Glasgow (gbr)

Glasgow

Glasgow ranks 55th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cairo, Bucharest, and Houston. Memorable people born in Glasgow include Alex Ferguson, Mark Knopfler, and William Ramsay. Memorable people who died in Glasgow include William John Macquorn Rankine, Robert III of Scotland, and Thomas Reid. Glasgow has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many soccer players, and politicians. Glasgow is located in United Kingdom.

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, the third-most populous city in the United Kingdom, and the 27th-most populous city in Europe. In 2022, it had an estimated population as a defined locality of 632,350 and anchored an urban settlement of 1,028,220. Glasgow became a county in 1893, the city having previously been in the historic county of Lanarkshire, and later growing to also include settlements that were once part of Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire. It now forms the Glasgow City Council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and is administered by Glasgow City Council. Read more on Wikipedia