University buildings: The fame behind the names

To us these buildings are just our daily ball and chain.

But most are actually named after fairly relevant people.

Appleton Tower

Named After: Sir Edward Appleton

Occupation: Physicist

Famous For: Wining a Nobel Prize

Building Famous For: Being hideous

 Dugald Stewart Building

Named After: Dugald Stewart

Occupation: Scottish Philosopher and Mathematician

Famous For: Popularizing the Scottish Enlightenment

Building Famous For: Not being ancient

 Hugh Robson Building

Named After: Sir Hugh Norwood Robson

Occupation: Principal of Edinburgh University

Famous For: Being the Principal

Building Famous For: Being a bomb shelter during World War II and contemporary 24 hour student hell

 David Hume Tower

Named After: David Hume

Occupation: Scottish historian, philosopher, economist, diplomat and essayist

Famous For: His radical philosophical empiricism and scepticism

Building Famous For: Incredibly slow elevators

 Adam House

Named After: Robert Adam

Occupation: Architect

Famous For: Designing the Building

Building Famous For: Having exams

 Minto House

Named After: Gilbert Elliot Lord Minto

Occupation: Lord

Famous For: Being a Lord

Building Famous For: Being difficult to spot

 Bedlam Theater

Named After: The city’s first mental hospital

Famous For: Its brilliant student plays

 Chrystal Macmillan Building

Named After: Chrystal Macmillan

Occupation: Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist

Famous For: Being the first female science graduate from the University of Edinburgh and Math. The first woman to plead a case before the House of Lords

Building Famous For: Being a maze

 Potterrow Student Centre/ Potterrow Mandela Centre

Named After: Medieval Suburbs Outside the town walls/ Nelson Mandela

Occupation: Revolutionary

Famous For: Demolished and redeveloped by the University/ Anti-apartheid movement

Building Famous For: The Big Cheese

 McEwan Hall

Named After: William McEwan

Occupation: Brewer and politician

Famous For: Funding the construction of McEwan hall

Building Famous For: Not graduating students this year