University of Aberdeen
 University of Aberdeen  (University)    | |
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| Motto | Initium sapientiae timor domini (Latin) |
| Formation | 1495 |
| Headquarters | Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Type | • Public • Ancient university |
| The university has produced leading figures in the UK, Scottish, and foreign governments. | |
The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is an ancient university founded in 1495, making it Scotland's third-oldest university and the fifth-oldest in the English-speaking world.
History
The modern university was created in 1860 by the merger of two "ancient universities": King's College, located in Old Aberdeen and Marischal College, founded in 1593 and located in the new town of Aberdeen. The university is deeply interwoven with the city, not least thanks to the many iconic King's College buildings that dominate Old Aberdeen. Aberdeen University has a large community of international students from 120 different countries. With over 650 undergraduate degrees, the university enjoys an excellent academic reputation and its research laboratories are recognized worldwide for their quality.
Over its centuries-old history, the University of Aberdeen has hosted many iconic intellectual figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and of the modern era, such as physicist James Clerk Maxwell, Thomas Reid, the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, the philosophers Robert Adamson and Alexander Bain, or the theologian William Robinson Clark. Five Nobel Prize winners are associated with the university.
The university has produced leading figures in the UK, Scottish, and foreign governments.
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Bain | 1964 | Lawyer | Scottish advocate wife of Alan Turnbull, lead prosecutor in the Lockerbie bombing trial | ||
| Ian Boyd | 9 February 1957 | UK | Academic Zoologist | DEFRA's Chief scientific adviser 2012-2019, SAGE member | |
| Stephen Carter | 12 February 1964 | Politician Businessperson | Downing Street Chief of Staff for most of 2008 | ||
| Katy Clark | 3 July 1967 | UK | Politician | UK MP | |
| Alistair Darling | 28 November 1953 | Politician | UK politician, governance of Chatham House | ||
| Leeona Dorrian | 16 June 1957 | Lawyer Judge | |||
| Stephen House | 1957 | Resigned from Police Scotland after claims police were illegally intercepting communications and spying on journalists. | |||
| Tessa Jowell | 17 September 1947 | Politician | UK politician | ||
| Daniel Lafayeedney | UK | Spook Soldier Propagandist Deep state operative | UK Deep state operative. Director of both the II and its parent group the Institute For Statecraft. Two children also in the IfS. | ||
| Iain Livingstone | 6 October 1966 | Lawyer Police officer | Senior Scottish policeman | ||
| Marcello Mega | 1966 | Journalist | "A freelance journalist and public relations adviser who cares passionately about holding people in public office to account..." | ||
| Rosie Mitchell | 1987 | Politician Union organizer | |||
| Frank Mulholland | 18 April 1959 | Scottish lawyer and Lord Advocate | |||
| Angus Robertson | 28 September 1969 | Journalist Politician | Former Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party | ||
| John Sewel | 15 January 1946 | UK | Politician Academic Deep state functionary | "Lord Coke", Chairman of the Lords privileges and conduct committee | |
| Bill Taylor | Lawyer | Counsel for Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Lockerbie bombing convict | |||
| John Thomson | 27 April 1927 | 3 June 2018 | Diplomat | Like his son, Adam Thomson, a UK diplomat. | |
| Andy Wightman | 29 May 1963 | UK | Researcher Politician | Author of Who Owns Scotland and The Poor Had No Lawyers |
