Tartan Day Parade Grand Marshals: Here are all 21 famous faces to have led the New York celebrations - including Sean Connery

First held in 1999 when a couple of pipe bands and a small bunch of enthusiastic Scottish-Americans took to the streets of New York, the annual Tartan Day Parade has become a big event in recent years.

Held on the closest Saturday to April 6, when the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320, it’s the culmination of the city’s Tartan Week and is the world’s biggest event marking Tartan Day, a celebration originally established in Canada in the 1980s.

Each year a famous face is invited to be Grand Marshal, becoming the face of the year’s event and leading the parade of thousand of participants and musician - all, of course, wearing tartan.

This year’s procession, on Satuday, April 5, will see actor Alan Cumming become only the second person to act as Grand Marshal twice.

Here he is - along with the other 20 people to have accepted the honour since the inception of the event.