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Local Heroes in Paisley, Renfrewshire*

Paisley, Renfrewshire Famous Residents

Cringing Cult of Celebrity (Famous residents and ex-residents.)

• Mon the gay DJ Andy Dunlop
• Eddie Stone, the strict but entertaining Ex-SAS Sergeant from the BBC series 'SAS. Are you tough enough?' now lives in Paisley. Proves that he is mental!!
• Davis Sneddon *cringe*
• Rod Stewart pops in alot aswell as me!
• Gerry Butler: Now Hollywood actor and star of Tomb raider 2 went to St Mirin's and St Margaret's High Scool
• the 70s rockpop band hailed from paisley
• That wee guy Davie Sneddon, who'll have heard of him this time next year!!!
• William Wallace was educated by the monks at Paisley Abbey. Robert the Bruces Daughter is burried somewhere under Paisley abbey she died whe3n she fell off her horse in a bad rain storm
• Forgeting about Robert Archibald. He does now play in the NBA and was so cool over at U of I playing for the Illini
• re Stan Laurel - the 'North of England' town where was born was Ulverston, now in Cumbria, was in Lancashire at the time.
• Kelly Marie's real name was Sandra McKinnon and she lived in St. Ninians road in Paisley.
• John Byrne, Rod Stewart used to drink in the Wee Barrell pub and watch local football team, St Mirren
• stuart macrae well known karoake contestant seeking fame and fortune can be heard by appointment
• Andy Dunlop ... what a hottie!
• Heather the bbc weather girl went to Camphill High School not Castlehead
• More famous Buddies: -- Fulton Mackay, actor, best known for his roles in Porridge and Local Hero; -- Steven Moffat, scriptwriter (Press Gang, Joking Apart, Coupling) -- Carol Laula, recording artist (four CDs released), wrote and performed the theme song for Glasgow's tenure as European City of Culture (she still lives in Johnstone)
• Maria Bowskill. BBC Scotlands kids programmes "GO4X" and "GOTV" was born and lived in Paisley. she went to Mossvale primary and Merksworth High.
• Gillian Lindsay is a native who recently got Olympic silver in rowing and followed it up with an appearance in the Star. Classy. Paisley's most famous celebs are Krazed Kickboxers, jaggy-heid newspaper magnates and regular stars of Court Report on the local TV news
• Gerry Rafferty hails from Paisley and his Mum still lives there. Remember Baker Street?
• my friends the acting and performance class at reid keer college are (i think) all aspiring singers and actors
• John Byrne,artist,playwrightand all round renaissence man,writer of the acclaimed TuttI Frutti,Your cheatin heart, and the Slab Boys.Ex local boy done good, married to the actress Tilda Swinton,who recently starred in "The Beach" .....and it gets better, having been lucky enough to have met him recently he has definately still got his feet on the ground,a genuinely nice guy!
• Kenneth McKellar
• Archie Gemmell
• Douglas Henshall (up and coming actor) Dougie Vipond (ex Deacon Blue drummer, TV Presenter and StMirren supporter)
• The author Christopher Brookmyre - author of "Quite Ugly One Morning", "Country of the Blind", "Not the End of the World", and "One Fine Day in the Middle of The Night" (watch out for a film of that book possibly opening) is a Paisley Buddie. I can highly recommend his books if you enjoy black humour.
• "Heather the Weather" from bbc Scotland weather is from Paisley... Went to Castlehead high
• William Wallace was born in Elderslie.
• You forgot Kelly Marie
• Bill Gardiner of Slab Boys, and other films including The Near Room.
• The dark haired girl from the Peugeot advert which is a rips off the Thelma and Louise movie and also the reporter from the TV series Harry which also stars Michael Elphick of the Boon series.
• Carol Smile - TV presenter on the holiday program and hostess on Wheel of Fortune. She was born in Paisley.
• John Reid - Elton John's manager.
• Gerry Rafferty.
• The first Joey Boswell from the comedy sitcom 'Bread' also went to Paisley Grammar School and lived in Paisley.
• Andrew Neil (editor of large newspapers and political TV presenter) - he went to Paisley Grammar School and lived in Paisley.
• Stan Laurel (Laurel and Hardy, famous comedy duo) - he was born in North England but came up to Camphill near the old school to live.
• Tom Conti (actor) - his family used to run a hairdressing salon in Paisley.

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• There are a few sometimes but not that often, mostly its just beggers you see, shame, cos its nice to go shopping on a saturday, and beneath all the hustle and bustle theres some poor sod saying he needs change for the bus or something for a cup of tea, when actually he wants to buy cheap booze or drugs
• not a great deal

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