Renfrewshire, United Kingdom

1. Neil Oliver (1967)

British Television Presenter

Scottish television presenter and author who is known for hosting the BBC documentary series A History of Scotland and Vikings.

2. Rosemary McKenna (1941)

British Politician

Rosemary McKenna CBE is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East until 2010.

3. William Gay (cornerback) (1985)

American Football Player

Gay is an American football cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Steelers in the fifth round of the 2007 NFL Draft....

4. Alexander Rankin (1788)

Canadian Politician

Alexander Rankin was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Northumberland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1827 to 1852. He was born...

5. Matthew Armour (1820)

Radical Free Church Of Scotland

Rev. Matthew Armour was a radical Free Church of Scotland minister on the island of Sanday Orkney remembered to this day for supporting the island’s crofters.

6. Anna McCurley (1943)

British Politician

Anna Anderson McCurley née Gemmell is a Scottish politician. McCurley a teacher by vocation served as a councillor on Strathclyde Regional Council 1978-82. McCurley contested West Stirlingshire in 1979 and...

7. William Arrol (1839)

British Politician

Sir William Arrol was a Scottish civil engineer bridge builder and Liberal Unionist Party politician. The son of a spinner he was born in Houston Renfrewshire and started work in...

8. Tommy Graham (1943)

British Politician

Thomas Tommy Graham is a Scottish former Labour Party politician. A native of Glasgow Graham worked as an engineer before serving on Strathclyde Regional Council from 1978 to 1987. He...

9. Robert Pollok (1798)

Scottish Poet

Robert Pollok was a Scottish poet best known for his work The Course of Time published in the year of his death. Pollok was born at North Moorhouse Farm Loganswell...

10. Robert Allan (1774)

Actor

11. Archibald Arthur (1744)

Scottish Enlightenment Philosoph

Archibald Arthur FRSE was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher. He served as chaplain librarian and joint professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1780–95 and as the university's...

12. James Main Dixon (Unknow)

British Writer

James Main Dixon FRSE was a Scottish teacher and author and an important scholar of the Scots language. He graduated at St. Andrews University in 1879 and was appointed scholar...

13. Neil Oliver (footballer) (1967)

English Footballer

Neil Oliver is an English former footballer who played for the Berwick Rangers Blackburn Rovers Falkirk Hamilton Academical Clydebank and East Fife. He became manager of Duns F. C. taking...

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