List of University of Edinburgh people
List of University of Edinburgh people is a list of notable graduates and former faculty of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The University is associated with ten Nobel Prize winners[1] and three Prime Ministers.
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Politics and government
- Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development
- 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
- Mehmet Aydın, Turkish Minister
- Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, former Lord Advocate for Scotland
- Charles Hendry, Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Robin Cook, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Michael Cullen, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and Finance Minister of New Zealand
- Tessa Jowell, Olympics Minister
- 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
- Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- Jennie Lee, Minister for the Arts and founder of the Open University
- James Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay, businessman and politician
- Anne McIntosh, 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, former UK 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
- Nicholas Fairbairn, Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party
- Catherine McKinnell, Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North
Heads of state and Heads of 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
- Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada
- Julius Nyerere, first President of Tanzania
- Yun Po Sun, President of South Korea
- Jang Taek-sang, Prime Minister of South Korea
- Hastings Banda, President of Malawi
- William Walker, President of Nicaragua
- Arthur St. Clair, President of the Continental Congress
- Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu, former president of Malaysian Chinese Association & Gerakan, 2nd Chief Minister of Penang, Malaysia.
Royalty
Judges
Sciences
Chemists
Geoscientists
- Samson Abramsky FRS, computer scientist
- Christopher Bishop, computer scientist, Assistant Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge
- Andrew Blake FRS, computer scientist
- Bob Boyer, computer scientist, mathematician, philosopher
- Peter Buneman FRS, computer scientist
- Luca Cardelli FRS, computer scientist, Assistant Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge
- 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 vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
- Aaron Sloman, philosopher, cognitive scientist
- Gordon Plotkin FRS, computer scientist
- Leslie Valiant FRS, informatician and computer scientist
- Lǐ Wèi 李未, mathematician and computer scientist, President of Beihang University
Mathematicians, physicists, engineers
- Thomas Bayes, mathematician, known for Bayes' theorem.
- Sir Michael Atiyah FRS, mathematician, winner of Abel Prize, (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
- Alexander Graham Bell, engineer and inventor of the telephone
- Joseph Black, physicist and chemist
- David Brewster, scientist and inventor
- Max Born, nobel laurate, pioneer in quantum physics, 1936 to 1953 Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
- J. W. S. Cassels, mathematician
- James Alfred Ewing, physicist and engineer
- Klaus Fuchs, physicist
- Peter Higgs, physicist, Emeritus Professor of Physics and co-discoverer of the Higgs-Kibble Mechanism
- W. V. D. Hodge, mathematician
- Archie Howie, physicist
- Charles Hutton, mathematician
- Fleeming Jenkin, engineer, inventor of telpherage
- Philip Kelland, mathematician
- Tom W. B. Kibble, physicist, Sakurai Prize winner and co-discoverer of the Higgs-Kibble Mechanism
- Sir John Leslie, mathematician and physicist
- Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
- James Clerk Maxwell, physicist and father of electromagnetics
- John Playfair, mathematician
- John Shepherd-Barron, inventor of the automated teller machine (ATM)
- William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist, early contributor to the development of thermodynamics
- Peter Guthrie Tait, physicist
- Edmund Whittaker, mathematician
- William Withering, physician
- William Sutherland Macdonald, physician and soldier
Medics and biologists
- Sir David Baulcombe, plant scientist
- John Beddington, population biologist, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
- Charles Bell, anatomist, surgeon
- Joseph Bell, medicine
- Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneer of medical education for women in Britain
- James Braid, surgeon, hypnotist
- James A.C. Brown, psychiatrist
- Robert Brown, botanist
- Sam Brown, evolutionary biologist
- Thomas Brown, medicine and philosophy
- William Budd, medicine [2]
- Eustace Chesser, psychiatrist
- Richard A Collins biochemist and author
- Charles Darwin, naturalist, author of "The Origin of Species"
- Cuthbert Dukes, pathologist and author
- Richard Eastell, professor of bone medicine
- John Elliotson physician, mesmerist
- James Esdaile, surgeon, mesmerist
- John Haldane, physiologist
- Richard Henderson, biologist
- James Africanus Beale Horton, medicine
- George Kelly, psychologist
- Joseph Lister, introduced antiseptics into surgery
- John Claudius Loudon, botanist
- Aubrey Manning, zoologist
- Alexander Monro (primus), (secundus) and (tertius), anatomists
- Richard Owen, biologist and palaeontologist
- Thomas Hodgkin, physician
- 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
- Lady Agneska Wabik, molecular biologist and stem cell specialist
Other
Nobel Laureates
- Edward Victor Appleton, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Terry Barker, Nobel laureate in Peace
- Charles Glover Barkla, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Max Born, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Peter C. Doherty, Nobel laureate in Medicine
- James Mirrlees, Nobel laureate in Economics
- Peter D. Mitchell,Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Igor Tamm, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Alexander R. Todd, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Robert G. Edwards, Nobel laureate in Medicine
Arts
Architecture
Literature and Music
- Edward Abbey author
- J. M. Barrie, author
- James Boswell, lawyer, author and biographer of Samuel Johnson
- Maoilios Caimbeul, Gaelic poet
- Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian
- Bliss Carman, Canadian poet
- George Chalmers, antiquarian and political writer
- Bruce Chatwin, author
- Richard A Collins, author and scientist
- E. S. Dallas, author and journalist
- David Daiches, literary historian and critic
- Thomas Dick, writer
- Angus Donald, author and journalist
- James Douglas, composer
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author
- Robert Garioch, poet and translator
- Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician
- Michael Grant, writer and historian
- Ku Hung-ming, writer and polyglot
- Kenneth Leighton, composer
- James MacMillan, classical composer
- Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain), Gaelic poet
- Joel McIver, author
- Stuart MacRae, composer
- Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, writer and translator
- Marcus Mumford, lead singer of Mumford & Sons
- Nigel Osborne, composer
- Kole Omotosho, writer
- Neil Paterson, footballer, author and screenwriter
- John William Polidori, writer and physician
- Ian Rankin, author
- Peter Mark Roget, author of the first Thesaurus
- Mike Scott (musician), founder of The Waterboys
- Sir Walter Scott, author and poet
- Alexander McCall Smith, author and professor of medical law
- Robert Louis Stevenson, author
- John Thomson (composer)
- Donald Francis Tovey, composer, pianist, musicologist
- Julian Wagstaff, composer
- William Wordsworth (composer)
Media and the Arts
- Michael McIntyre, comedian
- Maria Bamford, comedian
- Mitch Benn, comedian, songwriter and broadcaster
- Elizabeth Blackadder, artist
- Tom Bradby, journalist and novelist
- Tom Chaplin, musician and singer in the English piano rock band Keane
- Ian Charleson, actor
- Rawdon Christie, Television New Zealand producer/presenter
- Robbie Coltrane, actor
- Quentin Cooper, science journalist and broadcaster
- Darius Danesh, musician and singer
- Daisy Donovan, actor and broadcaster
- Jimmy Finlayson, actor and comedian
- Iain Gale, journalist and author
- Jay Jopling, art dealer
- Miles Jupp, comedian
- Laura Kuenssberg, BBC chief political correspondent
- Allan Little, BBC Foreign Correspondent
- Sally Magnusson, BBC journalist
- Kirsty McCabe, GMTV weather presenter
- Gillian McKeith, television presenter and writer
- Judith Miller (antiques expert), antiques expert, writer and broadcaster
- Anthony d'Offay, art dealer
- Alastair Sim, actor
- Quentin Sommerville, BBC journalist
- Rachael Stirling, actress
- Elize du Toit, actress
- Bill Turnbull, journalist and television presenter
- Kirsty Wark, broadcaster
Historians, philosophers and theologians
- John Baillie, theologian
- Thomas Brown, medicine and philosophy
- James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, naturalist, philosopher, linguist
- Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian
- David Hume, philosopher and historian
- Michael Ingham, Anglican bishop and author
- Arthur Marwick, historian
- John McIntyre, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Dean of the Thistle
- James Mill, historian and utilitarianist philosopher
- Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, current Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
- George Newlands, theologian
- David George Ritchie, philosopher
- William Robertson, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
- Adam Smith, political economist and philosopher
- Dugald Stewart, philosopher
- Iain Torrance, theologian and President of Princeton Theological Seminary
- Ligon Duncan, theologian
- K. V. Mathew, Biblical Scholar from India
- Géza Vermes
- Asher Wade, an American-born international lecturer and psychotherapist.
Other
Business and economics
- George Touche, Founder of Deloitte & Touche
- John Allan, CFO of Deutsche Post AG
- Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation
- Donald Brydon, Chairman of Smiths Group and the London Metal Exchange, and Chairman-designate of Royal Mail
- Arthur Young, Founder of Ernst & Young
- Crawford W. Beveridge, Executive Vice President Sun Microsystems
- Mike Ramsay, co-founder and Chairman of TiVo
- John Kay (economist), economist
- John Ritchie Findlay, owner of The Scotsman newspaper
- Tony Hayward, former CEO of BP
- Jack Waters, Vice-President Pfizer Inc.
- Ian Godden, CEO of Society of British Aircraft Constructors(SBAC)
- John Boyd Dunlop, founder of Dunlop Rubber
- Peter J. Robertson, vice chairman of the board of directors for Chevron Corporation
- John Rae (economist), economist
- Chris Montgomery, former-CEO of mp3.com Europe
- Sir Brian Stewart, Chairman of Standard Life and Scottish & Newcastle
- Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
- Lord Swann, Chairman BBC
- David E.I. Pyott, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Allergan
- Hugh Grant, Chairman, President & CEO of Monsanto Company
- John Grahl, economist
- Henning Schulte-Noelle, Chairman of the Board Allianz SE
- Prafulla Chandra Roy, distinguished chemist and founder of India's first pharmaceutical company
Sports
- Leslie Balfour-Melville, outstanding all-round sportsman
- Zbigniew Czajkowski, fencing master, "Father of the Polish School" of fencing
- Katherine Grainger, Olympic rowing medallist
- Peter Heatly, diver and former Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation
- Sir Chris Hoy, Olympic track cyclist gold medallist
- Andy Irvine, rugby player and president of the Scottish Rugby Union
- Eric Liddell, athlete men's 400 metres gold medallist
- Alistair Potts, Commonwealth and British World Champion rower
- Robert Strang, English cricketer who played once for Scotland
- Simon Taylor, International and Professional Rugby player
Miscellaneous
- John Aikin, physician and writer
- James Blair (clergyman) — founder of the College of William & Mary
- John Brown, physician and author
- Archibald Cameron of Locheil, jacobite
- 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.
- William Jardine, merchant and surgeon
- Reginald Johnston, diplomat and pedagogue of Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China
- Bruce Kenrick, writer, minister, social activist and founder of Shelter
- Sir James Marjoribanks, career diplomat who presented Britain's successful application to join the European Community in 1967
- James Matheson, businessman and MP for the Ross and Cromarty constituency
- Pippa Middleton, socialite and caterer
- Mungo Park (explorer)
- Lord Playfair, scientist and parliamentarian
- Stella Rimington, former head of MI5
- Piers Sellers, astronaut
- Samuel Smiles, author and reformer
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