List of people educated at Perth Academy

Perth Academy is a non-denominational state school in Perth, Scotland.

Alumni

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Image	Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
—	Ian Abbot		Poet	[1]
—	Arthur Kinmond Bell		Distiller and philanthropist	[2]
—	James Bisset		Artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet	[3]
—	Francis Black		Politician serving in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba	[4]
—	Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie		Senior officer in Royal Air Force	[5]
—	John Forbes Cameron		Mathematician, academic and academic administrator	[6]
Aileen Campbell	Aileen Campbell		Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government	[7]
Colin Campbell	Colin Campbell		British Army officer and colonial governor	[8]
—	Iain Donald Campbell		Biophysicist and academic	[9]
—	Patrick Campbell		Vice-admiral in the Royal Navy	[10]
—	Alastair Cram		Mountaineer, lawyer and British Army officer	[11]
Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar	Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar		Member of UK parliament and judge	[12]
—	Gordon Duff		Medical scientist and academic	[13]
Thomas Duncan	Thomas Duncan		Portrait and historical painter	[14]
—	David Edward		Lawyer and academic, and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities
—	Robert Fairbairn		Banker and cricketer	[15]
—	John Forfar		Paediatrician and academic	[16]
Patrick Geddes	Patrick Geddes		Biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner	[17]
Stephen Gethins	Stephen Gethins		Member of UK parliament	[18]
Neil A. R. Gow	Neil A. R. Gow		Professor of Microbiology and deputy vice chancellor at the University of Exeter	[19]
—	Camilla Hattersley		Olympic swimmer	[20]
—	Mary Packer Harris		Artist and art teacher	[21]
—	Atholl Henderson		Football player and coach	[22]
David Octavius Hill	David Octavius Hill		Painter and arts activist	[23]
—	Edward Lindsay Ince		Mathematician	[24]
—	William Keiller		Anatomist	[25]
Henry Littlejohn	Henry Littlejohn		Surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official	[26]
—	David Low		Agriculturalist	[27]
Fred MacAulay	Fred MacAulay		Comedian	[28]
—	Robert MacDonald		Minister of the Free Church of Scotland
—	James MacGregor		Minister of the Church of Scotland	[29]
—	John Sturgeon Mackay		Mathematician and academic author	[30]
—	George Mathewson		Chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland	[31]
Patrick Matthew	Patrick Matthew		Grain merchant, fruit farmer, forester, and landowner	[32]
—	James McGhie, Lord McGhie		Chairman of the Scottish Land Court and President of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, and a Senator of the College of Justice
—	Thomas McWhannell		Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly	[33]
—	James Miller		Architect	[34]
—	Stephen Milne		Olympic swimmer	[35]
—	Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell		Lawyer, judge and member of UK parliament
Robert Pullar	Robert Pullar		Liberal politician	[36]
—	John Monteath Robertson		Chemist and crystallographer	[37]
—	Ronald Foote Robertson		President of the British Medical Association	[38]
—	Condie Sandeman		Advocate	[39]
—	Philip Scott		Professional football
—	Rhod Sharp		Broadcaster	[40]
—	Jack Shaw		Businessman, former chairman of the board of directors and Governor of the Bank of Scotland	[41]
Richard Simpson	Richard Simpson		Member of the Scottish Parliament	[42]
—	Mili Smith		Professional curler	[43]
Duncan Sommerville	Duncan Sommerville		Mathematician and astronomer	[44]
William Soutar	William Soutar		Poet and diarist	[45]
—	Brian Souter		Billionaire businessman	[46]
James Stewart	James Stewart		Physician and missionary	[47]
—	David Kinnear Thomson		Chairman and president of Peter Thomson (Perth) Limited
—	William Thomson		Mathematician and physicist	[48]
—	Anthony Toft		President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh	[49]
John Wishart	John Wishart		Mathematician and agricultural statistician	[50]
—	Sandy Wylie, Lord Kinclaven		Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland