Notable People
- John Boyd Orr; biologist, politician and Nobel Peace Prize-winner.
- Des Browne; former MP, UK defence minister and Scotland minister.
- Willie Coffey; local MSP.
- William Cunninghame, 18th century merchant and Tobacco Lord.
- Ian Deans; Scottish-Canadian NDP politician representing Hamilton, Ontario.
- Robert Dunsmuir; coal miner and industrialist for the Hudson's Bay Company.
- William Findlay (pen name George Umber); author.
- Alexander Fleming; discoverer of penicillin, attended Kilmarnock Academy.
- Thomas Gardiner, California newspaperman.
- William Hewitt; Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 2009
- John Kelso Hunter; 19th century oil painter and author.
- David Lacy; Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and a local minister.
- Malky McCormick; cartoonist.
- Iain McDowall; crime writer.
- Margaret McDowall; member of the Scottish swimming team and silver medal winner at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
- Hugh McIlvanney; sports journalist.
- William McIlvanney; writer, born 1936.
- Lindsay McKenzie; actress.
- Colin Mochrie; Scottish-Canadian comedian (of Whose Line is it Anyway? fame) born in Kilmarnock in 1957
- William and John Sloane; founders of W. & J. Sloane in New York City.
- David Robertson; played for Kilmarnock and Queen of the South before emigrating to New York where he played for the U.S. National team.
- James Shaw; Lord Mayor of London in 1805.
- Gordon Smith; former professional footballer and SFA Chief Executive.
- Kirsty Wark; TV news and current affairs personality.
- Ben and James Johnston, drummer and bassist of Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro
- Charles Ewart; cavalryman who famously captured a French regimental eagle at the Battle of Waterloo
- Robert Colquhoun; Scottish painter, printmaker and theatre set designer Born Kilmarnock
- Eleanor Kasrils; First woman recruited into the African National Congress military wing.
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