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Grange Academy

Grange Academy, Kilmarnock, a secondary school located in Ayrshire, Scotland


2012 Scottish League Cup Final

In Kilmarnock's third round tie they were at home against First Division side Queen of the South at Rugby Park Stadium.

Allan Johnston

Johnston signed for Kilmarnock in August 2004, reuniting him with former Hearts management team Jim Jefferies and Billy Brown.

Allan Russell

Russell began the 2007–08 season with Airdrie, where a December 2007 Player of the Month award and his goalscoring form – by February 2008 he had already scored more than any previous season – attracted interest from Scottish Premier League sides Kilmarnock and Dundee United.

Ann Baumgartner

During the final years of her life, Baumgartner (then Carl) resided in Kilmarnock, Virginia, with her husband.

Baron Forres

Williamson was the son of Stephen Williamson who represented St Andrews and Kilmarnock in the House of Commons.

Battle of Culloden

This second line was (left to right): the Irish Picquets; the Duke of Perth's Regiment; Glenbuchat's; Lord Kilmarnock's Footguards; John Roy Stuart's Regiment; two battalions of Lord Ogilvy's Regiment; the Royal Écossois; two battalions of Lord Lewis Gordon's Regiment.

Billy Dunlop

Dunlop played for Sandyford, Hurlford, Annbank, Kilmarnock and Abercorn before being signed by Liverpool managers John McKenna and W. E. Barclay in January 1895 for £35.

Bourtreehill

The Irvine New Town Trail is a cycle and pedestrian route which passes through Bourtreehill, giving relatively 'car free' access to Girdle Toll, Eglinton Country Park, Broomlands, Springside, Kilmarnock and beyond.

Brian Donohoe

Born in Kilmarnock and educated at the Patna and Loudoun Montgomery Primary Schools, and the Irvine Royal Academy, Donohoe later attended the Kilmarnock Technical College, where he received a national certificate in Engineering in 1972.

Campbell Forsyth

Having lost the first leg 3–0, Kilmarnock pulled off a 5–1 victory in the second leg, with Forsyth making a "great save from Schämer's boot".

Cathy Jamieson

Jamieson was educated at James Hamilton Academy in Kilmarnock, before obtaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art and a Higher National Diploma in Art at Goldsmiths College in London.

CIÉ No. CC1

The first locomotives designed specifically to burn turf were three 0-4-0 well tank engines, built by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock, Scotland, and introduced by the nationalised turf producer Bord na Móna on its 3 ft (914 mm) gauge lines at Clonsast, near Portarlington, in 1949.

Craig Dargo

During this time he made his first appearance in European competition, scoring as Kilmarnock were eliminated by Norwegian side Viking in the UEFA Cup.

Darryl Duffy

After training with Kilmarnock during the 2013 close season, Duffy signed for Indian club Salgaocar.

Dieter Van Tornhout

Dieter Van Tornhout (born 18 March 1985) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a forward for K.S.V. Roeselare, on loan from Antwerp, having previously played for Club Brugge, Sparta Rotterdam, Roda JC, Enosis Neon Paralimni, Nea Salamis Famagusta and Kilmarnock.

Dragoje Leković

After one 1/2 seasons with another modest side, FK Mogren, Leković joined Kilmarnock in Scotland, where he started during most of his spell (which consisted of two full seasons and two-halves), being part of the squad that conquered the Scottish Cup in 1996–97, 1–0 against Falkirk.

Dunlop, East Ayrshire

On the lower slopes of Craignaught Hill was fought a singularly unusual battle between the Boyds of Kilmarnock and the Stewarts of Darnley.

Grange Academy

Grange Academy, Kempston, a special school located in Bedfordshire, England

Hairmyres

Hairmyres is an area of East Kilbride to the west side of the new town, sited on the main road to Eaglesham and Kilmarnock, and is located 2.2 miles from the Glasgow City Council boundary at the Carmunnock Bypass and 9 miles south from Glasgow City Centre.

Ian Gibson

Ian James Gibson, Scottish football player (Aberdeen and Kilmarnock)

James Crooks

He was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1778 and came to Fort Niagara in 1791 where his half-brother, Francis, was operating as a merchant.

Jamie Mulgrew

It was reported by the Belfast Telegraph on 8 February 2011 that Scottish Premier League clubs Kilmarnock and Hibernian, along with Major League Soccer club Portland Timbers, were interested in signing Mulgrew on a Bosman free transfer when his contract expires in the summer.

John Colquhoun

John Campbell Colquhoun, British MP for Dunbartonshire, 1832–1835, Kilmarnock Burghs, 1837–1841, and Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1842–1847

John Kelso Hunter

# Anne Hunter - Birth: 22 November 1830 (Kilmarnock, Scotland) Death: 1898 (Beechworth, Victoria, Australia)

José Santamaría

Having earned the nickname 'The Wall' for his consistent defensive displays, Santamaría retired at the end of the 1965–66 campaign at the age of nearly 39, featuring twice in that year's European Cup en route to another triumph (against Feyenoord and at Kilmarnock).

Killie pie

A Killie pie or Kilmarnock pie is a type of pie sold at Rugby Park, the home ground of association football team Kilmarnock F.C..

Kilmarnock and Troon Railway

The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway was an early railway line in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Kilmarnock Corporation Tramways

At Kilmarnock Cross, the line had an easterly spur that stretched along London Road, through Crookedholm and finally terminating at Hurlford.

Kilmarnock Cross

In Rambles Around Kilmarnock (1875) Archibald R Adamson wrote "Kilmarnock Cross is most spacious, although of a most peculiar form, having no less than seven streets branching off it. In the centre stands a marble statue of Sir James Shaw, who rose from a humble position to that of Lord Mayor of London".

Kirkby Thore

Helen is now a television presenter, best known for working on Blue Peter and Countryfile, whilst Gavin is a professional footballer who has played in the Scottish Premier League with Gretna, Kilmarnock and Hamilton Academicals.

Laigh Milton Viaduct

In 1807 the Marquess of Titchfield (later the 4th Duke of Portland) commissioned William Jessop to build a railway line between Kilmarnock and Troon.

Lord Arthur Hill

Hill married as his second wife Annie Harrison, daughter of James Fortescue Harrison, MP for Kilmarnock, in 1877.

Lugar Boswell Thistle F.C.

Bertie Black - Scottish Football League champion with Kilmarnock in 1964–65 and Scottish League international.

Manning Wardle

Today the Manning Wardle designs are owned by the Hunslet-Barclay, who are still a provider of services to the rail industry, based in Kilmarnock, Scotland.

Pauline Hamill

After switching to Kilmarnock Ladies, Hamill spent the 2001 summer season in Iceland with IBV and scored 16 goals in the Úrvalsdeild.

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise has approximately 1,100 staff and operates from 13 offices - Aberdeen, Bellshill, Clydebank, Dundee, Dumfries, Edinburgh, two in Glasgow, Glenrothes, Kilmarnock, Paisley, Selkirk and Stirling.

Silverburn Centre

Catering for a target population from across Scotland, the Centre will arguably benefit Ayrshire, especially with the completion of the M77 to Kilmarnock.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe

Robert Dunsmuir, M.E.C., of "Craigdarroch Castle," Victoria, British Columbia, and his wife, Joanna, daughter of Alexander White, Esquire, of Kilmarnock, Scotland.

The Termites

All four members of the band were brought up around the 'Tap Shoaps' (Top Shops) of Kilmarnock's housing scheme, New Farm Loch, and as a result, were as much a gang as a band.

Victor Hay, 21st Earl of Erroll

Victor Alexander Sereld Hay, 21st Earl of Erroll and 4th Baron Kilmarnock, KCMG (17 October 1876 – 20 February 1928), was a British diplomat and briefly a member of the House of Lords.

William Grant Stevenson

His bronze Robert Burns exists in at least two casts: the original is in Kilmarnock in Scotland, as the centrepiece of the Burns Monument, Kilmarnock, with a copy located on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


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