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===Heads of state and Heads of government===
* [[Gordon Brown]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
* [[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 (soldier)|William Walker]], [[President of Nicaragua]]
* [[Arthur St. Clair]], [[President of the Continental Congress]]
 
 
* [[Thomas Anderson]] discoverer of pyridine
* [[John Davy (chemist)|John Davy]], discover of phosgene
* [[James Dewar]], inventor of the Dewar flask
* [[James Hutton]], the father of modern geology
* Sir [[Michael Atiyah]], mathematician, winner of Abel Prize, (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
* [[Alexander Graham Bell]], inventor of the [[telephone]]
* [[Joseph Black]], physicist and chemist
* [[Fleeming Jenkin]], engineer, inventor of [[telpherage]]
* [[Colin Maclaurin]], mathematician
* [[James Clerk Maxwell]], physicist and father of [[electromagnetics]]
* [[John Playfair]], mathematician
* [[Richard Owen]], biologist and palaeontologist
 
 
===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
* [[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
* [[Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott]], author and poet
* [[Alexander McCall Smith]], author and professor of medical law
* [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], poet, essayist and novelist
* [[Elizabeth Blackadder]], artist
* [[Adam Ferguson]], philosopher and historian
* [[David Hume]], philosopher and historian
* [[Adam Smith]], political economist and philosopher
* [[A.S. Neill]], educationalist
* [[Michael Swann|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)

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Heads of state and Heads of government



Nobel Laureates

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



Sports


University Officials

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