A list of Famous Glasgow People from
today and back to the 1200s.
Glasgow used to be regarded by many
people as the second City of the UK, in
size and wealth, after London. Glasgow
was one of the wealthiest Cities in
Europe from the 1700s to the 1900s.
This was due to World Trade such as
with Tobacco and Sugar, and Engineering
such as Shipbuilding.
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Kenny
Dalglish / born 4th March 1951 -
Scotland's most successful Footballer.
Dalglish was born in Dalmarnock in the
East End of Glasgow, and raised in
Milton in the north of Glasgow. He
moved to Govan, close to Rangers
football club, aged 15, and he grew up
supporting Rangers. He became the most
successful of all the great Scottish
Football Players, by winning 32 cups
with Glasgow Celtic from 1971, and
Liverpool from 1977. He was also the
European Footballer of the Year in
1983, and Scotland's most capped player
with 102 appearances. Since retiring as
a player in 1990, he has worked as a
football manager, and TV pundit. His
daughter Kelly, born in 1975, is a TV
presenter.
wiki/Kenny_Dalglish
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Jim Watt /
born 1948 - World Champion Boxer. Watt
was born in Bridgeton in Glasgow, and
started Boxing at the James Murray's
Cardowan amateur Boxing Club in
Maryhill. He won the British Amateur
Boxing Association in 1968 by beating
John H Stracey, and won the World
Lightweight title in 1979 by beating
Alfredo Pitalua by knockout in round
12. His last Fight was a 15 round
decision loss to Alexis Arguello in
1981. His most famous fight was on the
31st September 1973, against the
Edinburgh Boxer Ken Buchanan. Buchanan
won narrowly on points. Jim Watt has
since been working as a Boxing
Commentator, and After Dinner
Speaker.
wiki/Jim_Watt_%28boxer%29
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William Billy
Connolly / born 1942 - Comedian,
Musician, Presenter, and Actor.
Connolly was born at 69 Dover Street in
the Anderston area of Glasgow. From the
age of 16, he worked as a Boilermaker
at Alexander Stephen and Sons Shipyard
in Linthouse, just west of Govan.
Connolly began a career as a Folk
Singer in the late 1960s, and started
performing as a Comedian in the early
1970s, becoming one of the top
Comedians in the World. He married the
Australian Pamela Stephenson in 1989,
she was well known in the UK as a
Comedian in the TV show - Not The Nine
O'Clock News.
wiki/Billy_Connolly
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Sir Alex
Ferguson / born 1941 - Football
Player and Manager. Ferguson was born
in Shieldhall Road in Govan, and grew
up on Govan Road. He started his
Football Career as an amateur with
Queens Park, at the age of 16, and
worked in the local Shipyards. His best
playing days as a Professional, were
with Dunfermline and Rangers from 1964
to 1970. He retired from playing when
at Ayr United in 1974. Alex Ferguson
went on to become the most famous
Football Manager in Britain, winning 49
trophies with St Mirren, Aberdeen and
Manchester United. He retired from
Football in 2013, probably to spend
more time on his favourite pastime,
Horse Racing.
wiki/Alex_Ferguson
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Mark McManus
/ 1935 - 1994 - Actor who played the
Glasgow detective Taggart. McManus was
born in Hamilton, about 15 miles
southwest of Glasgow. His family took
him to London aged 3, and to Australia
aged 16. In Australia, he become a
Professional Actor, appearing in the TV
series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
McManus returned to the UK in 1971,
playing the title character in the
crime drama Taggart in September 1983,
a role he played until his death in
1994. Taggart was shown in 27
countries. Mark McManus was Cremated at
the Linn Crematorium in Glasgow. His
wife Marion was buried in Symington,
Lanarkshire. His half brother was the
Lead Singer of Glam Rock Group The
Sweet, named Brian Connolly.
wiki/Mark_McManus
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James Jimmy
Reid / 1932 - 2010 - Trade Union
Activist, Politician, and Journalist.
Reid was born in Govan when the area
was dominated by Shipbuilding. He
became a Shipyard Worker, and later,
Trade Union Official. He is best known
for helping to prevent Shipyards on the
Upper Clyde from closure in 1971. Reid
became a Communist, and later, Labour
Politician. He wrote for a number of
Newspapers, and became a leading figure
on the History of Clyde Shipbuilding.
Jimmy Reid retired to Rothesay on the
Isle of Bute. His death in 2010, led to
his Funeral Service being conducted in
Govan Old
Church, attended by many famous
people from Glasgow. There is a large
Painting of Jimmy Reid in the Peoples Palace
Museum in Glasgow.
wiki/Jimmy_Reid
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Charles Rennie
Mackintosh / 1868 - 1928 -
Architect, Designer, and Artist.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born at
70 Parson Street in Glasgow, close to
Glasgow Cathedral. That House was
demolished in the 1960s. He became a
popular Architect designing a number of
buildings in the Glasgow area, and
became World Famous for his Furniture
Designs, that are still highly sought
after to this day. Mackintosh died in
London where he was Cremated. There are
two rooms in the Kelvingrove
Art Gallery and Museum dedicated to
him, and the reassembled principal
interiors from his Glasgow home are in
a museum at the University
of Glasgow.
Wiki .
Parson
Street Map.
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Sir William
Burrell / 1861 - 1958 - Shipping
Merchant and Art Collector. Burrell was
a Glasgow-born Shipping Magnate that
collected over 9000 Paintings,
Sculptures, Tapestries, Ceramics and
Stained Glass. He donated his
Collection to the City of Glasgow in
1944, with £250,000 for a Building
to hold it. After Pollok Country Park
was also donated to the City of Glasgow
in 1966, it was decided a large purpose
built Building would be built in
Pollock
Park to hold Burrell's Collection.
The Burrell
Collection Museum opened in 1983.
Burrell died in the Borders in 1958, he
is buried in Largs where he had a
Holiday Home.
wiki/William_Burrell
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Sir John
Stirling-Maxwell / 1866 - 1956 -
a founder member of the National Trust
for Scotland. Sir John Maxwell
inherited the vast Pollok Estate on the
south side of Glasgow. The Maxwell's
were a powerful, and wealthy Clan
throughout the south of Scotland.
Maxwell is best known for his role in
founding the National
Trust for Scotland, that works to
Maintain, and Restore, vast numbers of
Historic Buildings throughout Scotland.
The National Trust for Scotland took
over the running of Pollok House
in 1998, it is now a top Visitor
Attraction in Glasgow.
wiki/Sir_John_Stirling-Maxwell
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Sir William Pearce,
1st Baronet / 1833 - 1888 -
Govan Shipbuilder. Pearce was born near
Chatham in Kent, and moved to Scotland
in 1863 to take up the post of Surveyor
to the Lloyd's Register on the Clyde.
He became the Owner of the Fairfield
Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in
Govan. This was one of the largest
Shipbuilding Companies in the World in
the early to mid 1900s. Govan Centre
has a statue of Sir William Pearce, and
the most impressive building in Govan
centre is the Pearce
Building. This large Red Sandstone
Building on Govan Road, half of a mile
east of Govan centre, was the Fairfield
Offices.
wiki/Fairfield . Clyde Built
Ships
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John Brown /
1816 - 1896 - Clydebank Shipbuilding.
John Brown was born in Sheffield, and
built up a large Company involved in
Steel. John Brown is one of the most
famous names in Glasgow, but never
actually had anything to do with the
City himself. Three years after his
death in 1896, his Sheffield based
Company bought a Clydebank Shipyard
from J & G Thomson, and turned it
into one of the largest, and most
famous Shipyards in the World. The
83,676 ton liner Queen Elizabeth was
launched at John Brown's shipyard in
Clydebank in 1938, remaining the
Largest Passenger Ship in the World
until larger Cruise Ships began
entering service in 1996.
wiki/John_Brown . Clyde Built
Ships
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Joseph Lister, 1st
Baron Lister / 1827 - 1912 -
Surgeon and pioneer of Antiseptic
Surgery. Joseph Lister was a British
Surgeon that encouraged Sterile Surgery
while working at the Glasgow Royal
Infirmary. Lister introduced Carbolic
Acid, now known as Phenol, to Sterilize
Surgical Instruments, and to Clean
Wounds. This led to a reduction in
Post-Operative Infections. There is a
large Statue of Joseph Lister, next to
a Statue of Lord Kelvin, in the grounds
between the University
of Glasgow and the Kelvingrove
Art Gallery and Museum.
wiki/Joseph_Lister
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Sir William Thomson
/Lord Kelvin / 1824 - 1907 -
Mathematician and Physicist. William
Thomson was born in Belfast and moved
with his family to Glasgow in 1832. He
became Professor of Natural Philosophy
at Glasgow University in 1846, a post
he held for for over 50 years. Thomson
was a pioneer in many different fields,
particularly Electromagnetism and
Thermodynamics. He is best known for
his idea of an Absolute Zero of
Temperature - the Scale based on this
is named Kelvin. There is a large
Statue of Lord Kelvin in the grounds
between the University
of Glasgow and the Kelvingrove
Art Gallery and Museum.
wiki/William_Thomson
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Andrew
Buchanan / 1725 - 1783 - Tobacco
Lord. Andrew Buchanan was from a family
that amassed a fortune from the Tobacco
Trade with North America, owning
Tobacco Estates in Virginia. Buchanan
lived in a Mansion House on Argyle
Street. He bought Land in Glasgow for
the development of a New Street, just
north of Argyle Street. The American
War of Independence (1775-1783) led to
the Buchanan's loosing their Wealth,
with Glasgow Bankers then taking over
his Ideas, with the first part of
Buchanan Street (top street in Glasgow
now) being built in 1780.
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William
Turnbull / 1400 - 1454 - founder
of the University of Glasgow. William
Turnbull was a friend of King James II,
appointed Bishop of Dunkeld in 1447,
then a year later, appointed Bishop of
Glasgow, a post he held until his
Death. During his time as Bishop of
Glasgow, he campaigned for the founding
of a University in Glasgow. On the 7th
January 1451, Pope Nicholas V issued a
Papal Bull decreeing the foundation of
the University of Glasgow. The first
Classes were taken in the Glasgow
Cathedral buildings. The present
University of Glasgow building was
completed in 1870.
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Saint Mungo
/ died 13th January 614 - first Bishop
of Glasgow. Saint Mungo was a Bishop
and Evangelist of Strathclyde, often
referred to as the founder of Glasgow.
He arrived in the area of Glasgow
around 540, Consecrated Bishop of
Strathclyde by an Irish Bishop. The
Wooden Church built around that time,
was built where Glasgow Cathedral,
built from the 1100s, now stands. The
Tomb of St Mungo is in the the Lower
Crypt of Glasgow
Cathedral.
wiki/Saint_Mungo
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