Dumfries Academy - Notable Former Pupils

Notable Former Pupils

See also: Category: People educated at Dumfries Academy

• Sir J.M.Barrie - writer of Peter Pan attended the school from 1873, and it was here where his first play Bandelero the Bandit was performed by the Dumfries Amateur Dramatic Club in 1877
• Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan, founder of the first savings bank
• Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866
• Sir James Crichton-Browne, eminent psychiatrist and president of the Medico-Psychological Association
• James Oswald Dykes, ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1859
• Jane Haining, Church of Scotland missionary who ultimately lost her life to the Nazis rather than betray her convictions
• Sir Alexander Knox Helm, civil servant who held several important diplomatic posts
• Dave Halliday, one of the highest goalscorers in UK football history and manager of Aberdeen to the Scottish League championship
• John Laurie, actor famous for Dad's Army
• Robin Philipson, artist
• John Hanson, singer
• Dougie Sharpe, Scottish Football League internationalist
• Maurice Elliott, professional footballer
• Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series
• Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel
• Neil Oliver, archaeologist and author best known for his television work on the BBC series Coast and Two Men In A Trench
• Stephen Jardine, TV presenter
• Barry Nicholson, Scottish international footballer
• Davie Irons, professional footballer and manager
• Ian Gibson
• Roger White, CEO of soft drinks group A G Barr
• Stephen Halliday, CEO of international energy & metals consultancy organisation Wood Mackenzie
• Don Peattie, ex professional association footballer and now Head of Sport at City of Sunderland College
• Ben Trueman, semi professional hitman and part-time mystic
• Hugh McMillan, poet and now teacher at Dumfries Academy