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* The Rt Hon [[Sir Winston Churchill]], Former Rector of the University (1929-1932) | * The Rt Hon [[Sir Winston Churchill]], Former Rector of the University (1929-1932) | ||
* The Rt Hon [[David Lloyd George]], Former Rector of the University (1920-1923) | * The Rt Hon [[David Lloyd George]], Former Rector of the University (1920-1923) | ||
* Sir [[David Steel]] (Lord Steel of Aikwood), Rector of the University (1982-1985) | |||
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Heads of state and Heads of government
- Gordon Brown [r]: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from June 2007 to May 2010; previously Chancellor of the Exchequer from May 1997. [e]
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Charles Tupper, Prime Minister of Canada
- Julius Nyerere, first President of Tanzania
- Yun Po Sun, President of South Korea
- Hastings Banda, President of Malawi
- William Walker, President of Nicaragua
- Arthur St. Clair, President of the Continental Congress
- Thomas Anderson [r]: (1819 – 1874) Scottish chemist remembered for discovering pyridine. [e]
- Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
- Erasmus Darwin [r]: (1731-1802) Physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, and naturalist; grandfather of Charles Darwin. [e]
- John Davy [r]: (1790 – 1868) British chemist most noted for his discovery of phosgene. [e]
- James Dewar [r]: (1842 – 1923) Scottish chemist and physicist best-known for his invention of the Dewar flask. [e]
- James Hutton [r]: (1726–1797) Scottish farmer and naturalist, who is known as the founder of modern geology. [e]
- William Cullen [r]: (1710-1790) The leading British physician of the 18th century. [e]
- Sir Michael Atiyah, mathematician, winner of Abel Prize, (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
- Alexander Graham Bell [r]: (1847 – 1922) Scottish born scientist credited with inventing the first practical telephone. [e]
- Joseph Black [r]: (1728 – 1799) Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide [e]
- Fleeming Jenkin [r]: (1833 – 1885) Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, known as the inventor of telpherage. [e]
- Colin Maclaurin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Clerk Maxwell [r]: (1831 – 1879) Scottish physicist best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory and the statistical theory of gases. [e]
- John Playfair [r]: (1748-1819) Scottish mathematician, best known for his explanation and promotion of the work of James Hutton [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]
Nobel Laureates
The University is associated with nine Nobel Prize winners (Source: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/edinburgh/alumni.html)
- Edward Victor Appleton, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Charles Glover Barkla, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Max Born, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Peter Doherty, Nobel laureate in Medicine
- James Mirrlees, Nobel laureate in Economics
- Peter D. Mitchell,Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Igor Tamm, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Robert Adam, architect
- Thomas Aikenhead [r]: The last person to be executed for blasphemy in the UK. [e]
- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan author
- James Boswell, lawyer, author and biographer of Samuel Johnson
- Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes author
- Ian Rankin, author
- Peter Roget, author of the first Thesaurus
- Sir Walter Scott, author and poet
- Alexander McCall Smith, author and professor of medical law
- Robert Louis Stevenson [r]: British 19th-century writer whose works included Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [e]
- Elizabeth Blackadder, artist
- Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian
- David Hume [r]: (1711—1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. [e]
- Adam Smith [r]: Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790), a major contributor to the modern perception of free market economics; author of Wealth of Nations (1776). [e]
- John Home [r]: (1722–1808) Scottish poet and dramatist. [e]
- A.S. Neill, educationalist
- Lord Swann, Chairman BBC
Sports
- Chris Hoy, track cyclist
- Andy Irvine (rugby player), rugby player and president of the Scottish Rugby Union
- Eric Liddell, athlete men's 400 metres gold medallist
University Officials
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, The Chancellor of the University (1953-present)
- Sir Alexander Fleming, Former Rector of the University (1951-1953)
- The Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill, Former Rector of the University (1929-1932)
- The Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Former Rector of the University (1920-1923)
- Sir David Steel (Lord Steel of Aikwood), Rector of the University (1982-1985)