Our Famous Scholars

The Great and the Good

 

William Cullen (1710–90) Physician and chemist

William Hunter (1718–83) Anatomist and obstetrician

Tobias George Smollett (1721–71) Novelist and physician

Joseph Black(1728–99) Chemist and physician

Joseph Lister (1827–1912) Surgeon

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–c1948) Physician

Dame Anne Louise McIlroy (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 (1910–87) Obstetrician

RD Laing (1927–89) Psychiatrist.