List of Glasgow School of Arts 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
 * 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

 * Bob Hardy – musician and bassist in Franz Ferdinand
 * Fran Healy – musician in Glasgow-based band Travis
 * Scott Hutchison – musician and artist
 * Rory Macdonald – musician, songwriter, and founding member of Runrig
 * Jimmie Macgregor – folksinger and television broadcaster
 * Dougie Payne – musician and member of the band Travis
 * 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