Brian MacKinnon (b. 1963) is a Scotsman who posed as a teenager Brandon Lee to get back to the medical school. Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... An image of a 1901 examination in the faculty of medicine. ...

MacKinnon was a medical student in the University of Glasgow. He kept failing his exams and was eventually taken off the course. According to his later interview, he felt he had to abandon his studies because of an illness. He later returned to study biological sciences but because he failed to register, he never officially graduated. Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining human health or restoring it through the treatment of disease and injury. ... The University of Glasgow, founded in 1451, is the largest of the three universities in Glasgow, Scotland. ...

Determined to become a physician, he adopted a persona of Canadian teenager Brandon Lee. He intended to retake his Highers to circumvent his academic record and 1993 enrolled in the same school he had graduated from 13 years previously - Bearsden Academy in Glasgow. Higher is one of the educational levels of National Course on the Scottish Qualifications Certificate (SQC) offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority which supereded the old Higher Grade on the Scottish Certificate of Education (SCE). ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ...

He changed his appearance by taking a perm and plucking his eyebrows and forged two letters of introduction. In spite of the fact that he was 30, the teachers - many of whom had been there when he was studying there in the 1970s - and students accepted him as a 17-year-old newcomer.

The imposture lasted for two years, during which he finished with five Highers. In 1995 he was accepted by the University of Dundee's medical school. He took three girls to a holiday in Tenerife and after their return an anonymous phone call - presumably from one of the girls - exposed him. He left the Dundee University after four months although he later tried to reapply. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The University of Dundee is the principal university in the city and Royal Burgh of Dundee, Scotland. ... Flag of Tenerife Tenerife (English also Teneriffe), a Spanish island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. ... ...

In a 1997 interview he said he was going to go back to medical school - even if he has to become someone else again. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He took a case against Glasgow University, accusing it of mistreatment for 'pre-emptorily excluding' him from his studies, to the European Courts in 2001. Since the European Courts were not in existence at the time of his original grievance, they could not do anything to help him. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Scottish film producer Peter Broughan spent spent three years developing a film called Younger Than Springtime, about McKinnon. The film had several postponements before finally collapsing late in 1999 when Glasgow Film Fund was unable to provide the final £150,000 of the £3m budget.

External links

• Hoax museum claims that MacKinnon is "living in his car"
• Medical student lies for university place (BMJ)
• Brandon Lee Suffers Fresh Blow to Dream of Becoming a Doctor
• Rob Roy producer critical of film bureaucracy