* 1973 – Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor

* 1911 – Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1922 – Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor ( d. 1987 )

* 1980 – Darius Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

* 1930 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer

* 1974 – Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist

* 1891 – Jack Buchanan, Scottish actor, singer, producer and director ( d. 1957 )

* 1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor

* 1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor

* 1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director

* 1944 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor

* 1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor

* 1958 – Fish, Scottish singer-songwriter, musician, and actor ( Marillion )

* 1934 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor ( d. 2007 )

Scottish actor and comedian Billy Connolly infamously dismissed Braveheart as " a piece of pure Australian shite.

* 1965 – Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor

* 1986 – Bill Simpson, Scottish actor ( b. 1931 )

* 1969 – Tony Curran, Scottish actor

* 1935 – Mark McManus, Scottish actor ( d. 1994 )

* 2007 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor ( b. 1934 )

* John Young ( actor ) ( 1916 – 1996 ), Scottish actor

* 1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor

* 1953 – John Sessions, Scottish actor

* November 13 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor

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

Gerard James Butler ( born 13 November 1969 ) is a Scottish actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.

As the date and midsummer approached, Gerard had contacted a Scottish courtier asking that he make the king aware, while also Blackwell, the official head of the English Catholic secular clergy operating from hiding, took roundabout steps.

William Gerard Hamilton ( 28 January 1729 – 16 July 1796 ), English statesman and Irish politician, popularly known as " Single Speech Hamilton ," was born in London, the son of a Scottish bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

His output includes Ulysses ( 1947 ), a cantata on words by James Joyce ; scores to animated films, including Animal Farm ( 1954 ); a setting of the Scottish " poet and tragedian " William McGonagall's work, The Famous Tay Whale ( written for the second of Gerard Hoffnung's music festivals ); three string quartets ; and choral arrangements of Hungarian and Yugoslav folk songs.

* Gerard Butler ( born 1969 ), Scottish actor

Emily Gerard, a Scottish author married to a Polish cavalryman stationed in Romania, gave a detailed description in her article " Transylvanian Superstitions " on page 136 of The Nineteenth Century:

James " Jim " Gerard McLaren ( born in Stirling ) is a Scottish dual-code international rugby league and rugby union footballer, playing representative level rugby league ( RL ) for Scotland, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, and playing representative level rugby union ( RU ) for Scotland, as a centre.

Dr. Gerard, a Frenchman in the novel, becomes Scottish, develops a witty personality and becomes an accomplice to the murderer ( whereas in the novel, he is completely innocent ).

Other TV appearances include a guest spot in Jennifer Saunder's The Life and Times of Vivian Vyle and a 2010 documentary on Scottish actor Gerard Kelly.

Chief Executive, Gerard Sinclair, says that normally the court rules about half the referrals to be a miscarriage of justice each year, which would equate in 2003 to roughly 0. 005 % of the total number of Scottish criminal convictions.

Scottish Parliament MSP: Formerly Bill Butler ; in the 2011 Scottish election, the area falls into the new Scottish Parliament constituency of Glasgow Anniesland.

Other than that, he was in an association with John Trivett Nettleship, and Sidney Hall, also followers of Blake, as well as John Butler Yeats and George Wilson ( 1848-1890, a Scottish Pre-Raphaelite inspired artist ), called The Brotherhood.

The crater is named after the 19th-century Scottish astronomer Arthur Butler Phillips Mee.

Bill Butler ( born 30 March 1956, Glasgow ) is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician and former MSP.

In June 2010, Bill Butler launched a Member's Bill in the Scottish Parliament to reform the law on damages for wrongful death, which was successful, being passed by the Parliament on 3 March 2011 with unanimous support ,.

Previously, Butler has sought backing in the Scottish Parliament for a bill to make Scottish health boards part-elected.

In 1745 he produced anonymously his longest and most learned book, Britannia Sancta, containing the lives of the British, English, Scottish, and Irish saints, an interesting work of hagiography which was later superseded by that of Alban Butler and then by more recent publications.

As a result, in the 14th and 15th centuries, in the wake of Irish rebellion, Scottish invasion, the Black Death and a lack of interest on the part of the London government, many of the outlying English territories returned to the control of Irish lords ; in others, such as those controlled by the great dynasties of Butler, Fitzgerald and Burke, the rulers achieved effective independence, raising their own armed forces, enforcing their own law and adopting Gaelic-Irish language and culture.

The Singing Butler is an oil-on-canvas painting made by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano in 1992.