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 20 Nobel Prize winners[1] and three Prime Ministers.
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Michael Mcintyre
James Burnett Lord Monboddo
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Politics and government
- Douglas Alexander, former Secretary of State for International Development
- Alexander J. Dallas, served as the 6th US 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.
- Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian, former Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Hikmat Abu Zayd, first female cabinet minister of Egypt
- John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, former Governor of Bengal and Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Mehmet Aydın, Turkish Minister
- David Campbell Bannerman, UKIP MEP
- Christy Clark, Premier of British Columbia
- Sir Robert Brown Black, former Governor of Hong Kong and Governor of Singapore
- John Crawfurd, diplomat and one of the early founders of Singapore
- Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, former Lord Advocate for Scotland
- Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales
- Benjamin Constant, writer and politician
- Robin Cook, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Michael Cullen, former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, statesman
- Nicholas Fairbairn, Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party
- Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
- Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British Liberal and Labour politician
- Douglas Henderson, influential former Scottish National Party member
- Charles Hendry, current Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Tessa Jowell, former Minister for the Olympics
- Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- Jennie Lee, Minister for the Arts and founder of the Open University
- Dr.Lim Chong Eu, former Chief Minister of Penang
- James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
- Robert James Manion, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada from 1938 to 1940
- Sir James Marjoribanks, orchestrated Britain's successful application to join the European Community in 1967
- Anne McIntosh, Member of Parliament and former Member of European Parliament
- Catherine McKinnell, Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North
- David McLetchie, former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party
- Bandele Omoniyi, Nigerian political activist
- Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21st governor of Virginia
- Malcolm Rifkind, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Benjamin Rush, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence
- David Steel, former leader of the Liberal Party and first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
- Jim Wallace, former Deputy First Minister of Scotland
- Ike Skelton, former U.S. congressman from Missouri
- Mike Synar, former U.S. congressman from Oklahoma
- William Washington Vance, lawyer and member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1886 to 1892
- John Witherspoon, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence, President of Princeton University
- Noah Wekesa, current Kenyan Minister for Forestry and Wildlife
Heads of state and heads of government
- Najah al-Attar, current Vice President of Syria
- Hastings Banda, former President of Malawi
- Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Jang Taek-sang, former Prime Minister of South Korea
- Julius Nyerere, first President of Tanzania
- Bhagvat Singh, former Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal
- Arthur St. Clair, President of the Continental Congress
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Charles Tupper, former Prime Minister of Canada
- William Walker, former President of Nicaragua
- Yun Bo-seon, former President of South Korea
- Kirsty Duncan, MP of Etobicoke North in Canada
Royalty
- Princess Margarita of Romania
- Princess Tsuguko of Takamado
- Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
- Princess Raiyah of Jordan
- Princess Salha bint Asem
- Princess Mako of Akishino
- Prince Dashkov of Russia
Judges
- Henry Thomas Cockburn, former Scottish Solicitor General and judge
- Unity Dow, former judge on the High Court of Botswana
- Sir David Edward, former European Court of First Instance Judge
- George Emslie, Lord Emslie, former judge on the Supreme Courts of Scotland
- Charles Erskine, Scottish judge and professor of Private Law
- Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Scotland's second most senior judge
- Charles John Guthrie, Baron Guthrie
- Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Scotland's most senior judge
- David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, former President of the European Court of Justice
- Ronald King Murray, Labour politician and judge
- Michael Ramodibedi (1974), Chief Justice of Swaziland
Lawyers
- Frank Mulholland, MBA, Lord Advocate and Solicitor General of Scotland
Sciences
Chemists
- Thomas Anderson discoverer of pyridine
- Joseph Black, discoverer of Carbon dioxide
- John Davy, discoverer of phosgene
- James Dewar, inventor of the Dewar flask
- Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane, inventor of the nanotechnology-driven boron drug delivery in cancer treatment
- Sir James Fraser Stoddart, supramolecular chemist
- Daniel Rutherford, discovered Nitrogen while he was studying at Edinburgh University in 1772
- Prafulla Chandra Roy, distinguished chemist and founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
- Lesley Yellowlees CBE, first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Vice-President of the University of Edinburgh
- Dai Rees, CEO of the Medical Research Council from 1987 to 1996
Geologists
- Robert Bell, geologist
- Sir John William Dawson, geologist
- Archibald Geikie, geologist
- James Hector, geologist
- James Hutton, the father of modern geology
- Robert Jameson, naturalist and mineralist
- Sir William Edmond Logan, geologist
- George Percy, Earl Percy
- Stan Paterson, glaciologist
Informatics
- 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
- Alan Bundy CBE, FRS, FREng, FRSE, mathematician
- Peter Buneman MBE 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, FRS, FRSE, 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, winner of the Turing Award
- Lǐ Wèi 李未, mathematician and computer scientist, President of Beihang University
- Nigel Shadbolt, computer scientist, Chairman of the Open Data Institute
Mathematicians, physicists, engineers
- Alexander Aitken, mathematician, worked in Hut 6 Bletchley Park decrypting the ENIGMA code, known for the Aitken's delta-squared process
- Sir Michael Atiyah FRS, mathematician, winner of Abel Prize, (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
- Charles Glover Barkla, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1917) for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays)
- Thomas Bayes, mathematician, known for Bayes' theorem.
- Alexander Graham Bell, engineer and inventor of the telephone
- Joseph Black, physicist and chemist
- David Brewster, scientist and inventor
- Max Born, Nobel laureate, pioneer in quantum mechanics, 1936 to 1953 Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
- J. W. S. Cassels, mathematician
- Cheng Kaijia, physicist and pioneer of nuclear technology in China
- James Alfred Ewing, physicist and engineer
- Klaus Fuchs, theoretical physicist
- Peter Higgs, Nobel laureate, theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor of Physics and discoverer of the Higgs 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, theoretical physicist, Sakurai Prize winner
- Sir John Leslie, mathematician and physicist
- Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
- James Clerk Maxwell, physicist and father of electromagnetism
- 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
- Thomas Addis, pioneer in nephrology
- 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
- John Beddington, population biologist, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
- Charles Bell, anatomist, surgeon
- Joseph Bell, medicine
- Seneka Bibile, influential Sri Lankan pharmacologist
- Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneer of medical education for women in Britain
- James Braid, surgeon, hypnotist
- James A.C. Brown, psychiatrist
- Robert Brown, botanist
- Thomas Brown, medicine and philosophy
- William Budd, medicine [2]
- John Murray Carnochan, neurosurgeon, performed first successful surgery for trigeminal neuralgia
- Brian Charlesworth, professor of evolutionary biology 1997–, winner of the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2010
- Deborah Charlesworth, professor of evolutionary biology 1997–, expert on the genetic self-incompatibility of plants
- Eustace Chesser, psychiatrist
- Richard A Collins biochemist and author
- Hilary Critchley (born before 1978), obstetrician and gynaecologist
- William Cullen, physician and professor of medicine
- Charles Darwin, naturalist, author of "The Origin of Species"
- Erasmus Darwin, physician and Enlightenment thinker
- 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
- John Elliotson physician, mesmerist
- James Esdaile, surgeon, mesmerist
- John Haldane, physiologist
- Richard Henderson, biologist
- James Africanus Beale Horton, medicine
- Steve Jones, biologist
- George Kelly, psychologist
- Sir John Liddell, physician and director-general of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy
- Joseph Lister, introduced antiseptics into surgery
- John Claudius Loudon, botanist
- Aubrey Manning, zoologist
- Gilean McVean, post-doctoral fellow, evolutionary biologist, member of the steering committee for the 1000 genomes project
- 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
- Edwin Southern, biomedical scientist, invented Southern blot, winner of the 2005 Lasker Award and Gairdner Foundation International Award
- John Walker, naturalist
- Ian Wilmut, embryologist and former supervisor of the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep
- Robert Whytt, medicine
- Professor Nairn Wilson, dental surgeon
- Robert Ramsay Wright, biologist, helped establish the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
- Charles Wyville Thomson, naturalist and chief scientist on the Challenger expedition
- Yao Zhen, biologist
Other
- Alan M. Leslie, psychologist
- David MacRitchie, archaeologist
- Roger Mercer, archaeologist
- Charles Piazzi Smyth, astronomer
- Anneila Sargent, astronomer
Nobel laureates
Edinburgh University has links with 20 Nobel laureates.[3] They have been affiliated with the university as students, researchers, administrators and professors, and they have won Nobel Prizes in all categories.[4][5]
- Edward Victor Appleton (Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University, 1949–1965), Nobel laureate in Physics (1947)
- Charles Glover Barkla (Professor, 1913–1944), Nobel laureate in Physics (1917)
- Max Born (Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1936–1953), Nobel laureate in Physics (1954)
- Winston Churchill (Rector, 1929–1932), Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
- Peter C. Doherty (PhD 1970), Nobel laureate in Medicine (1996)
- Robert G. Edwards (PhD 1955), Nobel laureate in Medicine (2010)
- Alexander Fleming (Rector, 1951–1954), Nobel laureate in Medicine (1945)
- James Mirrlees (MA Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1954–1957), Nobel laureate in Economics (1996)
- Peter D. Mitchell (Professor, 1955–1963), Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1978)
- Hermann Muller (Professor, 1937–1940), Nobel laureate in Medicine (1946)
- Paul Nurse (Post Doctorate researcher, 1973–1979), Nobel laureate in Medicine (2001)
- Joseph Rotblat (Montague Visiting Professor of International Relations, 1975–1976),[6][7] Nobel peace prize laureate in 1995
- Randy Schekman (spent a year at the university as an undergraduate student),[8][9] Nobel laureate in Medicine (2013)
- Igor Tamm (undergraduate student, 1913–1914), Nobel laureate in Physics (1958)
- Alexander R. Todd (Professor, 1934–1936), Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1957)
- Vincent du Vigneaud (Post Doctorate fellow, 1929), Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1955)
- Kurt Wuthrich (Visiting Professor, 1997–2000), Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2002),
- Peter Higgs (Lecturer in Mathematical Physics 1960–1970, Reader 1970–1980, Professor 1980–96, Emeritus professor 1996 – present) Nobel laureate in Physics (2013)
- May-Britt Moser (Post-doctoral researcher 1994–1996), Nobel laureate in Medicine (2014)
- Edvard Moser (Post-doctoral researcher 1994–1996, Honorary Professor), Nobel laureate in Medicine (2014)
Arts
Architecture
- Robert Adam, architect
- A. R. Hye, architect
- Robert Lorimer, architect
- Robert Matthew, architect
- Richard Murphy, architect
Literature and music
- Edward Abbey author
- J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan
- 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 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- 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 and creator of Sherlock Holmes
- Robert Garioch, poet and translator
- Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician
- Michael Grant, writer and historian
- Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl
- Ella Hickson, award winning playwright
- 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 of the Inspector Rebus series
- Peter Mark Roget, author of the first Thesaurus
- J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series
- Professor Andrew Rutherford CBE Regious Prof. of English Literature, Aberdeen University; Vice-Chancellor, London University
- Mike Scott (musician), founder of The Waterboys
- Sir Walter Scott, author and poet
- Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and professor of medical law
- Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped
- 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
- Michael Boyd, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
- 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
- Ewen MacIntosh, actor (notably The Office and Little Britain)
- Kirsty McCabe, GMTV weather presenter
- Hilton McRae, actor
- Gillian McKeith, television presenter and writer
- Judith Miller (antiques expert), antiques expert, writer and broadcaster
- Steve Morrison, TV producer and (as of 2015) Rector of the university
- David Rintoul, actor
- Anthony d'Offay, art dealer
- Marina O'Loughlin, restaurant critic
- Alastair Sim, actor
- Rachael Stirling, actress
- Elize du Toit, actress
- Bill Turnbull, journalist and television presenter
- Kirsty Wark, broadcaster
- Ed Stoppard, actor
- Hamish Clark, actor
- Lucy Kirkwood, playwright
- Ella Hickson, playwright
- Sam Holcroft, playwright
- Iain Stirling, comedian
Historians, philosophers, theologians and academics
- John Baillie, theologian
- S. Barry Barnes, philosopher and sociologist of science
- David Bloor, philosopher and sociologist of science
- Thomas Brown, medicine and philosophy
- James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, naturalist, philosopher, linguist
- Andy Clark, philosopher of mind and cognition
- Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian, father of sociology
- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, philosopher
- David Hume, philosopher and historian
- Michael Ingham, Anglican bishop and author
- Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher
- 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 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
- Timothy Sprigge, philosopher
- Dugald Stewart, philosopher
- John Toland, philosopher
- Iain Torrance, theologian and President of Princeton Theological Seminary
- Ligon Duncan, theologian
- K. V. Mathew, Biblical Scholar from India
- Géza Vermes
- Asher Wade, American-born international lecturer and psychotherapist
- Timothy Williamson, philosopher
- Michael Worton, current Vice Provost of University College of London
- Kenneth Boulding, social scientist
Other
- Chris Atton, University Professor and musician
- John Fraser (GC), distinguished soldier and attorney, sole receiver of GC from the university
- A.S. Neill, educationalist
Business and economics
- William Denholm Barnetson, Baron Barnetson (1917–1981), Chairman United Newspapers, Reuters and Thames Television
- Chris Beard, CEO of Mozilla
- Donald Brydon, Chairman of the Royal Mail, Sage Group and Medical Research Council and Patron of the British Postal Museum and Archive
- Crawford W. Beveridge, Executive Vice President Sun Microsystems
- John Boyd Dunlop, founder of Dunlop Rubber
- Nicholas Ferguson, Chairman of BskyB
- Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation
- John Ritchie Findlay, owner of The Scotsman newspaper
- John Grahl, economist
- Hugh Grant, Chairman, President & CEO of Monsanto Company
- Tony Hayward, Chairman of Glencore Xstrata and former CEO of BP
- William Jardine, merchant, surgeon, and co-founder of global conglomerate Jardine Matheson
- John Kay, economist
- Christopher Lovelock, business school professor and services marketing pioneer
- James Matheson, MP for the Ross and Cromarty constituency and co-founder of global conglomerate Jardine Matheson
- Chris Montgomery, former CEO of mp3.com Europe
- Madsen Pirie, founder and President of the Adam Smith Institute
- John Rae, economist
- Nigel Stein, Chief Executive of GKN plc
- George Touche, co-founder of Deloitte
- Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
- Lord Swann, Chairman BBC
- Arthur Young, founder of Ernst & Young
- Jerzy Żyżyński, prominent Polish economist
Sports
- Leslie Balfour-Melville, outstanding all-round sportsman
- Zbigniew Czajkowski, fencing master, "Father of the Polish School" of fencing
- Gemma Gibbons, Olympic Judo silver medallist
- Katherine Grainger, Olympic rowing gold medallist
- Peter Heatly, diver and former Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation
- Sir Chris Hoy, the most successful British Olympian in history with six Olympic track cycling gold medals
- Andy Irvine, rugby 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
- Alistair Potts, Commonwealth and British World Champion rower
- Micky Steele-Bodger, English rugby international and Chairman IRB
- Robert Strang, English cricketer who played once for Scotland
- Simon Taylor, International and Professional Rugby player
- Stuart Grimes, International and Professional Rugby player
Miscellaneous
- John Aikin, physician and writer
- John (Ian) Bartholomew, cartographer and former principal of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.
- Thomas Spencer Baynes, publisher and writer
- James Blair (clergyman) — founder of the College of William & Mary
- John Brown, physician and author
- Archibald Cameron of Locheil, jacobite
- Ashton Carter, American physicist, Harvard University professor, and United States Secretary of Defense
- 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[10]
- Reginald Johnston, diplomat and pedagogue of Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China
- Bruce Kenrick, writer, minister, social activist and founder of Shelter
- Sheila McKechnie, Scottish trade unionist and 1991 Alumnus of the Year
- Pippa Middleton, socialite and younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge
- James Middleton, businessman and younger brother of the Duchess of Cambridge
- Macvey Napier, encyclopedist
- Mungo Park (explorer)
- Lord Playfair, scientist and parliamentarian
- Daphne Pochin Mould, photographer, writer, geologist
- Stella Rimington, former head of MI5
- Rev Bruce Kenrick, founder of Shelter (charity)
- Piers Sellers, astronaut
- William Smellie, encyclopedist
- Samuel Smiles, author and reformer
University Officials
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, The Chancellor of the University (1953–2011)
- The Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill, Former Rector of the University (1929–1932)
- Sir Alexander Fleming, Former Rector of the University (1951–1953)
- The Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Former Rector of the University (1920–1923)
References
- ↑ "Edinburgh University Honorary Professor awarded Nobel Prize". The Student. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ↑ Robert Moorhead, "William Budd and typhoid fever". Retrieved March 7, 2010. J R Soc Med. 2002 November; 95(11): 561–564.
- ↑ "Edinburgh University Honorary Professor awarded Nobel Prize". The Student. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
- ↑ "Famous alumni". Edinburgh University. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ↑ "Nobel for IVF pioneer". Edinburgh University. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ↑ "Joseph Rotblat – Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ↑ "Sir Joseph Rotblat". The Scotsman. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ↑ "Randy Schekman, molecular biologist and UCLA alumnus, wins 2013 Nobel Prize". University of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ↑ "Profile of Randy Schekman: Reflections on his first year as PNAS Editor-in-Chief". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ↑ http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst2379.html
