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page 1People from Dumfries and Galloway
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)

James Mirrlees
Scottish economist (1936-2018)

Thomas Telford
Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason (1757–1834)
Joseph Thomson
Scottish geologist and explorer (1858–1895)
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
Scottish inventor of the bicycle (1812–1878)
Rumer Godden
English writer (1907-1998)
Thomas Brown
Scottish philosopher and poet, born 1778
John Ramsay McCulloch
Scottish economist, author and editor
Allan Cunningham
Scottish poet and author (1784–1842)
William Paterson
Scottish trader and banker
Robert B. Lindsay
American politician (1824-1902)
William Wright Smith
British botanist (1875–1956)
William Jardine
British businessman and politician (1784-1843)
Jane Haining
British Righteous Among the Nations (1897–1944)
Alex Fergusson
British politician (1949-2018)
William Harkness
American Civil War surgeon and astronomer (1837–1903)
James B. Beck
United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky (1822-1890)
Edward Atkinson Hornel
painter (1864-1933)
Robert Alexander Rankin
Scottish mathematician; (1915-2001)
Fergus of Galloway
Lord of Galloway
Peter Ewart
British engineer (1767-1842)

Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Scottish writer (1859-1914)
Walter Hill
British/Australian botanist

John Gibson Paton
British missionary (1824-1907)
James Crichton
Scottish polymath
Hamish MacInnes
Scottish mountain climber (1930–2020)
Alan of Galloway
Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland
John James Pringle
Scottish dermatologist
Bridget Allchin
English archaeologist, specializing in South Asian archaeology
James Currie
Scottish physician (1756–1805)
Lochlann of Galloway
Scottish lord

Fiona Cumming
British-Scottish television director (1937-2015)
Thomas McCall
Scottish cartwright (1834–1904)
John Duncan
Scottish traveller in Africa (1805-1849)
Robert Wallace
Scottish agricultural academic (1853-1939)
Francis Charteris
Scottish soldier and adventurer
Uhtred of Galloway
Scottish noble
George Neilson
(1858–1923) British historian and antiquary
William Ewart Lockhart
Scottish Victorian painter (1846-1900)
James Craik
American physician