Notable People
Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has lived in the village for more than 20 years. Iain Banks, the acclaimed author, was brought up in North Queensferry. After a spell living elsewhere, he returned to the village in the early 1990s. Ian Jack, a noted journalist who was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday newspaper, was also raised in North Queensferry and still has family who live in the village. Jason Byrne, comedian, moved to the village from Dublin in 2005.
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