List of University of Glasgow people

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The University of Glasgow overlooking the River Kelvin and Kelvingrove Park

The following list of University of Glasgow people provides a selection of the well-known people who have studied or taught at the University of Glasgow since its inception in 1451. Historical lists of Chancellors, Rectors and Principals of the University are contained in those offices' respective articles.

Nobel laureates

Frederick Soddy

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William Young Sellar

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Sydney MacEwan

William Elphinstone

David Livingstone

Adam Smith

Thomas Campbell

• 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

Arts

• Sir Drummond Bone, Byron scholar and current Master of Balliol College, Oxford
• Hannah Frank, artist and sculptor
• Richard Claverhouse Jebb, classical scholar and politician
• Ian McKay, FRSA, Director, English National Opera
• Alexander Stoddart, Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland

History

• 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
• F. Marian McNeill, social historian and author of The Silver Bough
• 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

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 (1873–98)
• Alexander Campbell, co-founder of the Restoration Movement
• Neil Campbell, minister, Principal of Glasgow University (1727 to 1761)
• 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 (NY) 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

Writers and poets

• Lin Anderson, writer
• Julie Bertagna, writer
• 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
• C. Delisle Burns, atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
• Thomas Campbell, poet
• Robert Crawford, poet, Professor of English at the University of St Andrews
• Archibald Joseph Cronin, writer
• Ann Marie Di Mambro, playwright and scriptwriter
• Hal Duncan, writer
• Jane Duncan (Elizabeth Jane Cameron), 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 (probably taught)
• 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
• William McIllvanney, writer
• Edwin Morgan, poet
• Robert William Service, poet and writer
• J David Simons, writer
• Tobias Smollett, writer
• Derick Thomson, Gaelic writer and academic
• Alexander Trocchi, writer
• John Wilson, writer

Business

• 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
• 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 (domestic & foreign service) 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 Bill Jeffrey, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence
• Sir Muir Russell, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Executive

Law

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

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Alan Watson

• Joseph Beltrami, Glasgow defence lawyer who secured the first Royal Pardon issued in Scotland
• 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 (the "Yorkshire Ripper")
• Matthew Clarke, Lord Clarke, Senator of the College of Justice
• Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, first woman judge in Court of Session
• James Craufurd, Lord Ardmillan, Judge of the Court of Session and Lord of Justiciary
• 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
• 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
• Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Lord Justice Clerk
• 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
• Robin McEwan, Lord McEwan, Senator of the College of Justice
• 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
• William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan, former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice
• Ann Paton, Lady Paton, Senator of the College of Justice
• Lord Roger of Earlsferry, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, 17th century Scottish jurist
• Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde, former Lord Advocate and Lord President of the Court of Session
• Alan Watson, Civil Law scholar (former Douglas Professor of Civil Law)
• 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

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
• Iain Martin, political commentator, former editor of The Scotsman
• Anne MacKenzie, television presenter and news anchorwoman
• Hugh Dan MacLennan, sporting academic and broadcaster
• Ian McCaskill, weatherman
• Tom Morton, journalist and broadcaster
• Shereen Nanjiani, Scottish 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

Politics

• Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, MP (Whig Party), lawyer, judge, composer and architect
• 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

Conservative Party

Liam Fox

Andrew Bonar Law

• 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 (UK)
• James Gray, MP
• Andrew Bonar Law, Conservative Prime Minister
• Mark Menzies, MP
• Sir Teddy Taylor, MP

Labour Party

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Donald Dewar

• 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 (UK Government)
• 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
• John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley; politician, lawyer and Judge of the Court of Session
• Tony Worthington, MP

Liberal Party/Liberal Democrats

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Charles Kennedy

• 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 USA in 1907-13
• Vince Cable, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, 15 October - 18 December 2007
• 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

Scottish National Party

• 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
• John MacCormick, founder of the National Party of Scotland
• Neil MacCormick, MEP
• 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

• 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

Sciences

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William Hunter

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Joseph Lister

David Douglas

Joseph Black

Lord Kelvin

Medical

• 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
• Bryan J. Jennett, with Sir Graham Teasdale, co-inventor of the Glasgow Coma Scale
• R. D. Laing, psychiatrist
• William Boog Leishman, pathologist credited with first successful anti-typhoid inoculation
• Joseph Lister, surgeon
• David Livingstone, "Dr. Livingstone," 19th century medical missionary to Africa (didn't graduate)
• Donald MacAlister, also Principal of Glasgow University, 1907–29
• Sir William Macewen, pioneer of neurosurgery
• Elizabeth Janet MacGregor, medical doctor and cancer researcher
• Janet Niven, histologist and pathologist
• 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

Organic sciences

• Sir John Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist, and Principal of the University of Strathclyde (1991-2000)
• David Douglas, botanist
• Alan Gemmell, Professor of Biology, Keele University 1950-77
• Thomas Graham, chemist
• George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of stable liquid crystals, awarded Kyoto Prize and Leverhulme Medal
• Robert Thomson Leiper, parasitologist and helminthologist
• Muriel Robertson FRS, protozoologist and bacteriologist at the Lister Institute
• Jokichi Takamine, chemist
• Alexander Todd, Baron Todd, chemist

Mathematics, physical sciences and engineering

• John Anderson, natural philosopher and founder of the Anderson's Institution in 1796 (predecessor to the University of Strathclyde)
• Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist, received the Royal Medal in 1844 for his work on the heat developed in chemical actions
• John Logie Baird, inventor of television
• Frank Barnwell, aeronautical engineer and pilot of first powered flight in Scotland in 1909
• Bruce C. Berndt, mathematician
• Joseph Black, physicist and chemist
• John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
• A. Catrina Bryce, physicist, electrical engineer
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist
• Leroy (Lee) Cronin, chemist
• Ethel Currie, geologist
• Henry Dyer, engineer
• Bernard Parker Haigh, engineer
• Sam Karunaratne, electrical engineer and leading Sri Lankan academic
• John Kerr, physicist
• Martin Kirov, mathematician
• 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

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 (1972–96),
• Sir James Frazer, social anthropologist
• Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank
• 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
• Jim Craig, Celtic F.C. player
• Louis Greig, rugby union player and naval surgeon
• RC Hamilton, Rangers F.C. player
• Thomas Hart, cricket and rugby union player
• James Reid-Kerr, rugby union and cricket international
• 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 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

See also

• University of Glasgow Memorial Gates
• List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow