Eddie Austin – forward Jen Beattie – defender Ralph Black – defender Tom Boyd – defender Jim Craig – defender and manager Graeme Churchill – striker Paddy Crerand – midfielder, manager, and sports commentator Sir Kenny Dalglish – forward and manager Tommy Docherty – midfielder and manager Sir Alex Ferguson – forward and manager Alexander Watson Hutton – teacher and founder of the Argentine Football Association Mo Johnston – forward Ruesha Littlejohn – forward and midfielder Ross McCormack – striker James McFadden – forward Frank McGarvey – forward Danny McGrain – defender and manager Jimmy McGrory – forward and manager Andrew Robertson – defender Peter Sermanni – midfielder Robert Snodgrass – midfielder and forward Jock Stein – defender and manager David Templeton – forward John Wark – midfielder

Golf Ewen Ferguson – professional golfer Kylie Henry – professional golfer Martin Laird – professional golfer Colin Montgomerie – professional golfer Janice Moodie – professional golfer Edith Orr – amateur golfer

Ice hockey Andy Aitkenhead – ice hockey player Gordie Clark – ice hockey player James Foster – ice hockey player Alex Gray – ice hockey player Frank Jardine – ice hockey player Colin Shields – ice hockey player Steve Smith – ice hockey player

Rugby union Adam Ashe – rugby union player and coach Johnnie Beattie – rugby union player Magnus Bradbury – rugby union player Alan Bulloch – rugby union player Gordon Bulloch – rugby union player Thomas Chalmers – rugby union player Rory Hughes – rugby union player James Malcolm – rugby union player Duncan Weir – rugby union player Jon Welsh – rugby union player

Snooker Marcus Campbell – professional snooker player Stephen Maguire – professional snooker player Anthony McGill – professional snooker player Alan McManus – professional snooker player

Swimming Michael Jamieson – swimmer Duncan Scott – swimmer

Tennis Sir Andy Murray – Olympic tennis player Jamie Murray, professional tennis player

Wrestling Nikki Cross – professional wrestler Joe Coffey – professional wrestler Mark Coffey – professional wrestler Wolfgang – professional wrestler Isla Dawn – professional wrestler

Science and engineering June Almeida – virologist Joseph Black – physicist and chemist Phillip Clancey – ornithologist Thomas Hopkirk – botanist Ronald David Laing – psychiatrist Elizabeth Janet MacGregor – medical doctor David Napier – marine engineer Robert Napier – marine engineer, co-founder of Cunard Line James Beaumont Neilson – inventor Sir William Ramsay – chemist Kathleen Rutherford – doctor, philanthropist, humanitarian aid worker, peace campaigner, born in Glasgow. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin – mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer James Watt – engineer Nora Wattie – public health pioneer John Scott Russell – naval engineer Charles Macintosh – inventor William Wright Virtue – engineer

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