Famous people from Carnwath include author and critic, Robert Anderson, footballer, Tom Brownlee and the Ordnance Gazetteer remarks that: "the minor poet, James Graeme (1749-72)" was a resident of the locality.
Gavin Dalzell, 2nd Earl of Carnwath (1627−1674), styled by the courtesy title Lord Dalzell and Liberton from 1639, was a Scottish nobleman and Royalist supporter during the English Civil War.
At Greenwich Hospital is a full-length portrait by him of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington; in the National Gallery of Scotland is a head of Richard Cooper, the elder; and in the Merchants' Hall, Edinburgh, is a half-length of Elizabeth Macdonald of Largie, wife of Charles Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.
The historian only found one charter signed by John at Edinburgh in 1510 connected with his coming-of-age, and assumes the Lord spent most of his life at Cowthally Castle near Carnwath.
Artists' books include projects with Squeak Carnwath, Richard Tuttle, Norbert Prangenberg, Hanns Schimannsky, Archie Rand, Norman Bluhm, Pat Steir, Suzanne McClelland, Robert Therrien, Leiko Ikemura, and Jürgen Partenheimer (a.o.), his books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993).
On 20 December 2011, Carnwath was announced as a new appointee to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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Robert John Anderson Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill CVO (born 15 March 1945) is a British judge.
A representative peer for Scotland, he died while walking from his home, Carnwath House, Fulham, to the House of Lords.
Robert Dalzell, 5th Earl of Carnwath, (1687–1737), known as Sir Robert Dalzell, 3rd Baronet from 1689 until 1702, was a Scottish nobleman and Jacobite supporter during James Stuart, the Old Pretender's, unsuccessful rebellion in 1715 known as the Fifteen or Lord Mar's Revolt.
Lieutenant-General Robert Alexander Dalzell, 6th Earl of Carnwath, (1768–1839), was a Scottish nobleman and soldier.
Squeak Carnwath (born 1947 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary American painter.