Although the school emphasised science and engineering, many of its former pupils are also present throughout politics, business, industry, and the arts. •
Bill Aitken MSP, politician •
Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Harrold Priory, businessman •
William Auld, poet, author, translator • Prof Dr
James Allan Jamieson Bennett, pioneer of helicopter flight and designer of the
Gyrodyne •
Sir Dirk Bogarde, actor and writer •
Hugh Dunbar Brown MP, politician •
Thomas Graham Brown, Electrical Engineer and co-designer of first medical ultrasound scanner. •
Walter Brown (mathematician), engineer and mathematician
FRSE •
Admiral Sir Lindsay Sutherland Bryson KCB, engineer, Controller of the Navy •
Sir John Buchanan, CBE, FRS, FRAeS, MIMechE, President of the
Royal Aeronautical Society, director of aircraft production [1941] •
Gregor Duncan, Episcopalian
Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway • Prof
William Jolly Duncan FRS, pioneer researcher in aero-elasticity and air flutter • Dr
Tom Eastop, Engineer, academic and author •
Leonard Findlay, pediatrician, first person to hold the Samson Gemmell Chair of Child Health at the University of Glasgow •
Sir Harold Montague Finniston FRS, engineer and industrialist • The Reverend Professor
John Macdonald Graham CBE, •
Sir James Colquhoun Irvine, Scientist, academic and educator, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews 1921–52. •
James Alexander Jameson CBE, LH, Hon MIMechE, mechanical engineer, director of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company •
SVT Jeffrey, pioneer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, member of the first Scottish Schoolboys' international football team •
Sir William Alexander Jeffrey, KCB, civil servant •
David Cunningham King, South African businessman and chairman Of
Rangers Football Club •
Sir Robert Alan Langlands, academic, educator, vice-chancellor of the
University of Leeds •
Prof Donald Neil McArthur FRSE, director of the Macaulay Institute of Soil Research •
Angus John Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston •
Michael William Frederick MacKenzie, MSP • Stuart McKellar. Venture Socialist. Labour Member of Northumberland County Council. Founding Chair of the North East Social Enterprise Partnership. •
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, artist and designer •
Hugh Miller MacMillan, Shipbuilding Engineer.
Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Founder, chairman and managing director of Blythswood Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. •
Wing Commander Norman Macmillan OBE, MC, combat pilot, test pilot and author •
David Forbes Martyn, physicist, radiographer, founder of Australian Academy of Science •
Ian McCallum, naval architect and chief designer for the liner
Queen Elizabeth 2,
Lloyd's Chief Ship Surveyor. •
Sir John Mills McCallum, MP, politician • Sir
Andrew McCance DL DSc LLD (Strathclyde) FRS, metallurgist, industrialist, chair of Governors of the
Royal College of Science and Technology •
Duncan MacRae, actor, comedian. •
Sir Robert Arthur McCrindle, MP, politician •
Henry Bell McCubbin, MEP, politician •
Harry Duncan McGowan, 1st Baron McGowan KBE, chairman and managing director of Imperial Chemical Industries •
Roderick M McKay, chess
international master •
David Gemmell McKinlay FRSE, civil Engineer and academic •
James McKissack Prominent Scottish architect and photographer •
Jack McLean (journalist), journalist, author • Sir
James McFadyen McNeill, principal naval architect for the
Queen Mary and
Queen Elizabeth •
Grant Morrison, comic book writer and playwright. • Prof
Thomas Crawford Phemister, FRSE, geologist • Dr
James Phemister, FRSE, geologist •
Craig Pritchett, chess
international master •
George Strachan Ramsay, footballer, Royal Air Force, killed in action 1918 •
Jon Rankin, MP, politician •
Dr Gordon Rintoul, CBE FRSE, director of National Museums Scotland •
Brian Alexander Robertson, actor, singer, composer •
Sir David Robertson, MP, politician • Prof
William Russell FRSE, molecular virologist, founder of Scientists for Labour • Prof
Alan Sked, Academic, politician and founder of the
UK Independence Party •
John Kendrick Skinner VC, DCM •
Robert Haldane Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin, chairman of the Green Investment Bank; BBC governor •
Alan Spence Author, poet, playwright, emeritus professor of creative writing at
Aberdeen University •
Rev Campbell Stephen, MP, politician • Dr
Walter Wilson Stothers, Scottish Mathematician. PhD in Number Theory, Cambridge University (1972). Proved the
Mason-Stothers theorem in 1981. •
Hugh Brown Sutherland, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering, Vice President,
Institution of Civil Engineers, renowned Soil Mechanics expert •
George Walker Thomson, prominent trade unionist,
President of the Trades Union Congress for 1946/47. •
Sinclair Thomson RSA, Artist, winner of the
Royal Scottish Academy's
Guthrie Award in 1948 and elected a member of RSA in 1952. •
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd, OM, PRS, FRSE, Nobel laureate, biochemist •
Edward Tull Warnock, first professionally-qualified black dentist in Britain. •
Sir Archibald Boyd Tunnock, Businessman and Philanthropist. •
Prof George Macdonald Urquhart FRSE FRCVS eminent Veterinarian, developer of the Dictol cattle vaccine. •
Sir John Weir, GCVO, Royal Victorian Chain,
Physician Royal •
William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir GCB, PC, engineer, industrialist • Prof
Henry Wallace Wilson FRSE, nuclear physicist, first director of the Scottish Universities' Research and Reactor Centre •
Robert Winter, politician, former Lord Provost of Glasgow •
George Ralston Wyllie, MBE, artist and sculptor • William Henderson McAteer, MBE, journalist and historian ==References==