Popular Culture
- Scottish TV Series Rab C Nesbitt is set in Govan although the series is largely filmed outwith.
- The Scottish cocktail, the Govana Libre was named after the town. Although the drink itself was created in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Finneston on the City's North side, inventor and Govan man Chris Pendergast chose the name to pay homage to the area of his birth.
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