Daniel Rutherford
The son of Professor John Rutherford (1695–1779) and his wife, Anne Mackay, Daniel Rutherford was born in Edinburgh on 3 November 1749. He began college at the age of 16 at Mundell's School on the West Bow close to his family home, and then studied medicine under William Cullen and Joseph Black at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a doctorate (MD) in 1772. From 1775 to 1786 he practiced as a physician in Edinburgh.
Daniel Edwin Rutherford
Prof Daniel "Dan" Edwin Rutherford FRSE (4 January 1906 in Stirling – 9 November 1966 in St Andrews) was a Scottish mathematician, known for his work on the representation theory of symmetric groups.