# List of people educated at Edinburgh Academy

Former pupils of the Edinburgh Academy in Edinburgh. They include the following individuals.

## Arts and culture
### Actors, Directors, Filmmakers

* Graham Crowden
* Mike Day, filmmaker
* Iain Glen, actor (EA 1965-78)
* Frank Taylor, actor

### Artists, architects and designers

* Francis 'Bunty' Cadell, colourist painter.
* James Eckford Lauder, painted portraits and historical pictures, (EA 1824-8)
* Patrick Grant
* John Henry Lorimer
* Robert Lorimer
* Alan MacDougall, railway engineer in Canada
* Donald Watson

### Authors, poets and dramatists

* R. M. Ballantyne, children's author (EA 1835-37)
* John Crommelin-Brown, poet, headmaster (EA 1895-97)
* Gordon Honeycombe, author, playwright and stage actor, TV newscaster (EA 1947-55)
* Andrew Lang, Scottish poet and novelist (EA 1854-61)
* Alan Melville, (EA 1925-27)
* Sarah Pinborough, young adult fiction and adult thriller writer (EA 1988-90)
* Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (EA 1861-63)
* J. I. M. Stewart (as Michael Innes), university professor and mystery writer (EA 1913-24)

### Entertainers

* Nicky Campbell, radio DJ and television presenter, (EA 1966-78)
* Adam Alexander Dawson
* Magnus Magnusson, television presenter, and translator of Icelandic origins, (EA 1935-48)
* Catherine McQueen, model and TV presenter.

### Music

* Guy Berryman, bass player in Coldplay
* John Burgess, piper
* Peter Gregson, cellist and composer
* Paul Jones, singer, actor and presenter, (EA 1958-60)
* Nick Keir, musician (EA 1958-1970)

## Business people

* Walter Biggar Blaikie
* Archibald Constable, publisher
* Nick Ede
* Mac Henderson
* Roger Jenkins
* John More Dick Peddie
* Dennis Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Coddenham
* Wilfrid Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara
* Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic

## Clergy

* Marcus Dods
* Ronnie Selby Wright
* Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, (EA 1824-27).
* Kenneth Stevenson, Bishop of Portsmouth.
* Alexander Penrose Forbes, Bishop of Brechin, (EA 1825-32)

## Convicted Criminals

* David Jenkins, convicted felon and drug smuggler (1987), Olympic athlete (EA 1958-1969)

## Explorers

* Francis Cadell, explorer of the Murray River in Australia.
* Lord Francis Douglas, with Edward Whymper on the ascent of the Matterhorn, died on the descent.
* Sir James Hector, member of the Palliser Expedition, (EA 1844-45).

## Lawyers and judges

* William Edmondstoune Aytoun
* John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross
* Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn
* John Cameron, Lord Cameron
* Kenneth Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom
* Charles Clark
* James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde
* James Clyde, Baron Clyde, Lord Clyde of Briglands
* James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde
* David Dundas, Lord Dundas
* Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth
* Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie, former judge on the Supreme Courts of Scotland
* Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Lord Chancellor
* Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor
* William Gloag
* Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor
* David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead
* Malcolm Innes of Edingight
* Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall
* Alan Johnston, Lord Johnston
* Henry Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel
* John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh
* Charles Murray, Lord Murray
* Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson
* William John Peterswald, Chief Commissioner of Police of the Colony of South Australia
* William Prosser, Lord Prosser
* James Reid, politician and Law Lord
* Alexander Stevenson
* Angus Stewart, Lord Stewart
* Gordon Stott, Lord Stott
* Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway
* Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet
* Robert Younger, Baron Blanesburgh

## Politicians and diplomats

* Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor, 'Father of the Territorial Army' (EA 1866-72)
* Alick Buchanan-Smith
* Tam Dalyell, Father of the House of Commons 2001-05
* Andrew Gilchrist
* Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser
* John Ernest Buttery Hotson
* David Robert Lyall
* Sir James Marjoribanks, career diplomat who presented Britain's successful application to join the European Community in 1967
* Mike Pringle
* Alexander Ramsay-Gibson-Maitland
* Sir Ninian Stephen, Governor General of Australia
* Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet
* Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel
* James Wemyss, New Zealand member of parliament
* George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie, (EA 1864-67)

## Scientists, educators and academics

* Thomas Anderson
* Lewis Campbell
* Frederick M Bailey, plant collector, discoverer of Meconopsis baileyi
* Isaac Bayley Balfour, botanist (1853-1922)
* Sir George Beilby, FRS. Chemical manufacturer
* Joseph Bell, now recognised as the model for Sherlock Holmes.
* John McConnell Black
* Hugh Blackburn
* John Chiene, surgeon
* Peter Craigie, biblical scholar
* William Cunningham, economist
* A. R. B. Haldane
* John Scott Haldane, physiologist (EA 1870-76)
* Colin Hardie
* Andrew Fergus Hewat, psychiatrist
* Fleeming Jenkin, professor of engineering, (EA 1875-81)
* Charles Kemball
* Sunil Khilnani
* Norman Boyd Kinnear
* John Michael Kosterlitz
* Robert Scott Lauder jnr., M.D.,(Edinburgh), Physician at Morningside Lunatic Asylum, etc., (EA 1852-8)
* Arthur Pillans Laurie
* Wallace Lindsay
* Aeneas James George Mackay
* Colin Mair
* James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, (EA 1841-47)
* William McNab, botanist
* Alan Munro, immunologist and master of Christ's College, Cambridge
* James Henry Skene, author, traveller and diplomat, (EA 1824-26)
* Archibald Campbell Swinton
* Peter Guthrie Tait, physicist, (EA 1841-47).
* Iain Torrance, President of Princeton Theological Seminary, (EA 1954-63)
* D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, mathematical biologist, (EA 1870-77)
* Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, ecologist
* Alexander Wood

## Soldiers

* Frederick Marshman Bailey
* Roy Bucher
* William Frederick Cavaye
* Philip Christison
* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet
* Aylmer Haldane
* Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor, 'Father of the Territorial Army' (EA 1866-72)
* Colin Mackenzie, Major-General and Chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Army
* Alastair Ogilvy
* Sir Jock Slater, First Sea Lord
* Thomas Bland Strange

### Victoria Cross recipients

Nine Edinburgh Academy alumni have received the Victoria Cross.
* Colonel Thomas Cadell VC CB
* Lieutenant-General Sir James Hills-Johnes VC GCB
* Colonel John Adam Tytler VC CB
* Captain James Dundas VC
* Major John Cook VC
* Colonel Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson, VC, CB (he also attended United Services College in 1875). He was a Major when he earned his VC.
* Lieutenant Colonel Walter Lorrain Brodie VC, MC
* Major Allan Ebenezer Ker VC
* Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Miers VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar

## Sport

* James Balfour-Melville (1882–1915), cricketer
* Leslie Balfour-Melville (1854–1937), an outstanding all-round amateur sportsman
* Mike Blair, Scottish Rugby International
* Tom Brown
* Charles Campbell, captain of Scotland's football team in the 19th century
* Chris Dean, Edinburgh Rugby and Scotland Sevens Rugby Cap
* Henry Fairweather, cricketer
* Jamie Farndale, Scotland Rugby 7's International
* Charles Fraser, cricketer
* George Gallie
* Sir James Angus Gillan, Olympic oarsman, gold-medallist 1908 and 1912 (EA 1896-1905)
* Alex Harris, footballer
* Nick Hillyard, cricketer
* Gilbert Hole, cricketer and cricket administrator
* David Jenkins, Olympian athlete; 400 meter world record holder
* Hubert Johnston, cricketer
* Blair Kinghorn, rugby player, Edinburgh Rugby, Scotland u20's
* Bill Maclagan, Scotland Rugby International
* William Maitland, cricketer
* Francis Moncreiff
* Robert Miln Neill, Scotland and Great Britain Rugby International
* John Murray, cricketer
* Patrick Oliphant, cricketer
* Norman Noble, cricketer
* Robert Ranken, cricketer
* Ross Rennie, Scotland Rugby International
* Alexander Stevenson, cricketer
* James Stevenson, cricketer
* John Guthrie Tait
* Frederick Guthrie Tait, son of Peter Guthrie Tait, soldier and gifted amateur golfer, (EA 1881-83)
* Ben Tod, cricketer and rugby player
* Bungy Watson, England rugby international
* Iain Woolward, Olympian, sailing