Nairn McEwan

Nairn Alexander MacEwan (12 December 1941 – 31 May 2018) was a Scottish international rugby player and coach. He played at flanker,

MacEwan helped Highland RFC to their "years of glory in the Seventies, when guided and inspired by [him], they shot up through the divisions, but they have since fallen away, and are now a run of the mill Second Division outfit."

Bill McLaren notes that Bill Dickinson included MacEwan in "one of the most formidable packs of all time", alongside the Scottish rugby greats like Ian McLauchlan, Sandy Carmichael, Alistair McHarg, Gordon Brown, Peter Brown and Rodger Arneil. However, once when Scotland played at Twickenham, England coach John Burgess made the notorious comment,

I've seen this Scottish pack rucking. If it's blood on their boots they want, that's what they'll get.

MacEwan also coached the Italian side Rugby Rovigo.

MacEwan died on 31 May 2018.