Coupar Angus

The six-storey Tolbooth was built in 1762, funded by public subscription.[2]

In the Middle Ages the Cistercian Coupar Angus Abbey was one of Scotland's most important monasteries, founded by Malcolm IV (1153–65) in the 1160s. Of the abbey, only architectural fragments, preserved in the 19th-century parish church (which is probably on the site of the monastic church), or built into houses and walls throughout the town, survive, along with part of one of its gatehouses.[3]

Several Polish units were stationed in and around Coupar Angus from 1939 to 1945.[4]

• The Scottish Fold breed of cat originated in Coupar Angus.

• Coupar Angus is the birthplace of Jock Sutherland, coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers 1946–1947.
• Coupar Angus is the birthplace of Alan Gilzean, who is a former professional footballer from the 1960s and 1970s and played for Scottish club Dundee, national side Scotland and English club Tottenham Hotspur.

• James Stirton, physician and leading expert on mosses and lichen was born in 1833 in Coupar Angus.

• William Nairne Clark, one of the two protagonists that fought the first recorded duel in Western Australia, was born in Coupar Angus in 1804. Clark and his opponent, George French Johnson, faced each other in Fremantle, Western Australia, on the morning of Friday 6 June 1832. Johnson was fatally wounded in the hip in the encounter. Clark was subsequently charged with, and acquitted of, Johnson's manslaughter. Clark, who had trained as a lawyer, emigrated to Western Australia on the convict ship 'Eliza' in 1830. He initially practised as a lawyer before founding the Swan River Guardian newspaper in 1836.[5]