List of people educated at Edinburgh Academy

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

Actors

 * Graham Crowden
 * 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