Alumni
Notable alumni of Marischal College include:
- Alexander Bain (1818–1903), Philosopher, Educationalist, Professor of Logic and Lord Rector of University of Aberdeen
- James Blair (Virginia), (1656–1743), clergyman, founder of College of William and Mary
- Robert Brown (1773–1858), botanist; discoverer of Brownian Motion
- James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714–99), jurist, philosopher, linguist; thinker on evolution
- [[Sir David Gill (1843-1914) Astrophotographer
- Robert Hunter (Encyclopædist) (1823-1897), missionary, geologist and editor of Encyclopædic Dictionary
- Alexander Keith, D.D. Church of Scotland theologian
- Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768), English theologian
- Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, General, hero of the Indian Mutiny, buried in Westminster Abbey
- Sir Alexander Ogston, Scottish surgeon; discoverer of Staphylococcus aureus
- Rev John Skinner (1721–1807), poet, historian and ecclesiastic.
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