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

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