WHO do you think is the greatest Glaswegian of all time?

This summer we are showcasing the top 50 men and women who have put the city on the map.

Once they have all been revealed, we will be holding a public vote to find the winner.

Today we feature one Glaswegian famed for their brains - and two others famed for their big hearts.

FROM Glasgow to Saturn...the title of one of his famous works shows the scope of vision of Scotland's Makar.

Born in 1920, Edwin Morgan enjoyed a much lauded career that saw him appointed Glasgow's Poet Laureate, as well as win the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Weidenfeld Prize for Translation.

His life began in the West End of Glasgow on April 27 and Edwin went to the former Rutherglen Academy, where he had an unhappy time before transferring to the High School of Glasgow.

Edwin's love of literature began at a young age and he had his parents pay for him to join several literature societies.

While he was at Glasgow University, World War II broke out and, having registered as a conscientious objector, Edwin served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1940.

He returned to university in 1946 and a year later graduated with first class honours before joining the staff of the English Literature Department, turning down a scholarship to Oxford. His studies had included French and Russian and, later in his career, he went on to become a prolific translator.

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His first book of poetry was published in 1952 and he worked as a lecturer at Glasgow until his retirement as a professor in 1980.

Edwin was appointed to the Glasgow laureateship in 1999 and used the public position to support gay rights, becoming an active supporter of the repeal of Section 28, criticising Church and business leaders for their support of the ‘Keep the Clause’ campaign.

Throughout a long and varied career, Edwin published sonnets, concrete poems and sound poems. He wrote vivid scenes from Glasgow and science fiction poems. He was an essayist on many subjects and his translations spanned a wide number of different languages, genres and historical periods.

His 2002 collection Cathures - the oldest known name for Glasgow - saw his attention turn back to his home and includes his Glasgow Laureate poems.

Edwin Morgan died in Glasgow on August 19, 2010.

THEIR pure humanity is enough to bring a person to tears.

We hear so many negative things about communities ostracising asylum seekers and saying they do not want newcomers in their area.

Not Jean Donnachie and Noreen Real.

When the Home Office began dawn raids on asylum seekers at the Kingsway high-rise flats in Scotstoun in 2006, Noreen and Jean set up a dawn patrol, watching for immigration officers and poised to give a warning to families under threat.

As any social worker or children's panel member in the city will be able to say, Glasgow would collapse without its grandmothers, stepping in to ensure the right thing is done and people are cared for.

In October 2006, the pair were part of a candlelit vigil that stopped a Turkish family family, from being deported.

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Peacefully linking arms, the group prevented a team of immigration officials in riot gear from making a removal.

The incident sparked the idea for KARD - Kingsway Against Removals and Deportations.

This saw between 15 and 30 people ever day patrolling the estate to ensure immigration officials could not seize families.

When immigration officers were spotted, families at risk of deportation were warned by mobile phone so they could leave their homes and avoid the officers.

Raids took place 365 days a year, meaning the patrols went out even on Christmas morning.

TOMORROW we find out about our next shortlisted Greatest Glaswegians, Jack and Victor from Still Game, and Barras founder Maggie McIver.