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| x Macbeth of Scotland |
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Mac Bethad mac Findlaích (Modern Gaelic: MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh, anglicised as Macbeth, and nicknamed Rí Deircc, "the Red King"; died 15 August 1057) was King of the Scots (also known as the King of Alba, and earlier as King of Moray and King of...
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| x Malcolm III of Scotland |
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Máel Coluim mac Donnchada (Modern Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Dhonnchaidh), called in most Anglicised regnal lists Malcolm III, and in later centuries nicknamed Canmore, "Big Head" or Long-neck (died 13 November 1093), was King of Scots. It has also...
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| x Ralph Abercromby |
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Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, KB (sometimes spelled Abercrombie) (7 October 1734 – 28 March 1801) was a British lieutenant-general noted for his services during the Napoleonic Wars.
He was the eldest son of George Abercromby of Tullibody,...
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| x Robert I of Scotland |
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Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329) usually known in modern English as Robert the Bruce (Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys) was King of the Scots from 1306...
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| x Duns Scotus |
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Blessed John (Johannes) Duns Scotus, O.F.M. (c. 1266 – December 8, 1308) was one of the more important theologians and philosophers of the High Middle Ages. He was nicknamed Doctor Subtilis for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought.
Scotus...
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| x David I of Scotland |
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David I or Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim (Modern: Daibhidh I mac [Mhaoil] Chaluim; 1083 x 1085 – 24 May 1153) was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians (1113–1124) and later King of the Scots (1124–1153). The youngest son of Malcolm III and...
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| x Duncan I of Scotland |
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Donnchad mac Crínáin (Modern Gaelic: Donnchadh mac Crìonain) anglicised as Duncan I, and nicknamed An t-Ilgarach, "the Diseased" or "the Sick" (died 14 August 1040) was king of Scotland (Alba). He was son of Crínán, hereditary lay abbot of Dunkeld,...
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| x James Busby |
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James Busby (7 February 1801 – 15 July 1871) was British Resident to New Zealand, involved in the drafting of the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand and the Treaty of Waitangi, and is widely regarded as the "father" of the Australian...
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| x Alexander Cockburn |
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Alexander Claud Cockburn (pronounced /ˈkoʊbərn/ KOE-bərn), born 6 June 1941, is an Irish-American political journalist. Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he...
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| x John Ross |
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Sir John Ross, CB, (24 June, 1777 – 30 August, 1856) was a Scottish rear admiral and Arctic explorer.
Ross was the son of the Rev. Andrew Ross, minister of Inch, near Stranraer in Scotland. In 1786, aged only nine, he joined the Royal Navy as an...
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| x David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn |
David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, KT, GCMG, PRSE (born 14 February 1935) is a retired British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. Lord Wilson of Tillyorn was the second to last Commander-in-Chief and 27th Governor of Hong Kong (from...
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| x Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton |
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Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, FRS (1863, Kimmerghame, Berwickshire – 1930, London) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer. He described an electronic method of producing television in a 1908 letter to Nature.
Campbell-Swinton was educated...
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| x David Maclean |
David John MacLean (born 16 May 1953, Scotland) is a Conservative Party politician. He has been Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border since 1983.
Educated at Fortrose Academy, Fortrose, The Black Isle, Highland, and at the University of...
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| x Doug Naysmith |
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John Douglas Naysmith (Doug) (born 1 April 1941) is the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Bristol North West.
Doug Naysmith was born in Musselburgh, Scotland, he attended the local Burgh School before attending the independent George...
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| x Michael Fallon |
Michael Cathal Fallon (born 14 May 1952, Scotland) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks.
Michael Fallon is the son of an Irish surgeon. He was educated at Craigflower School in Dunfermline, at...
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| x James Gray |
James Whiteside Gray (born November 7, 1954) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for North Wiltshire.
Born in Scotland, the son of a doctor mother and a Minister father (John Gray, minister at Dunblane Cathedral, and...
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| x Elizabeth Fraser |
Elizabeth Fraser (born Elizabeth Davidson Fraser, 29 August 1963, Grangemouth) is a Scottish singer, best known for her vocal work as the Cocteau Twins' lead singer. Her melismatic vocal stylings and abstract, indecipherable lyrics have generated...
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| x James Laidlaw Maxwell |
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James Laidlaw Maxwell Senior (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má Ngá-kok; Chinese: 馬雅各; born Scotland, 18 March 1836; died March 1921) was the first Presbyterian missionary to Taiwan (Formosa). He served with the English Presbyterian Mission.
Maxwell studied medicine...
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| x George W. Campbell |
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George Washington Campbell (February 9, 1769 – February 17, 1848) was an American statesman.
Born in Tongue, Sutherland, Scotland, he immigrated to North Carolina in 1772 with his parents. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton...
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| x Andrew Hamilton |
Andrew Hamilton (c. 1676 – August 4, 1741) was a Scottish lawyer in Colonial America, best known for his legal victory on behalf of printer and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger. This 1735 decision helped to establish that truth is a defense to...
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| x Mark Burchill |
Mark James Burchill (born 18 August 1980) is a Scottish professional football player who plays as a striker for Scottish Premier League club Kilmarnock. He previously played for Scottish clubs Celtic, Dundee, Hearts and Dunfermline Athletic, and in...
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| x Eystein II of Norway |
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Eystein Haraldsson (Old Norse Eysteinn Haraldsson, modern Norwegian Øystein Haraldsson), born c 1125 apparently in Scotland, died 1157 in Bohuslän, Norway, was king of Norway from 1142 to 1157. He ruled as co-ruler with his brothers, Inge Haraldsson...
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| x Stephen Batchelor |
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Stephen Batchelor (c. 1953) is a self-described agnostic born in Scotland, and is the author of many books relating to Buddhism. Currently living in Aquitaine, France, at age nineteen Batchelor moved to Dharamsala in India with an interest in...
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| x David B. Henderson |
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David Bremner Henderson (March 14, 1840–February 25, 1906), a ten-term Republican congressman from Dubuque, Iowa, was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1903. He was first person representing a district west of...
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| x Sandy Clark |
Alexander "Sandy" Clark (born 28 October 1956 in Airdrie) is a former professional football player and currently a pundit for BBC Scotland. He was a centre forward.
He played for several clubs in his playing career including Rangers, Hearts, home...
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| x Robert Machray |
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Robert Machray (May 17, 1831 - March 9, 1904) was a Church of England clergyman and missionary and the first Primate of the Church of England in Canada.
Born in Scotland, Machray was educated at King's College, University of Aberdeen and Sidney...
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| x David Makeléer |
Baron David Makeléer, 1st Friherre or David Macklier (1646 - 10 November 1708) was the first governor of Älvsborg County, Sweden. He served from 1693 to 1708.
David was the son of baronet John Hans Makeléer (1604-1666). His mother was Anna Gubbertz...
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| x James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas |
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Sir James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas and Mar (c. 1358 – 14 August 1388), was an influential and powerful magnate in the Kingdom of Scotland. He was son and heir of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas and Margaret, Countess of Mar.
In 1385 he made...
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| x Bill Gilmour |
Bill Gilmour is a Scots television director. He was born on March 17, 1939 in the small town of Peebles in the Tweed Valley of the Scottish Borders. He went to Ealing Art College in West London, where he specialised in photography, while attending...
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| x David Bell |
David Bell was a Scottish television producer and director in the light entertainment genre. In the mid 1980s, he became head of light entertainment at LWT. Live From Her Majesty's, Copy Cats and The Stanley Baxter Show number amongst his successes....
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| x Bill Carroll |
Bill Carroll is a Canadian broadcast personality and currently the host of The Bill Carroll Morning Show from 6:00 am to 10:00 am on CFRB 1010 in Toronto. He also hosts Sundays from time to time at KFI radio in Los Angeles.
Carroll was born in...
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| x Milind Soman |
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Milind Soman (Marathi: मिलिंद सोमण) is an Indian model and actor. He was born in Scotland on November 4, 1965 and lived in England for seven years before his family moved back to India.
Soman is considered one of the most successful models in India....
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| x William Allan |
William Allan JP (ca. 1770 – 11 July 1853) was a Canadian banker, businessman and politician.
Allan was born at Moss, near Huntly, Scotland around 1770. He came to Canada around 1787 to work with Forsyth, Richardson and Company and settled at...
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| x Saint Oda |
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Saint Oda of Scotland (c. 680 – c. 726) was a Scottish princess who became a holy woman in the Netherlands.
Oda was born blind and her father sent her on pilgrimage to Liège to visit the relics of Saint Lambert. While praying at Saint Lambert's...
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| x Martin Woods |
Martin Paul Woods (born 1 January 1986 in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Doncaster Rovers. He is an attacking left-sided midfield player noted for his long range shooting and free kicks.
Woods started his...
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| x Allan McLean |
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Allan McLean (3 February 1840 – 13 July 1911) was an Australian politician, the 19th Premier of Victoria.
McLean was born in the highlands of Scotland and came to Australia as a child in 1842 with his family. He later said 'were practically frozen...
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| x Alexander Raven Thomson |
Alexander Raven Thomson (1899 – 1955) (usually known as Raven) was a leading figure in the British Union of Fascists and was considered to be the party's chief ideologue. He has been described as the "Alfred Rosenberg of British fascism".
Born in...
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| x James Smillie |
James Smilie (born 1944 in Scotland) emigrated from the Glasgow tenements, carving out a career in Australia before returning to the United Kingdom to star in London's West End. A dynamic and versatile leading man, he has played the starring role in...
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| x George T. Miller |
George Trumbull Miller (born 1943) is a Scottish-born Australian film and television director and producer. He has directed The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Man from Snowy River and Prey.
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| x James Service |
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James Service (27 November 1823 – 13 April 1899), Australian colonial politician, was the 12th Premier of Victoria. Service was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, and as a young man worked in a Glasgow tea importing business. In 1853 he arrived...
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| x Adrian Elrick |
Adrian Coroon Elrick (born September 29, 1949 in Scotland) was a football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand.
Moving from Scotland at a young age to New Zealand, Adrian became part of the Auckland football scene. He spent most of his career...
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| x Mary of Guelders |
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Mary of Guelders (c. 1434 – 1 December 1463) was Queen Consort to James II of Scotland, and the Regent of Scotland 1460-1463.
She was the daughter of Arnold, Duke of Guelders and Catherine, eldest daughter of Adolph IV, Duke of Cleves.
Mary married...
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| x John MacLean |
Hans Makeléer, 1st Baronet, and Lord of Gåsevadholm, Hageby, and Hammersöö (1604 – July 7, 1666) was a merchant in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was made a Baronet by Charles II of England and was made Lord of Gåsevadholm, Hageby, and Hammersöö by...
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| x Lee McConnell |
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Lee McConnell (born 9 October 1978) is a Scottish athlete who competes in the 400 metres. She attended Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Glasgow before graduating from Loughborough University in 2000 with a degree in Sports Science. She won the...
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| x Gai Waterhouse |
Gai Waterhouse (maiden name Gabriel Marie Smith, born 2 September 1954) is a Scottish-born, Australian resident horse trainer, businesswoman and a former actress
Waterhouse was educated at the Kincoppal-Rose Bay School in Sydney. She completed...
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| x Tommy Dysart |
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Tommy Dysart is a Scottish-born actor, currently resident in Australia. Dysart has been a regular fixture on Australian television for several decades, frequently appearing in guest-starring roles in drama series and comedies, and in character roles...
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| x Michael J. Benton |
Michael J. Benton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic...
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| x Ashley Mulheron |
Ashley Mulheron (born 8 February 1983) is a Scottish actress and television presenter.
Mulheron trained as an actress at Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Mulheron was in the British Comedy Horror Lesbian Vampire Killers 2009, opposite...
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| x Hardeep Singh Kohli |
Hardeep Singh Kohli (born 1969) is a writer, comedian, presenter and property landlord in the United Kingdom.
Kohli was born in Glasgow and his parents came to the UK from in India in the 1960s. His mother was a social worker, and his father a...
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| x Eric Cullen |
Eric Robertson Cullen (12 July 1965 — 16 August 1996) was a Scottish actor who was famous for his role as Wee Burney in BBC's Rab C Nesbitt. He was born with achondroplasia - a type of dwarfism.
He was born to a single mother and was adopted by a...
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| x Thomas Clark |
Thomas Clark (Unknown – October 6, 1835) was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.
He was born in Scotland and came to Upper Canada in 1791 to seek employment with his cousin, Robert Hamilton. In 1796, he opened a store in Queenston....
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| x Gary Wales |
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Gary Wales (born 4 January 1979 in East Calder, West Lothian) is an Scottish professional footballer.
Wales, a striker, started his career at Hamilton. In 35 games he scored 11 goals before moving to Hearts for £50,000. In five years at Tynecastle,...
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| x Lindsay L. Cooper |
Lindsay L. Cooper (18 January1940—19 June2001) was a Scottish double-bass and cello player. He spent four years working as a ship's musician and had performed and recorded with a number of other musicians and bands, including Michael Jackson, Boy...
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| x Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas |
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Archibald the Grim also known as Blak (Black) Archibald (c. 1328-1400), Earl of Douglas, Earl of Wigtown, Lord of Douglas, Lord of Bothwell and Lord of Galloway was a Scottish nobleman.
Archibald the Grim was a bastard son by an unknown mother of...
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| x William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas |
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William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (c. 1327 – 1384), was a Scottish nobleman.
He was the son of Sir Archibald Douglas and Beatrice Lindsay, and nephew of "Sir James the Good", Bruce's trusted deputy. He was educated in France, and returned to...
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| x Archibald Douglas, Duke of Touraine |
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Archibald Douglas, Duke of Touraine, Earl of Douglas, and Wigtown, Lord of Annandale, Galloway 13th Lord of Douglas, (1372–1424) was a Scottish nobleman and warlord. He is often mistakenly called the "Tyneman" (Old Scots:Loser), but this is a...
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| x Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas |
Archibald Douglas (1390–26 June 1439), was a Scottish nobleman, son of Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, eldest daughter of Robert III. He was Earl of Douglas and Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Lord of Bothwell, Selkirk and...
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| x William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas |
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William Douglas (c. 1424 – 24 November 1440) was a short-lived Scottish Nobleman. He was Earl of Douglas and Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Lord of Bothwell, Selkirk and Ettrick Forest, Eskdale, Lauderdale, and Annandale in Scotland, and de jure Duke of...
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| x James Simpson |
James Simpson was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Simpson was Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland and educated at Dykehead public school. He started work at the age of fourteen as a coal miner. He...
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| x Danny Bhoy |
Danny Bhoy (born 1974) is an Indian-Scottish comedian who has found success in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He is half-Indian and half-Scottish.
Danny grew up in Moffat, Scotland, as one of four children, and attended...
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