List of University of Edinburgh people

This is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staff, and university officials of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions that later merged with the University of Edinburgh. The University is associated with 19 Nobel laureates, three Turing Award laureates, an Abel Prize winner and Fields Medalist, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and three UK Prime Ministers.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

See also: List of University of Edinburgh medical people

Government and politics

Heads of state and heads of government
Former British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown is an alumnus and former rector of the University of Edinburgh.
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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 Canada Charles Tupper Prime Minister of Canada (1 May 1896 – 8 July 1896)
 Malawi Hastings Banda President of Malawi (1966–1994)
 Nicaragua William Walker President of Nicaragua (by force) (1856–1857)
 South Korea Yun Posun President of South Korea (1960–1962)
Jang Taek-sang Prime Minister of South Korea (6 May 1952 – 6 October 1952)
 Tanzania Julius Nyerere President of Tanzania (1964–1985)
 UK Gordon Brown Prime Minister (2007–2010)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Prime Minister (1846–52 and 1865–66)
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Prime Minister (1855–58 and 1859–65)
 United States Arthur St. Clair President of the Continental Congress (1787-1788)
Arthur St. Clair

United Kingdom

United States

Africa

Australia and New Zealand

Asia

Canada

Caribbean

Middle East

Royalty


Judges and lawyers

Natural sciences, engineering and medicine

Astronomy
Joseph Black

Chemistry
James Dewar

Geology
James Hutton

Informatics

Mathematics, physics and engineering
Alexander Graham Bell
David Brewster
James Clerk Maxwell
Robert Stephenson

Medicine and biology
See also: List of University of Edinburgh medical people
Charles Darwin
Joseph Lister
Sir James Young Simpson

Nobel laureates
Main article: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Edinburgh

Social sciences, arts and business

Pulitzer Prize winners
  • Jack N. Rakove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1997 (undergraduate student from 1966 to 1967)
  • Andrew Marshall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2014 (MA in English Literature)

Architecture
Robert Adam

Business
John Boyd Dunlop

Economics

Literature
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert Louis Stevenson

Media and the arts
Miles Jupp
Laura Kuenssberg
Michael Mcintyre

Music

History, philosophy, sociology and theology
Adam Ferguson
David Hume

Others

Sports
Sir Chris Hoy

Miscellaneous
Piers Sellers

University officials

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