mathematician Bill Napier, astronomer and novelist Raymond Ogden, engineering mathematician Percy Sinclair Pilcher, pioneer of powered flight Robert Alexander Rankin, mathematician William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist Dorothy Rowntree the first woman graduate in engineering from the University and the first woman graduate in naval architecture in UK John Scott Russell, naval engineer Robert Simson, mathematician Ian Sneddon, mathematician William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist Gavin Vernon, engineer, known for removing the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey James Watt, mathematician and engineer John Robison, physicist and mathematician. Inventor of the siren. Hugh Blackburn, a member of the Cambridge Apostles, inventor of the Blackburn pendulum. Gillian Wright, astronomer and director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre Computing Simon Peyton Jones, research in functional programming languages Philip Wadler, research in functional programming languages Social sciences Sally Baldwin, social policy researcher Sir Alexander Cairncross, economist and Chancellor of the University of Glasgow (1972–96), Sir James Frazer, social anthropologist Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank Sir Anton Muscatelli, economist and University Vice-Chancellor Alexander Nove, Soviet economic historian Alison Phipps (refugee researcher) UNESCO chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts Ljubo Sirc, economist, author and Slovenian dissident during the Titoist regime Sports John Beattie, rugby union international player Jim Craig, Celtic F.C. player, member of the Lisbon Lions Katherine Grainger, rower and Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian Louis Greig, rugby union player and naval surgeon RC Hamilton, Rangers F.C. player Thomas Hart, cricket and rugby union player Laura Muir, British record holder over 1500m and Olympic silver medalist Euan Murray, rugby union player for British and Irish Lions James Reid-Kerr, rugby union and cricket international player Emma Richards, yachtswoman, became the first British woman and youngest ever person to complete the single-handed round the world yacht race with stops David Robertson, golfer, won bronze at the 1900 Olympic Games Arthur Smith, rugby union player, captained Scotland and the British and Irish Lions Imogen Walsh, rower, 2011 lightweight women's quad World Champion Andrew Watson, early Scotland international footballer and first black international player in the history of the game Dave MacLeod, Scottish rock climber References See also University of Glasgow Memorial Gates List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow University Glasgow