In Popular Culture
- In the television show NCIS, the chief medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard studied medicine at Edinburgh.
- In the BBC soap opera Doctors, Dr. Emma Reid studied medicine at Edinburgh
- The character Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was based on Dr. Joseph Bell, a graduate and lecturer at Edinburgh.
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