Photo: Stephen Sweeney · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Faifley, Glasgow lists 3,720 famous people
The list for Faifley is empty for now. No town in West Dunbartonshire lists more than Dumbarton, with 121. After Dumbarton, the next longest list in West Dunbartonshire is Clydebank’s, with 49. Across West Dunbartonshire, the lists cover 6 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Faifley’s locality and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Faifley yet.
Famous people born near Faifley
Glasgow has the longest list next door: 3,720.
Glasgow · 7 miAlex Ferguson & 3,719 more
Paisley · 6 miGerard Butler & 372 more
Dumbarton · 7 miDavid Byrne & 120 moreKGClydebank · 1 miKevin Gallacher & 48 more
Bearsden · 2 miDavid J. Thouless & 10 more
Bishopton · 5 miTom Bradshaw & 8 moreBFBowling and Old Kilpatrick · 2 miBobby Finan & 7 more
Milngavie · 3 miGreg Docherty & 7 moreQuestions about famous people from Faifley
Who counts as from Faifley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Faifley’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 (6)
- Alex Ferguson: Austin Osuide, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerard Butler: Gordon Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Byrne: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David J. Thouless: Mary Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Bradshaw: LFC, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg Docherty: Timmy96, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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