Regius Professors of Astronomy
- Alexander Wilson (1760)
- Patrick Wilson (1784)
- William Meikleham (1799)
- James Couper (1803)
- John Nichol (1836)
- Robert Grant (1859)
- Ludwig Becker (1893)
- William Marshall Smart (1937)
- Peter Allan Sweet (1959)
- John Campbell Brown (1996) Astronomer Royal for Scotland
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