- Gordon Brown
Dr James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Minister for the Civil Service, the current Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and the Leader of the Labour Party since 27 June 2007. Before this, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007. - Wendy Alexander
Wendy Alexander (born 27 June, 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North. Prior to entering the Scottish Parliament,Alexander worked in the private, voluntary and public sectors and for the international management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton. This included a period as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland (Donald Dewar). From 1999 to 2002 she was a minister in the Scottish Executive, … - Edwin Morgan
Professor Edwin Morgan OBE (born April 27, 1920) is a Scottish poet and translator who is associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004, he was named as the first Scottish national poet: The Scots Makar. - Tommy Sheridan
Tommy Sheridan (born 7 March 1964, in Glasgow) is a Scottish socialist politician and a leading figure in the new Scottish political party Solidarity. He attended the Roman Catholic schools of St Monica's Primary and Lourdes Secondary before entering the University of Stirling, from which he graduated with an honours degree in Economics. Sheridan was active in the Militant tendency faction inside the Labour Party, … - Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868 - December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist who was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland. - Amy MacDonald
Amy Macdonald is a singer/songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland. Her debut album, "This Is The Life", will be released on July 30, 2007. Her first single, "Poison Prince", was released on May 7, 2007. She has been scheduled to play shows at music festivals such as Glastonbury, Hyde Park, T in the Park, and V festival. She has signed a record deal with Vertigo, the same record label which hosts The Killers and Razorlight. - Billy Connolly
William "Billy" Connolly, CBE, (born 24 November, 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter, and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname "The Big Yin" (The Big One). The nickname was first used during Connolly's adolescent years to differentiate between himself and his father, William Connolly, Sr. - Alex Ferguson
Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson CBE (born 31 December 1941 in Govan, Glasgow) is a Scottish football manager and former player, currently managing Manchester United F.C. He has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of English football and has been in charge of Manchester United for more than 1,000 matches. With 20 years under his belt, he is the second-longest serving manager in the history of Manchester United after Sir Matt Busby. - Tommy Burns
Thomas ("Tommy") Burns (born 16 December 1956 in Glasgow), is a former professional football player and manager. Tommy Burns played for Celtic (signing in 1973 from Maryhill, and making his debut against Dundee Utd on 19 April, 1975), making a total of 352 league appearances and scoring 52 goals before moving to Kilmarnock in 1989 where he became player-manager in 1992, winning the club promotion to the Premier Division in season 1992-93. - Barry Ferguson
Barry Ferguson MBE (born Hamilton, Scotland, February 2, 1978) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays in midfield. He currently plays for and captains both Scottish Premier League club Rangers and the Scotland national team. - Alexander Thomson
Alexander “Greek” Thomson was a prominent Glaswegian architect and architectural theorist. Thomson’s work was confined to Glasgow and the Firth of Clyde. Although his work was sometimes published in the architectural press of his day, it was little appreciated outside of his adopted city during his lifetime. - John Brown
John Brown (1809-1876) was a Canadian builder of Scottish origin. He is best remembered today for building Ontario's Imperial Towers. Brown began his career as a stonemason's apprentice in Glasgow. At 23 he emigrated to the United States, to upstate New York. By 1838 he had moved again, this time to Thorold, Ontario, where he was to spend the remainder of his career. - Douglas Alexander
Douglas Garven Alexander (born October 26, 1967) is a British politician who is Secretary of State for International Development. He is the Member of Parliament for the Scottish constituency of Paisley and Renfrewshire South representing the Labour Party. On 24 June 2007 Gordon Brown announced he would be appointed as his general election coordinator. - Donald Dewar
Donald Campbell Dewar (August 21, 1937 - October 11, 2000) was the first First Minister of Scotland from 1999 until his death in 2000. He was the first person to hold the position of First Minister following the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. Dewar was first elected to the British House of Commons in 1966, later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland in 1997 following the election of a Labour government under Tony Blair. - David Marshall
David James Marshall (born March 5, 1985 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a professional footballer currently playing for Norwich City. He is a goalkeeper and is also a Scotland international. Marshall, a product of Celtic's youth academy, made his first start for Celtic on March 25, 2004 in a fourth round, second leg UEFA Cup tie against Spanish giants FC Barcelona at the Nou Camp. The 19-year-old, deputising for a suspended Rab Douglas, … - Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler (born November 13, 1969) is a Scottish actor and singer, perhaps best known for his roles as the Phantom from "The Phantom of the Opera", as well as King Leonidas from "300". - Adam Ingram
Adam Paterson Ingram (born in Glasgow on February 1, 1947) is a Scottish politician, and Member of Parliament for East Kilbride. He is a member of the Labour Party. At the age of 16 he joined the junior Orange Order in Barlanark, Glasgow, and took part in three parades before leaving. He never played the flute. These two obscure facts were bones of contention in a court case in April, 2004. George Galloway MP, a Roman Catholic who was born in Dundee, Scotland, … - Annabel Goldie
Annabel Goldie (born 27 February 1950, Glasgow) is a Scottish politician, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives in the Scottish Parliament, and chairwoman of the party's Shadow Cabinet. She is a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West of Scotland Region. - Andy Murray
Andrew "Andy" Murray (born 15 May 1987 in Glasgow), is a Scottish tennis player, who represents both Scotland and Great Britain. Murray is currently the UK's highest ranked player, with a current world ranking of #14 as of July 16, 2007. In December 2005, he won the BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year Award, and the sport section of the Top Scot awards. His elder brother Jamie is the UK's best ranked doubles player. - Paul Martin
Paul Martin (born March 17, 1967, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow Springburn constituency since 1999. His father is Michael Martin MP, the Speaker of the House of Commons. Following the 2007 election, Martin has been appointed Labour's shadow spokesman on community safety. - Charlie Gordon
Charles Gordon (born October 28, 1951, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He is a Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Cathcart. Gordon was elected to the Strathclyde Regional Council in 1987 and remained a councillor until 1996, when Strathclyde Regional Council was abolished. In 1995 he was elected to the new Glasgow City Council. - John Muir
John Muir, born 1810, Glasgow, Scotland, died, 1882, Edinburgh, Scotland, was a Scottish sanskritist. He arrived in India in 1828 as a civil servant in Bengal, and after finally rising to the position of judge in Fatehpur, left the Indian Civil Service in 1853 and returned to the United Kingdom. In India Muir wrote in English, Sanskrit and other Indian languages on a variety of topics, but especially on Christianity, … - Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born August 12, 1949, Glasgow, Scotland) is a UK guitarist, singer, songwriter, and film score composer. Knopfler was originally best-known as the lead guitarist and vocalist for the band Dire Straits, which he founded in 1977. Since the final Dire Straits album in 1991, Knopfler has continued to record and produce albums as a solo artist, under his own name. - James McAvoy
James Andrew McAvoy (April 21, 1979) is a BAFTA-nominated Scottish actor. - Gordon Gentle
Gordon Gentle was a 19 year old soldier from Pollok, Glasgow, who died in Iraq on 28 June, 2004, after only 6 months training. He was serving with the 1st Battalion Royal Highland Fusiliers. Gordon's lightly armoured Land Rover was destroyed by a roadside bomb. His mother Rose Gentle has since campaigned for better protected vehicles for UK forces and the return of British troops from Iraq. With Reg Keys she is a founder member of Military Families Against the War - Ally McCoist
Alistair "Ally" Murdoch McCoist MBE (born September 24, 1962 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish former professional football player who played as a striker. He is currently assistant manager at Scottish Premier League club Rangers. He was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. He is also a member of the Scotland Football Hall of Fame, having gained 61 international caps. - Menzies Campbell
Sir Walter Menzies Campbell, CBE, QC (born 22 May 1941), commonly known as Ming Campbell, is a British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North East Fife and was elected leader of the Liberal Democrat party on 2 March 2006. "Menzies" is pronounced "MING-iss", the "z" being a poor rendition of the yogh originally included in the name; hence "Ming". - William Burrell
Sir William Burrell (July 9 1861 - March 29 1958) was a Glaswegian shipping merchant and philanthropist. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1861. He was the third of nine children in a family, which ran a shipping business. Burrell joined this business in 1875, at the age of 14, and took over the firm when his father died. Burrell and his brothers were successful in business by ordering ships during economic downturns, … - Sharleen Spiteri
Sharleen Eugene Spiteri (born 7 November 1967 in Glasgow) is a Scottish singer. She fronts the band Texas. - Paul Hartley
Paul James Hartley (born 19 October 1976, in Hamilton) is a Scottish professional footballer, currently playing for Celtic in the Scottish Premier League. - Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray (born December 28, 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel "Lanark", published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years. It is now regarded as a classic, and was described by "The Guardian" as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction." His novel "Poor Things" (1992) won the Whitbread Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize. - Sandra White
Sandra White is a Scottish politician. Born on August 17, 1951 in Glasgow she was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate to represent Glasgow in 1999. She also contested Glasgow Kelvin where she came second to the Labour Party candidate by 4,408 votes. She was re-elected to sit in the parliament to represent Glasgow in 2003, topping the SNP's list of candidates for that region. - David Hamilton
David Hamilton (May 11, 1768 - December 5, 1853) was a Scottish architect based in Glasgow. He has been called the "father of the profession" in Glasgow. Notable works include "Hutchesons' Hall", "Nelson Monument" in Glasgow Green and "Lennox Castle". The Royal Exchange in Queen Street is David Hamilton's best known building in Glasgow. It was completed in 1829, built around an existing mansion house dating from 1778. - Fergus Ewing
Fergus Ewing (born 23 September 1957, Glasgow) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) MSP. He is the son of the veteran Scottish Nationalist Winnie Ewing (his father was also an SNP councillor) and has long been active in the SNP. He studied law at the University of Glasgow where he was a member of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association. - Linda Fabiani
Linda Fabiani (born December 14 1956, Glasgow) is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she was elected as a regional member of the Scottish Parliament to represent Central Scotland at the 1999 election. Re-elected in the 2003 election, she served as the SNP's Deputy Spokesman on Communities inside the Scottish Parliament and chaired the Parliament's European and External Relations Committee. - John Young
John Young (born 1930, Glasgow) is a Scottish politician. He was a Conservative and Unionist Member of the Scottish Parliament for the West of Scotland from 1999 to 2003. He was previously leader of Glasgow District Council from 1977 to 1979. In the Scottish Parliament he was Conservative Deputy Spokesperson on Transport and Environment and was a member of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. He retired at the 2003 election. - Jim Kerr
James "Jim" Kerr (born in Toryglen, Glasgow, Scotland, on 9 July, 1959) is the frontman, lead singer and lyricist of Scottish band "Simple Minds". He attended Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Glasgow. He was married to Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of The Pretenders, in 1984 (divorced, 1990). Together, they had a daughter named "Yasmin Paris Kerr" (born, 1985). He was subsequently married to actress Patsy Kensit in 1992 (divorced, 1996) with whom he had a son, … - Patricia Ferguson
Patricia Ferguson (born 24 September 1958, Glasgow) is a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill, a seat which she has held since 1999. Ferguson was educated at Garnethill Convent Secondary School in Glasgow, and at Glasgow College of Technology, where she obtained an HNC in Public Administration. Prior to entering the Scottish Parliament, she worked as a health service administrator, … - Michael Martin
Michael John Martin MP (born 3 July 1945) is the current Speaker of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom. - Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson (born June 5, 1984 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish footballer. He currently plays in defence for Scottish Premier League club Celtic. He has represented Scotland at most youth levels up to under-21 and was recently under-21s captain before becoming ineligible due to his age.
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