Gordon Hamilton (other)
Gordon Hamilton may refer to: * Gordon Hamilton (rugby union) (born 1964), retired rugby union player * Gordon Hamilton (composer) (born 1982), Australian composer and conductor * Gordon Hamilton (Australian footballer) (1920–1941), Australian rules footballer * Gordon Hamilton (dancer) (1918–1959), Australian ballet dancer * Gordon Hamilton (scientist) Gordon Hamilton ( – 22 October 2016) was a Scottish climate scientist who studied glaciers. He died on a trip to Antarctica in 2016 when his snowmobile fell into a crevasse. He was 50 at the time of his death. Career Native to Scotland, Hamilt ...

Gordon Hamilton (rugby Union)
Gordon Fredric Hamilton (born 13 May 1964 in Belfast) is a retired Irish rugby union player. He played as an open-side wing-forward. Hamilton played for N.I.F.C., Howe Of Fife (Scotland), Ballymena and Ulster. He had 10 caps for Ireland, from 1991 to 1992, scoring a single try. The most famous moment came of his career came at the 1991 Rugby World Cup, when he scored a try in the last couple of minutes of Ireland's quarter-final against Australia to put Ireland ahead. However, Michael Lynagh Michael Patrick Thomas Lynagh, AM (born 25 October 1963) is an Australian former rugby union player who played mainly as a fly-half. Lynagh represented Australia from 1984 to 1995, playing at both inside centre and fly half. Lynagh was capped ... scored at the other end to put Ireland out of the tournament. Hamilton owned and ran a shipping and stevedoring business in Ireland before selling the group to J&J Denholm Group of Scotland in 2012. Hamilton served as Chairman of the ...
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Gordon Hamilton (composer)
Gordon Hamilton (born 1982) is an Australian music, Australian composer and conductor. Since 2009, he has been the Artistic Director of The Australian Voices. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle, lived and worked in Bremen, Germany for five years as a conducting, conductor and composer and he now lives in Brisbane. He studied in Australia at the University of Newcastle, Australia, University of Newcastle Conservatorium from 2000 to 2004, majoring in composition with Nigel Butterley and piano with Carmel Lutton. At the same time, he undertook private lessons in orchestral conducting with David Banney. In October 2003 he was invited to the City of Hakodate, Japan where he performed a solo piano program of Messiaen, Butterley and Debussy. In 2004 Hamilton conducted the premiere of the opera ''The Impossible Body'' by Katrina Pring, for which he and Pring received a City of Newcastle Dramatic Award (CONDA). In January 2006, Hamilton founded Northern Spirit, a young ...
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Gordon Hamilton (Australian Footballer)
Gordon Ross Hamilton (13 July 1920 – 23 February 1941) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was the first South Melbourne player to die on active service in World War II. Career Football Hamilton was born in East Prahran on 13 July 1920, to Gordon and Lily Hamilton. He arrived at South Melbourne from Myer's in 1940 as a centre player. His first opportunity to play league football came in round 15, when Hamilton played for South Melbourne in a six-point loss to Hawthorn at Glenferrie Oval. A week later, Hamilton played his second senior game with South Melbourne, this time in a four-point win over Geelong. Hamilton, described as a "promising young player", was 19th man in both games. Military On 30 December 1940 Hamilton enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy, and he was sent to HMAS Cerberus, near Crib Point on the Mornington Peninsula. Soon after, on 23 February 1941, Hamilton drowned off a Ch ...
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Gordon Hamilton (dancer)
Gordon Hamilton (1918 – 14 February 1959) was an Australian ballet dancer. Gordon Hamilton was born in Sydney in 1918. Hamilton trained with Mischa Burlakov aged 18, and then Leon Kellaway. Hamilton's first role was in 1937, in the First Australian Ballet's production of ''Le Carnaval'' as Moya Beaver's partner. He later moved to London. Hamilton created roles in Robert Helpmann's ''Hamlet'' (1942), ''Miracle in the Gorbals'' (1944) and '' Adam Zero'' (1966); and in Roland Petit's ''Les Demoiselles de la nuit'' (1948) and ''Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...'' (1949). Hamilton gave Ninette de Valois her famous nickname, ''Madam'', when he created the role of an aging butterfly hunter in ''Promenade'' in 1943. In 1954, Hamilton was appointed ballet mast ...
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