The list of famous mathematicians associated to the University of Edinburgh includes:
- Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746)
- Thomas Bayes (1702-1761)
- Mary Somerville (1780-1872)
- Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901)
- Flora Philip (1865-1943)
- Sir Edmund Whittaker (1873-1956)
- Alexander Aitken (1895-1967)
- Sir William Hodge (1903-1973)
- William Edge (1904-1997)
- Ian Porteous (1931-2011)
- Sir Michael Atiyah (1929-2019)
- Dusa McDuff (1945-)