From our past

Image Name

Robert Adam

Botanist Photographer

William Speirs Bruce

Polar Explorer

Robert Bryson

Co-founder of Edinburgh School of Arts

Isabella Burton

First Female Student

Mary Burton

Campaigner and Social Reformer

Patrick Geddes

Urban Planning Specialist

Leonard Horner

Educational Reformer

Eric Liddell

Olympic Athlete

Anna Macleod

First Female Professor at Heriot-Watt

Duncan McLaren

Lord Provost of Edinburgh

Christina Millar

Scottish Chemist

John Murray

Cricketer and Royal Navy Officer

Mary Evelyn Roxburgh

First Female Electrical Engineer

John Thomson

Pioneering Photographer

John Edward Vernon

Founder of The Watt Club

John Wigham

Shawl Weaver and Abolitionist