Editing Kirkcudbright (section)

==Notable people==
===Artists===
[[File:The Greengage, High Street, Kirkcudbright, Scotland.jpg|alt=|thumb|Jessie M. King's house, Greengate]]

Kirkcudbright has had a long association with the Glasgow art movement. Several artists, including the [[Glasgow Boys]] and the famed [[Scottish Colourists]], such as [[Samuel Peploe]] and [[Francis Cadell (artist)|Francis Cadell]], based themselves in the area over a 30-year period from 1880 to 1910, establishing the [[Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony]]. Also among those who moved here from Glasgow were [[Edward Atkinson Hornel|Edward Hornel]], [[George Henry (painter)|George Henry]] and [[Jessie M. King]]. Later another small group of Glasgow-trained artists built their studios across the river at The Stell, including John Charles Lamont and [[Robert Sivell]]. Landscape painter Charles Oppenheimer moved to Kirkcudbright in 1908. He is given credit along with artist Dorothy Nesbitt for protecting the Harbour Cottage (art) Gallery from demolition in 1956.  Kirkcudbright became known as "the artists' town".<ref name=artist/> Other artists include:

*[[Joseph Simpson (artist)|Joseph Simpson]] (1879–1939), British painter and etcher of portraits and sporting subjects.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkcudbrightgalleries.org.uk/artists-footsteps/artist/joseph-w-simpson/|title=Joseph W Simpson &#124; Kirkcudbright Galleries &#124; Dumfries and Galloway &#124; Artists &#124; Gallery|website=Kirkcudbright Galleries}}</ref>
*[[Phyllis Bone]] (1894–1972), Scottish sculptor who moved to Galloway and lived in later life in Kirkcudbright.<ref name="Alumni">{{cite web |title=Phyllis Mary Bone (1894 – 1972) |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni/services/notable-alumni/alumni-in-history/phyllis-mary-bone |website=University of Edinburgh Alumni |date=30 March 2016 |publisher=University of Edinburgh |access-date=26 January 2020}}</ref>
*[[William Hanna Clarke]] (1882–1924), landscape and figure painter who lived in Kirkcudbright, and many of his works featured the town. He is buried in the town's churchyard and his tombstone was carved by his friend Alexander Proudfoot, a Glasgow sculptor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artistsfootsteps.co.uk/artists_a_z.asp?ID=25 |title=William Hanna Clarke |publisher=Artists' Footsteps |access-date=8 June 2014 |archive-date=22 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022232455/http://www.artistsfootsteps.co.uk/artists_a_z.asp?ID=25 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Sportspeople===
* [[Bob McDougall]] (1894–1936), [[George Cloy]] and [[David Mathieson]] (born 1978), professional footballers who lived in the town.<ref name="McCartney, I 2008">McCartney, I (2008) Queen of the South: The History 1919–2008, Staffordshire: The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=McLean|first=K |year=2009|title=QosFC: Legends - George Cloy|publisher= Queen of the South Football Club|url=http://qosfc.com/content-legendsView.aspx?playerid=1050}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=McLean|first=K |year=2009|title=QosFC: Legends - Tommy Bryce|publisher= Queen of the South Football Club|url=http://qosfc.com/content-legendsView.aspx?playerid=1045}}</ref>
* [[David MacMyn]] (1903–1978), Scottish rugby international, was from Kirkcudbright.<ref>HG (1978) 'Obituary', British Medical Journal, 1 (6119, April), 1058 to 1060</ref>

===Others===
[[File:Craigville, St Mary's Street, Kirkcudbright, Scotland.jpg|alt=|thumb|Lawrence of Arabia's family lived at Craigville, St Mary's Street, Kirkcudbright between 1889 and 1891]]
*[[Malcolm Caldwell]], born James Alexander Malcolm Caldwell (1931–1978), British academic and a prolific Marxist writer. Caldwell was murdered, under mysterious circumstances, a few hours after meeting [[Pol Pot]] in Cambodia. His father, Archibald Thomson Caldwell was County Architect for Kirkcudbrightshire from 1950 until his death in 1957.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report (February 7, 2024, 7:17 am) |url=https://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=204159 |access-date=7 February 2024 |website=scottisharchitects.org.uk}}</ref> Caldwell was Dux of [[Kirkcudbright Academy]] in 1949.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kirkcudbrightacademy.website/caldwell.html|title=Caldwell|access-date=20 April 2019|archive-date=20 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420150538/http://www.kirkcudbrightacademy.website/caldwell.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Cecil Coles]] (1888–1918), a composer who was born in Kirkcudbright and killed on active service in the [[World War I|First World War]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|year=1918|title=Comprehensive Report|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/71046/COLES,%20CECIL%20FREDERICK%20G}}</ref>
* [[John Duncan (traveller in Africa)|John Duncan]] (1805–1849), a Scottish explorer in Africa. Born at Culdoach, the family farm.
* [[Marriott Edgar]] (1880–1951), lyricist and poet who wrote, amongst other things, ''[[Albert and the Lion]]'' for [[Stanley Holloway]], was born in Kirkcudbright.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetry.net/poet/Marriott+Edgar|title=Marriott Edgar Poems|website=Poetry.net|access-date=25 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[John Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine of Rerrick]] (1893–1980), banker and [[Governor of Northern Ireland]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) |author=C D Waterston |author2=A Macmillan Shearer |publisher=[[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] |isbn=090219884X |date=July 2006 |access-date=18 September 2015 |archive-date=24 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead|page=232}}</ref>
* [[T. E. Lawrence]] ''(Lawrence of Arabia)'' (1888–1935), lived in infancy with his family between 1889 and 1891 in Craigville, St Mary's Street. His brother William George was born here in 1889.<ref>{{Lives of WWI |id=2323783 |name=William George Lawrence}}</ref>
* [[Gary Lewis (actor)|Gary Lewis]] (born 1957), actor in ''Gangs of New York'', ''Billy Elliot'', etc. lives in Kirkcudbright.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/kirkcudbright-actor-gary-lewis-receives-13667523|title=Kirkcudbright actor Gary Lewis receives honorary degree from Glasgow Caledonian University|date=5 December 2018|newspaper=Daily Record|access-date=23 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Sara Maitland]] (born 1950), daughter of Adam Maitland of Cumstoun House (a descendant of [[Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan|Judge Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan]]). She is a British writer of religious fantasy. A novelist, she is also known for her short stories.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 April 2022 |title=Cumstoun and its Castles – Kirkcudbright History Society |url=https://www.kirkcudbrighthistorysociety.org.uk/news/cumstoun-and-its-castles/ |access-date=22 February 2024 |language=en-GB}}</ref>