BY ANN FOTHERINGHAM

GORBALS philanthropist Lord Willie Haughey has supported projects and good causes across the city for almost two decades.

The award-winning businessman set up City Charitable Trust in 2002 and since then has donated around £10million to charities, organisations and individuals across Glasgow.

Lord Haughey, owner of City Holdings Group, runs operations in Australia, Asia, the US and Europe.

In 2018, he was named Scotland’s Entrepreneur of the Year.

Born in the Gorbals, he was brought up in a tenement flat with an outside toilet, which was subsequently demolished as part of Glasgow’s slum clearance programme. He dreamed of playing professional football but injuries put paid to his plan and he began his career as an air conditioning engineer after leaving school with no qualifications.

He set up his company, then City Refrigeration Holdings, in 1985.

He and his wife Lady Susan Haughey used their life savings to establish the business, which now employs more than 12,000 people across the world.

Could he be your number one Glaswegian?

Over the summer we are revealing the names of 100 men and women who have put the city on the map through sport, science, politics, the arts and more.

Most were born here, some moved here to work or study and have since made the city their own, opening the eyes of others around the world to its strengths and successes; and others have made such an impact on Glasgow that, despite having been born elsewhere, they are inextricably linked with the city, its people, culture and ideals.

Once all 100 have been announced, we will be opening our list up to a public vote.

Janey Buchan was a cultural and political activist in Glasgow’s fiercest tradition.

The Labour MEP, who lived in Partick, was born in 1926 and died in 2012.

She was a passionate anti-apartheid campaigner, backed the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and was an early supporter of gay rights.

She was also a huge supporter of the arts, championing the revival of traditional Scottish music and inspiring the People’s festival, the earliest fringe events at the new Edinburgh festival, from 1949 to 1953.

A whole host of inspiring people have been revealed as contenders for the title.

You can find out who else is in the running at eveningtimes.co.uk

Two more contenders will be revealed tomorrow and once all have been announced, it will be over to you as ­Evening Times readers get

to decide who will win the title.