List of University of Edinburgh people

This is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staff, 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 19 Nobel Prize laureates, three Turing Award winners, an Abel Prize laureate and Fields Medallist, two Pulitzer Prize winners, three Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, and several Olympic gold medallists.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Government and politics

Heads of state and government
Gordon Brown
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Leader State/Government Office
Hastings Banda  Malawi President of Malawi (1966–1994)
Sir Robert Black Colony of Singapore Governor of Singapore (1955–1957)
 British Hong Kong Governor of Hong Kong (1958–1964)
Gordon Brown  United Kingdom Prime Minister (2007–2010)
Chang Taek-sang  South Korea Prime Minister of South Korea (6 May 1952 – 6 October 1952)
John Crawfurd Colonial Singapore Resident of Singapore (1823–1826)
Sir Gilbert Elliott Anglo-Corsican Kingdom Viceroy of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom (1793–1796)
British India Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William (1807–1813)
Julius Nyerere  Tanzania President of Tanzania (1964–1985)
Lord John Russell  United Kingdom Prime Minister (1846–52 and 1865–66)
Viscount Palmerston  United Kingdom Prime Minister (1855–58 and 1859–65)
Sir Charles Tupper  Canada Prime Minister of Canada (1 May 1896 – 8 July 1896)
William Walker  Nicaragua Invader of Nicaragua (1856–1857)
Yun Posun  South Korea President of South Korea (1960–1962)

United Kingdom

United States

Africa

Asia

Canada

Caribbean

Middle East

Oceania

Royalty

Judges and lawyers
Robert Reed, Baron Reed of Allermuir

Natural sciences, engineering and medicine

Astronomy

Chemistry
James Dewar
Joseph Black

Geology
James Hutton

Informatics

Mathematics, physics and engineering
Alexander Graham Bell
David Brewster
James Clerk Maxwell
Robert Stephenson

Medicine and biology
Main article: List of University of Edinburgh medical people
Charles Darwin
Joseph Lister
Sir James Young Simpson

Social sciences, arts and business

Pulitzer Prize
  • 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

Business
John Boyd Dunlop

Economics
Sir James Mirrlees

Literature
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert Louis Stevenson

Media and the arts
Miles Jupp
Laura Kuenssberg
Michael Mcintyre

Music

History, philosophy, sociology and theology
Adam Ferguson
David Hume

Others
Lulwah Al-Qatami

Sports
Sir Chris Hoy

Miscellaneous
Piers Sellers

University officials
Main articles: Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, Rector of the University of Edinburgh, and List of Principals of the University of Edinburgh

See also

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