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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)