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Heriot-Watt University
Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the eighth-oldest higher education institution in the United Kingdom originating as the School of Arts of Edinburgh in 1821. It received its university charter in 1966. The name commemorates George Heriot – the 16th century financier to King James,...
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Graham Watson
Graham Watson MEP (born 23 March 1956) is a European politician from the United Kingdom. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament for South West England since 1994 and was leader of the liberal group in Parliament for seven years between...
Adam Crozier
Adam Crozier (born 26 January 1964, Falkirk, Scotland) is the chief executive of the Royal Mail. He took up this position in February 2003.
His father was a manager for Lord Bute, and his mother was secretary to the Managing Director of The Scotsman...
Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp is Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. He speaks on issues of visualisation and lateral...
Brian Monteith
Brian Monteith, born on 8 January 1958 is a Scottish politician, who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament from 1999 until 2007. Educated at Portobello High School and Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, he worked in public relations before his...
Fiona Watson
Fiona Watson (1968 - August 19, 2003) was a Scottish political affairs officer working in Vieira de Mello's office who was killed along with other members of UN staff in the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq, on the afternoon of August 19, 2003.
She had a...
Henning Skumsvoll
Henning Skumsvoll (born 15 March 1947 in Farsund) is a Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party. He is currently a representative of Vest-Agder in the Storting, he was first elected in 2005. He was elected vice leader of the Vest Agder...
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958 Leith, Edinburgh) is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.
Irvine Welsh was born in Leith, a port...
Gary Younge
Gary Younge (born 1969 in Hitchin, UK) is a British journalist and author, born to immigrant parents from Barbados. Younge read French and Russian at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He went on to study at City University, London where he gained...
Archy Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope
Archibald Johnstone Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope, PC (born 22 April 1946) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
He went to Cranhill School (became a housing estate and Kwik Save supermarket in the 1990s) in Cranhill, Glasgow and studied...
James Nasmyth
James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (August 19, 1808 – May 7, 1890) was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer. He was the co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company...
James R. Barr
James Robertson Barr A.M.I.E.E. (1885 – December 1910) was a Scottish engineer and lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh.
He was an apprentice to Bruce Peebles & Co. Ltd. and spent a year at the Leith Power Station. He...
Jim Telfer
Jim Telfer (born 17 March 1940) is a Scottish rugby union coach and a former rugby player. A former headmaster and chemistry teacher, he has won fame as a Scottish forwards coach who gave punishing training sessions to his players. With Ian...
Mark MacGregor
Mark MacGregor (born 25 February 1961) is a British Conservative Party politician. As a student, he was Chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students. Subsequently, he fought several parliamentary elections for the party, and also became Chief...
Mike Watson
Michael Goodall Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie, known as Mike Watson, (born 1 May 1949) is a former Scottish Labour Party politician. He has sat in three legislatures in the United Kingdom and served as Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport...
Neil W. Duffin
Born in St. Andrews, Scotland in the United Kingdom and a graduate of Heriot Watt University with a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering, Neil Duffin is currently the Vice President, Africa at ExxonMobil Production Company. His...
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Martin Mackay
Martin Mackay is the President of Pfizer Global Research & Development (PGRD). He oversees 14,300 employees spanning across the globe, 11 therapeutic areas and several functional lines. Martin began his career at Pfizer in 1995 as the Director...
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Oliver Penrose
dr. Prof. Oliver Penrose (born 1929) is a British mathematician. He is the son of the scientist Lionel Penrose, brother of the mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, and brother of chess master Jonathan Penrose. He was associated for seventeen years...
