Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
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Alumni of the University of Edinburgh is a list of notable graduates and former faculty of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
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[edit] Politics and government
- Dr Michael Cullen, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and Finance Minister of New Zealand
- Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for Transport and Secretary of State for Scotland
- Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian, former Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, Governor of Bengal and Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, former Lord Advocate for Scotland
- Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Robin Cook, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport
- Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, statesman
- Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
- Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British Liberal and Labour politician
- Douglas Henderson, Politician
- Jennie Lee, Minister for the Arts and founder of the Open University
- James Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay, businessman and politician
- James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Chancellor
- David McLetchie, former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party
- Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Malcolm Rifkind, Foreign Secretary
- David Steel, former leader of the Liberal Party and first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
- Jim Wallace, former leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Deputy First Minister
- Ike Skelton, U.S. congressman from Missouri
- Mike Synar, U.S. congressman from Oklahoma
- John Witherspoon, signatory, American Declaration of Independence
- Benjamin Rush, signatory, American Declaration of Independence
[edit] Heads of state and Heads of government
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister
- Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister
- Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada
- Julius Nyerere, first President of Tanzania
- Yun Po Sun, President of South Korea
- Hastings Banda, President of Malawi
[edit] Judges
- Henry Thomas Cockburn, judge
- Sir David Edward, former European Court of First Instance Judge
- Charles Erskine, Scottish judge and professor of Private Law
- Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Scotland's second most senior judge
- Ronald King Murray, Labour politician and judge
[edit] Sciences
[edit] Chemists
- John Davy, chemist, discover of phosgene
- James Dewar, chemist and physicist
- Robin Hochstrasser, chemist
- James Fraser Stoddart, Chemist
[edit] Geoscientists
- Robert Bell (geologist), geologist
- Archibald Geikie, geologist
- James Hector, geologist
- James Hutton, the father of modern geology
- Robert Jameson, naturalist and mineralist
- Matthew Law, geologist
[edit] Informaticians
- Samson Abramsky FRS, computer scientist
- Andrew Blake FRS, computer scientist
- Bob Boyer, computer scientist, mathematician, philosopher
- Luca Cardelli FRS, computer scientist
- Ian Clarke, computer scientist
- Andrew Fitzgibbon, computer scientist
- Michael Gordon FRS, computer scientist
- Richard Gregory FRS, cognitive scientist
- Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS, cognitive scientist
- Geoffrey Hinton FRS, informatician
- Robert Kowalski, logician, computer scientist
- Donald Michie, artificial intelligence pioneer
- Robin Milner FRS, computer scientist, winner of the Turing Award
- J Strother Moore, computer scientist
- Augustus De Morgan, mathematician and logician
- Timothy O'Shea, computer scientist; principal and and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
- Aaron Sloman, philosopher, cognitive scientist
- Leslie Valiant FRS, informatician and computer scientist
- Ross A.J. Wallace, computer scientist; level designer at Rockstar North
- Lǐ Wèi 李未 , mathematician and computer scientist, President of Beihang University
[edit] Mathematicians, physicists, engineers
- Sir Michael Atiyah, mathematician
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
- Joseph Black, physicist and chemist
- David Brewster, scientist
- J. W. S. Cassels, mathematician
- John Boyd Dunlop, inventor
- James Alfred Ewing, physicist and engineer
- Klaus Fuchs, physicist
- Peter Higgs, physicist, Emeritus Professor of Physics and father of the Higgs boson
- W. V. D. Hodge, mathematician
- Archie Howie, physicist
- Charles Hutton, mathematician
- Fleeming Jenkin, engineer, inventor of telpherage
- Sir John Leslie, mathematician and physicist
- Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
- James Clerk Maxwell, physicist and father of electromagnetics
- John Playfair, mathematician
- William John Macquorn Rankine, early contributor to the development of thermodynamics
- Peter Guthrie Tait, physicist
- Edmund Whittaker, mathematician
- William Withering, physician
[edit] Medics and biologists
- Charles Bell, anatomist, surgeon
- Joseph Bell, medicine
- Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneer of medical education for women in Britain
- James A.C. Brown, psychiatrist
- Robert Brown, botanist
- Charles Darwin, naturalist, author of "The Origin of Species"
- James Esdaile, surgeon
- John Haldane, physiologist
- James Africanus Beale Horton, medicine
- George Kelly, psychologist
- Joseph Lister, introduced antiseptics into surgery
- John Claudius Loudon, botanist
- Aubrey Manning, zoologist
- Alexander Munro III, anatomists
- Richard Owen, biologist and palaeontologist
- Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, physiologist and neuroscientist
- Robert Sibbald, Professor of Medicine
- James Young Simpson, pioneered the use of chloroform in midwifery
- Jeremy Smith, Biological Scientist
- John Walker, naturalist
- Ian Wilmut, embryologist and former supervisor of the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep
- Robert Whytt, medicine
- Charles Wyville Thomson, naturalist and chief scientist on the Challenger expedition
[edit] Other
- Anneila Sargent, astronomer
- Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu, former president of Malaysian Chinese Association
- David MacRitchie, archaeologist
- Roger Mercer, archaeologist
- Charles Piazzi Smyth, astronomer
[edit] Nobel Laureates
- Charles Glover Barkla, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Max Born, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Peter Doherty, Nobel laureate in Medicine
- James Mirrlees, Nobel laureate in Economics
- Peter D. Mitchell,Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Igor Tamm, Nobel laureate in Physics
[edit] Arts
[edit] Architecture
- Robert Adam, architect
- Robert Matthew, architect
[edit] Literature
- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan author
- James Boswell, lawyer, author and biographer of Samuel Johnson
- Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian
- George Chalmers, antiquarian and political writer
- Bruce Chatwin, author
- E. S. Dallas, author and journalist
- David Daiches, literary historian and critic
- Thomas Dick, writer
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes author
- Robert Garioch, poet and translator
- Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician
- Michael Grant, writer and historian
- Ku Hung-ming, writer and polyglot
- Rupert Humphries, scriptwriter
- Will Lyons, wine writer
- James MacMillan, classical composer
- Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain), Gaelic poet
- Joel McIver, author
- Brian Morton, broadcaster, journalist and writer on music
- Neil Paterson, footballer, author and screenwriter
- Ian Rankin, author
- Peter Roget, author of the first Thesaurus
- JK Rowling, author of Harry Potter
- Sir Walter Scott, author and poet
- Alexander McCall Smith, author and professor of medical law
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide author
- Jimbo Wilson, raconteur
- Dorothy Simmons, author
[edit] Artists and actors
- Maria Bamford, comedian
- Mitch Benn, comedian, songwriter and broadcaster
- Elizabeth Blackadder, artist
- Robbie Coltrane, actor
- Daisy Donovan, actor and broadcaster
- Jimmy Finlayson, actor and comedian
- Alastair Sim, actor
- Kerry Stewart, artist
- Tom Chaplin, musician and singer
[edit] Historians, philosophers and theologians
- John Baillie, theologian
- Thomas Brown, philosopher
- James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, naturalist, philosopher, linguist
- Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian
- David Hume, philosopher and historian
- Margaret Iversen, art historian
- Michael Ingham, anglican bishop and author
- Arthur Marwick, historian
- K. David, New Testament scholar, Theologian from the Canadian Baptist Mission
- James Mill, historian and utilitarianist philosopher
- Keith Moxey, art historian
- Dr. John Munro, theologian
- George Newlands, theologian
- Adam Smith, political economist and philosopher
- Dugald Stewart, philosopher
- Iain Torrance, theologian and President of Princeton Theological Seminary
[edit] Other
- Allan Little, BBC Foreign Correspondent
- Andrew McPherson, legal commentator
- A.S. Neill, educationalist
- Kirsty Wark, broadcaster
[edit] Business
- Mike Ramsay, co-founder and Chairman of TiVo
- Crawford W. Beveridge, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Sun Microsystems
- John Ritchie Findlay, owner of The Scotsman newspaper
- Sir Brian Stewart, Chairman of Standard Life and Scottish & Newcastle
[edit] Sports
- Zbigniew Czajkowski, fencing master, "Father of the Polish School" of fencing
- Chris Hoy, track cyclist
- Andy Irvine (rugby player), rugby player and president of the Scottish Rugby Union
- Eric Liddell, athlete men's 400 metres gold medallist
- Shirley McIntosh, Commonwealth rifle shooting gold medallist
- Susan Jackson, Commonwealth rifle shooting gold medallist
- Katherine Grainger, Olympic rowing medallist
- Simon Taylor, International and Professional Rugby player
- Alistair Potts, Commonwealth and British World Champion rower
[edit] Miscellaneous
- John Aikin, physician and writer
- James Blair (clergyman) — founder of the College of William & Mary
- John Brown, physician and author
- Benjamin Constant, writer and politician
- Robert Felkin, medical missionary; ceremonial magician, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; author on Africa; explorer and anthropologist.
- Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation
- William Jardine (surgeon), merchant and surgeon
- Reginald Johnston, diplomat and pedagogue of Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China
- Duncan MacLaren, secretary General of Caritas Internationalis
- James Matheson, businessman and MP for the Ross and Cromarty constituency
- Mark O'Neil, former moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
- Lord Playfair, scientist and parliamentarian
- Stella Rimington, former head of MI5
- Piers Sellers , astronaut
- Samuel Smiles, author and reformer
- Lord Swann, Chairman BBC
- Archibald Cameron of Locheil, jacobite
