Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair was a British scientist and Liberal politician who was Postmaster-General from 1873 to 1874.
Robert Jameson FRS FRSE was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist.
Dr Robert Kerr FRSE FAS FRCSE was a Scottish surgeon, writer on scientific and other subjects, and translator.
Alan StevensonFRSE MInstCE was a Scottish civil engineer, known for designing and building lighthouses in and around Scotland.
Sir Daniel Wilson FSA (Scot) FRSE LLD was a Scottish-born Canadian archaeologist, ethnologist and author.
Robert Hamilton was a Scottish mathematician and political economist. He was a founder member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
David Boyle, Lord Boyle FRSE was a British judge.
Thomas Thomson MD was a Scottish chemist and mineralogist whose writings contributed to the early spread of Dalton's atomic theory. His scientific accomplishments include the invention of the saccharometer and he gave silicon its current name. He served as president of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow.
Sir James Balfour Paul was the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the officer responsible for heraldry in Scotland, from 1890 until the end of 1926.
The Edinburgh Calotype Club of Scotland was the first photographic club in the world. Its members consisted of pioneering photographers primarily from Edinburgh and St Andrews. The efforts of the Club's members resulted in the production of two of the world's earliest assembled photographic albums, consisting of more than 300 images.
Duncan Farquharson Gregory was a Scottish mathematician.
James Miller FRCSEd, FRSE was a surgeon and medical author in Edinburgh. He was author of the important 19th century textbook, Principles of Surgery. Like his father he became a member of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843 and was a firm believer in temperance.
Patrick Small Keir Newbigging FRSE FRSSA FRCSE (1813–1864) was a Scottish surgeon and general practitioner. He was President of the Royal Medical Society and of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. Together with his father, Sir William Newbigging he formed one of the few father-son pairs of former Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His observations on the origin of the heart sounds and of the apex beat of the heart made a significant contribution to the debate.
Robert Lee, Lord Lee FRSE was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer and judge.
Robert Nasmyth FRCSEd, FRSE was a Scottish dental surgeon from Edinburgh who was Surgeon-Dentist to Queen Victoria in Scotland. He was President of the Odonto-Chirurgical Society of Scotland and was one of the founders of the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary, which would evolve into the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School.
Hugh Lyon Tennent was a Scottish advocate and pioneer photographer. He is sometimes recorded as Hugh Lyon Tennant.
Dr Ralph Stockman MD LLD FRCPE FRSE was a Scottish Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the University of Glasgow. He was an expert on iron deficiency anaemia.
William Fraser Tytler of Balnain FRSE was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer and historian.
Robert Wallace was Scottish professor of agriculture who worked at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester and at the University of Edinburgh where he helped establish agricultural education. He travelled around the British colonies, examining agriculture and livestock husbandry, and wrote numerous books and contributed several entries related to farming for the 11th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The Honourable James Wedderburn FRSE was a 19th-century Scottish judge who served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1816, dying in office aged 39. He is sometimes called James Wedderburn-Colville.
