55.0666° N, 3.6111° W
DUMFRIES
Most Famous People Born in Dumfries, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 323
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- Median birth year
- 1887
- Most distinctive
- Curler 68.1×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Dumfries during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Dumfries Is Known For
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Football is Dumfries's biggest profession — 21% of all notables (69).
Dumfries over-indexes on curler — 68.1× the global rate.
Dumfries under-produces actor — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Dumfries's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Writing
- Military
- Art & Design
- Other
Calvin Harris
Born 1984
John Laurie
1897 - 1980
Johannes de Sacrobosco
1195 - 1256
John Richardson (naturalist)
1787 - 1865
Grant Hanley
Born 1991
William Jardine (merchant)
1784 - 1843
William Paterson (banker)
1658 - 1719
David Mundell
Born 1962
John Malcolm
1769 - 1833
Ian Carr
1933 - 2009
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
1771 - 1820
Lynsey Sharp
Born 1990
Cammy Bell
Born 1986
Dominic Matteo
Born 1974
Dougal Dixon
Born 1947
Anna Sloan
Born 1991
James Crichton
1560 - 1582
Benjamin Bell
1749 - 1806
Fergus of Galloway
Died 1161
David Murdoch
Born 1978
John Craig (mathematician)
1663 - 1731
Dervorguilla of Galloway
1210 - 1290
Rory Loy
Born 1988
Henry Duncan (minister)
1774 - 1846
Robert Flint
1838 - 1910
J. A. Hunter
1887 - 1963
Malcolm Middleton
Born 1973
Alex Dunbar
Born 1990
Barry Nicholson
Born 1978
Andrew Johnston (singer)
Born 1994
James B. Beck
1822 - 1890
Allan McNish
Born 1969
H. R. Millar
1869 - 1940
James Currie (physician)
1756 - 1805
William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale
1676 - 1744
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick
1256 - 1292
Thomas Watling
1762 - 1814
George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer)
1730 - 1787
Charles Pasley
1780 - 1861
Gavin Reilly
Born 1993
Francis Charteris (rake)
1675 - 1732
Alan of Galloway
1199 - 1234
Claire Hamilton (curler)
Born 1989
Chris Doig
Born 1981
Lord Francis Douglas
1847 - 1865
Kevin Holt
Born 1993
Peter Ewart
1767 - 1842
Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick
Died 1250
Denny Johnstone
Born 1995
Nick De Luca
Born 1984
Philip Howard Colomb
1831 - 1899
Iain Russell
Born 1982
Patrick Miller of Dalswinton
1731 - 1815
Lochlann of Galloway
Died 1200
James Hannay
1827 - 1873
John James Pringle
1855 - 1922
John Noble Kennedy
1893 - 1970
Thomas Carlyle (lawyer)
1803 - 1855
Walter Hill (garden curator)
1819 - 1904
John Allan Broun
1817 - 1879
Ian Callum
Born 1955
John Campbell (Royal Navy officer)
1720 - 1790
John Duncan (traveller in Africa)
1805 - 1849
Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Nithsdale
1586 - 1646
Gille Brigte of Galloway
1126 - 1185
James Lorrain Smith
1862 - 1931
George Kennedy Young
1911 - 1990
Flora Murray
1869 - 1923
Willie Gibson (footballer, born 1984)
Born 1984
Dan Carmichael
Born 1990
George Walker (soldier)
1645 - 1690
David Landsborough
1779 - 1854
Thomas Hetherington
1926 - 2007
Robert Symmer
1707 - 1763
John Sewell (athlete)
1882 - 1947
Dave Halliday
1901 - 1970
William Stewart MacGeorge
1861 - 1931
Diane Bell (director)
-
Margaret of Huntingdon, Lady of Galloway
Born 1194
John Welsh of Ayr
1569 - 1622
Andrew Coltart
Born 1970
Duncan Hodge
Born 1974
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat
1834 - 1913
Euan Byers
Born 1974
Lorna Vevers
Born 1981
John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell
1553 - 1593
Nigel Sinclair
Born 1948
Gary McCutcheon
Born 1978
Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart
1856 - 1920
Niall, Earl of Carrick
Died 1256
Thomas Mitchell (football manager)
1843 - 1921
Michael Carter (actor)
Born 1947
John Watson (American painter)
1685 - 1768
Aidan Smith
Born 1997
Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet
1729 - 1805
Craig Hamilton
Born 1979
Craig Wilson (curler)
Born 1973
Ian McCall (footballer)
Born 1964
Tom Parker (musician)
1944 - 2013
Kirsty Wark
Born 1955
Denis Forman
1917 - 2013
Knox Helm
1893 - 1964
Samuel Smith (Liberal politician)
1836 - 1906
Willie McNaught
1922 - 1989
William Shea (actor)
1856 - 1918
Archibald Gracie
1755 - 1829
John Graham (Botaniker)
1805 - 1839
David Bogie
Born 1987
Aaron Muirhead
Born 1990
John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell
1586 - 1613
Alexander Murray (linguist)
1775 - 1813
Thomas of Galloway
Died 1231
Thomas McCall
1834 - 1904
Bobby Ancell
1911 - 1987
Katrina Bryan
Born 1980
William Clark-Kennedy
1879 - 1961
Ian Gibson (politician)
Born 1938
Alison Fell
Born 1944
Robert Dinwiddie (golfer)
Born 1982
John McFarlane
Born 1947
Andy Aitken (footballer, born 1978)
Born 1978
Ryan McHenry
1987 - 2015
Stephen D. M. Brown
Born 1955
Paul Crosbie
Born 1976
Alexander Johnston (1775–1849)
1775 - 1849
Joseph Morrin
1794 - 1861
David Humble
Born 1967
Sir John Heron-Maxwell, 4th Baronet
1772 - 1830
Gizzi Erskine
Born 1979
Steven Black (footballer)
Born 1992
John Marchbank
1883 - 1946
James Shaw Kennedy
1788 - 1865
James Anderson (sea captain)
1824 - 1893
Uhtred of Galloway
1120 - 1174
William Ewart Lockhart
1846 - 1900
James Blair (MP)
1788 - 1841
Owen Bell
Born 1999
David Henderson (psychiatrist)
1884 - 1965
Andrew Crichton
1790 - 1855
Hannah Fleming
Born 1991
Maggie Keswick Jencks
1941 - 1995
George Coupland
Born 1959
Grant Hardie
Born 1992
Alexander Mackenzie (civil servant)
1842 - 1902
Alister Jack
Born 1964
Houston Stewart
1791 - 1875
Charlie Bell (footballer, born 1894)
1894 - 1939
William Symington McCormick
1859 - 1930
George Corson
1829 - 1910
Anne Gibson (badminton)
Born 1968
William Robertson (VC)
1865 - 1949
Thomas Affleck (planter)
1812 - 1868
Christian Jane Fergusson
1876 - 1957
John Blackadder (soldier)
1664 - 1729
Nicky Spence
Born 1983
Geoffrey Kelly
Born 1956
Archibald Charteris
1835 - 1908
Isla Stewart
1856 - 1910
Jim Moodie (motorcyclist)
Born 1966
Robert Carruthers
1799 - 1878
Ryan McGuffie
Born 1980
James Wolffe
Born 1962
James Jardine
1776 - 1858
James MacMurdo
1785 - 1820
Ross Fergusson
Born 1997
Moray Callum
Born 1958
Walter Newall
1780 - 1863
John Johnstone Paterson
1886 - 1971
M. A. R. Herries
1923 - 1995
Nancy Murdoch
Born 1969
William Carson
1770 - 1843
William M'Culloch
1691 - 1771
Dan Orsi
Born 1992
Neil Murdoch
Born 1972
James Shaw (artist)
1815 - 1881
Rolf Leslie
-
Jim Steel (footballer)
Born 1959
David Kerr (footballer)
Born 1974
Dean Brotherston
Born 1997
Charles Malcolm
1782 - 1851
David Mathieson
Born 1978
Barbara Kelly (public servant)
Born 1940
Gretna Margaret Weste
1917 - 2006
Greg Shaw (footballer)
Born 1970
Billy Little
Born 1941
Billy Houliston
1921 - 1999
James Carruthers
1759 - 1832
David Knox (politician)
Born 1933
Angus Fraser (civil servant)
1928 - 2001
Helen of Galloway
Died 1234
Peter Handyside
Born 1974
Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair
1914 - 2004
Thomas Haining Gillespie
1876 - 1967
Niall Farrell (Pokerspieler)
Born 1987
Freddy Ovett
Born 1994
Alice Spence
Born 1991
Steve Hamilton (broadcaster)
1950 - 2009
John Macmurray
1891 - 1976
Robert Nivison, 1st Baron Glendyne
1849 - 1930
John Hunter (classicist)
1745 - 1837
James Malcolm (Royal Marines officer)
1767 - 1849
Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle
1862 - 1937
John Aitken (footballer, born 1870)
Born 1870
Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie
1880 - 1967
Zoë Eeles
Born 1975
John Gillespie (moderator)
1836 - 1912
Scott Hooper
Born 1995
James Blair (footballer)
1883 - 1913
James Edward Tait
1888 - 1918
James M. Johnstone
Born 1990
James Lorimer (Australian politician)
1831 - 1889
Sally Kinghorn
Born 1968
Dyke White
1885 - 1933
Andrew Murray (journalist)
1813 - 1880
Sir Robert Laurie, 6th Baronet
1764 - 1848
Thomas Symington Halliday
1902 - 1998
Eliza Newton
1837 - 1882
Alexander Borthwick Murray
1816 - 1903
Martin Mayes
Born 1952
Seán Rafferty
1909 - 1998
Bill Johnstone
1919 - 1976
Andy Stewart (Scottish footballer)
Born 1978
Margaret Maxwell Inglis
1774 - 1843
Abbie Scott
Born 1993
William Wilson McCardle
1844 - 1922
Graeme Robertson (Scottish footballer)
Born 1962
Carlyle Gifford
1881 - 1975
William Gillies
1865 - 1932
William Hamilton (British Army officer)
Died 1917
Bari McKenzie
Born 1986
Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan
1899 - 1985
Cailean of Carrick
1250 - 1250
James MacKenzie (VC)
1889 - 1914
George Moffat Sr.
1810 - 1878
Thomas Shortt
1788 - 1843
Maurice Elliott
1942 - 1996
George Kennedy (Scottish footballer)
1882 - 1917
Jimmy McIntosh
1918 - 2000
James Bell (Australian politician)
1836 - 1908
Charles Dubois de Gennes
1814 - 1876
Gille Aldan
Died 1154
William Lyburn
Born 1975
William Dickson (Upper Canada)
1769 - 1846
Hermès Garanger
Born 1973
Bill Hay (radio announcer)
1887 - 1978
Thomas Clark (Upper Canada)
Died 1835
Isabelle Wight Duncan
1812 - 1878
David Gow
Born 1957
John Keswick
1906 - 1982
Jessie Lewars
1778 - 1855
Scott Steele (rugby union)
Born 1993
Galfred Congreve
1849 - 1882
Steve Leslie (footballer, born 1976)
Born 1976
Samuel Hunter (editor)
1769 - 1839
Paulus Æmilius Irving
1714 - 1796
Edward Spence (VC)
1830 - 1858
Euan Little
Born 1976
John Irving (footballer, born 1867)
1867 - 1942
Ian Dickson (footballer)
1902 - 1976
Thomas de Buittle
Died 1422
Jock Henderson (footballer, born 1871)
1871 - 1930
Billy Halliday
Born 1906
Henry Thomson (New Zealand politician)
1828 - 1903
Charlie Brown (Scottish footballer)
1924 - 2019
Jimmy Kirkpatrick
-
Jamie Paterson (footballer, born 1973)
Born 1973
Hay MacDowall
Died 1809
John McMillan (Ontario politician)
1824 - 1901
Thomas Fleming, Earl of Wigtown
Died 1380
Stafford McDowall
Born 1998
Patrick Heron (British Army officer)
1690 - 1752
Douglas Haldane
1926 - 2012
Andy Crawford (footballer, born 1967)
Born 1967
Andrew de Durisdeer
Died 1473
Phil Wilson (curler)
Born 1965
John Lillie
1847 - 1921
Robbie Smith
Born 1998
Margaret McNaughton
-
Gilbert Cavan
Died 1420
Bazil Gordon
Born 1768
Willie McCall (footballer, born 1898)
1898 - 1966
Gary Castledine
Born 1970
Thomas de Kirkcudbright
Died 1324
Billy McGinley
Born 1954
James Carswell
1830 - 1897
John Stewart (died 1769)
Died 1769
Gille Ruadh
-
Callum Templeton
Born 1993
Kris Haddow
Born 1981
Austin McGill
Born 1935
Thomas of Galloway (bastard)
-
Stewart Cochrane
Born 1963
James Kerr (New Zealand politician)
1834 - 1901
Thomas MacDowell
Died 1363
John Currie (footballer, born 1939)
Born 1939
Francis Beattie (Queensland politician)
1821 - 1886
Francis Wallace
-
William Miller (footballer, born 1875)
1875 - 1915
Domhnall mac Cailein
-
Hardy Wright
1893 - 1974