Famous People Connected to Aberdeenshire

Historic County of Scotland

Image right - James Gibbs - Architect

Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown!

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• Lord Byron, poet, was raised (ages 2–10) in Aberdeen, though not born there.

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• Andrew Cruickshank, actor famous for his role in Dr Finlay's Casebook

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• James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland

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• George Jamesone (or Jameson) (c. 1587 – 1644) was Scotland's first eminent portrait-painter.

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• Annie Lennox

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• Andrew Murray - born at Mill of Clatt; emigrated to South Africa c. 1822, where he was progenitor of a renowned clan of Ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church

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• Archibald Simpson, architect, influential in design of Aberdeens's modern centre

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Related Projects on Geni

• Aberdeenshire - Main Page
• 'Historical Aberdeenshire
• Aberdeenshire - Family Heads

References, Sources and further reading

• http://www.rampantscotland.com/famousscots.htm

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