• Source: List of people educated at Edinburgh Academy

Former pupils of the Edinburgh Academy in Edinburgh. They include the following individuals.




Arts and culture






= Actors

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Graham Crowden
Iain Glen, actor (EA 1965-78)
Frank Taylor, actor




= Artists, architects and designers

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Francis 'Bunty' Cadell, colourist painter.
James Eckford Lauder, painted portraits and historical pictures, (EA 1824-8)
Patrick Grant
John Henry Lorimer
Robert Lorimer
Alan MacDougall, railway engineer in Canada
Donald Watson




= Authors, poets and dramatists

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R. M. Ballantyne, children's author (EA 1835-37)
John Crommelin-Brown, poet, headmaster (EA 1895-97)
Gordon Honeycombe, author, playwright and stage actor, TV newscaster (EA 1947-55)
Andrew Lang, Scottish poet and novelist (EA 1854-61)
Alan Melville, (EA 1925-27)
Sarah Pinborough, young adult fiction and adult thriller writer (EA 1988-90)
Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (EA 1861-63)
J. I. M. Stewart (as Michael Innes), university professor and mystery writer (EA 1913-24)




= Entertainers

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Nicky Campbell, radio DJ and television presenter, (EA 1966-78)
Adam Alexander Dawson
Magnus Magnusson, television presenter, and translator of Icelandic origins, (EA 1935-48)
Catherine McQueen, model and TV presenter.




= Music

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Guy Berryman, bass player in Coldplay
John Burgess, piper
Peter Gregson, cellist and composer
Paul Jones, singer, actor and presenter, (EA 1958-60)
Nick Keir, musician (EA 1958-1970)




Business people


Walter Biggar Blaikie
Archibald Constable, publisher
Nick Ede
Mac Henderson
Roger Jenkins
John More Dick Peddie
Dennis Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Coddenham
Wilfrid Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara
Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic




Clergy


Marcus Dods
Ronnie Selby Wright
Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, (EA 1824-27).
Kenneth Stevenson, Bishop of Portsmouth.
Alexander Penrose Forbes, Bishop of Brechin, (EA 1825-32)




Convicted Criminals


David Jenkins, convicted felon and drug smuggler (1987), Olympic athlete (EA 1958-1969)




Explorers


Francis Cadell, explorer of the Murray River in Australia.
Lord Francis Douglas, with Edward Whymper on the ascent of the Matterhorn, died on the descent.
Sir James Hector, member of the Palliser Expedition, (EA 1844-45).




Lawyers and judges






Politicians and diplomats






Scientists, educators and academics






Soldiers


Frederick Marshman Bailey
Roy Bucher
William Frederick Cavaye
Philip Christison
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet
Aylmer Haldane
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor, 'Father of the Territorial Army' (EA 1866-72)
Colin Mackenzie, Major-General and Chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Army
Alastair Ogilvy
Sir Jock Slater, First Sea Lord
Thomas Bland Strange




= Victoria Cross recipients

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Nine Edinburgh Academy alumni have received the Victoria Cross.

Colonel Thomas Cadell VC CB
Lieutenant-General Sir James Hills-Johnes VC GCB
Colonel John Adam Tytler VC CB
Captain James Dundas VC
Major John Cook VC
Colonel Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson, VC, CB (he also attended United Services College in 1875). He was a Major when he earned his VC.
Lieutenant Colonel Walter Lorrain Brodie VC, MC
Major Allan Ebenezer Ker VC
Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Miers VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar




Sport






References

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