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 ^[1]
• Josephine Haswell Miller – painter and faculty member of the Glasgow School of Arts ^[2]

Architecture and design

• Ian Callum – automotive designer ^[3]
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh –designer and architect ^[3]
• James McKissack –architect and photographer ^[4]
• Jeffrey Rowbotham – architect ^[5]
• Thomas S. Tait – architect ^{[3] [6]}

Embroidery

• Anne Knox Arthur – embroiderer and 1939 Lauder Prize winner
• Helen Adelaide Lamb – embroiderer and painter
• Ann Macbeth – embroiderer and suffragist ^{[3] [7]}
• Jessie Newbery – textile artist and embroiderer ^[3]

Fashion design

• Pam Hogg – fashion designer ^[3]
• Jonathan Saunders – fashion designer ^[8]

Film and television

• Peter Capaldi – actor, director, and 1995 Academy Awards winner for short film ^[3]
• Robbie Coltrane – actor ^[3]
• Muriel Gray – broadcaster, author, and journalist ^[3]
• Jimmie Macgregor – television broadcaster and folksinger ^[9]
• Alexander Mackendrick – film director ^[10]
• Gillies MacKinnon – film director ^[11]
• Iain McCaig – Hollywood storyboard artist, illustrator, and designer ^[12]
• Eddie McConnell – documentary filmmaker
• Norman McLaren – Academy Award-winning animator and filmmaker ^[3]
• May Miles Thomas – screenwriter and director ^[13]
• 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 ^[14]

Illustration

• Christine Berrie – illustrator ^[15]
• Emilio Coia – caricaturist ^{[3] [16]}
• Darren Cullen – cartoonist known for Join the Army ^[3]
• John Glashan – cartoonist and illustrator ^[17]
• Jessie Marion King – illustrator ^[3]
• Iain McCaig – illustrator, designer, and Hollywood storyboard artist ^[12]
• Daisy Agnes McGlashan – writer and illustrator ^[18]
• Stewart Orr – children's book illustrator and watercolour artist ^[19]
• Frank Quitely – comics artist ^[20]
• David Shrigley – artist and cartoonist ^[21]
• Dyke White – cartoonist ^[3]

Literature and journalism

• John Byrne – playwright and artist ^[3]
• Ian Hamilton Finlay – poet, artist, and Turner Prize nominee 1984 ^[22]
• Alasdair Gray – novelist, muralist, and author of Lanark: A Life in Four Books ^[3]
• Liz Lochhead – playwright and poet ^[3]
• Daisy Agnes McGlashan – writer and illustrator ^[18]
• 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 ^[23]

Metal working

• De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar – enamelist and metalworker

Music

• Fran Healy – musician in Glasgow-based band Travis ^[3]
• Dougie Payne – musician and member of the band Travis ^[3]
• Andy Dunlop – musician and member of the band Travis ^[3]
• Bob Hardy – musician and bassist in Franz Ferdinand ^[3]
• Scott Hutchison – musician and artist ^[3]
• Rory Macdonald – musician, songwriter, and founding member of Runrig ^[24]
• Jimmie Macgregor – folksinger and television broadcaster ^[9]
• Tommy Reilly – musician and songwriter
• Sharleen Spiteri – singer-songwriter, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Scottish pop-rock band Texas ^[25]

Performance art

• Lili Reynaud-Dewar – installation and performance artist
• James Stephen Wright – new media and performance artist

Painting

• Janet Macdonald Aitken – painter ^[26]
• Ann Dunlop Alexander – painter ^[27]
• Lena Alexander – painter ^[28]
• Jessie Algie – botanical painter ^[26]
• Mary Parsons Reid Allan – painter ^[28]
• Edith Lovell Andrews – painter ^[28]
• Sophie Aston – painter ^[28]
• Lesley Banks – painter ^[28]
• Sam Black – artist ^[29]
• Robert Henderson Blyth – artist ^[30]
• Leonard Boden – portrait painter ^[31]
• Christine Borland – artist and 1997 Turner Prize Nominee ^[3]
• Martin Boyce – artist, 2011 Turner Prize winner ^[3]
• Roderick Buchanan – artist and 2000 Beck's Futures winner ^[3]
• Nancy Jane Burton – painter ^[28]
• Steven Campbell – artist ^[3]
• Evelyn Carslaw – landscape painter ^[28]
• Nathan Coley – artist and 2007 Turner Prize nominee ^[32]
• Stephen Conroy – painter ^[3]
• Gertrude Mary Coventry – portrait painter ^[26]
• James Cowie – painter ^{[3] [33]}
• Hugh Adam Crawford – painter ^[26]
• Ken Currie – artist ^[34]
• Alexander Brownlie Docharty – artist ^[35]
• Jessie Alexandra Dick – painter and teacher ^[28]
• Joan Eardley – artist ^[3]
• Christian Jane Fergusson – artist ^[36]
• Ian Hamilton Finlay – poet, artist, and Turner Prize nominee 1984 ^[22]
• Amelia Beattie Forsyth – artist and Lauder Prize winner 1937
• Douglas Gordon – artist and 1996 Turner Prize winner ^[3]
• Alexander Goudie – artist ^[37]
• Norah Neilson Gray – artist ^[38]
• Sir James Gunn – landscape and portrait painter ^[39]
• Ilana Halperin – artist ^[40]
• Peter Howson – artist ^[3]
• Chantal Joffe – artist ^[41]
• Violet McNeish Kay – painter ^[28]
• Jessie Keppie – artist ^[28]
• Annabel Kidston – artist ^[28]
• Kathryn Kynoch - painter ^[42]
• Annie Rose Laing – painter ^[28]
• Elspeth Lamb – printmaker ^[28]
• Jim Lambie – artist and 2005 Turner Prize nominee ^[3]
• Andrew Law – portrait painter ^[43]
• Laura Loudon – painter and 1939 Lauder Prize winner ^[3]
• Tessa Lynch – artist ^[44]
• Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh – artist ^{[3] [45]}
• Shona Macdonald – artist ^[46]
• Philip Raskin – artist ^[47]
• Elizabeth McDonald – portrait painter ^[48]
• Jessie M. McGeehan – artist known for painting and mosaic work ^[2]
• Alison McKenzie – painter and printmaker ^[2]
• Sam McKinniss – contemporary figurative and abstract painter ^[49]
• Bessie MacNicol – painter ^[50]
• Josephine Haswell Miller – painter and faculty member of the Glasgow School of Arts ^[2]
• Thomas Corsan Morton – artist ^[51]
• Sheila Mullen – artist ^[52]
• Ciara Phillips – artist ^[53]
• Christopher Pratt –Canadian painter who designed the Newfoundland flag
• John Quinton Pringle – artist ^[43]
• Charlotte Prodger – artist and 2018 Turner Prize recipient
• Jenny Saville – artist ^[3]
• William Somerville Shanks – artist ^[54]
• Lucy Skaer – artist and 2009 Turner Prize nominee ^[55]
• Simon Starling – Turner Prize winning artist 2005 ^[3]
• Alison Watt – artist ^[3]
• Cathy Wilkes – artist and 2008 Turner Prize nominee ^[56]
• Richard Wright – artist and 2009 Turner Prize winner ^[57]
• Kumi Yamashita – artist ^[58]
• Jane Younger – painter ^[2]

Photography

• Harry Benson – photographer ^[59]
• Mary Maclean – photographer and Royal Academy lecturer
• Oscar Marzaroli – photographer ^[3]

Politics and government

• David Donaldson – Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland ^[3]
• Cathy Jamieson – politician ^[3]
• Ann Macbeth –suffragist and embroiderer ^{[3] [7]}
• Alexander Stoddart – Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland ^[3]

Printmaking

• Jean D. Burns – artist and printmaker
• Robert Colquhoun – painter and printmaker ^{[3] [60]}
• Anna Findlay – artist and printmaker ^[28]
• Chica Macnab – painter, wood-engraver, and printmaker ^[2]
• Alison McKenzie – painter and printmaker ^[2]
• Jacki Parry – printmaker and founding member of Glasgow Print Studio ^[2]
• Viola Paterson – wood engraver and woodcut artist ^[2]
• Margaret Bruce Wells – printmaker ^[2]

Sculptor

• Phyllis Archibald – sculptor ^[28]
• Douglas Robertson Bisset – sculptor ^[61]
• William Kellock Brown – sculptor ^[62]
• Michelle de Bruin – sculptor, stonecarver and lettercutter ^[3]
• Hannah Frank – artist and sculptor ^[63]
• Alex Frost – sculptor ^[64]
• Thomas Symington Halliday – sculptor and stained glass artist ^[26]
• Benno Schotz – sculptor ^[3]
• Andy Scott – sculptor ^[3]
• Marc Bijl – sculptor, painter, and installation artist ^{[65] [66]}

Stained glass

• Alan Gourley – painter and stained glass artist ^[67]
• Thomas Symington Halliday – sculptor and stained glass artist ^[26]
• Alf Webster – stain glass artist ^[68]

Other

• Doris Grant – nutritionist ^[69]
• Toby Webster – art dealer ^[70]

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