ayrmad Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 There are an awful lot of famous people out there that I've never heard of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duszek Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 4 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: Did famous lawyer Diane Coulston not also attend your school? True. I'll take that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Dumbarton Academy A. J. Cronin, author Ian Campbell, former Labour MP Patrick Harvie, leader of the Greens in Scotland Ian Shanks, inventor of those wee glucose meters that diabetics stab themselves with. David Steel, former leader of the Liberals. Jackie Stewart, fast driver. Douglas Gordon, artist, winner of the Turner prize, celebrity jags fan and former classmate of mine. ETA Norma Bell, former Tennents Lager can girl, how could I have forgotten her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmitch Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 On 6/30/2017 at 19:49, Wee Bully said: According to Wikipedia Kenny McBain - TV director and producer. Responsible for Inspector Morse TV series John Buchan - Novelist, historian and Governor-General of Canada[citation needed] R. D. Laing - Influential psychiatrist in the field of psychosis[citation needed] Archibald Leitch - Architect [7] James Maxton - 'Red Clydesider' MP and leader of the Independent Labour Party[citation needed] Derry Irvine (Baron Irvine of Lairg) - Barrister, QC and former Lord Chancellor[citation needed] Carol Smillie - TV Presenter and former model[citation needed] Gordon Bulloch - Played professional rugby union for Scotland and captained the British Lions[citation needed] Ken Bruce - Radio 2 DJ[citation needed] Adair Turner (Lord Turner of Ecchinswell) - chair of the Financial Services Authority[citation needed] Russell Waters - film and television actor[citation needed] David Weitzman - Labour MP[citation needed] Anas Sarwar - Labour MP and MSP[citation needed] Humza Yousaf - Scottish National Party MSP and minister John Mason - Scottish National Party MSP[8] Iain Stewart - Conservative MP[citation needed] Daniel Lamont Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1936 to 1937[citation needed] Leon Smith Current British davis cup captain Cordelia Oliver - journalist, painter and art critic J David Simons - novelist Imtiaz Dharker - poet and artist John Barbour - footballer and soldier killed in World War I[9] Hutchie boy failing to mention the school. Are you embarassed about going there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Bully Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 On 19/07/2018 at 04:32, madmitch said: Hutchie boy failing to mention the school. Are you embarassed about going there? Not in the slightest. It has made me the insufferable p***k I am today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaggysBeard Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Woodmill High School, Dunfermline. Barbara Dickson. I had heard Gillian McKeith (the Scottish-American fraud nutritionist) attended for a short while. Young lad, Murray McCallum, currently at Edinburgh Rugby has recently got full caps for Scotland. Surprised as there was never anything of that rugby stuff when I was at the school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 On 6/30/2017 at 14:13, harry94 said: No list online but off the top of my head: George Galloway Donald Findlay Kezia Dugdale Sam Robertson Christian Dailly Stefani Dailly Lee Wilkie Craig Wighton Craig Brewster Pretty sure there are more than that. Ryan Dow and Craig Ireland. I think that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Primary school ex pupils (Brechin High School was also a primary school when I was at it) See also: Category:People educated at Brechin High School Dame Anne Begg MP, Labour Member of Parliament since 1997 for Aberdeen South.[3] Dorothy Geddes, FRCS OBE, Professor of Oral Biology at the University of Glasgow and the first woman to hold a chair in dentistry. [4] John Gillies LLD FRS FRSE FSA, Historiographer Royal, 1793-1836. [5] Thomas Guthrie DD, founder of the Ragged Schools of Scotland and Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, 1862.[6] William Guthrie, eighteenth century historian and geographer. [7] Catherine Hollingworth OBE, pioneering speech and drama therapist. [8] Joseph Fairweather Lamb FRSE, Chandos Professor of Physiology at the University of St Andrews. David Low, Bishop of Ross and Argyll, 1819-1838 and Bishop of Moray, 1838-1850. [9] George Low, naturalist. [10] Alexander Ferrier Mitchell DD LLD, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of St Andrews and Moderator of the Church of Scotland. David Myles, Conservative Member of Parliament from 1979-83 for Banffshire. John Pringle Nichol LLD FRSE, Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. [11] Robin Orr CBE, composer, professor of music and founder chairman of Scottish Opera. [12] James Small DSc MRIA FRSE, Professor of Botany at Queen's University Belfast. [13] Peter Spence, industrial chemist and pioneering alum manufacturer. [14] Sir Robert Watson-Watt KCB FRS FRAeS, inventor of radar. David Will CBE, Vice-President from 1990-2007 of FIFA. As was Montrose Academy Alumni[edit] Joseph Hume (left) and James Mill became lifelong friends after meeting at Montrose Grammar School.[126] the botanist Robert Brown (1773–1858),[127] politician Joseph Hume (1777–1855),[128] and James Mill (1773–1836) historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher attended the school during the same period.[10] Alexander Gibson (botanist) the poet Alexander Smart (b.1798), satirised the teaching methods of James Norval at Montrose Academy in his poem, "Recollections of Auld Lang Syne".[129] Edward Balfour, (1813–1889) was a surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist. * Captain Sir Alexander Burnes (1805–41), traveller and explorer also had connections with India A number of former pupils are connected with the Scottish Renaissance cultural movement of the early twentieth century. This includes the writers John Angus (1906–1968),[130]Fionn MacColla and Willa Muir (1890–1970) (wife of Edwin Muir);[131] Sir James Davidson Stuart Cameron FRSE (1900-1969), Director of Post Graduate Medicine, Dacca the poets Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975)[132] and Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978) the artists Edward Baird (1904–49)[133] and William Lamb (1893–1951).[134] George Soutar (1864–1939), scholar of Classical Greek William Allen Neilson (1869–1946), writer and Professor of English.;[135] Prof James Simpson Silver CBE (1913–1997), former James Watt Chair of Mechanical Engineering from 1967-79 at the University of Glasgow;[136] and Professor of Mechanical Engineering from 1962-6 at Heriot-Watt University\Heriot-Watt College Prof Arthur James Beattie FRSE (1914–1996), Professor of Greek from 1951-81 at the University of Edinburgh, and fellow and lecturer in Greek and Classics at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge (1946–51);[65] Robert Cormack (1946-), Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1996–2001) of the Queen's University of Belfast.[137] gynaecologist John Chassar Moir CBE (1900–1977), Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynæcology from 1937-67 at the University of Oxford, and who led research in the 1930s which resulted in the discovery of ergometrine.[138] electrical engineer James Blyth (1838–1906), was an early pioneer of wind power[139] who built the world's first wind turbine that generated electricity in 1887, although lacked a control mechanism (later developed by the American Charles F. Brush) Major General George Alexander Renny (1825–1887) received the Victoria Cross.[140] accountant William Barclay Peat (1852–1936) studied law at Montrose Academy, whose company founded in 1870 became Peat Marwick, and later the worldwide KPMG company in 1987 when it merged with the Dutch firm KMG footballer Gordon Smith (1924–2004) who played for Hibernian F.C.[141] Sir Alan Rothnie CMG, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1972-6, and to Switzerland from 1976–80 And Cults Primary School doesn't list any famous ex pupils! [emoji38]Arbroath superstar striker Kane Hester also attended Montrose Academy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 On 29/06/2017 at 23:43, WeAreElgin said: Literally nobody of any significance has gone to Elgin High School My mate Paul did. Even though he lived in Bishopmill. So he was famous for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 On 30/06/2017 at 10:21, Shandon Par said: Maurice Malpas That's it. ETA - also a famous inventor. Some sort of pram device. Pete Wishart Debbie Knox (Olympic gold medalist) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brummie Clyde Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Lode Heath Comprehensive. The only vaguely famous person I can think of is James Bovill; a Midlands Today reporter. My Dad however, went to the same school as Midge Ure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugna Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 On 7/7/2017 at 16:17, Boghead ranter said: Ian Shanks, inventor of those wee glucose meters that diabetics stab themselves with. Nominative determinism thread for this pish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northboy Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 To the best of my knowledge no-one of any real fame attended by school but when I first moved to the Aberdeen area in the late 1980s I met an improbable number of people who claimed to have been at school with Annie Lennox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audaces Fortuna Juvat Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Off the top of my head, Kate Hoey, Ali McMordie (SLF), Kenneth Branagh, Jack Kyle, Stuart Olding, John Cole, Abeer McIntyre (Good Morning Scotland presenter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlowspider Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 On 19/07/2018 at 04:32, madmitch said: Hutchie boy failing to mention the school. Are you embarassed about going there? Add some more: Ally Scott (Rangers) Jackie Copland (Dundee Utd) Ray Nelson (USA Rugby International) Alison Di Rollo (Solicitor General of Scotland) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppino Impastato Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Salman Rushdie, w g grace and all five members of the vengaboys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 26 minutes ago, Peppino Impastato said: Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Salman Rushdie, w g grace and all five members of the vengaboys Your most believable post yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Wing Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Pete Wishart Debbie Knox (Olympic gold medalist)And me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 I dinna think there are any from my old school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowdenLoyal Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Beath High SchoolScott BrownIan Rankin Sir James BlackJim BaxterIain PaxtonJim Leishman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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