Ralph Allan Sampson FRS FRSE LLD was a British astronomer.
General Robert Melvill LLD was a Scottish soldier, antiquary, botanist and inventor.
William Carmichael M'Intosh LLD was a Scottish physician and marine zoologist. He served as president of the Ray Society, as vice-president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1927–30), and was awarded the Neill Prize (1865-8).
Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson FRSE DCL was an English educational psychologist known as a critical pioneer in intelligence research.
Sir Andrew Douglas MaclaganPRSE FRCPE FRCSE FCS FRSSA was a Scottish surgeon, toxicologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence. He served as president of 5 learned societies: the Royal Medical Society (1832), the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1859–61), the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1884–87), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1890–5), and the Royal Scottish Society of Arts (1900).
Thomas Jones Mackie FRSE LLD CBE was a noted Scottish bacteriologist; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Edinburgh; and author of medical research textbooks.
Marion Gilchrist was the first female graduate of the University of Glasgow, one of the first two women to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university; and a leading activist in the Women's suffrage Movement in Scotland. In recognition of her achievements she has been honoured in a number of ways.
Sir James Alexander Russell was a Scottish physician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1891–94). He was a pioneer in the development of public health services.
Sir George Macdonald was a British archaeologist and numismatist who studied the Antonine Wall.
Sir Frederick Henry Stewart was a Scottish geologist and academic who was a professor at the University of Edinburgh.
James Montagu Frank Drummond FRSE FLS (1881–1965) was a Scottish botanist, descended from a long line of botanists including James Drummond all living in the Inverarity area around Kirriemuir, and mainly working on the Forthringham estate. Friends generally knew him as Monty Drummond. He was an expert on Bryophytes.
Prof Andrew Rae Gilchrist CBE PRCPE FRSE FRCP was a Scottish cardiologist who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1957 to 1960. He was its longest serving Fellow: 1929 to 1995. He did extensive work on anti-coagulants. In 1959 he was a co-founder of the British Heart Foundation, a charity raising funds for heart research.
Sir Robert Blyth Greig was a Scottish agriculturalist. He served as Chairman of the Scottish Board of Agriculture from 1921 to 1928 and was Secretary to the Department of Agriculture for all Great Britain from 1928 to 1934.
Dr George Heslop-Harrison FRSE was a British entomologist. He was Head of the Department of Agricultural Zoology at Newcastle University. He specialised in crops and the insects which fed upon them.
John Alexander Inglis of Auchendinny and Redhall FRSE KC LLB was a Scottish landowner, advocate and historian. He specialised in family histories of Scotland’s gentry.
Dr Daniel Stewart MacLagan FRSE FRES was a 20th-century Scottish agricultural zoologist and entomologist. He was popularly known as Dan MacLagan.
Prof James Edward Nichols FRSE was a Welsh geneticist.
Alexander David Peacock FRSE (1886–1976) was a 20th-century British zoologist.
Sir William Somerville KBE FRSE LLD (1860–1932) was a 19th/20th century Scottish agriculturalist. He is one of the few academics to have taught at both Cambridge University and Oxford University. He was twice President of the Arboricultural Society: 1900–1901 and 1922–1924.
Herbert Fitton Stockdale FRSE LLD (1865–1951) was a 19th/20th century British university administrator.
