List of Principals and Vice-Chancellors
- 1460 - Duncan Bunch
- 1475 - Walter Bunch
- 1478 - John Goldsmith
- 1478 - John Doby
- 1480 - John Brown
- 1483 - Walter Leslie
- 1485 - George Crichton
- 1488 - John Goldsmith
- 1489 - John Doby
- 1498 - Patrick Coventry
- 1510 - Thomas Coutts
- 1514 - David Melville
- 1517 - David Abercromby
- 1518 - John Mair
- 1523 - James Lindsay
- 1527 - Alexander Logan
- 1540 - Alexander Hamilton
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- 1547 - John Hamilton
- 1555 - John Houston
- 1556 - John Davidson
- 1574 - Andrew Melville
- 1580 - Thomas Smeaton
- 1585 - Patrick Sharp
- 1615 - Robert Boyd
- 1622 - John Cameron
- 1626 - John Strang
- 1651 - Robert Ramsay
- 1653 - Patrick Gillespie
- 1660 - Robert Baillie
- 1662 - Edward Wright
- 1684 - James Fall
- 1690 - William Dunlop
- 1701 - John Stirling
- 1728 - Neil Campbell
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- 1761 - William Leechman
- 1785 - Archibald Davidson
- 1803 - William Taylor
- 1823 - Duncan MacFarlan
- 1858 - Thomas Barclay
- 1873 - John Caird*
- 1898 - Robert Story
- 1909 - Sir Donald MacAlister
- 1929 - Sir Robert Sangster Rait
- 1936 - Sir Hector Hetherington*
- 1961 - Sir Charles Wilson*
- 1972 - Sir Alwyn Williams
- 1988 - Sir William Kerr Fraser*
- 1995 - Sir Graeme Davies
- 2003 - Sir Muir Russell*
- 2009 - Anton Muscatelli*
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(*) = denotes alumnus