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  1. Government and politics

     Heads of state and heads of government  United Kingdom  United States  Africa  Australia and New Zealand  Asia  Canada   Caribbean   Middle East  Royalty 

  2. Judges and lawyers

  3. Natural sciences, engineering and medicine

     Astronomy  Chemistry  Geology  Informatics  Mathematics, physics and engineering  Medicine and biology 

  4. Nobel laureates

  5. Social sciences, arts and business

     Pulitzer Prize winners  Architecture  Business  Economics  Literature  Media and the arts  Music  History, philosophy, sociology and theology  Others 

  6. Sports

  7. Miscellaneous

  8. University officials

  9. References

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List of University of Edinburgh people is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staffs, 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 21 Nobel Prize winners and three UK Prime Ministers.

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Government and politics

Heads of state and heads of government

State/government Leader Office
{{flag>Canada}}Charles TupperPrime Minister of Canada (1 May 1896 – 8 July 1896)
{{flag>Malawi}}Hastings BandaPresident of Malawi (1966–1994)
{{flag>Nicaragua}}William WalkerPresident of Nicaragua (1856–1857)
{{flag>South Korea}}Yun PosunPresident of South Korea (1960–1962)
{{flag>South Korea}}Jang Taek-sangPrime Minister of South Korea (6 May 1952 – 6 October 1952)
{{flag>Tanzania}}Julius NyererePresident of Tanzania (1964–1985)
{{flag>UK}}Gordon BrownPrime Minister (2007–2010)
{{flag>UK}}John Russell, 1st Earl RussellPrime Minister (1846–52 and 1865–66)
{{flag>UK}}Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount PalmerstonPrime Minister (1855–58 and 1859–65)
Arthur St. ClairPresident of the Continental Congress

United Kingdom

  • Douglas Alexander, former 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, former Governor of Bengal and Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • David Campbell Bannerman, current Conservative MEP
  • Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, former Lord Advocate for Scotland
  • Henry Brougham, former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and co-founder of the University College London
  • Joanna Cherry, current Scottish National Party MP for Edinburgh South-West
  • Colin Clark, current Conservative MP for Gordon
  • Benjamin Constant, writer and politician
  • Robin Cook, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  • James Cropper, Liberal Member of Parliament
  • Ruth Davidson, current Leader of the Scottish Conservatives and MSP for Edinburgh Central
  • Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, statesman
  • Nicholas Fairbairn, former Conservative Member of Parliament for Perth and Kinross
  • Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
  • Christine Grahame, current Scottish National Party MSP and Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
  • Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British Liberal and Labour politician
  • Douglas Henderson, influential former Scottish National Party member
  • Charles Hendry, Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012
  • Tessa Jowell, former Minister for the Olympics
  • Jennie Lee, Labour Minister for the Arts (1964-1970) and founder of the Open University
  • James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
  • Margaret Hope MacPherson, crofter, politician, and activist
  • Sir James Marjoribanks, orchestrated Britain's successful application to join the European Community in 1967
  • Callum McCaig, former Scottish National Party MP for Aberdeen South
  • Stuart McDonald, current Scottish National Party MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
  • Anne McIntosh, current Conservative member of the [House of Lords]], former Member of Parliament and Member of European Parliament
  • Catherine McKinnell, Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North
  • David McLetchie, former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party
  • David Mundell, current Conservative MP and Secretary of State for Scotland
  • Ian Murray, current Labour MP for Edinburgh South
  • Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  • Amber Rudd, current Conservative MP
  • David Steel, former leader of the Liberal Party and first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
  • Jim Wallace, former Deputy First Minister of Scotland

United States

  • 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
  • Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21st governor of Virginia
  • Benjamin Rush, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence[1]
  • 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
  • James Wilson, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence[2]
  • John Witherspoon, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence, President of Princeton University from 1768 to 1794[3]

Africa

  • Joseph Ukel Abango, South Sudanese Minister of General Education
  • Hastings Banda, first president of Malawi
  • Herbert Bankole-Bright, doctor, politician and newspaper editor in Sierra Leone
  • Yusuf Dadoo, South African doctor, anti-apartheid activist and secretary of the South African Communist Party
  • Moses Da Rocha, Nigerian doctor, journalist and politician
  • Kesaveloo Goonam, South African doctor, Indian nationalist and anti-apartheid activist
  • Monty Naicker, anti-apartheid activist and leader of the South African Indian Congress
  • Frederick Nanka-Bruce, Ghanaian doctor, journalist and politician
  • Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanzania
  • Bandele Omoniyi, Nigerian law student and political activist
  • Benjamin Quartey-Papafio, first Ghanaian doctor and member of the Gold Coast Legislative Council
  • John K Randle, West African doctor and politician
  • Richard Akinwande Savage, Nigerian doctor, pan-African politician and newspaper editor
  • Noah Wekesa, Kenyan Minister for Forestry and Wildlife

Australia and New Zealand

  • Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales
  • Michael Cullen, former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand

Asia

  • Sir Robert Brown Black, former Governor of Hong Kong and Governor of Singapore
  • John Crawfurd, diplomat and one of the early founders of Singapore
  • Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  • Lim Chong Eu, former Chief Minister of Penang
  • Bhagvat Singh, former Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal
  • Hsu Hsin-liang, former Chairman of the Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party, former Magistrate of Taoyuan, former Senior Advisors to the Office of the President of the Republic of China

Canada

  • Christy Clark, Premier of British Columbia
  • Kirsty Duncan, MP of Etobicoke North in Canada and Minister of Science of Canada
  • Robert James Manion, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada from 1938 to 1940

Caribbean

  • John Alcindor, Trinidadian doctor and politician
  • Edgar F. Gordon, doctor and trade union leader in Bermuda
  • David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, Grenadian politician, first person of African descent to stand as an MP (in Britain), second person of African descent to sit in the House of Lords

Middle East

  • Najah al-Attar, current Vice President of Syria
  • Mehmet Aydın, Turkish Minister
  • Hikmat Abu Zayd, first female cabinet minister of Egypt

Royalty

  • Margareta of Romania
  • Princess Tsuguko of Takamado
  • Prince Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
  • Princess Raiyah bin Hussein of Jordan
  • Princess Salha bint Asem
  • Princess Mako of Akishino
  • Prince Pavel Dashkov

Judges and lawyers

  • 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
  • Nigel 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, Lord 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
  • Frank Mulholland, Lord Mulholland, MBA, Senator of the College of Justice, former Lord Advocate and Solicitor General for Scotland
  • Ronald King Murray, Labour politician and judge
  • Alan Stewart Orr, Lord Justice of Appeal[4]
  • Michael Ramodibedi, Chief Justice of Swaziland

Natural sciences, engineering and medicine

Astronomy

  • John A. Peacock, astronomer, Shaw Prize winner in 2014[5]
  • Anneila Sargent, astronomer
  • Charles Piazzi Smyth, astronomer

Chemistry

  • Thomas Anderson, discoverer of pyridine
  • Polly Arnold, Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry
  • Paul Attfield, Professor of Materials Science
  • Joseph Black, discoverer of carbon dioxide, latent heat and specific heat
  • 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
  • James Dewar, inventor of the Dewar flask
  • Narayan Hosmane, cancer researcher, BNCT
  • 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–)
  • Christina Miller, synthesized phosphorus trioxide
  • Sir Geoff Palmer, Jamaican-born scientist, brewing researcher and activist, first black professor in Scotland
  • 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, discovered nitrogen while he was studying at the University of Edinburgh in 1772
  • Sir James Fraser Stoddart, supramolecular chemist
  • Lesley Yellowlees CBE, first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Vice-President of the University of Edinburgh

Geology

  • Robert Bell, geologist
  • Sir John William Dawson, geologist
  • Archibald Geikie, geologist
  • James Hector, geologist
  • James Hutton, "father of modern geology"
  • Robert Jameson, naturalist and mineralist
  • Sir William Edmond Logan, geologist
  • 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 (attended 1996)

Informatics

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  • Samson Abramsky FRS, computer scientist
  • Malcolm Atkinson (e-Science)
  • Pat Ambler (Freddy II)
  • 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 and artificial intelligence researcher
  • Peter Buneman MBE FRS, computer scientist
  • Rod Burstall (Programming Languages)
  • Luca Cardelli FRS, computer scientist, Assistant Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge
  • Ian Clarke, computer scientist
  • Paul Dourish
  • Wenfei Fan FRS
  • Michael Fourman (Computer Systems—Software)
  • Carla Gomes, computer scientist, Director of the Cornell University Institute for Computational Sustainability
  • Andrew Gordon
  • Michael Gordon FRS, computer scientist
  • Igor Goryanin (Systems Biology)
  • Richard Gregory FRS, cognitive scientist
  • Pat Hayes
  • Matthew Hennessy
  • Jane Hillston (Professor of Quantitative Modelling)
  • Geoffrey Hinton FRS, informatician
  • Mark Jerrum, now professor at the University of London
  • Philipp Koehn (Machine Translation)
  • Robert Kowalski, logician, computer scientist
  • Leonid Libkin (Foundations of Data Management)
  • Lǐ Wèi, mathematician and computer scientist, President of Beihang University
  • Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS, cognitive scientist
  • Donald Michie, FRS, FRSE, artificial intelligence pioneer
  • Robin Milner FRS, computer scientist, winner of the Turing Award
  • Eugenio Moggi
  • Faron Moller
  • Johanna Moore, computational linguist
  • J Strother Moore, computer scientist
  • Stephen Muggleton, computer scientist
  • Jon Oberlander (Epistemics)
  • Michael O'Boyle (Computer Science)
  • Timothy O'Shea, computer scientist; principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
  • Gordon Plotkin FRS, computer scientist
  • Robin Popplestone (COWSEL, POP-2)
  • Davide Sangiorgi
  • Don Sannella
  • Nigel Shadbolt, computer scientist, Chairman of the Open Data Institute
  • Alistair Sinclair, now professor at University of California, Berkeley
  • Aaron Sloman, philosopher, cognitive scientist
  • Mark Steedman FBA (Cognitive Science)
  • Keith Stenning (Human Communications)
  • Austin Tate (Knowledge-Based Systems)
  • Chris Tofts
  • Mads Tofte
  • Leslie Valiant FRS, informatician and computer scientist, winner of the Turing Award
  • Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE (Professor of Robotics)
  • Phil Wadler (Theoretical Computer Science)
  • David H. D. Warren (Warren Abstract Machine)
  • Wenfei Fan (Web Data Management)
  • Peter Dayan (Computational Neuroscience)

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Mathematics, physics and engineering

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  • 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, Fields Medallist in 1966, winner of Abel Prize in 2004 (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
  • Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, engineer
  • George Thomas Beilby, chemical engineer
  • Alexander Graham Bell, engineer and inventor of the telephone
  • Isaac Lowthian Bell, metallurgist, businessman and politician
  • George Parker Bidder, engineer and calculating prodigy
  • Max Born, Nobel laureate, pioneer in quantum mechanics, Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1936 to 1953
  • David Brewster, scientist and inventor
  • J. W. S. Cassels, mathematician
  • Cheng Kaijia, physicist and pioneer of nuclear technology in China
  • William Fothergill Cooke, engineer, founder of Electric Telegraph Company
  • James Alfred Ewing, physicist and engineer
  • Klaus Fuchs, theoretical physicist
  • Lewis Gordon, civil engineer[6]
  • 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
  • James Jardine, civil engineer
  • Fleeming Jenkin, engineer, inventor of telpherage
  • Mujahid Kamran, theoretical physicist and the current vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan[7]
  • Philip Kelland, mathematician
  • Tom W. B. Kibble, theoretical physicist, Sakurai Prize winner in 2010
  • Alexander Carnegie Kirk, marine engineer
  • Sir John Leslie, mathematician and physicist
  • Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
  • James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, "father of electromagnetism"
  • John Playfair, mathematician
  • William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist, early contributor to the development of thermodynamics
  • George Rennie, engineer
  • John Rennie the Elder, civil engineer[8]
  • Marion Ross, physicist
  • John Scott Russell, civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder
  • John Shepherd-Barron, inventor of the automated teller machine (ATM)
  • Robert Stephenson FRS, 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
  • William Symington, engineer and inventor
  • Peter Guthrie Tait, physicist
  • Edmund Whittaker, mathematician

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Medicine and biology

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  • Thomas Addis, pioneer in nephrology
  • 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, surgeon
  • Joseph Bell, medicine
  • Seneka Bibile, influential Sri Lankan pharmacologist
  • Sir Adrian Peter Bird, geneticist, discovered the protein MeCP2 involved in DNA methylation, awarded the 2011 Gairdner Foundation International Award; Buchanan Professor of Genetics (1990–present)[9]
  • Alice Bloomfield, gynaecologist
  • James Braid, surgeon, hypnotist
  • James A.C. Brown, psychiatrist
  • Robert Brown, botanist
  • Thomas Brown, medicine and philosophy
  • William Budd, physician and epidemiologist[10]
  • 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
  • Virender Lal Chopra, geneticist and biotechnologist
  • Clara Christian, the first black woman to study at Edinburgh, medical student
  • Sarah Cleaveland, professor and veterinary epidemiologist[11]
  • Matilda Clerk, second Ghanaian woman doctor
  • John G. S. Coghill, doctor
  • Richard A Collins, biochemist and author
  • Hilary Critchley, 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
  • Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, Ghanaian doctor and vice chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University
  • Wong Fun, first western-educated Chinese doctor
  • Dame Anne Glover FRS, Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission from 2012 to 2014
  • John Haldane, physiologist
  • Richard Henderson, biologist
  • Thomas Hodgkin, physician
  • James Africanus Beale Horton, medicine
  • Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneer of medical education for women in Britain
  • Steve Jones, biologist
  • George Kelly, psychologist
  • Sir John Liddell, physician and director-general of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy
  • Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, introduced antiseptics into surgery
  • John Claudius Loudon, botanist
  • Ian MacDonald, physician
  • William Sutherland Macdonald, physician and soldier
  • George Mackay (Ophthalmologic Surgeon)
  • Trudy Mackay, quantitative geneticist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2016[12]
  • William Alexander Mackay, doctor
  • Aubrey Manning, zoologist
  • Samuel Manuwa, Nigerian doctor and president of the World Federation for Mental Health
  • Roger McNeil, doctor of public health
  • Gilean McVean, post-doctoral fellow, evolutionary biologist, member of the steering committee for the 1000 Genomes Project
  • 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
  • Susan Ofori-Atta, first Ghanaian woman doctor
  • Richard Owen, biologist and palaeontologist
  • George Alexander Pirie, doctor
  • Richard Frank Rand, surgeon
  • Fiona Ross, nursing scholar
  • Agnes Yewande Savage, first West African woman graduate and doctor
  • Richard Gabriel Akinwande Savage, doctor and soldier
  • Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, physiologist and neuroscientist
  • Robert Sibbald, Professor of Medicine
  • Sir James Young Simpson, pioneered the use of chloroform in midwifery
  • Leslie Skene, psychiatrist[13]
  • Jeremy Smith, biological scientist
  • Jotello Festiri Soga, South Africa's first black veterinarian
  • Edwin Southern, biomedical scientist, invented Southern blot, winner of the 2005 Lasker Award and Gairdner Foundation International Award
  • Tara Spires-Jones, neuroscientist
  • George Neil Stewart, physiologist
  • Anne Bryson Sutherland, plastic surgeon
  • William Aldren Turner, neurologist
  • Meena Upadhyaya, medical geneticist
  • 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 winner in 2008
  • Nairn Wilson, dental surgeon
  • William Withering, physician
  • Asrat Woldeyes, Ethiopian surgeon and politician
  • Robert Ramsay Wright, biologist, helped to re-establish the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine in 1887
  • Charles Wyville Thomson, naturalist and chief scientist on the Challenger expedition
  • Yao Zhen, biologist

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Nobel laureates

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Social sciences, arts and business

Pulitzer Prize winners

  • Jack N. Rakove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1997 (undergraduate student from 1966 to 1967)
  • Andrew Marshall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2014 (MA in English Literature)

Architecture

  • Robert Adam, architect
  • Robert Rowand Anderson, architect
  • Theodore S. Clerk, Ghanaian architect
  • Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, conservation architect and former head of the Department of Architecture (1978-1988)
  • Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, architect, president of the Royal Academy
  • A. R. Hye, architect
  • Robert Lorimer, architect
  • Sir William Kininmonth, architect
  • Robert Matthew, architect
  • Richard Murphy, architect
  • Patrick Nuttgens, architect and academic
  • Deborah Saunt, architect
  • Sir Basil Spence, architect

Business

  • William Denholm Barnetson, Chairman of United Newspapers, Reuters and Thames Television
  • Chris Beard, CEO of Mozilla
  • Crawford W. Beveridge, Executive Vice President Sun Microsystems
  • Donald Brydon, Chairman of the Royal Mail, Sage Group and Medical Research Council and Patron of the British Postal Museum and Archive
  • John Boyd Dunlop, founder of Dunlop Rubber
  • Nicholas Ferguson, Chairman of BskyB
  • John Ritchie Findlay, owner of The Scotsman newspaper
  • Hugh Grant, Chairman, President and 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
  • 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
  • Nigel Stein, Chief Executive of GKN plc
  • Lord Swann, Chairman of BBC
  • George Touche, co-founder of Deloitte
  • Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
  • Arthur Young, founder of Ernst & Young

Economics

  • Kenneth E. Boulding, economist, John Bates Clark Medal winner in 1949[14]
  • John Grahl, economist
  • John Kay, economist
  • Sir James Mirrlees, economist, Nobel laureate[15]
  • John Hardman Moore, economist, Yrjö Jahnsson Award winner in 1999[16]
  • John Rae, economist
  • Gavin Clydesdale Reid, economist
  • Jerzy Żyżyński, Polish economist

Literature

  • 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
  • David Daiches, literary historian and critic
  • E. S. Dallas, author and journalist
  • Thomas Dick, writer
  • Angus Donald, author and journalist
  • 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
  • Africanus Horton, first West African graduate of Edinburgh, nationalist writer and medical surgeon
  • Ku Hung-ming, writer and polyglot
  • Harold Jenkins, Shakespeare scholar
  • Paul Alfred Kleinert, German writer, editor and translator
  • Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain), Gaelic poet
  • Joel McIver, author
  • Angus Matheson (1912–1962), inaugural Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow[17]
  • William Matheson (1910-1995), Scottish Gaelic scholar, and ordained minister of the Church of Scotland[18]
  • Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, writer and translator
  • Flora Nwapa, Nigerian author, educator and politician
  • Kole Omotosho, Nigerian writer
  • Julie O'Neill, author
  • Neil Paterson, footballer, author and screenwriter
  • John William Polidori, writer and physician
  • Kenneth Ramchand, Trinidadian author and literary scholar
  • 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
  • Andrew Rutherford, Regious Prof. of English Literature, Aberdeen University; Vice-Chancellor, London University
  • Sir Walter Scott, author and poet
  • 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
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped
  • Aeneas Francon Williams, writer, poet, and missionary

Media and the arts

  • 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
  • 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
  • Hamish Clark, actor
  • Robbie Coltrane, actor
  • Quentin Cooper, science journalist and broadcaster
  • Darius Danesh, musician and singer
  • 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
  • Mairi Hedderwick, illustrator and author
  • Ella Hickson, playwright
  • Sam Holcroft, playwright
  • Jay Jopling, art dealer
  • Miles Jupp, comedian
  • Roisin Kennedy, art critic and curator
  • Lucy Kirkwood, playwright
  • Laura Kuenssberg, editor, BBC Politics
  • Allan Little, BBC Foreign Correspondent
  • Donald Locke, Guyanese artist and curator
  • Angus Macfadyen, actor
  • Ewen MacIntosh, actor, The Office, Little Britain
  • Sally Magnusson, BBC journalist
  • Kirsty McCabe, GMTV weather presenter
  • Michael McIntyre, comedian
  • Gillian McKeith, television presenter and writer
  • Hilton McRae, actor
  • Judith Miller, antiques expert, writer and broadcaster
  • Steve Morrison, TV producer and former Rector of the University
  • Marina O'Loughlin, restaurant critic
  • Catherine Rayner, illustrator and author
  • David Rintoul, actor
  • Alastair Sim, actor
  • Iain Stirling, comedian
  • Rachael Stirling, actress
  • Ed Stoppard, actor
  • Bill Turnbull, journalist and television presenter
  • Kirsty Wark, broadcaster

Music

  • Henry Rowley Bishop, composer
  • Tom Chaplin, lead singer of Keane
  • James Douglas, composer
  • Hans Gal, composer
  • Kenneth Leighton, composer
  • James MacMillan, classical composer
  • Stuart MacRae, composer
  • Eduardo Reck Miranda, composer and Professor of Computer Music
  • Marcus Mumford, lead singer of Mumford & Sons
  • Herbert Oakeley, composer
  • Nigel Osborne, composer
  • Donald Runnicles, conductor
  • Mike Scott, founder of The Waterboys
  • John Thomson, composer
  • Donald Francis Tovey, composer, pianist, musicologist
  • Julian Wagstaff, composer
  • William Wordsworth, composer

History, philosophy, sociology and theology

  • 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
  • Ligon Duncan, theologian
  • Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian, contributed to the initial development of sociology
  • Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, philosopher
  • David Hume, philosopher and historian
  • Michael Ingham, Anglican bishop and author
  • Douglas F. Kelly, systematic theologian
  • Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher
  • George Macdonald, archaeologist[19]
  • Arthur Marwick, historian
  • K. V. Mathew, Biblical scholar from India
  • 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
  • Robert Preus, American Lutheran theologian and President of Concordia Theological Seminary[20]
  • David George Ritchie, philosopher
  • William Robertson, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
  • Timothy Sprigge, philosopher
  • Dugald Stewart, philosopher
  • John Toland, philosopher
  • Iain Torrance, theologian and President of Princeton Theological Seminary
  • Géza Vermes, historian and theologian
  • Asher Wade, American-born international lecturer and psychotherapist
  • Timothy Williamson, philosopher
  • Michael Worton, former Vice Provost of University College of London

Others

  • B. T. S. Atkins, lexicographer
  • Chris Atton, university professor and musician
  • Pit Corder, university professor and applied linguist
  • Susan Deacon (MBA), former Health Minister in the Scottish Executive, now Professor of Social Change at Queen Margaret University
  • Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation
  • John Fraser, distinguished soldier and attorney, sole receiver of the George Cross from the university
  • Alan M. Leslie, psychologist
  • David MacRitchie, archaeologist
  • Roger Mercer, archaeologist
  • A.S. Neill, educationalist
  • Madsen Pirie, founder and President of the Adam Smith Institute

Sports

  • Leslie Balfour-Melville, outstanding all-round sportsman
  • Euan Burton, judoka
  • Zbigniew Czajkowski, fencing master, "father of the Polish School" of fencing
  • Stephen Dick, hockey player
  • Gemma Gibbons, Olympic Judo silver medallist
  • Eilidh Gibson, canoeist
  • Katherine Grainger, Olympic rowing gold medallist
  • Stuart Grimes, international professional rugby player
  • 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
  • Caitlin McClatchey, swimmer and two-times Commonwealth Gold medallist
  • Chris Paterson, Scottish international rugby union player
  • Alistair Potts, Commonwealth and British World Champion rower
  • Mark Robertson, Scottish international rugby union player
  • Micky Steele-Bodger, English rugby international and Chairman IRB
  • Robert Strang, English cricketer who played once for Scotland
  • Polly Swann, Olympic rowing silver medallist
  • Simon Taylor, international professional rugby player
  • Catherine Taylor, Jon Duncan, Scott Fraser and Yvette Baker, orienteers with international success

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, 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[21]
  • Alastair Humphreys, Adventurer[22]
  • Reginald Johnston, diplomat and pedagogue of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China
  • Rev Bruce Kenrick, writer, minister, social activist and founder of Shelter
  • Sheila McKechnie, Scottish trade unionist and 1991 Alumnus of the Year
  • James Middleton, businessman and younger brother of the Duchess of Cambridge
  • Pippa Middleton, socialite and younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge
  • Macvey Napier, encyclopedist
  • Mungo Park, explorer
  • George Percy, Earl Percy, heir apparent to the Dukedom of Northumberland
  • Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, scientist and parliamentarian
  • Daphne Pochin Mould, photographer, writer, geologist
  • Stella Rimington, former head of MI5
  • Piers Sellers, astronaut
  • William Smellie, encyclopedist
  • Samuel Smiles, author and reformer
  • Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp, heir apparent to the Spencer earldom and first cousin of the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry

University officials

  • 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)
  • Ann Henderson, Rector of the University (2018-present)
  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Chancellor of the University (1953–2011)
  • Anne, Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University (2011-present)

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16. ^{{cite web|title=Professor John Hardman Moore|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/economics/people/academic-staff/prof-john-moore|publisher=Edinburgh University|accessdate=4 June 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526060737/http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/economics/people/academic-staff/prof-john-moore|archivedate=26 May 2015|df=dmy-all}}
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