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

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Royalty and aristocracy

Culture

Duncan Jones, formerly known as Zowie Bowie – film director and son of musician David Bowie
Jason Connery, actor and son of actor Sean Connery
Alistair Gosling – Founder of Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme International

Artists

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

William Boyd – writer
Allan Scott (Scottish screenwriter)

Journalists and biographers

Isabel Oakeshott

Science

Francis Huxley - anthropologist
David Stronach - archaeologist

Lawyers and judges

Military

Vice Admiral Sir James Weatherall - Senior Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic from 1989 to 1991 and then as Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps from 1992 to 2001. Also first commanding officer of the Royal Navy's flagship the Ark Royal

Politics

Stuart Agnew - UKIP MEP

Business

John Barton – Chairman of Next plc and EasyJet

Sport

Heather Stanning – rower, Olympic gold medallist at London 2012 with Helen Glover^{[citation needed]}

Rugby players

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.^[2]^[3]

References

^ The Corries website Archived 2010-08-29 at the Wayback Machine www.corries.com Retrieved 12 July 2008
^ "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. Archived from the original on 15 December 2010.

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