Born at 95 Panmure Street, Maryhill, Glasgow, Bertie Auld (1938–2021) was one of Celtic’s ‘Lisbon Lions’ (winners of the 1967 European Cup final), who won a total of thirteen major honours with Celtic as a player, and whose managerial career began in 1974 with Patrick Thistle FC and ended in Dumbarton, with stints at Hibernian and Hamilton Academical in between. Following the end of his football career, he ran a pub named The Buccaneer in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.placeholder image
Born at 95 Panmure Street, Maryhill, Glasgow, Bertie Auld (1938–2021) was one of Celtic’s ‘Lisbon Lions’ (winners of the 1967 European Cup final), who won a total of thirteen major honours with Celtic as a player, and whose managerial career began in 1974 with Patrick Thistle FC and ended in Dumbarton, with stints at Hibernian and Hamilton Academical in between. Following the end of his football career, he ran a pub named The Buccaneer in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. | Getty Images

People of Glasgow: 9 legends from in and around Glasgow added to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Liam Smillie
By Liam Smillie

Digital Reporter

Published 12th Jun 2025, 00:01 GMT

The latest update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography adds biographies of 238 people who left their mark on the UK, and who died in the year 2021 - including 9 from in and around Glasgow

The Oxford DNB is the national record of people who have shaped British history, worldwide, from prehistory to the year 2021. From June 2025 the dictionary includes biographies of more than 63,000 individuals, written by over 14,000 contributors, and with more than 12,000 portrait images.

Biographies in the online edition of the Oxford DNB now include people who died in or before the year 2021. No living person is included. People who died in later years will be added by calendar year in online updates.

The 238 new biographies are available online from 12 June 2025. Click here to see them now.

Take a look to see the 9 people from Greater Glasgow who were added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography who died in 2021.

From a later generation, the Kenyan-born singer and poet Beldina Odenyo Onassis (1990–2021), also known as Genesee and Heir of the Cursed, was brought up from the age of five in Dumfriesshire, before moving to Glasgow, where, exploring the various elements of her heritage, she shone briefly but brightly as a much-lauded figure on the Scottish musical scene.

5. Beldina Odenyo Onassis

From a later generation, the Kenyan-born singer and poet Beldina Odenyo Onassis (1990–2021), also known as Genesee and Heir of the Cursed, was brought up from the age of five in Dumfriesshire, before moving to Glasgow, where, exploring the various elements of her heritage, she shone briefly but brightly as a much-lauded figure on the Scottish musical scene. | Euan Robertson Photo: Euan Robertson

Born at Eastbank Manse, Mount Vernon, Glasgow, the son of a United free Church minister, surgeon Sir Patrick Forrest (1923–2021), regius professor at Edinburgh from 1970, championed evidence-based breast cancer screenings and established national detection protocols, leading to a large reduction in mortality from breast cancer.

6. Sir Patrick Forrest

Born at Eastbank Manse, Mount Vernon, Glasgow, the son of a United free Church minister, surgeon Sir Patrick Forrest (1923–2021), regius professor at Edinburgh from 1970, championed evidence-based breast cancer screenings and established national detection protocols, leading to a large reduction in mortality from breast cancer. | National World

Born at 26 Stanley Street, Glasgow, Jack Dunitz (1923–2021) was a world-renowned chemist and crystallographer whose structural analyses of reaction mechanisms shed light on how chemical bonding occurs in three dimensions, with implications for the design of modern pharmaceuticals.

7. Jack Dunitz

Born at 26 Stanley Street, Glasgow, Jack Dunitz (1923–2021) was a world-renowned chemist and crystallographer whose structural analyses of reaction mechanisms shed light on how chemical bonding occurs in three dimensions, with implications for the design of modern pharmaceuticals. | American Chemical Society

Born in Basra but brought up in Troon, and based for many years at the University of Glasgow, Sir James Armour (1929–2021) studied how science can address food security challenges while improving the welfare of animals. His research had a significant effect on livestock disease management, and dramatically improved agricultural productivity in the developing world.

8. Sir James Armour

Born in Basra but brought up in Troon, and based for many years at the University of Glasgow, Sir James Armour (1929–2021) studied how science can address food security challenges while improving the welfare of animals. His research had a significant effect on livestock disease management, and dramatically improved agricultural productivity in the developing world. | Contributed Photo: hy

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