University of Glasgow actor Gerard Butler, Rangers and Scottish footballer Neil Murray, actor, writer, television and radio broadcaster Colin Lamont aka Scottie McClue, novelist Robin Jenkins, television writers Armando Iannucci and Steven Moffat, comedian Greg Hemphill, television presenter Neil Oliver, journalists Andrew Neil and Raman Bhardwaj, and musicians Emeli Sandé and Simon Neil. The University is affiliated with Glasgow School of Art, whose former students include actors Robbie Coltrane and Peter Capaldi and children's author Michael Rosen. The World Changing Alumni Award, formerly With the Young Alumnus of the Year Award, the University is recognising and celebrating the achievements of alumni who have
Barney Williams (actor) "Over on the other side of the cemetery, on Battle Hill, from which the bay and the city can be viewed, sleeps Barney Williams, almost the first actor in the line of Irish comedy. His monument is a rich and costly one, of the Gothic order. It is adorned with a marble bust of the comedian. On the base of the monument is the name "Bernard Flaherty," which was the real name of Barney Williams. This plot is kept in splendid order by the actor's widow, still a handsome woman, whose snowy hair seems like a crown upon her shapely