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
  • Nigel Tranter – historical novelist

Performing arts

  • Moyo Akandé – actress
  • John Barrowman – singer and actor (The Producers, Torchwood)
  • Sean Biggerstaff – actor (Harry Potter)
  • Billy Boyd – actor (The Lord of the Rings)
  • 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.)
  • Craig Ferguson – actor and writer
  • Rikki Fulton – comedian
  • Michelle Gomez – actress (Doctor Who, Green Wing)
  • Greg Hemphill – actor
  • Olaf Hytten – actor
  • Ford Kiernan – 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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

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  • 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

  • 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
  • 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

References