Fettes College - Notable Old Fettesians

Notable Old Fettesians

See also: Category:People educated at Fettes College

• William Herbert Anderson, VC
• Tommy Armour, golfer
• Robert Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, CB, CBE, DSO, MC
• A.G.G. Asher, sportsman.
• Frank Barnwell, Chief designer of the Bristol bomber, Blenheim fighter, etc.
• Fereydoon Batamanghelidj, Persian/Iranian doctor
• David Bedell-Sivright, rugby internationalist.
• John Hay Beith, (aka Ian Hay) writer
• Maurice Berkley, English cricketer.
• Hugh Enes Blackmore, performer in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in the late 19th century.
• Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007, now the Quartet on the Middle East's envoy; the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and the MP for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007.
• Frans ten Bos, Dutch rugby player and businessman.
• John Cameron, Lord Coulsfield, Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland; Lockerbie trial judge; Privy Counsellor
• Norman Cameron, poet
• A. Y. Campbell, translator.
• Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, electrical engineer and television pioneer.
• Hugh Crichton-Miller, psychiatrist, founder of the Tavistock Clinic
• General John de Chastelain, CMM, Canadian. Chairman Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, Northern Ireland peace process
• Josias Cunningham, Northern Irish businessman and politician who closed down the Belfast Stock Exchange.
• Angus Deaton, Professor of Economics and President of the American Economic Association
• Ian Donald, medical pioneer in ultrasound.
• Andrew Ramsay Don-Wauchope, rugby internationalist.
• Hamilton Fyfe, editor and journalist.
• William Hamilton Fyfe, Principal of Queen's University and of the University of Aberdeen
• Bill Gammell, Scottish rugby international and CEO Cairn Energy plc
• Sandy Glen, pioneer of the package holiday.
• Nicholas Hammond, CBE, classicist and spy
• George Campbell Hay, poet in English and Scottish Gaelic amongst other languages, who wryly called Fettes College a little piece of "Forever England".
• William Theodore Heard, Cardinal (1959), Dean of the Roman Rota (1958)
• Alexander Mitchell Hodge, GC VRD, awarded George Cross
• Frank Hunter, sportsman.
• Richard Lambert, Former Editor of The Financial Times; Former member of Bank of England MPC; Director-General of Confederation of British Industry from 2006
• Ross Leckie, historical novelist (not to be confused with Canadian writer of same name)
• Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn Lloyd CH PC, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer
• R. H. Bruce Lockhart Author; British rep. to provisional Czech Govt.(1940–41); Dir.-Gen. Political Warfare Executive (1941–45)
• W.L. Lorimer, linguist, editor of the Scottish National Dictionary, and translator of the New Testament into Lowland Scots.
• Roderick Macdonald KBE Chief of Staff to C-in-C Allied Naval Forces (1973–77), artist
• Roderick MacFarquhar, Orientalist.
• Dr Ian McKee, former Scottish National Party MSP.
• Donald MacKintosh, VC.
• Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean VC.
• Iain Macleod, Minister of Labour, Colonial Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer
• K.G. MacLeod, sportsman, Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.
• David MacMyn, rugby internationalist.
• Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn, VC.
• Justin Melck, rugby player for Western Province, the Super Rugby side Stormers, Munster Rugby and now Saracens
• Charlton Monypenny, sprinter.
• George Morton, Labour Party politician.
• David Murray, Chairman & Managing Director, Murray International Holdings; Chairman, Rangers Football Club plc
• Wilfrid Guild Normand, Lord Justice General; Lord President of Court of Session (1935–47); Lord of Appeal (1947–53)
• David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, advertising.
• George Pirie, former Inspector-General of the RAF
• Robert Alexander Rankin, mathematician who worked in analytic number theory.
• David Reid, Chairman of Tesco
• Edward Reid, Anglican bishop.
• Sidney Rowlatt, judge and chairman of the Rowlatt committee
• W. C. Sellar, co-author of 1066 and All That, Head of School 1917 and taught at the school.
• John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, in Churchill's Government, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Chancellor, former Head of School.
• Walter Terence Stace, educator, philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, Mysticism, and Moral relativism.
• Donald Steel, golfer.
• Tilda Swinton, screen actress and Oscar winner, attended in her sixth year.
• D. R. Thorpe, political biographer.
• Michael Tippett, composer
• Ruthven Todd Scottish poet and novelist, known also as an editor of William Blake and as an artist.
• Gordon Waddell, rugby internationalist.
• Robert Wedderburn, co-developer, with John Nelder, of the generalized linear model methodology.
• Robert Whigham, former British Adjutant-General to the Forces
• Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, lawyer, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• William Wotherspoon, rugby player.

Four Old Fettesians have won the Victoria Cross and one the George Cross, please see the above list for details. Former pupils of the school sometimes refer to themselves as "OF" and can use the post nominal "OF".