List of University of Glasgow people

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

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
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 (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
Caroline Moir, writer
Edwin Morgan, poet
Robert William Service, poet and writer
Jane Shaw, 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
Hugh Grant, Chief Executive of the Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
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

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
Sir David King Murray, Lord Birnam (1884–1955), Solicitor-General for Scotland, Senator of the College of Justice
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
Ralph Risk (1891–1961), solicitor, lawyer, president of the Law Society of Scotland and senior partner in Maclay Murray & Spens
David Murray (1842–1928), Glasgow solicitor, antiquarian, book-collector, and legal scholar
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

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
William Steel Dickson, radical Ulster Presbyterian and Irish republican revolutionary, member of the United Irishmen

Sciences

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
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
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
Dame Louise McIlroy, obstetrics and gynaecology consultant and first woman to receive M.D. from the University
Janet Niven, histologist and pathologist
Priscilla Nzimiro, physician
Delphine Parrott, endocrinologist and immunologist, Gardiner Professor of Immunology 1980-1990^[1]
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
Sheina Marshall, marine biologist
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
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

References

↑ Thomas T. MacDonald, Delphine Parrott, British Society for Immunology