Category

People from Leith

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Scottish writer

Eduardo Paolozzi

British artist (1924-2005)

The Proclaimers

Scottish musical group

British scientist; (1774-1854)

Royal Navy officer and governor (1737-1821)

British Catholic cardinal (1910–1993)

Eric Melrose Brown

British aviator, Royal Navy officer, test pilot, author (1919–2016)

John Clements Wickham

Explorer of Australia (1798-1864)

Norwegian writer (1874–1958)

Scottish playwright and Presbyterian minister; (1722-1808)

Scottish geographer and academic (1954–2012)

Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham

British admiral, politician and abolitionist (1726-1813)

Scottish football manager (1875–1956)

John Duncan Fergusson

British artist (1874-1961)

Isis Hainsworth

British actress

British politician (1949-2017)

Palamedes Palamedesz.

Dutch painter (1605-1638)

Scottish Presbyterian minister and encyclopaedist (1820–1901)

Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet

British politician and slave plantation owner

Tallulah Greive

Scottish actress

William Jameson

Scottish army surgeon and botanist (1815-1882)

John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino

Scottish nobleman involved in a religious test case of the 1630s

William Lindsay Alexander

Scottish church leader (1808-1884)

Johnny Melville

Scottish minister and historian