Notable Residents and Visitors
Famous Bute people include
- Richard Attenborough, film director owned the Rhubodach estate on the island at one time;
- Andrew Bannatyne (1798 - 1871), politician, lawyer and businessman;
- Lieutenant Henry Robertson (Birdie) Bowers (1883–1912) polar explorer, who died with Scott in the Antarctic;
- Adam Crozier, former chief executive of the Royal Mail;
- The current Marquess of Bute is former Formula One racing driver Johnny Dumfries.
- Thomas Bannatyne Gillies Supreme Court Judge
- George Leslie Hunter, colourist painter;
- Edmund Kean, Shakespearean actor;
- Ashley Lilley, actress, played the role of Ali in the 2008 film adaptation of "Mamma Mia";
- Sir William Macewen FRS (1848–1924), surgeon;
- John William Mackail, writer and scholar;
- John Sterling, critic, journalist and poet;
- Hector Whitelaw Shinty player and Scotland Vice-captain;
- Bob Winter Glasgow's Lord Provost (2007 - 2012);
- Lena Zavaroni, singer was born and grew up in Rothesay.
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Famous quotes containing the words notable, residents and/or visitors:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)