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===Heads of state and Heads of government===
===Heads of state and Heads of government===
* [[Gordon Brown]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
{{r|Gordon Brown}}
* [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell]], [[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]]
* [[Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
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* [[William Walker (soldier)|William Walker]], [[President of Nicaragua]]
* [[William Walker (soldier)|William Walker]], [[President of Nicaragua]]
* [[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}}
'''Biology'''
{{r|Charles Darwin}}
{{r|Richard Owen}}
{{r|Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer}}
{{r|Fleeming Jenkin}}
{{r|Percy Theodore Herring}}
'''Medicine'''
{{r|Alexander Monro primus}}
{{r|Alexander Monro secundus}}
{{r|Alexander Monro tertius}}
{{r|William Cullen}}
{{r|Joseph Lister}}
{{r|James Young Simpson}}
{{r|John Forbes}}
{{r|Andrew Duncan}}
{{r|Peter Doherty}}
{{r|Mary Pickford}}
'''Chemistry'''
{{r|Joseph Black}}
{{r|John Davy}}
{{r|Daniel Rutherford}}
{{r|Thomas Anderson}}
{{r|Peter D. Mitchell}}




* [[Thomas Anderson]] discoverer of pyridine
'''Economics'''
* [[John Davy (chemist)|John Davy]], discover of phosgene
{{r|James Mirrlees}}
* [[James Dewar]], inventor of the Dewar flask
{{r|Adam Smith}}
* [[James Hutton]], the father of modern geology
 
* Sir [[Michael Atiyah]], mathematician, winner of Abel Prize, (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
'''Physics'''
* [[Alexander Graham Bell]], inventor of the [[telephone]]
{{r|Thomas Anderson}}
* [[Joseph Black]], physicist and chemist
{{r|Peter Higgs}}
* [[Fleeming Jenkin]], engineer, inventor of [[telpherage]]
{{r|James Clerk Maxwell}}
* [[Colin Maclaurin]], mathematician
{{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.
* [[James Clerk Maxwell]], physicist and father of [[electromagnetics]]
{{r|Edward Victor Appleton}}
* [[John Playfair]], mathematician
{{r|Charles Glover Barkla}}
* [[Richard Owen]], biologist and palaeontologist
{{r|Max Born}}
{{r|Igor Tamm}}
 
'''Geology'''
{{r|James Hutton}}
 
'''Philosophy'''
{{r|Erasmus Darwin}}
{{r|David Hume}}
 
{{r|Dugald Stewart}}
{{r|Adam Ferguson}}
 
'''History'''
{{r|Thomas Carlyle}}
 
'''Divinity'''
{{r|John Witherspoon}}
 
'''Architecture'''
{{r|Robert Adam}}
 
'''Inventors'''
{{r|Alexander Graham Bell}}
{{r|James Dewar}}
{{r|John Boyd Dunlop}}
{{r|John Shepherd-Barron}}
 
{{r|Thomas Aikenhead}}
 
{{r|James Clark}}
 
{{r|John Dunlop}}
{{r|Peter Mark Roget}}
{{r|Elizabeth Blackadder}}


{{r|A.S. Neill}}
{{r|Michael Swann}}


===Nobel Laureates===
===Nobel Laureates===
The University is associated with nine Nobel Prize winners (Source: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/edinburgh/alumni.html)
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
==Writers==
* [[Thomas Aikenhead]] atheist martyr
{{r|J. M. Barrie}}
* [[J. M. Barrie]], ''Peter Pan'' author
{{r|James Boswell}}
* [[James Boswell]], lawyer, author and biographer of [[Samuel Johnson]]
{{r|Henry Mackenzie}}
* [[Thomas Carlyle]], essayist and historian
{{r|Ian Rankin}}
* [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], ''Sherlock Holmes'' author
{{r|Sir Walter Scott}}
* [[Ian Rankin]], author
{{r|Alexander McCall Smith}}
* [[Peter Roget]], author of the first Thesaurus
{{r|Robert Louis Stevenson}}
* [[Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott]], author and poet
{{r|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}}
* [[Alexander McCall Smith]], author and professor of medical law
{{r|John Home}}
* [[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==
==Sports==
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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

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]
  • Percy Theodore Herring [r]: (1872 - 1967) Physiologist who first described Herring bodies in the posterior pituitary gland. [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]
  • Alexander Monro tertius [r]: (1773 - 1859) Followed his father and grandfather in becoming professor of anatomy at Edinburgh University. [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]
  • Andrew Duncan [r]: (1744- 1877) Scottish medical reformer, best known for his humane treatment of the mentally ill. [e]
  • Peter Doherty [r]: (1940 - ), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his

research on immunology. [e]

  • Mary Pickford [r]: (1902-2002)Pioneer in endocrinology, and the first woman to hold a medical chair at Edinburgh University. [e]

Chemistry


Economics

Physics

Geology

Philosophy

History

Divinity

Architecture

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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