Kilmarnock Academy

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Kilmarnock Academy is a comprehensive school, one of several in Kilmarnock, a town in western Scotland. The school can trace its history back to the local burgh school founded in the 1630s. The first school to bear the name was established in 1807. In 1898 the school was moved to its current location. In the early 1900s the school acquired the Kilmarnock Technical School for its use.

Kilmarnock Academy is one of only two schools in the world^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]} to have educated two Nobel laureates: Alexander Fleming and John Boyd Orr. The current rectrix of the school is a Mrs Carole Ford.

Noted alumnii

• Robert Colquhoun, artist
• Stewart Conn, poet and playwright
• Alexander Fleming, biologist, Nobel laureate
• Hugh McIlvanney, sports journalist
• William McIlvanney, author
• John Boyd Orr, biologist and politician, Nobel laureate
• Cameron Sharp, athlete
• William Muir, orientalist

External links

• [Kilmarnock Academy's Website]
• [East Ayrshire Govenment Webpage]

 

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