24 Notable alumni of
Edinburgh Napier University
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Edinburgh Napier University is 1681st in the world, 582nd in Europe, and 105th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from Edinburgh Napier University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Carol Kirkwood
- Occupations
- television presenterwriterpresenter
- Biography
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Carol Kirkwood is a Scottish weather presenter. She was trained by the Met Office and works for the BBC on BBC Breakfast. She is also a published author.
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Lynne Ramsay
- Occupations
- film directordirectorcinematographerfilm producerscreenwriter
- Biography
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Lynne Ramsay is a Scottish filmmaker known for films such as Ratcatcher (1999), Morvern Callar (2002), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), You Were Never Really Here (2017), and Die My Love (2025). She has received numerous accolades. Her work is marked by a fascination with children, young people, and mothers, as well as the recurring themes of grief, guilt, death, and the aftermath of each.
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Marli Siu
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Marli Siu is a Scottish actress. Her films include Anna and the Apocalypse (2017), Our Ladies (2019), and Run (2019), the latter of which won her a Scottish BAFTA. On television, Siu has appeared in the spy thriller Alex Rider (2020–2024) and the BBC drama Everything I Know About Love (2022).
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Anna Meredith
- Occupations
- composermusician
- Biography
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Anna Howard Meredith MBE is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She is a former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and former PRS/RPS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA.
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Bruce Mouat
- Occupations
- curler
- Biography
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Bruce Mouat is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in 2023 and 2025, four European championship titles (2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023) and twelve Grand Slam titles. He also earned a silver medal in the men's team event of the 2022 Winter Olympics and is a former World Mixed Doubles (2021), Winter Universiade (2017) and World Junior (2016) champion.
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Lynsey Sharp
- Occupations
- middle-distance runner
- Biography
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Lynsey Sharp is a former Scottish track and field athlete who competed in the 800 metres. She is the 2012 European champion and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She won a silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Her personal best is 1:57.69, the seventh fastest time over 800m by a British woman, set in the final of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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Wasfia Nazreen
- Occupations
- social worker
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Wasfia Nazreen is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, social worker and environmentalist.
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Tom Harris
- Occupations
- bloggerjournalistpoliticiantrade unionist
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Thomas Harris is a Scottish journalist and former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow South, formerly Glasgow Cathcart, from 2001 to 2015. A former member of Scottish Labour, he left the party in August 2018.
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Lesley Laird
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- politiciancouncil member
- Biography
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Lesley Margaret Laird is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2017 to 2019. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from 2017 to 2019, and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland during the same period. Laird was a Member of Fife Council from 2012 to 2018 and served as the Deputy Leader of the Council.
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Tavish Scott
- Occupations
- farmerpolitician
- Biography
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Tavish Hamilton Scott is a former Scottish politician. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Shetland from 1999 to 2019, and Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2008 to 2011. He stepped down as Leader following the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, in which the Liberal Democrats were reduced to five seats, down from 16 in the previous parliament.
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Serhii Babak
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- economistjuristpolitician
- Biography
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Serhii Vitaliiovych Babak is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, economist, psychologist, is a who is currently a member of the Verkhovna Rada since 29 April 2019 from the Servant of the People party.
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Danielle Rowley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Danielle Rowley is a Scottish Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Midlothian from 2017 to 2019.
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Owen Thompson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Owen George Thompson is a Scottish National Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Midlothian from 2015 to 2017 and from 2019 to 2024. He was elected in 2015, defeated at the 2017 general election, and regained the seat at the 2019 general election.
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Sara Cox
- Occupations
- rugby union match officialrugby union playerCategory:Rugby sevens referees
- Biography
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Sara Louise Cox MBE is an English rugby union referee and former rugby union footballer. In 2016, she became the world's first professional female rugby union referee, and in 2018 she became the first woman to referee a Premiership Rugby Cup match. On 25 September 2021, she became the first woman to referee a Premiership Rugby Union Match when she took centre field for a fixture between Harlequins and Worcester Warriors at the Stoop.
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Neil Poulton
- Occupations
- designer
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Neil Poulton is a Scottish product designer, based in Paris, France. He specialises in the design of 'deceptively simple-looking mass-produced objects' and has won numerous international design awards. Poulton is best known for his designs in the fields of technology and lighting design and is often associated with manufacturers LaCie and Artemide.
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Scott Ainslie
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Scott John Ainslie is a British politician and actor.
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Bill Buchanan
- Enrolled in Edinburgh Napier University
- 1992-1996 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Bill Buchanan is a Scottish computer scientist. He is a professor at Edinburgh Napier University, where he leads the Blockpass ID Lab, and the Centre for Cybersecurity, IoT and Cyberphysical. In 2017 he received an OBE for services to cyber security.
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Jim Thompson
- Occupations
- rugby sevens playerrugby union player
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James Gordon Thompson is a Scottish former professional rugby union player who played as a full-back.
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Graeme Morrice
- Occupations
- politiciancouncil member
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Graeme Morrice is a Scottish Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 2010 to 2015. Prior to his election to Parliament, he served as the Leader of West Lothian Council from 1995 to 2007.
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El Mafrex
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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El Mafrex is a Nigerian-born, urban gospel singer-songwriter, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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John Barrett
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Andrew Barrett is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West.
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Jayne Baxter
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jayne Baxter is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 2012 to 2016. She succeeded John Park when he resigned his list seat to take up a position with the Community trades union.
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Tasnim Nazeer
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Tasnim Nazeer is a British journalist, author and Universal Peace Federation Ambassador for Peace Nazeer became Scotland's first hijab-wearing freelance TV reporter in July 2020. She has written for Al Jazeera, HuffPost, The Independent online, CNN, BBC News Online, The Guardian, TRT World, Middle East Eye and others. Nazeer was awarded The Muslim News Ibn Battuta Award for Excellence in Media 2013 and the FIPP Rising Stars in Media Award 2018 for her work in her capacity as a journalist.
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Douglas Dalton
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Douglas Dalton QSO OStJ was a New Zealand rugby union player. He was educated at Nelson Park Primary School and then Napier Technical College. A prop and hooker, Dalton represented Hawke's Bay at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1935 to 1938. He played 21 matches for the All Blacks including nine internationals. He later served as the Hawke's Bay selector between 1946 and 1948, and was also a North Island selector.
