University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582, the renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland

Address

Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL; "Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL"

Location

the United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh

Website

http://www.ed.ac.uk

Student Number

28,394; 24,220

Developer of

Festival Speech Synthesis System

Subsidiaries

Edinburgh University Press

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh

Founded

1582, 1583, Edinburgh

Coordinates

55°56'050.6"N, 55°56'50"N, 3°11'013.9"W, 3°11'13"W

Principal

Timothy O'Shea

Alumni

▶ Charles Darwin, Alexander Graham Bell, Gordon Brown, David Hume, Robert Louis Stevenson,  …

Arthur Conan Doyle, Kevin McKidd, James Clerk Maxwell, Robbie Coltrane, J. M. Barrie, Eric Liddell, Chris Hoy, Thomas Carlyle, Tom Chaplin, Robin Cook, Darius Danesh, James Hutton, Benjamin Rush, Ian Rankin, Philippa Gregory, Thomas Bowdler, James Wilson, Alexander McCall Smith, Robert Brown, James Boswell, Julius Nyerere, Maria Bamford, Oliver Goldsmith, John Witherspoon, Rachael Stirling, Robert Adam, Kevin Phillips, Gillian McKeith, Prakash Karat, Ian Charleson, Bill Turnbull, Daisy Donovan, Ibn Warraq, Thomas Bayes, Tessa Jowell, Richard Owen, John Russell, Stella Rimington, Charles Tupper, Robert Stephenson, Henry Temple, Malcolm Rifkind, Joseph Black, Kirsty Wark, David Steel, Kaye Adams, William Brydon, Carrie Gracie, Mungo Park, Steve Jones, James Mill, John Boyd Dunlop, Jennie Lee, Benjamin Constant, James Dewar, Elize Du Toit, Reginald Johnston, Douglas Alexander, Hastings Banda, Arthur St. Clair, James Finlayson, Ian Frazer, Talal Asad, Daniel Rutherford, James Macpherson, Tommy Armour, Michael Ancram, Thomas Mitchell, W. D. Ross, William Cullen, James Thomson, Ike Skelton, John Polidori, David Brewster, James Holman, David Rintoul, Peter D. Mitchell, Robert Stevenson, Tony Hayward, William John Macquorn Rankine, Charles Bell, Richard Wiseman, Ed Stoppard, Robert Darwin, Thomas Hodgkin, William Withering, James Hunter, Frank Pope, Michael Cullen, Kirsty McCabe, Hamish Clark, Thomas Addison, Peter Doherty, James Bruce, Ralph Abercromby, Elizabeth Blackadder, Sally Magnusson, William Sampson, Peter Trudgill, James MacMillan, Edward Victor Appleton, James Braid, Mark Kingwell, Hilton McRae, Simon Taylor, Neil MacCormick, Tom Bradby, George Foulkes, Thomas Torrance, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Thomas Brisbane, Bliss Carman, Joel McIver, Donnie Munro, James Burnett, Peter Ladefoged, Alexander Aitken, Edward Irving, Iain Gray, Ian Gibson, Henry Dundas, Dugald Stewart, John Haldane, Chris Cusiter, Peter Graham, Neil MacGregor, Andy Irvine, John Swinney, Peter Roget, Christopher Bishop, Piers Sellers, Trish Deseine, William Muir, William Robertson Smith, Arthur Marwick, Dave McCurdy, Simon Fraser, Nigel Griffiths, Ian Clarke, John Scott Russell, Sarah Raven, Charles Cumming, James Mackay, Gregor Townsend, Peter Guthrie Tait, Mark Lynas, William Tennent, Katherine Grainger, Hugh Grant, William Morrison, Edward Forbes, Don Williamson, James Douglas-Hamilton, Nicol Stephen, Edwin Feulner, Joseph Thomson, David Mundell, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Brian Goodwin, Fleeming Jenkin, Martin Martin, James Matheson, Jennie Lee, John Claudius Loudon, Laura Kuenssberg, Humayun Azad, Lim Boon Keng, Robert Kowalski, Thomas Johnes, Geoffrey Hinton, Luca Cardelli, Keith Cardinal O'Brien, William Speirs Bruce, Friedrich Trendelenburg, Lim Chong Eu, David Bruce, Henry Brougham, Henry Mackenzie, Richard Haldane, Hermione Cockburn, William Robertson, John Shepherd-Barron, Sorley MacLean, William Cameron Menzies, David Daiches, John Murray, Patrick French, Yun Bo-seon, Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Robert Liston, James Blundell, John Home, James Craik, Archibald Scott Couper, James Alfred Ewing

Employees

▶ Prince Philip, J. M. Barrie, Thomas Huxley, Max Born, Arthur Balfour,  …

Robin Milner, Douglas Lenat, Charles Glover Barkla, Robert Kowalski, Henry Brougham, Gordon Plotkin, Michael Fourman, John Struthers, Ruth Aylett

Pupils

▶ Charles Darwin; Alexander Graham Bell; Gordon Brown; David Hume; Robert Louis Stevenson;  …

James Clerk Maxwell; Robbie Coltrane; J. M. Barrie; Michael McIntyre; Eric Liddell; Chris Hoy; Thomas Carlyle; Tom Chaplin; Robin Cook; Darius Danesh; James Hutton; Ian Rankin; Philippa Gregory; Thomas Bowdler; James Wilson; Robert Brown; James Boswell; Julius Nyerere; Maria Bamford; Oliver Goldsmith; John Witherspoon; Rachael Stirling; Robert Adam; Kevin Phillips; Gillian McKeith; Prakash Karat; Ian Charleson; Bill Turnbull; Daisy Donovan; Ibn Warraq; Richard Owen; John Russell; Stella Rimington; Charles Tupper; Henry Temple; Malcolm Rifkind; Kirsty Wark; Kaye Adams; William Brydon; Carrie Gracie; Steve Jones; John Boyd Dunlop; Benjamin Constant; James Dewar; Elize Du Toit; Reginald Johnston; Douglas Alexander; Hastings Banda; Arthur St. Clair; James Finlayson; Talal Asad; James Macpherson; Tommy Armour; Michael Ancram; Thomas Mitchell; W. D. Ross; David Brewster; James Holman; David Rintoul; Peter D. Mitchell; William John Macquorn Rankine; Charles Bell; Richard Wiseman; Ed Stoppard; Robert Darwin; Thomas Hodgkin; William Withering; Frank Pope; Michael Cullen; Kirsty McCabe; Hamish Clark; Thomas Addison; Peter Doherty; Elizabeth Blackadder; Sally Magnusson; James MacMillan; Edward Victor Appleton; James Braid; Hilton McRae; Neil MacCormick; Thomas Torrance; D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson; Thomas Brisbane; Bliss Carman; Joel McIver; Donnie Munro; James Burnett; Alexander Aitken; Edward Irving; Iain Gray; Ian Gibson; Henry Dundas; Dugald Stewart; John Haldane; Peter Graham; Neil MacGregor; Peter Roget; Piers Sellers; William Muir; Arthur Marwick; Dave McCurdy; Simon Fraser; Nigel Griffiths; Ian Clarke; John Scott Russell; Charles Cumming; James Mackay; Gregor Townsend; Katherine Grainger; William Morrison; Nicol Stephen; Edwin Feulner; Joseph Thomson; David Mundell; Fleeming Jenkin; Martin Martin; James Matheson; Jennie Lee; Lim Boon Keng; Robert Kowalski; Thomas Johnes; Keith Cardinal O'Brien; William Speirs Bruce; Friedrich Trendelenburg; Lim Chong Eu; David Bruce; Henry Brougham; Henry Mackenzie; Richard Haldane; Hermione Cockburn; William Robertson; John Shepherd-Barron; Sorley MacLean; William Cameron Menzies; David Daiches; John Murray; Patrick French; Yun Bo-seon; Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk; Robert Liston; James Blundell; James Craik; Archibald Scott Couper; James Alfred Ewing; John Beddington; Richard Ballerand; Isabel Hilton; William Cullen; Mark Lazarowicz; John Pringle; Nigel Shadbolt; George MacLeod; James Fraser Stoddart; Thomas Brown; John Davidson; Heather Reid; William Elford Leach; Thea Musgrave; John Burnet; Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Thomas Dick; Catherynne M. Valente; Mike Synar; Pat McFadden; Archibald Menzies; George Ramsay; Robert Brown Black; Kenny MacAskill; Robert Jameson; William Scoresby; John Craig; John Conolly; Alfred Mond; John Gibson Lockhart; David Ferrier; Russell Johnston; Eleanor Laing; James David Forbes; Henry Petty-FitzMaurice; Gordon Plotkin; Charles Wyville Thomson; Gavin Strang; Sir John Sinclair; Kenneth Craik; Doug Naysmith; Robert Kerr; Thomas Owen Clancy; John William Dawson; Michael Boyd; John Richardson; Briony Penn; William Edmond Logan; William Benjamin Carpenter; Behram Kur?uno?lu; Kathleen Jamie

Funding

publicly-funded university

Class

▶ business, publicly-funded university, awarding body, non-business organization, university,  …

geographical area, educational organisation, organisation

Subjects

physics

Related Websites

▶ http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk, http://universitiesprofile.com/uk_Edinburgh.htm, http://www.ed.ac.uk, http://www.mastersportal.eu/students/browse/university/43/the-university-of-edinburgh.html, http://www.studentservices.ed.ac.uk,  …

http://www.eusu.ed.ac.uk, http://www.edinburghcampaign.ed.ac.uk, http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk, http://www.accom.ed.ac.uk

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000079af3"

Former Students

▶ J. K. Rowling; Erasmus Darwin; Robert Knox; Adam Ferguson; Sheena McDonald;  …

David Clement-Davies; Robert Stirling; Thomas Douglas; Mike Heron; Alex Payne; Henry Winter; William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil; Hugh Blair; John Crawfurd; Patrick Matthew; Michael Russell; Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes; David Sellar; James Blair; Jim Wallace

Suborganisations

University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences; Centre for the history of the book

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/University_of_Edinburgh

Rare Terms

▶ "university", "the uoe", "uoe", "the edinburgh uni", "edinburgh uni",  …

"the university of edinburgh school of chemistry", "university of edinburgh school of chemistry", "the moray house college", "moray house college", "the edinburgh university", "the edinburgh", "edinburgh"

Local Data Company

"103141"

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/0h6rm"

Branch

University Of Edinburgh, Edinburgh; University Of Edinburgh, Edinburgh; University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh; University Of Edinburgh, Edinburgh