Born in Leith

Leith

District and former municipal burgh in Scotland

Leith as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. Scottish novelist, British aviator, Royal Navy officer, test pilot, author, British physician, surgeon and author (1777-1836)): Irvine Welsh, Eric Melrose Brown, John Cheyne and some more.

Celebrities from Leith

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Irvine Welsh

Scottish novelist

*September 27th, 1958

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Eric Melrose Brown

British aviator, Royal Navy officer, test pilot, author

*January 21st, 1919 †February 21st, 2016, Redhill

58

John Cheyne

British physician, surgeon and author (1777-1836)

*February 3rd, 1777 †January 31st, 1836, Buckinghamshire

83

John Hunter

Royal Navy officer and governor (1737-1821)

*August 29th, 1737 †March 13th, 1821, London Borough of Hackney

62

William Crichton

Scottish-Finnish industrialist (1827-1889)

*March 29th, 1827 †April 10th, 1889, Turku

85

John Home

Scottish playwright and Presbyterian minister; (1722-1808)

*September 22nd, 1722 †September 4th, 1808

81

Eduardo Paolozzi

British artist (1924-2005)

*March 7th, 1924 †April 22nd, 2005, London

33

Leigh Griffiths

Scottish association football player

*August 20th, 1990

86

Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham

British admiral, politician and abolitionist (1726-1813)

*October 14th, 1726 †June 17th, 1813, Teston

55

Thomas Anderson

Chemist

*July 2nd, 1819 †November 2nd, 1874, Chiswick

84

Gabriel Scott

Norwegian writer (1874–1958)

*March 8th, 1874 †July 9th, 1958, Arendal

87

John Parish

British-born Hamburg merchant (1742-1829)

*March 5th, 1742 †December 1st, 1829, Bath

73

Tom Grieve

British association football player (1875-1948)

*July 7th, 1875 †November 28th, 1948, Wishaw

52

Tony Singh

British chef

*May 15th, 1971

85

Robert Richardson

British Army officer

*March 2nd, 1929 †November 21st, 2014

62

Craig Reid

Scottish musician, one half of The Proclaimers

*March 5th, 1962

62

Charlie Reid

Scottish musician, one half of The Proclaimers

*March 5th, 1962

77

Jackie Dennis

British singer

*October 8th, 1942 †September 28th, 2020

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