Derek Longmuir (born 19 March 1951, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish former drummer and a founding member of the pop group Bay City Rollers.

[citation needed] He decided to leave the Bay City Rollers during a tour in Japan in 1982.

[4] He retired from the music industry in the early 1980s and trained as a nurse working at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1993.

[3] When Alan Longmuir suffered a heart attack in 1995, Derek was one of the nurses who helped him recover.

[6] In 1991, Longmuir was in a relationship with Janice Green, who was also the person to convince Derek to take nursing as a profession.