High School of Dundee - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Hector Boece, (c.1465–1536), Historian, first Principal of the University of Aberdeen, (1500–1536)
  • James Wedderburn, (c. 1495 – 1553), John Wedderburn (c. 1505–1556), and Robert Wedderburn (c. 1510–c.1555), religious reformers
  • Henry Scrimgeour (Scrymgeour), (1505?–1572), diplomat and book collector, Professor of Philosophy and Civil Law in the University of Geneva.
  • Sir Peter Young, (1544–1628), tutor to James VI and diplomat
  • George Gledstanes (Gladstanes), (c.1562–1615), archbishop of St Andrews
  • James Wedderburn, (1585 – 1639), bishop of Dunblane (1636–1638)
  • Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (1636–1691), Lord Advocate, writer, founder of the Advocates' Library, the precursor to the National Library of Scotland
  • Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, (1731–1804) Admiral of the Royal Navy
  • George Dempster, (1732–1818), lawyer and politician
  • William Small, (1734–1775), Professor at the College of William and Mary, physician
  • Robert Fergusson, (1750–1774), poet
  • Robert Haldane (1764–1842), theological writer and evangelical patron
  • Sir James Ivory FRS (1765–1842)
  • James Haldane (1768–1851), Baptist minister and author
  • Thomas Thomson, (1773-1852), Scottish chemist, whose writings contributed to the early spread of Dalton's atomic theory.
  • General Sir John Bell, (1782–1876), British general and Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
  • Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, (1786–1861), army officer and Provost of St Andrews
  • James Ivory, Lord Ivory (1792–1866), judge
  • Thomas James Henderson, (1798–1844), astronomer
  • Alexander Leighton, (1800–1874), writer and literary editor
  • Alexander Balfour, (1824–1886), merchant
  • Sir William Aitken, (1825–1892), pathologist
  • William Edward Baxter, (1825–1890), politician and author
  • Sir Andrew Clark, first baronet (1826–1893), physician
  • Alexander Crawford Lamb (1843-1897), Dundee hotelier, antiquarian and art collector.
  • Robert Fleming, (1845–1933), financier
  • Francis Robert Japp, (1848–1928), chemist
  • David Coupar Thomson, (1861–1954), newspaper proprietor
  • Andrew Macbeth Anderson, (1862–1936), Senior Scottish judge, Solicitor General for Scotland (1911–1913) and Liberal MP for North Ayrshire 1910–1911
  • Fred Miller, (1863–1924), editor of The Daily Telegraph, 1923–1924
  • Sir James Walker, (1863–1935), Professor of Chemistry at University College, Dundee, and the University of Edinburgh
  • John Duncan, (1866–1945), painter and illustrator
  • William Thomas Calman, (1871–1952), zoologist, Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum
  • Norman Kemp Smith, (1872–1958), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh
  • H. N. Brailsford, (1873–1958) journalist and author
  • Charles Coupar Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay, (1875–1940) politician
  • David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, (1876–1962), diplomat and linguist
  • Sir David Anderson, (1880–1953), civil engineer and lawyer
  • Preston Watson, (1880–1915), pioneer of aviation, argued to have made the world’s first powered flight
  • Robert William Chapman, (1881–1960), literary scholar and publisher
  • Sir Alexander Gray, (1882–1968), Jaffrey Professor of Political Economy at the University of Aberdeen and poet
  • William Laughton Lorimer (1885–1967), classical scholar and translator
  • James S. Stewart, (1896–1990), Theologian, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, (1963–1964)
  • John Scott Fulton, Baron Fulton (1902–1986), first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex and public servant
  • George Elder Davie, (1912–2007), philosopher, lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
  • Walter Perry, (1921–2003) Lord Perry of Walton, first Vice-Chancellor of the Open University
  • Sir Alan Peacock (1922-), economist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, (1983–1984)
  • Donald MacArthur Ross, Lord Ross, (1927–) Lord Justice Clerk, (1985–1997)
  • Very Rev Dr James Weatherhead, (1931-), Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (1985-1996), Moderator of the General Assembly (1993–1994)
  • Dave Duncan, (1933-) author
  • William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, KT (1935-), Lord President of the Court of Session, 2001–2005
  • Iain MacMillan, (1938–2006), photographer
  • Ramsay Robertson Dalgety (1945-), Judge of the Supreme Court, 1991–95, and Acting Chief Justice of Tonga, (1991–94)
  • Very Rev Dr Finlay MacDonald, (1945-), Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Moderator of the General Assembly (2002–2003)
  • Air Marshal Iain McNicoll, (1953-), Deputy Commander-in-Chief Operations, RAF Air Command
  • Frank Hadden, (1954-), ex-Scottish rugby union coach
  • David Taylor, (1954-), General Secretary of UEFA
  • Brian Taylor, (1955-), BBC journalist
  • Anne Glover, (1956-), Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen, Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland, (1996-)
  • Richard Ross, (1957-), songwriter and frontman for Deacon Blue
  • Andrew Marr, (1959-), journalist
  • A. L. Kennedy, (1965-) author
  • Andy Nicol, (1971-) ex-Scottish rugby international
  • KT Tunstall, (1975-), singer-songwriter
  • Jon Petrie, (1976-) ex-Scottish rugby international
  • Mark Beaumont, (1983-) Adventurer and former record-holder for around world cycle
  • Alasdair Dickinson, (1983-) Scottish Rugby International
  • Richie Vernon, (1987-) Scottish Rugby International

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