Editing Duncan Jones (section)

==Early life==
Jones was born at [[Bromley Hospital]] in [[Bromley]], [[London]], on 30 May 1971,<ref name="buckley">{{cite book | last = Buckley | first = David | title = Strange Fascination – David Bowie: The Definitive Story | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vk-I_ZM_PfwC&pg=PA90 | edition = Revised & Updated | orig-year = 1999 | year = 2005 | publisher = [[Virgin Publishing]] | location = London | isbn = 0-7535-1002-2 | page = 90 | quote = On 30 May 1971, Bowie's son, Duncan Zowie Jones, was born in [[Bromley Hospital]].}}</ref> the first child of English singer-songwriter and musician [[David Bowie]] (1947–2016) and his first wife, [[Angie Bowie|Angela "Angie" Bowie]] (''née'' Barnett), an American model and actress.<ref>[http://www.angiebowie.net/Angies%20Bio.htm ANGIE BOWIE – BIOGRAPHY] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710124726/http://www.angiebowie.net/Angies%20Bio.htm |date=10 July 2017 }}. angiebowie.net</ref> His maternal grandfather, George, was a [[United States Army]] veteran and mining engineer who ran a mill for the [[Cyprus Mines Corporation]], while his maternal grandmother, Helena, was a naturalised [[Canadians|Canadian]]. His mother was born and raised in [[Cyprus]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.angiebowie.net/Old%20Web%20Pages/cyprus.html |title=Cyprus: Land of Passion |last1=Bowie |first1=Angie |date=2000 |website=angiebowie.net |publisher=Angie Bowie |access-date=20 September 2016 |archive-date=20 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090520033929/http://www.angiebowie.net/Old%20Web%20Pages/cyprus.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and has [[Polish people|Polish]] ancestry.<ref name=backstage>Bowie, Angela. ''Backstage Passes'', pp. 29–30</ref> His birth prompted his father to write "[[Kooks (song)|Kooks]]" for his 1971 album ''[[Hunky Dory]]''.<ref name="Any Day Now p.218">Kevin Cann (2010). ''Any Day Now – David Bowie: The London Years: 1947–1974'': p. 218</ref>

Mostly raised by his father David and his Scottish nanny, Marion Skene,<ref>{{cite tweet|last=Jones|first=Duncan|title= Also lost a most incredible woman, Marion Skene, to cancer last week. She raised me. Without her, who knows what kind of a mess I'd be.|user=manmademoon|number=845053720329019392| date=23 March 2017 | access-date=12 December 2021}}</ref> Jones spent time growing up in London, Berlin, and [[Vevey]] in Switzerland. He attended the first and second grade at the [[International School of Lausanne|Commonwealth-American School]] in Lausanne. When his parents divorced in February 1980, his father was granted custody of eight-year-old Jones (who was then known as "Zowie Bowie" to rhyme with his father's stage name) and he visited his mother on school holidays until ending contact with her at age 13.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/episode-892-duncan-jones-brendon-small|title=WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Episode 892 – Duncan Jones / Brendon Small|website=wtfpod.libsyn.com|access-date=22 February 2018}}</ref> At age 14, he enrolled in the Scottish co-educational boarding school [[Gordonstoun]].<ref name="Profile"/> At the age of 12, he decided that he preferred to be called "Joey", and used this nickname until shortening it to "Joe" in his later teen years. The press reported that he went by "Joe" in 1992 when attending his father's wedding to fashion model [[Iman (model)|Iman]], where he was the best man.<ref name=hello>{{cite web|url=http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/press/press90.htm#Hello |title=David Bowie Wonderworld: Press Archives 90s |publisher=Bowiewonderworld.com |access-date=12 January 2016}}</ref> He reverted to his birth name around the age of 18.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/movies/07itzk.html?scp=7&sq=angela%20bowie&st=cse | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Son of Major Tom, at Ground Control | first=Dave | last=Itzkoff | date=7 June 2009 | access-date=1 May 2010}}</ref>

Jones is the half-brother of [[Lexi Jones|Alexandria "Lexi" Jones]] (born 2000), the daughter of his father and his father's second wife, Iman. He is also the half-brother of Stacia Larranna Celeste Lipka (born 1980) from his mother's relationship with musician Andrew Lipka, better known as Drew Blood. He has a stepsister, Zulekha Haywood (born 1978), who is the daughter of Iman and former [[NBA]] basketball player [[Spencer Haywood]], Iman's second husband.

By 1995, Jones graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the [[College of Wooster]]. He then pursued a PhD degree at [[Vanderbilt University]] in Tennessee, but left before completion to attend [[London Film School]], where he then graduated in 2001.<ref name="Profile">[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/19/observer-profile-duncan-jones-moon "Duncan Jones: Creating his own space odyssey".]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 14 January 2016</ref>