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Photo: Emoscopes · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Rosyth, Fife
2 famous people call Rosyth their birthplace
Articles in 2 languages make the Scottish footballer Andy Penman the best known. The list has one more: the British writer John Hay Munro. Nearby, Dunfermline, 2 mi away, lists 186, led by Andrew Carnegie. Born in 1943, Andy Penman is the first name on record, and John Hay Munro, born in 1948, the most recent.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Andy Penman
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1943
Andy Penman
Youngest
1948
John Hay Munro
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Rosyth
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Known for
What Rosyth is known for
Share of Rosyth’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Dunfermline, with 186.
Dunfermline · 2 miAndrew Carnegie & 185 more
Cowdenbeath and Lumphinnans · 6 miJim Baxter & 49 more
Bo'ness · 7 miGrace Cadell & 31 more
South Queensferry · 4 miVictor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow & 12 moreDDBurntisland · 8 miDavid Danskin & 10 moreSGInverkeithing · 1 miSamuel Greig & 7 more
Kelty · 7 miStephen Husband & 5 moreWDWinchburgh · 6 miWillie Duff & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Rosyth
Who is the most famous person from Rosyth?
Andy Penman (Scottish footballer (1943-1994)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come John Hay Munro.
How many famous people were born in Rosyth?
2 people born in Rosyth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Rosyth known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rosyth?
Andy Penman, born in 1943. The youngest on the list was born in 1948.
Who counts as from Rosyth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rosyth’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 (5)
- Andrew Carnegie: Theodore C. Marceau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Baxter: Paul McIlroy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Grace Cadell: John Campbell Harper (died 1947), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Husband: Ceaton89, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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