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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, President of Nicaragua
• Arthur St. Clair, President of the Continental Congress

• Thomas Anderson discoverer of pyridine
• Charles Darwin, biologist
• 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
• 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)