Pioneer of the theory of helicopter flight, head of department of Aeronautics, Cranfield, visiting professor U.S. Navy Post Graduate Academy.

Film actor, films include The Blue Lamp, Doctor at Sea, Doctor in the House, Doctor at Large, The Night Porter.

Commodore, Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Co.

Former president Royal Aeronautical Society, superintendent technical development at Farnborough, director general of aircraft production under Lord Beaverbrook, WW2 technical director Messrs. Short Bros.

General manager, the London (Ontario) Public Utilities Commission, The E V Buchanan Power Station is named after him.

Controller of the Navy( 1st Engineer in the post), President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, President of the Institution of Project Managers.

Chairman and managing director Cameron Balloons. A balloon, The Breitling Orbiter 3, made by his firm, completed the first non-stop round the world flight by balloon.

Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, former chief medical officer of both Scotland and England, Convenor of the Calman Commission on Scottish devolution.

Missionary in Nyasaland, expelled for criticising the regime

One of Scotland’s most eminent research scientists, discoverer of element 91 protactinium, research scientist Royal Technical College, Glasgow.

Chief Medical Officer later chairman, Dept. of Health for Scotland.
Played football for St. Mirren and Celtic.

Deputy Chief Constable, City of Glasgow Police, and later Stratchlyde Police

Head of Internal Planning & Works, BT Glasgow

Pioneer of research into problems of aero-elasticity and ‘air flutter’

Chancellor University of Stirling, chairman British Steel Corporation. chief metallurgist I.E.R.E. Harwell, Chaired Govt enquiry into Engineering, in the UK

Host to the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at his Alton Lodge Estate, near Auckland.

Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen
Lord Provost of Aberdeen.

Folk singer and broadcaster

Professor to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Advisor to Admiralty on gyroscopic equipment awarded Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan.

Principal, St Andrew’s University, freeman of the city of St. Andrews, Davy Medallist of the Royal Society, Willard Gibbs Medallist of the American Chemical Society, Elliot Cressan Medallist of the Franklin Institute, Longstaff Medallist Chemical Society of London, Gunning Victoria Prixe Royal Society of Edinburgh. Awarded Honorary degrees from the following Universities - LLD Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Toronto, Columbia, New York; DSc Liverpool, Princeton; Hon ScD Cambridge, Penn, Yale; Hon DCL Oxford, Durham.

Director, Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Made an Officer of the Legion of Honour at the opening of the Iraq pipeline. Elected honorary member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers for his distinction in the practice, organisation and administration of engineering.

Member of first Scottish schoolboy international, soccer team, pioneer railway man with Canadian Pacific Railway for 41 years, the 8,500ft high Mount Jeffrey is named after him.

Chairman and managing director, Scotlander plc, Director SCOTVEC.

Principal and vice chancellor, University of Dundee, former chief executive, NHS.

One of the most distinguished businessmen metallurgists of the 20th Century, last chairman of the governors of the Royal College of Science and Technology (McCance Building named in his memory.)

Member of the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister of Transport, chairman, STV/SMG.

Chairman ICI Ltd.

HM ambassador to Brazil, Received Freedom of New York

Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow

World famous architect, designer of the Glasgow Herald Building, the
Glasgow School of Art, Windyhill and Hillhouse.

Golf professional, Gleneagles and Turnberry, Walker Cup player.

Civil Engineer, Sudan Civil Service, engineer in chief to Egyptian Govt., worked under Lord Kitchener in planning city of Khartoum, responsible for the planning of the city of Alexandria and for important work in the Old City of Jerusalem; Unionist MP for Tradeston 1931-5

Managing Director, John Brown and Co., Designer of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth.

Proprietor, Alba Consultancy, senior economist HIDB.

Scottish actor, one of the founders of the Citizens’ Theatre, appeared in the films ‘Whisky Galore’, ‘The Brothers’, ‘Our Man in Havana’ also remembered for his recitation ‘The Wee Cock Sparra’.

King Cup Tennis Player

Former honorary surgeon oculist to King George VI and to the Queen in Scotland, surgeon at Glasgow Eye Infirmary. President of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists.

President, Australian Academy of Science, Chairman of the Australian National Committee for Space Research and of the United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space.

General Manager, Thomas Cook & Sons. Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Chairman of the Pensions Committee and Hon. ADC to the Governor- General Viscount Alexander.

Chairman and managing director Arthur Bell and Sons Ltd. and of Lees of Scotland Ltd.

TV and radio personality.

Director, the National Museums of Scotland.

Chief executive officer Scottish Council Development and Industry.

General manager and director Royal Bank of Scotland. His name appeared on the bank notes. His brother Alex, also an Old Boy, was Assistant general manager of the bank.

The City Assessor, Glasgow

DCM awarded in Boer War, VC awarded at Wijendrift, Belgium, Aug 1917 when, single-handed. he captured a blockhouse and with six others took another two blockhouses and sixty prisoners; killed in action at Vlamertinghe, Belgium, March 1918.

Chanchellor of Strathclyde University. Vice-chairman, Deutsch Asset Management, chairman National Museums of Scotland. Governor BBC, formerly chairman of the Weir Group .

Ex-Captain QE2; Cunard vice-president, marine consultant to the Admiralty Courts.

Chairman Thermotank Ltd. President Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders.

Chairman and managing director, Barr and Stroud, Glasgow.

Chairman TUC. General Council, 1947

Winner of Guthrie Award for his painting The White Shaw at the RSA. Academy Exhibition

Nobel Laureate, (Chemistry); Chair of Organic Chemistry University of Cambridge, Chancellor University of Strathclyde, Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge; work included. synthesis of vitamins B 1 and E, and also of the nucleosides adenosine, guanisime, cytadine and thymadine and with Brown the linkages of the nucleotides which constitute the nucleic acids DNA and RNA, this discovery led to the double helix theory of Crick and Watson

Director, Pilkington Brothers, architect of improvements to the PPG process of glassmaking. His predecessor, Mr Meikle and his successor Mr. McOnie were both Old Boys.

Physician to Queen Mary and King George VI, physician to the Queen, 1952-68, Britain’s leading expert on homeopathy, first President of the Faculty of Homeopathy

Director of the National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride, former director of the National Gas Turbine Establishment..

Nuclear physicist, senior principal scientific officer AWRE, Aldermaston, director of the Scottish Universities’ Research and Reactor Centre, professor of Physics Strathclyde University.

Artist, works include The Straw Locomotive and the Paper Boat.