Lorraine McIntosh (born 13 May 1964) is a Scottish singer and actress. She is one of the vocalists of the pop/rock band Deacon Blue.

McIntosh is a vocalist with Deacon Blue, whose second studio album, When the World Knows Your Name (1989), topped the UK Album Charts for two weeks,^[1][2] and included "Real Gone Kid", which became their first UK top ten single.^[1][3]

McIntosh took a break from music to play the character Alice Henderson in the Scottish soap opera River City, which was set in a fictitious suburb of Glasgow. Her character first appeared in 2002 and was written out during May 2010. McIntosh has also appeared in a few Scottish films, including Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe,^[4] and Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself,^[4] as well as in three episodes of the TV police-drama series Taggart.^[4] She also starred in BBC One's comedy-drama Hope Springs.^[4]

McIntosh is married to Deacon Blue lead singer Ricky Ross and they have four children. They married on 12 May 1990.^[5][6]

She is of maternal Irish Catholic descent: her mother is from Gweedore, County Donegal.^[7][8]

• Raintown (1987)
• When the World Knows Your Name (1989)
• Fellow Hoodlums (1991)
• Whatever You Say, Say Nothing (1993)
• Walking Back Home (1999)
• Homesick (2001)
• The Hipsters (2012)
• A New House (2014)
• Believers (2016)
• City of Love (2020)
• Riding on the Tide of Love (2021)^[9]