- Joseph Black
Joseph Black (April 16,1728 - december 6,1799) was a Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries on latent heat, specific heat, and for the discovery of carbon dioxide. He was a founder of thermochemistry, who developed many pre-thermodynamics concepts, such as heat capacity, and was the mentor for many, such as James Watt. The chemistry buildings at both Edinburgh and Glasgow universities are named after him. - John Brown
John Brown (July 12, 1784 - October 13, 1858), Scottish divine, grandson of John Brown, the physician, was born at Whitburn, Linlithgowshire. He studied at Glasgow university, and afterwards at the divinity hall of the Burgher branch of the Secession church at Selkirk, under the celebrated George Lawson. In 1806 he was ordained minister of the Burgher congregation at Biggar, Lanarkshire, where he labored for sixteen years. - William Hunter
William Hunter (23 May 1718 - 30 March 1783) was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was born in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, the elder brother of John Hunter. After studying divinity at the University of Glasgow, he went into medicine in 1737, studying under William Cullen. He was trained in anatomy at St George's Hospital, London, and specialised in obstetrics. - Edwin Morgan
Professor Edwin Morgan OBE (born April 27, 1920) is a Scottish poet and translator who is associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. In 2004, he was named as the first Scottish national poet: The Scots Makar. - Muir Russell
Sir Muir Russell KCB DL FRSE is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, in Scotland. He was born in Glasgow in 1949 and was educated at the High School of Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, where he took a first class honours degree in Natural Philosophy. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2000 and holds honorary degrees from the University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow. - William Cullen
William Cullen was a Scottish doctor and chemist. Cullen was born at Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He received his early education at the grammar school of Hamilton, and he appears to have subsequently attended some classes at the University of Glasgow. He began his medical career as apprentice to John Paisley, a Glasgow surgeon, and after completing his apprenticeship he became surgeon to a merchant vessel trading between London and the West Indies. - John Anderson
John Anderson (1893-1962) was a Scottish born philosopher who occupied the post of Challis Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University in the years 1927-1958. He founded the empirical brand of philosophy known as 'Sydney realism'. His promotion of 'free thought' in all subjects, including politics and morality, was controversial and brought him into constant conflict with the august senate of the university. - Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid (April 26, 1710 - October 7, 1796), Scottish philosopher, and a contemporary of David Hume, was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, and played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment. The early part of his life was spent in Aberdeen, Scotland, where he created the" 'Wise Club' "(a literary-philosophical association) and graduated from the University of Aberdeen. He was given a professorship at King's College Aberdeen in 1752, … - William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (1860-1940) was a Scottish classical composer. Born in Greenock, he studied medicine in Glasgow, Vienna and Paris before deciding to study music at the Royal Academy in London in 1889. Wallace was greatly influenced by Liszt, and introduced the symphonic poem to Britain. His compositions include the symphonic poem, "Sir William Wallace" (1905; based on his namesake, the freedom fighter William Wallace, one of Scotland’s national heroes), … - Wendy Alexander
Wendy Alexander (born 27 June, 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North. Prior to entering the Scottish Parliament,Alexander worked in the private, voluntary and public sectors and for the international management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton. This included a period as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland (Donald Dewar). From 1999 to 2002 she was a minister in the Scottish Executive, … - Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon (born on 19 July, 1970 in Irvine, North Ayrshire) is the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Member (MSP) of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Govan. Sturgeon became an MSP in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, becoming the SNP's spokeswoman on justice, and later on education and health. - John Wilson
John Wilson (18 May 1785 - 3 April 1854) was a Scottish writer, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine". He was born at Paisley, the son of a wealthy gauze manufacturer who died when John was eleven years old. He was the fourth child, but the eldest son, and he had nine brothers and sisters. He was only twelve when he entered the University of Glasgow, … - Robert Brown
Robert Brown, (1842 - 26 October 1895), was a Scottish scientist, explorer, and author. He was born in Campster, Caithness, and studied in the universities of Edinburgh, Leyden, Copenhagen, and Rostock. He took the habit of referring to his home town, Campster ("Campsterianus") to distinguish himself from his famous contemporary homonym: Robert Brown of Montrose. He visited Spitzbergen, Greenland, and the western shore of Baffin's Bay (1861), … - James Brown
Rt. Hon. James Brown (16 December 1862 - 21 March 1939) was a Scottish Labour politician. Educated at Annbank Public School, he was Secretary of the Ayrshire Miners and of the Scottish Miners' National Union. He unsuccessfully contested North Ayrshire in 1910 and was Member of Parliament for South Ayrshire from 1918-1931 and from 1935 until his death. He was awarded the OBE in 1917, appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1930. - C. J. van Rijsbergen
C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen (Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen) is a professor of computer science and the leader of the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group based at the University of Glasgow. He is one of the founders of modern Information Retrieval and the author of the seminal monograph "Information Retrieval" and of the textbook "The Geometry of Information Retrieval". - Ronald MacDonald
Professor Ronald MacDonald is an economist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland (Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy) with a research specialism in exchange rate analysis using advanced econometric techniques. Until 2004 he held the same post at the University of Strathclyde (professor of international finance - formerly professor of international macroeconomics). - Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones (born in South Africa in 1958) is a British computer scientist who does research on the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional languages. He is an honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow and supervises PhD Students at the University of Cambridge. Peyton Jones graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1980, … - Kenneth Calman
Professor Sir Kenneth Calman is the former Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University, a position he held since 1998. His time as vice-chancellor saw the expansion and integration of the campus at Stockton-on-Tees, with two colleges being established there in 2001 and the campus being renamed Queen's Campus during the 2003 Golden Jubilee celebrations. There has also been a return to the teaching of medicine at Durham, … - Sarah Boyack
Sarah Boyack MSP (born 16 May 1961 in Glasgow) is the Labour MSP for Edinburgh Central in the Scottish Parliament. She was brought up in Edinburgh, where her father was an important figure in the Labour Party. She became a student at the University of Glasgow in 1979, and became active in the Labour Club, where she was a protege of Margaret Curran. She became chair of the Labour Club in 1981-82, and chair of the National Organisation of Labour Students in 1985-86. - Alexander Campbell
Alexander Campbell (September 12, 1788 - March 4, 1866) was an early leader of a movement that began in 1800 with the goal of removing divisions between Christians, by returning believers in the New Testament to principles of "Truth and Union." This movement has since been called the Restoration Movement or the Stone-Campbell Movement. Campbell was born near Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. He was raised as a Presbyterian, and was the son of a Presbyterian minister, … - John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird (August 13 1888 - June 14 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems (such as those of Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth), his early successes demonstrating working television broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earn him a prominent place in television's invention. - Charles Kennedy
Charles Peter Kennedy (born 25 November 1959), is a British politician. From 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006, he was the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third largest political party in the United Kingdom. Born in Inverness, Scotland, Charles Kennedy studied for a Master of Arts degree in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. At university, he became politically active, was elected president of Glasgow University Union, … - James Hamilton
James Hamilton, bishop of Galloway, was the second son of Sir James Hamilton of Broomhill, by Margaret, daughter of William Hamilton of Udston, and brother of John, first lord Belhaven. He studied at the university of Glasgow, graduated there in 1628, and in 1634 was ordained as minister of Cambusnethan by Archbishop Patrick Lindsay. - Jim Mather
Jim Mather is a Scottish National Party politician, the Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute. Mather was educated at Paisley Grammar School and Greenock High School before attending the University of Glasgow. Before his election to Holyrood he worked as a chartered accountant and ran his own business. He joined the SNP in 1996 and acted as the SNP’s National Treasurer from 2000. - Graeme Davies
Sir Graeme Davies is a New Zealand engineer and academician. He is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow and current Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, in the United Kingdom. - Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell (July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844) was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing specially with human affairs. He was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London. In 1799, he wrote 'The Pleasures of Hope' a traditional 18<sup>th</sup> century survey in heroic couplets. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs- "Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", … - Margaret Curran
Margaret Curran (b. 24 November 1958) is a former Minister for Parliamentary Business in the Scottish Executive, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Baillieston. She became an MSP in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, later holding positions as Deputy Minister for Social Justice and Minister for Communities. - William Barclay
William Barclay (5 December 1907, Wick - 24 January 1978, Glasgow) was an author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow. While professor he decided to dedicate his life to "making the best biblical scholarship available to the average reader". The eventual result was the "Daily Study Bible", a set of commentaries on the New Testament. - Hugh Henry
Hugh Henry (b. 12 February 1952, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley South since 1999. He was appointed Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care in the Scottish Executive in 2001, and moved to become Deputy Minister for Social Justice in 2002. He was appointed Deputy Minister for Justice after the Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003, and became Minister for Education in 2006. - William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (along with Lord Rayleigh who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for the discovery of argon). Ramsay was born in Glasgow, the son of William Ramsay, C.E. and Catherine, née Robertson. He was a nephew of the geologist Sir Andrew Ramsay. - David Jasper
David Jasper is an Anglican priest and theologian, currently Professor in Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is an influential writer and speaker within the fields of Christian hermeneutics and post-modernity. His particular interests are the interplay between English literature and the Bible. His work is in articulating theology within a postmodern post-Christian environment, and has been described as 'as a search for a postmodern theology'. - George Brown
George Clark Phillips Brown (born 7 January 1907 in Glasgow) was a Scottish footballer who played for Rangers and the Scotland national team. Brown joined Rangers in September 1929 from Glasgow Ashfield and made his debut aginst Ayr United in November of that year. He remained at Rangers for the remainder of his career, retiring in 1942. He won a total of seven League Championships and 4 Scottish Cup's whilst at Ibrox. - Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham FRS (December 21, 1805 – September 16, 1869) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Graham's father was a successful textile manufacturer, and wanted his son to enter into the Church of Scotland. Instead, defying his father's wishes, Graham became a student at the University of Glasgow in 1819. There he developed a strong interest in chemistry, and left the University after receiving his M.A. in 1826. He later became a professor of chemistry at numerous colleges, … - Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt, FRLS, OBE is a poet, scholar, linguist, and editor of "Poetry Nation Review". He was born in Mexico on March 2, 1947. His poetry is widely read, and has been included in the popular high school poetry anthology, "Touched with Fire". He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is currently a Professor of Poetry and Convener of the Creative Writing course at the University of Glasgow, and is a founder and director of Carcanet Press. - William Thomas
William Thomas (1834 - 1878), better known by his bardic name of Gwilym Marles, was a Welsh minister and poet, and the great-uncle of Dylan Thomas. Dylan was given his middle name, "Marlais", in honour of William Thomas, who is also believed to have inspired the character of Rev. Eli Jenkins in "Under Milk Wood". Thomas was born in Brechfa near Llandysul, and studied at the Presbyterian College in Carmarthen, … - Frank McAveety
Frank McAveety (born 27 June 1962) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston. He was educated at All Saints Secondary School, Glasgow, at the University of Strathclyde, and at St. Andrew's College of Education in Glasgow. Before his election to the Scottish Parliament, he taught English at St Gregory's RC school (Cranhill) in Glasgow and St Brendan's RC High School, Renfrewshire. - Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont (born 11 July 1957, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour politician and member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Pollok since 1999. She first became active in Glasgow University Labour Club, and in 1977 took part in the unsuccessful campaign to elect Hortensia Allende (widow of Salvador Allende) as Rector of Glasgow University. She spent a year at Jordanhill Teacher Training College, … - William Stewart
William Stewart was a late medieval Scottish prelate. Born around 1490 in Glasgow, he was the son of Thomas Stewart of Minto. Details about his early life are obscure, but it is known that he attended the University of Glasgow before travelling to continental Europe to study theology and canon law. The first benefice he held was the parsonage of Lochmaben, which he was in possession of by July 1528. In the same year he became rector of Ayr,, … - Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson, OBE (born July 9, 1936) is a Scottish actor and theatre director, best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC situation comedy "One Foot in the Grave". He was born as Ian Colquhoun Wilson (or Iain Richard Wilson, according to the Internet Movie Database<sup>1</sup>) in Greenock, Inverclyde. When he went into acting, he had to change his name because another actor was already called "Ian Wilson". - David Watt
David Watt is a British computer scientist. Watt is a professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. With Peter Mosses he developed action semantics, a combination of denotational semantics, operational and algebraic semantics. He currently teaches a third year programming languages course, and a postgraduate course on algorithms and data structures. He is recognizeable around campus for his more formal attire compared to the department's normally casual dress code.
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