# List of Glasgow School of Art alumni

Following is a list of Glasgow School of Art alumni.

## Academic

* Mary Maclean – photographer and Royal Academy lecturer
* Grace Wilson Melvin – artist and faculty member of the Glasgow School of Arts
* Josephine Haswell Miller – painter and faculty member of the Glasgow School of Arts

## Architecture and design

* Ian Callum – automotive designer
* Charles Rennie Mackintosh –designer and architect
* James McKissack –architect and photographer
* Jeffrey Rowbotham – architect
* Thomas S. Tait – architect

## Embroidery

* Anne Knox Arthur – embroiderer and 1939 Lauder Prize winner
* Helen Adelaide Lamb – embroiderer and painter
* Ann Macbeth – embroiderer and suffragist
* Jessie Newbery – textile artist and embroiderer

## Fashion design

* Pam Hogg – fashion designer
* Jonathan Saunders – fashion designer

## Film and television

* Peter Capaldi – actor, director, and 1995 Academy Awards winner for short film
* Robbie Coltrane – actor
* Muriel Gray – broadcaster, author, and journalist
* Jimmie Macgregor – television broadcaster and folksinger
* Alexander Mackendrick – film director
* Gillies MacKinnon – film director
* Iain McCaig – Hollywood storyboard artist, illustrator, and designer
* Eddie McConnell – documentary filmmaker
* Norman McLaren – Academy Award-winning animator and filmmaker
* May Miles Thomas – screenwriter and director
* Ewan Morrison – novelist, screenwriter, director, and winner of the Saltire Society Literary Award and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards
* Donald Wilson – television writer and producer

## Illustration

* Christine Berrie – illustrator
* Emilio Coia – caricaturist
* Darren Cullen – cartoonist known for Join the Army
* John Glashan – cartoonist and illustrator
* Jessie Marion King – illustrator
* Iain McCaig – illustrator, designer, and Hollywood storyboard artist
* Daisy Agnes McGlashan – writer and illustrator
* Stewart Orr – children's book illustrator and watercolour artist
* Frank Quitely – comics artist
* David Shrigley – artist and cartoonist
* Dyke White – cartoonist

## Literature and journalism

* John Byrne – playwright and artist
* Ian Hamilton Finlay – poet, artist, and Turner Prize nominee 1984
* Alasdair Gray – novelist, muralist, and author of Lanark: A Life in Four Books
* Liz Lochhead – playwright and poet
* Daisy Agnes McGlashan – writer and illustrator
* Ewan Morrison – novelist, screenwriter, director, and winner of the Saltire Society Literary Award and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards
* Cordelia Oliver – journalist and art critic for The Guardian

## Metal working

* De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar – enamelist and metalworker

## Music

* Fran Healy – musician in Glasgow-based band Travis
* Dougie Payne – musician and member of the band Travis
* Andy Dunlop – musician and member of the band Travis
* Bob Hardy – musician and bassist in Franz Ferdinand
* Scott Hutchison – musician and artist
* Rory Macdonald – musician, songwriter, and founding member of Runrig
* Jimmie Macgregor – folksinger and television broadcaster
* Tommy Reilly – musician and songwriter
* Sharleen Spiteri – singer-songwriter, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Scottish pop-rock band Texas

## Performance art

* Lili Reynaud-Dewar – installation and performance artist

## Painting

* Janet Macdonald Aitken – painter
* Ann Dunlop Alexander – painter
* Lena Alexander – painter
* Jessie Algie – botanical painter
* Mary Parsons Reid Allan – painter
* Edith Lovell Andrews – painter
* Sophie Aston – painter
* Lesley Banks – painter
* Sam Black – artist
* Robert Henderson Blyth – artist
* Leonard Boden – portrait painter
* Christine Borland – artist and 1997 Turner Prize Nominee
* Martin Boyce – artist, 2011 Turner Prize winner
* Roderick Buchanan – artist and 2000 Beck's Futures winner
* Nancy Jane Burton – painter
* Steven Campbell – artist
* Evelyn Carslaw – landscape painter
* Nathan Coley – artist and 2007 Turner Prize nominee
* Stephen Conroy – painter
* Gertrude Mary Coventry – portrait painter
* James Cowie – painter
* Hugh Adam Crawford – painter
* Ken Currie – artist
* Alexander Brownlie Docharty – artist
* Jessie Alexandra Dick – painter and teacher
* Joan Eardley – artist
* Christian Jane Fergusson – artist
* Ian Hamilton Finlay – poet, artist, and Turner Prize nominee 1984
* Amelia Beattie Forsyth – artist and Lauder Prize winner 1937
* Douglas Gordon – artist and 1996 Turner Prize winner
* Alexander Goudie – artist
* Norah Neilson Gray – artist
* Sir James Gunn – landscape and portrait painter
* Ilana Halperin – artist
* Peter Howson – artist
* Chantal Joffe – artist
* Violet McNeish Kay – painter
* Jessie Keppie – artist
* Annabel Kidston – artist
* Annie Rose Laing – painter
* Elspeth Lamb – printmaker
* Jim Lambie – artist and 2005 Turner Prize nominee
* Andrew Law – portrait painter
* Laura Loudon – painter and 1939 Lauder Prize winner
* Tessa Lynch – artist
* Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh – artist
* Shona Macdonald – artist
* Philip Raskin – artist
* Elizabeth McDonald – portrait painter
* Jessie M. McGeehan – artist known for painting and mosaic work
* Alison McKenzie – painter and printmaker
* Sam McKinniss – contemporary figurative and abstract painter
* Bessie MacNicol – painter
* Josephine Haswell Miller – painter and faculty member of the Glasgow School of Arts
* Thomas Corsan Morton – artist
* Sheila Mullen – artist
* Ciara Phillips – artist
* Christopher Pratt –Canadian painter who designed the Newfoundland flag
* John Quinton Pringle – artist
* Charlotte Prodger – artist and 2018 Turner Prize recipient
* Jenny Saville – artist
* William Somerville Shanks – artist
* Lucy Skaer – artist and 2009 Turner Prize nominee
* Simon Starling – Turner Prize winning artist 2005
* Alison Watt – artist
* Cathy Wilkes – artist and 2008 Turner Prize nominee
* Richard Wright – artist and 2009 Turner Prize winner
* Kumi Yamashita – artist
* Jane Younger – painter

## Photography

* Harry Benson – photographer
* Mary Maclean – photographer and Royal Academy lecturer
* Oscar Marzaroli – photographer

## Politics and government

* David Donaldson – Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland
* Cathy Jamieson – politician
* Ann Macbeth –suffragist and embroiderer
* Alexander Stoddart – Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland

## Printmaking

* Jean D. Burns – artist and printmaker
* Robert Colquhoun – painter and printmaker
* Anna Findlay – artist and printmaker
* Chica Macnab – painter, wood-engraver, and printmaker
* Alison McKenzie – painter and printmaker
* Jacki Parry – printmaker and founding member of Glasgow Print Studio
* Viola Paterson – wood engraver and woodcut artist
* Margaret Bruce Wells – printmaker

## Sculptor

* Phyllis Archibald – sculptor
* Douglas Robertson Bisset – sculptor
* William Kellock Brown – sculptor
* Michelle de Bruin – sculptor, stonecarver and lettercutter
* Hannah Frank – artist and sculptor
* Alex Frost – sculptor
* Thomas Symington Halliday – sculptor and stained glass artist
* Benno Schotz – sculptor
* Andy Scott – sculptor
* Marc Bijl – sculptor, painter, and installation artist

## Stained glass

* Alan Gourley – painter and stained glass artist
* Thomas Symington Halliday – sculptor and stained glass artist
* Alf Webster – stain glass artist

## Other

* Doris Grant – nutritionist
* Toby Webster – art dealer