Born at 194 Renfrew Street, Glasgow on 21 August 1937 to mature parents, Dewar was an only child.

A staunch supporter of Scottish independence, he was a member of the S. N. P .. Born in Glasgow to Donegal parents, he was raised at Glencar in Letterkenny and was educated at St. Eunan's College.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of London where he achieved an MA degree in 1912.

Born in Inverness, Scotland, he studied Scots law at the University of Glasgow and became involved in debating with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and at the Glasgow University Union, where he befriended contemporary Labourites Donald Dewar and John Smith.

Born at Ardchattan, Argyll, the son of the parish minister, he was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, where, from 1846 to 1856, he was professor of Logic at New College.

Born in Montrose, Scotland, Nichol was the son of John Pringle Nichol, Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow.

Born in Croydon, Nashashibi studied at the Glasgow School of Art.

Born in the village of Nitshill near Glasgow, a former coal mining village whose mine had closed before Purdon grew up.

Born near Glasgow, Reid worked a number of jobs as a young adult — including wholesaler, army medic ( during the Second Boer War ), farmhand, lumberjack, and dentist — and immigrated to Canada in 1903.

Born in the then burgh of Pollokshaws ( now Pollok, Glasgow ) in 1885, James Maxton was the son of two schoolteachers.

Born in Ireland, he was educated at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leiden and Oxford and was influenced by the philosophy of John Locke.

Born Winifred Margaret Woodburn in Glasgow, she was educated at Battlefield School and Queen's Park Senior Secondary School.

Born into an elite Virginia family in Richmond, Virginia, the young Glasgow developed in a different way from that traditional to women of her class.

Born the son of a seaman at Port Glasgow, Scotland, he arrived in Sydney ( at that time the principal city of the British colony of New South Wales ) in 1855.

Born in Glasgow, Frazer attended school at Springfield Academy and Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh.

Born in Glasgow, he studied at Oxford University and left graduate work on a PhD about John Milton to pursue a career in comedy.

Born to a working-class family in Cambuslang, he attended Cambuslang Primary School and Rutherglen Academy in Glasgow until he was 15 years old.

Born in Glasgow, he received his education at the Glasgow High School and at Edinburgh University.

Born in Greenock, Andy Love was educated at Greenock High School ( became Inverclyde Academy in 2007 ) on Inverkip Road before attending the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he was awarded a BSc degree.

Born in Glasgow as Anne Catherine Long, she was educated at the city's Our Lady and St Francis Secondary School ( became part of St Mungo's Academy in 1988 ) on Charlotte Street and the University of Glasgow where she was awarded a MA in politics with history .< ref >

Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

Born Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, Alexander was adopted as heir apparent by his slightly older and very unpopular cousin, the Emperor Elagabalus at the urging of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa — who was grandmother of both cousins and who'd arranged for the emperor's acclamation by the Third Legion.

Born to Alexander Beaton Ferguson, a plater's helper in the shipbuilding industry, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Hardie, Alex Ferguson was born at his grandmother's home on Shieldhall Road, Govan, on 31 December 1941, but grew up in a tenement at 667 Govan Road ( which has since been demolished ) where he lived with his parents as well as his younger brother Martin.

Born in Baden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of Prince Wilhelm of Baden, third son of Leopold, grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, a niece of Alexander II, Czar of Russia.

Born in Appleton House, Flitcham, Sandringham estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom to Prince Carl of Denmark and Princess Maud of Wales, ( daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom ), he was given the names and title of Alexander Edward Christian Frederik, Prince of Denmark.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica and educated in Edinburgh, the senior Alexander was the Secretary of the Treasury under United States President James Madison, and was also briefly the Secretary of War.

During this hiatus, Alexander released two albums with the band Laundry and performed with Blue Man Group, A Perfect Circle, and Born Naked, among others.

Born in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Alexander was the second son of Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich and seemed to have no chance of claiming the throne of Vladimir.

Le Mesurier undertook a number of roles on television in 1951, including in six episodes of the BBC children's programme Whirligig ; the role of Doctor Forrest in The Railway Children ; the role of Sir Alexander Blythe in children's comedy-thriller Show Me a Spy ; the part of the blackmailer Eduardo Lucas in Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain, opposite Alan Wheatley's Holmes ; and Joseph in the nativity play A Time to be Born.

Many 1970s TV movies were a source of controversy, such as Linda Blair's Born Innocent ( 1974 ) and Sarah T .-Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic ( 1975 ), as well as Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway ( 1976 ) and its sequel, Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn ( 1977 ), which were vehicles for former Brady Bunch actress Eve Plumb.

Born in Union, South Carolina, and a former student of the University of South Carolina Union, she was convicted on July 22, 1995 for murdering her two sons, 3-year-old Michael Daniel Smith, born October 10, 1991, and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith, born August 5, 1993.

Born at Great Marlow, in the county of Buckinghamshire, and christened James Robert Hope, he was the third son of Sir Alexander Hope, and grandson of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun.

Born in Amherst, the son of Robert McGowan Dickie and Eleanor Chapman, he was educated at Windsor Academy and later studied law with Alexander Stewart.

Born at 17 Euston Square, London, he was the son of Frederick Harrison ( 1799-1881 ), a stockbroker and his wife Jane, daughter of Alexander Brice, a Belfast granite merchant.

Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the Royal High School and the Trustees ’ Academy under Alexander Runciman, and, having been apprenticed as an heraldic painter to a coachbuilder, he, at the age of sixteen, attracted the attention of Allan Ramsay, who took the youth with him to London, and employed him upon the subordinate portions of his works.

Born in Iaşi, Moldavia, and educated there at the Academia Mihăileană, he continued his studies in Germany, took part in the political movements of the time, and was private secretary to Prince Alexander John Cuza.

Born the son of John Stevens ( 1715 – 1792 ), a prominent New Jersey politician who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and Elizabeth Alexander, daughter of New York lawyer and statesman James Alexander.

Born Alexander Gordon Jump, in Dayton, Ohio, Jump graduated from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, in 1955.

Born at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, he was the second son of Captain Alexander Allan and his wife Jean Crawford ( 1782 – 1856 ).

Born in Toronto, Ontario, to West Indian immigrants, Lincoln Alexander first distinguished himself in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.

Born in 1817 in St. Raphael's, Ontario, Donald Alexander Macdonald studied at St Raphael's College under the first Catholic Bishop of Ontario, Alexander Macdonell.

Born in Edinburgh, he was the younger brother of the better-known painter Alexander Runciman.