Neil Oliver ( archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster ), grew up in Ayr and Dumfries.

In 2005, Warner read a new adaptation of Oliver Twist for BBC Radio 2 ( adapted by Neville Teller and directed by Neil Gardner ).

2011: Sir John Gilbert: Art and Imagination in the Victorian Age by Spike Bucklow and Sally Woodcock with contributions by Mark Bills, Nicola Bown, Spike Bucklow, Kathleen Froyen, Paul Goldman, Vivien Knight, Caroline Oliver, Neil Rhind, Libby Sheldon, Timothy Wilcox and Sally Woodcock ( Lund Humphries ) 978-1-84822-079-9

The September 1984 edition of Monday News carried the headline ' Kinnock Talks to Terrorists ', quoting former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock's declaration to the South African African National Congress's Oliver Tambo that the ANC in South Africa could expect financial and material assistance from a future Labour government.

The game was developed by the Oliver Twins with graphics being designed by Neil Adamson and music by David Whittaker.

Greg Dyke, Darth Vader, The Duke of Edinburgh, Saruman and Christopher Lee, Don Vito Corleone, Michael Caine, Derren Brown, Professor Snape & Alan Rickman, Jack Nicholson, Jamie Oliver, Jacques Chirac, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw, Marlon Brando, Bruce Forsyth, Osama Bin Laden, Senator John Kerry, Leo McGarry, Ninth Doctor Who & Christopher Eccleston, Prince Charles, Gerry Adams, Justin Hawkins, Jon Snow, Jimmy Hill, Stelios Haji-Ioannou ( on radio ), Alistair Cooke ( on radio ), Tony Robinson, Lord Hutton, Jimmy Savile, Adolf Hitler, God, Judas Iscariot, Russell Brand, Jeremy Vine, Evan Davis, Neil Burgess a. k. a. Barry Scott, Donald Duck

Adolphe Appia, Aleksandra Ekster, Alexandre Benois, Alison Chitty, Antony McDonald, Barry Kay, Boris Aronson, Cyro Del Nero, Daniil Lider, David Borovsky, David Gallo, Edward Gordon Craig, Es Devlin, Ezio Frigerio, Franco Colavecchia, Franco Zeffirelli, George Tsypin, Howard Bay, Inigo Jones, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Jo Mielziner, Josef Svoboda, Ken Adam, Léon Bakst, Luciano Damiani, Maria Björnson, Ming Cho Lee, Motley, Natalia Goncharova, Nathan Altman, Nicholas Georgiadis, Paul Brown, Oliver Smith, Ralph Koltai, Neil Patel, Robert Brill, Robert Wilson, Russell Patterson, Brian Sidney Bembridge, Santo Loquasto, Sean Kenny, Todd Rosenthal, Robin Wagner, Tony Walton, and Vadym Meller.

There are many references to the grave of Donald John MacLennan, who is buried at Scarp Burial Ground, in the book Not Forgotten ( 2006 ) by author Neil Oliver.

Notable visiting lecturers include Jim Sheridan, Oliver Stone, John Boorman, Neil Jordan, Stephen Frears, Stephen Rea and John Landis.

* Douglas Gifford, Neil M. Gunn & Lewis Grassic Gibbon ( Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1983 ).

* Neil Oliver ( footballer ), English footballer

* Oliver, Neil, A History of Scotland, Phoenix, London ( 2010 ) ISBN-10: 0753826631

Lara Almarcegui, Ursula Biemann, Yael Bartana, Luis Camnitzer, Paolo Canevari, Billy Childish, Amanda Coogan, Marysia Lewandowska & Neil Cummings, Dias & Riedweg, Maria Eichhorn, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Satch Hoyt, Huang Yong Ping, Sanja Ivekovic, Francesco Jodice, Peter Johannson, Yeondoo Jung, Werner Kaligofsky, Germaine Koh, Andreja Kuluncic, Oswaldo Macia, Jill Magid, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Esko Männikkö, Dorit Margreiter, Cildo Meireles, Takashi Murakami, Yoko Ono, Mathias Poledna, Marjetica Potrc, Raqs Media Collective, Navin Rawanchaikul, Martha Rosler, Santiago Sierra, Valeska Soares, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yang Fudong, Oliver Bancroft, Thomas Bangsted, David Blandy, Margarita Bofiliou, Dave Carbone, Lali Chetwynd, Petros Chrisostomou, Joe Clark, James Connelly, Tessa Farmer, Oriana Fox, Sarah Gilder, Anton Goldenstein, Mauricio Guillen, Thomas Hylander, Yvonne Jones, Samson Kambalu, Ahn Kang-hyun, Karoly Kesaru, Heidi Kilpelainen, Steven Lowery, Nicky Magliulo, Gary McDonald, Sarah Michael, Thomas Needham, Robert Nichol, Jesse Richards David Rowland, Michael Sailstorfer, Margaret Salmon, Shen Yuan, Heiko Tiemann, Douglas White, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Jim Oliver and Dennis O ' Neil rode motorbikes across Russia, along the Trans-Siberian Highway, during the last week of May and the first three weeks of June in 2004: back then, as described in Jim Oliver's book, Lucille and The XXX Road, the section between Chita and Khabarovsk was an extremely challenging undertaking among marsh, gravel, rock, mud, sand, washboard, potholes, stream fording and detours of the elusive highway with a noticeable absence of pavement.

* Neil Oliver ( lead presenter, series 2-5 )-archaeology and social history

Neil Oliver closed the fifth series with the same statement.

* Davidson, Neil, Discovering the Scottish Revolution, 1692-1746, Pluto Press, London, England ( 2003 ).

* 1978 – Neil Alexander, Scottish footballer

Scottish author Neil Forsyth was appointed as President of the Sealand Football Association.

** Simon Neil, Scottish Musician ( vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ), Biffy Clyro Marmaduke Duke

Literary critic Neil Philip also argued that further folkloric and mythological influences could be seen in the character of Nastrond, who had both a foul smell and an aversion to fresh water, characteristics traditionally associated with the Nuckalevee, a creature in Scottish folklore.

Neil takes a Scottish cross-country walk with Gurkhas every year to raise funds for the Gurkha Welfare Trust.

* Neil Doncaster-CEO of the Scottish Premier League

Neil MacFarlane, a professional footballer who reached the 2008 Scottish Cup Final with Queen of the South, was born in the town.

The formation of the SLP was led by Jim Sillars, then MP for South Ayrshire, John Robertson, then MP for Paisley and Alex Neil, the UK Labour Party's senior Scottish researcher.

This failure prompted the SLP to disband ; and members either fell out of active politics, re-joined the Labour Party, or chose to join the Scottish National Party ( SNP ), which both Sillars and Neil did, with both rising to high office in the SNP.

Eric Linklater stood as an NPS candidate in the 1933 East Fife by-election, and Neil Gunn played a role in aiding the NPS amalgamation with the Scottish Party.

Alex Neil ( born 22 August 1951 ) is a Scottish politician, currently serving as the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Well-being and the Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts.

By 1979 the SLP had collapsed and Neil fell out of active politics until 1985 when he joined the Scottish National Party ( SNP ).

Neil emerged as a leading supporter of former policewoman Shirley McKie as she bid to win compensation from the Scottish Government following her acquittal from perjury charges.

Neil Maclean ( 1875 – 12 September 1953 ) was a Scottish socialist and a Independent Labour Party and later Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Govan in Glasgow.

At the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election, the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) candidate Alex Neil called himself and the then SNP MP for Govan, Jim Sillars, the " new Clydesiders ".

Sir ( Donald ) Neil MacCormick, QC, FBA, FRSE ( 27 May 1941 – 5 April 2009 ), or just Neil MacCormick, was a legal philosopher and Scottish politician.

A form of waterbed was invented in the early 19th century by the Scottish physician Neil Arnott.

Alasdair Neil Morgan ( born 21 April 1945 ) is a Scottish politician.

A Scottish fiddler named Neil Gow is usually credited with developing ( during the 1740s ) the short bow sawstroke technique that defined Appalachian fiddling.

* Scottish actors David Tennant, Tom Conti and Gerard Butler hail from Ralston, as do interior designer John Amabile and political commentator Andrew Neil.

David Neil Laurence Levy ( born 14 March 1945, in London ), is a Scottish International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial intelligence, and the founder of the Computer Olympiads and the Mind Sports Olympiads.

More recent regular team members have included archaeologist Neil Holbrook, Roman coins specialist Philippa Walton, and historian Sam Newton.

Although five years passed between the massacre and outright revolution, and direct connections between the massacre and the later war are ( according to historian Neil Langley York ) somewhat tenuous, it is widely perceived as a significant event leading to the violent rebellion that followed.

Several well-known people live here, including Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, who spent nine years building an architecturally authentic, $ 200 + million Japanese feudal castle and man-made lake in Woodside ; Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel and originator of Moore's Law ; John Thompson, CEO of Symantec ; Neil Young, rock musician and songwriter, who owns a ranch and recording studio there ; Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, and her husband David E. Kelley, producer ; Thomas Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems ; Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit, Inc .; John Doerr, venture capitalist ; Dr. Carl Djerassi, novelist and member of team that developed the birth control pill ; Kenneth Fisher, founder of Fisher Investments, Forbes columnist, author, and local historian ; Susan Dawson, philanthropist ; and Joan Baez, folk singer.

* Neil Lanctot, historian and author

British historian Robin O ' Neil once gave an estimate of about 800, 000 ( based on his investigations at the site ).

The architectural historian Neil Levine has explained the style as a reaction against the rigidity of classicism.

In 1992 Neil was criticised by Anti-Nazi groups and historian Hugh Trevor-Roper among others for employing, as a translator of the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, the Holocaust denier David Irving.

Dr. David Lowry, a nuclear historian from the United Kingdom, has called the project's proposals " obscene ", adding " had they gone ahead, we would never have had the romantic image of Neil Armstrong taking " one giant leap for mankind ".

However, historian Neil McKenna has argued that Uranian poetry had a central role in the upper-class homosexual subcultures of the Victorian period.

During the fourteenth century it became a central icon in the Western Church – in the words of art historian Neil Macgregor – “ From 14th Century on, wherever the Roman Church went, the Veronica would go with it .”

Robert Neil MacGregor, OM, FSA ( born 16 June 1946 ) is a British art historian and museum director.