Of the many notable Aberdonians from Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire in Scotland, the film producer and director Ara Paiaya, British Open winning golfer Paul Lawrie and the musician Annie Lennox are the most famous in modern times. However, Aberdeen has produced many earlier important people, such as Thomas Blake Glover, an assisting figure in the foundation of Mitsubishi. Architecture and design Ninian Comper (1864–1960), architect Bill Gibb (1943–1988), fashion designer James Gibbs (1682–1754), architect Archibald Simpson (1790–1847), architect, responsible for many Aberdeen buildings W. Douglas Simpson (1896–1968), architectural scholar and archaeologist John Smith (1781–1852), architect Armed forces David Baird (1757–1829), soldier James Brooke (1884–1914), recipient of the Victoria Cross Robert Grierson Combe (1880–1917), recipient of the Victoria Cross John Cruickshank (born 1920), recipient of the Victoria Cross Marion Patterson (born 1920), recipient of the George Medal John Rennie (1920–1943), acting sergeant, recipient of a posthumous George Cross for gallantry while on training Archibald Bisset Smith (1878–1917), recipient of the Victoria Cross Art and sculpture John Macdonald Aiken (1880–1961), painter and stained-glass artist Johanna Basford (born 1983), illustrator and textile designer Alexander Milne Calder (1846–1923), sculptor Berthe des Clayes (1877–1968), artist Gertrude des Clayes (1879–1949), portrait painter William Dyce (1806–1864), artist George Jamesone (c. 1587–1644), Scotland's first eminent artist William Keith (1838–1911), landscape artist Jennifer Lee (born 1956), Scottish ceramic artist Shona Macdonald, artist, University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Esther Blaikie MacKinnon (1885–1934), artist James McBey (1883–1959), artist Alberto Morrocco (1917–1998), artist and teacher Stephen Reid (1873–1948), illustrator and painter Business William Black (1771–1866), Canadian shipper and merchant Alexander Blackwell (c. 1700–1747), adventurer Thomas Blake Glover (1838–1911), trader in Bakumatsu and Meiji era Japan Robert Gordon (1668–1731), philanthropist and merchant Stewart Milne (born 1950), businessman and former Aberdeen F.C. chairman George Smith (1806–1899), financier Ian Wood, businessman Literature and journalism Lord Byron (1788–1824), poet (raised in Aberdeen aged 2–10) Alexander Chalmers (1759–1834), writer and editor Simon Farquhar (born 1972), writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–1935), author Richard Gordon (born 1960), BBC Radio Scotland presenter John Imlah (1799–1846), poet Angus Konstam (born 1960), writer and historian Iain Levison (born 1963), novelist and journalist Lachlan Mackinnon (born 1956), poet and critic David Masson (1822–1907), author Arthur Butler Phillips Mee (1860–1926), journalist, historian and astronomer Janet Milne Rae (1844–1933), novelist and missionary, born in Willowbank Alexander Scott (1920–1989), poet in Braid Scots and English Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), author and poet Rachel Annand Taylor (1876–1960), poet and