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.
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The University of Glasgow overlooking the River Kelvin and Kelvingrove Park
Frederick Soddy
William Young Sellar
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
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards , awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
David MacMillan , awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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
History
John Bannerman , historian, noted for his work on Gaelic Scotland
Robert Browning , Byzantinist
Sir William Wilson Hunter , K.C.S.I. , historian, Indologist
Sir Richard Lodge , historian
John Duncan Mackie , Scottish historian
F. Marian McNeill , social historian and author of The Silver Bough
Charlotte Methuen , church and Reformation historian
Hew Strachan , historian
Bernard Wasserstein , historian
Musicians
Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell and Paul Joseph Moore of The Blue Nile
Neil Clark , Lloyd Cole , Blair Cowan , Lawrence Donegan and Stephen Irvine of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Isaac Hirshow , cantor and composer
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
Dr Albert Lister Peace , the university's organist between 1870 and 1880
Emeli Sandé , R&B, soul and breakbeat singer/songwriter[1]
Ramesh Srivastava, musician and songwriter; principal member of Voxtrot
Philosophy and theology
John Abernethy , Irish Presbyterian leader
David Stow Adam , theologian[2]
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
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 the University of Glasgow (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
Patrick Forbes , Chancellor of Aberdeen University and Bishop 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
Kung Lap-yan , Hong Kong public theologian
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
Alexander Peden , one of the leading figures in the Covenanter movement in Scotland
R Guy Ramsay , Baptist minister and President of the Baptist Union of Scotland, 1948–49
Thomas Reid , philosopher
Daniel Sandford , Bishop of Tasmania
Adam Smith , economist and philosopher
Dugald Stewart , philosopher
Archibald Campbell Tait , Archbishop of Canterbury
Writers and poets
James Boswell
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
Sir John Sinclair
Archibald Alison , Scottish episcopalian priest and essayist
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
Luke Brown , 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
Alexander Carlyle , church leader, autobiographer
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
Dimitra Fimi , writer and academic
Fraser Frisell , friend of Chateaubriand
Janice Galloway , writer
Robert Cunninghame Graham of Gartmore , poet and politician
Alasdair Gray , writer and artist[3]
David Gray , poet
Janice Hally , playwright and scriptwriter
Thomas Hamilton , among the 'Glasgow School' of early nineteenth century Scottish novelists
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
Angus Matheson (1912–1962), inaugural Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow[4]
William McIllvanney , writer
Caroline Moir , writer
Edwin Morgan , poet
Seamus Perry , academic and writer
Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford , Scottish politician and Greek scholar
Robert William Service , poet and writer
Jane Shaw , writer
J David Simons , writer
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet , writer and the first person to use the word "statistics" in the English language
Tobias Smollett , writer
Derick Thomson , Gaelic writer and academic
Alexander Trocchi , writer
John Wilson , writer
James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington , chairman of Diageo
Keith Cochrane , chief executive of Weir Group
Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck , FRS , KBE , and chairman of ICI
Douglas Flint , chairman of HSBC
Fred Goodwin , former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Hugh Grant , chief executive of the Monsanto Company , St. Louis, Missouri, US
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 , former chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
David Nish , chief executive of Standard Life plc
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
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
Henry Beveridge , famous orientalist and member of Indian Civil Service joined in 1857; elected president of The Asiatic Society of Bengal (1890–91)
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 Oliver Franks , influential civil servant in postwar Britain
Sir Bill Jeffrey , Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence
Paul Johnston , British diplomat
Ken McCallum , Director General of MI5
Francis J. Meehan , 1924-2022, American diplomat involved in events depicted in the 2015 Steven Spielberg film Bridge of Spies
Sir Muir Russell , Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Executive
Francis Richard John Sandford, 1st Baron Sandford , instrumental in implementing the Elementary Education Act of 1870
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
James Dalrymple,1st Viscount of Stair
Robert Malcolm Kerr
Joseph Beltrami , Glasgow defence lawyer who secured the first Royal Pardon issued in Scotland
Sir David King Murray, Lord Birnam (1884–1955), Solicitor-General for Scotland, Senator of the College of Justice
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
Robert Hodshon Cay , Judge Admiral of Scotland overseeing naval trials and maternal grandfather of James Clerk Maxwell
James Chadwin QC , barrister who represented Peter Sutcliffe (the "Yorkshire Ripper")
Matthew Clarke, Lord Clarke , Senator of the College of Justice
Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet , politician, lawyer, judge and composer
Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove , first woman judge in Court of Session
James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair , 17th century Scottish jurist
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
Brian Gill, Lord Gill , Lord Justice Clerk
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
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 Neil MacCormick , Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, University of Edinburgh
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
Robin McEwan, Lord McEwan , Senator of the College of Justice
William Rankine Milligan, Lord Milligan , former Lord Advocate and Senator of the College of Justice
David Murray (1842–1928), Glasgow solicitor, antiquarian, book-collector, and legal scholar
Ann Paton, Lady Paton , 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
Lord Roger of Earlsferry , Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
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
Gerard Butler
Fraser Nelson
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
Richard Gadd , writer and comedian
John Grierson , filmmaker, "father of the documentary film"
Duncan Hamilton , columnist for The Scotsman
Eileen Hayes , author, broadcaster and columnist
Greg Hemphill , comedian, performer, actor, half of the team in Still Game
Armando Iannucci , satirist, writer, director, creator of The Thick of It and Veep
Ford Kiernan , comedian, performer, second half of the team in "Still Game"
John MacKay , STV News journalist, main anchor
Anne MacKenzie , television presenter and news anchorwoman
Hugh Dan MacLennan , sporting academic and broadcaster
Iain Martin , political commentator, former editor of The Scotsman
Ian McCaskill , weatherman
Robin McKie , science editor, The Observer
Stephen Moffat , television writer and producer, showrunner of Doctor Who 2010–2017, co-creator of Sherlock
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
Sir David Henderson
General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet , Scottish soldier who achieved high office
Air Marshal Stuart Atha , senior officer of the Royal Air Force
Lieutenant Robert Blair , received the Victoria Cross
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd , British Army officer and Governor of Gibraltar
Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll , hereditary chief of Clan Campbell, and a Royalist supporter during the latter stages of the Scottish Civil War and its aftermath
General William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart , Commander-in-Chief of Scotland and Ambassador to Russia during the Great Patriotic War of 1812
Major General David Tennant Cowan CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC; distinguished for leading the Indian 17th Infantry Division during almost the entire Burma Campaign
Colonel James Lennox Dawson VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross
Archibald Campbell Fraser of Lovat , 20th MacShimidh (chief) of Clan Fraser of Lovat
Captain Lord Archibald Hamilton , Lord of the Admiralty
Lieutenant Colonel James Hamilton , Commandant of the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo
Lieutenant General James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon , major investor in the failed Darien Scheme and British ambassador to Louis XIV of France
Colonel William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton , Royalist Commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Lieutenant General Sir David Henderson , commander of the Royal Flying Corps and instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force
Donald MacKintosh (VC) , recipient of the Victoria Cross
Wing Commander Hector Maclean , Battle of Britain fighter pilot
Major-general Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet KCB, East India Company Army officer and statesman
Harry Ranken , recipient of the Victoria Cross
Sir John Snell , royalist soldier in the English Civil War, founded the Snell Exhibition
General Simon Fraser of Lovat , the 19th Chief of the Clan Fraser of Lovat
Lord Melbourne
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll , dominant political leader in Scotland in the 18th century
John Crowley , Irish Sinn Féin politician and medical practitioner
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry , last Lord High Commissioner before the Act of Union
James Allison Glen , Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister
John Maclean , leading figure of the Red Clydeside era
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale , keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and a representative peer for Scotland in the House of Lords
James Maxton , leader of the Independent Labour Party
Conservative Party
Liam Fox
Bonar Law
Eric Forth , MP
Sir 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
John Lamont , MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Bonar Law , Conservative Prime Minister
Mark Menzies , MP
Sir David Robertson , MP
Sir Teddy Taylor , MP
Labour Party
Donald Dewar
Wendy Alexander , MSP
John Baird , MP for Wolverhampton 1945-64
Sarah Boyack , MSP
Des Browne KC, 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 KC, former Lord Chancellor
Tom Johnston , Secretary of State for Scotland
Johann Lamont , MSP
Anne McGuire , MP
Hector McNeil , Secretary of State for Scotland
Bridget Prentice , MP
Gordon Prentice , MP
Willie Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock , Secretary of State for Scotland
Michael Shanks , MP
John Smith , former Labour party leader and UK Cabinet Minister
Paul Sweeney , MSP
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 , former 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 US in 1907-13
Sir Vince Cable , former leader of the Liberal Democrats
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
Alan Reid , former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Argyll and Bute
Sir William Sutherland , Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , 1922
Scottish National Party
Nicola Sturgeon
Humza Yousaf
Alasdair Allan , MSP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar
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 King's Counsel
Jamie Hepburn , MSP
Fiona Hyslop , Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs
John MacCormick , founder of the National Party of Scotland
Neil MacCormick , MEP
Derek Mackay , MSP (did not graduate)[5]
Jim Mather , MSP Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism
Alasdair Morgan , MSP Deputy Presiding Officer
Shona Robison , MSP
Nicola Sturgeon , former First Minister of Scotland, SNP Leader, MSP
Andrew Welsh , MSP, former MP
Humza Yousaf , First Minister of Scotland, SNP Leader, MSP
William Hunter
Joseph Lister
David Douglas
Joseph Black
Lord Kelvin
Medical
Gavin Arneil , paediatric nephrologist
John Bell , 18th-century adviser to the Tsar and author of a travelogue from St. Petersburg to Beijing
Sir Gilbert Blane , Scottish physician who instituted health reform in the Royal Navy
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
Edward Provan Cathcart , Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow
William Cullen , physician, chemist, agriculturalist, professor at Edinburgh Medical School
Ian Donald , pioneer of diagnostic and obstetric medical ultrasound
Hani Gabra , professor of Oncology at Imperial College London
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
Sir Alan Langlands , former chief executive of the NHS, vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds
William Boog Leishman , pathologist credited with first successful anti-typhoid inoculation
Joseph Lister , surgeon
David Livingstone , "Dr. Livingstone," 19th century medical missionary to Africa (did not graduate)
Donald MacAlister , also Principal of the University of Glasgow, 1907–29
Sir William Macewen , pioneer of neurosurgery
Elizabeth Janet MacGregor , medical doctor and cancer researcher
Donald James MacKintosh , Scottish physician, soldier and public health expert
Dame Louise McIlroy , obstetrics and gynaecology consultant; first woman to receive M.D. from the university
Quintin McKellar , veterinary surgeon and vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire
Anderson Gray McKendrick , epidemiologist
Maud Perry Menzies , community health physician; RAMC captain during World War II
John Moore , Scottish physician and travel author
Janet Niven , histologist and pathologist
Priscilla Nzimiro , physician
Delphine Parrott , endocrinologist and immunologist , Gardiner Professor of Immunology 1980-1990[6]
Mujibur Rahman , medical scientist, recipient of Ekushey Padak [7]
David Shannon , physician, academic, World War I medical officer, foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
James McCune Smith , first university trained African-American physician; abolitionist and public intellectual in New York
Alexander Stewart-Wilson , foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
John Hammond Teacher , pathologist, researcher and medical academic
Sir Graham Teasdale , with Bryan J. Jennett , co-inventor of the Glasgow Coma Scale
Thomas Thomson , Scottish surgeon with the British East India Company
Robert Thomson , a pioneer of sanitation
Merbai Ardesir Vakil , physician, first Asian woman to graduate from a Scottish university
Merbai Ardesir Vakil
Biology
Sir John Arbuthnott , Scottish microbiologist, and Principal of the University of Strathclyde (1991-2000)
Isaac Bayley Balfour , Regius Professor of Botany and Sherardian Professor of Botany Oxford
John Hutton Balfour , Professor of Botany; Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist
Percy Wragg Brian , Regius Professor of Botany
David Campbell , Professor of Materia Medica at Aberdeen University 1930–1959; won the Military Cross in 1918 due to his bravery serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps
David Douglas , botanist
Heather M. Ferguson , FRSE Professor Professor of Medical Entomology and Disease Ecology, co-chairs the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group on malaria[8]
Anne Ferguson-Smith , Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics
Malcolm Ferguson-Smith , one of the first geneticists to provide a diagnostic and counselling service to patients with genetic conditions
Alan Gemmell , Professor of Biology, Keele University 1950–77
Sir William Jackson Hooker , Regius Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
John Hope , Scottish physician and botanist; early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification
Thomas Hopkirk , botanist and lithographer
Robert Thomson Leiper , parasitologist and helminthologist
Sheina Marshall , marine biologist
Guido Pontecorvo , the university's first Professor of Genetics
Muriel Robertson , protozoologist and bacteriologist at the Lister Institute
Chemistry
Thomas Andrews , chemist and physicist, received the Royal Medal in 1844 for his work on the heat developed in chemical actions
Joseph Black , physicist and chemist
Leroy (Lee) Cronin , chemist
Thomas Graham , chemist
George William Gray , chemist, pioneer of stable liquid crystals , awarded Kyoto Prize and Leverhulme Medal
Thomas Charles Hope , proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's experiment
Jōkichi Takamine , chemist
Thomas Thomson , Regius Professor of Chemistry, gave silicon its name
Alexander Todd, Baron Todd , chemist
Mathematics, physical sciences and engineering
James Watt
Colin Maclaurin
John Anderson , natural philosopher and founder of the Anderson's Institution in 1796 (predecessor to the University of Strathclyde )
John Logie Baird , inventor of television
Frank Barnwell , aeronautical engineer and pilot of first powered flight in Scotland in 1909
Bruce C. Berndt , mathematician
Hugh Blackburn , member of the Cambridge Apostles, inventor of the Blackburn pendulum
John Brown , Astronomer Royal for Scotland
A. Catrina Bryce , physicist, electrical engineer
Jocelyn Bell Burnell , astrophysicist
Ethel Currie , geologist
Henry Dyer , engineer
William Gemmell Cochran , statistician
Bernard Parker Haigh , engineer
Sam Karunaratne , electrical engineer and Sri Lankan academic
John Kerr , physicist
Colin Maclaurin , mathematician
Elizabeth McHarg , mathematician
Bill Napier , astronomer and novelist
Raymond Ogden , engineering mathematician
Percy Sinclair Pilcher , pioneer of powered flight
Robert Alexander Rankin , mathematician
William John Macquorn Rankine , engineer and physicist
John Robison , physicist and mathematician, inventor of the siren
Dorothy Rowntree , first woman graduate in engineering from the university and first woman graduate in naval architecture in UK
John Scott Russell , naval engineer
Robert Simson , mathematician
Ian Sneddon , 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
Gillian Wright , astronomer and director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre
Sir James Frazer
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
Sir Anton Muscatelli , economist and University Vice-Chancellor
Alexander Nove , Soviet economic historian
Alison Phipps , refugee researcher, UNESCO chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts
Ljubo Sirc , economist, author and Slovenian dissident during the Titoist regime
Katherine Grainger
Andrew Watson
John Beattie , rugby union international player
Jim Craig , Celtic F.C. player, member of the Lisbon Lions
Katherine Grainger , rower and Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian
Louis Greig , rugby union player and naval surgeon
RC Hamilton , Rangers F.C. player
Thomas Hart , cricket and rugby union player
Dave MacLeod , Scottish rock climber
Laura Muir , British record holder over 1500m and Olympic silver medalist
Euan Murray , rugby union player for British and Irish Lions
James Reid-Kerr , rugby union and cricket international player
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 and Irish 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