Photo: Billy McCrorie · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Renfrew is on the famous people list yet
Alex Ferguson tops the 3,720 names on record in Glasgow, 5 mi away. 10 towns across Renfrewshire can name a famous person born there. No town in Renfrewshire lists more than Paisley, with 373. After Paisley, the next longest list in Renfrewshire is Johnstone’s, with 50.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Renfrew’s locality and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Renfrew yet.
Famous people born near Renfrew
Around it, Glasgow has the most people on record, 3,720 of them.
Glasgow · 5 miAlex Ferguson & 3,719 more
Paisley · 3 miGerard Butler & 372 moreKGClydebank · 3 miKevin Gallacher & 48 moreJABarrhead · 5 miJohnny Anderson & 36 more
Elderslie · 5 miWilliam Wallace & 12 more
Bearsden · 4 miDavid J. Thouless & 10 more
Bishopton · 5 miTom Bradshaw & 8 moreBFBowling and Old Kilpatrick · 4 miBobby Finan & 7 moreQuestions about famous people from Renfrew
Who counts as from Renfrew?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Renfrew’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)
- Alex Ferguson: Austin Osuide, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerard Butler: Gordon Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Wallace: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David J. Thouless: Mary Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Bradshaw: LFC, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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