Sports
- Leslie Balfour-Melville, outstanding all-round sportsman
- Zbigniew Czajkowski, fencing master, "Father of the Polish School" of fencing
- Gemma Gibbons, Olympic Judo silver medallist
- Katherine Grainger, Olympic rowing gold medallist
- Peter Heatly, diver and former Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation
- Sir Chris Hoy, the most successful British Olympian in history with six Olympic track cycling gold medals
- Andy Irvine, rugby player and president of the Scottish Rugby Union
- Michael Jamieson, 200m breaststroke Olympic silver medallist
- Eric Liddell, men's Olympic 400m gold medallist, and Scottish Rugby international
- Alistair Potts, Commonwealth and British World Champion rower
- Micky Steele-Bodger, English rugby international and Chairman IRB
- Robert Strang, English cricketer who played once for Scotland
- Simon Taylor, International and Professional Rugby player
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—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)