People from Dumfries

Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer (1787–1865)

British politician

Scottish Conservative politician and government minister (born 1962)

Scottish doctor

British author

British car designer

Scottish-American physician and printer

British mathematician and theologian

British theologian (1838-1910)

British diplomat (1893–1964)

British slave owner and merchant

John Allan Broun FRS (21 September 1817 – 22 November 1879) was a Scottish magnetician and meteorologist

Scottish polymath

Scottish surgeon (1749-1806)

Scottish writer (1827–1873)

German photographer ethnographer (1895–1988)

British sailor; Captain of the SS Great Eastern (1824–1893)

British politician (born 1938)