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Famous People Connected to Selkirkshire
Historic County of Scotland
Image right - Mungo Park
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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- Peter Blake (b. 1951), film and television actor
- James Brown (J.B. Selkirk) (1832–1904), poet and essayist
- James Marr Brydone (1779–1866), surgeon who sighted the French fleet, signalling the beginning of the Battle of Trafalgar
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- Rae Hendrie (b. 1977), television actress
- James Hogg (1770–1835), poet and author
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- Bobby Johnstone (1921–2001), Scotland international footballer and a member of the Hibernian Famous Five forward line
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- Andrew Lang (1844–1912), poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology
- Gideon Lang, Australian pastoralist and parliamentarian
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- Sandy McMahon (1871–1916), Scotland international footballer and Celtic's eighth highest all-time top goal scorer
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- Mungo Park (1771–1806), explorer of the African continent
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- John Rutherford (b. 1955), Scotland international rugby player and British and Irish Lion, won 42 caps at fly-half for his country, at the time a record in that position
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- Tom Scott (1854–1927), artist
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- Tibbie Tamson, alleged to be either a victim of the Scottish witch trials, a suicide victim, a plague victim or a murder victim
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Related Projects on Geni
- Selkirkshire - Main Page
- Historical Selkirkshire (Link to follow)
- People Connected to Selkirkshire
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