Listed in alphabetical order by surname, notable former pupils of the former Hamilton Academy school, Scotland, United Kingdom. (Last intake of pupils to Hamilton Academy, 1971.)

A John Anderson, writer, activist and Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney; brother of Professor William Anderson, another notable alumnus of Hamilton Academy.Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association Magazine, February 1950, feature on Hamilton Academy in the article series 'Famous Scottish Schools.' University of Sydney – The John Anderson Archive James Craig Annan, pioneering photographer; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society Strathclyde University material – Who's Who in Glasgow 1909 Photographers' biographies Louise Gibson Annand (MacFarquhar), painter; film-maker; member of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland; President of the Society of Scottish Women Artists; chairperson of the J. D. Fergusson Foundation University of Glasgow, archives, retrieved 2010-10-13 Walter J D Annand, aeronautical research engineer; academic and author The Independent, obituary 16 September 2002, retrieved 2010-10-25 Mary Nicol Neill Armour, artist; Fellow, Royal Scottish Academy; Hon. President, Glasgow School of Art; Hon. President, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Artnet – artist's biography Fellow, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour Christies Auctioneers – sale catalogue biography Ernest Macalpine (Mac) Armstrong; former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners; Fellow, the Faculty of Public Health; former Secretary to the British Medical Association Royal Society of Edinburgh – Brain Science Event, programme and biography 2004 Frost's Scottish Who's Who – Ernest Armstrong, retrieved 2010-10-27 Frederick Stanley Arnot, missionary, explorer of Central Africa; author; friend of Dr. David Livingstone's family; Fellow, Royal Geographical SocietyTrekking in South-Central Africa, 1913–1919, Clement Martin Doke. Retrieved 2010-12-18 Dictionary of African Christian Biography – Frederick Stanley Arnot. Retrieved 2010-12-18 Cambridge Journals online. School of Oriental and African Studies. Book: Grenganze; or, Seven years' pioneer mission work in central Africa: Frederick Stanley Arnot. Retrieved 2010-12-18 Struther Arnott, molecular biologist; Fellow, the Royal Society; Fellow, the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow, King's College London; Fellow, Institute of Biology (becoming the Society of Biology); Fellow, the Royal Society of Chemistry; Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of St. Andrews; Gold Medallist for General Scholarship and Silver Medallist in Chemistry and in Mathematics, Hamilton Academy, 1952; 1st. science place awardee, Open Bursary Competition 1952, University of Glasgow (from Hamilton Academy) BMSG – biography

B Matthew Baillie, physician, pathologist and writer. Fellow 1790, 'Elect' 1809, of the Royal College of Physicians London;AIM25: Royal College of Physicians: BAILLIE, Matthew (1761–1823) . Royal College of Physicians Archives. Retrieved on 2007-08-11. Hon Fellow, 1809, of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Fellow, the Royal Society Royal Society lecture archives 1791 Alastair Balls, senior economic adviser to the Treasury; Departments of Environment and Transport, Undersecretary; Chairman, International Centre for Life; former member of the board of the Independent Television Commission; OFCOM licensing – biography Chairman, Alzheimer's Society; Alzheimers Society – Trustees' biographies board member, Higher Education Funding Council for England; Higher Education Funding Council for England – board members' biographies Chairman, Northern Rock Foundation Northern Rock Foundation – trustee's biography Robert Thompson Beaty, engineer, Chair of the Court of the University of Paisley, visiting professor of product design, University of Glasgow, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, FIProdEDebrett's. Biography, Prof R T Beaty, OBE, FREng Retrieved 2011-04-17 Robert J. T. Bell, mathematician and author; Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh; Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Otago, New Zealand University of St. Andrews – mathematicians' biographies Archie Bethel, Chief Executive, Babcock International Group Plc; Hamilton Advertiser article Fellow, the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Royal Society of Edinburgh – new Fellows list 2010 Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering; Royal Academy of Engineering – Fellows list past vice-President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Institution of Mechanical Engineers – board biographies past-President, Scottish Engineering – Scottish Engineering – article David King Murray, Lord Birnam, a judicial title of Sir David King Murray as a Senator of the College of Justice, Scotland Major John White Bone, consultant general surgeon. During the Second World War served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in France, evacuated from Dunkirk, returned in the Normandy landings, between times commander of military hospital in Jamaica and seconded to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, U.S. British Medical Journal. Obituary 28 January 1989, J. W. Bone. Retrieved 2011-04-17 Craig Brown, footballer, former manager of the Scotland national football team; and manager of Aberdeen F.C.Hamilton Advertiser article. 21 May 2009Evening Times article 'Every picture tells a story:Craig Brown, Part 1.' 15 April 2004The Herald article – 'The rise and rise of a well honoured manager' 12 July 1999 The Independent, interview with Craig Brown 6 August 1998. Retrieved 2011-01-18 Jock Brown, football commentator; former General Manager, Celtic F.C.Evening Times (Glasgow, U.K.) 12 May 2002 – included in article on Dougie Ross, footballer William Brown, architect; Fellow, the Royal Institute of British Architects; partner in the firm of Cullen, Lochhead and Brown, architects of the 'new' Hamilton Academy building, opened in 1913, and other major buildingsExtract from Directory of British Architects 1834–1914: A-K, by Antonia Brodie, page 277. Retrieved 2010-12-18 Sir Andrew Bryan, mining engineer and author; JSTOR academic reference site – printed work by Sir Andrew Bryan Fellow, the Royal Society of Edinburgh; H.M. Inspector of Mines; The Sir Andrew Bryan Medal awarded by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining – The Sir Andrew Bryan Medal Royal Society of Edinburgh – List of Fellows and biographies. Retrieved 19 September 2010 John Cameron Bryce, first Bradley Professor of English Literature and Emeritus Professor, University of Glasgow; editor, The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith; bequeather of The Alexander & Dixon Scholarship (Bryce Bequest) at the University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Archives

C Sir Alexander Cairncross, economist; Master, St Peter's College, Oxford; Chancellor, University of Glasgow; University of Glasgow Chancellors' biographies Fellow, The British Academy; British Academy – past Fellows Hon. Fellow, the Royal Society of Edinburgh; The Royal Society of Edinburgh – obituary first Director of the Economic Development Institute founded by the World Bank; President of the Royal Economic Society The World Bank web site – obituary John Cairncross, former Hamilton Academy Dux medallist, linguist, author, one of the KGB's Cambridge Five ('Ring of Five'), brother of Sir Alexander CairncrossScottish News Archive, The Herald, Glasgow, article 13 January 1998, Plea over Scots Spy – John Cairncross, "a former pupil of Hamilton Academy" Retrieved 2011-09-07 The Independent – obituary, John Cairncross 10 October 1995. Retrieved 2011-09-07 BBC Archive – John Cairncross, Cambridge spies. Retrieved 2011-09-07 Robert Russell Calder, author, editor and critic; formerly editor with Chapman Publishing, Scotland Frost's Scottish Who's Who – Robert Russell Calder. Retrieved 2010-10-29 Scottish poetry Library – work by Calder. Retrieved 2010-10-29 Scottish Arts Council – poetry by Calder. Retrieved 2010-10-29 Archibald Y. Campbell, classical scholar, published poet and author of emendations of classical texts; (graduate and) Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge; Gladstone Professor of Greek, University of LiverpoolScottish Secondary Teachers' Association Magazine, February 1950, feature on Hamilton Academy in the article series 'Famous Scottish Schools' University of Liverpool, list of University Chairs and Holders Sir George Campbell MP, banker; director, P&O; Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, India Sir Matthew Campbell KBE CB, Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Scotland The Independent – obituary, 25 March 1998. Retrieved 2010-12-07 Madge Carruthers, President of the Scottish Women's Amateur Athletic Association; manager Scottish women's athletic team, Commonwealth Games, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1974The Herald (Glasgow, U.K.) 6 January 2001, obituary Madge Carruthers James Cassels, son of Provost Andrew Cassels of HamiltonGlasgow Herald 24 Feb. 1941, obituary Thomas Cassells MP; Sheriff-substitute of Inverness, Elgin and Nairn; Dean of Guild for the Burgh of Falkirk; McFarlane Scholar in Law, University of GlasgowWho Was Who, 1941–50. A&C Black, 1967. Thomas Cassells Bob Cleland, Chief Executive of the multi-national, the Howden Group The Herald, article 5 January 2008. Retrieved 2011-04-18 Sir Ken Collins former MEP; Fellow, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society; Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, and the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management; past-Chairman of the committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection at the European Parliament; past-Chairman of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Scottish Government – appointment biography Rotary Club of Hamilton – Press 2009 David Colville Jr., steel magnate, David Colville & Sons, Dalzell works, Motherwell. Largest steel producing plant in Scotland and record output for Great Britain (1901). Uncle of John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir, Viceroy and Governor-General of IndiaStudies in Scottish Business History Payne, Peter L (Routledge 1967) page:275; David Colville Jnr. Retrieved 2010-12-17 Squadron Leader Denis Richard Colvin, Inspector of Lighting, Glasgow; President and Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Lighting Engineers The Herald – obituary, 6 January 1998, Denis Colvin. Retrieved 2010-12-07 Robert Craig Connal QC, appointed Scotland's first Solicitor Advocate QC (2002); former Council Member, Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow; Convenor, the Law Society of Scotland Supreme Courts Training Course (Civil) Frost's Scottish Who's Who – Robert Connal. Retrieved 2010-10-25 Sheriff Principal Graham Cox QC, former Sheriff of Tayside, Central and Fife and Sheriff principal of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway, in whose Scottish court at Kamp Van Zeist, The Netherlands, the suspects arrested regarding the Lockerbie air disaster first appeared on 6 April 1999 Frost's Scottish Who's Who – Graham Cox, retrieved 2010-10-25 Dumfries and Galloway Police – proceedings, Lockerbie air disaster. Retrieved 2010-10-28 Thomas Rae Craig, director, British Steel Corporation; former President of the Iron and Steel Institute and chairman of the Hunterston Development Company The Herald, obituary 1 March 1994 – Thomas Rae Craig. Retrieved 2010-12-18 John McKinnon Crawford DA, painter The Herald – obituary April 2005