List of University of Glasgow people

Nobel laureates

• Sir Derek Barton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Sir James Black, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine
• John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, biologist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Sir William Ramsay, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Frederick Soddy, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

  Arts

• Sir Drummond Bone, Byron scholar and Master of Balliol College, Oxford
• Hannah Frank, artist and sculptor
• Richard Claverhouse Jebb, classical scholar and politician
• Alexander Stoddart, Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland
• Peter Mullan, actor and filmmaker
• Alison Yarrington, art historian

  History

• John Bannerman, historian, noted for his work on Gaelic Scotland
• Robert Browning, Byzantinist
• D. B. Campbell, ancient historian
• Lewis Campbell, classical scholar
• Sir James Frazer, author of The Golden Bough; a founder of the field of anthropology
• Gilbert Highet, classicist and literary historian
• Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I., historian, Indologist
• Sir Richard Lodge, historian
• John Duncan Mackie, Scottish historian
• F. Marian McNeill, social historian and author of The Silver Bough
• Charlotte Methuen, church and Reformation historian
• William Young Sellar, classical scholar
• Hew Strachan, historian
• Bernard Wasserstein, historian

  Musicians

• Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell and Paul Joseph Moore of The Blue Nile
• Sydney MacEwan, tenor, singer of Scottish and Irish traditional songs
• Stuart Murdoch, musician and songwriter; principal member of Belle & Sebastian
• Simon Neil, lead vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter of Biffy Clyro
• Emeli Sandé, R&B, soul and breakbeat singer/songwriter
• Ramesh Srivastava, musician and songwriter; principal member of Voxtrot
• Yue MingHui, singer, member of ONER and contestant on Idol Producer

  Philosophy and theology

• John Abernethy, Irish Presbyterian leader
• William Adam, Baptist minister, missionary, abolitionist
• William Menzies Alexander, medical and theological writer
• John Anderson, Scottish-Australian philosopher, founded the empirical brand of philosophy known as Australian realism
• Alexander Bain, philosopher
• William Barclay, theologian
• David Beaton, cardinal and Archbishop of St. Andrews
• James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow and St. Andrews, Primate of Scotland
• Zachary Boyd, theologian
• George Brodie, missionary to Russia and Canada, ordained minister
• John Caird, theologian and preacher, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow
• Alexander Campbell, co-founder of the Restoration Movement
• Neil Campbell, minister, Principal of the University of Glasgow
• Tom Campbell, philosopher and jurist
• Semyon Desnitsky, legal scholar, professor of the Moscow University
• William Elphinstone, statesman and bishop, founder of the University of Aberdeen
• William Hugh Clifford Frend, early church historian
• Francis Hutcheson, philosopher
• David Jasper, leader in study of literature and theology
• John Knox, religious reformer and theologian
• Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
• David Livingstone, missionary
• John Macquarrie, leading 20th century theologian and Professor of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary and Oxford
• William McIntyre, minister and educator
• Andrew Melville, theologian and religious reformer
• George Newlands, theologian
• Thomas Reid, philosopher
• Adam Smith, economist and philosopher
• Dugald Stewart, philosopher
• Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury
• R Guy Ramsay, Baptist minister and President of the Baptist Union of Scotland, 1948–49
• Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Tasmania
• Patrick Forbes, Chancellor of Aberdeen University and Bishop of Aberdeen
• Alexander Peden, one of the leading figures in the Covenanter movement in Scotland.

  Writers and poets

• Lin Anderson, writer
• Julie Bertagna, writer
• James Boswell, writer
• William Boyd, writer
• James Bridie, dramatist and founder of the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre
• Christopher Brookmyre, writer
• Luke Brown, writer
• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, writer and Governor General of Canada
• Robert Williams Buchanan, poet
• C. Delisle Burns, atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
• Thomas Campbell, poet
• Robert Crawford, poet, Professor of English at the University of St Andrews
• A. J. Cronin, physician and writer who's given credit for inspiring the National Health Service
• Ann Marie Di Mambro, playwright and scriptwriter
• Hal Duncan, writer
• Jane Duncan, writer
• Janice Galloway, writer
• Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore, poet and politician
• Alasdair Gray, writer and artist
• David Gray, poet
• Janice Hally, playwright and scriptwriter
• Robert Henryson, poet
• James Herriot, writer
• Philip Hobsbaum, poet and critic
• John Jamieson, lexicographer
• James Kelman, writer
• Walter Kennedy, poet
• Tom Leonard, poet and essayist
• Liz Lochhead, poet and dramatist
• Helen MacInnes, "queen of spy writers"
• Alistair MacLean, writer
• Ken MacLeod, writer
• Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic bard and Jacobite captain
• Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet
• Laura Marney, writer
• Angus Matheson, inaugural Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow
• William McIllvanney, writer
• Caroline Moir, writer
• Edwin Morgan, poet
• Robert William Service, poet and writer
• Jane Shaw, writer
• J David Simons, writer
• Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, writer and the first person to use the word "statistics" in the English language
• Tobias Smollett, writer
• Derick Thomson, Gaelic writer and academic
• Alexander Trocchi, writer
• John Wilson, writer
• Thomas Hamilton, Among the 'Glasgow School' of early nineteenth century Scottish novelists
• Archibald Alison, Scottish episcopalian priest and essayist
• Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, Scottish politician and Greek scholar
• Alexander Carlyle, church leader, and autobiographer.

  Business

• Ian W L Graham, Successful financial analyst.
• James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington, Chairman of Diageo
• Keith Cochrane, Chief Executive of Weir Group
• Douglas Flint, Chairman of HSBC
• Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck, FRS, KBE, and chairman of ICI
• Fred Goodwin, former Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
• Hugh Grant, Chief Executive of the Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, US
• David MacBrayne, founder of the shipping company that later became Caledonian MacBrayne, now David MacBrayne, Ltd.
• James McGill, Scottish-Canadian fur-trader and philanthropist, endowed McGill University
• Tom McKillop, Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
• David Nish, Chief Executive of Standard Life plc

  Civil service

• Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of world's largest NGO, BRAC
• Mushtaq Ahmad, Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire
• David Bell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading, previously Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education
• James Bonar, civil servant, political economist and historian of economic thought
• John Cairncross, in 1936, scored double first in Civil Service exam, alleged to be one of the Cambridge Five
• Sir Matthew Campbell, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland
• Sir Oliver Franks, influential civil servant in postwar Britain
• Sir Bill Jeffrey, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence
• Ken McCallum, Director General of MI5
• Sir Muir Russell, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Executive
• Francis Richard John Sandford, 1st Baron Sandford, instrumental in implementing the Elementary Education Act of 1870.

  Law

• Joseph Beltrami, Glasgow defence lawyer who secured the first Royal Pardon issued in Scotland
• Sir David King Murray, Lord Birnam, Solicitor-General for Scotland, Senator of the College of Justice
• Harald Leslie, Lord Birsay, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court
• Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy, Senator of the College of Justice and Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
• James Boyle, legal academic, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law
• James Chadwin QC, barrister who represented Peter Sutcliffe
• Matthew Clarke, Lord Clarke, Senator of the College of Justice
• Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, first woman judge in Court of Session
• James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, 17th century Scottish jurist
• Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson, Lord Advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session
• George Emslie, Lord Emslie, Lord President of the Court of Session
• Henry Erskine, former Lord Advocate
• Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Lord Justice Clerk
• John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, former Lord Advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session, and former Rector of the University
• Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee, former Lord Advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session, and former Rector of the University
• Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Lord President of the Court of Session
• Ian Hamilton, advocate, Scottish Nationalist
• Lord Irvine of Lairg, former Lord Chancellor
• Douglas Jamieson, Lord Jamieson, former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice
• Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Senator of the College of Justice and literary critic
• Robert Malcolm Kerr, Judge of the Guildhall Court in the City of London for 43 years
• Sir Neil MacCormick, Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, University of Edinburgh
• Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan, former Lord Advocate and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• Alexander Munro MacRobert, former Lord Advocate
• Professor Gerry Maher, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Edinburgh, former Law Commissioner
• Hugh Matthews, Lord Matthews, Senator of the College of Justice
• Robin McEwan, Lord McEwan, Senator of the College of Justice
• William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan, former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice
• David Murray, Glasgow solicitor, antiquarian, book-collector, and legal scholar
• Ann Paton, Lady Paton, Senator of the College of Justice
• Ralph Risk, solicitor, lawyer, president of the Law Society of Scotland and senior partner in Maclay Murray & Spens
• Lord Roger of Earlsferry, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde, former Lord Advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session
• Alan Watson, Civil Law scholar
• John Wheatley, Baron Wheatley, former Lord Advocate and Lord Justice Clerk, established Scottish Legal Aid system
• Lord Wilson of Langside, former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice
• Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice
• Robert Hodshon Cay, Judge Admiral of Scotland overseeing naval trials and maternal grandfather of James Clerk Maxwell.
• Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, politician, lawyer, judge and composer.

  Media

• Ruaridh Arrow, documentary filmmaker
• Raman Bhardwaj, sports broadcaster, STV News
• Gerard Butler, actor
• Susan Calman, comedian and panellist
• Glenn Campbell, Scottish news and current affairs broadcaster
• Andrew Cotter, sports broadcaster
• John Grierson, filmmaker, "father of the documentary film"
• Duncan Hamilton, columnist for The Scotsman
• Eileen Hayes, author, broadcaster and columnist
• Greg Hemphill, comedian, performer, actor, half of the team in "Still Game"
• Ford Kiernan, comedian, performer, second half of the team in "Still Game"
• Iain Martin, political commentator, former editor of The Scotsman
• John MacKay, STV News journalist, main anchor
• Anne MacKenzie, television presenter and news anchorwoman
• Hugh Dan MacLennan, sporting academic and broadcaster
• Ian McCaskill, weatherman
• Will McPhail, New Yorker cartoonist
• Tom Morton, journalist and broadcaster
• Shereen Nanjiani, Scottish journalist
• Hamad Nazzal, journalist
• Andrew Neil, journalist and broadcaster
• Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator
• Neil Oliver, archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster
• David Paisley, actor
• Shantha Roberts, artist and TV presenter
• Sarah Smith, news presenter

  Military

• General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet, Scottish soldier who achieved high office
• Lieutenant Robert Blair, received the Victoria Cross
• Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd, British Army officer and Governor of Gibraltar
• Captain Lord Archibald Hamilton, Lord of the Admiralty
• General William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart, Commander-in-Chief of Scotland and Ambassador to Russia during the Great Patriotic War of 1812
• Lieutenant Colonel James Hamilton, Commandant of the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo
• Colonel William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, Royalist Commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
• Lieutenant General Sir David Henderson, commander of the Royal Flying Corps and instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force
• Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, Hereditary chief of Clan Campbell, and a Royalist supporter during the latter stages of the Scottish Civil War and its aftermath.
• Lieutenant General James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon, major investor in the failed Darien Scheme and British ambassador to Louis XIV of France
• Major General David Tennant Cowan CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC. Distinguished for leading the Indian 17th Infantry Division during almost the entire Burma Campaign.
• Major-general Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet KCB. East India Company Army officer and statesman.
• Colonel James Lennox Dawson VC. Recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Donald MacKintosh. Recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Harry Ranken. Recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Sir John Snell. Royalist Soldier in the English Civil War. Founded the Snell Exhibition.
• Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat, 20th MacShimidh of Clan Fraser of Lovat.
• General Simon Fraser of Lovat, the 19th Chief of the Clan Fraser of Lovat.
• Air Marhsal Stuart Atha, senior officer of the Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Hector Maclean, Battle of Britain fighter pilot.

  Politics

• John Crowley, Irish Sinn Féin politician and medical practitioner
• John Maclean, leading figure of the Red Clydeside era
• James Maxton, leader of the Independent Labour Party
• Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, dominant political leader in Scotland in the 18th century.
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister
• James Allison Glen, Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
• James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, last Lord High Commissioner before the Act of Union
• James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and a representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords.

  Conservative Party

• Eric Forth, MP
• Liam Fox, MP
• Tam Galbraith, long-time MP for Glasgow Hillhead whose death in 1982 led to the historic election of Roy Jenkins and formation of the new Social Democratic Party
• James Gray, MP
• John Lamont, MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• Bonar Law, Conservative Prime Minister
• Mark Menzies, MP
• Sir Teddy Taylor, MP
• Sir David Robertson, MP

  Labour Party

• Wendy Alexander, MSP
• John Baird, MP for Wolverhampton 1945-64
• Sarah Boyack, MSP
• Des Browne QC, Secretary of State for Defence
• Margaret Curran, MSP
• Donald Dewar, former First Minister of Scotland
• Andrew Faulds, MP
• Sam Galbraith, former Minister
• Jim Gallagher, Head of Justice Department for the Scottish Executive
• Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg QC, former Lord Chancellor
• Thomas Johnston, former Secretary of State for Scotland
• Johann Lamont, MSP
• Anne McGuire, MP
• Bridget Prentice, MP
• Gordon Prentice, MP
• William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, former Secretary of State for Scotland
• John Smith, former Labour party leader and UK Cabinet Minister
• Paul Sweeney, Shadow Under Secretary of State for Scotland
• John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley; politician, lawyer and Judge of the Court of Session
• Tony Worthington, MP
• Hector McNeil, Secretary of State for Scotland
• Tom Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland
• Willie Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, Secretary of State for Scotland

  Liberal Party/Liberal Democrats

• Elspeth Attwooll, MEP for the Liberal Democrats
• John Bannerman, Baron Bannerman of Kildonan
• James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, Liberal politician, British ambassador to the US in 1907-13
• Vince Cable, leader of the Liberal Democrats
• Sir Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
• Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal Party Prime Minister
• Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland
• Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
• Sir William Sutherland, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1922
• Alan Reid, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Argyll and Bute

  Scottish National Party

• Alasdair Allan, MSP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar
• Marco Biagi, MSP for Edinburgh Central
• Mhairi Black, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• Aileen Campbell, MSP, youngest MSP in the 2007 - 2011 Session
• Angela Constance, MSP
• Annabelle Ewing, former MP
• Fergus Ewing, MSP
• Margaret Ewing, MSP, former MP
• Winnie Ewing, former SNP President, former MP, MSP and MEP
• Linda Fabiani, MSP Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture
• Ian Hamilton, repatriator of the Stone of Destiny and Queen's Counsel
• Jamie Hepburn, MSP
• Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs
• John MacCormick, founder of the National Party of Scotland
• Neil MacCormick, MEP
• Derek Mackay, MSP
• Jim Mather, MSP Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism
• Alasdair Morgan, MSP Deputy Presiding Officer
• Shona Robison, MSP
• Nicola Sturgeon, first Minister of Scotland, SNP Leader, MSP
• Andrew Welsh, MSP, former MP

  Scottish Unionist Party

• Walter Elliot, former Scottish Secretary
• Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Albert Russell, Scottish Unionist Party member and MP

  Miscellaneous

• Charles Allan Cathcart, former MP and British Ambassador to China
• William Steel Dickson, radical Ulster Presbyterian and Irish republican revolutionary, member of the United Irishmen
• Regina Ip, first woman to be appointed as Secretary for Security of Hong Kong
• Nasharudin Mat Isa, Member of the Parliament of Malaysia; Deputy President of the opposition PAS
• Yanis Varoufakis, Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015

  Sciences

Medical

• Gavin Arneil, paediatric nephrologist
• John Bell, 18th-century adviser to the Tsar and author of a travelogue from St. Petersburg to Beijing
• Robert Broom, physician
• Sir Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
• Sir Kenneth Calman, Scottish cancer researcher, former Chief Medical Officer, current Chancellor of the University of Glasgow
• Murdoch Cameron, Regius Professor of Midwifery; performed first modern Caesarian section in 1888; father of Samuel James Cameron
• Samuel James Cameron, Regius Professor of Midwifery; son of Murdoch Cameron; collector of Scottish art
• Stuart Campbell, obstetrician and gynaecologist
• William Cullen, physician, chemist, agriculturalist, professor at Edinburgh Medical School
• Ian Donald, pioneer of diagnostic and obstetric medical ultrasound
• Ian Hart, neurologist
• John Hunter, surgeon
• William Hunter, anatomist and physician
• James Jameson, surgeon general, Army Medical Service
• Bryan J. Jennett, with Sir Graham Teasdale, co-inventor of the Glasgow Coma Scale
• R. D. Laing, psychiatrist
• Sir Alan Langlands, former chief executive of the NHS, vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds
• William Boog Leishman, pathologist credited with first successful anti-typhoid inoculation
• Joseph Lister, surgeon
• David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone," 19th century medical missionary to Africa
• Donald MacAlister, also Principal of the University of Glasgow, 1907–29
• Sir William Macewen, pioneer of neurosurgery
• Elizabeth Janet MacGregor, medical doctor and cancer researcher
• Dame Louise McIlroy, obstetrics and gynaecology consultant; first woman to receive M.D. from the University
• Quintin McKellar, veterinary surgeon and vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire
• Janet Niven, histologist and pathologist
• Priscilla Nzimiro, physician
• Delphine Parrott, endocrinologist and immunologist, Gardiner Professor of Immunology 1980-1990
• James McCune Smith, first university trained African-American physician; abolitionist and public intellectual in New York
• Sir Graham Teasdale, with Bryan J. Jennett, co-inventor of the Glasgow Coma Scale
• Thomas Thomson, Scottish surgeon with the British East India Company
• Robert Thomson,a pioneer of sanitation
• Donald James MacKintosh, Scottish physician, soldier and public health expert.
• Sir Gilbert Blane, Scottish physician who instituted health reform in the Royal Navy.
• John Moore, Scottish physician and travel author.
• Edward Provan Cathcart, Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow
• Mujibur Rahman, Medical scientist, recepeint of Ekushey Padak.
• Merbai Ardesir Vakil, physician, first Asian woman to graduate from a Scottish university

Biology

• Sir John Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist, and Principal of the University of Strathclyde
• David Douglas, botanist
• Alan Gemmell, Professor of Biology, Keele University 1950-77
• Robert Thomson Leiper, parasitologist and helminthologist
• Sheina Marshall, marine biologist
• Muriel Robertson, protozoologist and bacteriologist at the Lister Institute
• Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Thomas Hopkirk, botanist and lithographer.
• John Hutton Balfour, Professor of Botany also becoming Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist.
• Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Professor of Botany and Sherardian Professor of Botany Oxford.
• John Hope, Scottish physician and botanist. Best known as an early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification.
• David Campbell, Professor of Materia Medica at Aberdeen University from 1930 to 1959. Won the Military Cross in 1918 due to his bravery serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Guido Pontecorvo, the University's first Professor of Genetics
• Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, one of the first geneticists to provide a diagnostic and counselling service to patients with genetic conditions.
• Anne Ferguson-Smith, Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics.
• Percy Wragg Brian, Regius Professor of Botany.

  Chemistry

• Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist, received the Royal Medal in 1844 for his work on the heat developed in chemical actions
• Joseph Black, physicist and chemist
• Leroy Cronin, chemist
• Thomas Graham, chemist
• George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of stable liquid crystals, awarded Kyoto Prize and Leverhulme Medal
• Jōkichi Takamine, chemist
• Alexander Todd, Baron Todd, chemist
• Thomas Thomson, Regius Professor of Chemistry, gave silicon its name
• Thomas Charles Hope, proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's experiment

  Mathematics, physical sciences and engineering

• John Anderson, natural philosopher and founder of the Anderson's Institution in 1796
• John Logie Baird, inventor of television
• Frank Barnwell, aeronautical engineer and pilot of first powered flight in Scotland in 1909
• Bruce C. Berndt, mathematician
• John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
• A. Catrina Bryce, physicist, electrical engineer
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist
• Ethel Currie, geologist
• Henry Dyer, engineer
• William Gemmell Cochran, statistician
• Bernard Parker Haigh, engineer
• Sam Karunaratne, electrical engineer and Sri Lankan academic
• John Kerr, physicist
• Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
• Bill Napier, astronomer and novelist
• Percy Sinclair Pilcher, pioneer of powered flight
• Robert Alexander Rankin, mathematician
• William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist
• John Scott Russell, naval engineer
• Robert Simson, mathematician
• William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist
• Gavin Vernon, engineer, known for removing the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey
• James Watt, mathematician and engineer
• John Robison, physicist and mathematician. Inventor of the siren.
• Hugh Blackburn, a member of the Cambridge Apostles, inventor of the Blackburn pendulum.
• Gillian Wright, astronomer and director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre

  Computing

• Simon Peyton Jones, research in functional programming languages
• Philip Wadler, research in functional programming languages

  Social sciences

• Sally Baldwin, social policy researcher
• Sir Alexander Cairncross, economist and Chancellor of the University of Glasgow,
• Sir James Frazer, social anthropologist
• Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank
• Sir Anton Muscatelli, economist and University Vice-Chancellor
• Alexander Nove, Soviet economic historian
• Ljubo Sirc, economist, author and Slovenian dissident during the Titoist regime

  Sports

• John Beattie, rugby union international player
• Jim Craig, Celtic F.C. player, member of the Lisbon Lions
• Katherine Grainger, rower and Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian
• Louis Greig, rugby union player and naval surgeon
• RC Hamilton, Rangers F.C. player
• Thomas Hart, cricket and rugby union player
• Laura Muir, British record holder over 1500m and Olympic finalist
• Euan Murray, rugby union player for British and Irish Lions
• James Reid-Kerr, rugby union and cricket international player
• Emma Richards, yachtswoman, became the first British woman and youngest ever person to complete the single-handed round the world yacht race with stops
• David Robertson, golfer, won bronze at the 1900 Olympic Games
• Arthur Smith, rugby union player, captained Scotland and the British and Irish Lions
• Imogen Walsh, rower, 2011 lightweight women's quad World Champion
• Andrew Watson, early Scotland international footballer and first black international player in the history of the game