(1885–1962) - Member of Parliament for South Edinburgh and Lord Provost of Edinburgh Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser KCSI (1848–1919) - Lieutenant Governor of Bengal between 1903 and 1908 Sir James Gibson, 1st Baronet (1849–1912) Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford FRSE (1820–1887) - Scottish Advocate and Judge Robert McIntyre (1913–1998) - politician, leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the SNP's first elected Member of Parliament. J P Mackintosh (1929–1978) - academic and British Labour politician of the 1960s and 70s. Leading advocate of Scottish devolution. Sir Thomas Brash Morison (1868–1945) - Liberal Member of Parliament for Inverness, Solicitor General for Scotland, Privy Counsellor and Lord Advocate Sir George Touche 1st Baronet (1861–1935) - Conservative Member of Parliament and founder of one of the firms that created Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Sir James Wilson (1849–1929) New Zealand Politician Paul Wheelhouse (born 1970) - SNP MSP for South Scotland, Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy in the Scottish Government Daniel Johnson (born 1977) - Entrepreneur and Labour MSP for Edinburgh Southern. Sports Finlay Calder OBE (born 1957) - international rugby player and British and Irish Lions captain who played 34 times for Scotland. Jim Calder (born 1957) - Scottish and British Lions Rugby Player who played 27 times for Scotland Grant Forrest (born 1993) - European Tour Professional Golfer and Member of the 2015 Walker Cup Team. David Florence (born 1982) - Olympic canoeing silver medallist and world champion. Dario Franchitti MBE (born 1973) - professional racing-car driver who won the Indianapolis 500 race three times. William Laidlaw (1912–1992) - international cricketer for Scotland and Durham John Lisle Hall MacFarlane (1851–1874) - international rugby player and surgeon. He played for Scotland in the first international rugby match in 1871. Donald MacGregor (born 1939) - Olympic marathon runner. Finlay Mickel (born 1977) - Olympic skier, his result at the 2005 World Championships was the best result by a British man in the history of the skiing World Championships,. Arthur Plowright (1913–1992) - first-class cricketer Charles Scobie (1895–1965) - first-class cricketer Jamie Stevenson (born 1975) - world champion orienteer. William Turnbull (1879–1959) - first-class cricketer Grant Weatherstone (1931–2020) - international rugby player who was played 16 times for Scotland. Doddie Weir OBE (1970-2022) - Scottish and British Lions international rugby player who played 61 times for Scotland. Charity fundraiser for MND research. Jake