page_title: St Aloysius' College, Glasgow
section_title: Notable former pupils (Old Aloysians or O.A.)
hierarchical_section_title: St Aloysius' College, Glasgow / Notable former pupils (Old Aloysians or O.A.)
caption_attribution_description: A. J. Cronin
context_page_description: St Aloysius' College is a selective fee-paying, independent, Jesuit school in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1859 by the Jesuits, who previously staffed the college, and named after Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. Its strong Jesuit ethos emphasises practice of the Roman Catholic faith both in the church and in the community, with many charitable and community-based groups in the school although there are no Jesuits now in the school.
  St Aloysius' College is a co-educational school with a kindergarten, junior school, and senior school. There are four houses: Aloysius Gonzaga, Ignatius of Loyola, John Ogilvie and Francis Xavier, named after Jesuit saints.
  The College motto is Ad majora natus sum, which means "I am born for greater things". As in many Jesuit schools, pupils are instructed to inscribe AMDG on all work. The school emblem is an eagle, and the College hymn is the Carmen Aloisianum.
context_section_description: Arts and Media
  A. J. Cronin (1896 - 1981) - author
  Canon Sydney MacEwan (1908 - 1991) - singer
  Ian Bannen (1928 - 1999) actor
  James Loughran (b. 1931) conductor
  Tom Conti (b. 1941) - actor
  Sean Scanlan (1948 - 2017) - actor
  Christopher Whyte (b. 1952) - novelist
  Paul Coia (b. 1960) - broadcaster
  Fred Morrison (b. 1963) - musician
  John Cummings, musician
  Armando Iannucci (b. 1963) - comedian
  Hardeep Singh Kohli (b. 1969) - broadcaster
  Brendan O'Hare (b. 1970) - musician
  Sanjeev Kohli (b. 1971) - comedian
  Academia and medicine
  Owen Hannaway (1939-2006) - historian
  Patrick J. O'Donnell (1948-2016) - university lecturer
  Prof Sir Harry Burns (b. 1951) - Ex-Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, now professor of global public health at the University of Strathclyde
  Prof John Joseph Haldane (b. 1954) - professor of philosophy
  Prof Paul Dourish (b. 1966) - professor of computer science
  Politics and law
  James Marley (1893-1954) - politician
  John Thomas Wheatley (1908 - 1988) - Baron Wheatley, politician and judge
  Patrick Kavanagh CBE (1923-2013), senior police officer
  Joseph Beltrami (1932 - 2015) - Glasgow defence lawyer
  James Stuart Gordon (b. 1936) - Lord Gordon of Strathblane, CBE
  The Rt Hon Lord Gill (b. 1942) - former  Lord President of the Court of Session
  Michael Scanlan (1946 - 2015) - Former President of the Law Society of Scotland
  Gerald Malone (b. 1950) - former MP
  Paul McBride (1964 - 2012) - QC, lawyer
  Austin Lafferty, (b. 1959) former President of the Law Society of Scotland
  Polly Higgins (1968 - 2019) - barrister, author and international environmental lawyer, founder of the ECOCIDE initiative, advocate for the recognition of Ecocide as a criminal offence
  Religious
  John Maguire (1851-1920) - Archbishop of Glasgow
  Rt Rev James Black (1894 - 1968) - first Bishop of Paisley
  Most Rev James Donald Scanlan (1899 - 1976) - former Archbishop of Glasgow
  Rt Rev Stephen McGill (1912 - 2005) - former Bishop of Argyll and the Isles and second Bishop of Paisley
  Rev James J. Quinn (1919 - 2010) - priest, hymnwriter and ecumenist.
  Maurice Taylor (b. 1926), Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway
  Rt Rev Peter Antony Moran (b. 1935) - emeritus Bishop of Aberdeen
  Sports
  Charlie Church (1929 - 2010) - footballer
  David Ralph (b. 1972) - hockey player, GB & England hockey coaching team
  Carlo di Ciacca (b. 1977) -  former rugby union player
  Simon Lynch (b. 1982) - footballer
  Ryan O'Leary (b. 1987) - footballer
  Joe Coffey (b. 1988) - professional wrestler
  Dan York - rugby union player
caption: A.J. Cronin, alumnus of the college
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