Politics and Government
- Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian, former Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Hikmat Abu Zayd, first female cabinet minister of Egypt
- John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, former Governor of Bengal and Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Mehmet Aydın, Turkish Minister
- Sir Robert Brown Black, former Governor of Hong Kong and Governor of Singapore
- John Crawfurd, diplomat and one of the early founders of Singapore
- Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, former Lord Advocate for Scotland
- Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales
- Benjamin Constant, writer and politician
- Robin Cook, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Michael Cullen, former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, statesman
- Nicholas Fairbairn, Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party
- Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
- Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, British Liberal and Labour politician
- Douglas Henderson, influential former Scottish National Party member
- Charles Hendry, current Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Tessa Jowell, former Minister for the Olympics
- Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- Jennie Lee, Minister for the Arts and founder of the Open University
- Dr.Lim Chong Eu, former Chief Minister of Penang
- James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
- Robert James Manion, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada from 1938 to 1940
- Sir James Marjoribanks, orchestrated Britain's successful application to join the European Community in 1967
- Anne McIntosh, Member of Parliament and former Member of European Parliament
- Catherine McKinnell, Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne North
- David McLetchie, former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party
- Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Malcolm Rifkind, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Benjamin Rush, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence
- David Steel, former leader of the Liberal Party and first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
- Jim Wallace, former Deputy First Minister of Scotland
- Ike Skelton, former U.S. congressman from Missouri
- Mike Synar, former U.S. congressman from Oklahoma
- John Witherspoon, signatory, United States Declaration of Independence
- Noah Wekesa, current Kenyan Minister for Forestry and Wildlife
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“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
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