EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Glasgow, Scotland

Founding Date:
1451

Motto:
Via, Veritas, Vita

Enrollment:
20,000

Official Website:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Logie Baird	Inventor	13-Aug-1888	14-Jun-1946	Television
Hastings Banda	Head of State	1898	25-Nov-1997	First President of Malawi
David Beaton	Religion	c. 1494	29-May-1546	Cardinal, Archbishop of St. Andrews
James Blyth	Business	8-May-1940		Chairman of Diageo, 2000-08
James Boswell	Author	29-Oct-1740	19-May-1795	The Life of Samuel Johnson
Des Browne	Politician	22-Mar-1952		UK Minister of Defence
James Bryce	Historian	10-May-1838	22-Jan-1922	The Holy Roman Empire
John Buchan	Author	26-Aug-1875	11-Feb-1940	The Thirty-Nine Steps
Jocelyn Bell Burnell	Astronomer	15-Jul-1943		Co-Discoverer of pulsars
Gerard Butler	Actor	13-Nov-1969		Dracula 2000
Vincent Cable	Politician	9-May-1943		British MP, Twickenham
Menzies Campbell	Politician	22-May-1941		Leader of the Liberal Democrats, 2006-07
Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Head of State	7-Sep-1836	22-Apr-1908	UK Prime Minister, 1905-08
Lloyd Cole	Singer/Songwriter	31-Jan-1961		Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
George Douglas	Novelist	26-Jan-1869	28-Aug-1902	The House With the Green Shutters
Douglas J. Flint	Business	c. 1956		Group Finance Director, HSBC
Liam Fox	Politician	22-Sep-1961		UK Conservative Party Co-Chair
Sir James Frazer	Anthropologist	1-Jan-1854	7-May-1941	The Golden Bough
Hugh Grant	Business	c. 1958		CEO of Monsanto
Joseph Dalton Hooker	Botanist	30-Jun-1817	10-Dec-1911	Genera Plantarum
William Hunter	Doctor	23-May-1718	30-Mar-1783	English anatomist and obstetrician
Armando Iannucci	Screenwriter	28-Nov-1963		The Thick of It
Charles Kennedy	Politician	25-Nov-1959	1-Jun-2015	Leader of Liberal Democrats, 1999-2006
David Livingstone	Explorer	19-Mar-1813	1-May-1873	Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Charles Macintosh	Chemist	29-Dec-1766	25-Jul-1843	Invented the raincoat
James Mackay	Historian	21-Nov-1936	12-Aug-2007	Plagiarising historian
Alistair MacLean	Novelist	28-Apr-1922	2-Feb-1987	The Guns of Navarone
Duncan Macrae	Actor	20-Aug-1905	23-Mar-1967	The Little Kidnappers
Tom McKillop	Business	19-Mar-1943		Chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland
Francis J. Meehan	Diplomat	14-Feb-1924		US Ambassador to East Germany, 1985-88
Peter Mullan	Actor	2-Nov-1959		My Name Is Joe
John Boyd Orr	Scientist	23-Sep-1880	25-Jun-1971	Nutritionist, Nobel Prize recipient
Sir William Ramsay	Chemist	2-Oct-1852	23-Jul-1916	Discovered noble gases
Richard G. Sim	Business	c. 1944		APW Ltd.
Adam Smith	Economist	5-Jun-1723	17-Jul-1790	The Wealth of Nations
Tobias Smollett	Novelist	19-Mar-1721	17-Sep-1771	The Adventures of Roderick Random
Alexander R. Todd	Chemist	2-Oct-1907	10-Jan-1997	Nucleic acid, nucleotides
James Wilson	Judge	14-Sep-1742	28-Aug-1798	US Supreme Court Justice, 1789-98

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Derek Barton	Chemist	8-Sep-1918	16-Mar-1998	Conformational analysis
James W. Black	Scientist	14-Jun-1924	22-Mar-2010	Propranolol and cimetidine
Vincent Cable	Politician	9-May-1943		British MP, Twickenham
Michael T. Clanchy	Historian	28-Nov-1936		From Memory to Written Record
Norman Cohn	Historian	25-Jan-1915	31-Jul-2007	The Pursuit of the Millennium
Robert G. Edwards	Scientist	27-Sep-1925	10-Apr-2013	In vitro fertilization
Geoffrey Eglinton	Geologist	1-Nov-1927		Molecular organic geochemistry
G. R. Elton	Historian	17-Aug-1921	3-Dec-1994	The Tudor Revolution in Government
John Scott Haldane	Doctor	3-May-1860	14-Mar-1936	Breathing regulated by CO2
William Jackson Hooker	Botanist	6-Jul-1785	12-Aug-1865	British Jungermanniae
Joseph Lister	Doctor	5-Apr-1827	10-Feb-1912	Pioneer of antiseptic surgery
Phillips Payson O'Brien	Historian	21-Aug-1963		British and American Naval Power
Sir William Ramsay	Chemist	2-Oct-1852	23-Jul-1916	Discovered noble gases
Thomas Reid	Philosopher	26-Apr-1710	7-Oct-1796	Epistemologist, Common Sense school
Adam Smith	Economist	5-Jun-1723	17-Jul-1790	The Wealth of Nations
Frederick Soddy	Chemist	2-Sep-1877	22-Sep-1956	Isotopes
Bernard Wasserstein	Historian	22-Jan-1948		Vanishing Diaspora

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Herbert Henry Asquith	Head of State	12-Sep-1852	15-Feb-1928	UK Prime Minister, 1908-16
Arthur Balfour	Head of State	25-Jul-1848	19-Mar-1930	UK Prime Minister, 1902-05
Rab Butler	Politician	9-Dec-1902	8-Mar-1982	UK Foreign Secretary, 1963-64
Austen Chamberlain	Politician	16-Oct-1863	16-Mar-1937	British pol, Nobel Prize recipient
Ross Kemp	Actor	21-Jul-1964		Grant Mitchell on EastEnders
Compton MacKenzie	Novelist	17-Jan-1883	30-Nov-1972	Carnival
Andrew Melville	Religion	1-Aug-1545	1622	Scottish Reform Church
Phillips Payson O'Brien	Historian	21-Aug-1963		British and American Naval Power
Richard Wilson	Actor	7-Jul-1936		Gaius on Merlin

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