Editing Hamilton, South Lanarkshire (section)

===Art and literature===
* [[Joanna Baillie]] (poet) (lived in the town as a child)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://electricscotland.com/history/baillie/chapter01.htm|title=Life and Work of Joanna Baillie|first=Margaret Sprague |last=Carhart|year=1923|publisher=New Haven Yale University Press}}</ref>
* [[Martin Boyce]] (artist)<ref>{{cite news|author=Charlotte Higgins |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/dec/05/martin-boyce-turner-prize-winner |title=Martin Boyce wins Turner prize 2011 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=5 December 2011 |accessdate=3 January 2016}}</ref>
* [[David Carlyle]] (actor)<ref>{{cite news |last=Jenkins |first=Carla |website=Glasgow Live |title=It's A Sin's David Carlyle on being nominated for a BAFTA and growing up gay in Glasgow |url=https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/its-sins-david-carlyle-being-21886102 |date=17 October 2021 |access-date=25 May 2022}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Clark (writer)|Thomas Clark]] (writer)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/grassroots-2012-former-hamilton-kid-878353/|title=Grassroots 2012: Former Hamilton kid Thomas Clark sparks revival of football at Hawick High School|access-date=29 October 2022|archive-date=13 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513142937/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/grassroots-2012-former-hamilton-kid-878353|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Robin Jenkins]] (novelist) (attended Hamilton Academy)<ref>Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association Magazine, February 1950, feature on Hamilton Academy in the article series 'Famous Scottish Schools'</ref>
* [[John Mather (artist)|John Mather]] (artist)<ref>Judy Blyth, '[http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100426b.htm  Mather, John (1848? - 1916)]', ''[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]'', Volume 10, [[Melbourne University Press|MUP]], 1986, pp 438-439. Retrieved 2010-04-01</ref>