Clans of Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire
Cadzow, Lanark and the upper Clyde, Hamilton's first lands.
Tap a region of the map to see who held it.
Families seated in Lanarkshire
- Clan BairdLawyers, soldiers, and statesmen of Lanarkshire and the north-east.
- Clan DalzielTwo-word motto, three centuries of soldiering.
- Clan DouglasOne of the most powerful houses in medieval Scotland.
- Clan HamiltonDukes second only to the crown, and once heirs to it.
- Clan GrahamOf Grægham, the Anglo-Norman knight who became one of Scotland's great houses.
- Clan CrawfordThe ford of the crows, an upper-Clydesdale name.
Historic ties to Lanarkshire
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Lanarkshire.
- Banjo PatersonThe bush solicitor whose Waltzing Matilda became Australia's unofficial national anthem.
- Walter SmithThe dignified Lanarkshire man who won seven Scottish titles in a row with Rangers, took them to a European final, and carried the Smith name through the Scottish game with universal respect.
- Robert OwenThe Newtown saddler's son who at twenty-eight took on the cotton mills at New Lanark and built there the model that became the foundation of the modern cooperative movement.
- Tom JohnstonThe Kirkintilloch journalist and Labour MP whose tenure as Secretary of State for Scotland in the wartime coalition government of 1941 to 1945 founded the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, the largest single piece of mid-twentieth-century Scottish industrial-developmental legislation, and transformed the Highland economy.