#1Film, TV & Stage
Ian McDiarmid
born 1944Scottish actor and stage director
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Famous people · Carnoustie, Angus
16 famous people were born in Carnoustie, most of them in the Victorian era
Ian McDiarmid, the Scottish actor and stage director, is the most widely known, written about in 43 languages. Second place goes to the Scottish association football player Kevin McDonald, third to Fred Martin. From Thomas Lowson to Craig Forsyth, the births on the list run from 1764 to 1989. Births since 1970 account for 2 of the names.
Born here
16
notable people
Best known
Ian McDiarmid
in 43 Wikipedia languages
First
1764
Thomas Lowson
Youngest
1989
Craig Forsyth
Most common field
Sports
11 people
What stands out about Carnoustie’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Carnoustie
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#2Sports
Kevin McDonald
born 1988Scottish association football player (born 1988)
17 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
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Through the years
When Carnoustie’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1880s than in any other ten years, 5 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Carnoustie is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Carnoustie
Of the other 13, 9 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Dundee lists the most people: 627.
Questions about famous people from Carnoustie
Who is the most famous person from Carnoustie?
Ian McDiarmid (Scottish actor and stage director) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 43 languages. Next come Kevin McDonald and Fred Martin.
How many famous people were born in Carnoustie?
16 people born in Carnoustie have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 20 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Carnoustie known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 11 of the 16. That is 69% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Carnoustie?
Thomas Lowson, born in 1764. The youngest on the list was born in 1989.
Who counts as from Carnoustie?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Carnoustie’s locality (the NRS 2022 locality boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by National Records of Scotland’s Census 2022 locality boundaries (Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (16)
- Ian McDiarmid: Miguel Discart, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin McDonald: Steindy 23:47, 6 September 2009 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Craig Forsyth: Wfcfan1, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander C. Kirk: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Macdonald Smith: United States of America, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Low Sr.: Mecca Cigarettes "Series of Champions", Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clarence Hackney: Edwin Levick, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stewart Maiden: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Lowson: Catfish Jim and the soapdish, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Willie Ogg: Unknown author, original photo property of the Library of Congress, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Cox: Amy Martin Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Old Tom Morris: Thomas Rodger, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Dunbar Buick: Unknown, possibly J. W. Hughes, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bon Scott: Elfast, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Gadd: Soccer Aid for UNICEF, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Agnes Husband: w:Alec Grieve, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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