Trivia
- The poet, Lyle, wrote a song about the park, entitled Kelvin Grove.
- The Belle & Sebastian song Like Dylan in the Movies was written after a bout of paranoia suffered by the lead singer of the band, Stuart Murdoch, when walking through the park. The band record in the nearby CaVa Studios.
- Much of Alasdair Gray's novel Poor Things takes place in and around the park.
- The Glasgow University physicist, William Thomson, was raised to the peerage as Baron Kelvin in 1892, which title derived from the river.
- The Brisbane suburb of Kelvin Grove was named after the park
- Kelvingrove Park
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Monument to William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
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Monument to Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
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Kelvingrove Bandstand
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The River Kelvin is to the right, with Glasgow University tower in the distance.
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