Notable University of Edinburgh Graduates, Students, and Faculty

I recently found this great list of notable University of Edinburgh people.  Some of them are pretty interesting and you can find statues of them and buildings named after them all over campus.


-  Charles Darwin, naturalist (discovered natural selection, the basis for the modern theory of evolution)


-  Sir Walter Scott, writer (writer of Ivanhoe)


-  David Hume, philosopher (empiricist and skeptic during the Scottish Enlightenment)


-  Tony Hayward, former CEO of BP


-  John Knox, founder of Presbyterianism (led the Scottish Reformation)


-  Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister (led Britain during World War II)


-  Alexander Fleming, chemist (discovered penicillin and won a Nobel Prize)


-  Dolly (that's right, the first cloned animal can be seen right here in Edinburgh's National Museum of Scotland)


-  John Witherspoon, signatory of the American Declaration of Independence


-  Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (writer of Treasure Island)


-  James Hutton, geologist (considered the father of modern geology)


-  JK Rowling, writer (writer of the Harry Potter series)


-  the University of Edinburgh claims nine Nobel Prize winners


-  the University of Edinburgh has consistently been ranked in the top 25 universities worldwide


I'm sure that five months here will be plenty of time for me to pave the way for this level of fame and success...