# List of people educated at Perth Academy

Perth Academy is a non-denominational state school in Perth, Scotland.

## Alumni

| Image | Name | Notability |
| — | Ian Abbot | Poet |
| — | Arthur Kinmond Bell | Distiller and philanthropist |
| — | James Bisset | Artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet |
| — | Francis Black | Politician serving in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba |
| — | Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie | Senior officer in Royal Air Force |
| — | John Forbes Cameron | Mathematician, academic and academic administrator |
| Aileen Campbell | Aileen Campbell | Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government |
| Colin Campbell | Colin Campbell | British Army officer and colonial governor |
| — | Iain Donald Campbell | Biophysicist and academic |
| — | Patrick Campbell | Vice-admiral in the Royal Navy |
| — | Alastair Cram | Mountaineer, lawyer and British Army officer |
| Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar | Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar | Member of UK parliament and judge |
| — | Gordon Duff | Medical scientist and academic |
| Thomas Duncan | Thomas Duncan | Portrait and historical painter |
| — | David Edward | Lawyer and academic, and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities |
| — | Robert Fairbairn | Banker and cricketer |
| — | John Forfar | Paediatrician and academic |
| Patrick Geddes | Patrick Geddes | Biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner |
| Stephen Gethins | Stephen Gethins | Member of UK parliament |
| Neil A. R. Gow | Neil A. R. Gow | Professor of Microbiology and deputy vice chancellor at the University of Exeter |
| — | Camilla Hattersley | Olympic swimmer |
| — | Mary Packer Harris | Artist and art teacher |
| — | Atholl Henderson | Football player and coach |
| David Octavius Hill | David Octavius Hill | Painter and arts activist |
| — | Edward Lindsay Ince | Mathematician |
| — | William Keiller | Anatomist |
| Henry Littlejohn | Henry Littlejohn | Surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official |
| — | David Low | Agriculturalist |
| Fred MacAulay | Fred MacAulay | Comedian |
| — | Robert MacDonald | Minister of the Free Church of Scotland |
| — | James MacGregor | Minister of the Church of Scotland |
| — | John Sturgeon Mackay | Mathematician and academic author |
| — | George Mathewson | Chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland |
| Patrick Matthew | Patrick Matthew | Grain merchant, fruit farmer, forester, and landowner |
| — | James McGhie, Lord McGhie | Chairman of the Scottish Land Court and President of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, and a Senator of the College of Justice |
| — | Thomas McWhannell | Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly |
| — | James Miller | Architect |
| — | Stephen Milne | Olympic swimmer |
| — | Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell | Lawyer, judge and member of UK parliament |
| Robert Pullar | Robert Pullar | Liberal politician |
| — | John Monteath Robertson | Chemist and crystallographer |
| — | Ronald Foote Robertson | President of the British Medical Association |
| — | Condie Sandeman | Advocate |
| — | Philip Scott | Professional football |
| — | Rhod Sharp | Broadcaster |
| — | Jack Shaw | Businessman, former chairman of the board of directors and Governor of the Bank of Scotland |
| Richard Simpson | Richard Simpson | Member of the Scottish Parliament |
| — | Mili Smith | Professional curler |
| Duncan Sommerville | Duncan Sommerville | Mathematician and astronomer |
| William Soutar | William Soutar | Poet and diarist |
| — | Brian Souter | Billionaire businessman |
| James Stewart | James Stewart | Physician and missionary |
| — | David Kinnear Thomson | Chairman and president of Peter Thomson (Perth) Limited |
| — | William Thomson | Mathematician and physicist |
| — | Anthony Toft | President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |
| John Wishart | John Wishart | Mathematician and agricultural statistician |
| — | Sandy Wylie, Lord Kinclaven | Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland |