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GLASGOW
Most Famous People Born in Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 3,305
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1943
- Most distinctive
- Football 3.8×
A football city, almost unhealthily so. More than forty per cent of Glasgow's notables are footballers — Old Firm shaped a city's entire celebrity economy — and the next bench down is the actors and singers of a Scottish stage tradition that has produced James McAvoy, Robbie Coltrane, and Mark Knopfler. The 19th-century Clyde shipbuilding boom is the peak that most of the rest of the bench grew out of, and there is also an unusually deep comedy lineage from the working men's clubs that the strict statistical panel doesn't capture but that gave the world Billy Connolly.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Glasgow during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Glasgow Is Known For
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Football is Glasgow's biggest profession — 42% of all notables (1,378).
Glasgow over-indexes on football — 3.8× the global rate.
Glasgow under-produces writer — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Glasgow's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1890s Clear ×
Mortimer Wheeler
1890 - 1976
George MacLeod
1895 - 1991
Isaac Wolfson
1897 - 1991
Margaret Ballinger
1894 - 1980
Archie Stark
1897 - 1985
Alan Morton
1893 - 1971
Joe Yule
1892 - 1950
Belle Moore
1894 - 1975
Jack Smith (footballer, born 1895)
1895 - 1946
K'tut Tantri
1898 - 1997
Cecile Walton
1891 - 1956
Harry McShane
1891 - 1988
Allardyce Nicoll
1894 - 1976
R. Hunter Middleton
1898 - 1985
Lila Leslie
1890 - 1940
Duncan Walker
1899 - 1963
Robert Leckie (RCAF officer)
1890 - 1975
R. M. "Bertie" Smyllie
1893 - 1954
Herbert James Gunn
1893 - 1964
George Carey (ice hockey)
1898 - 1974
Frank Mackenzie Ross
1891 - 1971
George Martin (Scottish footballer)
Born 1899
Adam McLean (footballer)
1899 - 1973
Hughie Ferguson
1898 - 1930
James Scanlan
1899 - 1976
Ethel Currie
1899 - 1963
Norman Macmillan (RAF officer)
1892 - 1976
Cliff Porter
1899 - 1976
Alex Gray (ice hockey)
1898 - 1986
John Glaister (der Jüngere)
1892 - 1971
William McCance
1894 - 1970
Eric Woodburn
1894 - 1981
Thomas Cameron
1894 - 1980
Jimmy McColl (footballer, born 1892)
1892 - 1978
Bobby Parker (footballer, born 1891)
1891 - 1950
Edward Davison (poet)
1898 - 1970
Dunky Wright
1896 - 1976
Walter Potter Ritchie
1892 - 1965
Percy Whipp
1893 - 1962
Rachel Rice Dooley
1890 - 1984
Joe Harris (footballer)
1896 - 1933
Henry Butters
1898 - 1985
Matthew Frew
1895 - 1974
David Miller (entomologist)
1890 - 1973
Jack Harris (footballer, born 1891)
1891 - 1966
Donald MacKintosh (VC)
1896 - 1917
Josephine Haswell Miller
1890 - 1975
James Carmichael (British politician)
1894 - 1966
Joe Cassidy (footballer, born 1896)
1894 - 1949
Jeanne Dusseau
1893 - 1979
John Conner (footballer)
Born 1896
Walter Ross (boxer)
Born 1898
Estelle Thomson
1894 - 1953
John Aitken (footballer, born 1897)
1897 - 1967
William Jolly Duncan
1894 - 1960
Andrew Speed
1899 - 1990
James Arthur Banks
1897 - 1967
John Barbour (footballer)
1891 - 1916
Nell Ballantyne
1898 - 1959
Neil Turner (footballer)
Born 1892
Johnny Reid (footballer)
1896 - 1980
Kathleen Garscadden
1897 - 1991
Eddie Cameron (footballer)
1895 - 1933
Geoffrey Sheppard
1890 - 1940
Robert Downie
1894 - 1968
William Pickering (footballer)
1894 - 1917
Jack Forrester
1894 - 1964
Johnny Crosbie
1896 - 1982
Eddie Garvie
1892 - 1915
Fergie Aitken
1896 - 1989
John Cuthbert (athlete)
1894 - 1960
William Harris (footballer)
Born 1890
Tom Haydock
1890 - 1918
Grace Wilson Melvin
1892 - 1977
Charles Findlay
1891 - 1971
Daniel McKellar
1892 - 1917
John Ferguson (footballer, born 1891)
1891 - 1916
Charles Vickers (footballer)
1891 - 1917
Johnny Halligan
1899 - 1977
George Milligan (footballer)
Born 1891
John Callagher
1898 - 1980
John Prentice (footballer, born 1898)
1898 - 1966
Edward Joseph Maginn
1897 - 1984
Joshua Wilkinson (footballer)
1897 - 1921
Patsy Corcoran
1893 - 1927
C. A. Campbell
1897 - 1974
Robert MacIntyre Gordon
1899 - 1983
David Reid (footballer, born 1897)
1897 - 1963
William Rollo
1894 - 1960
Alex Christie (footballer, born 1896)
1896 - 1981
MacGregor MacIntosh
Born 1896
Harry Rae
Born 1896
John McKay (footballer, born 1898)
Born 1898
Alexander Gale
1892 - 1965
Walter M. Carlaw
1899 - 1956
Charles Cook (footballer, born 1898)
Born 1898
Madge Easton Anderson
1896 - 1982
Johnny Ballantyne
Born 1899
James Lister (footballer, born 1895)
Born 1895
Alex Lauder
Born 1899
Campbell McMurray
Born 1893
Aitken Ferguson
1891 - 1975
James Riddell (footballer)
Born 1891
John Steel (footballer, born 1895)
1895 - 1953
Peter Gavigan
1897 - 1977
Johnny McIntyre (footballer, born 1895)
1895 - 1974
Tom Pirie
1896 - 1966
Peter Neilson (footballer)
1890 - 1913
Johnny McNaught
1892 - 1972
Hugh Hilley
1899 - 1987
John Falconer (footballer)
1898 - 1982
Vaughan Russell
1890 - 1979
Robert Thomson (footballer, born 1890)
Born 1890
Robert McBean
Born 1892
Clinker Birt
1890 - 1948
Andrew Leslie (footballer)
Born 1892
Sam Kennedy (footballer, born 1899)
Born 1899
Teddy Roseboom
1896 - 1980
Dick Hope
1890 - 1969
Dan Drummond
Born 1891
Johnny McIntyre (footballer, born 1898)
1898 - 1974
Andrew Cant (footballer)
Born 1899
James West (Scottish footballer)
Born 1891
David McLay
Born 1898
John Roberts (footballer, born 1891)
Born 1891
John Gordon Harrower
1890 - 1936
William Manson Docker
1891 - 1960
Bill Salisbury (footballer)
1899 - 1965
Peter Moodie
1892 - 1947
Jim Blyth (footballer, born 1890)
Born 1890
Alexander Duncan (footballer)
Born 1891
Nancy Adam
1894 - 1982
Andrew Stevenson (rugby union)
1897 - 1968
Joe Harris (fotbollsspelare)
1891 - 1966
Hugh Millar (footballer)
Born 1898