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Burns Cottage in Alloway, South Ayrshire. Burns was born two miles (3 km) south of Ayr, in Alloway, Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland, the eldest of the seven children of William Burnes (1721–1784), a self-educated tenant farmer from Dunnottar in the Mearns, and Agnes Broun (1732–1820), the daughter of a Kirkoswald tenant farmer.
Gerry Hughes (born 1958), sailor, first single-handed Atlantic crossing by a deaf person; Gary Jacobs, Scottish, British, Commonwealth, and European (EBU) welterweight champion boxer [7] Jimmy Johnstone (1944–2006), football player; George Kerr (born 1937), judo expert, winner of the 1957 gold medal in the European Judo Championships
Mary of Guise (1515–1560), regent of Scotland, and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots; Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), lived in Holyrood Palace; Mynyddog Mwynfawr, Brittonic ruler of kingdom of Gododdin in Hen Ogledd (in reading of Y Gododdin accepted by most scholars), perhaps with his court at Din Eidyn
Khalid Abdalla (born 1980); Andrew Agnew (born 1976); Sadie Aitken (1905–1985); Spottiswoode Aitken (1868–1933); Maev Alexander (born 1948); John Alford (born 1971); Andrea Allan (born 1946)
Margaret Ferrier – Scottish National Party MP [141] George Galloway – MP for Glasgow Hillhead (1987–97) and Glasgow Kelvin (1997–2005) [142] Nigel Griffiths – Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South [143] Arthur Henderson – Chairman of the Labour Party [144] Bonar Law – British prime minister [145] John MacCormick ...
Mr. Mackay is the stern prison officer in Porridge which also featured McClaren as a black Scottish inmate and hard man. [ 28 ] Malcolm Tucker is the aggressive, profane and feared Director of Communications in the BBC Comedy The Thick of It .
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Of the many notable Aberdonians from Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire in Scotland, The Open winning golfer Paul Lawrie and the musician Annie Lennox are the most famous in modern times. However, Aberdeen has produced many earlier important people, such as Thomas Blake Glover , an assisting figure in the foundation of Mitsubishi .