Well-known people who have made Â鶹ֱ²¥ their home
The is the home for Scotland's literary and historical treasures. It preserves and shares Scotland's
- history
- literature
- cultural heritage.
The library has been working with us to share stories of people who have made Â鶹ֱ²¥ their home, enriching our cultural diversity as well as our city’s achievements.
Did you know these well-known people from a variety backgrounds made Â鶹ֱ²¥ their home over the centuries?
- The paternal grandparents of (née Camberg) were from Lithuania
- Prominent academic and human rights campaigner , who was born in Devon to German refugee parents, lived in Â鶹ֱ²¥ from the 1960s.
- was of Irish descent.
- Elias Fürst, born to an immigrant rabbi, was one of the longest serving chairmen of Heart of Midlothian Football Club at a time when football remained the bastion of locals and gentiles. He helped the club rise for crisis to financial security and oversaw the development of Tynecastle.
- , a Jewish-German zoologist and geneticist, fled Nazism in Germany and pursued a PhD in genetics at the University of Â鶹ֱ²¥.
- Rabbi Salis Daiches and his sons, , and David Daiches, a prolific literary historian and critic, came from Lithuania
- was enslaved man from Guyana. Brought to Scotland where he as emancipated and moved to Â鶹ֱ²¥. He became a commercial taxidermist and worked with the University of Â鶹ֱ²¥. He is renowned for teaching Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy.
- And well-known milkman and actor was descended from people from Wexford, Ireland.