List of University of Glasgow people
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The following List of Alumni and Faculty of the University of Glasgow provides a selection of the well known people who have studied or taught at the University of Glasgow since its inception in 1451.
The list should be alphabetical within the main categories.
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[edit] Past Principals of the University
[edit] Arts
[edit] Artists
- Hannah Frank, artist and sculptor
[edit] History
- Lewis Campbell, classical scholar
- Sidney Checkland, economic historian
- Florence Marian McNeill, social historian and author of "The Silver Bough"
- William Young Sellar, classical scholar
- Bernard Wasserstein, historian
- Hew Strachan, historian
[edit] Musicians
- Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell and Paul Joseph Moore of The Blue Nile
- Stuart Murdoch, musician and songwriter; principal member of Belle & Sebastian
[edit] Philosophy and Theology
- John Abernethy, Irish Presbyterian leader
- Alexander Bain, philosopher
- William Barclay, theologian
- James Beaton, Archbishop of Glasgow and St. Andrews, Primate of Scotland
- David Beaton, cardinal and Archbishop of St. Andrews
- Zachary Boyd, theologian
- Semyon Desnitsky, legal scholar
- William Elphinstone, statesman and bishop, founder of the University of Aberdeen
- William Hugh Clifford Frend, early church historian
- Francis Hutcheson, theologian
- David Jasper, leader in study of literature and theology
- Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
- David Livingstone, missionary
- Andrew Melville, theologian and religious reformer
- George Newlands, theologian
- Richard Price, philosopher (honorary degree - did not study at Glasgow)
- Thomas Reid, philosopher
- Adam Smith, economist and philosopher
- Dugald Stewart, philosopher
- Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury
[edit] Writers and poets
- James Boswell, writer
- William Boyd, writer
- James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor), dramatist and founder of the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre
- Christopher Brookmyre, writer
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, writer and Governor General of Canada
- Robert Williams Buchanan, poet
- Thomas Campbell, poet
- Archibald Joseph Cronin, writer
- Janice Galloway, writer
- Alasdair Gray, writer and artist
- David Gray, poet
- James Herriot, writer
- Philip Hobsbaum, poet and critic
- James Kelman, writer
- Tom Leonard, poet and essayist
- Liz Lochhead, poet and dramatist
- Helen MacInnes, "queen of spy writers"
- Alistair MacLean, writer
- Ken MacLeod, writer
- William McIllvanney, writer
- Edwin Morgan, poet
- Tobias Smollett, writer
- John Wilson, writer
- Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, one of the greatest Gaelic bards and Jacobite captain
- Alexander Trocchi, writer
[edit] Politics
[edit] Conservative Party
- Eric Forth, MP
- Liam Fox, MP
- James Gray, MP
- Sir Teddy Taylor, MP
- Walter Elliot, former Scottish Secretary
[edit] Labour Party
- Wendy Alexander, MSP
- 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 (UK Government)
- Jim Gallagher, Head of Justice Department for the Scottish Executive
- Derry Irvine 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
- John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley; politician, lawyer and Judge of the Court of Session
- Tony Worthington, MP
[edit] Liberal Party/Liberal Democrats
- Elspeth Attwooll, MEP for the Liberal Democrats
- James Bryce, liberal politician and jurist
- Sir Menzies Campbell, leader of the Liberal Democrats
- Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal Party Prime Minister
- Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
[edit] Scottish National Party
- Annabelle Ewing, former MP
- Fergus Ewing, MSP
- Margaret Ewing, MSP, former MP
- Winnie Ewing, former SNP President, former MP, MSP and MEP
- Ian Hamilton, repatriator of the Stone of Destiny and Queen's Counsel
- John MacCormick, founder of the National Party of Scotland
- Neil MacCormick, MEP
- Alasdair Morgan, MSP, former MP
- Shona Robison, MSP
- Nicola Sturgeon, SNP Deputy Leader, MSP
- Andrew Welsh, MSP, former MP
[edit] Other
- Hazel Aronson, Lady Cosgrove, first woman judge in Court of Session
- James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, 17th century Scottish jurist
- Anne MacKenzie, Scottish journalists
- James Maxton, Independent Labour Party
- Shereen Nanjiani, Scottish journalists
- Gavin Vernon, repatriator of the Stone of Destiny
- John Thomas Wheatley, MP, Lord Advocate and Lord Justice Clerk
- Ian McCaskill, weatherman
- Albert Russell, Scottish Unionist Party member and MP
- Bill Jeffrey, civil servant
[edit] 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
[edit] Sciences
[edit] Medical
- Robert Broom, physician
- Professor Ian Donald, pioneer of diagnostic and obstetric medical ultrasound
- John Hunter, surgeon
- William Hunter, anatomist and physician
- R. D. Laing, psychiatrist
- Joseph Lister, surgeon
- Donald MacAlister, also Principal of Glasgow University, 1907-29
- Sir William McEwan, pioneer of Neurosurgery
- James McCune Smith, first professionally trained African-American doctor
- Sir Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett, inventors of the Glasgow Coma Scale
[edit] Organic Sciences
- David Douglas, botanist
- Thomas Graham, chemist
- George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of stable liquid crystals, awarded Kyoto Prize and Leverhulme Medal
- Alexander Todd, Baron Todd, chemist
[edit] Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering
- John H. D. Anderson, natural philosopher and founder of the University of Strathclyde
- John Logie Baird, inventor of television
- Joseph Black, physicist and chemist
- Professor John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
- Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist
- Henry Dyer
- John Kerr, physicist
- Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
- William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist
- Bill Napier, astronomer and novelist
- John Scott Russell, naval engineer
- Robert Simson, mathematician
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist
- James Watt, mathematician and engineer
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Andrew Watson, early Scotland international footballer and first black international player in the history of the game
- Andrew Faulds, actor and politician
- Sir James Frazer, social anthropologist
- John Grierson, film-maker, father of the "documentary film"
- Tom McKillop, Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland
- John Jamieson, lexicographer
- Richard Claverhouse Jebb, classical scholar and politician
- Francis Jeffrey, judge and literary critic
- James McGill, Scottish-Canadian philanthropist, endowed McGill University
- John Maclean, Scottish Marxist
- Thomas Muir, revolutionary
- Alec Nove, Soviet economic historian
- Derick Thomson, Gaelic writer and academic
- Andrew Neil, journalist and broadcaster
- Ljubo Sirc, economist, author and Slovenian dissident from Tito
- Alan Smart, head of broadcasting in Scottish Parliament
- Gerard Butler, actor (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, The Phantom of the Opera)
- Alan Rodger QC, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord President of the Court of Session
- Anne MacKenzie, television presenter and news anchorwoman
- Alexander Nove, professor of Economics
- William McIntyre, minister and educator
