The following list of University of Glasgow people provides a selection of the well-known people who have studied or taught at the

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since its inception in 1451. Historical lists of Chancellors, Rectors and Principals of the University are contained in those offices' respective articles.

Nobel laureates

William Young Sellar - Imagines philologorum

* Sir Derek Barton, winner of the

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Sir James Black Sir James Whyte Black (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational ...

, winner of the

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John Boyd Orr John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarde ...

, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, biologist and winner of the

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Sir William Ramsay Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements ...

, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry *

Frederick Soddy Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also prove ...

, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry *

Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (2 October 1907 – 10 January 1997) was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in ...

, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry * Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine *

David MacMillan Sir David William Cross MacMillan (born 16 March 1968) is a Scottish chemist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, where he was also the chair of the Department of Chemistry from 20 ...

, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Arts

* Sir

Drummond Bone Sir James Drummond Bone, FRSE, FRSA (born 11 July 1947), is a Byron scholar and was Master of Balliol College at the University of Oxford until April 2018. He previously served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 2002 to 20 ...

, Byron scholar and Master of

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Hannah Frank Hannah Frank (23 August 1908 – 18 December 2008) was an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland. She was known for her art nouveau monochrome drawings until she decided to concentrate on sculpture in 1952. Background and education Frank's ...

, artist and sculptor *

Richard Claverhouse Jebb Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (27 August 1841 – 9 December 1905) was a British classical scholar. Life Jebb was born in Dundee, Scotland. His father Robert was a well-known Irish barrister; his mother was Emily Harriet Horsley, daughter of t ...

, classical scholar and politician * Alexander Stoddart, Her Majesty's

Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland The Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland is a member of the Royal household in Scotland. The first appointment was made by Queen Victoria around 1838, although it was not listed as a member of the Royal household until the 1870s. The office was made ...

Peter Mullan Peter Mullan (; born 2 November 1959) is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role in Ken Loach's ''My Name Is Joe'' (1998), for which he won Best Actor Award at 1998 Cannes Film Festival, 2000's '' The Claim'' and all thr ...

, actor and filmmaker * Alison Yarrington, art historian

History

* John Bannerman, historian, noted for his work on Gaelic Scotland *

Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings ...

, Byzantinist * D. B. Campbell, ancient historian * Lewis Campbell, classical scholar *

Sir James Frazer Sir James George Frazer (; 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. Personal life He was born on 1 Janua ...

, author of ''

The Golden Bough ''The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion'' (retitled ''The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'' in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir ...

''; a founder of the field of

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

Gilbert Highet Gilbert Arthur Highet (; June 22, 1906 – January 20, 1978) was a Scottish American classicist, academic writer, intellectual critic, and literary historian. Biography Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Gilbert Highet is best known as a mid-20th-centur ...

, classicist and literary historian * Sir William Wilson Hunter,

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, historian,

Indologist Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is o ...

Sir Richard Lodge Sir Richard Lodge (20 June 1855 – 2 June 1936) was a British historian. He was born at Penkhull, Staffordshire, the fourth of eight sons and a daughter of Oliver Lodge (1826–1884) – later a china clay merchant at Wolstanton, Staffordshire � ...

, historian *

John Duncan Mackie John Duncan Mackie CBE MC (1887–1978) was a distinguished Scottish historian who wrote a one-volume history of Scotland and several works on early modern Scotland. Biography Born in Edinburgh, Mackie was educated at Middlesbrough High S ...

, Scottish historian * F. Marian McNeill, social historian and author of ''The Silver Bough'' *

Charlotte Methuen Charlotte Mary Methuen, (born 1964) is a British Anglican priest, historian, and academic. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Church History at the University of Glasgow. As an academic she specialises in the Reformation in Germany, 20th-centur ...

, church and Reformation historian * William Young Sellar, classical scholar *

Hew Strachan Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan ( ), (born 1 September 1949) is a British military historian, well known for his leadership in scholarly studies of the British Army and the history of the First World War. He is currently professor of internati ...

, historian *

Bernard Wasserstein Bernard Wasserstein (born 22 January 1948 in London) is a British historian. Early life Bernard Wasserstein was born in London on 22 January 1948. Wasserstein's father, Abraham Wasserstein (1921–1995), born in Frankfurt, was Professor of Class ...

, historian

Musicians

* Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell and Paul Joseph Moore of

The Blue Nile The Blue Nile was a Scottish band which originated in Glasgow. The group's early music was built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works featured guitar more prominently. Following early champ ...

* Neil Clark,

Lloyd Cole Lloyd Cole (born 31 January 1961) is an English singer and songwriter. He was lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989 and subsequently worked solo. Early life Cole was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, England. He grew up in ne ...

, Blair Cowan,

Lawrence Donegan Lawrence Donegan (born 13 July 1961) is a Scottish journalist and former musician.Lawrence Donegan

and

Stephen Irvine Stephen Irvine (born 1959) is a Scottish musician, formerly a member of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Following the breakup of that band, he continued to work in the music industry and as a session musician worked with Del Amitri, Étienne Da ...

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a British rock/pop band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1982. Between 1984 and 1989, the band scored four Top 20 albums and five Top 40 singles in the UK; it also had success in several other countries in ...

* Isaac Hirshow, cantor and composer *

Sydney MacEwan Canon Sydney Alfred MacEwan (19 October 190825 September 1991) was a Scottish tenor, who sang traditional Scottish and Irish songs. His name has also been recorded as Alfred Sydney Marley MacEwan. __TOC__ Early life Father Sydney MacEwan was bo ...

, tenor, singer of Scottish and Irish traditional songs * Stuart Murdoch, musician and songwriter; principal member of

Belle & Sebastian Belle and Sebastian are a Scottish indie pop band formed in Glasgow in 1996. Led by Stuart Murdoch, the band has released eleven albums. They are often compared with acts such as The Smiths and Nick Drake. The name "Belle and Sebastian" comes ...

Simon Neil Simon Alexander Neil (born 31 August 1979) is a Scottish vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter. He is known for his work in the bands Biffy Clyro and Marmaduke Dukeand also new band with Mike Vennart, Empire state bastard. Career Biffy Clyro ...

, lead vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter of

Biffy Clyro Biffy Clyro are a Scottish rock band that formed in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, composed of Simon Neil (guitar, lead vocals), James Johnston (bass, vocals), and Ben Johnston (drums, vocals). Currently signed to 14th Floor Records, they have r ...

* Dr Albert Lister Peace, the university's organist between 1870 and 1880 *

Emeli Sandé Adele Emily Sandé, ( ; born 10 March 1987), known professionally as Emeli Sandé, is a Scottish singer and songwriter. Born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and raised in Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, by an English mother and a Zambian fathe ...

, R&B, soul and breakbeat singer/songwriter * Ramesh Srivastava, musician and songwriter; principal member of

Voxtrot Voxtrot is an American indie pop band formed in Austin, Texas in 2003. Their first recordings were released in 2003, and their debut EP, '' Raised by Wolves'', was released in 2005 to critical acclaim, garnering attention from music bloggers as ...

Philosophy and theology

John Abernethy John Abernethy may refer to: * John Abernethy (bishop), Scottish bishop, died 1639 * John Abernethy (judge) (born 1947), Australian judge *John Abernethy (minister) (1680–1740), Presbyterian minister in Ireland *John Abernethy (surgeon) (1764–18 ...

, Irish Presbyterian leader *

David Stow Adam David Stow Adam (9 February 1859 – 31 January 1925) was a Scottish minister and professor. David was born near Langside in Glasgow to George Adam and Jane (), both schoolteachers. He matriculated to the University of Glasgow in 1874, rec ...

, theologian * William Adam, Baptist minister, missionary, abolitionist *

William Menzies Alexander William Menzies Alexander ( Shettleston, then in Lanarkshire, 12 May 1858 – Edinburgh 30 August 1929) was a Scottish medical and theological writer. He was Moderator of the General Assembly for the Free Church of Scotland for 1911/12. Lif ...

, medical and theological writer *

John Anderson John Anderson may refer to: Business *John Anderson (Scottish businessman) (1747–1820), Scottish merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland * John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), American educator, military officer and railroad executive, mentor of ...

, Scottish-Australian philosopher, founded the empirical brand of philosophy known as

Australian realism Australian realism, also called Australian materialism, is a school of philosophy that flourished in the first half of the 20th century in several universities in Australia including the Australian National University, the University of Adelaide, an ...

* Alexander Bain, philosopher * William Barclay, theologian *

David Beaton David Beaton (also Beton or Bethune; 29 May 1546) was Archbishop of St Andrews and the last Scotland, Scottish Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal prior to the Scottish Reformation, Reformation. Career Cardinal Beaton was the sixth and youngest ...

, cardinal and Archbishop of St. Andrews *

James Beaton James Beaton (or Bethune) (1473–1539) was a Roman Catholic Scottish church leader, the uncle of David Cardinal Beaton and the Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland. Life James Beaton was the sixth and youngest son of John Beaton of Balfour ...

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and St. Andrews, Primate of Scotland *

Zachary Boyd Zachary Boyd (1585–1653) was a Scottish minister and university administrator who wrote many sermons, scriptural versifications and other devotional works.John Caird, theologian and preacher, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow (1873–98) * Alexander Campbell, co-founder of the

Restoration Movement The Restoration Movement (also known as the American Restoration Movement or the Stone–Campbell Movement, and pejoratively as Campbellism) is a Christian movement that began on the United States frontier during the Second Great Awakening (179 ...

* Neil Campbell, minister, Principal of the University of Glasgow (1727 to 1761) * Tom Campbell, philosopher and jurist * Semyon Desnitsky, legal scholar, professor of the

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William Elphinstone William Elphinstone (143125 October 1514) was a Scottish statesman, Bishop of Aberdeen and founder of the University of Aberdeen. Biography He was born in Glasgow. His father, also William Elphinstone, later became the first Dean of the Fac ...

, statesman and bishop, founder of the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen ( sco, University o' 'Aiberdeen; abbreviated as ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; gd, Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Sc ...

William Hugh Clifford Frend William Hugh Clifford Frend (11 January 1916 – 1 August 2005) was an English ecclesiastical historian, archaeologist, and Anglican priest. Academic career * Haileybury College (scholar) * Keble College, Oxford (scholar, BA first class in mo ...

, early church historian * Francis Hutcheson, philosopher *

David Jasper David Jasper (born 1 August 1951) is a theologian, Professor Emeritus of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow. Jasper collected multiple degrees from Oxford in both English and Theology. He graduated in English from Jesus Colleg ...

, leader in study of literature and theology *

John Knox John Knox ( gd, Iain Cnocc) (born – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Born in Giffordgat ...

, religious reformer and theologian * Kung Lap-yan, a

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public theologian *

Cosmo Lang William Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, (31 October 1864 – 5 December 1945) was a Scottish Anglican prelate who served as Archbishop of York (1908–1928) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1928–1942). His elevation to Archbishop ...

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David Livingstone David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of t ...

, missionary * John Macquarrie, leading 20th century theologian and Professor of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary (NY) and Oxford * William McIntyre, minister and educator *

Andrew Melville Andrew Melville (1 August 1545 – 1622) was a Scottish scholar, theologian, poet and religious reformer. His fame encouraged scholars from the European continent to study at Glasgow and St. Andrews. He was born at Baldovie, on 1 August 154 ...

, theologian and religious reformer *

George Newlands George McLeod Newlands is a Scottish theologian widely published in the fields of modern systematic theology, Christology, emancipatory theology, and the history of Christian thought. He is Emeritus Professor of Divinity at the University of Gl ...

, theologian *

Thomas Reid Thomas Reid (; 7 May ( O.S. 26 April) 1710 – 7 October 1796) was a religiously trained Scottish philosopher. He was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1783 he wa ...

, philosopher *

Adam Smith Adam Smith (baptized 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by some as "The Father of Economics"——— ...

, economist and philosopher *

Dugald Stewart Dugald Stewart (; 22 November 175311 June 1828) was a Scottish philosopher and mathematician. Today regarded as one of the most important figures of the later Scottish Enlightenment, he was renowned as a populariser of the work of Francis Hut ...

, philosopher *

Archibald Campbell Tait Archibald Campbell Tait (21 December 18113 December 1882) was an Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England and theologian. He was the first Scottish Archbishop of Canterbury and thus, head of the Church of England. Life Tait was bor ...

R Guy Ramsay Reverend Robert Guy Ramsay (1895–1976) was a twentieth-century Scottish Baptist minister and author, most closely associated with Hillhead Baptist Church, Glasgow, Scotland. Rev Guy Ramsay was President of the Baptist Union of Scotland during ...

, Baptist minister and President of the Baptist Union of Scotland, 1948–49 * Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Tasmania * Patrick Forbes, Chancellor of Aberdeen University and Bishop of Aberdeen *

Alexander Peden Alexander Peden (162626 January 1686), also known as "Prophet Peden", was one of the leading figures in the Covenanter movement in Scotland. Life Peden was born at Auchincloich Farm near Sorn, Ayrshire, about 1626, and was educated at the U ...

, one of the leading figures in the Covenanter movement in Scotland.

Writers and poets

Lin Anderson Lin (Linda) Anderson (born in Greenock, Scotland) is a Tartan Noir crime novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod. the Rhona MacLeod books are being developed for ITV. Life and career An ...

, writer *

Julie Bertagna Julie Bertagna (born 1962) is a Scottish people, Scottish author who has written real life and science fiction novels for children and young adults. Her books have been shortlisted for several literature awards, including the Carnegie Medal (li ...

, writer *

James Boswell James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 (New Style, N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the Englis ...

, writer * William Boyd, writer *

James Bridie James Bridie (3 January 1888 in Glasgow – 29 January 1951 in Edinburgh) was the pseudonym of a Scottish playwright, screenwriter and physician whose real name was Osborne Henry Mavor.Daniel Leary (1982) ''Dictionary of Literary Biography: ...

(Osborne Henry Mavor), dramatist and founder of the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre *

Christopher Brookmyre Christopher Brookmyre (born 6 September 1968) is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan No ...

, writer *

Luke Brown Carl Dennis Campbell Sr. (July 28, 1935 – November 12, 1997) was an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name ''Luke "Big Boy" Brown''. He is most noted for being one-half of a tag team in the 1950s and 1960s known as the Ken ...

, writer *

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career ...

, writer and

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Robert Williams Buchanan Robert Williams Buchanan (18 August 1841 – 10 June 1901) was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. Early life and education He was the son of Robert Buchanan (1813–1866), Owenite lecturer and journalist, and was born at Caverswall, S ...

, poet * C. Delisle Burns, atheist and secularist writer and lecturer *

Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbell may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Thomas Campbell (poet) (1777–1844), Scottish poet * Thomas Campbell (sculptor) (1790–1858), Scottish sculptor * Thomas Campbell (visual artist) (born 1969), California-based visual artist ...

, poet * Robert Crawford, poet, Professor of English at the

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A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achievi ...

, physician and writer who's given credit for inspiring the

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Ann Marie Di Mambro Ann Marie Di Mambro (born 18 June 1950) is a Scottish playwright and television screenwriter of Italian extraction. Her theatre plays have been performed widely; they are also published individually and in collections and are studied in schools f ...

, playwright and scriptwriter *

Hal Duncan Hal Duncan (born 21 October 1971, real name Alasdair) is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer. His works have been listed in the New Weird genre, but he prefers not to ascribe his writings to any genre. Life Hal Duncan was born in Ki ...

, writer *

Jane Duncan Jane Duncan (10 March 1910 – 20 October 1976) was the pseudonym of Scottish author Elizabeth Jane Cameron, best known for her ''My Friends'' series of semi-autobiographical novels. She also wrote four novels under the name of her principal hero ...

(Elizabeth Jane Cameron), writer *

Dimitra Fimi Dimitra Fimi (born 2 June 1978) is a Scottish academic and writer and since 2020 the Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her research includes that of the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and children's ...

, writer and academic * Fraser Frisell, friend of Chateaubriand *

Janice Galloway Janice Galloway (born 1955 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti. Biography She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. Her parents separated w ...

, writer *

Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore Robert Graham (1735 – 11 December 1797), who took the name Bontine in 1770 and Cunninghame Graham in 1796, was a Scottish politician and poet.Alasdair Gray Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, ''Lanark'' (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and ...

, writer and artist * David Gray, poet *

Janice Hally Janice may refer to: * Janice (given name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) * ''Janice & Abbey'', a reality TV series * Processor codename of the Samsung Galaxy S Advance Android smartphone * Janice, Łódź Voivodes ...

, playwright and scriptwriter *

Robert Henryson Robert Henryson (Middle Scots: Robert Henrysoun) was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots ''makars'', he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renai ...

, poet (probably taught) *

James Herriot James Alfred Wight (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to Engl ...

, writer *

Philip Hobsbaum Philip Dennis Hobsbaum (29 June 1932 – 28 June 2005) was a British teacher, poet and critic. Life Hobsbaum was born into a Polish Jewish family in London, and brought up in Bradford, Yorkshire, where he attended Belle Vue Boys' Grammar Sc ...

, poet and critic *

John Jamieson John Jamieson (3 March 1759 – 12 July 1838) was a Scottish minister of religion, lexicographer, philologist and antiquary. His most important work is the ''Dictionary of the Scottish Language''. Life He was born in Glasgow in March 1759 the ...

, lexicographer *

James Kelman James Kelman (born 9 June 1946) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His novel '' A Disaffection'' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. Kelman won ...

, writer * Walter Kennedy, poet * Tom Leonard, poet and essayist *

Liz Lochhead Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Makar, or National Poet of Scotland, and served as Poet Laureate for Glasgow between 2005 and 2011. E ...

, poet and dramatist *

Helen MacInnes Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907 – September 30, 1985) was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels. Life She and her husband emigrated to the United States in 1937, when he took an academic position at Columbia University in New Y ...

, "queen of spy writers" *

Alistair MacLean Alistair Stuart MacLean ( gd, Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a 20th-century Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably '' The G ...

, writer *

Ken MacLeod Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer. His novels ''The Sky Road'' and ''The Night Sessions'' won the BSFA Award. MacLeod's novels have been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, an ...

, writer *

Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish war poet, satirist, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist. The poet's Gaelic name means "Alasdair, so ...

Gaelic Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...

bard and Jacobite captain *

Aonghas MacNeacail Aonghas MacNeacail (born 7 June 1942), nickname ''Aonghas dubh'' or ''Black Angus'', is a contemporary writer in the Scottish Gaelic language. Early life MacNeacail was born in Uig on the Isle of Skye on 7 June 1942. He was raised in Idrigil, ...

, Gaelic poet *

Laura Marney Laura Marney is a Scottish novelist and short-story writer. Biography The author of five novels and numerous short stories, Laura Marney is a member of the Glasgow G7 group of writers (Alan Bissett, Nick Brookes, Rodge Glass, Laura Marney, Alison ...

, writer * Angus Matheson (1912–1962), inaugural Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow * William McIllvanney, writer * Caroline Moir, writer * Edwin Morgan, poet * Seamus Perry, academic and writer *

Robert William Service Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon". The middle name 'William' was in honour of a rich uncle. When that uncle neglected to provide for hi ...

, poet and writer *

Jane Shaw Jane Alison Shaw (born 1963) is Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, Professor of the History of Religion, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford. Previously she was Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of Religiou ...

, writer *

J David Simons J. David Simons (born 27 August 1953) is a Scottish novelist and short story writer. He was educated at Hutchesons' Boys Grammar School and graduated with a law degree from Glasgow University in 1973. He has been a partner with an Edinburgh ...

, writer *

Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet, (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835), was a British politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and was one of the first people to use the word '' statistics'' in the English language, in ...

, writer and the first person to use the word "statistics" in the English language *

Tobias Smollett Tobias George Smollett (baptised 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for picaresque novels such as ''The Adventures of Roderick Random'' (1748), ''The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle'' (1751) a ...

, writer *

Derick Thomson Derick Smith Thomson (Scottish Gaelic: ''Ruaraidh MacThòmais''; 5 August 1921, Stornoway – 21 March 2012, Glasgow) was a Scottish poet, publisher, lexicographer, academic and writer. He was originally from Lewis, but spent much of his life ...

writer and academic *

Alexander Trocchi Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi ( ; 30 July 1925 – 15 April 1984) was a List of Scottish novelists, Scottish novelist. Early life and career Trocchi was born in Glasgow to Alfred (formerly Alfredo) Trocchi, a music-hall performer of I ...

, writer * John Wilson, writer * Thomas Hamilton, Among the 'Glasgow School' of early nineteenth century Scottish novelists * Archibald Alison, Scottish episcopalian priest and essayist * Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, Scottish politician and Greek scholar *

Alexander Carlyle Alexander Carlyle MA DD FRSE (26 January 172228 August 1805) was a Scottish church leader, and autobiographer. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1770/71. Life He was born on 26 January 1722 in the ...

, church leader, and autobiographer.

Business

James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington (born 8 May 1940) is a British businessman. Early life The son of Daniel Blyth and Jane Power Carlton, Blyth was educated at Spier's School, Beith, and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated w ...

, Chairman of

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Keith Cochrane Keith Robertson Cochrane (born 11 February 1965) is a Scottish businessman and former chief executive of Weir Group, Stagecoach Group and Carillion plc (interim). In March 2019, he was appointed chief executive of Schenck Process. Early life ...

, Chief Executive of

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Douglas Flint Sir Douglas Jardine Flint, (born 8 July 1955) is a British banker and former Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings. He served from 2011 to 2017, having previously been Group Finance Director since 1995. He currently serves as chairman of Standard Lif ...

, Chairman of

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Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck (11 November 1889 – 6 August 1968) was a British industrial chemist. Background and education Fleck was born on 11 November 1889, the son of Robert Fleck, coal-merchant of the firm Alexander Fleck & Co of 4 ...

, FRS, KBE, and chairman of ICI *

Fred Goodwin Frederick Anderson Goodwin FRSE FCIBS (born 17 August 1958) is a Scottish chartered accountant and former banker who was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) between 2001 and 2009. From 2000 to 2008, he pre ...

, former Chief Executive of the

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Hugh Grant Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as both a charming, and vulnerable romantic lead and has since transitioned into a dramatic character actor. Among his numerous a ...

, Chief Executive of the

Monsanto Company The Monsanto Company () was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best known product is Roundup (herbicide), Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbic ...

, St. Louis, Missouri, US *

David MacBrayne David MacBrayne is a limited company owned by the Scottish Government. Formed in 1851 as the private shipping company David Hutcheson & Co. with three partners, David Hutcheson, Alexander Hutcheson and David MacBrayne, it passed in 1878 to David ...

, founder of the shipping company that later became

Caledonian MacBrayne Caledonian MacBrayne ( gd, Caledonian Mac a' Bhriuthainn), usually shortened to CalMac, is the major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, and ferry services, between the mainland of Scotland and 22 of the major islands on Scotland's west ...

, now David MacBrayne, Ltd. *

James McGill James McGill (October 6, 1744 – December 19, 1813) was a Scottish Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known for being the founder of McGill University, Montreal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal ...

, Scottish-Canadian fur-trader and philanthropist, endowed

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Tom McKillop Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop, FRS, FRSE (born 19 March 1943) is a Scottish chemist, who was CEO of AstraZeneca PLC from 1999 until 2006 and chairman of the RBS Group from 2006 until 2008. Early life McKillop was born in Dreghorn, a small ...

, former Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group *

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, Chief Executive of

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Civil service

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed receives Thomas Francis, Jr

* Sir

Fazle Hasan Abed Sir Fazle Hasan Abed ( bn, ফজলে হাসান আবেদ; 27 April 1936 – 20 December 2019) was the founder of BRAC, one of the world's largest non-governmental organizations. Early life Abed was born on 27 April 1936 in the vi ...

, founder of world's largest NGO, BRAC * Mushtaq Ahmad,

Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire. * George Douglas-Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney 1714 - 29 January 1737 *Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton 17 March 1794 – 2 August 1799 * Archibald Douglas-H ...

* David Bell, Vice-Chancellor of the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

, previously Permanent Secretary of the

Department for Education The Department for Education (DfE) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for child protection, child services, education (compulsory, further and higher education), apprenticeships and wider skills in England. A Department ...

* Henry Beveridge, famous orientalist and member of Indian Civil Service joined in 1857; elected president of

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of Bengal (1890-91). * James Bonar, civil servant, political economist and historian of economic thought *

John Cairncross John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that influ ...

, in 1936, scored double first (domestic & foreign service) in Civil Service exam, alleged to be one of the

Cambridge Five The Cambridge Spy Ring was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and was active from the 1930s until at least into the early 1950s. None of the known members were ever prosecuted for ...

* Sir Matthew Campbell, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland * Sir

Oliver Franks Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks (16 February 1905 – 15 October 1992) was an English civil servant and philosopher who has been described as 'one of the founders of the postwar world'. Franks was involved in Britain's recovery after the S ...

, influential civil servant in postwar Britain * Sir

Bill Jeffrey Sir William Alexander Jeffrey, KCB (born 28 February 1948) is a former senior British civil servant, who retired in the autumn of 2010. Jeffrey was educated at Allan Glen's School, Glasgow, and the Glasgow University. He joined the Home Offic ...

Permanent Secretary A permanent secretary (also known as a principal secretary) is the most senior Civil Service (United Kingdom), civil servant of a department or Ministry (government department), ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day ...

at the

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* Paul Johnston, British diplomat *

Ken McCallum Kenneth Douglas McCallum is a British intelligence officer who has been serving as the Director General of MI5 since 2020. Early life and education McCallum was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1974. He attended a state school, after which he read ...

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* Francis J. Meehan, 1924-2022, American diplomat involved in events depicted in the 2015 Steven Spielberg, film "Bridge of Spies" * Sir Muir Russell, Office of the Permanent Secretary (Scotland), Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Executive * Francis Richard John Sandford, 1st Baron Sandford, instrumental in implementing the Elementary Education Act of 1870.

Law

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey by Andrew Geddes

Robert Malcolm Kerr, Vanity Fair, 1900-11-22

* Joseph Beltrami, Glasgow defence lawyer who secured the first Royal Pardon issued in Scotland * Sir David King Murray, Lord Birnam (1884–1955), Solicitor-General for Scotland, Senator of the College of Justice * Harald Leslie, Lord Birsay, Scottish Land Court, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court * Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy, Senator of the College of Justice and Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia * James Boyle (academic), James Boyle, legal academic, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law * James Chadwin, James Chadwin QC, barrister who represented Peter Sutcliffe (the "Yorkshire Ripper") * Matthew Clarke, Lord Clarke, Senator of the College of Justice * Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, first woman judge in Court of Session * James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, 17th century Scottish jurist * Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson, Lord Advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session * George Emslie, Baron Emslie, George Emslie, Lord Emslie, Lord President of the Court of Session * Henry Erskine (lawyer), Henry Erskine, former Lord Advocate * Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Lord Justice Clerk * John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, former Lord Advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session, and former Rector of the University * Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee, former Lord Advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session, and former Rector of the University of Glasgow, Rector of the University * Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Lord President of the Court of Session * Ian Hamilton (lawyer), Ian Hamilton, Advocate#Advocates in Scotland, advocate, Scottish National Party, Scottish Nationalist * Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Lord Irvine of Lairg, former Lord Chancellor * Douglas Jamieson, Lord Jamieson, former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice * Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary * Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Senator of the College of Justice and literary critic * Robert Malcolm Kerr, Judge of the Guildhall Court in the City of London for 43 years * Sir Neil MacCormick, Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, University of Edinburgh School of Law, University of Edinburgh * Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan, former Lord Advocate and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary * Alexander Munro MacRobert, former Lord Advocate * Gerry Maher, Professor Gerry Maher, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, University of Edinburgh, former Scottish Law Commission, Law Commissioner * Hugh Matthews, Lord Matthews, Senator of the College of Justice * Robin McEwan, Lord McEwan, Senator of the College of Justice * William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan, former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice * David Murray (Glasgow solicitor), David Murray (1842–1928), Glasgow solicitor, antiquarian, book-collector, and legal scholar * Ann Paton, Lady Paton, Senator of the College of Justice * Ralph Risk (1891–1961), solicitor, lawyer, president of the Law Society of Scotland and senior partner in Maclay Murray & Spens * Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Roger of Earlsferry, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary * Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde, former Lord Advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session * Alan Watson (legal scholar), Alan Watson, Roman Law, Civil Law scholar (former Douglas Professor of Civil Law) * John Wheatley, Baron Wheatley, former Lord Advocate and Lord Justice Clerk, established Scottish Legal Aid system * Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside, Lord Wilson of Langside, former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice * Norman Wylie, Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice * Robert Hodshon Cay, Judge Admiral of Scotland overseeing naval trials and maternal grandfather of James Clerk Maxwell. * Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, politician, lawyer, judge and composer.

Media

* Ruaridh Arrow, documentary filmmaker * Raman Bhardwaj, sports broadcaster, ''STV News'' * Gerard Butler, actor * Susan Calman, comedian and panellist * Glenn Campbell (broadcaster), Glenn Campbell, Scottish news and current affairs broadcaster * Andrew Cotter, sports broadcaster * John Grierson, filmmaker, "father of the documentary film" * Duncan Hamilton (politician), Duncan Hamilton, columnist for ''The Scotsman'' * Eileen Hayes, author, broadcaster and columnist * Greg Hemphill, comedian, performer, actor, half of the team in "Still Game" * Ford Kiernan, comedian, performer, second half of the team in "Still Game" * Iain Martin, political commentator, former editor of ''The Scotsman'' * John MacKay (journalist), John MacKay, STV News journalist, main anchor * Anne MacKenzie (journalist), Anne MacKenzie, television presenter and news anchorwoman * Robin McKie, science editor, The Observer * Hugh Dan MacLennan, sporting academic and broadcaster * Ian McCaskill, weatherman * Tom Morton, journalist and broadcaster * Shereen Nanjiani, Scottish journalist * Hamad Nazzal, journalist * Andrew Neil, journalist and broadcaster * Fraser Nelson, editor of ''The Spectator'' * Neil Oliver, archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster * David Paisley, actor * Shantha Roberts, artist and TV presenter * Sarah Smith (news reporter), Sarah Smith, news presenter

Military

* General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet, Scottish soldier who achieved high office * Lieutenant Robert Blair (VC), Robert Blair, received the Victoria Cross * Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd (British Army officer), Robert Boyd, British Army officer and Governor of Gibraltar * Captain Lord Archibald Hamilton, Lord of the Admiralty * General William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart, Commander-in-Chief of Scotland and Ambassador to Russia during the Great Patriotic War of 1812 * Lieutenant Colonel James Hamilton (British Army officer, born 1777), James Hamilton, Commandant of the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo * Colonel William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, Royalist Commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms * Lieutenant General Sir David Henderson, commander of the Royal Flying Corps and instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force * Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, Hereditary chief of Clan Campbell, and a Royalist supporter during the latter stages of the Scottish Civil War and its aftermath. * Lieutenant General James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton#The Macclesfield inheritance and death, James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon, major investor in the failed Darien Scheme and British ambassador to Louis XIV of France * Major General David Tennant Cowan CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC. Distinguished for leading the Indian 17th Infantry Division during almost the entire Burma Campaign. *Major-general Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet KCB. East India Company Army officer and statesman. *Colonel James Lennox Dawson VC. Recipient of the Victoria Cross *Donald MacKintosh (VC). Recipient of the Victoria Cross *Harry Ranken. Recipient of the Victoria Cross *John Snell, Sir John Snell. Royalist Soldier in the English Civil War. Founded the Snell Exhibition. *Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat, 20th MacShimidh (chief) of Clan Fraser of Lovat. *General Simon Fraser of Lovat, the 19th Chief of the Clan Fraser of Lovat. *Air Marshal Stuart Atha, senior officer of the Royal Air Force. *Wing Commander Hector MacLean (RAF officer), Hector Maclean, Battle of Britain fighter pilot.

Politics

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, painted by John Partridge

* John Crowley (politician), John Crowley, Irish Sinn Féin politician and medical practitioner * John Maclean (Scottish socialist), John Maclean, leading figure of the Red Clydeside era * James Maxton, leader of the Independent Labour Party * Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, dominant political leader in Scotland in the 18th century. * William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister * James Allison Glen, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons * James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, last Lord High Commissioner before the Act of Union * James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and a representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords.

Conservative Party

* Eric Forth, Member of Parliament, MP * Liam Fox, MP * Tam Galbraith, long-time MP for Glasgow Hillhead whose death in 1982 led to the historic election of Roy Jenkins and formation of the new Social Democratic Party (UK) * James Gray (UK politician), James Gray, MP * John Lamont, MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk * Bonar Law, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister * Mark Menzies, MP * Sir Teddy Taylor, MP * Sir David Robertson (British politician)#Dual constituency role, David Robertson, MP

Labour Party

* Wendy Alexander, MSP * John Baird (Wolverhampton MP), John Baird, MP for Wolverhampton 1945-64 * Sarah Boyack, MSP * Des Browne QC, Secretary of State for Defence * Margaret Curran, MSP * Donald Dewar, former First Minister of Scotland * Andrew Faulds, MP * Sam Galbraith, former Minister (UK Government) * Jim Gallagher (civil servant), Jim Gallagher, Head of Justice Department for the Scottish Executive * Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg QC, former Lord Chancellor * Tom Johnston (Scottish politician), Thomas Johnston, former Secretary of State for Scotland * Johann Lamont, MSP * Anne McGuire, MP * Bridget Prentice, MP * Gordon Prentice, MP * William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, former Secretary of State for Scotland * John Smith (Labour Party leader), John Smith, former Labour party leader and UK Cabinet Minister * Paul Sweeney, MSP * John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley; politician, lawyer and Judge of the Court of Session * Tony Worthington, MP * Hector McNeil, Secretary of State for Scotland *Tom Johnston (Scottish politician), Tom Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland *Willie Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, Secretary of State for Scotland

Liberal Party/Liberal Democrats

* Elspeth Attwooll, former Member of the European Parliament, MEP for the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats * John Bannerman, Baron Bannerman of Kildonan * James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, Liberal politician, British ambassador to the US in 1907-13 * Sir Vince Cable, former leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats * Sir Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats * Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, The Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party UK Prime Minister, Prime Minister * Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency), Orkney and Shetland * Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats * William Sutherland (Scottish politician), Sir William Sutherland, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1922 * Alan Reid (politician), Alan Reid, former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Argyll and Bute

Scottish National Party

* Alasdair Allan, MSP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Scottish Parliament constituency), Na h-Eileanan an Iar * Marco Biagi (politician), Marco Biagi, MSP for Edinburgh Central * Mhairi Black, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South * Aileen Campbell, MSP, youngest MSP in the 2007 - 2011 Session * Angela Constance, MSP * Annabelle Ewing, former Member of Parliament, MP * Fergus Ewing, MSP * Margaret Ewing, MSP, former MP * Winnie Ewing, former SNP President, former MP, MSP and MEP * Linda Fabiani, MSP Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture * Ian Hamilton QC, Ian Hamilton, repatriator of the Stone of Scone, Stone of Destiny and Queen's Counsel * Jamie Hepburn, MSP * Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs * John MacCormick, founder of the National Party of Scotland * Neil MacCormick, MEP * Derek Mackay, MSP (did not graduate) * Jim Mather, MSP Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism * Alasdair Morgan, MSP Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, Deputy Presiding Officer * Shona Robison, MSP * Nicola Sturgeon, first Minister of Scotland, SNP Leader, MSP * Andrew Welsh (politician), Andrew Welsh, MSP, former MP

Scottish Unionist Party

* Walter Elliot (Scottish Unionist MP), Walter Elliot, former Scottish Secretary * Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan, Chancellor of the Exchequer * Albert Russell, Lord Russell, Albert Russell, Unionist Party (Scotland), Scottish Unionist Party member and Member of Parliament, MP

Miscellaneous

* Charles Allan Cathcart, former MP and British Ambassador to China * William Steel Dickson, radical Ulster Presbyterian and Irish republican revolutionary, member of the United Irishmen * Regina Ip, first woman to be appointed as Secretary for Security of

* Nasharudin Mat Isa, Member of the Parliament of Malaysia; Deputy President of the opposition Pan Malaysian Islamic Party, PAS * Yanis Varoufakis, Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015

Sciences

Medical

* Gavin Arneil, paediatric nephrologist * John Bell (traveller), John Bell, 18th-century adviser to the Tsar and author of a travelogue from St. Petersburg to Beijing * Robert Broom, physician * Sir Harry Burns (doctor), Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland * Sir Kenneth Calman, Scottish cancer researcher, former Chief Medical Officer, current Chancellor of the University of Glasgow * Murdoch Cameron, Regius Professor of Midwifery; performed first modern Caesarian section in 1888; father of Samuel James Cameron * Maud Perry Menzies, community health physician; RAMC captain during World War II * Hani Gabra, professor of Oncology at Imperial College London * Samuel James Cameron, Regius Professor of Midwifery; son of Murdoch Cameron; collector of Scottish art * Stuart Campbell (obstetrician), Stuart Campbell, obstetrician and gynaecologist * William Cullen, physician, chemist, agriculturalist, professor at Edinburgh Medical School * Ian Donald, pioneer of diagnostic and obstetric medical ultrasound * Ian Hart (neurologist), Ian Hart, neurologist * John Hunter (surgeon), John Hunter, surgeon * William Hunter (anatomist), William Hunter, anatomist and physician * James Jameson (surgeon), James Jameson, surgeon general, Army Medical Service * Bryan J. Jennett, with Graham Teasdale (physician), Sir Graham Teasdale, co-inventor of the Glasgow Coma Scale * R. D. Laing, psychiatrist * Sir Alan Langlands, former chief executive of the NHS, vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds * William Boog Leishman, pathologist credited with first successful anti-typhoid inoculation * Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Joseph Lister, surgeon *

, "Dr. Livingstone," 19th century medical missionary to Africa (didn't graduate) * Donald MacAlister, also Principal of the University of Glasgow, 1907–29 * Sir William Macewen, pioneer of neurosurgery * Elizabeth Janet MacGregor, medical doctor and cancer researcher * Louise McIlroy, Dame Louise McIlroy, obstetrics and gynaecology consultant; first woman to receive M.D. from the University * Quintin McKellar, veterinary surgeon and vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire * Janet Niven, histologist and pathologist * Priscilla Nzimiro, physician * Delphine Parrott, endocrinologist and immunologist, William Guthrie Gardiner, Gardiner Professor of Immunology 1980-1990 * David Shannon (gynaecologist), physician, academic, World War I medical officer, foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists * James McCune Smith, first university trained African-American physician; abolitionist and public intellectual in New York *Alexander Stewart-Wilson, foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists *John Hammond Teacher, pathologist, researcher and medical academic * Graham Teasdale (physician), Sir Graham Teasdale, with Bryan J. Jennett, co-inventor of the Glasgow Coma Scale * Thomas Thomson (botanist), Scottish surgeon with the British East India Company * Robert Thomson (physician), Robert Thomson,a pioneer of sanitation * Donald James MacKintosh, Scottish physician, soldier and public health expert. * Sir Gilbert Blane, Scottish physician who instituted health reform in the Royal Navy. * John Moore (Scottish physician), John Moore, Scottish physician and travel author. * Edward Provan Cathcart, Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow *Mujibur Rahman (scientist), Mujibur Rahman, Medical scientist, recipient of Ekushey Padak. *Merbai Ardesir Vakil, physician, first Asian woman to graduate from a Scottish university VAKIL Merbai Ardesir

Biology

* Sir John Arbuthnott (microbiologist), John Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist, and Principal of the University of Strathclyde (1991-2000) *David Douglas (botanist), David Douglas, botanist *Alan Gemmell, Professor of Biology, Keele University 1950-77 *Robert Thomson Leiper, parasitologist and helminthologist *Sheina Marshall, marine biologist *Muriel Robertson, protozoologist and bacteriologist at the Lister Institute * Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. *Thomas Hopkirk, botanist and lithographer. *John Hutton Balfour, Professor of Botany also becoming Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist. *Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Professor of Botany and Sherardian Professor of Botany Oxford. *John Hope (botanist), John Hope, Scottish physician and botanist. Best known as an early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification. *David Campbell (pharmacologist), David Campbell, Professor of Materia Medica at Aberdeen University from 1930 to 1959. Won the Military Cross in 1918 due to his bravery serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps. *Heather M. Ferguson, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE Professor Professor of Medical Entomology and Disease Ecology, co-chairs the World Health Organization, WHO Vector Control Advisory Group on malaria *Guido Pontecorvo, the University's first Professor of Genetics *Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, one of the first geneticists to provide a diagnostic and counselling service to patients with genetic conditions. *Anne Ferguson-Smith, Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics. *Percy Wragg Brian, Regius Professor of Botany.

Chemistry

* Thomas Andrews (scientist), Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist, received the Royal Medal in 1844 for his work on the heat developed in chemical actions * Joseph Black, physicist and chemist * Leroy Cronin, Leroy (Lee) Cronin, chemist * Thomas Graham (chemist), Thomas Graham, chemist * George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of stable liquid crystals, awarded Kyoto Prize and Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society, Leverhulme Medal * Takamine Jōkichi, Jōkichi Takamine, chemist * Alexander R. Todd, Alexander Todd, Baron Todd, chemist * Thomas Thomson (chemist), Thomas Thomson, Regius Professor of Chemistry, gave silicon its name * Thomas Charles Hope, proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's experiment

Mathematics, physical sciences and engineering

* John Anderson (natural philosopher), John Anderson, natural philosopher and founder of the Anderson's Institution in 1796 (predecessor to the University of Strathclyde) * John Logie Baird, inventor of television * Frank Barnwell, aeronautical engineer and pilot of first powered flight in Scotland in 1909 * Bruce C. Berndt, mathematician * John Brown (professor), John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland * A. Catrina Bryce, physicist, electrical engineer * Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist * Ethel Currie, geologist * Henry Dyer, engineer * William Gemmell Cochran, statistician * Bernard Parker Haigh, engineer * Sam Karunaratne, electrical engineer and Sri Lankan academic * John Kerr (physicist), John Kerr, physicist * Colin Maclaurin, mathematician * Bill Napier, astronomer and novelist * Raymond Ogden, engineering mathematician * Percy Sinclair Pilcher, pioneer of powered flight * Robert Alexander Rankin, mathematician * William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist *Dorothy Rowntree the first woman graduate in engineering from the University and the first woman graduate in naval architecture in UK * John Scott Russell, naval engineer * Robert Simson, mathematician * Ian Sneddon, mathematician * William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist * Gavin Vernon, engineer, known for Removal of the Stone of Scone in 1950, removing the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey * James Watt, mathematician and engineer * John Robison (physicist), John Robison, physicist and mathematician. Inventor of the siren. * Hugh Blackburn, a member of the Cambridge Apostles, inventor of the Blackburn pendulum. *Gillian Wright (Astronomer), Gillian Wright, astronomer and director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre

Computing

* Simon Peyton Jones, research in functional programming languages * Philip Wadler, research in functional programming languages

Social sciences

* Sally Baldwin, social policy researcher * Sir Alexander Cairncross (economist), Alexander Cairncross, economist and Chancellor of the University of Glasgow (1972–96), *

, social anthropologist * Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank * Sir Anton Muscatelli, economist and University Vice-Chancellor * Alexander Nove, Soviet economic historian *Alison Phipps (refugee researcher), Alison Phipps (refugee researcher) UNESCO chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts * Ljubo Sirc, economist, author and Slovenian dissident during the Titoist regime

Sports

* John Beattie (rugby union), John Beattie, rugby union international player * Jim Craig (Scottish footballer), Jim Craig, Celtic F.C. player, member of the Lisbon Lions * Katherine Grainger, rower and Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian * Louis Greig, rugby union player and naval surgeon * RC Hamilton, Rangers F.C. player * Thomas Hart (sportsman), Thomas Hart, cricket and rugby union player * Laura Muir, British record holder over 1500m and Olympic silver medalist * Euan Murray, rugby union player for British and Irish Lions * James Reid-Kerr, rugby union and cricket international player * Emma Richards (yachtswoman), Emma Richards, yachtswoman, became the first British woman and youngest ever person to complete the single-handed round the world yacht race with stops * David Robertson (golfer), David Robertson, golfer, won bronze at the 1900 Olympic Games * Arthur Smith (rugby union), Arthur Smith, rugby union player, captained Scotland and the British and Irish Lions * Imogen Walsh, rower, 2011 lightweight women's quad World Champion * Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856), Andrew Watson, early Scotland national football team, Scotland international footballer and first black international player in the history of the game * Dave MacLeod, Scottish rock climber

Nobel laureates

Arts

History

Musicians

Philosophy and theology

Writers and poets

Business

Civil service

Law

Media

Military

Politics

Conservative Party

Labour Party

Liberal Party/Liberal Democrats

Scottish National Party

Scottish Unionist Party

Miscellaneous

Sciences

Medical

Biology

Chemistry

Mathematics, physical sciences and engineering

Computing

Social sciences

Sports

References

See also