愛丁堡大學真有那麼好嗎？

01-22

相同專業，比較了香港中文、ucl，然後感覺愛大的課程設置好隨便，可以選擇的課也不多…愛大真有宣傳的那麼好嗎？感覺排名是不是虛高

Heads of state and heads of government[edit]

Former British Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown is an alumnus and former rectorof the University of Edinburgh.

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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CanadaCharles TupperPrime Minister of Canada (1 May 1896 – 8 July 1896)

MalawiHastings BandaPresident of Malawi (1966–1994)

NicaraguaWilliam WalkerPresident of Nicaragua (1856–1857)

South KoreaYun PosunPresident of South Korea (1960–1962)

South KoreaJang Taek-sangPrime Minister of South Korea (6 May 1952 – 6 October 1952)

TanzaniaJulius NyererePresident of Tanzania (1964–1985)

UKGordon BrownPrime Minister (2007–2010)

UKJohn Russell, 1st Earl RussellPrime Minister (1846–52 and 1865–66)

UKHenry Temple, 3rd Viscount PalmerstonPrime Minister (1855–58 and 1859–65)

Arthur St. Clair

Arthur St. Clair, President of the Continental Congress

United Kingdom[edit]

Douglas Alexander, former Secretary of State for International Development
Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian, former Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, former Governor of Bengal and Chancellor of the Exchequer
David Campbell Bannerman, current Conservative MEP
Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, former Lord Advocate for Scotland
Henry Brougham, former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and co-founder of the University College London
Joanna Cherry, current Scottish National Party MP for Edinburgh South-West
Colin Clark, current Conservative MP for Gordon
Benjamin Constant, writer and politician
Robin Cook, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
James Cropper, Liberal Member of Parliament
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, statesman
Nicholas Fairbairn, former Conservative Member of Parliament for Perth and Kinross
Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Christine Grahame, current Scottish National Party MSP and Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British Liberal and Labour politician
Douglas Henderson, influential former Scottish National Party member
Charles Hendry, Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2010 to 2012
Tessa Jowell, former Minister for the Olympics
Jennie Lee, Labour Minister for the Arts (1964-1970) and founder of the Open University
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Sir James Marjoribanks, orchestrated Britain"s successful application to join the European Community in 1967
Callum McCaig, former Scottish National Party MP for Aberdeen South
Stuart McDonald, current Scottish National Party MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Anne McIntosh, current Conservative member of the [House of Lords]], former Member of Parliament and Member of European Parliament
Catherine McKinnell, Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North
David McLetchie, former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party
David Mundell, current Conservative MP and Secretary of State for Scotland
Ian Murray, current Labour MP for Edinburgh South
Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Amber Rudd, current Conservative MP and Home Secretary
David Steel, former leader of the Liberal Party and first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Jim Wallace, former Deputy First Minister of Scotland

United States[edit]

Alexander J. Dallas, served as the 6th US Secretary of the Treasury and briefly as both Acting Secretary of War and Acting Secretary of State under the fourth U.S. President, James Madison
Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21st governor of Virginia
Benjamin Rush, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence[1]
Ike Skelton, former U.S. congressman from Missouri
Mike Synar, former U.S. congressman from Oklahoma
William Washington Vance, lawyer and member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1886 to 1892
James Wilson, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence[2]
John Witherspoon, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence, President of Princeton University from 1768 to 1794[3]

Africa[edit]

Joseph Ukel Abango, former South Sudanese Minister of General Education
Bandele Omoniyi, Nigerian political activist
Noah Wekesa, current Kenyan Minister for Forestry and Wildlife

Australia and New Zealand[edit]

Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales
Michael Cullen, former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand

Asia[edit]

Sir Robert Brown Black, former Governor of Hong Kong and Governor of Singapore
John Crawfurd, diplomat and one of the early founders of Singapore
Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Lim Chong Eu, former Chief Minister of Penang
Bhagvat Singh, former Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal

Canada[edit]

Christy Clark, Premier of British Columbia
Kirsty Duncan, MP of Etobicoke North in Canada and Minister of Science of Canada
Robert James Manion, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada from 1938 to 1940

Middle East[edit]

Najah al-Attar, current Vice President of Syria
Mehmet Ayd?n, Turkish Minister
Hikmat Abu Zayd, first female cabinet minister of Egypt

Royalty[edit]

Princess Margarita of Romania
Princess Tsuguko of Takamado
Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
Princess Raiyah of Jordan
Princess Salha bint Asem
Princess Mako of Akishino
Prince Dashkov of Russia

Judges and lawyers[edit]

Henry Thomas Cockburn, former Scottish Solicitor General and judge
Unity Dow, former judge on the High Court of Botswana
Sir David Edward, former European Court of First Instance Judge
Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie, former judge on the Supreme Courts of Scotland
Charles Erskine, Scottish judge and professor of Private Law
Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Scotland"s second most senior judge
Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie
Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Scotland"s most senior judge
David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, former President of the European Court of Justice
Frank Mulholland, Lord Mulholland, MBA, Senator of the College of Justice, former Lord Advocate and Solicitor General for Scotland
Ronald King Murray, Labour politician and judge
Michael Ramodibedi, Chief Justice of Swaziland

Natural sciences, engineering and medicine[edit]

Astronomy[edit]

John A. Peacock, astronomer, Shaw Prize winner in 2014[4]
Anneila Sargent, astronomer
Charles Piazzi Smyth, astronomer

Chemistry[edit]

Joseph Black

James Dewar

Thomas Anderson, discoverer of pyridine
Polly Arnold, Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry
Joseph Black, discoverer of carbon dioxide, latent heat and specific heat
Eleanor Campbell, Professor of Physical Chemistry
Neil Campbell, chemist and amateur athlete
Archibald Scott Couper, proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding
John Davy, discoverer of phosgene
James Dewar, inventor of the Dewar flask
Narayan Hosmane, Cancer Researcher BNCT
David Leigh, Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at Edinburgh University from 2001 to 2012, Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology winner in 2007
Guy Lloyd-Jones, Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at Edinburgh University (2012–)
Christina Miller, synthesized phosphorus trioxide
Dai Rees, CEO of the Medical Research Council from 1987 to 1996
Prafulla Chandra Roy, distinguished chemist and founder of Bengal Chemicals Pharmaceuticals
Daniel Rutherford, discovered nitrogen while he was studying at Edinburgh University in 1772
Sir James Fraser Stoddart, supramolecular chemist
Lesley Yellowlees CBE, first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Vice-President of the University of Edinburgh

Geology[edit]

James Hutton

Robert Bell, geologist
Sir John William Dawson, geologist
Archibald Geikie, geologist
James Hector, geologist
James Hutton, "father of modern geology"
Robert Jameson, naturalist and mineralist
Sir William Edmond Logan, geologist
Stan Paterson, glaciologist

Informatics[edit]

Samson Abramsky FRS, computer scientist
Malcolm Atkinson (e-Science)
Pat Ambler (Freddy II)
Christopher Bishop, computer scientist, Assistant Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Andrew Blake FRS, computer scientist
Bob Boyer, computer scientist, mathematician, philosopher
Alan Bundy CBE, FRS, FREng, FRSE, mathematician and artificial intelligence researcher
Peter Buneman MBE FRS, computer scientist
Rod Burstall (Programming Languages)
Luca Cardelli FRS, computer scientist, Assistant Director of Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Ian Clarke, computer scientist
Paul Dourish
Michael Fourman (Computer Systems—Software)
Carla Gomes, computer scientist, Director of the Cornell University Institute for Computational Sustainability
Michael Gordon FRS, computer scientist
Igor Goryanin (Systems Biology)
Richard Gregory FRS, cognitive scientist
Pat Hayes
Jane Hillston (Professor of Quantitative Modelling)
Geoffrey Hinton FRS, informatician
Mark Jerrum (now professor at the University of London)
Philipp Koehn (Machine Translation)
Robert Kowalski, logician, computer scientist
Leonid Libkin (Foundations of Data Management)
Lǐ Wèi 李未, mathematician and computer scientist, President of Beihang University
Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS, cognitive scientist
Donald Michie, FRS, FRSE, artificial intelligence pioneer
Robin Milner FRS, computer scientist, winner of the Turing Award
J Strother Moore
Johanna Moore (Artificial Intelligence)
Stephen Muggleton, computer scientist
J Strother Moore, computer scientist
Jon Oberlander (Epistemics)
Michael O"Boyle (Computer Science)
Timothy O"Shea, computer scientist; principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
Gordon Plotkin FRS, computer scientist
Robin Popplestone (COWSEL, POP-2)
Don Sannella
Nigel Shadbolt, computer scientist, Chairman of the Open Data Institute
Alistair Sinclair (now professor at University of California, Berkeley)
Aaron Sloman, philosopher, cognitive scientist
Mark Steedman FBA (Cognitive Science)
Keith Stenning (Human Communications)
Austin Tate (Knowledge-Based Systems)
Leslie Valiant FRS, informatician and computer scientist, winner of the Turing Award
Phil Wadler (Theoretical Computer Science)
David H. D. Warren (Warren Abstract Machine)
Wenfei Fan (Web Data Management)
Peter Dayan (Computational Neuroscience)

Mathematics, physics and engineering[edit]

Alexander Graham Bell

David Brewster

James Clerk Maxwell

Robert Stephenson

Alexander Aitken, mathematician, worked in Hut 6 Bletchley Park decrypting the ENIGMA code, known for the Aitken"s delta-squared process
Sir Michael Atiyah FRS, mathematician, Fields Medallist in 1966, winner of Abel Prize in 2004 (Maths" equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
Charles Glover Barkla, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1917) for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays)
Thomas Bayes, mathematician, known for Bayes" theorem
Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, engineer
George Thomas Beilby, chemical engineer
Alexander Graham Bell, engineer and inventor of the telephone
Isaac Lowthian Bell, metallurgist, businessman and politician
George Parker Bidder, engineer and calculating prodigy
Max Born, Nobel laureate, pioneer in quantum mechanics, Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1936 to 1953
David Brewster, scientist and inventor
J. W. S. Cassels, mathematician
Cheng Kaijia, physicist and pioneer of nuclear technology in China
William Fothergill Cooke, engineer, founder of Electric Telegraph Company
James Alfred Ewing, physicist and engineer
Klaus Fuchs, theoretical physicist
Lewis Gordon, civil engineer[5]
Peter Higgs, Nobel laureate, theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor of Physics and discoverer of the Higgs Mechanism
W. V. D. Hodge, mathematician
Archie Howie, physicist
Charles Hutton, mathematician
James Jardine, civil engineer
Fleeming Jenkin, engineer, inventor of telpherage
Philip Kelland, mathematician
Tom W. B. Kibble, theoretical physicist, Sakurai Prize winner in 2010
Alexander Carnegie Kirk, marine engineer
Sir John Leslie, mathematician and physicist
Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, "father of electromagnetism"
John Playfair, mathematician
William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist, early contributor to the development of thermodynamics
George Rennie, engineer
John Rennie the Elder, civil engineer[6]
Marion Ross, physicist
John Scott Russell, civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder
John Shepherd-Barron, inventor of the automated teller machine (ATM)
Robert Stephenson FRS, railway engineer
Robert Stevenson, civil engineer
Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
David Stevenson, lighthouse designer
Thomas Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
Charles Alexander Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
Robert Stirling, inventor of Stirling engine
William Symington, engineer and inventor
Peter Guthrie Tait, physicist
Edmund Whittaker, mathematician
Mujahid Kamran, theoretical physicist and the current vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan [7]

Medicine and biology[edit]

Charles Darwin

Joseph Lister

Sir James Young Simpson

See also: List of University of Edinburgh medical people

Thomas Addis, pioneer in nephrology
Nick Barton, evolutionary biologist, winner of the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008
Sir David Baulcombe, plant scientist, discovered SiRNA and its role in gene silencing in plants, winner of the Lasker Award in 2008
Sir John Beddington, population biologist, UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Charles Bell, anatomist, surgeon
Joseph Bell, medicine
Seneka Bibile, influential Sri Lankan pharmacologist
Sir Adrian Peter Bird, geneticist, discovered the protein MeCP2 involved in DNA methylation, awarded the 2011 Gairdner Foundation International Award; Buchanan Professor of Genetics (1990–present)[8]
James Braid, surgeon, hypnotist
James A.C. Brown, psychiatrist
Robert Brown, botanist
Thomas Brown, medicine and philosophy
William Budd, physician and epidemiologist[9]
John Murray Carnochan, neurosurgeon, performed first successful surgery for trigeminal neuralgia
Brian Charlesworth, professor of evolutionary biology 1997–, winner of the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2010
Deborah Charlesworth, professor of evolutionary biology 1997–, expert on the genetic self-incompatibility of plants
Eustace Chesser, psychiatrist
Virender Lal Chopra, Geneticist and biotechnologist
Sarah Cleaveland, professor and veterinary epidemiologist [10]
Richard A Collins, biochemist and author
Hilary Critchley, obstetrician and gynaecologist
William Cullen, physician and professor of medicine
Charles Darwin, naturalist, author of The Origin of Species
Erasmus Darwin, physician and Enlightenment thinker
James Douglas, physician and anatomist; the Douglas pouch and Douglas line are named for him
Cuthbert Dukes, pathologist and author
Richard Eastell, professor of bone medicine
John Elliotson, physician, mesmerist
James Esdaile, surgeon, mesmerist
Dame Anne Glover FRS, Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission from 2012 to 2014
John Haldane, physiologist
Richard Henderson, biologist
Thomas Hodgkin, physician
James Africanus Beale Horton, medicine
Sophia Jex-Blake, pioneer of medical education for women in Britain
Steve Jones, biologist
George Kelly, psychologist
Sir John Liddell, physician and director-general of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, introduced antiseptics into surgery
John Claudius Loudon, botanist
William Sutherland Macdonald, physician and soldier
Trudy Mackay, quantitative geneticist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2016[11]
Aubrey Manning, zoologist
Gilean McVean, post-doctoral fellow, evolutionary biologist, member of the steering committee for the 1000 Genomes Project
John Keith Moffat - Guggenheim Fellow, biologist and former Deputy Provost at University of Chicago, noted for Advanced Photon Source and Time resolved crystallography
Alexander Monro (primus), (secundus) and (tertius), anatomists
Richard Owen, biologist and palaeontologist
Fiona Ross, nursing scholar
Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, physiologist and neuroscientist
Robert Sibbald, Professor of Medicine
Sir James Young Simpson, pioneered the use of chloroform in midwifery
Leslie Skene, psychiatrist[12]
Jeremy Smith, biological scientist
Edwin Southern, biomedical scientist, invented Southern blot, winner of the 2005 Lasker Award and Gairdner Foundation International Award
John Walker, naturalist
Joanna Wardlaw, neuroradiology and neuroimaging
Robert Whytt, medicine
Sir Ian Wilmut, embryologist and former supervisor of the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep, Shaw Prize winner in 2008
Nairn Wilson, dental surgeon
William Withering, physician
Robert Ramsay Wright, biologist, helped to re-establish the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine in 1887
Charles Wyville Thomson, naturalist and chief scientist on the Challenger expedition
Meena Upadhyaya, medical geneticist
Yao Zhen, biologist

Nobel laureates[edit]

Main article: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Edinburgh

Social sciences, arts and business[edit]

Pulitzer Prize winners[edit]

Jack N. Rakove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1997 (undergraduate student from 1966 to 1967)
Andrew Marshall, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2014 (MA in English Literature)

Architecture[edit]

Robert Adam

Robert Adam, architect
Robert Rowand Anderson, architect
Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, conservation architect and former head of the Department of Architecture (1978-1988)
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, architect, president of the Royal Academy
A. R. Hye, architect
Robert Lorimer, architect
Sir William Kininmonth, architect
Robert Matthew, architect
Richard Murphy, architect
Patrick Nuttgens, architect and academic
Deborah Saunt, architect
Sir Basil Spence, architect

Business[edit]

John Boyd Dunlop

William Denholm Barnetson, Chairman of United Newspapers, Reuters and Thames Television
Chris Beard, CEO of Mozilla
Crawford W. Beveridge, Executive Vice President Sun Microsystems
Donald Brydon, Chairman of the Royal Mail, Sage Group and Medical Research Council and Patron of the British Postal Museum and Archive
John Boyd Dunlop, founder of Dunlop Rubber
Nicholas Ferguson, Chairman of BskyB
John Ritchie Findlay, owner of The Scotsman newspaper
Hugh Grant, Chairman, President CEO of Monsanto Company
Tony Hayward, Chairman of Glencore Xstrata and former CEO of BP
William Jardine, merchant, surgeon, and co-founder of global conglomerate Jardine Matheson
Christopher Lovelock, business school professor and services marketing pioneer
James Matheson, MP for the Ross and Cromarty constituency and co-founder of global conglomerate Jardine Matheson
Chris Montgomery, former CEO, MP3.com Europe
Nigel Stein, Chief Executive of GKN plc
Lord Swann, Chairman BBC
George Touche, co-founder of Deloitte
Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)
Arthur Young, founder of Ernst Young

Economics[edit]

Kenneth E. Boulding, economist, John Bates Clark Medal winner in 1949[13]
John Grahl, economist
John Kay, economist
Sir James Mirrlees, economist, Nobel laureate[14]
John Hardman Moore, economist, Yrj? Jahnsson Award winner in 1999[15]
John Rae, economist
Gavin Clydesdale Reid, economist
Jerzy ?y?yński, prominent Polish economist

Literature[edit]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Robert Louis Stevenson

Edward Abbey, author
J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan
James Boswell, lawyer, author and biographer of Samuel Johnson
Maoilios Caimbeul, Gaelic poet
Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian
Bliss Carman, Canadian poet
George Chalmers, antiquarian and political writer
Bruce Chatwin, author and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Richard A Collins, author and scientist
David Daiches, literary historian and critic
E. S. Dallas, author and journalist
Thomas Dick, writer
Angus Donald, author and journalist
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
Robert Garioch, poet and translator
Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician
Michael Grant, writer and historian
Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl
Ella Hickson, award-winning playwright
Ku Hung-ming, writer and polyglot
Harold Jenkins (Shakespeare scholar)
Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain), Gaelic poet
Joel McIver, author
Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, writer and translator
Kole Omotosho, writer
Neil Paterson, footballer, author and screenwriter
John William Polidori, writer and physician
Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series
Peter Mark Roget, author of the first Thesaurus
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series
Andrew Rutherford, Regious Prof. of English Literature, Aberdeen University; Vice-Chancellor, London University
Sir Walter Scott, author and poet
Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies" Detective Agency series and professor of medical law
Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped
Aeneas Francon Williams, writer, poet, and missionary

Media and the arts[edit]

Laura Kuenssberg

Michael Mcintyre

Richard Arnold, presenter and journalist best known for his work on GMTV
Maria Bamford, comedian
Mitch Benn, comedian, songwriter and broadcaster
Elizabeth Blackadder, artist
Jamie Borthwick, sports reporter for STV News
Michael Boyd, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Tom Bradby, journalist and novelist
Tom Chaplin, musician and singer in the English piano rock band Keane
Ian Charleson, actor
Rawdon Christie, Television New Zealand producer/presenter
Hamish Clark, actor
Robbie Coltrane, actor
Quentin Cooper, science journalist and broadcaster
Darius Danesh, musician and singer
Anthony d"Offay, art dealer
Daisy Donovan, actor and broadcaster
Rona Dougall, broadcaster, journalist and presenter (Scotland Tonight)
Elize du Toit, actress
Jimmy Finlayson, actor and comedian
Iain Gale, journalist and author
Mairi Hedderwick, illustrator and author
Ella Hickson, playwright
Sam Holcroft, playwright
Jay Jopling, art dealer
Miles Jupp, comedian
Lucy Kirkwood, playwright
Laura Kuenssberg, editor, BBC Politics
Allan Little, BBC Foreign Correspondent
Angus Macfadyen, actor
Ewen MacIntosh, actor, The Office, Little Britain
Sally Magnusson, BBC journalist
Kirsty McCabe, GMTV weather presenter
Michael McIntyre, comedian
Gillian McKeith, television presenter and writer
Hilton McRae, actor
Judith Miller, antiques expert, writer and broadcaster
Steve Morrison, TV producer; Rector of the university as of 2015
Marina O"Loughlin, restaurant critic
Catherine Rayner, illustrator and author
David Rintoul, actor
Alastair Sim, actor
Iain Stirling, comedian
Rachael Stirling, actress
Ed Stoppard, actor
Bill Turnbull, journalist and television presenter
Kirsty Wark, broadcaster

Music[edit]

Tom Chaplin, lead singer of Keane
James Douglas, composer
Kenneth Leighton, composer
James MacMillan, classical composer
Stuart MacRae, composer
Marcus Mumford, lead singer of Mumford Sons
Nigel Osborne, composer
Mike Scott, founder of The Waterboys
John Thomson, composer
Donald Francis Tovey, composer, pianist, musicologist
Julian Wagstaff, composer
William Wordsworth, composer

History, philosophy, sociology and theology[edit]

David Hume

John Baillie, theologian
S. Barry Barnes, philosopher and sociologist of science
David Bloor, philosopher and sociologist of science
Thomas Brown, medicine and philosophy
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, naturalist, philosopher, linguist
Andy Clark, philosopher of mind and cognition
Ligon Duncan, theologian
Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian, contributed to the initial development of sociology
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, philosopher
David Hume, philosopher and historian
Michael Ingham, Anglican bishop and author
Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher
Arthur Marwick, historian
K. V. Mathew, Biblical scholar from India
John McIntyre, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Dean of the Thistle
James Mill, historian and utilitarianist philosopher
Keith O"Brien, current Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
George Newlands, theologian
David George Ritchie, philosopher
William Robertson, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
Timothy Sprigge, philosopher
Dugald Stewart, philosopher
John Toland, philosopher
Iain Torrance, theologian and President of Princeton Theological Seminary
Géza Vermes, historian and theologian
Asher Wade, American-born international lecturer and psychotherapist
Timothy Williamson, philosopher
Michael Worton, former Vice Provost of University College of London

Others[edit]

B. T. S. Atkins, Lexicographer
Chris Atton, University Professor and musician
Susan Deacon, (MBA) Former Health Minister in the Scottish Executive, now Professor of Social Change at Queen Margaret University
Edwin Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation
John Fraser, distinguished soldier and attorney, sole receiver of GC from the university
Alan M. Leslie, psychologist
David MacRitchie, archaeologist
Roger Mercer, archaeologist
A.S. Neill, educationalist
Madsen Pirie, founder and President of the Adam Smith Institute

Sports[edit]

Sir Chris Hoy

Leslie Balfour-Melville, outstanding all-round sportsman
Zbigniew Czajkowski, fencing master, "father of the Polish School" of fencing
Gemma Gibbons, Olympic Judo silver medallist
Katherine Grainger, Olympic rowing gold medallist
Stuart Grimes, international professional rugby player
Peter Heatly, diver and former Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation
Sir Chris Hoy, the most successful British Olympian in history with six Olympic track cycling gold medals
Andy Irvine, rugby player and president of the Scottish Rugby Union
Michael Jamieson, 200m breaststroke Olympic silver medallist
Eric Liddell, men"s Olympic 400m gold medallist, and Scottish Rugby international
Alistair Potts, Commonwealth and British World Champion rower
Micky Steele-Bodger, English rugby international and Chairman IRB
Robert Strang, English cricketer who played once for Scotland
Polly Swann, Olympic rowing silver medallist
Simon Taylor, international professional rugby player

Miscellaneous[edit]

Piers Sellers

John Aikin, physician and writer
John (Ian) Bartholomew, cartographer and former principal of John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.
Thomas Spencer Baynes, publisher and writer
James Blair, founder of the College of William Mary
John Brown, physician and author
Archibald Cameron of Locheil, jacobite
Ashton Carter, American physicist, Harvard University professor, and United States Secretary of Defense
Robert Felkin, medical missionary; ceremonial magician, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; author on Africa; explorer and anthropologist
James Gall, clergyman and astronomer, founder of the Carrubbers Close Mission[16]
Alastair Humphreys, Adventurer[17]
Reginald Johnston, diplomat and pedagogue of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China
Rev Bruce Kenrick, writer, minister, social activist and founder of Shelter
Sheila McKechnie, Scottish trade unionist and 1991 Alumnus of the Year
James Middleton, businessman and younger brother of the Duchess of Cambridge
Pippa Middleton, socialite and younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge
Macvey Napier, encyclopedist
Mungo Park, explorer
George Percy, Earl Percy, heir apparent to the Dukedom of Northumberland
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, scientist and parliamentarian
Daphne Pochin Mould, photographer, writer, geologist
Stella Rimington, former head of MI5
Piers Sellers, astronaut
William Smellie, encyclopedist
Samuel Smiles, author and reformer
Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp, heir apparent to the Spencer earldom and first cousin of the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry

以上這些人可能會告訴你和宣傳一致，題主無需多心。

List of University of Edinburgh people

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如何評價 #愛丁堡大學# ？周末日落前走在唯美的Prince街區，突然想到了這樣一個類比：愛大在世界上的位置，就如同廈大在中國的位置。首先，同為知名高校，雖沒有達到牛劍（清華北大）的頂尖高校，但也獨樹旗幟、聲名遠揚。其次，坐落唯美的旅遊城市之中，遠離倫敦（北京）這樣的大都市，別有一番景緻。

說真的，我覺得更像南大在中國的地位。一個不成熟的小類比：ox≈北大，cam≈清華，ic≈上交，ucl≈復旦，lse強行約等於的話就上財或者央財。愛大拿得出來東西，不怵用作比較，就像南大比北大總是差那麼一點點，麻痹到底差在哪兒呢。。可能真是不在倫敦的關係吧。

愛丁堡大學不僅是在中國，全世界，更是在腐國人民心裡的地位也是一等一的重要，這也是英國年輕人所最嚮往的大學之一。想了解更多關於英國教育和文化的資訊，歡迎關注微信公眾號：英國的那些大城小鎮

這是愛大被黑得最慘的一次吧~~

愛丁堡大學在發現、發明和創新方面，有著非常傑出的歷史。根據研究水平報告，愛丁堡大學研究實力處在蘇格蘭地區的領先水平，在英國大學中，排名第四位。學校下的三所學院所進行的研究工作，對地區、國家和世界都有著深遠的影響愛丁堡大學介紹

歷史專業英國第三，蘇格蘭歷史世界最強，挺好。

出過很多牛人。但是衰落了。如果你是工科類，還是去美國吧

成立將近400年的古老名校，你說呢？

曾經很厲害，近代已經沒落了