Notable People
- Joe Ansbro was raised near Gatehouse of Fleet and schooled at Gatehouse Primary School.
- Katrina Bryan, the "Nina" of the CBeebies show Nina and the Neurons, was born in the town in 1980.
- John Faed, James Faed, Thomas Faed, Boab Patterson-Faed and Susan Bell Faed, members of the celebrated family of Victorian artists, were all born at Barlay Mill Royal Infirmary, Gatehouse of Fleet
- Hamish MacInnes, the well known mountaineer and pioneer of mountain rescue in Scotland was born in the town in 1930.
- Sir John McMichael, (1904-1993), Professor of Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, London, Director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation and a trustee of the Wellcome Trust, was born in the town.
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