Editing Castle Douglas (section)

== Notable people ==
*[[George Badenoch]] (1884–1915) footballer, killed in World War I.
*[[John Biggar (mountaineer)|John Biggar]] (born 1964), mountaineer who has made various first ascents in the [[Andes]].
* [[Nigel John Biggar]], Lord Biggar, of Castle Douglas, (born 14 March 1955) is a British Anglican priest, theologian, and ethicist. From 2007 to 2022, he was the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford. He was made ''Baron Biggar, of Castle Douglas in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright'', on 21 January 2025, and was [[Introduction (House of Lords)|introduced to the House of Lords]] on 28 January. [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4798150]
* [[Ethel Bristowe]], (1864–1952) artist and [[Assyriology|assyriologist]], bequeathed to Castle Douglas the art gallery at the library on the Market Hill.
*  Dr [[David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere]], born 1939.
* [[S. R. Crockett|Samuel Rutherford Crockett]], (1859–1914), author of ''The Raiders'' and many other works of [[historical fiction]], lived at 24 Cotton Street, Castle Douglas and attended Cowper's School also in Cotton Street.
* [[Brown Derby (actor)|Brown Derby]], (1914 –  2000) was a Scottish film and television actor.
* Charles Dickens, visited the [[antiquarian]] and author Joseph Train, FSA Scot, (1779–1852) at his home Lochvale Cottage and wrote about it in his periodical ''Household Words,''  no.173 July 1853, which appeared after Train's death.  A marble plaque commemorating Train and his life and friendship with Sir Walter Scott can be found in Castle Douglas Town Hall.<ref>{{Citation |title=Household Words : 1850–1859 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474211345.ch-001 |work=Dickens, Journalism, Music : Household Words and All The Year Round |access-date=2023-12-31 |publisher=Continuum |isbn=978-1-4411-5087-5}}</ref>
* [[Sir William Douglas, 1st Baronet|Sir William Douglas, 1st Baronet, 1801, (1745–1809)]], Founder of the burgh of Castle Douglas. Buried in the Douglas Mausoleum on Kelton Hill overlooking the town.
* [[Victor Fortune|Major-General Sir Victor Fortune]]  (1883–1949).
* [[Agnes McDonald]] (1829 – 1906) was an early European settler to New Zealand, working as a nurse, postmistress and teacher.
* [[William Stewart MacGeorge|William Stewart McGeorge]] (1862–1931), artist associated with the [[Kirkcudbright School]]. Lived at 120 King Street.
* [[David McMath]], born 1996 is a Scottish [[Shooting sports|sport shooter]]. He competed in the [[Shooting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's double trap|men's double trap event]] at the [[2018 Commonwealth Games]], winning the gold medal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scotland |first=Team |title=David McMath |url=https://www.teamscotland.scot/athlete/david-mcmath/ |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=Team Scotland |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* [[Ted McMinn]], born 1962, former professional footballer and commentator, was born in Castle Douglas.
* [[Kay Mander]] (1915 –2013) was a documentary film director and shooting [[Script supervisor|continuity]] specialist. She spent most of the rest of her career working in continuity on feature films such as ''From Russia with Love'', ''The Heroes of Telemark'' and ''[[Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)|Fahrenheit 451]]''. In her later years she lived at Castle Douglas.
* [[James Clerk Maxwell]], (1831 -1879), for physicist and author of ''Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism'', 1873. Maxwell lived at [[Glenlair]], he died in 1879 and is buried in the churchyard at [[Parton, Dumfries and Galloway|Parton]] Kirk. His work influenced [[Albert Einstein]] who kept a framed photograph of him on his study wall.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Media Library |url=http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/html/media_library.html |access-date=2018-08-19 |website=clerkmaxwellfoundation.org}}</ref>
* [[John Muir (South African naturalist)|John Muir]] (1874–1947) was a medical doctor, naturalist and cultural historian in South Africa.
* [[Sir John Nairne, 1st Baronet]] (1861–1945) Chief Cashier of the Bank of England and a founding director of the BBC.<ref name="kirk_John">{{Cite web |last=Bell |first=James |date=n.d. |title=John Gordon Nairne of Castle Douglas. |url=http://www.kirkcudbright.co/historyarticle.asp?ID=343&p=26&g=4 |access-date=3 September 2018 |website=kirkcudbright.co}}</ref>
* [[William Peck (astronomer)|Sir William Peck]]  (1862–  1925), was a Scottish [[astronomer]] and scientific instrument maker.
*[[Jerry Rawlings]], (1947–2020) Former Ghanaian President whose father was from Castle Douglas.
* [[Arthur Smith (rugby union)]], (1933–1975) Scottish rugby player.
*[[Stansmore Dean Stevenson]] (1866 –1944) was a Scottish artist known for her oil paintings. Associated with the Kirkcudbright School of artists.
*[[Alan Temperley]] author of children's and young adult fiction including ''[[Harry and the Wrinklies]]'' and his reworking of traditional stories ''Tales of Galloway.''
*[[William Henry Veno|Sir William Henry Veno]], (1866–1933) creator of Veno's Cough Syrup was the son of a gamekeeper just outside Castle Douglas.
* [[Kirsty Wark]], journalist and television presenter, born in Dumfries, lived in Castle Douglas in infancy before the family moved back to Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
*[[William Wilson (mayor)|William Barbour Wilson]] ( 1819 – 1897), also known as Cabbage Wilson was the first Mayor of Christchurch New Zealand in 1868.