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.)
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Arthur Laidlaw Allan, surveyor with the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, author of the professional text book Practical Field Surveying and Computations, editor (1972–81) of The Survey Review Professor 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. Professor William Anderson, professor of philosophy, Auckland University College, New Zealand, 1921–55; President of the Australian Association of Psychology and Philosophy; brother of Professor John Anderson, another notable alumnus of Hamilton Academy. James Craig Annan, pioneering photographer; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society Dr. Louise Gibson Annand (MacFarquhar) MBE, 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 Dr. Walter J D Annand, aeronautical research engineer; academic and author Dr. Mary Nicol Neill Armour, artist; Fellow, Royal Scottish Academy; Hon. President, Glasgow School of Art; Hon. President, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Fellow, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour Dr. Ernest Macalpine (Mac) Armstrong CB, LLD; 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 Frederick Stanley Arnot, missionary, explorer of Central Africa; author; friend of Dr. David Livingstone's family; Fellow, Royal Geographical Society Professor Struther Arnott CBE, 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)