William Lindsay Alexander FRSE LLD was a Scottish church leader.
Edward Caird was a Scottish philosopher. He was a holder of LLD, DCL, and DLitt.
Robert Flint was a Scottish theologian and philosopher who wrote also on sociology.
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.
John Lee FRSE was a Scottish academic and polymath, the Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1840 to 1859. He was also a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1844.
Sir John Graham Kerr, known to his friends as Graham Kerr, was a British embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament (MP). He is best known for his studies of the embryology of lungfishes. He was involved in ship camouflage in the First World War, and through his pupil Hugh B. Cott influenced military camouflage thinking in the Second World War also.
John Joseph Haldane is a British philosopher, commentator and broadcaster. He is a former papal adviser to the Vatican. He is credited with coining the term 'Analytical Thomism' and is himself a Thomist in the analytic tradition. Haldane is associated with The Veritas Forum and is the current chair of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Robert Kerr Hannay was a Scottish historian. He served as Historiographer Royal for Scotland and Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh.
Thomas Murray MacRobert was a Scottish mathematician. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow and introduced the MacRobert E function, a generalisation of the generalised hypergeometric series.
Professor 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.
Sir Hugh Cleghorn FRSE LLD (1751-1836) was the first colonial secretary to Ceylon. He was key in the takeover of Ceylon from Dutch control to the British Empire. In 1795 Cleghorn used his friendship with Comte Charles-Daniel de Meuron, who owned a regiment of Swiss mercenaries, the Regiment de Meuron, that controlled Ceylon for the Dutch, to transfer control to the English. His grandson Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn was instrumental in the foundation of the forest department and forest conservation in India.
Prof William Swan FRSE PRSSA LLD was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best known for his 1856 discovery of the Swan band.
John Ferguson FRSE LL.D. was a Scottish chemist and bibliographer. He is noted for the early alchemy and chemistry bibliography Bibliotheca chemica. He was generally nicknamed Soda Ferguson. A collection of 7,500 books and manuscripts, held by Glasgow University originally from his library, are known as the Ferguson Collection.
William Jack FRSE was a Scottish mathematician and journalist. He was Editor of the Glasgow Herald 1870 to 1876. He was Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University from 1879 until 1909.
Sir Peter Redford Scott Lang VD FRSE (1850–1926) was a Scottish mathematician and Regius Professor at the University of St Andrews. In the 1880s he instituted “Common Dinners” to bring the students together for joint meals. This had a major impact upon student social life and was thereafter adopted by several Scottish universities. In memory of this the University of St Andrews holds an annual Scott Lang Dinner.
Alexander Morgan PEIS FRSE OBE LLD was a Scottish mathematician and educator. He was President of the Educational Institute of Scotland 1911/12. He was involved in the creation of the Education Act 1918.
Andrew Maitland Ramsay FRSE LLD (1859–1946) was a Scottish eye surgeon and medical author. He was President of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain 1923/24 and President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow.
John Reddie FRSE LLD (1805–1851) was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer remembered as a colonial judge.
Patrick James Stirling FRSE LLD was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer and author on law and economics. He was the leading lawyer in western Perthshire.
John WaltonLLD (1895–1971) was a 20th-century British botanist and paleobotanist.
