# 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 – architect
* Charles Rennie Mackintosh – architect and designer
* Alexander "Greek" Thomson – architect

### Film

* Bill Forsyth – film director
* May Miles Thomas – screenwriter, filmmaker

### 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)
* 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
* 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
* 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

* Mary Barbour
* 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

## 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
* 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

## 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 – British prime minister
* 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 – British prime minister
* 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)
* Humza Yousaf – Scottish First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party

## 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

* Andy Murray – Olympic 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
* 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