James Ireland Craig FRSE CBE (1868–1952) - meteorologist (dux 1885) Professor Maurice Ewing CBE, FRCSEd, FRACS (1912–1999) - First professor of surgery at Melbourne University, Australia Sir William Tennant Gairdner (1824–1907) - Professor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow and President of the British Medical Association William Aitcheson Haswell FRS (1854–1925) - Scottish-Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal Andrew John Herbertson FRGS FRMS (1865–1915) - geographer and Professor in Geography at Oxford University Sir James Charles Inglis (1851–1911) - British civil engineer, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and General Manager of the Great Western Railway Professor Tom W. B. Kibble, CBE FRS (1932–2016) - theoretical physicist, co-discovery of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson. Professor Arnold Maran (1936-2017) - surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Sir Peter Redford Scott Lang - Regius Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews University. George McGavin (born 1954) - entomologist John Smith FRSE, PRCSEd, (1825–1910) - dentist who founded the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh and was Surgeon Dentist to Queen Victoria. Sir Fraser Stoddart FRS FRSE FRSC (born 1942) - chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016, Professor of chemistry at Northwestern University, USA (supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology), awarded Albert Einstein World Award of Science. Sir John Thomson-Walker, OBE, DL, FRCS, (1871–1937) - Hunterian Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and leading surgeon in the field of urology Ramsay Traquair FRSE FRS (1840–1912) - naturalist and palaeontologist, leading expert on fossil fish, awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society and the Lyell Medal Media and arts Ian Stuart Black (1915–1997) - novelist, playwright and screenwriter Michael Boyd (director) (born 1955) - Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Tom Fleming CVO, OBE, FRSAMD (1927–2010) - actor and television commentator. Sir William Russell Flint (1880–1969) - watercolour painter and president of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours Stuart Henry (1942–1995) - popular radio disc jockey of the 1960s and 70s. Kheredine Idessane (born 1969) - sports broadcaster. Philip Kerr (1956–2018) - writer. Alexander Moffat (born 1943) - artist, Head of Painting, Glasgow School of Art. Law and politics Lord Brailsford (S. Neil Brailsford) (born 1954) - Senator of the College of Justice and Supreme Courts Judge Sir Martin Chamberlain (born 1973), a High Court Judge of England and Wales Sir William Young Darling MC, CBE, DL