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Joanna Baillie
1762–1851Scottish poet and dramatist (1762-1851)
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Famous people · Bothwell, South Lanarkshire
16 famous people were born in Bothwell, most of them in the Victorian era
At the top of the list is the Scottish poet and dramatist Joanna Baillie, covered in 25 languages. Behind the leader come Andy Straden and John Bain. The oldest name on the list belongs to Joanna Baillie, born in 1762, the newest to James Keith Brown, born in 1953. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 22.9, close to the 17.8 of the typical South Lanarkshire town.
Born here
16
notable people
Best known
Joanna Baillie
in 25 Wikipedia languages
First
1762
Joanna Baillie
Youngest
1953
James Keith Brown
Most common field
Sports
10 people
The best known
Born in Bothwell
Joanna Baillie has articles in 25 languages, Andy Straden in 8 and John Bain in 7.
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Through the years
When Bothwell’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1870s, at 4.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineNotableMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Bothwell is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 10 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bothwell
Of the other 13, 8 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Bellshill has the most on record: 261.
DMBellshill · 2 miDavid MacMillan & 260 more
Hamilton · 3 miJock Stein & 143 more
Motherwell · 3 miGary McAllister & 137 more
Coatbridge · 4 miMark Millar & 108 more
Cambuslang · 3 miMidge Ure & 42 more
Blantyre · 1 miDavid Livingstone & 29 more
Holytown · 4 miRobert Crosser & 11 moreJBUddingston · 1 miJames Black & 10 more
Hamilton · 3 miJock Stein & 143 moreMotherwell · 3 miGary McAllister & 137 moreCoatbridge · 4 miMark Millar & 108 moreCambuslang · 3 miMidge Ure & 42 moreBlantyre · 1 miDavid Livingstone & 29 moreHolytown · 4 miRobert Crosser & 11 moreJBUddingston · 1 miJames Black & 10 moreQuestions about famous people from Bothwell
Who is the most famous person from Bothwell?
Joanna Baillie (Scottish poet and dramatist (1762-1851)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 25 languages. Next come Andy Straden and John Bain.
How many famous people were born in Bothwell?
16 people born in Bothwell have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 18 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bothwell known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 10 of the 16. That is 63% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bothwell?
Joanna Baillie, born in 1762. The youngest on the list was born in 1953.
Who counts as from Bothwell?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bothwell’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 (9)
- Joanna Baillie: Mary Ann Knight, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marion Gilchrist: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Neilson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jock Stein: Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary McAllister: Pangalau, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Millar: Luigi Novi, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Midge Ure: Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Livingstone: Thomas Annan / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Crosser: Harris & Ewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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