List of people educated at Gordonstoun
Former pupils of Gordonstoun in Moray are known as Gordonstounians. They include the following individuals. See also The Category for Gordonstounians.
Royalty and aristocracy
- Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
- Prince Andrew, Duke of York
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Charles, Prince of Wales
- Lord Ivar Mountbatten
- Peter Phillips
- Zara Phillips
- Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester
- Paul-Philippe Hohenzollern
- Granville Gordon, 13th Marquess of Huntly
- Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 16th Duke of Hamilton
- Michael Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray
- John Grant, 13th Earl of Dysart
- James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife
- Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
- Norton Knatchbull, 8th Baron Brabourne
- Jasper Duncombe, 7th Baron Feversham
- Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon
Culture
- Duncan Jones, formerly known as Zowie Bowie – film director and son of musician David Bowie
- Jason Connery, actor
Music
- Roy Williamson of the Corries – musician, writer of Flower of Scotland,[1] one of two unofficial Scottish national anthems
- Dick Heckstall-Smith – musician
- Luca Prodan – musician
Barry Cooper (musicologist) Jo Hamilton (musician)
Writers – Poets, novelists, dramatists
Journalists and biographers
Science
- Francis Huxley - anthropologist
Politics
UKIP MEP Stuart Agnew
- Stuart Agnew - UKIP MEP
Business
- John Barton – Chairman of Next plc and EasyJet
- Alistair Gosling – Founder of Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme International
Sport
- Heather Stanning – rower, Olympic gold medallist at London 2012 with Helen Glover[2]
Fictional
Gordonstoun also has a notable fictional alumna, the heroine of Tomb Raider, Lara Croft was supposed to have attended the school in sixth year, and has also been used to advertise it.[3][4]
References
- ↑ The Corries website Archived 2010-08-29 at the Wayback Machine. www.corries.com Retrieved 12 July 2008
- ↑ Katherine Faulkner; Louise Eccles (1 August 2012). "The very middle-class supergirls: Former head girl at Zara's boarding school will be in Helmand by the New Year and the woman who four years ago had never held an oar". Daily Mail. Mail Online. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ↑ "Lara's school days on big screen". BBC News. 2 July 2001.
- ↑ Hibbard, Andrew (2 July 2001). "Lara Croft offers Gordonstoun a lift". The Independent. London.
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