Notable Residents and Visitors
- The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling owns a converted blackhouse at Breaclete, and his mother's family were from the island
- Callum Macdonald, arguably the most important publisher of Scottish poetry of the 20th century, who was born on the island.
- Birthplace of Captain Murdo Stewart MacDonald (1852–1938) the last Sea Baron and Lloyd Surveyor of Shipping
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