List of people educated at Fettes College

• Lorne Balfe, composer and music producer.^[1]
• John Hay Beith (aka Ian Hay), writer.
• Hugh Enes Blackmore, performer in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in the late 19th century.
• Norman Cameron, poet.
• William Corlett, author.
• Simon Cowe, folk-rock musician, member of Lindisfarne
• James Duff Duff, translator and classical scholar.
• Alistair Elliot, poet and translator.
• Abimbola Fernandez, lead singer of Pink Grenade.
• Hamilton Fyfe, playwright, editor and journalist.
• N. G. L. Hammond, classical scholar.
• Archibald Standish Hartrick, artist.
• George Campbell Hay, poet in English and Scottish Gaelic amongst other languages, who wryly called Fettes College a little piece of "Forever England".
• Arthur Benison Hubback, architect, soldier and sportsman.
• Ross Leckie, historical novelist.
• Louise Linton, actor and screenwriter.
• W.L. Lorimer, linguist, chair of Greek at St. Andrews, chairman of the Executive Council of the Scottish National Dictionary, and translator of the New Testament into Lowland Scots.
• Andrew Lownie, historian and author.
• Roderick Macdonald, artist.
• Roderick MacFarquhar, Orientalist.
• Charles McKean, historian and architecturalist.
• David MacLennan, theatre
• Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory
• George James Miller, architect
• William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman.
• William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, wildlife artist
• Arthur Forman Balfour Paul, architect.
• John Purser, composer, musicologist, music historian and playwright.
• Harry Reid, journalist and author.
• James Maurice Scott, writer.
• W. C. Sellar, co-author of 1066 and All That, Head of School 1917 and taught at the school.
• Hal Summers, poet.
• Derek Shiel, artist.
• Lola Shoneyin, Nigerian poet and author.
• Tilda Swinton, screen actress and Oscar winner, attended in her sixth year.
• Hugh Stewart, academic.
• D. R. Thorpe, historian and biographer.
• Michael Tippett, composer.
• Ruthven Todd, Scottish poet and novelist, known also as an editor of William Blake and as an artist.
• Aylmer Vallance, journalist.
• Edward Wadsworth, artist.
• Ian Weatherhead, English water colourist

• John Cameron, Lord Coulsfield, Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland; Lockerbie trial judge; Privy Counsellor
• William Blair, judge.
• George Cunningham, civil servant.
• William Grant, Lord Grant
• Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, advocate and judge.
• Ranald MacLean, judge.
• Alastair Montgomerie, Criminal Deemster of the Isle of Man.
• Wilfrid Guild Normand, Lord Justice General; Lord President of Court of Session (1935–47); Lord of Appeal (1947–53)
• Alan Stewart Orr (1911-1991), Lord Justice of Appeal^[2]
• Sidney Rowlatt, lawyer and judge.
• Edward Theodore Salvesen, lawyer, politician and judge.
• Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, lawyer, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
• Douglas Young, lawyer
• Robin Young, civil servant

Four Old Fettesians have won the Victoria Cross and one the George Cross.

• William Herbert Anderson, VC
• Robert Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, CB CBE DSO MC
• Frank Barnwell, Chief designer of the Bristol bomber, Blenheim fighter, etc.
• R. H. Bruce Lockhart Author; British representative to provisional Czech Government (1940–41); Director-General Political Warfare Executive (1941–45).
• General John de Chastelain, CMM, Canadian. Chairman Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, Northern Ireland peace process^[3]
• George Denholm, RAF fighter pilot.
• David Howard, 7th Earl of Effingham, naval officer
• Robert Gordon, RAF officer
• Sandy Gunn, RAF photo reconnaissance Spitfire pilot, executed after the Great Escape
• John Hall CMG DSO, British Army brigadier-general.
• Sandy Hodge, Royal Navy officer
• Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean VC.
• Robert Lawrence, British Army officer
• Roderick Macdonald KBE Chief of Staff to C-in-C Allied Naval Forces (1973–77), artist.
• Donald MacKintosh, VC.
• Tommy Macpherson, soldier and businessman.
• William Macpherson, colonel-commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Norman Macqueen, RAF fighter pilot
• Maury Meiklejohn, VC.
• Gordon Neilson, CMG, DSO, Boer War and World War I officer
• George Pirie, former Inspector-General of the RAF.
• Harold Pyman, former Deputy Chief of the General Staff
• Freddie Scott, British Army officer
• Robert Walmsley, Royal Navy Vice-Admiral.
• Robert Whigham, former British Adjutant-General to the Forces.

• Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007; the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and the MP for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007.
• James Glencairn Cunningham, Unionist politician.
• Josias Cunningham, politician.
• Knox Cunningham, politician.
• Alan Donald, diplomat and ambassador.
• David Durie, governor of Gibraltar.
• Michael Fraser
• Hamilton Grant, diplomat and politician.
• William Grant, politician and judge.
• Ian Harvey, politician.
• John Deans Hope, Liberal politician.
• Douglas Jamieson, Unionist politician and judge.
• Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn Lloyd CH PC, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• Roderick MacFarquhar, Labour politician.
• Ian MacIntyre, Unionist politician
• Dr Ian McKee, former Scottish National Party MSP.
• Joseph Maclay, businessman and Liberal politician.
• Iain Macleod, Minister of Labour, Colonial Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• John MacLeod, Liberal politician.
• Niall Macpherson
• T. E. Moir, civil servant in India.
• George Morton, Labour politician.
• Wilfrid Normand, Unionist politician and judge.
• John Simon, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Chancellor, former Head of School.
• David Webster, Conservative politician.

• Philip Christopher Baldwin, Prominent gay Christian and member of the Church of England's General Synod.
• William Theodore Heard, Roman Catholic cardinal.
• W.L. Lorimer, translator of the New Testament into Lowland Scots.
• Edward Reid, Anglican bishop.
• William Roy Sanderson, Moderator of the Church of Scotland.
• Gilbert White, Anglican colonial bishop.

• Fereydoon Batamanghelidj, controversial Persian/Iranian doctor.
• Andrew Michael Burnett numismatist, deputy director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2013
• A. Y. Campbell, translator.
• Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, electrical engineer and television pioneer.
• Hugh Crichton-Miller, psychiatrist, founder of the Tavistock Clinic.
• Angus Deaton, Professor of Economics and president of the American Economic Association, Nobel Prize in Economics winner 2015.
• James Douglas Hamilton Dickson, mathematician.
• Ian Donald, medical pioneer in ultrasound.
• William Hamilton Fyfe, Principal of Queen's University and of the University of Aberdeen.
• N. G. L. Hammond, Hellenist.
• Robert Henderson, physician.
• William Lorimer, scholar.
• Thomas Tudor Loveday, Principal of Southampton University College (1920–22) and Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol (1922–44).
• Roderick MacFarquhar, orientalist.
• Lawrie Hugh McGavin, surgeon.
• Charles McKean, author, journalist and professor emeritus of Scottish Architectural History at Dundee University.
• William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, ornithologist.
• Robert Alexander Rankin, mathematician who worked in analytic number theory.
• Cecil Reddie, educationalist.
• Arthur David Ritchie, chemical physiologist and philosopher
• R. R. R. Smith, classicist and archaeologist,
• John M Squire, biophysicist.
• Walter Terence Stace, educator, philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism.
• Frederick Stewart, geologist.
• Hugh Stewart, classical scholar.
• Alan Stout, moral philosopher.
• Iain Sutherland, British ambassador to the Soviet Union.
• D. R. Thorpe, biographer
• Robert Wedderburn, co-developer, with John Nelder, of the generalized linear model methodology.
• Philip Jacob White, zoologist.
• John Macnaghten Whittaker, mathematician.

• A. G. G. Asher, sportsman.
• K. G. MacLeod, sportsman, Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

Rugby players

• David Bedell-Sivright, Scottish international.
• George Biagi, Italian/Scottish rugby player, Italian international.
• Frans ten Bos, Scottish international.
• Dunlop McCosh Cunningham, rugby internationalist.
• George Cunningham, rugby internationalist.
• Andrew Ramsay Don-Wauchope, rugby internationalist.
• Bill Gammell, Scottish international.
• Robert Henderson (physician), English international.
• Nelson Henderson, Scottish international.
• Frank Hunter, sportsman.
• Peter Lillington, Scottish international.
• Ian MacIntyre, rugby international
• David MacMyn, rugby international.
• George MacPherson, Scottish international.
• Justin Melck, rugby player for Western Province, the Super Rugby side Stormers, Munster Rugby and now Saracens.
• Douglas Monypenny, Scottish international.
• Harry Paterson, Scottish international and Edinburgh Rugby back.
• Lewis Robertson, Scottish international.
• William Patrick Scott, Scottish international.
• Gordon Waddell, rugby internationalist.
• Herbert Waddell, Scottish international.
• William Wotherspoon, rugby player.

• Frans ten Bos, Dutch rugby player and businessman.
• Sandy Glen, Arctic explorer and pioneer of the package holiday.^[4]
• Richard Lambert, former editor of The Financial Times; former member of Bank of England MPC; former Director-General of Confederation of British Industry
• David Landale, taipan.
• David Murray, Chairman & Managing Director, Murray International Holdings; chairman, Rangers Football Club plc.
• David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, advertising.
• David Reid, former Chairman of Tesco.
• Alastair Salvesen, billionaire businessman.^[5]
• Christian Salvesen, shipping line founder.
• John MacQueen Ward, businessman.

• John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott
• Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott
• John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil
• Harold Barnwell, aviator.
• John Bryce, producer of The Avengers.
• Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard, explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter, marksman, military innovator and cricketer.
• Grenville Johnston, Lord Lieutenant of Moray.
• Alasdair Liddell, civil servant.
• Andrew K. McCosh, coal and steel administrator.
• Hamish McRae, journalist.
• Joe Morrison, TV Presenter.
• James Maurice Scott, explorer.
• Aylmer Vallance, newspaper editor.

The Category for Old Fettesians