This list covers famous or notable people or groups who were born or raised in Glasgow, Scotland or have been connected with it.
Arts
Architecture
David Hamilton – architect
Charles Rennie Mackintosh – architect and designer
Alexander "Greek" Thomson – architect
Film
Bill Forsyth – film director
May Miles Thomas – screenwriter, filmmaker
Journalism
Lawrence Donegan – journalist
Johann Hari – journalist
Jack House – journalist, writer and broadcaster
Andrew Marr – journalist, writer and television presenter
Jack Webster – journalist
Literature
Freddie Anderson – socialist playwright and poet originally from Ireland
James Bridie – playwright
Catherine Carswell – novelist and biographer of the Scottish renaissance
A. J. Cronin – doctor and novelist
Ivor Cutler – poet, songwriter, humourist
Lavinia Derwent – children's writer
Alasdair Gray – artist, novelist and essayist
Pearse Hutchinson – poet
James Kelman – novelist
Tom Leonard – poet
Liz Lochhead – poet and playwright
Peter May – crime writer
Edwin Morgan – poet and translator
Grant Morrison – comic book author
Tony Roper – actor, television writer, author
Suhayl Saadi – physician, novelist, playwright, anthologist; co-editor of A Fictional Guide to Scotland J David Simons – author Alan Spence – novelist and poet Nigel Tranter – historical novelist
Performing arts
Moyo Akandé – actress
John Barrowman – singer and actor (The Producers, Torchwood) Sean Biggerstaff – actor (Harry Potter) Billy Boyd – actor (The Lord of the Rings) Frankie Boyle – comedian Kevin Bridges – comedian John Cairney – actor Peter Capaldi – actor (The Thick of It, In The Loop, Doctor Who) Robert Carlyle – actor (Trainspotting, The World Is Not Enough) Lawrence Chaney – drag queen and winner of the second series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK Morven Christie – actress Robbie Coltrane – actor (Harry Potter, Cracker) Billy Connolly – comedian (The Man Who Sued God) Kate Copstick – actress and director Tony Curran – actor Iain De Caestecker – actor (The Fades, Young James Herriot, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Craig Ferguson – actor and writer Gregor Fisher – comedian Laura Fraser – actress Rikki Fulton – comedian Michelle Gomez – actress (Doctor Who, Green Wing) Greg Hemphill – actor Olaf Hytten – actor Ford Kiernan – actor Gary Lewis – actor Brian Limond – comedian and actor Marie Loftus – music hall entertainer Kelly Macdonald – actress (Trainspotting, Boardwalk Empire) Angus Macfadyen – actor Freya Mavor – actress (Skins) James McAvoy – actor David McCallum – actor, first noted for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin Rory McCann – actor Jane McCarry – actress Joe McFadden – actor (Holby City, Heartbeat) Des McLean - comedian and actor Graham McTavish – actor David O'Hara – actor Daniel Portman – actor Richard Rankin – actor Maurice Roëves – actor Jerry Sadowitz – comedian John Gordon Sinclair – actor Dawn Steele – actress Brian Vernel – actor Susan Calman – comedian and actor Jonathan Watson – actor
Visual arts
Jacqueline Donachie – artist
Hannah Frank – artist and sculptor
John Glashan – cartoonist
Bud Neill – cartoonist (Lobey Dosser) Cordelia Oliver – artist, writer and art critic Frank Quitely – comic book artist
Business
William Beardmore – Beardmores, Parkhead Forge, Arrol-Johnston motor company
George Bogle of Daldowie – wealthy tobacco merchant
Sir William Burrell – shipping magnate and philanthropist
William Cunninghame – tobacco merchant
John Glassford – wealthy tobacco merchant, partner in Thistle Bank
Sir Thomas Lipton – entrepreneur, Lipton Tea
Norman Macfarlane, Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden – entrepreneur
James McAlpin – merchant tailor
James McGill – businessman and philanthropist
Robert Napier – co-founder of Cunard Line
Reo Stakis – entrepreneur
Charles Tennant – St. Rollox Chemicals Works
Civic
Founder
Saint Mungo – traditional founder of the city
Campaigners
Mary Barbour
Ian Dunn, gay and paedophile rights activist
Crime and punishment
Ian Brady – violent criminal
Archibald Hall – murderer
Allan Pinkerton – detective
Edward William Pritchard – murderer who was publicly executed in Glasgow and was the last person to be publicly executed in Scotland