Academics of the University of Edinburgh

The list Academics of the University of Edinburgh includes Alastair Sim, Peter Higgs, Jean Redpath, Adam Smith and Ian Rankin. The list consists of 1,220 members and 2 sublists.

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University of Edinburgh

Public research university in Edinburgh, Scotland

Classical scholars of the University of Edinburgh
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- Samuel Henry Butcher
Professorships at the University of Edinburgh
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Alastair Sim

Scottish actor (1900–1976)

Overview: Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West ...

Date of birth: 9 October 1900

Date of death: 19 August 1976

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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British male comedy actors 243T

Male actors from Edinburgh 49T

20th-century Scottish male actors 186T
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Adam Smith

Scottish economist and philosopher (1723–1790)

Overview: Adam Smith (baptized 16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish ...

Date of birth: 5 June 1723

Date of death: 17 July 1790

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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British cultural critics 22T

Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts 230T

British male non-fiction writers 73T
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Fabiola Gianotti

Italian physicist, director general of the European Council for Nuclear Research

Overview: Fabiola Gianotti (born October 29, 1960) is an Italian experimental particle physicist, and the first woman to be Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. ...

Date of birth: 29 October 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Female

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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences 979T

Italian women physicists 25T

BBC 100 Women 415T
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Peter Higgs

British, Physicist

Overview: Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles ...

Date of birth: 29 May 1929

Date of death: 8 April 2024

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Physicist

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2024 deaths 2,699T

British theoretical physicists 33T

20th-century atheists 331T
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Jean Redpath

Scottish folk singer

Overview: Jean Redpath MBE (28 April 1937 – 21 August 2014) was a Scottish folk singer, educator and musician.

Date of birth: 28 April 1937

Date of death: 21 August 2014

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Women music educators 982T

2014 deaths 9,515T

Scottish women academics 53T
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Ian Rankin

Scottish writer (1960-)

Overview: Sir Ian James Rankin (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.

Date of birth: 28 April 1960

Age: 65

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Tartan Noir writers 19T

21st-century British male writers 720T

20th-century British male writers 1,407T
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Caspar Weinberger

American politician (1917–2006)

Overview: Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006) was an American politician and businessman. As a prominent Republican, he served in a variety of state and federal positions for three ...

Date of birth: 18 August 1917

Date of death: 28 March 2006

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Government

Gender: Male

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Deaths from pneumonia in Maine 11T

Harvard College alumni 3,107T

The Harvard Crimson people 147T
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Devi Sridhar

Global public health researcher

Overview: Devi Lalita Sridhar (born 1984) is a Professor and Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. Her research considers the effectiveness of public health interventions and how to improve ...

Date of birth: 1984

Age: 41

Nationality: American

Occupation: Academic

Gender: Female

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Medical researchers 156T

Alumni of the University of Oxford 3,151T

American Rhodes Scholars 511T
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Michael Halliday

British-Australian linguist

Overview: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was an English-born linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) ...

Date of birth: 13 April 1925

Date of death: 15 April 2018

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Linguist

Gender: Male

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2018 deaths 9,212T

2018 deaths 7,472T

Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy 515T
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Anne McLaren

British scientist

Overview: Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, DBE, FRS, FRCOG (26 April 1927 – 7 July 2007) was a British scientist who was a leading figure in developmental biology. Her work helped lead to human in vitro ...

Date of birth: 26 April 1927

Date of death: 7 July 2007

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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21st-century British women scientists 87T

Michie family 4T

20th-century British women scientists 299T
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John Muir

Aerospace engineer

Overview: John Muir (1918–1977) was a structural engineer who worked for National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), who "dropped out," 1960s-style, to become a writer and long-haired car mechanic with a ...

Date of birth: 1918

Date of death: 1977

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Self-published authors 151T

South African naturalists 17T

South African medical doctors 44T
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Alexander McCall Smith

Scottish/Zimbabwean writer and academic

Overview: Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British-Zimbabwean writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith ...

Date of birth: 24 August 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Scottish people of Zimbabwean descent 3T

Scholars of medical law 8T

Zimbabwean male short story writers 5T
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Jason Reese

British engineer

Overview: Jason Meredith Reese FREng FRSE FInstP FIMechE (24 June 1967 – 8 March 2019 was a British engineering scientist, and Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.

Date of birth: 24 June 1967

Date of death: 8 March 2019

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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2019 deaths 9,204T

2019 deaths 6,613T

Regius Professors of Engineering in Edinburgh University 9T
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Richard Bell (Arabist)

British Arabist

Overview: Richard Bell (1876 – 1952) was a British Arabist. He was lecturer in Arabic at the University of Edinburgh and also served as Minister of Newton Wamphray, a small country parish from 1907 to 1921. On ...

Date of birth: 1876

Date of death: 1952

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Translator

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British Arabists 22T

Translators of the Quran into English 42T

Quran translators 69T
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Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland

British judge

Overview: Paul Benedict Cullen, Lord Pentland, QC (11 March 1957) is a former Solicitor General for Scotland, a Senator of the College of Justice (a judge of the country's Supreme Courts) and former Chairman of ...

Date of birth: 11 March 1957

Age: 68

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Politician

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Scottish Conservative Party parliamentary candidates 23T

Senators of the College of Justice 363T

People educated at St. Augustine's High School, Edinburgh 7T
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Robert Bartlett (historian)

20th and 21st-century British historian of the Middle Ages

Overview: Robert Bartlett, CBE, FBA, FRSE (born 27 November 1950 in Streatham) is an English historian and medievalist. He currently holds the position of Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University ...

Date of birth: 27 November 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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People educated at Battersea Grammar School 18T

British medievalists 224T

Fellows of the British Academy 1,742T
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Kenneth Murray (molecular biologist)

British biologist

Overview: Sir Kenneth "Ken" Murray FRS FRSE FRCPath (30 December 1930 – 7 April 2013) was an English molecular biologist and the Biogen Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh. His wife was ...

Date of birth: 30 December 1930

Date of death: 7 April 2013

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Scientists from Yorkshire 52T

2013 deaths 9,323T

British molecular biologists 35T
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Lalith Athulathmudali

Sri Lankan politician

Overview: Lalith William Samarasekera Athulathmudali, PC (Sinhala:ලලිත් ඇතුලත්මුදලි; 26 November 1936 – 23 April 1993), known as Lalith Athulathmudali, was Sri Lankan statesman. He was a prominent member of the ...

Date of birth: 26 November 1936

Date of death: 23 April 1993

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: Sri Lankan

Occupation: Politician

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Shipping ministers of Sri Lanka 12T

Higher education ministers of Sri Lanka 13T

20th-century Sri Lankan lawyers 30T
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John Lyons (linguist)

British linguist

Overview: Sir John Lyons FBA (1932–2020) was a British linguist, working on semantics.

Date of birth: 23 May 1932

Date of death: 12 March 2020

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Linguist

Gender: Male

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2020 deaths 11,737T

Recipients of the Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics 5T

English male writers 2,660T
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William Montgomery Watt

Scottish historian

Overview: William Montgomery Watt (14 March 1909 – 24 October 2006) was a Scottish historian, Orientalist, Anglican priest, and academic. From 1964 to 1979, he was Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the ...

Date of birth: 14 March 1909

Date of death: 24 October 2006

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Historian

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Scottish Arabists 5T

British scholars of Islam 27T

20th-century British historians 490T