Alastair Biggar

{{Short description|Scotland international rugby union player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}

{{Infobox rugby biography

| name = Alastair Gourlay Biggar

| birth_date = 4 August 1946

| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2016|2|6|1946|8|4}}

| school = Shuttleworth College

| ru_nationalteam = Scotland

| ru_nationalyears = 1969–1972

| ru_position = Winger / centre

}}

Alastair Gourlay Biggar (4 August 1946 – 6 February 2016) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/7569.html Alastair Biggar rugby profile] Scrum.com

He was capped twelve times for his country, between 1969 and 1972, including the Five Nations seasons of 1970, 1971 and 1972. In the 1972 game against {{nrut|Wales}}, he sustained a hamstring injury.{{Cite web|url=http://www.data.wru.co.uk/eng/matchcentre/3387.php|title=Classics: Wales v Scotland – 1972|date=9 February 2007|publisher=Welsh Rugby Union|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200109033836/http://www.data.wru.co.uk/eng/matchcentre/3387.php|archive-date=9 January 2020|access-date=8 January 2020}} He also played for London Scottish. He toured New Zealand in 1971 with the British and Irish Lions.[http://www.lionsrugby.com/6012.php?player=15899&includeref=dynamic Alastair Biggar Lions profile] lionsrugby.com He died on 6 February 2016 from cancer.{{Cite news|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14263669.alastair-biggar/|title=Alastair Biggar|last=Vallance|first=Matt|work=The Herald|access-date=10 February 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200109034400/https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14263669.alastair-biggar/|archive-date=9 January 2020}}

Fellow London Scottish and Scotland player Mike Biggar is his cousin.