Editing Edinburgh Academy (section)

==Notable alumni==
{{See also|List of people educated at Edinburgh Academy}}

Former pupils of the Edinburgh Academy are known as ''Academicals'', or ''Accies'', a name shared with the [[Edinburgh Academical Football Club|associated rugby club]].<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MAGpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34 |title=Elite Education International Perspectives|year=2015|first1=Claire |last1=Maxwell|first2= Peter|last2= Aggleton|publisher=Taylor and Francis|page=34|isbn=978-1317628811}}</ref>

Famous alumni of the school include [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], [[James Clerk Maxwell]], [[Nicky Campbell]], [[Magnus Magnusson]], [[Baron Falconer of Thoroton]], [[Mike Blair]], and Iain Glen. It has also produced one [[Nobel Prize]] winner ([[J. Michael Kosterlitz]]), numerous political and legal figures, several rugby internationals and nine recipients of the Victoria Cross; the highest number of any school in Scotland. According to the [[Sutton Trust]], the school is placed second in Scotland and joint 36th in the UK for the number of the nation's leading people produced.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Educational Backgrounds of the Nation's Leading People|url=https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/TOP-People-report-final.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812101058/http://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/TOP-People-report-final.pdf|archive-date=12 August 2016|publisher=Sutton Trust|date=November 2012}}</ref>