Dunbar

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Dunbar

Total population

9,030

Coordinates56.00°, -2.52°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Dunbar is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately 30 miles east of Edinburgh and 30 mi (50 km) from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

John Muir

Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)

John Rennie

engineer from Scotland (1761-1821)

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick

British mathematician & college principal (1845-1936)

Anthony Dickson Home

Scottish military surgeon (1826–1914); recipient of the Victoria Cross

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James Kirkwood

Church of Scotland minister

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James Maitland Balfour

British politician (1820-1856)

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John Turnbull

British film actor (1880-1956)

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Malcolm Smith

British climber

Mellis Napier

Australian judge

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Robert Gray

Scottish banker and amateur ornithologist (1825-1887)

Sam Francis

American football player and coach, shot putter (1913-2002)

Sandy Smith

British artist

William Trench

Canadian mayor

John Aitchison

Scottish statistician

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Charlie Dicksonk

Scottish footballer (1934-2013)

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Robert Wilson

Scottish engineer, inventor of the screw propeller (1803-1882)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Scotland

• Canty Bay
  6.9 mi away
• Cockburn
  13.8 mi away
• Carberry
  20.3 mi away
• Crossgatehall
  20.3 mi away
• Springfield Cottages
  20.4 mi away
• Carberry Mains
  20.6 mi away
• Bughtrig
  22.4 mi away
• Kedslie
  25 mi away
• Star
  27.1 mi away · pop. 500
• Fens
  29.9 mi away
• Benrig
  30.2 mi away
• Temple
  30.6 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Dunbar

Dunbar

1975

William Dunbar

William Henry Oliphant Smeaton · 1898

The poems of William Dunbar

Dunbar, William · 1834

Gavin Dunbar

David Edward Easson · 1947

The costume of Scotland

John Telfer Dunbar · 1981

The historic architecture of Scotland

John G. Dunbar · 1966

Dunbar Harbour Revision (Transfer) Order 2004

Scotland · 2004

Southern Scotland

H. O. Wade · 1970

Search results from Open Library.

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