Our Famous Scholars

The Great and the Good . .

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William Cullen (1710 - 1790) Physician and chemist.
William Hunter (1718 - 1783) Anatomist and obstetrician.
Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) Novelist and physician.
Joseph Black (1728-1799) Chemist and physician.
Joseph Lister (1827-1912) Physician.
Murdoch Cameron (1845-1930) Obstetrician.
Sir William Macewen (1848-1924) Surgeon.
John Glaister Snr (1856-1932) Forensic Scientist.
John Glaister Jnr (1892-1971) Forensic Scientist.
Marion Gilchrist (1864-1952) Ophthalmologist.
Marbai Ardesir Vakil (1868- c.1948) Physician.
Dame Anne Louise McIllroy (1878-1968) Gynaecologist and obstetrician.
John Boyd Orr (1880-1971) Nutritionist.
Osborne Henry Mavor (1888-1951) Dramatist, GP and Professor of Medicine at Anderson’s College.
AJ Cronin (1896-1981) Novelist and GP.
Ian Donald (1910-1987) Obstetrician.
RD Laing (1927-1989) Psychiatrist.