Notable Residents
- Duncan Macrae (actor and comedian, Whisky Galore, The Prisoner)
- Stephens Orr (society photographer)
- David Robertson (naturalist)
- The Saxon (a Clyde puffer which provided a shipping service to the island) and which featured in the TV series The Vital Spark, based on Neil Munro's Para Handy stories about the Vital Spark.
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