List of Caulfield Grammar School people
Encyclopedia
This is a list of notable past students and staff of Caulfield Grammar School
and/or Malvern Memorial Grammar School (amalgamated with Caulfield in 1961). Alumni of the school are known as "Caulfield Grammarians" and are supported by the Caulfield Grammarians' Association.
N.B. Years of attendance in brackets.
All persons listed were students, unless otherwise indicated.
MMGS = Student of Malvern Memorial Grammar School.
Caulfield Grammar School
Caulfield Grammar School is an independent, co-educational, Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school, Caulfield began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later...
and/or Malvern Memorial Grammar School (amalgamated with Caulfield in 1961). Alumni of the school are known as "Caulfield Grammarians" and are supported by the Caulfield Grammarians' Association.
N.B. Years of attendance in brackets.
All persons listed were students, unless otherwise indicated.
MMGS = Student of Malvern Memorial Grammar School.
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- Dean AndersonDean AndersonDean Anderson is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn and St Kilda in the Australian Football League. A half forward, he kicked 4 goals in the Hawk's 1989 Grand Final triumph.-External links:...
(1980–85) – Australian Football LeagueAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
(AFL) footballer - Allan AshboltAllan AshboltAllan Campbell Ashbolt was an Australian journalist and television broadcaster.He was born in Melbourne and attended Caulfield Grammar School, and served with the Australian Imperial Force in World War II...
(1935–37) – actor, theatre critic, ABCAustralian Broadcasting CorporationThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
broadcaster, foreign correspondent and journalist - David AstburyDavid AstburyDavid Astbury is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League...
(2007–08) – AFL footballer
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- William Macmahon BallWilliam Macmahon BallWilliam Macmahon Ball, AC was an Australian academic and diplomat. Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, Ball studied both psychology and political science as a research fellow at Melbourne and the London School of...
AC (1916–17) – psychologist; diplomat; broadcaster - Donald Barrett (1923–35) – Member House of Assembly of Papua and New GuineaHouse of Assembly of Papua and New GuineaThe House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea was the legislature of the territory of Papua and New Guinea from 1964 to 1972. Before 1964, the Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea sat from 1951 to 1964 under the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949...
(1964–?) - Russell Basser (1972–77) – Medical researcher; water poloWater polo at the 1984 Summer OlympicsWater polo at the 1984 Summer Olympics as usual was part of the swimming sport, the other two being swimming and diving. They were not seen as three separate sports, because they all were governed by one federation — FINA. Water polo discipline consisted of one event: the men's team...
player at the 1984 Summer Olympics1984 Summer OlympicsThe 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984... - Sir John Clifford Valentine BehanJohn Clifford Valentine BehanSir John Clifford Valentine Behan was the second warden of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and the first Victorian Rhodes Scholar....
(1894–95) – first Victorian Rhodes ScholarRhodes ScholarshipThe Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as...
; warden, Trinity CollegeTrinity College (University of Melbourne)Trinity College is the oldest college of the University of Melbourne. Founded in 1872 on a site granted to the Church of England, Trinity is unique among Australian university colleges in its diverse education programs...
of the University of MelbourneUniversity of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria... - Hamish BlakeHamish BlakeHamish Donald Blake is an Australian comedian, actor, author and bodybuilder from Melbourne, Australia. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program...
(1994–96) – member of comedic duo Hamish & AndyHamish & AndyHamish & Andy are an Australian comedy duo formed in 2003 by Hamish Blake and Andy Lee. They currently host the radio program The Hamish & Andy Show which airs in Australia on the Today Network.... - Sir Allen Stanley Brown (1924–26) – was Australian Commissioner, British Phosphate Commission and Christmas Island Phosphate Commission (1970–76); Australian Ambassador to Japan (1965–70); Deputy High Commissioner to the U.K. (1959–65); and Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department (1949–59).
- Horace Plessay Brown (1928–33) – statistician, economist
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- Phill CalvertPhill CalvertPhill Calvert is an Australian rock drummer and producer best known for his playing in the influential post-punk band The Birthday Party with Nick Cave. His playing with the Birthday Party was noted for its use of tom-toms...
(1969–75) – musician - Nick CaveNick CaveNicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...
(1971–75) – musician; author - Mark ChaffeyMark ChaffeyMark Chaffey is a former Australian rules football player who played in the AFL between 1997 and 2006 for the Richmond Football Club.-External links:...
(1990–95) – AFL footballer - Chris Christiansen (1921–22) – physicist; engineer
- Michael ClyneMichael ClyneMichael George Clyne, AM, FAHA, FASSA was an Australian linguist, academic and intellectual. He was a scholar in various fields of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, bilingualism and multilingualism, second language learning, contact linguistics and intercultural communication...
(1950–56) – linguist - Kenneth Coghill (1959–62) – former Speaker of the Victorian Legislative AssemblySpeaker of the Victorian Legislative AssemblyThe Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria....
- Arthur Lennox Coulson (1911–13) – Geological Survey of IndiaGeological Survey of IndiaGeological Survey of India , established in 1851 is a government organization in India which is an attached office to the Ministry of Mines of Union Government of India for conducting geological surveys and studies. It is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world and the second oldest...
geologist, after whom Coulsonite was named http://www.mindat.org/min-1142.html - Noel CounihanNoel CounihanNoel Counihan was an Australian social realist painter.Counihan was born in Albert Park, then a working-class suburb of Melbourne. He attended Caulfield Grammar School in 1928...
(1928) – social realist painter. - Finlay CrispFinlay CrispLeslie Finlay "Fin" Crisp was an Australian academic and political scientist."Fin" Crisp was born in Sandringham, Victoria. Educated at Black Rock State School, Caulfield Grammar School and St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he graduated in 1934, Crisp earned a Bachelor of Arts in political...
(1929) – academic - Alexander Charles Cumming (1895–97) – analytical, physical, and industrial chemist; academic; Doctor of Science (1906), industrial chemist
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- Edward Alfred Daley CBE (Mil.) KStJ (1915–19) – Royal Australian Air ForceRoyal Australian Air ForceThe Royal Australian Air Force is the air force branch of the Australian Defence Force. The RAAF was formed in March 1921. It continues the traditions of the Australian Flying Corps , which was formed on 22 October 1912. The RAAF has taken part in many of the 20th century's major conflicts...
doctor - J. L. Davis (1901–06) – athlete who set a world record time for the 440 yards hurdles in 1906.
- Brett DeledioBrett DeledioBrett Deledio is an Australian rules football player currently playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League.-Early life/career:...
(2005) – AFL footballer - Peter McCallum DowdingPeter DowdingPeter McCallum Dowding SC was the 24th Premier of Western Australia, serving from 25 February 1988 until his resignation on 12 February 1990 after an internal party dispute....
(1948–56) – former Premier of Western AustraliaPremier of Western AustraliaThe Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive government in the Australian State of Western Australia. The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions... - Peter Hogarth Doyle AO OBE (Mil.) (1936–37) – Rear-AdmiralRear AdmiralRear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks"...
, Royal Australian NavyRoyal Australian NavyThe Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...
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- Hans EbelingHans EbelingHans Irvine Ebeling MBE was an Australian cricketer and cricket administrator....
MBE (1919–22) – Australian Test CricketerTest cricketTest cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days... - Robert EddyRobert EddyRobert Eddy is an Australian rules footballer, currently playing for in the Australian Football League .-Overview:Eddy grew up in Gippsland, Victoria and attended Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne....
(2004–05) – AFL footballer - Austin Burton Edwards (1916–27) – geologist; academic
- Ron Evans AM (1951–56) – Victorian Football LeagueAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
(VFL) footballer; AFL Chairman; businessman
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- Sir James Alexander ForrestJames Alexander ForrestSir James "Jim" Alexander Forrest was an Australian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist.Born in Kerang, Victoria, Forrest was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne before studying an articled clerk's course at the University of Melbourne...
(1946–53) – lawyer; businessman - Matthew FoschiniMatthew FoschiniMatthew Foschini is an Australian football player currently playing for Melbourne Victory.-Club career:On 18 August 2009, he was signed to a contract with the Melbourne Victory senior squad on a two-year deal...
(2003–08) – football (soccer) player - Robert Fowler OBE (Mil.) (1901–06) – obstetrician; gynaecologist; surgeon; soldier
- Kenneth Moreton Frewin (1918–21) – aviator; inventor
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- Chris Gahan (1947–57) – Mayor of StonningtonCity of StonningtonThe City of Stonnington is a Local Government Area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the inner south-eastern suburbs, between 3 and 13 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD...
- Richard Horace Maconchie "Dick" GibbsDick GibbsRichard Horace Maconchie "Dick" Gibbs was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne University in the Victorian Football League.He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and at the University of Melbourne....
MC (1908–1911), VFL footballer, medical student, soldier, died in action in World War I. - Brendon GoddardBrendon GoddardBrendon James Goddard is an Australian rules footballer for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League...
(2001–03) – AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
footballer - David Godsell (1938–47) – architect
- Robert Cuthbert GrieveRobert Cuthbert GrieveRobert Cuthbert Grieve VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy", during the First World War...
VC (1899–?) – World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
veteran; Victoria CrossVictoria CrossThe Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
recipient - Philip Lewis GriffithsPhilip Lewis GriffithsPhilip Lewis Griffiths KC was an Australian jurist.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, he studied for a Master of Arts degree at the Trinity College of the University of Melbourne. He then wrote for The Mercury in both Hobart and Launceston, before studying law at the University of Tasmania...
KC (1894–?) – jurist - John Colohan Griffin (1928–36) – artist; cartographer; architect
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- Mick HarveyMick HarveyMichael John Harvey , is an Australian rock musician, composer, arranger and record producer. He is best known for his long-time collaboration with the singer and songwriter Nick Cave...
(1969–75) – musician, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Michael Hirshorn OAM - company director, former CEO of Cochlear LimitedCochlear LimitedCochlear Limited is an Australian company that designs, manufactures and sells the Nucleus Cochlear implant along with the Bone Conduction Hearing Solution Baha osseointegrated bone conduction implant, with an estimated 250 000 cochlear implant/Baha recipients receiving a Cochlear Limited product...
- Edward George HoneyEdward George HoneyEdward George Honey was an Australian soldier and journalist who is often credited with having conceived the idea of a moment of silence on Armistice Day . Honey was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, and served briefly during World War I with the British Army before receiving a...
(1895–?) – journalist; credited with conceiving the idea of a moment of silence to remember the World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
Armistice TreatyArmistice with Germany (Compiègne)The armistice between the Allies and Germany was an agreement that ended the fighting in the First World War. It was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on 11 November 1918 and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although not technically a surrender...
, which led to the creation of Remembrance DayRemembrance DayRemembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. This day, or alternative dates, are also recognized as special days for war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth...
. - Rhys Evan Hopkins (1920–27) – architect
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- Paul JenningsPaul Jennings (Australian author)Paul Jennings AM is an English-born Australian children's book writer. His books mainly feature short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events that end with a twist.-Biography:...
AM (1956–60) – author - Nick JewellNick JewellNicholas "Nick" Jewell is a former Australian rules footballer and a professional cricketer who played for Victoria.Jewell was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne and played for Under-18s football for Prahran; in Year 12 at Caulfield, he set a then Associated Public Schools of...
(1988–95) – Victorian cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er; AFL footballer - Chris JuddChris JuddChristopher Dylan "Chris" Judd is a professional Australian rules footballer and current captain of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
(1996–2001) – AFL footballer; Brownlow MedalBrownlow MedalThe Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...
list (2004, 2010)
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- Peter KarmelPeter KarmelPeter Henry Karmel, AC, CBE was an Australian economist and professor.-Biography:Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge where he received a Ph.D., Karmel had served as the Vice-Chancellor of both Flinders University and the Australian...
AC CBE (1929–39) – economist; academic - Norman KayeNorman KayeNorman James Kaye was an Australian actor and musician. He was best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox.Kaye was born in Melbourne and educated at Geelong Grammar School...
(Staff 1958–1977) – actor; musician - Andrew KellawayAndrew KellawayAndrew Kellaway is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Kellaway joined his brother Duncan at Richmond in 1997...
(1988–93) – AFL footballer - Charles KellawayCharles KellawayCharles Halliley Kellaway, MB, BS, MD, MS, MC, FRS, was an Australian medical researcher and science administrator.-Early years and education:...
MC (1900–?) – scientist - Duncan KellawayDuncan KellawayDuncan Kellaway is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
(1985–90) – AFL footballer - Ralph Bodkin Kelley OBE (1905–?) – veterinary scientist
- Steve KonsSteve KonsSteven Kons was an Australian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Braddon...
(1977–82) – TasmaniaTasmaniaTasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
n politician; former Deputy Premier of TasmaniaDeputy Premiers of TasmaniaThe Deputy Premier of Tasmania is a role in the Government of Tasmania assigned to a responsible Minister in the Australian state of Tasmania. It has second ranking behind the Premier of Tasmania in Cabinet, and its holder serves as Acting Premier during absence or incapacity of the Premier...
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- John LandyJohn LandyJohn Michael Landy, AC, CVO, MBE is an Australian former Olympic track athlete. He was the second man to break the four-minute mile barrier in the mile run, and he held the world records for the 1500 metre run and the mile race...
AC CVO MBE (MMGS 1935–44) – OlympicOlympic GamesThe Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
athlete; former Governor of Victoria - Henry Thomas Langley (1892–95) – Church of England clergyman, army chaplain, Dean of Melbourne (1942)
- Jason Lea (1952–58) – Managing Director, Darrell Lea ChocolatesDarrell LeaDarrell Lea Chocolate Shops is an Australian company that makes and sells chocolate.It is privately owned by the Lea family, and is the largest privately owned confectionery manufacturer in Australia. It was established as a company in 1927....
; Chairman, Family Business Association - Dylan LewisDylan LewisDylan Lewis is an Australian television and radio personality.-Personal life:He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School, graduating in 1990, and studied for a Bachelor of Education in Drama and Music degree at the University of Melbourne. John Bannon, former South Australian premier is Dylan's...
(1985–90) – television personality - Tamsyn LewisTamsyn LewisTamsyn Carolyn Lewis is an Australian athlete and middle-distance runner, who has won a total of seventeen Australian Championships at 400 metres, 800 metres and 400m hurdles....
(1994–96) – Olympic athlete - Rekha LutherRekha LutherRekha Elizabeth Luther is an Australian fashion model, singer and actor.After graduating from Caulfield Grammar School in 2003 where she won the Victorian Premier's Award for Drama, she became a prominent model in Melbourne, featuring in fashion shoots for Vogue , Shiseido, Esprit Clothing and...
(1998–2003) – fashion model
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- Gordon MathisonGordon MathisonCaptain Gordon Clunes Mackay Mathison MB BS, MD, DSc, FRCP was a physician and medical researcher...
(1896-1900) – Medical researcher, died in the Battle of GallipoliBattle of GallipoliThe Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign or the Battle of Gallipoli, took place at the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, during the First World War... - Noel MaughanNoel MaughanNoel Maughan was an Australian politician and the Nationals member for Rodney in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1989 until 2006.Prior to entering Parliament at a by-election in March 1989, Maughan was an active member of the agriculture sector...
(1949–54) – Victorian State politician - Stuart MaxfieldStuart MaxfieldStuart Maxfield is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League . He was the Swans' captain until 5 May 2005, when he stood down from the position....
(1984–89) – AFL footballer - George Arnot MaxwellGeorge Maxwell (Australian politician)George Arnot Maxwell was a barrister and Australian politician.Maxwell was born in Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland and educated in Fife. He migrated to Australia with his family in 1875. He worked briefly as a jackeroo and then completed his matriculation in Melbourne...
KC (Staff) – barrister; Member of the Australian House of RepresentativesAustralian House of RepresentativesThe House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years.... - Campbell McComasCampbell McComasGeoffrey Campbell McComas AM was an Australian comedian, writer and actor.McComas attended Caulfield Grammar School and Scotch College in Hawthorn, Melbourne, and studied law and arts at Monash University...
AM (1964–65) – humorist; writer; actor - David McMillanDavid McMillan (smuggler)David McMillan is a British-Australian drug smuggler who is best known for being the only Westerner on record as having successfully escaped Bangkok's Klong Prem prison. His exploits were the subject of the 2011 Australian telemovie, Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away.-Early life:McMillan was...
(1970–72) – convicted drug dealer - Peter McPheePeter McPhee (academic)Peter McPhee is an Australian academic, and was the Provost of the University of Melbourne. He is the first person to have held the position at Melbourne, as it has typically been in place at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom....
(1961–65) – academic - Sir Clive McPherson CBE (1913–14) – pastoralist; businessman
- Andrew McQualterAndrew McQualterAndrew McQualter is an Australian rules footballer who played 89 games for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Overview:...
(2002–04) – AFL footballer - Rod MenziesRod MenziesRodney William "Rod" Menzies is an Australian entrepreneur. In 1969 he founded Menzies International, a private company, which is one of Australia's 500 most profitable private companies...
(1957–63) – entrepreneur - Agnes MilowkaAgnes MilowkaAgnes Milowka was an Australian technical diver, underwater photographer, author, and cave explorer.She gained the international recognition for extending the cave systems across Australia and Florida, and as a public speaker and the author on subject of diving and maritime...
(1994–99) – technical diver, underwater photographer, author, and cave explorer - Malcolm Stewart Moore CBE (1913–14) – mechanical engineer; industrialist philanthropist
- David MorganDavid Morgan (businessman)David Raymond Morgan AO is the former CEO and Managing Director of Westpac Banking Corporation, one of Australia's four major banks and Chairman of the Australian Bankers Association.-Early life, education and personal life:...
AO (MMGS 1952–?) – former CEO of the Westpac Banking CorporationWestpacWestpac , is a multinational financial services, one of the Australian "big four" banks and the second-largest bank in New Zealand.... - Shona MorganShona MorganShona Morgan is an Australian gymnast, training at the Waverley Gymnastics Centre in Victoria under John Hart and Shaoyi Jiang. Shona was the all-around silver medalist at the 2008 Australian National Championships and was a member of the Australian team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing...
(1997–2005) – Olympic gymnast - Sir Alister MurdochAlister MurdochAir Marshal Sir Alister Murray Murdoch KBE, CB was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force . He served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1965 to 1969. Joining the Air Force in 1930, Murdoch trained as a seaplane pilot, and participated in an Antarctic rescue mission for lost explorers...
KBE CB (1922–28) – Royal Australian Air ForceRoyal Australian Air ForceThe Royal Australian Air Force is the air force branch of the Australian Defence Force. The RAAF was formed in March 1921. It continues the traditions of the Australian Flying Corps , which was formed on 22 October 1912. The RAAF has taken part in many of the 20th century's major conflicts...
officer
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- John Elwell Newton (1962–1964) – District Court of Queensland judge
- Nikolai NikolaeffNikolai NikolaeffNikolai Nikolaeff is an Australian actor who is best known for his roles in the television series Sea Patrol, Power Rangers: Jungle Fury and Wicked Science....
(1996–2000) – Australian actor currently starring in Sea PatrolSea Patrol (TV series)Sea Patrol is an Australian television drama, set on board HMAS Hammersley, a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy . The series focuses on the ship and the lives of its crew members....
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- Rob Palmer (1954–58) – founder of JAG Australia
- Barry PattenBarry PattenBarry Beauchamp Patten was an Australian architect and Olympic alpine skier.He was born in McKinnon, Victoria....
(1941–43) – corporate architect - Tracy PewTracy PewTracy Pew was an Australian musician, best known as the bass player for The Birthday Party.Born in Australia, Pew moved with his family to New Zealand in 1959, returning in May 1964...
(1972–75) – musician, bass player in The Birthday PartyThe Birthday Party (band)The Birthday Party were an Australian rock band, active from 1973 to 1983.Despite being championed by John Peel, The Birthday Party found little commercial success during their career... - Arthur Bruce PieArthur Bruce PieArthur Bruce Pie was an Australian politician who served in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.He was born in Coburg, Victoria and attended Caulfield Grammar School...
(1916–17) – businessman; Queensland politician - Neil PopeNeil PopeNeil Albert Pope is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Monbulk in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1992.- Career :...
(?-1967) – former Victorian State politician - Trevor Ashmore PymanTrevor Ashmore PymanTrevor Ashmore Pyman was an Australian diplomat.He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. He joined the Australian Diplomatic Service...
(1924–34) – member of the Australian Delegation to form the United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
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- Roger RaysonRoger RaysonRoger William Rayson was an Australian cricketer who played 18 first class matches for Victoria. His father, Maxwell Rayson, played three matches for Victoria in the 1937/38 season, and his grandfather, William Rayson, played six games for the state between the 1924/25 and 1928/29...
(1947–57) – Victorian cricketer - Stanley Simpson ReidStan ReidStanley Spencer Reid was an Australian rules footballer with the Fitzroy Football Club from 1894 to 1898.Soon after his retirement from VFL football, he became an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church....
(1886–?) – Fitzroy VFA and VFL footballer; minister; soldier. One of the first VFL footballers to die in active service (The Anglo-Boer WarSecond Boer WarThe Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...
, 1901). - Michael RoeMichael Roe (historian)Owen Michael Roe is an Australian historian and academic, focusing on Australian history.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School , Roe attended the University of Melbourne and began studying a combined BA/LL.B. degree...
(1939–48) – historian - Kenneth G. RossKenneth G. RossKenneth Graham Ross is an Australian playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian soldier Harry "Breaker" Morant....
(1951–58) – playwright; Hollywood scriptwriter - Bruce RowlandBruce RowlandBruce Rowland is a well-known Australian composer. He composed the soundtrack for the 1982 movie "The Man from Snowy River", as well as the soundtrack for its 1988 sequel "The Man from Snowy River II"...
(1947–58) – composer - Barry RowlingsBarry RowlingsBarry Rowlings is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1975 and 1978 for the Hawthorn Football Club and between 1979 and 1986 for the Richmond Football Club. In 1979, Rowlings won the Jack Dyer Medal, which is awarded to Richmond's best and fairest player for the...
(Staff) – VFL footballer
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- John SchultzJohn SchultzJohn Schultz is a former Australian rules football player, who played for the Footscray Football Club in the Victorian Football League and is one of the club's greatest players....
(1951–55) – VFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
footballer, 1960 Brownlow MedalBrownlow MedalThe Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...
list - Sir Sidney Valentine Sewell (1895–?) – academic; physician; neurologist
- David ShallcrossDavid ShallcrossDavid Shallcross is an Australian academic.He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School, before studying for both his Bachelor degree and Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne...
(1966–77) – chemistry professor - Neville SillitoeNeville SillitoeNeville John Sillitoe is an Australian athletics coach.Neville competed for the Coburg Athletic Club. Upon his retirement he took up athletics coaching and helped lay the foundations for one of the most successful eras of Australian sprinting with the East Melbourne Harriers Athletic...
(Staff) – athletics coach - Colin Hall SimpsonColin Hall SimpsonMajor General Colin Hall Simpson, CBE, MC, VD was an Australian Army officer who rose to the rank of major general as Signal Officer in Chief during the Second World War...
CBE (Mil.) MC (1911) – pharmacist; Army officer; organizer The Association (1947–1952) - Christopher SkaseChristopher SkaseChristopher Charles Skase was an Australian businessman who later became one of his country's most wanted fugitives, after his business empire crashed spectacularly and he fled to Majorca in Spain.-Early life:...
(1961–67) – controversial Australian businessman; fugitive - David SmithDavid Smith (Australian public servant)Sir David Iser Smith, KCVO, AO, is a retired Australian public servant. He was the Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia between 1973 and 1990, serving Sir Paul Hasluck, Sir John Kerr, Sir Zelman Cowen, Sir Ninian Stephen and Bill Hayden.-Biography:David Smith was born in 1933,...
KCVO AO (MMGS 1940–?) – official Secretary to five Australian Governors-GeneralGovernor-General of AustraliaThe Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...
from 1973 to 1990 - Percival William StephensonPercival William StephensonThe Rt Rev Percival William Stephenson was the 6th Anglican Bishop of Nelson whose Episcopate spanned a 14 year period in the mid 20th century. He was born on 5 May 1888, educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Melbourne and the University of Melbourne and ordained in 1914. He was a CMS...
– former Bishop of NelsonDiocese of NelsonThe Diocese of Nelson is one of the thirteen dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Diocese covers the top part of the South Island of New Zealand, which is mostly the area north of a line drawn from Greymouth to Kaikoura.The diocese was... - Andrew StraussAndrew StraussAndrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...
OBE (1985–86) – English Test cricketTest cricketTest cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
er - Allan StoneAllan Stone----Allan Stone played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked as high as World No. 38 in singles on the ATP Rankings , although Stone played for many years before the ATP Rankings were instituted.Stone found the majority of his success on the doubles court...
(1958–60) – Australian tennis player and tennis commentator.
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- Herbert TaylorHerbert Taylor (Australian politician)Herbert Taylor, CMG was an Australian political party organiser, accountant, and company director.-Biography:Taylor was born in Malmsbury, Victoria, eldest of five children of Ralph Herbert William Taylor, a schoolteacher, and Alice Ann French. Both of Herbert Taylor's parents were born and raised...
(1902) – accountant; company director; political party organiser - Jim TaylorJim Taylor (Australian footballer)James "Jim" Taylor is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1950s.-Athletics:...
(1948) – VFL footballer - Lindsay ThompsonLindsay ThompsonLindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson AO, CMG , Australian Liberal Party politician, was the 40th Premier of Victoria from June 1981 to April 1982...
AO CMG (1929–41) – former Premier of Victoria - Murray ThompsonMurray ThompsonMurray Thompson is currently a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He has served the Sandringham electorate since 1992. The electorate includes the suburbs of Beaumaris, Black Rock, Cheltenham , Hampton , Highett , Mentone and Sandringham...
(1963–72) – Victorian State politician; VFL footballer - Frank TimsonFrank TimsonThomas Frank Timson MBE was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and Wesley College before becoming the director of a Melbourne importing and exporting firm. He served in the military 1940-1945...
MBE (Mil.) (1916–22) – soldier; businessman; Member of the Australian House of RepresentativesAustralian House of RepresentativesThe House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....
. - Greg Tootell (1950–63), VAFAVictorian Amateur Football AssociationThe Victorian Amateur Football Association is an Australian rules football league in Victoria, Australia consisting purely of amateur players. Unlike the Victorian Football League and the VFL/AFL, the VAFA has always been strictly a purely amateur league and has affiliations with both AFL Victoria...
champion footballer; member of the first "GalahsAustralian Football World TourThe Australian Football World Tour was a series of International Rules Football matches, organised by football sports broadcaster and former VFL umpire Harry Beitzel in 1967 and 1968.-First tour:...
" team, 1968. - John Twycross (?-1929) – soldier; banker
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- Matthew WalesSociety MurdersThe Society Murders was the name given to the 4 April 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by their son, Matthew Wales...
(1976–85) – convicted murderer - Andrew WalkerAndrew Walker (footballer)Andrew "Tex" Walker is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League .-Early life:...
(2004) – AFL footballer - Fred WalkerFred Walker (entrepreneur)Fred Walker was an Australian businessman and founder of Fred Walker & Co. The company is best known for creating Vegemite, a food paste and Australian cultural icon....
(1899) – entrepreneur, developer of VegemiteVegemiteVegemite is a dark brown Australian food paste made from yeast extract. It is a spread for sandwiches, toast, crumpets and cracker biscuits, and filling for pastries... - Ron WalkerRon WalkerRonald Joseph Walker AC CBE is a former Lord Mayor of Melbourne and Australian businessman, renowned for his work in managing sporting events.-Biography:...
AC CBE (1944–54) – businessman; former Lord Mayor of Melbourne - Andrew WalshAndrew WalshAndrew Hugh Walsh AM is an Australian festival director. He has directed numerous ceremonies and public events.He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne. Among his career highlights, Walsh was employed by Jack Morton Worldwide as Executive Producer of the ceremonies of the Athens...
AM (1967–72) – festival director - Geoff WalshGeoff WalshGeoffrey David Walsh AO is an Australian political adviser.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and La Trobe University, Walsh worked as a journalist for the Border Mail, Herald Sun, The Age and The Australian Financial Review before serving as an advisor to Australian Labor Party politicians Bob...
AO (1967–70) – political advisor; diplomat - Alfred Joseph WatsonAlf WatsonAlfred "Alf" Joseph Watson was an Australian athlete who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics....
(1917–19) – athlete who represented Australia in the 1928 and 1936 Olympic Games and the 1938 Empire Games. - James WebsterJames Webster (Australian politician)James Joseph Webster is a former member of the Australian Senate.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, he worked as an accountant and farmer prior to entering politics...
(1931–40) – former Australian SenatorAustralian SenateThe Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,... - Richard F. Wicks (1944–1945) — VFL footballer with St Kilda http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/D/Dick_Wicks.html http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22765410 and Stawell Gift Finalist (ran fourth) in 1958 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1DNVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JJUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6055%2C909630
- Norman Thomas Mortimer Wilsmore (1882–85) – academic; chemist
External links
- Caulfield Grammar School website
- Caulfield Grammarians' Association (alumni association)
- Crikey (2005). "Famous alumni on Latham's hit list". Retrieved 29 December 2009.