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* [[Arthur St. Clair]], [[President of the Continental Congress]]
* [[Arthur St. Clair]], [[President of the Continental Congress]]


===Academics===
'''Mathematics'''
* Sir [[Michael Atiyah]], mathematician, winner of Abel Prize, (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
{{r|Colin MacLaurin}}
{{r|John Playfair}}


{{r|Thomas Anderson}}
'''Biology'''
* Sir [[Michael Atiyah]], mathematician, winner of Abel Prize, (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
{{r|Alexander Graham Bell}}
{{r|Joseph Black}}
{{r|William Cullen}}
{{r|Charles Darwin}}
{{r|Charles Darwin}}
{{r|Erasmus Darwin}}
{{r|Richard Owen}}
{{r|John Davy}}
{{r|Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer}}
{{r|James Dewar}}
{{r|John Boyd Dunlop}}
{{r|James Hutton}}
{{r|Fleeming Jenkin}}
{{r|Fleeming Jenkin}}
{{r|Joseph Lister}}
 
{{r|Colin MacLaurin}}
'''Medicine'''
{{r|James Clerk Maxwell}}
{{r|Alexander Monro primus}}
{{r|Alexander Monro primus}}
{{r|Alexander Monro secundus}}
{{r|Alexander Monro secundus}}
{{r|Richard Owen}}
{{r|William Cullen}}
{{r|John Playfair}}
{{r|Joseph Lister}}
{{r|James Young Simpson}}
{{r|John Forbes}}
 
'''Chemistry'''
{{r|Joseph Black}}
{{r|John Davy}}
{{r|Daniel Rutherford}}
{{r|Daniel Rutherford}}
{{r|Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer}}
 
{{r|James Young Simpson}}
'''Physics'''
{{r|Thomas Anderson}}
{{r|Peter Higgs}}
{{r|James Clerk Maxwell}}
{{r|Thomas Young}} Young entered the University of Edinburgh in 1794 (as a Quaker he could not study at Oxford or Cambridge). After a year of study he went to the University of Göttingen.
{{r|Thomas Young}} Young entered the University of Edinburgh in 1794 (as a Quaker he could not study at Oxford or Cambridge). After a year of study he went to the University of Göttingen.


===Nobel Laureates===
'''Geology'''
The University is associated with nine Nobel Prize winners (Source: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/edinburgh/alumni.html)
{{r|James Hutton}}
{{r|Edward Victor Appleton}}
 
{{r|Charles Glover Barkla}}
'''Philosophy'''
{{r|Max Born}}
{{r|Erasmus Darwin}}
{{r|Peter Doherty}}
{{r|David Hume}}
{{r|James Mirrlees}}
{{r|Adam Smith}}
{{r|Peter D. Mitchell}}
{{r|Dugald Stewart}}
{{r|Igor Tamm}}


'''Inventors'''
{{r|Alexander Graham Bell}}
{{r|James Dewar}}
{{r|John Boyd Dunlop}}


{{r|Robert Adam}}
{{r|Robert Adam}}
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{{r|Andrew Duncan}}
{{r|Andrew Duncan}}
{{r|John Dunlop}}
{{r|John Dunlop}}
{{r|John Forbes}}
{{r|Peter Higgs}}
{{r|Peter Roget}}
{{r|Peter Roget}}
{{r|Elizabeth Blackadder}}
{{r|Elizabeth Blackadder}}
{{r|Adam Ferguson}}
{{r|Adam Ferguson}}
{{r|David Hume}}
{{r|Adam Smith}}
{{r|John Home}}
{{r|A.S. Neill}}
{{r|A.S. Neill}}
{{r|Dugald Stewart}}
{{r|Michael Swann}}
{{r|Michael Swann}}
===Nobel Laureates===
The University is associated with nine Nobel Prize winners (Source: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/edinburgh/alumni.html)
{{r|Edward Victor Appleton}}
{{r|Charles Glover Barkla}}
{{r|Max Born}}
{{r|Peter Doherty}}
{{r|James Mirrlees}}
{{r|Peter D. Mitchell}}
{{r|Igor Tamm}}


==Writers==
==Writers==
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{{r|Robert Louis Stevenson}}
{{r|Robert Louis Stevenson}}
{{r|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}}
{{r|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}}
{{r|John Home}}


==Sports==
==Sports==

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Heads of state and Heads of government

Academics

Mathematics

  • Sir Michael Atiyah, mathematician, winner of Abel Prize, (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
  • Colin MacLaurin [r]: (1698–1746) Scottish mathematician who published the first systematic exposition of Newton's calculus. [e]
  • John Playfair [r]: (1748-1819) Scottish mathematician, best known for his explanation and promotion of the work of James Hutton [e]

Biology

  • Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
  • Richard Owen [r]: (1804–1892) English comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, best remembered for coining the word Dinosauria and for his opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. [e]
  • Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer [r]: (1850 – 1935) Physiologist who coined the words "insulin" and "endocrine" and who demonstrated the existence of adrenaline. [e]
  • Fleeming Jenkin [r]: (1833 – 1885) Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, known as the inventor of telpherage. [e]

Medicine

  • Alexander Monro primus [r]: (1697 – 1767) Anatomist; the founder of Edinburgh Medical School. [e]
  • Alexander Monro secundus [r]: (1733 - 1817) Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, known as the discoverer of the lymphatic system. [e]
  • William Cullen [r]: (1710-1790) The leading British physician of the 18th century. [e]
  • Joseph Lister [r]: (1827 – 1912) Surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery. [e]
  • James Young Simpson [r]: (1811 – 1870) Scottish doctor who discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and introduced it for general medical use. [e]
  • John Forbes [r]: (1787-1861), physician and medical journalist [e]

Chemistry

  • Joseph Black [r]: (1728 – 1799) Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide [e]
  • John Davy [r]: (1790 – 1868) British chemist most noted for his discovery of phosgene. [e]
  • Daniel Rutherford [r]: (1749 - 1815) Scottish chemist, best known for the discovery of nitrogen. [e]

Physics

  • Thomas Anderson [r]: (1819 – 1874) Scottish chemist remembered for discovering pyridine. [e]
  • Peter Higgs [r]: (1929 - ) Particle-physics theorist whose work predicts the existence of the 'Higgs boson.' [e]
  • James Clerk Maxwell [r]: (1831 – 1879) Scottish physicist best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory and the statistical theory of gases. [e]
  • Thomas Young [r]: (1773-1829) English scientist who showed how the eye's lens focus light, proposed the three-color explanation of color vision, established the wave nature of light, defined energy in the modern sense, improved on Hooke's law, and helped decipher the Rosetta Stone. [e] Young entered the University of Edinburgh in 1794 (as a Quaker he could not study at Oxford or Cambridge). After a year of study he went to the University of Göttingen.

Geology

  • James Hutton [r]: (1726–1797) Scottish farmer and naturalist, who is known as the founder of modern geology. [e]

Philosophy

Inventors

Nobel Laureates

The University is associated with nine Nobel Prize winners (Source: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/edinburgh/alumni.html)


Writers

Sports


University Officials

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