Full name | Ewan Alexander MacMillan | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 3 January 1971 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Chinhoyi, Rhodesia | ||||||||||||||||
School | Lomagundi College | ||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Gold trader | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Ewan Alexander MacMillan (born 3 January 1971) is a Zimbabwean businessman and former rugby union player.
MacMillan was born in Chinhoyi, to parents who had emigrated from Perth, Scotland during the 1960s. [1]
Educated at Lomagundi College, MacMillan was a scrum-half for the Zimbabwe national rugby union team in the early 1990s, earning four caps. He made the Zimbabwe squad for the 1991 Rugby World Cup. After the side's loss to Ireland in the opening match, MacMillan was favoured over veteran scrum-half Andy Ferreira for their remaining two fixtures, against Scotland at Murrayfield and Japan at Ravenhill Stadium. [2] He has a son Bruce who also played for Zimbabwe. [3]
MacMillan followed his father Ian into the gold trading business and is a convicted smuggler. [4] [5] [6]
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