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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 1960s Clear ×
Mark Treanor
Born 1963
Stewart Hamill
Born 1960
Lex Grant
Born 1962
Paul Mackie
Born 1963
Ross McFarlane (footballer)
Born 1961
Jeff Curran (footballer)
Born 1961
Colin McKinnon
Born 1969
Gary Dickie
Born 1964
Graham Duncan
Born 1969
Andy MacLeod
Born 1969
Gerry Crawley
Born 1962
Derek Atkins (footballer)
Born 1961
Paul Flexney
Born 1965
Martin Melvin (footballer)
Born 1969
Paul Armstrong (footballer)
Born 1965
Ally MacLeod (footballer, born 1960)
Born 1960
Tommy Walker (footballer, born 1964)
Born 1964
Scott Murdoch
Born 1969
Paul McKenzie (footballer, born 1964)
Born 1964
Anna Murphy (producer)
Born 1964
Dave Elliott (footballer, born 1968)
Born 1968
John McNiven (footballer)
Born 1962
Derek Walker (footballer)
Born 1966
Mike Monaghan
Born 1963
Allan Rennie
Born 1960
Stuart MacIver
Born 1966
Rob Mulholland
Born 1962
Gerry Doyle (Scottish footballer)
Born 1965
Willie Cairns
Born 1961
Alan Kay (footballer)
Born 1961
Colin Spence
Born 1960
Jim Creaney
Born 1964
Dom Callan
Born 1966
Mike McAnenay
Born 1966
Colin Marshall (footballer, born 1969)
Born 1969