Former pupils of Gordonstoun in Moray are known as Gordonstounians. They include the following people. See also The Category for Gordonstounians
Royalty and aristocracy
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh King Charles III 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, Duke of Edinburgh 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 and son of actor Sean Connery Alistair Gosling – Founder of Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme International Rosalind Eleazar, British actress
Artists
Music Roy Williamson of the Corries – musician, writer of Flower of Scotland,The Corries website www.corries.com Retrieved 12 July 2008 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
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.
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