Clans of Stirling
The brooch that fastens the Highlands to the Lowlands.
Tap a region of the map to see who held it.
Families seated in Stirling
Historic ties to Stirling
Families with historic but not core ground here.
Champions made here
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Stirling.
- Robert the BruceThe Scottish king who won his country its independence at Bannockburn and carried the Bruce name to the throne.
- Mary, Queen of ScotsThe infant Queen of Scots who became Queen of France at sixteen, returned to rule her own realm at eighteen, and through her grandson James the Sixth and First united the crowns of Scotland and England.
- Bonnie Prince CharlieThe Stuart prince who landed in Moidart in July 1745 with seven men and within ten weeks had taken Edinburgh, beaten a government army at Prestonpans, and marched a Highland army to within a hundred and twenty-seven miles of London.
- Rob Roy MacGregorThe Glengyle-born Highland cattleman, raid-leader and outlaw of the proscribed Clan Gregor whose Trossachs life Walter Scott put into the novel that carried the MacGregor name into the world.
- George BuchananThe Killearn-born Renaissance Latinist whose European reputation as the leading Latin poet of his generation, whose seven-year tutorship of the boy King James VI, and whose 1579 De Jure Regni apud Scotos founded the constitutional theory of the limited monarchy.
- Sir Andy MurrayThe Dunblane-raised Scottish tennis player whose three Grand Slam singles titles (US Open 2012, Wimbledon 2013, Wimbledon 2016), two Olympic singles gold medals (London 2012, Rio 2016) and 2015 Davis Cup victory made him the first British male singles Grand Slam champion since Fred Perry in 1936 and the first British Davis Cup-winning singles player since Bunny Austin in 1933.