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- See also changes related to Edinburgh University, or pages that link to Edinburgh University or to this page or whose text contains "Edinburgh University".
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
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
- Joseph Black [r]: (1728 – 1799) Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide [e]
- John Davy [r]: (1790 – 1868) British chemist most noted for his discovery of phosgene. [e]
- Daniel Rutherford [r]: (1749 - 1815) Scottish chemist, best known for the discovery of nitrogen. [e]
- Thomas Anderson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peter D. Mitchell [r]: Add brief definition or description
Economics
- James Mirrlees [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adam Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
Physics
- Thomas Anderson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peter Higgs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Clerk Maxwell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Young [r]: Add brief definition or description 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.
- Edward Victor Appleton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Glover Barkla [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Max Born [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Igor Tamm [r]: Add brief definition or description
Geology
Philosophy
- Erasmus Darwin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Hume [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dugald Stewart [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adam Ferguson [r]: Add brief definition or description
History
Divinity
Architecture
Inventors
- Alexander Graham Bell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Dewar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Boyd Dunlop [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Shepherd-Barron [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Dunlop [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peter Mark Roget [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Elizabeth Blackadder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- A.S. Neill [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Swann [r]: Add brief definition or description
Nobel Laureates
The University is associated with nine Nobel Prize winners (Source: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/edinburgh/alumni.html)
Writers
- J. M. Barrie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Boswell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Mackenzie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ian Rankin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sir Walter Scott [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander McCall Smith [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Louis Stevenson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Home [r]: Add brief definition or description
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)