Stranraer - Notable People

Notable People

• David Broadfoot, hero of the 1953 Princess Victoria sinking
• Sir James Caird, agricultural writer and politician
• Colin Calderwood, footballer, former manager of Hibernian
• John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair - sat as MP for the Burgh of Stranraer in the 1689 Convention Parliament
• Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Jameson Raid, a precursor of the Second Boer War, and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, and Editor of the Wigtownshire Free Press
• Robert William Jameson, author, Editor of the Wigtownshire Free Press, and father of Leander Starr Jameson
• Allan Jenkins, footballer
• Sir John Noble Kennedy, army officer, author and colonial governor
• William King, author, Slayer novels and Space Wolves, favoured by tabletop gamers
• Keith Knox, footballer
• Kevin Kyle, footballer
• Allan Little, BBC foreign correspondent
• John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener and horticultural writer, who laid out the grounds at Castle Kennedy in 1841
• Rory Loy, footballer
• William McFadzean, Baron McFadzean, industrialist and President of the Federation of British Industries
• Alexander McGaw, bridgebuilder, and builder of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
• Hammy McMillan, World Curling Champion 1999
• Henry Mavor, electrical engineer and co-founder of a Glasgow company, involved in early public lighting projects and the design of electric maritime engines, and father of playwright James Bridie (O.H. Mavor)
• James Mavor, economist, economic historian and Professor of Political Economy and Constitutional History at the University of Toronto
• John Rennie, naval architect
• Sir John Ross, polar explorer
• Dame Leslie Strathie, Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs
• Peter Wilson, World Junior Curling champion 1981