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This is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students,
academic staff , and university officials of the
University of Edinburgh in
Scotland . It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions that later merged with the University of Edinburgh. The university is associated with 19
Nobel Prize laureates, three
Turing Award winners, an
Abel Prize laureate and
Fields Medallist , four
Pulitzer Prize winners, three
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom , and several
Olympic gold medallists.
Government and politics
Heads of state and government
Gordon Brown ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Cabinet and Party Leaders
Amber Rudd ,
Home Secretary
David Steel ,
Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Douglas Alexander ,
Secretary of State for International Development (2007-2010),
Secretary of State for Scotland (2006-2007) and
Secretary of State for Transport (2006-2007)
Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian ,
Chairman of the Conservative Party (1998-2001)
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley ,
Home Secretary (1939-1940),
Lord President of the Council (1940-1943) and
Chancellor of the Exchequer (1943-1945)
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux ,
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1830-1834)
David Campbell Bannerman ,
Chairman of the UK Independence Party (2005-2006),
Deputy Leader (2006-2010)
Robin Cook ,
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1997-2001),
Leader of the House of Commons (2001-2003) and
President of the Party of European Socialists (2001-2004)
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ,
Home Secretary (1791-1794),
Secretary of State for War (1794-1801) and
First Lord of the Admiralty (1804-1805)
Anneliese Dodds ,
Chair of the Labour Party (2021-)
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk ,
First Lord of the Admiralty (1957-1959),
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1955-1957)
Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville ,
First Lord of the Admiralty (1812-1830)
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto ,
First Lord of the Admiralty (1835-1841)
Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay ,
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1916-1919)
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet ,
Home Secretary (1932-1935)
Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes ,
President of the Board of Trade (1919-1920)
William Graham ,
President of the Board of Trade (1929-1931)
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane ,
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1912-1915; 1924),
Secretary of State for War (1905-1912)
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington ,
First Lord of the Admiralty (1841-1846)
Tessa Jowell ,
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (2001-2007),
Minister for the Olympics
Patrick McLoughlin ,
Secretary of State for Transport (2012-2016),
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2016-2018)
David Mundell ,
Secretary of State for Scotland (2015-2019)
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern ,
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1987-1997)
Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness ,
Secretary of State for Scotland (1916-1922)
William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree ,
Secretary of State for Air (1930-1931)
Ian Macpherson, 1st Baron Strathcarron ,
Chief Secretary for Ireland (1919-1920),
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1920-1922)
Michael Moore ,
Secretary of State for Scotland (2010-2013)
Sir George Murray ,
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (1828-1830)
Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet ,
Secretary of State for the Colonies (1855)
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne ,
Chancellor of the Exchequer (1806-1807),
Home Secretary (1827-1828),
Lord President of the Council (1830-1834; 1835-1841; 1846-1852) and
Leader of the House of Lords (1846-1852)
Amber Rudd ,
Home Secretary (2016-2018),
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2018-2019)
Sir Malcolm Rifkind ,
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1995-1997),
Secretary of State for Defence (1992-1995)
David Steel ,
Leader of the Liberal Party (1970-1976),
Leader of the Liberal Democrats (1988)
Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn ,
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1793-1801)
Scottish Cabinet and Party Leaders
Kate Forbes ,
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy
John Swinney ,
Deputy First Minister of Scotland
Roseanna Cunningham ,
Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (2009-2011; 2016-2021)
Ruth Davidson ,
Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party (2011-2019)
Kezia Dugdale ,
Leader of the Scottish Labour Party (2015-2017)
Kate Forbes ,
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy (2020-)
Iain Gray ,
Leader of the Scottish Labour Party (2008-2011; 2015)
Andrew Dewar Gibb ,
Leader of the Scottish National Party (1936-1940)
Robin Harper , co-convener of the
Scottish Greens (2004–2008)
Russell Johnston ,
Leader of the Scottish Liberal Party (1974-1988),
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats (1988-1992)
Liam Kerr ,
Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party (2019-2020)
Kenny MacAskill ,
Deputy Leader of the Alba Party (2021-),
Cabinet Secretary for Justice (2007-2014)
David McLetchie ,
Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party (1999-2005)
Robert McIntyre ,
Leader of the Scottish National Party (1947-1956)
Alexander MacEwen , first
Leader of the Scottish National Party (1934-1936)
Michael Russell ,
Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, Europe and External Affairs (2020-2021),
President of the Scottish National Party (2020-)
Alex Rowley ,
Leader of the Scottish Labour Party (2017)
Leslie Spoor , founder of
Scottish Green Party
Nicol Stephen ,
Leader of Scottish Liberal Democrats (2005-2008),
Deputy First Minister of Scotland (2005-2007)
John Swinney ,
Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Economy (2007-2014),
Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery (2021-),
Deputy First Minister of Scotland (2014-)
Jim Wallace ,
First Minister of Scotland (2000; 2001),
Deputy First Minister of Scotland (1999-2005),
Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats (1992-2005)
Gordon Wilson ,
Leader of the Scottish National Party (1979-1990)
Current Members of the House of Commons
Wendy Chamberlain , MP for
North East Fife
Joanna Cherry , MP for
Edinburgh South West
Colin Clark , MP for
Gordon
Anneliese Dodds , MP for
Oxford East
John Howell , MP for
Henley
Neil Hudson , MP for
Penrith and The Border
Danny Kruger , MP for
Devizes
Dame Eleanor Laing , MP for
Epping Forest
Steve McCabe , MP for
Birmingham Selly Oak
Stuart McDonald , MP for
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Callum McCaig , MP for
Aberdeen South
Ian Murray , MP for
Edinburgh South
Pat McFadden , MP for
Wolverhampton South East
Jerome Mayhew , MP for
Broadland
David Mundell , MP for
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Pete Wishart , MP for
Perth and North Perthshire
Catherine McKinnell , MP for
Newcastle upon Tyne North
Kenny MacAskill , MP for
East Lothian
Current Members of the House of Lords
James Bethell, 5th Baron Bethell , Conservative Peer
Anne McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh of Pickering , Conservative Peer
Kathryn Clark, Baroness Clark of Kilwinning , Labour Peer
Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton , Labour Peer
William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk , Crossbench
James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas , Conservative Peer
Andrew Dunlop, Baron Dunlop , Conservative Peer
Ruth Davidson, Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links , Conservative Peer
Neil Davidson, Baron Davidson of Glen Clova , Labour Peer
Murray Elder, Baron Elder , Labour Peer
George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock , Labour Peer
Peter Forster ,
Lord Spiritual
David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead , Crossbench
Andrew Hardie, Baron Hardie , Crossbench
Richard Keen, Baron Keen of Elie , Conservative peer
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian , Conservative Peer
James Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay , Conservative Peer
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern , Conservative Peer
Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon , Conservative peer
Mark McInnes, Baron McInnes of Kilwinning , Conservative Peer
Patrick McLoughlin, Baron McLoughlin , Conservative Peer
Malcolm Offord, Baron Offord of Garvel , Conservative peer
Adrian Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer , Crossbench
Robert Reed, Baron Reed of Allermuir , Crossbench
Nicol Stephen, Baron Stephen , Liberal Democrat Peer
Keith Stewart, Baron Stewart of Dirleton , Conservative Peer
Fiona Twycross, Baroness Twycross , Labour Peer
Alexander Trees, Baron Trees , Crossbench
Clifton Wrottesley, 6th Baron Wrottesley , Conservative Peer
Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness , Liberal Democrat Peer
John Woodcock, Baron Walney , Crossbench
Current Members of the Scottish Parliament
Jeremy Balfour , MSP for
Lothian
Claire Baker , MSP for
Mid Scotland and Fife
Foysol Choudhury , MSP for
Lothian
Maggie Chapman , MSP for
North East Scotland
Katy Clark , MSP for
West Scotland
Kate Forbes , MSP for
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
Christine Grahame , MSP for
Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale
Liam Kerr , MSP for
North East Scotland
Oliver Mundell , MSP for
Dumfriesshire
Fulton MacGregor , MSP for
Coatbridge and Chryston
Liam McArthur , MSP for
Orkney
Ben Macpherson , MSP for
Edinburgh Northern and Leith
Alex Rowley , MSP for
Mid Scotland and Fife
Liz Smith , MSP for
Mid Scotland and Fife
Kaukab Stewart , MSP for
Glasgow Kelvin
John Swinney , MSP for
Perthshire North
Martin Whitfield , MSP for
South Scotland
Sue Webber , MSP for
Lothian
United States
Ash Carter ,
United States Secretary of Defense
Robert J. Faucher ,
Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations
John Adams (Virginia politician) , 25th
Mayor of Richmond
Robert Brooke , 10th Governor of
Virginia
Ashton Carter , 25th
United States Secretary of Defense
William Crawford , former U.S congressman from
Pennsylvania
William Carmichael , Former U.S
Ambassador to Spain
Alexander J. Dallas , served as the 6th United States
Secretary of the Treasury and briefly as both Acting
Secretary of War and Acting
Secretary of State under the fourth
U.S. President ,
James Madison
James C. Duff , director of the
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Beverly B. Douglas , former U.S congressman from
Virginia
Enoh T. Ebong , Director of
U.S Trade and Development Agency (2022-)
Robert J. Faucher ,
Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations (2021-)
William Foushee , 1st
Mayor of Richmond
William Fleming , 3rd Governor of
Virginia
Edwin Feulner , founder and president of conservative thinktank
The Heritage Foundation
Cyrus Griffin , 8th
President of the Continental Congress
Aylett Hawes , former U.S congressman from
Virginia
James Jones , former U.S congressman from
Virginia
Walter Jones , former U.S congressman from
Virginia
John J. Kindred , former U.S congressman from
New York
Henry Latimer , former U.S Senator from
Delaware
George Logan , former U.S Senator from
Pennsylvania
James McClurg , 18th, 21st, and 24th
Mayor of Richmond
Samuel L. Mitchill , former U.S Senator from
New York
Bill Moyers , 11th
White House Press Secretary ,
White House Chief of Staff (1964-1965) and former director of
Council on Foreign Relations
Dave McCurdy , former U.S congressman from
Oklahoma , former Chair of the
House Intelligence Committee
Deborah K. Owen , former Commissioner of the
Federal Trade Commission
William C. Preston , former U.S Senator from
South Carolina
Joel Roberts Poinsett , 15th
United States Secretary of War
Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. , 21st Governor of
Virginia
Benjamin Rush , signatory,
United States Declaration of Independence
[21]
William Spong Jr. , former U.S Senator from
Virginia
Adam Seybert , former U.S. congressman from
Pennsylvania
Jacob Gould Schurman , former
U.S. Ambassador to China ,
Germany ,
Greece and
Montenegro
Ike Skelton , former U.S. congressman from
Missouri , former Chair of
House Armed Services Committee
Arthur St. Clair , Major-general in the
Continental Army , 7th
President of the Continental Congress , later 1st
Governor of the Northwest Territory
Mike Synar , former U.S. congressman from
Oklahoma
Thomas Tudor Tucker , 3rd
Treasurer of the United States , former U.S congressman from
South Carolina
Alexander White , former U.S congressman from
Virginia
Hugh Williamson , signatory of the
United States Constitution , Founding Father
James Wilson ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ; signatory,
United States Declaration of Independence
[22]
John Witherspoon , signatory,
United States Declaration of Independence
Africa
Joseph Ukel Abango ,
South Sudan Minister of General Education (2011-2013)
Eustace Akwei ,
Ghana
Minister for Health (1966-1969)
Herbert Bankole-Bright , political activist in
Sierra Leone
Jaya Krishna Cuttaree ,
Mauritian
Minister of Labour, Lands and Housing (1982-2000),
Minister of Industry and Trade (2000-2005)
Yusuf Dadoo , former chair of the
South African Indian Congress and the
South African Communist Party
Moses Da Rocha , Nigerian doctor, journalist and politician
Unity Dow ,
Botswana
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (2019-2020), member of the
National Assembly
Patrick Duncan , 6th
Governor-General of the Union of South Africa ,
South African
Minister for the Interior, Education and Public Health (1921-1924)
Kesaveloo Goonam , South African doctor, Indian nationalist and anti-apartheid activist
Alex Ibru ,
Nigerian
Minister of Internal Affairs (1993-1995)
Omar Ali Juma , Former
Vice-President of Tanzania
Danielle de St. Jorre ,
Seychelles
Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989-1997)
Vedastus Kyalakishaija Kyaruzi , former
Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations
Nazir Karamagi , Tanzanian
Minister of Energy and Minerals (2006-2008)
Nelson P. W. Khonje ,
Speaker of the National Assembly of Malawi (1975-1987)
Peter Msolla ,
Tanzanian MP
Shettima Ali Monguno ,
Nigerian
Federal Minister for Airforce and Internal Affairs (1965-1966),
Minister for Mines, Power, Petroleum and Energy (1972-1975)
James Moroka ,
President of the African National Congress (1949-1952)
Agnes Nyalonje ,
Malawi
Minister of Education (2020-)
Monty Naicker , anti-apartheid activist and leader of the
South African Indian Congress
Frederick Nanka-Bruce , Ghanaian doctor, journalist and former member of the
Ghanaian Parliament
Bandele Omoniyi , Nigerian law student and political activist
Betty Ogwaro , South Sudanese
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry (2011-2014; 2014-2015; 2016-2019)
Sam Ongeri , Kenyan
Minister for Education (2008-2012),
Minister for Foreign Affairs (2012-2013)
Imrana Alhaji Buba , Nigerian social entrepreneur and political activist
Hae Phoofolo , interim
Prime Minister of Lesotho
Benjamin Quartey-Papafio , first Ghanaian doctor and member of the Gold Coast Legislative Council
John K Randle , West African doctor and politician
Richard Sezibera ,
Rwandan
Minister of Foreign Affairs (2018-2019), 4th
Secretary-General of the East African Community (2011-2016)
Richard Akinwande Savage , Nigerian doctor, pan-African politician and newspaper editor
Noah Wekesa ,
Kenyan Minister for Forestry and Wildlife (2008-2012),
Minister for Education (2007), and
Minister for Science (2005-2007)
Asia
Kōichirō Asakai , Japanese
ambassador to the United States and
ambassador to the Philippines who oversaw the signing of
U.S.-Japan Security Treaty
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari , Indian nationalist, President of the
Indian National Congress (1927-1928)
Lalith Athulathmudali , Sri Lankan
Minister of Trade and Shipping (1977-1984)
Harini Amarasuriya , Sri Lankan
MP
Chu Anping , Chinese journalist and political activist
Fu Ssu-nien , linguist and historian, one of the leaders of the Chinese
May Fourth Movement in 1919
Hsu Hsin-liang , Chairman of Taiwan's
Democratic Progressive Party (1996-1998), Magistrate of
Taoyuan (1977-1979) and President Elect in 2000
Sir
Reginald Johnston ,
Puyi 's tutor and advisor, last Commissioner of
British Weihaiwei
Prakash Karat , General Secretary of the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (2005-2015)
Arbab Alamgir Khan , Pakistan
Federal Minister for Communications (2012-2013)
M. C. M. Kaleel , Sri Lankan
Minister of Home Affairs (1960)
Lim Chong Eu , 2nd
Chief Minister of Penang (1969-1990) and founder of
Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia
Wu Zhihui , Chinese linguist and major political figure during the
Republic of China (1912–1949)
Zhang Shizhao , Chinese journalist, educator and
Minister of Justice (1924-1925) and
Minister of Education (1925)
Canada
Christy Clark ,
Premier of British Columbia
William Johnston Almon , former Canadian Senator for
Halifax
Peter Boehm , Canadian Senator for
Ontario
Edward Borron , former
MP for
Algoma
Christy Clark , 35th
Premier of British Columbia
George Ralph Richardson Cockburn , former MP for
Toronto Centre
George Alexander Drummond , former Canadian Senator for
Quebec , 12th President of the
Bank of Montreal
Kirsty Duncan , MP for
Etobicoke North ,
Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons (2019-),
Minister for Science (2015–2019)
Adelbert Edward Hanna , former MP for
Lanark South
Robert James Manion , Canadian cabinet minister,
Conservative
Leader of the Opposition from 1938 to 1940
Joseph Morrin , 7th and 9th
Mayor of Quebec
Sir
William MacGregor , 60th
Governor of Newfoundland
Frederick Montizambert , first Director General of Public Health in Canada
Andrew Ross McMaster , former MP for
Brome and
Provincial Treasurer of
Quebec
Clarence Primrose , former Canadian Senator for
Nova Scotia
James Palmer Rankin , former Canadian Senator for
Ontario
Alexander David Stewart , former Mayor of
Hamilton, Ontario
Alexander Warburton , 7th
Premier of Prince Edward Island
Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams , former
MP and
Chief Government Whip
Caribbean
Europe
Gerhard Schröder (CDU) ,
West German
Foreign Minister and
Defence Minister
Mina Andreeva , Chief Spokesperson for the
European Commission
Gisela Babel , former member of the German
Bundestag
Elmar Brok , former
MEP for Germany,
Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs (1999-2007; 2012–2017) and President of the
Union of European Federalists (2013-2018)
Benjamin Constant , French politician and eminent political theorist,
Member of the Tribunat (1799–1802),
Member of the Council of State (1815),
Member of the Chamber of Députés (1819–1830)
Muriel Casals i Couturier , member of the
Parliament of Catalonia
Biljana Đorđević , member of the
Serbian National Assembly
Aina Calvo , former Mayoress of
Palma , Spain
Furio Honsell , former Mayor of
Udine , Italy
Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson , Icelandic
Minister of Finance (1987-1988),
Foreign Minister (1988-1995)
Ögmundur Jónasson , Icelandic
Minister of Health (2009) and
Minister of the Interior (2011-2013)
Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir , 19th
Mayor of Reykjavík , Icelandic
Minister of the Interior (2013-2014)
Árni Mathiesen , Icelandic
Minister of Finance (2005-2009)
Angelika Niebler ,
MEP for Germany, Deputy Chairwomen for
European People's Party (2015-)
Theodoros Roussopoulos , Greek
Minister of State (2004-2008)
Gerhard Schröder (CDU) , West German
Federal Minister of the Interior (1953–1961),
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs (1961–1966), and
Federal Minister of Defence (1966–1969),
1969 presidential candidate
Gustaf Algernon Stierneld , Swedish
Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs (1838-1840; 1848–1856)
Péter Ungár , Member of the
National Assembly of Hungary , Leader of
LMP – Hungary's Green Party (2022-)
Jerzy Żyżyński , economist and member of the Polish
Sejm
Middle East
Oceania
Sir
Michael Cullen ,
Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
Richard Arthur , New South Wales
Minister for Public Health (1927-1930)
Sir
Thomas Brisbane , former
Governor of New South Wales whose name gave rise to the Australian city,
Brisbane
Sir
John Bowser , 26th
Premier of Victoria
Francis Bugotu , Permanent Representative of the
Solomon Islands to the United Nations (1978-1992),
Secretary-General of the Pacific Community (1982-1986)
Cyril Cameron , former Australian Senator for
Tasmania
Sir
Michael Cullen , former
Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
Sir
John Logan Campbell , 17th
Mayor of Auckland
John Garland , New South Wales
Minister for Justice (1909-1910; 1916–1919)
Sir
James Graham , 41st
Mayor of Sydney
John Alexander MacPherson , 7th
Premier of Victoria
Malcolm Mackay , Australian
Minister for the Navy (1971-1972)
Sir
David Monro , 2nd
Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
F. Russell Miller , 40th
Mayor of Invercargill , New Zealand
Sir
William MacGregor , 11th
Governor of Queensland
Andrew McLachlan , Australian Senator for
South Australia ,
Deputy President of the Australian Senate (2022-)
Sir
Hugh Nelson , 11th
Premier of Queensland
David Seath , New Zealand
Minister of Internal Affairs (1963-1972)
Carty Salmon , 2nd
Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
Sir
Alexander Stuart , 9th
Premier of New South Wales
Henry Thacker , 32nd Mayor of
Christchurch, New Zealand
Royalty
Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis , head of the
House of Thurn and Taxis
Countess Alexandra Nikolaevna Tolstoy-Miloslavsky , member of the
Tolstoy family
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll
David Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife
Charles Carnegie, Earl of Southesk ,
heir apparent to the
Dukedom of Fife
Samuel Chatto and
Arthur Chatto , sons of
Elizabeth II 's niece
Lady Sarah Chatto
Edward VII ,
King of the United Kingdom and
Emperor of India
[a]
[23]
George Percy, Earl Percy ,
heir apparent to the
Dukedom of Northumberland
Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke of Grafton , direct male-line descendant of
Charles II of England
Lady Amelia Windsor , a relative of the
British royal family
Margareta of Romania ,
Custodian of the Crown of Romania
Princess Mako of Akishino , member of the
Imperial House of Japan
Princess Nora zu Oettingen–Spielberg , member of the
House of Oettingen-Spielberg
Princess Raiyah bint Hussein , member of the
House of Hashim
Princess Salha bint Asem , member of the
House of Hashim
Princess Tsuguko of Takamado , member of the
Imperial House of Japan
Prince Pavel Mikhailovich Dashkov , Russian aristocrat
Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp ,
heir apparent to the
Spencer earldom and first cousin of the
Duke of Cambridge and
Prince Harry
Bhagvat Singh , former
Maharaja of the
princely state of
Gondal
Judges and lawyers
Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn , former
Solicitor General for Scotland
William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk , former
Lord President of the Court of Session and
Lord Justice General
James Clyde, Baron Clyde , former
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland , sitting justice on the
Supreme Courts of Scotland
Raymond Doherty, Lord Doherty , sitting justice on the
Supreme Courts of Scotland
Unity Dow , former judge on the
High Court of Botswana
Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway , current
Lord President of the Court of Session and
Lord Justice General
Sir
David Edward , former judge of the
Court of Justice of the European Union
Thomas Addis Emmet , former
New York State Attorney General
Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton , former
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
John Garland , former
Attorney General of New South Wales
Brian Gill, Lord Gill , former
Lord President of the Court of Session
Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge , current
Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton , former
Lord President of the Court of Session and
Lord Justice General
Henry Gollan , former
Chief Justice of Hong Kong
David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead , former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
James Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon , former
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Robert Lyall-Grant , former
Attorney General of Kenya
Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley , former
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and
Master of the Rolls
Frank Mulholland, Lord Mulholland , sitting justice on the
Supreme Courts of Scotland
Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies , sitting justice on the
Supreme Courts of Scotland
Atholl MacGregor , former
Chief Justice of Hong Kong
Alexander Mackenzie , barrister and writer on propaganda
[24]
Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan , former
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand , former
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Sir
Alan Stewart Orr , former
Lord Justice of Appeal
[25]
David Richard Pigot , former
Attorney General for Ireland
Alipate Qetaki , former
Attorney General of Fiji
Fred Ruhindi , former
Attorney General of Uganda
Michael Ramodibedi , former Chief Justice of the High Court of
Swaziland
Robert Reed, Baron Reed of Allermuir , current
President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Anne Smith, Lady Smith , sitting justice on the
Supreme Courts of Scotland
Alexander Shand, 1st Baron Shand , former
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Alfred Henry Simpson , former
Chief Justice of Kenya
Julia Sebutinde , sitting
Judge on the International Court of Justice
Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart , former President of the
European Court of Justice
James Beveridge Thomson , former
Chief Justice of Malaysia
Military
Officers
James Francis Edward Keith ,
Generalfeldmarschall of the
Prussian Army
Lord Cochrane ,
Admiral of the Red
Sharon Nesmith ,
Deputy Chief of the General Staff
Ralph Abercromby ,
MP ,
Commander-in-Chief, Ireland during the
Irish Rebellion of 1798
Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet ,
General
Sir
Hugh Beach , General,
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Field Army (1976-1977)
Sir
James Baird ,
Lieutenant General ,
Director General Army Medical Services (1973-1977)
David Coulter ,
Major-General ,
Chaplain General of the British Army (2014-2018)
Robert Craigie ,
Admiral
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald , Naval
flag officer during the
Napoleonic Wars and later
Admiral of the Red , dubbed by
Napoleon as le Loup des Mers , 'the Sea Wolf'
Sir
Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple ,
General ,
Governor of Gibraltar (1806-1808)
John Forbes ,
Brigadier-General , commanded the
Forbes Expedition during the
French-Indian war
Sir
Alexander Hood , Lieutenant-General,
Director General Army Medical Services (1941-1948),
Governor of Bermuda (1949-1955)
John Hunter ,
Vice-admiral of the red ,
Governor of New South Wales (1795-1800)
James Francis Edward Keith , Scottish
Jacobite , served during the
Seven Years' War under
Frederick the Great as
Generalfeldmarschall of the
Prussian Army
Daniel Knobel ,
Lieutenant General ,
Surgeon General of the
South African Defence Force (1988-1997)
William Thompson Lusk , Assistant
Adjutant-General for the
Union ,
American Civil War
Sir
James McGrigor , responsible for the creation of the
Royal Army Medical Corps
Gregor MacGregor , Army
General , adventurer, and
confidence trickster , known for his "Poyois scheme"
Sir
George Malcolm ,
General
Sir
Harold Martin ,
Air Marshal , Commander-in-Chief
RAF Germany (1970-1973)
Sir
Ian McGeoch ,
Vice-Admiral
Iain McNicoll ,
Air Marshal , Deputy Commander-in-Chief Operations,
RAF Air Command (2007-2010)
Sir
Charles Napier ,
Admiral , served in
War of 1812 ,
the Napoleonic Wars , and the
Crimean War
Sharon Nesmith , first woman to command a British Army Brigade,
Lieutenant-general and
Deputy Chief of the General Staff (2021-)
Arthur Edward Potts , Major General, Commander of
6th Canadian Infantry Division (1942-1943)
Philip Raffaelli ,
Surgeon-General of the United Kingdom Armed Forces (2009-2012)
Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of Teviot ,
Lieutenant-General under
Louis XIV when England was in
Interregnum ,
Governor of Tangier (1663-1664)
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie ,
Governor of Canada (1820-1828),
Commander-in-Chief, India (1830-1832)
Thomas Rimmer ,
Air Vice-Marshal ,
Commander, British Forces Cyprus (2000-2003)
Alan Reay , Lieutenant General,
Director General Army Medical Services (1981-1984)
Sir
James Simpson ,
General ,
Commander-in-Chief British troops in the Crimea (1855)
James Stuart ,
General , 1st
General Officer Commanding, Ceylon (1796)
Sir
Charles Shaw ,
Brigadier-general during the Portuguese
Liberal Wars
Adam Stephen , Scottish-American General in the
Continental Army during the
American Revolutionary War
Mona Chalmers Watson , head of
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Bennett H. Young ,
Lieutenant ,
Confederate officer who led the
St. Albans Raid during the
American Civil War
Soldiers
William Brydon
Eric Brown ,
Royal Navy officer and
test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history
William Brydon , the only person to reach safety in the
1842 retreat from Kabul
James Marr Brydone , Ship's surgeon of
HMS Thunderer at
Battle of Trafalgar
Charles Gray Catto , World War I
flying ace , later Mayor of
Waco, Texas
Gordon Duncan , Scottish flying ace
James Oliver Ewart , intelligence officer, translator, and staff member of Field Marshal
Bernard Montgomery
John Todd , Scottish First World War flying ace credited with 18 aerial victories
Victoria Cross and George Cross Recipients
Recipients of the
Victoria Cross :
Recipients of the
George Cross :
Natural sciences, engineering and medicine
Astronomy
Mary Brück , astronomer, astrophysicist and historian of science
Hermann Brück , astronomer
John Campbell Brown , astronomer
Dame
Jocelyn Bell Burnell , astrophysicist, co-discoverer of the first
Pulsars , 2018 winner of
Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics ,
Copley Medalist
Ralph Copeland , discoverer of the
Copeland Septet
Sir
Frank Watson Dyson , whose observations during
Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 played an important role in proving
Einstein 's theory of
General relativity
James Dunlop , astronomer,
Herschel Medal winner in 2016
James Gregory , discoverer of the
infinite series and designer of the first practical
reflecting telescope , the
Gregorian telescope
Catherine Heymans , astrophysicist, incumbent
Astronomer Royal for Scotland ,
Herschel Medal winner in 2022
Thomas Henderson , first to measure the distance between
Earth to
Alpha Centauri
Chris Impey , astronomer
James Lind of Windsor , natural philosopher
Malcolm Longair , physicist
Simon Lilly , astrophysicist,
Herschel Medal winner in 2017
William McCrea , astronomer
John A. Peacock , astronomer,
Shaw Prize laureate in 2014
[26]
Anneila Sargent , astronomer
Charles Piazzi Smyth , astronomer
Licia Verde , cosmologist, 2018 winner of
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Chemistry
Joseph Black
Sir
James Dewar
Thomas Anderson , discoverer of
pyridine
Polly Arnold , director of the chemical sciences division at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Paul Attfield , Professor of Materials Science
George Barger , chemist
Joseph Black , discoverer of
Magnesium ,
carbon dioxide ,
latent heat and
specific heat
Wendy Bickmore , chemist
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat , biochemist
Leroy Cronin , chemist
Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell , German chemist
Robin Ferrier , discoverer of
Ferrier rearrangement and
Ferrier carbocyclization
Eleanor Campbell , Professor of Physical Chemistry
Neil Campbell , chemist and amateur athlete
Archibald Scott Couper , proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding
John Davy , discoverer of
phosgene
Sir
James Dewar , inventor of the
Dewar flask
Thomas Graham , formulater of
Graham's law and inventor of
Dialysis
Frederick Guthrie , synthesizer of
Mustard gas
Narayan Hosmane , cancer researcher,
BNCT
Edmund Hirst , chemist
William Henry , formulater of
Henry's law
Thomas Charles Hope , discoverer of
Strontium
Richard Henderson , pioneer in the field of
electron microscopy ,
Nobel laureates in Chemistry in 2017
David Leigh , Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 2001 to 2012,
Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology winner in 2007
Guy Lloyd-Jones , Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (2012–)
Francis Robert Japp , discoverer of
Japp-Klingemann reaction
Christina Miller , synthesized
phosphorus trioxide
Peter D. Mitchell , discoverer of the
chemiosmotic mechanism of
ATP synthesis ,
Nobel laureates in Chemistry in 1978
Charles Macintosh , chemist, inventor of the
waterproof raincoat (
Mackintosh )
Sir
Geoff Palmer , Jamaican-born scientist, brewing researcher and activist, first black professor in Scotland
William Prout , proposer of
Prout's hypothesis , an early model of
Proton
Sir
Dai Rees , CEO of the
Medical Research Council from 1987 to 1996
Prafulla Chandra Roy , distinguished chemist and founder of
Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
Daniel Rutherford , discoverer of
Nitrogen
Sir
James Fraser Stoddart , supramolecular chemist,
Nobel laureates in Chemistry in 2016
Benjamin Silliman , American chemist
Smithson Tennant , discoverer of
Iridium and
Osmium
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd , first synthesizer of
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and
flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD),
Nobel laureates in Chemistry in 1957
Vincent du Vigneaud , first synthesizer of
Oxytocin and
Vasopressin ,
Nobel laureates in Chemistry in 1955
James Walker , chemist
Kurt Wüthrich , developer of
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological
macromolecules ,
Nobel laureates in Chemistry in 2002
Lesley Yellowlees , first female president of the
Royal Society of Chemistry
Geology
Sir
Roderick Murchison
Robert Bell , geologist
Ami Boué , first to produce a
Geological map of the world,
Wollaston Medalist
Sir
John William Dawson , geologist
James David Forbes , inventor of the
Seismometer
Hugh Falconer , geologist and paleontologist,
Wollaston Medalist
John Flett , geologist,
Wollaston Medalist
Sir
Archibald Geikie , geologist,
Wollaston Medalist
Sir
James Hector , geologist
Arthur Holmes , geologist,
Wollaston Medalist
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston , geologist,
Wollaston Medalist
James Hutton , father of modern geology
Rosemary Hutton , geophysicist and pioneer of magnetotellurics
Robert Jameson , naturalist and mineralist
Sir
William Edmond Logan , geologist, founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada,
Wollaston Medalist
Sir
Roderick Murchison , geologist, known for first describing the
Silurian ,
Devonian and
Permian systems,
Copley Medalist
William Nicol , inventor of
Nicol prism
Robert Cameron Mackenzie , geologist
Stan Paterson , glaciologist
Anya Reading , geophysicist
Justin B. Ries , American biogeochemist and inventor known for discoveries in the field of global oceanic change
Frederick Stewart , geologist
Erskine Douglas Williamson , known for his contribution to the
Adams–Williamson equation
Computer Science and Informatics
Senior Academic Staff
Christopher Bishop
Former Staff and Alumni
Geoffrey Hinton
Robert Kowalski
Geoffrey Hinton , "Godfather of
Deep learning and
Artificial neural network ", 2018 winner of the
Turing Award
[27]
Robin Milner (1934–2010), computer scientist, developer of
ML ,
π-calculus and
LCF , winner of the
Turing Award in 1991
Leslie Valiant ,
Complexity theory pioneer, winner of the
Turing Award in 2010
Samson Abramsky , computer scientist at the
University of Oxford
Pat Ambler , creator of
Freddy II
Joe Armstrong , creator of
Erlang programming language and
Open Telecom Platform (OTP)
Andrew Blake , computer scientist and former director of
Microsoft Research , Cambridge and
Alan Turing Institute in London
Bob Boyer , computer scientist, mathematician, philosopher at the
University of Texas at Austin
Alan W. Black , Professor at the
Language Technologies Institute ,
Carnegie Mellon University
Justine Cassell , Professor at the
Human–Computer Interaction Institute ,
Carnegie Mellon University
Luca Cardelli , computer scientist, Assistant Director of
Microsoft Research , Cambridge
Ian Clarke , creator of
Freenet
Rosemary Candlin ,
crystallographer and computer scientist at
CERN
Margarita Chli , Leader of the Vision for Robotics Lab at
ETH Zürich
Peter Dayan , director at the
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany
John Darlington , Emeritus Professor,
Imperial College London
Bruce Davie ,
CTO of
VMware
Paul Dourish , Professor at the
University of California, Irvine
Carla Gomes , computer scientist, Founding Director of the
Cornell University
Institute for Computational Sustainability
Leslie Ann Goldberg , computer scientist at the
University of Oxford
Jeremy Gibbons , Professor of computing,
University of Oxford
Andrew Gordon at
Microsoft Research
Michael J. C. Gordon (1948–2017), computer scientist at the
University of Cambridge
Alex Graves , computer scientist at Google
DeepMind , creator of
Neural Turing machine (NTM)
Philippa Gardner , Professor of
Theoretical Computer Science at
Imperial College London
Richard Gregory (1923–2010), cognitive scientist at the
University of Bristol
Pat Hayes , Senior Research Scientist at the
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida
Robert Harper (computer scientist) , Professor of computer science at
Carnegie Mellon University
Matthew Hennessy , Co-creator of
Hennessy–Milner logic
Xuedong Huang ,
CTO of
Microsoft
Azure AI
Auke Ijspeert , Head of the Biorobotics Laboratory at
EPFL
Mark H. Johnson , cognitive neuroscientist and
Brain–computer interface researcher, Head of the Department of Psychology at the
University of Cambridge
Mark Jerrum , Professor of
Pure mathematics at the
University of London ,
Gödel Prize Laureate
Philipp Koehn , Professor of
Machine Translation at
Johns Hopkins University
Robert Kowalski , logician whose interpretation of the
Horn clause at Edinburgh became instrumental in the creation of
Prolog
Lǐ Wèi , mathematician and computer scientist, President of
Beihang University
Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004), cognitive scientist
Donald Michie , founder of
Artificial Intelligence in the UK
Eugenio Moggi , first to explicitly link the
Monad of category theory to functional programming
J Strother Moore , computer scientist at the
University of Texas at Austin , co-developer of the
Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm and the
Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm
Stephen Muggleton , Head of the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at
Imperial College London
Alan Mycroft , Professor at the
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Timothy O'Shea , Emeritus Professor and former principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
Robin Popplestone (1938–2004), creator of
COWSEL and
POP-2
Martha Palmer , creator of
PropBank and
VerbNet
Benjamin C. Pierce , Henry Salvatori Professor of computer science at the
University of Pennsylvania
John C. Reynolds (1935–2013), inventor of
System F and professor of computer science at
Carnegie Mellon University
Davide Sangiorgi , Professor at the
University of Bologna
Nigel Shadbolt ,
[28] Chairman of the
Open Data Institute (ODI) and master of
Jesus College, Oxford
Alistair Sinclair , Professor at
University of California, Berkeley ,
Gödel Prize Laureate
Aaron Sloman , philosopher, cognitive scientist at the
University of Birmingham
Stephen Tweedie , software developer, creator of
ext3 file system
Chris Tofts , scientist at
Hewlett-Packard
Mads Tofte , professor at the
IT University of Copenhagen
Lincoln Wallen ,
CTO of
Improbable , former CTO of
DreamWorks Animation
Toby Walsh , Professor of
artificial intelligence at the
UNSW
Hanna Wallach at
Microsoft Research
David H. D. Warren , creator of the
Warren Abstract Machine
Xia Peisu , "Mother of Computer Science in China"
Andrew Zisserman , computer scientist at Google
DeepMind and
University of Oxford
Engineering
Alexander Graham Bell
Sir
Thomas Hudson Beare , engineer
George Thomas Beilby , chemical engineer
Alexander Graham Bell , engineer, inventor of the
telephone and founder of
AT&T
Isaac
Lowthian Bell , metallurgist, businessman and politician
George Parker Bidder , engineer and calculating prodigy
James Blyth , electrical engineer, pioneer of the
Wind Turbine
William Fothergill Cooke , engineer, founder of
Electric Telegraph Company
Lewis Gordon , civil engineer
[29]
Harald Haas , inventor of
Li-Fi
James Jardine , civil engineer
Fleeming Jenkin , engineer, inventor of
telpherage
Alexander Carnegie Kirk , marine engineer
Elijah McCoy , engineer, inventor of the
Automatic lubricator for
Steam Engines
James Newlands , civil engineer
John Scott Russell , civil engineer, discoverer of
Soliton
John Randall , inventor of
Cavity Magnetron and leader of the team that led to the discovery of
structure of DNA
John Rennie the Elder , civil engineer
[30]
George Rennie , engineer
Stephen Salter MBE FRSE, wave energy pioneer
Robert Stephenson , railway engineer
Robert Stevenson , civil engineer
Alan Stevenson , lighthouse engineer
David Stevenson , lighthouse designer
Thomas Stevenson , lighthouse engineer
Charles Alexander Stevenson , lighthouse engineer
David Alan Stevenson , lighthouse engineer
Robert Stirling , inventor of
Stirling engine
John Shepherd-Barron , inventor of the
automated teller machine (ATM)
William Symington , engineer and inventor
Maria Watkins (née Marja Ludwika Ziff) first woman to study electrical engineering there, president of the
Women's Engineering Society
Mathematics and Physics
James Clerk Maxwell
Max Born
Alexander Aitken , mathematician, worked in
Hut 6 Bletchley Park decrypting the
ENIGMA code, known for the
Aitken's delta-squared process
Sir
Michael Atiyah mathematician,
Fields Medallist in 1966,
Abel Prize winner 2004
Charles Glover Barkla , winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in
X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of
X-rays
Thomas Bayes , mathematician, known for
Bayes' theorem and
Bayesian Statistics
Max Born , principle founder of
Quantum mechanics and
Nobel laureate in Physics in 1954
Sir
John M. Ball , mathematician
Sir
David Brewster , physicist, discoverer of
Brewster's angle and
photoelasticity , inventor of
Kaleidoscope
J. W. S. Cassels , mathematician
Michael Cates , physicist known for his work in
soft matter
George Chrystal , mathematician
Cheng Kaijia , physicist and pioneer of nuclear technology in
China
Roger Cowley , physicist
Janette Dunlop , physicist and teacher
Sir
Charles Galton Darwin , director of the
National Physics Laboratory (NPL) during World War II
Sir
James Alfred Ewing , physicist and engineer, discoverer of
Hysteresis
Klaus Fuchs , theoretical physicist and atomic spy
[31]
Norman Feather , physicist
David Gregory , mathematician, early
Newtonian
Marion Cameron Gray , mathematician
[32]
Fabiola Gianotti , Director-general of
CERN , 2013 winner of
Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Peter Higgs , 2013
Nobel laureate in Physics , theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor, and theorist of the
Higgs Boson ,
Higgs Mechanism and
Higgs Field
Sir
W. V. D. Hodge , mathematician and
Copley Medalist , formulator of the
Hodge theory and
Hodge conjecture , one of the seven
Millennium Prize Problems
Huang Kun , physicist, co-formulator of the
Born-Huang approximation
Charles Hutton , mathematician and
Copley Medalist
James Ivory , mathematician and
Copley Medalist
Philip Kelland , mathematician
Tom W. B. Kibble , theoretical physicist,
Sakurai Prize winner in 2010
Nicholas Kemmer , contributor in
United Kingdom's nuclear programme
Sir John Leslie , mathematician and physicist, the first producer of
artificial ice
Terry Lyons , mathematician
Dusa McDuff , mathematician
Colin Maclaurin , mathematician, discoverer of
MacLaurin series
James Clerk Maxwell , physicist, "father of
electromagnetism and
Statistical mechanics "
David Olive , theoretical physicist and
string theorist , 1997
Dirac Medal and Prize winner
Sir
Alexander Oppenheim , mathematician
John Playfair , mathematician
John Polkinghorne , theoretical physicist and theologian,
Templeton Prize winner in 2002
Peng Huanwu , physicist and pioneer of nuclear technology in
China
William John Macquorn Rankine , engineer, physicist, and early contributor to the development of
thermodynamics
Sir
Joseph Rotblat , Polish physicist who worked in the
Manhattan Project , 1995
Nobel Laureate in Peace
John Robison , physicist
Marion Ross , physicist
Agata Smoktunowicz , mathematician
Igor Tamm , theorizer of
Phonon and designer of
Tomahak , won the 1958
Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the
Cherenkov radiation
Peter Guthrie Tait , physicist and pioneer in
Thermodynamics
Neil Turok , theoretical physicist, Director of the
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (2009-2019)
Sheila Tinney , mathematical physicist
[33]
Joseph Wedderburn , mathematician
Emil Wolf , physicist, one-half of
Born and Wolf
Sir
Edmund Whittaker , mathematician and historian of science,
Copley Medalist
Arthur Geoffrey Walker , mathematician, known for co-developing the
Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric and
Fermi–Walker differentiation
Shu Xingbei , physicist
Thomas Young , polymath, established the
wave theory of light through his
double-slit experiment
Medicine and biology
Charles Darwin
Joseph Lister
Robert Liston
May-Britt Moser
Thomas Addis , pioneer in nephrology
Thomas Addison , first described
Addison's disease ,
pernicious anemia and
Addison-Schilder syndrome
William John Adie , first described
Adie syndrome and
narcolepsy
Arthur Cecil Alport , first identifier of the
Alport Syndrome
Kenneth Baillie , intensive care physician
Alfred George Barrs , physician
Nick Barton , evolutionary biologist, winner of the
Darwin–Wallace Medal in 2008
Sir
David Baulcombe , plant scientist, discovered
SiRNA and its role in gene silencing in plants, winner of the
Lasker Award in 2008
Sir
John Beddington , population biologist, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Charles Bell , anatomist and surgeon, first described of
Bell's palsy
Joseph Bell , surgeon
Stephen L. Brusatte , paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
Seneka Bibile , influential Sri Lankan pharmacologist
Sir
Adrian Bird , geneticist, discovered the protein
MeCP2 involved in DNA methylation,
Canada Gairdner International Award winner in 2011,
Shaw Prize laureate in 2016
James Braid , surgeon, founder of
hypnosis in medicine
Robert Brown , botanist, discoverer of
Brownian Motion
Benjamin Smith Barton , botanist
William Speirs Bruce , naturalist and oceanographer, led the
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in 1902-04
[34]
William Budd , physician and epidemiologist
[35]
John Hutton Balfour , botanist
David Bruce , discoverer of
Brucella
Min Chueh Chang , inventor of
Combined oral contraceptive pill and pioneer in IVF,
Lasker Award winner in 1954
Keith Campbell , biologist,
Shaw Prize laureate in 2008
John Murray Carnochan , neurosurgeon, performed first successful surgery for
trigeminal neuralgia
Bryan Clarke , geneticist, winner of the
Darwin–Wallace Medal in 2008
Brian Charlesworth , evolutionary biologist, winner of the
Darwin–Wallace Medal in 2010
Virender Lal Chopra , geneticist and biotechnologist
Robin Coombs , immunologist, discoverer of the
Coombs test
John G. S. Coghill , doctor
Richard A Collins , biochemist and author
Hilary Critchley , obstetrician and gynaecologist
William Cullen , physician and professor of medicine
Rafael Antonio Curra , Venezuelan ichthyologist
Charles Darwin , naturalist, author of
The Origin of Species
James Douglas , physician and anatomist; the
Douglas pouch and
Douglas line are named for him
Cuthbert Dukes , pathologist and author
Richard Eastell , professor of bone medicine
Robert Edwards , pioneer in
IVF , 2010 winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
John Elliotson , physician, mesmerist
James Esdaile , surgeon, mesmerist
Emmanuel Evans-Anfom , Ghanaian doctor and vice-chancellor of
Kwame Nkrumah University
Ronald Fairbairn , psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
[36]
Sir
David Ferrier , neuroscientist
Heather M. Ferguson ,
FRSE malaria vector biologist
[37]
Charles ffrench-Constant , neurologist
Ronald Fairbairn , psychiatrist, known for his
Object Relations Theory
Wong Fun , first western-educated Chinese doctor
Ian Frazer , immunologist, developer of the
HPV vaccine
Dame Anne Glover FRS, Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission from 2012 to 2014
Rosemary Grant , evolutionary biologist, 2009 winner of
Darwin-Wallace Medal
Michael Grunstein , biochemist, 2018 winner of
Lasker Award
John Haldane , physiologist
William Hewson , founder of
haematology ,
Copley Medalist
Bill Hill OBE FRS FRSE, geneticist and statistician, winner of 2018
Darwin Medal
William Hunter , anatomist
Thomas Hodgkin , physician, first describer of
Hodgkin's lymphoma
James Africanus Beale Horton , medicine
David Hosack , American botanist and landscape architect
[38]
Sophia Jex-Blake , leader of the
Edinburgh Seven , pioneer of medical education for women in Britain
Steve Jones , geneticist
Kurt Koffka , psychologist, founder of
Gestalt Psychology
George Kelly , psychologist
Sir
John Liddell , physician and director-general of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy
James Lind (naturalist) , physician to
George III
James Lind , pioneer in
preventive medicine , theorized the cure for
scurvy
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister , introduced antiseptics into surgery
Winifred W. Logan , nurse theorist
Mary F. Lyon , discoverer of
Lyonization , winner of 1997
Wolf Prize in Medicine
John Claudius Loudon , botanist
Ian MacDonald , physician
Hermann Joseph Muller , 1946 winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries in
Mutagenesis
William Sutherland Macdonald , physician and soldier
George Mackay (Ophthalmologic Surgeon)
Trudy Mackay , quantitative geneticist, winner of the
Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2016
[39]
William Alexander Mackay , doctor
Aubrey Manning , zoologist
James Fitzgerald Martin , personal surgeon to
George VI and
Lord Mountbatten
May-Britt Moser , 2014 winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries in
Grid Cell
Edvard Moser , 2014 winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries in
Grid Cell
Samuel Manuwa , Nigerian doctor and president of the World Federation for Mental Health
Henry Johnston Scott Matthew , physician, toxicologist
Kath M. Melia , sociologist, professor of nursing, champion of ethics in healthcare
Kirsten McCaffery , public health researcher
Roger McNeil , doctor of public health
Gilean McVean , post-doctoral fellow, evolutionary biologist, member of the steering committee for the
1000 Genomes Project
Pleasantine Mill , cell biologist
B. K. Misra , neurosurgeon
Dame
Anne McLaren , developmental biologist
John Keith Moffat -
Guggenheim Fellow , biologist and former Deputy Provost at
University of Chicago , noted for
Advanced Photon Source and
Time resolved crystallography
Alexander Monro (primus) ,
(secundus) and
(tertius) , anatomists
Sir
Paul Nurse , geneticist, 2001 Winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Kim Nasmyth , geneticist, 2018 winner of
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Susan Ofori-Atta , first Ghanaian woman doctor
Sarah Otto , theoretical biologist, 2021 winner of
Darwin-Wallace Medal
Richard Owen , major opponent to Charles Darwin, known for coining the term
Dinosauria and presenting them as a distinct
taxonomic group
Josephine Pemberton , evolutionary biologist, 2018 winner of
Darwin-Wallace Medal
George Alexander Pirie , doctor
William Roxburgh , botanist
Richard Frank Rand , surgeon
David Robertson (virologist) , virologist and bioinformatician
John Rogerson , personal physician to
Catherine the Great
Nancy Roper , nurse theorist
Fiona Ross , nursing scholar
Michael Rosbash , 2017 winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Agnes Yewande Savage , first West African woman graduate and doctor
Richard Gabriel Akinwande Savage , doctor and soldier
Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer , physiologist and neuroscientist, founder of
Endocrinology ,
Copley Medalist
Robert Sibbald , Professor of Medicine
James Edward Smith , founder of the
Linnean Society
Randy Schekman , former editor-in-chief of
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS ) and 2013 winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Sir
James Young Simpson , pioneered the use of chloroform in midwifery
Leslie Skene , psychiatrist
[40]
Sahib Singh Sokhey , biochemist and British Indian Army general
[41]
Jeremy Smith , biological scientist
Jotello Festiri Soga , South Africa's first black veterinarian
Sir
Edwin Southern , biomedical scientist, invented
Southern blot ,
Canada Gairdner International Award winner in 1990,
Lasker Award winner in 2005
Tara Spires-Jones , neuroscientist
George Neil Stewart , physiologist
Anne Bryson Sutherland , plastic surgeon
Grant Robert Sutherland
AC , human geneticist
Alison J. Tierney , professor of nursing, nurse theorist
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson , biologist, pioneer in
Mathematical biology
William Aldren Turner , neurologist
Meena Upadhyaya , medical geneticist
Colin S. Valentine , medical missionary
John Walker , naturalist
Joanna Wardlaw , neuroradiology and neuroimaging
Herbert Furnivall Waterhouse , surgeon and lecturer in anatomy
Hamish Watson , cardiology
Robert Whytt , medicine
Sir
Ian Wilmut , embryologist and former supervisor of the team that cloned
Dolly the Sheep ,
Shaw Prize laureate in 2008
C. H. Waddington , eminent
developmental biologist
Nairn Wilson , dental surgeon
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson , first describer of
Wilson's Disease
William Withering , physician, discoverer of
Digitalis
Robert Willan , founder of
Dermatology
Asrat Woldeyes , Ethiopian surgeon and politician
Robert Ramsay Wright , biologist, helped to re-establish the
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine in 1887
Ruth Wynne-Davies doctor and expert on
scoliosis and
clubfoot
Charles Wyville Thomson , naturalist and chief scientist on the
Challenger expedition
Yao Zhen , biologist
Zhong Nanshan ,
pulmonologist , discoverer of the
SARS Coronavirus and former president of the
Chinese Medical Association
Social sciences, arts and business
Pulitzer Prize
Architecture
Robert Adam
Robert Adam , architect
Suad Amiry , Palestinian architect
Sir
Robert Rowand Anderson , architect
Denise Bennetts , co-founder of
Bennetts Associates
Colen Campbell , architect and architectural writer
Theodore S. Clerk , Ghanaian architect
Ted Cullinan , architect
Ptolemy Dean , architect, 19th and current
Surveyor of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey
Sir
James Dunbar-Nasmith , conservation architect and former head of the Department of Architecture (1978–1988)
William Nairn Forbes , architect
Malcolm Fraser , architect
Sir
Nicholas Grimshaw , architect of
Waterloo International railway station and the
Eden Project , former president of the
Royal Academy
Abdur Rahman Hye , architect
Percy Johnson-Marshall , urban designer
Sir
William Kininmonth , architect
Tony Kettle , architect, designer of the
Falkirk Wheel
Sir
Robert Lorimer , architect and furniture designer
John McAslan , architect of Western concourse,
King's Cross station
Sir
Robert Matthew , architect
Ebenezer James MacRae , architect
Anuradha Mathur , landscape architect
Richard Murphy , architect
Kate Macintosh , architect
Harriet Pattison , landscape architect
Patrick Nuttgens , architect and academic
William Henry Playfair , architect
Deborah Saunt , architect
Deyan Sudjic , architecture critic
Frank Worthington Simon , architect
Sir
Basil Spence ,
Brutalist architect
Deborah Saunt , co-founder of
Deborah Saunt David Hills Architects (DSDHA)
William Thornton , architect who designed the
United States Capitol
Business
John Boyd Dunlop
Tony Hayward
Susie Wolff
John Allan , Chairman of
Tesco and
Barratt Developments
Laura J. Alber , CEO of
Williams-Sonoma Inc
William Denholm Barnetson , Chairman of
United Newspapers ,
Reuters and
Thames Television
Henry Birch , CEO of
The Very Group
James Blair-Cunynghame , former Chairman of the
Royal Bank of Scotland
Ian Bankier , Chairman of
Celtic F.C.
Jo Bamford , multi-billionaire businessman, founder of investment firm HYCAP
Chris Beard , former CEO of
Mozilla
Crawford W. Beveridge , former Executive Vice President,
Sun Microsystems
Jamie Byng , CEO of
Canongate Books
Victoria Barnsley , former CEO of
HarperCollins
Adam Black , founder of book publishing company
A & C Black
Sir
Donald Brydon , Chairman of the
Royal Mail ,
Sage Group and
Medical Research Council
Nigel Cowie , CEO of
Daedong Credit Bank
Martin Dickie , co-founder of
BrewDog
James Douglas , mining engineer, first President and CEO of
Phelps Dodge
George A. David , Chairman Emeritus of
Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
Bob Davies , former CEO of transport company
Arriva
John Boyd Dunlop , founder of
Dunlop Tyres
Eilidh Mactaggart , CEO of
Scottish National Investment Bank
Birna Einarsdóttir , CEO of
Íslandsbanki
Stephen Fitzpatrick , founder and CEO of
OVO Energy and
Vertical Aerospace , former owner of the
Manor Racing team
Nicholas Ferguson , Chairman of
Sky UK
John Ritchie Findlay , owner of
The Scotsman newspaper
Robert A. Funk , former Chair of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Sandy Flockhart , former CEO of
HSBC
Carlyle Gifford , Co-founder of investment firm
Baillie Gifford
Doug Gurr , former global vice-president and head of
Amazon UK
Hugh Grant , Chairman, President and CEO of
Monsanto
Sir
Alistair Grant , former Governor of
Bank of Scotland
Johnny Hornby , Chairman of
Sentebale
Alexander S. Hoare , former CEO of private bank
C. Hoare & Co
Rick Hayward , former Chairman of
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
Andrew Harrison , CEO of
Diamond Light Source
Ian Quayle Jones , co-founder, former chairman, and CEO of
Quayle Munro merchant bank
Tony Hayward , Chairman of
Glencore , former CEO of
BP
Sir
John Jennings , former Chairman of
Shell
Alan Jope , CEO of
Unilever
Jay Jopling , art dealer, founder of
White Cube
William Jardine , merchant, surgeon, and co-founder of global conglomerate
Jardine Matheson (怡和洋行)
Vivien Kellems , American industrialist and inventor
[43]
Robert Kibaara , CEO of
Housing Finance Group of Kenya
Brittany Kaiser , former
business development director for
Cambridge Analytica
Christopher Lovelock , business school professor and services marketing pioneer
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , founder and CEO of Banda Property, husband to
Princess Beatrice
Isabel Maxwell , co-founder of
Excite
David Milne , co-founder and former CEO of
Wolfson Microelectronics
Sir
James Matheson , co-founder of
Jardine Matheson
Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett , founder and first CEO of
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)
John McFarlane , Chairman of
Westpac , former chairman of
Barclays and
Aviva
Sir
Kenneth Murray , founder of multinational biotechnology company
Biogen
Sir
Frederick Ogilvie , former
Director-General of the BBC
Lord Max Percy , financial analyst
David E. I. Pyott , former CEO of
Allergan
Jim Reid , co-founder of
Wolfson Microelectronics
Lars Rasmussen , co-founder of
Google Maps
Anne Richards , CEO of
Fidelity International
Nigel Stein , CEO of
GKN
Sir
Jack Shaw , former Governor of
Bank of Scotland
Dave Stevenson , chairman of
Edinburgh Woollen Mill
Lord Swann , former Chairman of the
BBC
Paul Tash , chairman and CEO of the
Times Publishing Company
Xenia Timchenko , daughter of Russian billionaire
Gennady Timchenko
[44]
George Touche , co-founder of
Deloitte
David Taylor , former General Secretary of
UEFA
Sir David Tweedie , Chairman of the
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
Susie Wolff , retired racing driver and CEO of
Venturi Racing
Andrew Wirth , president and CEO of
Squaw Valley Ski Holdings
James Watt , founder and CEO of
BrewDog
Arthur Young , founder of
Ernst & Young
Economics
Sir
James Mirrlees
Kenneth E. Boulding , American economist, recipient of the
John Bates Clark Medal in 1949
[45]
Robin Burgess , economist
Thomas Chalmers , political economist
Paul Cockshott ,
Marxist economist
William Cunningham ,
economic historian
Marcus Fleming , known for his contribution to the
Mundell–Fleming model
Sir
Alexander Gray , Scottish economist and poet
William Ballantyne Hodgson , Scottish political economist
Sir
John Kay , British economist, first
Dean of
Saïd Business School ,
University of Oxford
Sir
James Mirrlees , British economist, winner of
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1996
[46]
John Moore , British economist, former president of the
Econometric Society ; recipient of the
Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 1999,
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards laureate in 2020
[47]
John Ramsay McCulloch ,
Ricardian economist
Henry Dunning Macleod , coined the term "
Gresham's law "
Takeshi Nakano , Japanese economist and bureaucrat, introduced the
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to Japan
Joseph Shield Nicholson , English economist
Ragnar Nurkse , Estonian economist, known for his
balanced growth theory
Sir
Alan T. Peacock , English economist
Madsen Pirie , co-founder and president of the
Adam Smith Institute
Will Page , Chief Economist at
Spotify
John Rae ,
Scottish-Canadian economist
Gavin Clydesdale Reid , Scottish economist
James Steuart , economist
Yongcheol Shin ,
South Korean-born British economist
Adam Smith , author of
The Wealth of Nations , Father of
Economics
Jerzy Żyżyński , Polish economist
Literature
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert Louis Stevenson
Michael Arlen , British-Armenian essayist
John Arden , playwright
William Archer , writer and critic
Jokha Alharthi , novelist, 2019 winner of
International Booker Prize
Edward Abbey , American author
Sir
J. M. Barrie , author of
Peter Pan
James Boswell , life-long friend of
Samuel Johnson , founded the modern
biographic writing with his
Life of Johnson
George Mackay Brown , poet
Horatius Bonar , Scottish churchman and poet
Thomas Carlyle , essayist and historian known for his
great man theory
Bliss Carman , Canadian poet
Thomas Campbell , poet
S. R. Crockett , novelist
George Chalmers , antiquarian and political writer
Charles Cumming , spy fiction writer
Bruce Chatwin , travel writer, author and winner of the 1982
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Jenny Colgan , romantic novelist
Kate Clanchy , poet and freelance writer
John Campbell , biographer
David Daiches , literary historian and critic
Erasmus Darwin , poet, writer and natural philosopher
William Drummond of Hawthornden , poet
Thomas Dick , writer
John Davison , poet
Angus Donald , author and journalist
Helen Dale , writer
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle , author and creator of
Sherlock Holmes
Barbara Erskine , novelist
Ralph Erskine , poet and churchman
John Fowles , novelist, author of
The Collector and
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Ahmed Fagih , Libyan novelist and diplomat
Robert Garioch , poet and translator
Oliver Goldsmith , writer, poet, and author of
The Vicar of Wakefield
Miriam Gamble , poet
Michael Grant , writer and historian
Philippa Gregory , historical novelist, author of
The Other Boleyn Girl
Ella Hickson , award-winning playwright
John Hodge , screenwriter
Thomas Hodgskin , socialist writer
John Home , playwright and joint-founder of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Sam Holcroft , playwright
Hamish Henderson , Scottish poet
Africanus Horton , first West African graduate of Edinburgh, nationalist writer, and medical surgeon
Gu Hongming , writer and
polyglot
Harold Jenkins , Shakespeare scholar
Kathleen Jamie , current
Makar for Scotland
Lucy Kirkwood , playwright
Paul Alfred Kleinert , German writer, editor and translator
Ae-ran Kim , South Korean writer
Andrew Lownie , biographer
John Gibson Lockhart , biographer of
Sir Walter Scott
Christine De Luca , poet
Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain),
Gaelic poet, nominated for the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994
Joel McIver , author
Hugh MacDiarmid , Scottish poet and essayist
William Matheson (1910–1995), Scottish Gaelic scholar and ordained minister of the Church of Scotland
[48]
Norman MacCaig , Scottish poet
Samuel George Morton , writer and physician, proponent of
Polygenism
Ian Maclaren , fiction writer and minister of the
Free Church of Scotland
Sharman Macdonald , playwright
C. K. Scott Moncrieff , writer and translator
James Macpherson , poet, collector and publisher of
The Poems of Ossian
Flora Nwapa , Nigerian author, educator and politician
Kole Omotosho , Nigerian writer
Julie O'Neill , author
Lloyd Osbourne , novelist
David Paulides , writer
Neil Paterson ,
Academy award -winning playwright and screenwriter
Themo H. Peel , author and illustrator
John William Polidori , personal physician to
Lord Byron and author of
The Vampyre , the first modern vampire story
Kenneth Ramchand , Trinidadian author and literary scholar
Sir
Ian Rankin , author of the
Inspector Rebus series and winner of the 2003
Edgar Awards
Peter Mark Roget , author of the first Thesaurus
J. K. Rowling , author of the
Harry Potter Series
[b]
[49]
Rachel Shabi , political author
George Saintsbury , literary critic
Tobias Smollett , poet and novelist
A. J. M. Smith , Canadian poet
Samuel Smiles , author and reformer
Sir Walter Scott , romanticist, author of
Ivanhoe and
Waverly , and founder of the
Historical Novel genre
Ansuyah Ratipul Singh , South African author and doctor
Alexander McCall Smith , author of
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and professor of medical law
William Soutar , poet and diarist
[50]
Robert Louis Stevenson , author of
Treasure Island and
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
James Thomson , poet and playwright, known for the lyrics of
Rule, Britannia!
Aeneas Francon Williams , writer, poet, and missionary
Kenneth White , poet
John Wilson , writer
Alan Warner , novelist
Catherynne M. Valente , American fiction writer, three-time
Locus Award winner
Media and the arts
Laura Kuenssberg
Sir
David Wilkie
Jane Alexander , two time
Primetime Emmy Award winner,
Tony Award winner
Camilla Arfwedson , actress
Richard Arnold , presenter and journalist best known for his work on
GMTV
Maria Bamford , comedian
Mardi Barrie , artist
Mitch Benn , comedian, songwriter and broadcaster
Elizabeth Blackadder , artist
Phyllis Bone , sculptor
[51]
Michael Boyd , artistic director of the
Royal Shakespeare Company
Tom Bradby , journalist and novelist
JJ Chalmers , former Marine and television presenter
Ian Charleson , actor
Rawdon Christie ,
Television New Zealand producer/presenter
Hamish Clark , actor
Robbie Coltrane , actor, as
Rubeus Hagrid in
Harry Potter
Quentin Cooper , science journalist and broadcaster
Sophie Cookson , actress
Michael Davies , executive producer of
Jeopardy!
Anthony d'Offay , art dealer
Daisy Donovan , actor and broadcaster
Rona Dougall , broadcaster, journalist and presenter (
Scotland Tonight )
Elize du Toit , actress
Jimmy Finlayson , actor and comedian
Iain Gale , journalist and author
Jessica Harrison-Hall , British Museum curator
Jim Haynes , founder of
Traverse Theatre , the paper
International Times and the London
Arts Lab
Carl Honoré , Canadian journalist
Mairi Hedderwick , illustrator and author
Robert Indiana ,
pop artist
Miles Jupp , comedian
Alex Kay-Jelski , journalist, editor of
The Athletic
Roisin Kennedy , art critic and curator
Humphrey Ker , actor and comedian
Laura Kuenssberg , editor, BBC Politics
Paul Laidlaw , auctioneer and television antiques expert
Allan Little , BBC Foreign Correspondent
Donald Locke , Guyanese artist and curator
Angus Macfadyen , actor, as
Robert the Bruce in
Braveheart
Ewen MacIntosh , actor,
The Office ,
Little Britain
Sally Magnusson , BBC journalist
Patrick Malahide , actor
Sam McAlister , TV producer and author
Kirsty McCabe , GMTV weather presenter
Kevin McKidd , actor, as
Owen Hunt in
Grey's Anatomy
Freddy McConnell , Guardian multimedia journalist and trans man
Michael McIntyre , comedian
Sally Magnusson , broadcaster on
BBC Scotland
Gillian McKeith , television presenter and writer
Hilton McRae , actor
William Cameron Menzies , film director and production designer, winner of
Academy Award for Best Production Design and
Academy Honorary Award
Judith Miller , antiques expert, writer and broadcaster
Steve Morrison , TV producer and former Rector of the University
Marina O'Loughlin , restaurant critic
Katie Leung , actress, as
Cho Chang in
Harry Potter
Peter Pomerantsev , Soviet-born British journalist
Sir
Eduardo Paolozzi , sculptor and pioneer in pop art
Catherine Rayner , illustrator and author
David Rintoul , actor
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar , actress
Alastair Sim , actor
Iain Stirling , comedian
Rachael Stirling , actress
Ed Stoppard , actor
Margaret Tait , filmmaker and poet
[52]
Bill Turnbull , journalist and television presenter
Greg Wise , actor, as
John Willoughby in
Sense and Sensibility
Sir
David Wilkie , painter
Kirsty Wark , broadcaster
Music
Max Richter
Sir
James MacMillan
Sir
Henry Bishop , composer
Sir
Adrian Boult , conductor
Tom Chaplin , lead singer of
Keane
Erik Chisholm , composer
Anna Clyne , composer
Darius Danesh , musician and singer
Django Django ,
art rock band
James Douglas , composer
Tanya Ekanayaka , composer-pianist
Hans Gal , composer
Katie Gregson-MacLeod , musician
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser , singer and composer
[53]
Kenneth Leighton , composer
Sir
Alexander Mackenzie , composer
Sir
James MacMillan , classical composer
Stuart MacRae , composer
Eduardo Reck Miranda , composer and Professor of Computer Music
Marcus Mumford , lead singer of
Mumford & Sons
Thea Musgrave , composer
Mylo , DJ
Sir
Herbert Oakeley , composer
Carl Orff , German composer
Nigel Osborne , composer
The Rezillos ,
punk /
new wave band
Max Richter , composer and pianist
Sir
Donald Runnicles , conductor
Rebecca Saunders , composer
Mike Scott , founder of
The Waterboys
Dan Tepfer , Jazz pianist and composer
John Thomson , composer
Sir
Donald Francis Tovey , composer, pianist,
musicologist
Julian Wagstaff , composer
David Wilde , pianist and composer
Derek Williams , composer, arranger and conductor
William Wordsworth , composer
History, philosophy, sociology and theology
David Hume
Sir
Patrick Geddes
V. Gordon Childe
Talal Asad , anthropologist
Marcella Althaus-Reid , theologian
John Anderson , philosopher
Sarah Broadie , philosopher
Jay Bernstein , philosopher
Tom Burns , sociologist
Alexander Bird , philosopher
John Baillie , theologian
S. Barry Barnes , philosopher and sociologist of science
David Bloor , philosopher, sociologist of science, and key figure in the
Edinburgh school
John Burnet , classicist
Helen Bond , theologian
Irene Brown , linguist and codebreaker who worked at
Bletchley Park
Thomas Brown , medicine and philosophy
Clifford Edmund Bosworth , historian and
Orientalist specialising in
Arabic and
Iranian studies
Robert Bartlett , medievalist, winner of the
Wolfson History Prize in 1993
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo , naturalist, philosopher, linguist
Benjamin Constant , French
député and political thinker
V. Gordon Childe , eminent archeologist
Andy Clark , philosopher of mind and cognition
Pit Corder , linguist
Oswald Chambers , Baptist evangelist
Peter Comensoli , current
Archbishop of Melbourne
Tom Devine , historian specialized in Scottish history
Christopher Dawson , Catholic historian
Ligon Duncan , theologian
Saul David ,
military historian
John Erickson , military historian
George Finlay , historian
Kit Fine , philosopher
David Fergusson , theologian
Adam Ferguson , philosopher and historian, contributed to the initial development of
sociology
Ernest Gellner , philosopher,
critical rationalist
H. A. R. Gibb , orientalist
Sir
Patrick Geddes , sociologist, developed the concept of
Conurbation
James Giles (born 1958), philosopher and psychologist
Michael Grant , classicist
John Gilchrist , linguist
Thomas Blom Hansen , anthropologist
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet , philosopher and logician
John Holloway , sociologist and Marxist philosopher
Larry Hurtado ,
New Testament scholar
Alexander Henderson , second founder of
Reformed Church in Scotland
John Hick , religious philosopher
David Hume , philosopher and historian
Michael Halliday , linguist, founder of
Systemic functional linguistics
Michael Ingham , Anglican bishop and author
Edward Irving , founder of the
Catholic Apostolic Church
Alison Jaggar , feminist philosopher
Martin Joos , linguist
Norman Kemp Smith , philosopher
Margot Käßmann , theologian, former leader of
Evangelical Church in Germany
Rae Langton , philosopher
Peter Ladefoged , linguist and
phonetician
Sir
John Lyons , linguist
Michael Lynch , expert on
Scottish Reformation
Elton Mayo , psychologist and
organizational theorist
Ruth Barcan Marcus , philosopher and logician
Peter Millican , philosopher
Robert Murray M'Cheyne , church minister
Arthur Marwick , historian
Robert Morrison MacIver , sociologist
Donald MacKenzie , sociologist
Akbar Muhammad , historian specialized in
African History
Neil MacGregor , art historian, former director of the
National Gallery , London (1987-2002) and of the
British Museum (2002-2015), founding director of the
Humboldt Forum (2015-)
Sir
Neil MacCormick , former
MEP and legal philosopher
James Mill , historian, classical economist and utilitarian philosopher
Donald Nicol ,
Byzantinist
David Nicolle ,
military historian
Pippa Norris , political scientist
Christine Nuttall , linguisitics and teaching
English as a foreign language
Cardinal
Keith O'Brien , former
Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
Richard Ovenden ,
Bodley's Librarian in the
University of Oxford
Huw Price , philosopher
Duncan Pritchard , philosopher
Stuart Piggott , archeologist
Thorsten J. Pattberg ,
philologist and cultural critic
Geoffrey K. Pullum , linguist
Sir
W. D. Ross ,
Aristotelian philosopher
David George Ritchie , philosopher
Rush Rhees , philosopher
Holmes Rolston III , philosopher, winner of the
Templeton Prize in 2003
Sir
Herbert Read , art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher
David Talbot Rice , art historian who gave his name to the
Talbot Rice Gallery at Edinburgh
William Robertson ,
Historiographer Royal and
Principal of the University of Edinburgh
William Robertson Smith , orientalist and church minister
Steven Shapin , sociologist and philosopher of science, early founder on
Sociology of scientific knowledge (STS)
Timothy Sprigge , philosopher
Dugald Stewart , enlightenment philosopher
Samuel Seabury , first American
Episcopal bishop
John Toland , philosopher, coined the term "
Pantheism "
Thomas F. Torrance , theologian, winner of the
Templeton Prize in 1978
Iain Torrance , theologian and President of
Princeton Theological Seminary
Géza Vermes , historian and theologian
Asher Wade , American-born international lecturer and psychotherapist
Robin Williams , developer of the concept of
Social shaping of technology (SST)
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee , historian and political theorist
Heather Widdows , philosopher
Timothy Williamson , philosopher
Jeremy Waldron , legal philosopher
William J. Watson , linguist and
toponymist , scholar of the history of
Scottish place names
W. Montgomery Watt , historian and
Orientalist
Michael Worton , former Vice Provost of
University College of London
Alex Woolf , medieval historian
Tullio Vinay , founder Agapè Center,
Righteous Among the Nations
Immanuel Velikovsky , psychoanalyst
George Yule , linguist
Yang Changji , Chinese educator and philosopher, mentor and Godfather of
Mao Zedong
Zhu Guangqian , philosopher on
Aesthetics
John Zizioulas ,
Greek Orthodox
Prelate
Others
Lulwah Al-Qatami , Nobel Peace Prize nominee and first woman from Kuwait to attend university overseas
B. T. S. Atkins , lexicographer
Chris Atton , university professor and musician
Susan Deacon , former Health Minister in the
Scottish Executive , now Professor of Social Change at
Queen Margaret University
Margaret Jarvie , counsellor
Edward Johnston , father of modern
calligraphy , creator of
Sans-serif
Alan M. Leslie , psychologist
David MacRitchie , archaeologist
Roger Mercer , archaeologist
A.S. Neill , educationalist, founder of
Summerhill School
Madsen Pirie , founder and President of the
Adam Smith Institute
Sports
Sir
Chris Hoy
Tommy Armour , threetime
major golf championships winner
Leslie Balfour-Melville , outstanding all-round sportsman
Euan Burton , judoka
Bob Braithwaite , Olympic gold medalist in
Trap shooting
Zbigniew Czajkowski , fencing master, "father of the Polish School" of fencing
Stephen Dick , hockey player
Eilidh Doyle , Olympic track and field bronze medalist
Gemma Gibbons , Olympic Judo silver medallist
Eilidh Gibson , canoeist
Katherine Grainger , Olympic rowing gold medallist
Stuart Grimes , international professional rugby union player
Alexander Watson Hutton , "The Father of Argentine football"
Peter Heatly ,
diver and former Chairman of the
Commonwealth Games Federation
Sir
Chris Hoy , the second-most successful British Olympian in history with six Olympic track cycling gold medals
Andy Irvine , rugby union player and president of the
Scottish Rugby Union
Michael Jamieson , 200m breaststroke Olympic silver medallist
Eric Liddell , men's Olympic 400m gold medallist, and Scottish Rugby international
Caitlin McClatchey , swimmer and two-times Commonwealth Gold medallist
Margaret Maughan , Britain's first and four-times
Paralympic games Gold medalist
Linsey MacDonald , Olympic bronze medalist in 400 metres
Judy Murray , mother and coach of professional tennis players
Jamie Murray and Sir
Andy Murray
Chris Paterson , Scottish international rugby union player
Alistair Potts , Commonwealth and British World Champion rower
Mark Robertson , Scottish international rugby union player
Jackie Robinson , 1948 Olympic Gold medalist in Basketball representing Team USA
Martin Sinclair , Silver medalist in the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games
Micky Steele-Bodger , English rugby international and Chairman
IRB
Pat Spence , two-time Tennis
Grand Slam mixed doubles champion
Robert Strang , English cricketer who played once for
Scotland
Polly Swann , Olympic rowing silver medallist
Simon Taylor , international professional rugby union player
Catherine Taylor ,
Jon Duncan ,
Scott Fraser and
Yvette Baker ,
orienteers with international success
Bungy Watson , English rugby union player
[54]
Miscellaneous
Piers Sellers
Ruth Adler , human rights campaigner
[55]
John Aikin , physician and writer
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr , visual artist and member of the
Bhutto family
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, daughter of
Benazir Bhutto , 11th and 13th
Prime Minister of Pakistan , member of the
Bhutto family
John (Ian) Bartholomew , cartographer and former principal of
John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.
Thomas Spencer Baynes , publisher and writer
John Biggar , Scottish mountaineer who has made various first ascents in the
Andes
James Blair , founder of the
College of William & Mary
George Birkbeck , founder of
Birkbeck College, University of London and co-founder of
UCL
John Brown , physician and author
Archibald Cameron of Locheil ,
jacobite
Sam Denby , YouTuber
John Dalgleish Donaldson , mathematician, father of
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
Robert Felkin , medical missionary; ceremonial magician, member of the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ; author on Africa; explorer and anthropologist
James Gall , clergyman and astronomer, founder of the
Carrubbers Close Mission
[56]
Alastair Humphreys , Adventurer
[57]
Rev
Bruce Kenrick , writer, minister, social activist and founder of
Shelter
Rev
Joseph Marsh , founder of
Hill Street Academy
Ailsa Maxwell , Bletchley Park code breaker and historian
Sheila McKechnie , Scottish trade unionist and 1991 Alumnus of the Year
James Middleton , businessman and younger brother of
Catherine, Princess of Wales
Philippa Matthews , socialite and younger sister of
Catherine, Princess of Wales
Macvey Napier , encyclopedist
Mungo Park , explorer
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair , scientist and parliamentarian
Daphne Pochin Mould , photographer, writer, geologist
Stella Rimington , former head of
MI5
Peter Sawkins , winner of
The Great British Bake Off 2020
Piers Sellers , astronaut
William Smellie , encyclopedist
University officials
Sir
Edward Appleton ,
Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1947 for his discoveries of the
Ionosphere , was Principal from 1949 to 1965.
Sir
Edward Victor Appleton , former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the university (1949–1965)
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby , former Rector of the university (1935-1936)
Arthur Balfour , former Chancellor of the university (1891–1930)
Stanley Baldwin , former Rector of the university (1923-1926)
Earl Beatty , former Rector of the university (1917-1920)
Gordon Brown , Rector of the university (1972-1975)
Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope , Rector of the university (1945-1948)
Sir
Winston Churchill , former Rector of the university (1929–1932)
Sir
Alexander Fleming , former Rector of the university (1951–1953)
David Lloyd George , former Rector of the university (1920–1923)
William Gladstone , former Rector of the university (1859-1865)
The Earl of Rosebery , former Rector of the university (1880-1883)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , former Chancellor of the university (1953–2010)
Anne, Princess Royal , Chancellor of the university (2011–present)
See also
Notes
^ Edward was taught by professor
Lyon Playfair and others at Edinburgh during 1859. Although he attended courses, he never formally matriculated as a student.
^ Rowling attended the
Moray House School of Education in 1995, before it merged with the university in 1998.
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