Name |
Year/Degree |
Notability |
Reference |
Andrew Bell |
1774 |
Anglican priest, educationalist, founder of Madras College |
|
Normand MacLaurin |
1854 M.A. |
Physician; Chancellor of the University of Sydney; Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council |
|
Walter Perry |
1943 MB ChB, 1948 MD, 1958 DSc |
Pharmacologist, physician, first Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, and life peer |
|
Eric Anderson |
M.A. |
Educationalist and Provost of Eton College |
|
P.C. Anderson |
1892 M.A. |
Educator, headmaster of Scotch College and golfer; winning the 1893 Amateur Championship |
|
John Adamson |
M.A. |
Minister, academic, Principal of the University of Edinburgh |
|
Edward Farrer |
|
Oxford University academic and administrator, master of University College |
|
John Fulton |
|
University administrator and public servant; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales and of the University of Sussex; chairman of the British Council |
|
Leonard Huxley |
|
Schoolteacher, writer and editor; son of Thomas Henry Huxley |
|
Annie Lloyd Evans |
M.A. |
superintendent of Fulham Training College for Women Teachers |
|
Name |
Year/Degree |
Notability |
Reference |
John Napier |
1563 (did not graduate) |
Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, astrologer, known for discovering logarithms, inventing Napier's bones and popularising the use of the decimal point |
|
Francis Robert Japp |
1868 M.A. |
Chemist, known for discovering the Japp-Klingemann reaction |
|
John Hutton Balfour |
|
Botanist and academic |
|
Michael J. Belton |
|
Astronomer; president of the Belton Space Exploration Initiatives; chair of the 2002 NASA Planetary Science Decadal Survey; emeritus astronomer at the Kitt Peak National Observatory |
[1] |
Michael Berry |
1965 PhD |
Mathematical physicist, known for discovering the Berry phase |
[2] |
Gavin Brown |
1963 M.A. |
Mathematician, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide |
[3] |
Leslie Hilton Brown |
|
Agriculturalist and ornithologist |
|
Hugh Cleghorn |
1834 M.A. |
Physician, botanist, forester, "the father of scientific forestry in India" |
|
Frank Close |
1967 BSc |
Particle physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford |
|
Dougal Dixon |
1970 BSc 1972 MSc |
Geologist and author |
|
Angus Fulton |
1922 BSc |
Civil engineer, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers |
|
James Alexander Green |
|
Mathematician and professor at the University of Warwick; active in the field of representation theory |
|
Ernest William Lyons Holt |
1888 |
Marine biologist and ichthyologist; his work helped lay a scientific foundation for the fishery management in Ireland |
|
James Irvine |
BSc |
Organic chemist and Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, as a research chemist, Irvine worked on the application of methylation techniques to carbohydrates, and isolated the first methylated sugars, trimethyl and tetramethyl glucose |
|
Benedict Jones |
2005 PhD |
Academic; research psychologist and lecturer at the University of Glasgow; studies the biological and social factors underlying face perception and preferences |
|
John Scott Keltie |
|
Geographer, known for his work with the Royal Geographic Society |
|
William Elford Leach |
|
Zoologist and marine biologist, he described several species including Libinia emarginata |
|
John Leslie |
1779 |
Physicist and mathematician, he gave the first modern description of capillary action and the artificial production of ice, and developed the Leslie cube |
|
James Bowman Lindsay |
1825 |
Inventor, author, credited with early developments in several fields, such as incandescent lighting and telegraphy |
|
Donald MacCrimmon MacKay |
1943 BSc |
Physicist |
[4] |
Maxwell T. Masters |
|
Botanist and taxonomist, known for his work in vegetable teratology |
|
George Matthew McNaughton |
1916 BSc |
Civil engineer, chief engineer to the Department of Health |
|
William M'Intosh |
1857 |
Physician, psychiatrist, marine biologist, awarded the 1924 Linnean Medal |
|
Maureen Muggeridge |
|
Geologist, worked mainly in diamond mining |
|
William Richmond (physician) |
|
Biochemist, discovered the Richmond Test, a test for blood cholesterol levels |
|
James D. Murray |
1953 BA 1956 PhD |
Academic and mathematician, he worked mainly in Mathematical biology and held professorships at Oxford University and the University of Washington |
|
Mark M. Newell |
1996 PhD |
Academic and underwater archeologist |
|
Name |
Year/Degree |
Notability |
Reference |
Robert Balfour |
|
Philosopher |
|
G.W.S. Barrow |
|
Historian and academic |
|
Stephen Haliczer |
|
Historian |
|
Kieron O'Hara |
|
Philosopher, computer scientist and political writer |
|
Russell Kirk |
1953 D.Litt. |
Political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, fiction author, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism |
[5] |
Dominic Sandbrook |
|
Historian and author |
|
Lawrence Stenhouse |
|
Educationalist |
|
Robert Archibald Armstrong |
|
Lexicographer |
[6] |
James Crichton |
1574 BA M.A. |
Polymath and origin of the term 'the admirable Crichton' |
[7] |
Michael Wesley |
PhD |
Academic, Professor of National Security at the Australian National University |
|
Bethwell Allan Ogot |
1959 M.A. |
Historian and Chancellor of Moi University |
[8] |
Adam Ferguson |
1742 M.A. |
Philosopher and historian of the Scottish enlightenment; "the father of modern sociology" |
[9] |
Alexander Boyd Barty |
M.A. |
Solicitor, local historian, wrote The History of Dunblane |
|
Steve Boardman |
1989 PhD |
Medieval historian |
[10] |
John Craig |
M.A. |
Classicist,Firth Professor of Latin at the University of Sheffield |
|
William Craigie |
1888 |
Philologist, lexicographer |
[11] |
James Main Dixon |
1879 |
Professor of English literature, author, scholar of the Scots language |
|
John Elder |
|
Cartographer, writer, tutor of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley |
|
Duncan Forbes |
|
Academic, linguist, translator, worked at King's College London and the British Museum, remembered for the erroneous Cox-Forbes theory |
|
Peter Goodwin |
MPhil |
Maritime historian, author, former keeper and curator of HMS Victory |
|
George Hadow |
1731 M.A. 1740 MD |
Professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at St Mary's College |
|
Bonaventure Hepburn |
|
Roman Catholic linguist, lexicographer, philologist, biblical commentator, held the post of Keeper of Oriental Books and Manuscripts at the Vatican |
|
Alexander Haslam |
M.A. |
Academic and professor of psychology at the University of Queensland |
|
David N. Hempton |
1977 PhD |
Academic and historian of evangelical Protestant Christianity; dean of Harvard Divinity School; fellow of the Royal Historical Society |
|
Robert Kirk |
1664 |
Minister; Gaelic scholar; folklorist; known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and the second sight, a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands |
|
Norman Kemp Smith |
1902 PhD |
Academic, philosopher; held professorships at Princeton University and Edinburgh University; known for his English translation of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason |
|
Roger Lewis |
1982 |
Academic, biographer, journalist, wrote biographies of Anthony Burgess, Peter Sellers and Laurence Olivier |
|
William Manderstown |
C. 16th century |
Philosopher, Rector of the University of Paris |
|
James Mylne |
|
Philosopher and academic |
|
Kieron O'Hara |
M.A. |
Philosopher, computer scientist, political writer and academic |
|
Richard Oram |
1983 M.A. 1988 PhD |
Historian and academic |
|
The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year for outstanding research, the invention of ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or outstanding contributions to society.
Name |
Year/Degree |
Notability |
Reference |
Edward Jenner |
1792 MD |
Physician and pioneer of the smallpox vaccine |
[12] |
Joseph Bancroft |
1859 MD |
Surgeon and parasitologist |
|
Douglas Black |
1933 MB ChB |
Physician and the author of the Black Report |
|
John Garrow |
MD, PhD |
Honorary consultant physician, nutrition scientist, and editor of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition |
|
Robert Whytt |
1730 M.A. |
Physician and president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |
|
John Arbuthnot |
1696 MD |
Physician, satirist, polymath, creator of the character John Bull |
|
Patrick Abercromby |
1685 MD |
Physician, antiquarian, personal physician to King James VII (II of England) |
|
George Ballingall |
|
Physician, surgeon, regius professor of military surgery at Edinburgh University |
[9] |
John Barclay |
B.D |
Comparative anatomist, extramural teacher in anatomy, and director of the Highland Society of Scotland |
[13] |
Robert Batty |
1797 MD |
Obstetric physician and amateur artist |
[14] |
Golding Bird |
1838 MD 1840 M.A. |
Physician; authority on kidney disease; known for his work in related sciences, especially the medical uses of electricity and electrochemistry |
|
David Bruce |
|
Physician, an original member of the Royal Society |
|
John Clephane |
1729 MD |
Physician, military physician and correspondent of David Hume |
|
Andrew Duncan |
1762 M.A. |
Physician and professor at Edinburgh University |
|
John Eliot |
1759 MD |
Physician, and personal physician to George IV |
|
Margaret Fairlie |
1915 MB ChB |
Physician, academic, first woman to hold a professorial chair in Scotland |
|
John Goodsir |
|
Anatomist and pioneer of cell biology |
|
George Britton Halford |
1854 MD |
Anatomist, physiologist, founder of the first medical school in Australia, the University of Melbourne School of Medicine |
|
John Lorimer (doctor) |
1764 M.D |
Royal Army Surgeon, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh |
[15] |
James Simson |
MD |
Medical academic and the second Chandos Professor of Medicine and Anatomy at the University of St Andrews |
|
John Jebb |
1777 MD |
Physician, divine, religious and political reformer, Fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge |
|
Richard Poole |
1805 MD |
Physician, psychiatrist, phrenologist, editor of the New Edinburgh Review, the Phrenological Journal and Encyclopædia Edinensis |
|
Hubert Lacey |
MB ChB |
Physician, psychiatrist, academic, professor of psychiatry at St George's Medical School, specialises in the management of eating disorders |
|
John Pringle |
|
Physician, 'father of military medicine' |
|
Stewart Duke-Elder |
1919 BSc M.A. 1923 MB ChB 1925 MD |
Physician, ophthalmologist; Surgeon-Oculist to King Edward VIII, George VI and Queen Elizabeth II; awarded the 1957 Lister Medal |
|
Samuel Cockburn |
1848 MD |
Physician, homeopath, critic of the medical establishment of the time |
|
Daniel Noble |
1832 M.A. 1833 MD |
Physician, known for contributions to the study of mental illness and epidemiology |
|
Name |
Year/Degree |
Notability |
Reference |
John Sawers |
|
British Ambassador to the UN and Director of MI6 |
|
Hikmat Abu Zayd |
1950 M.A. |
First female member of the Cabinet of Egypt |
|
Henry Balnaves |
|
Politician and religious reformer |
|
John Hamilton-Gordon |
|
Politician, Lord lieutenant of Ireland and Governor General of Canada |
|
Colleen Bell |
|
United States Ambassador to Hungary |
|
Edgar Paul Boyko |
|
Attorney, he served as Attorney General for the State of Alaska |
|
Thomas Bruce |
|
Nobleman and diplomat, known for the removal of marble sculptures (also known as the Elgin Marbles) from the Parthenon in Athens |
|
Eamonn Butler |
|
Director and co-founder of the Adam Smith Institute think tank; author and broadcaster on economic and social issues |
|
Archibald Campbell |
|
De facto head of government in Scotland during most of the conflict known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms; major figure in the Covenanter movement |
|
Duncan Ndegwa |
M.A. |
Civil servant, banker; first African governor of the Central Bank of Kenya; head of the Kenyan Civil Service |
[8] |
John Campbell |
|
Liberal politician, lawyer, man of letters, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain |
|
James Graham |
|
Nobleman, soldier, initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King Charles I as the English Civil War developed |
|
John Graham |
|
Soldier, nobleman, Tory, Episcopalian |
|
John Campbell |
|
Nobleman and the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883 |
|
Arthur Hobhouse |
|
Local government Liberal politician; architect of the system of National parks of England and Wales |
|
James Younger |
|
Politician and elected hereditary peer who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords; Lord-in-Waiting |
|
Jean-Paul Marat |
1775 MD |
Physician, political theorist, scientist, radical journalist and politician in France during the French Revolution |
|
Madsen Pirie |
1974 PhD |
Researcher, author, educator, founder and current President of the Adam Smith Institute |
|
Lyon Playfair |
|
Scientist and Liberal politician, held the offices of Postmaster General and Chairman of Ways and Means |
|
Catherine Stihler |
M.A. |
Labour Party politician; Member of the European Parliament for Scotland; returned as the Rector of the University of St Andrews in 2014 |
|
James Wilson |
1763 M.A. |
Founding Father of the United States; a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence; one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States |
[16] |
Robert F. Thompson |
|
Democratic member of the Arkansas Senate, represents the 11th District |
|
Richard Arthur |
1885 M.A. |
Politician, social reformer, physician, Member of the Parliament of New South Wales |
|
Alastair Balls |
M.A. |
Senior economic adviser to HM Treasury and Chairman of the International Centre for Life |
|
Henry Balnaves |
M.A. |
Politician, Lord Justice Clerk and Protestant religious reformer |
|
David Erskine |
|
Nobleman, eccentric, founded the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |
|
Stuart Butler |
1968 BSc 1971 M.A. 1978 PhD |
Director of the Center for Policy Innovation at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in Washington, D.C; associate professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute |
[17] |
Pamela Chesters |
|
Conservative politician; Advisor for Health and Youth Opportunities to the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson |
|
James Hamilton |
1584 BA 1585 MA |
Scot who became owner of large tracts of land in County Down, Ireland, and founded a successful Protestant settlement there several years before the Plantation of Ulster |
|
James Clinkskill |
|
Politician and engineer, merchant, author, justice of the peace and mayor of Saskatoon |
|
Robert Cox |
|
Gelatine and glue manufacturer and Liberal Unionist politician |
|
George Mackenzie |
|
Statesman; Secretary of State; Lord Justice General |
|
Alastair Crooke |
1972 M.A. |
Diplomat; founder and director of the Conflicts Forum; a figure in MI6 |
|
Kevin Dunion |
1978 M.A. |
Politician; first Scottish Information Commissioner; Rector of the University of St Andrews |
|
James Glenie |
|
Businessman and political figure in New Brunswick, He represented Sunbury County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
|
Gordon Ritchie |
MB ChB |
Progressive Conservative Party member of the House of Commons of Canada for Dauphin |
|
George Turner Orton |
1860 MD |
Liberal-Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada for Wellington Centre |
|
John Young Bown |
MD |
Liberal-Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada for Brant North |
|
Frances Josephy |
|
Liberal Party politician, Chairman of the Federal Union |
|
Donald Luddington |
1940 M.A. |
Colonial government official, civil servant, Governor of the Solomon Islands and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific |
|
David Lyndsay |
1509 |
Lord Lyon and poet |
|
William Maitland |
|
Politician, reformer, Secretary of State |
|
Douglas Mason |
1963 |
Policymaker, author, known for his work with the Adam Smith Institute in developing the poll tax |
|
Hugh Lyon Playfair |
M.A. L.L.D. |
Provost of St Andrews; Officer in the Bengal Horse Artillery; prominent figure in The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews |
|
Name |
Year/Degree |
Notability |
Reference |
James Dundas, Lord Arniston |
|
Lord of Session and Shire Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament |
|
Duncan McNeill |
1809 MD |
Advocate; judge; Tory politician; Lord Justice General; Lord President of the Court of Session |
|
Ronald Mackay |
M.A. |
Lawyer and judge of the College of Justice, sitting in the Inner House of the Court of Session |
|
William Cullen |
|
Senior member of the Scottish judiciary, he served as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session |
|
George Dempster |
1750 (did not graduate) |
Advocate, landowner, agricultural improver, politician; served as MP for the Perth Burghs; founded the bank George Dempster & Co.; Director of the East India Company; Provost of the town of St Andrews; Director of the Highland Society; key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment |
|
William Kirk Dickson |
1912 L.L.D. |
Advocate; librarian; writer; Keeper of the Advocates' Library; Librarian of the National Library of Scotland |
|
David Erskine |
|
Judge and MP for Forfarshire |
|
William Lamb |
1520 M.A. |
Cleric, lawyer, author, Senator at the College of Justice |
|
George Mackenzie |
1653 |
Lawyer, Lord Advocate, and legal writer |
[18] |
Robert Moray |
C. 16th century (did not graduate) |
Statesman, diplomat, judge, spy, freemason, natural philosopher, known for his role in the founding of the Royal Society |
|
Name |
Year/Degree |
Notability |
Reference |
Alistair Moffat |
1972 M.A. |
Writer; journalist; director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Rector of the University of St Andrews |
|
Robert Aytoun |
1588 M.A. |
Poet, lawyer, court poet to the queen of King James I and VI, one of the first Scots to write in standard English |
|
Andrew Crumey |
|
Novelist and literary editor of the Edinburgh newspaper Scotland on Sunday |
|
Gavin Douglas |
1494 |
Bishop, makar and translator |
|
William Dunbar |
1479 M.A. |
Poet and makar |
|
Alexander Hume |
M.A. |
Poet |
|
Richard Ames Hart |
1578 |
Poet, writer, courtier, and translator |
|
Robert Fergusson |
1763 (did not graduate) |
Poet, known for his influence on Robert Burns |
|
Sarah Hall |
M.Litt. |
Novelist; poet; author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Electric Michaelangelo |
|
Gilbert Hay |
|
Poet and translator |
|
David Lyndsay |
|
Lord Lyon and poet |
|
Bruce Marshall |
|
Fiction and nonfiction writer whose works were the subject of numerous television and film adaptations |
|
Hilary McKay |
|
Writer of children's books, winner of the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize |
|
Alastair Reynolds |
PhD |
Science fiction author |
|
William Tennant |
|
Scholar and poet |
|
Fay Weldon |
|
Author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism |
|
Timothy Williams |
1970 M.A. |
Author and winner of a Crime Writers' Association award |
|
Andrew Lang |
|
Poet, novelist, literary critic, contributor to the field of anthropology; known as a collector of folk and fairy tales |
|
Robert Henryson |
|
Poet and makar |
|
Thomas Finlayson Henderson |
|
Historian and biographer |
|
Helen Bannerman |
1887 L.L.A. |
Author of children's books; known for her first book, The Story of Little Black Sambo (1899) |
[22] |
John Bellenden |
M.A. |
Writer and translator to James V |
|
Thomas Bowdler |
|
Physician and philanthropist, known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work |
|
Pete Brown |
|
Writer on beer and drinking culture around the world |
|
James Browne |
M.A. |
Writer and man of letters |
|
Sarah Bryant |
M.Litt. |
Science fiction author |
[23] |
Patrick Brydone |
|
Traveller and author who served as Comptroller of the Stamp Office |
|
Thomas Craig |
1555 BA |
Jurist and poet |
|
William Fowler |
1578 |
Poet, makar, writer, courtier, and translator |
|
James Graeme |
1769 (did not graduate) |
Poet |
|
Michael Hulse |
1977 M.A. |
Translator, critic and poet, notable especially for his translations of German novels by W. G. Sebald |
|
Alexander Hume |
1574 BA |
Poet |
|
William Lauder |
1537 |
Cleric, playwright, and poet |
|
Nicholas Moore |
|
Poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics |
|
Name |
Year/Degree |
Notability |
Reference |
David Beaton |
|
Archbishop of St Andrews, Chancellor of the University of St Andrews and the last Scottish Cardinal prior to the Reformation |
|
James Beaton |
1493 M.A. |
Archbishop of St Andrews, Lord Chancellor of Scotland the Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Chancellor of the University of St Andrews |
[28] |
Alexander Duff |
|
Christian missionary in India, founded the Scottish Church College and played a part in establishing the University of Calcutta |
|
Thomas Chalmers |
|
Minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland |
|
Colin Falconer (bishop) |
|
Minister and bishop |
|
George Gillespie |
|
Theologian |
|
Patrick Hamilton |
|
Churchman; early Protestant Reformer in Scotland; known for being burnt at the stake outside St Salvator's Chapel |
|
Alexander Henderson |
1603 |
Theologian and major figure in the development of the reformed church in Scotland |
|
John Knox |
|
Clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland |
|
George Buchanan |
1525 BA |
Historian and humanist scholar, part of the Monarchomach movement |
|
Andrew Melville |
|
Scholar, theologian and religious reformer |
|
John Munro |
|
Presbyterian minister of Tain, in the Scottish Highlands |
|
Sheila Watson |
|
Cleric in the Church of England |
|
John Witherspoon |
1764 M.A. BD |
Presbyterian minister; a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey; President of College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) |
|
John Adamson |
1757 M.A. |
Minister and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
|
Patrick Adamson |
M.A. |
Minister, divine, and Archbishop of St Andrews |
|
Matthew Armour |
|
Radical Free Church of Scotland minister on the island of Sanday, Orkney |
|
Robert Arnot |
|
Presbyterian Minister; Professor of Divinity at St Andrews University; Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
|
John Munro |
|
Presbyterian minister of Tain, in the Scottish Highlands |
|
Klyne Snodgrass |
1973 PhD |
Theologian, author and professor of New Testament Studies at the North Park Theological Seminary |
|
Victor Premasagar |
PhD |
Churchman, Old Testament scholar, Moderator of the Church of South India |
|
John Barclay |
1759 M.A. |
Minister and founder of the Bereans |
[29] |
Robert Baron |
1613 M.A. |
Theologian and one of the Aberdeen doctors |
[30] |
Edward Barry |
MD |
Minister, popular preacher, grand chaplain to the Freemasons |
|
Robert Blackadder |
1461 M.A. |
Cleric, diplomat, politician, first Archbishop of Glasgow |
[31] |
Hugh Blair |
1577 DD |
Minister of religion, author, rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse |
[32] |
Donald Campbell |
|
Nobleman and abbot |
|
Neil Campbell |
1575 M.A. |
Bishop of Argyll |
|
Séon Carsuel |
1544 M.A. |
Prelate, humanist and Protestant reformer |
|
William Chisholm |
|
Bishop of Dunblane and bishop of Vaison |
|
Sidney Clarke |
1896 M.A. |
Anglican RAF Chaplain and Honorary Chaplain to the King |
[33] |
William Couper |
1583 M.A. |
Bishop of Galloway and Dean of the Chapel Royal |
|
Henry Craik |
|
Hebraist, theologian and preacher |
|
William Dalrymple |
1779 DD |
Religious writer, minister and moderator of the Church of Scotland |
|
Robert Davidson |
1945 M.A. 1952 BD |
Professor of Old Testament at the University of Glasgow and was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
|
Gavin Dunbar |
1475 M.A. |
Bishop of Aberdeen and Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland |
|
Andrew Durie |
|
Bishop of Galloway and abbot of Melrose |
[34] |
Andrew de Durisdeer |
M.A. |
Bishop of Glasgow |
|
Andrew Dutney |
1985 PhD |
President of the Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia; professor at Flinders University |
|
Andrew Fairfoul |
|
First post-restoration Archbishop of Glasgow; Chancellor of Glasgow University |
|
Colin Falconer |
|
Minister and Bishop of Argyll; Bishop of Moray |
|
Patrick Forbes |
|
Churchman; theologian; Bishop of Aberdeen; chancellor of the University of Aberdeen |
|
Robert Fleming the elder |
|
Presbyterian Minister; following the Restoration of Charles II, he declined to accept bishops in the Kirk, and was consequently therefore ejected as Minister at Cambuslang |
|
Alexander Forbes |
1585 M.A. |
Minister and Bishop of Aberdeen |
|
Andrew Forman |
1483 M.A. |
Diplomat and prelate who became Bishop of Moray, Archbishop of Bourges in France and Archbishop of St Andrews |
|
Henry Forrest |
1526 BA |
Benedictine Friar who became a Martyr in 1533 at St Andrews for his support of Patrick Hamilton |
|
Peter Francis |
|
Warden; chief librarian of St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden;chaplain of Queen Mary College, London; rector and provost of the St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow |
|
George Gledstanes |
1580 M.A. |
Archbishop of St Andrews |
|
John Gordon |
|
Prelate, Bishop of Galloway, Abbot of Tongland |
|
Thomas Goss |
M.A. |
Anglican priest; Honorary Chaplain to the Queen; Dean of Jersey |
|
Andrew Gray |
1651 |
Divine and author |
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Henry Guthrie |
1621 |
Historian, cleric, Bishop of Dunkeld |
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James Guthrie |
M.A. |
Presbyterian minister who was exempted from the general pardon at the restoration of the monarchy and hanged in Edinburgh |
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John Guthrie |
1597 M.A. |
Prelate, Bishop of Moray |
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George Haliburton |
1652 M.A. 1673 DD |
Cleric, Jacobite, Bishop of Aberdeen |
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James Halyburton |
1538 M.A. |
Protestant reformer |
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Thomas Halyburton |
1696 M.A. |
Minister and divine |
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Gavin Hamilton |
1584 M.A. |
Minister and Bishop of Galloway |
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William Hamilton |
1952 Th.D. |
Theologian and proponent of the Death of God Movement |
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George Hargreaves |
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Minister, politician and leader of the Christian Party |
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George Hill |
1764 M.A. |
Minister of St Andrews; Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland; Principal of St Mary's College; Dean of the Chapel Royal; Dean of the Order of the Thistle |
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John Lauder |
1508 licentiate |
Minister; Archdeacon of Tweeddale; Scotland's public accuser of heretics |
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James Law |
1581 M.A. |
Minister and Archbishop of Glasgow |
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Alexander Leighton |
M.A. |
Physician, Puritan preacher, pamphleteer, known for his 1630 pamphlet which attacked the Anglican church and led to his torture by Charles I |
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David Lindsay |
1593 M.A. |
Minister, Bishop of Edinburgh, early adopter of the Book of Common Prayer |
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Patrick Lindsay |
1587 M.A. |
Minister, Archbishop of Glasgow, excommunicated for his use of the Book of Common Prayer |
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Henry de Lichton |
1415 licentiate |
Minister, diplomat, Bishop of Glasgow, played a significant role in the rebuilding of St Machar's Cathedral |
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David Lindsay |
C. 16th century |
Minister, Bishop of Ross, and a leader of the Church in Scotland |
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Thomas Livingston |
1415 M.A. |
Cleric; diplomat; delegate at the Council of Basel; advisor to James I of Scotland and James II of Scotland |
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Gregor MacGregor |
1960 |
Minister, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness in the Scottish Episcopal Church |
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John Mantle |
1973 |
Minister, Bishop of Brechin in the Scottish Episcopal Church |
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John Maxwell |
1611 M.A. |
Minister, Bishop of Ross and Archbishop of Tuam |
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James Melville |
1573 |
Divine and Protestant reformer |
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Iain McHardy |
1938 |
Minister, Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness in the Scottish Episcopal Church |
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Andrew McLellan |
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Minister, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
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William Moodie |
1775 (did not graduate) |
Minister; academic; Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland; professor of Hebrew at Edinburgh University |
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Andrew McLellan |
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Minister; Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland; Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
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Robert Reid |
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Minister; Abbot of Kinloss; Bishop of Orkney; founder of the University of Edinburgh |
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William Turnbull |
1419 |
Bishop of Dunkeld; Bishop of Glasgow; founder of and first Chancellor the University of Glasgow |
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