List of Old Falconians
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This is a list of some of the more prominent Old Falconians who are the alumni of North Sydney Boys High School
. The Old Falconians Union is the alumni body of the school. The name "Old Falconians" is derived from Falcon Street which is the address of the school. All those who attended the School are included, even if they were only on the roll for a short amount of time.
plasticity-induced fatigue crack closure, which has revolutionized fatigue crack growth analyses, the publication of this pioneering work has become the most cited paper in the discipline, awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award;
North Sydney Boys High School
North Sydney Boys High School is an academically selective, public high school for boys, located at Crows Nest in Sydney, Australia.- History :...
. The Old Falconians Union is the alumni body of the school. The name "Old Falconians" is derived from Falcon Street which is the address of the school. All those who attended the School are included, even if they were only on the roll for a short amount of time.
Politics, law and religion
- Mark AaronsMark AaronsMark Aarons is an Australian journalist and author. He was a political adviser to NSW Premier Bob Carr.Aarons was born in Newcastle, New South Wales but was brought up in Sydney. He was educated at Fairfield Boys High School and North Sydney Boys High School.He is the son of the late Laurie...
, political adviser to NSW Labor Premier, his activism started at NSBHS in the mid-1960s especially in organising students to protest the Vietnam War, his 1986 ABC radio documentary series ‘Nazis in Australia’ prompted the Hawke government’s inquiry into war criminals and formation of Special Investigations Unit, author of five books and many feature articles for Australia’s leading newspapers; - Justice Colin Allen, Judge of NSW Supreme Court, Master of Supreme Court 1979-86;
- John Armitage OAM, Deputy Speaker of the Australian Parliament, Federal Member for Mitchell (1961-63) and Chifley (1969-83);
- Michael BaumeMichael BaumeMichael Ehrenfried Baume AO was an Australian Liberal Party politician who represented the Division of Macarthur in the House of Representatives and the state of New South Wales in the Senate.Born in Sydney, Baume earned a B.A...
, MHRAustralian 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....
(Lib)Liberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
(1975–1983), NSW 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,...
(1985–1996); - Professor Peter BaumePeter BaumePeter Erne Baume, AC is a former Australian politician.Baume was born in Sydney, New South Wales and was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney Grammar School. He married Jennifer Tucson 1958 and they have one son and one daughter...
AC, NSW 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,...
(Lib) (1974–1991), Federal Health Minister (1982), Chancellor of Australian National UniversityAustralian National UniversityThe Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
(1994–2005); - Justice Colin Begg QC, at the time of his death in 1984 was the longest-serving Judge of NSW Supreme Court, Chief Judge at Common Law 1983-84 (also attended Sydney Grammar School);
- John Bradford (Captain of School 1963), Queensland MHR (Lib) for McPhersonDivision of McPhersonThe Division of McPherson is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The division was created in 1948 and is named for the McPherson Range, which forms one of the divisional boundaries...
; - Justice John Brownie QC, Judge of NSW Supreme Court;
- Justice Robert Buchanan, Judge of Federal Court of Australia;
- Leslie Caplan AO, elected Head of Australian Jewry, one of the founders of Masada CollegeMasada CollegeMasada College runs from kindergarten to year 12. While Masada accepts students of any faith or background, the student body is predominantly Jewish. Many are from South Africa and as a result, the school is very influenced by South Africans. Although, the school holds a huge Jewish Belief and...
; - Peter ColemanPeter ColemanWilliam Peter Coleman is an Australian writer/journalist, former politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. Following Willis' resignation as leader he was made Leader of the New South Wales Opposition...
, NSW MLANew South Wales Legislative AssemblyThe Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The other chamber is the Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney...
(Lib) (1968–1978), Leader of the NSW Opposition (1977–1978), MHR (Lib) (1981–1987), editor of The BulletinThe BulletinThe Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine that was published in Sydney from 1880 until January 2008. It was influential in Australian culture and politics from about 1890 until World War I, the period when it was identified with the "Bulletin school" of Australian literature. Its influence...
; - Justice Richard Conti, Judge of Federal Court of Australia;
- Judge Theo Conybeare QC, Chairman of Workers' Compensation Commission;
- Judge Roger Court QC, the first person to hold office as The Crown Advocate of New South Wales;
- Philip Dart, President of Baptist Churches of NSW & ACT 1994/1995;
- Justice Arthur Emmett, Judge of Federal Court of Australia;
- Clive Evatt (Junior), Barrister, doyen of defamation list in Sydney Bar, owner of Hogarth Galleries (of art), founder of Leuralla Toy Museum in the Blue Mountains;
- Justice Phillip Evatt DSC, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 1977 to 1987, Head of the Royal Commission into the Use of Chemical Agents in Vietnam from 1983 onwards;
- Dr Michael FulliloveMichael FulliloveMichael Fullilove is an Australian author and foreign policy commentator. He is currently the Director of the Global Issues Program at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC...
(Captain and Dux of School 1989), Rhodes Scholar, adviser to Prime MinisterPrime Minister of AustraliaThe Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...
Paul KeatingPaul KeatingPaul John Keating was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1991 to 1996. Keating was elected as the federal Labor member for Blaxland in 1969 and came to prominence as the reformist treasurer of the Hawke Labor government, which came to power at the 1983 election...
, Director of Global Issues Program at Lowy Institute for International Policy, columnist for various publications; - Right Rev Eric Austin GowingEric Austin GowingEric Austin Gowing was the seventh Anglican Bishop of Auckland whose Episcopate spanned a long period during the second half of the 20th century. Born in Sydney he was educated at North Sydney High School and the universities of Sydney and Oxford, before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with...
, seventh Anglican Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand; - Judge Peter Grogan of the District Court (Captain of School 1951), Chancellor of Anglican Diocese of Sydney;
- Hugh Hudson, SASouth AustraliaSouth Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
MHAHouse of AssemblyHouse of Assembly is a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral parliament. In some countries this may be at a subnational level....
(ALP) (1965–1979), former Deputy Premier of South Australia; - Sir Alan Hulme KBE, Postmaster-GeneralPostmaster-General's DepartmentThe Postmaster-General's Department was created at Federation in 1901 to control all postal services within Australia. Its minister was the Postmaster-General. In mid-1975 it was disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission and the Australian Postal Commission...
in the Australian Government, Minister for Supply, President of Queensland Division of Liberal Party of Australia; - Justice Francis Hutley QCQueen's CounselQueen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
, of the NSW Court of Appeal, “As a judge he was relentless in his pursuit and exposure of error, whether from a lower court or in the legal submissions being presented to him”; - Noel Hutley SC, barrister, “one of the most sought after Sydney silks. Mr Hutley has been involved in the high profile C7 case which featured Seven Group Holdings boss Kerry Stokes. He has also acted for Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan against the Australian Crime Commission” (son of Francis Hutley [qv]);
- Justice Gregory James QC, Commissioner of NSW Law Reform Commission, former Judge of NSW Supreme Court;
- Right Rev Clive Kerle, Bishop of Armidale;
- Sir Frank KittoFrank KittoSir Frank Walters Kitto, AC, KBE, QC , Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.Kitto was born in Melbourne in 1903, but his family moved to Sydney, when his father James Kitto became the Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs in New South Wales. There he was educated at...
, Justice of the High CourtHigh Court of AustraliaThe High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...
(1950–1970), Chancellor of University of New EnglandUniversity of New England, AustraliaThe University of New England is an Australian public university with approximately 18,000 higher education students. Its original and main campus is located in the city of Armidale in northern New South Wales....
; - Justice David Levine, Supreme Court judge, Head of Defamation List in NSW Supreme Court, Head of Board of Enquiry into Black Hawk helicopter crash off Fiji;,;
- Most Rev Sir Marcus LoaneMarcus LoaneSir Marcus Lawrence Loane KBE was the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney from 1966–1982 and Primate of Australia from 1978–1982. He was the first Australian-born Archbishop of Sydney and also the first Australian-born archbishop within the Anglican Church of Australia.Loane was born in...
KBE, First Australian born Anglican Archbishop of the Diocese of Sydney (1966–1982), also Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia (1978–1981) (also attended King's SchoolThe King's School, SydneyThe King's School is an independent Anglican, day and boarding school for boys in North Parramatta in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831, it is Australia's oldest school and forms one of the nine "Great Public Schools" of New South Wales. Situated within a site, Gowan Brae,...
) ; - Justice John McClemens, KCSG, Supreme Court Justice for 24 years, Former Chief Judge at common law;
- Professor Edward McWhinneyTed McWhinneyEdward Watson "Ted" McWhinney, QC is a Canadian lawyer and academic specializing in constitutional and international law. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2000 for the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra....
QCQueen's CounselQueen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...
, Canadian academic lawyer, Professor of International Law at Simon Fraser UniversitySimon Fraser UniversitySimon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...
, VancouverVancouverVancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, former Member of Canadian Parliament, authority on space lawSpace lawSpace law is an area of the law that encompasses national and international law governing activities in outer space. International lawyers have been unable to agree on a uniform definition of the term "outer space," although most lawyers agree that outer space generally begins at the lowest...
and constitutional law, awarded the Aristotle Medal by the Greek Government in 1997 “for his contribution to the progress of science, free thought and intellectual development”; - Justice Francis Marks, Deputy President of Australian Industrial Relations CommissionAustralian Industrial Relations CommissionThe Australian Industrial Relations Commission, or AIRC , was a tribunal with powers under the Workplace Relations Act 1996. It was the central institution of Australian labour law...
; - Justice Athol MoffittAthol MoffittAthol Randolph Moffitt was an eminent Australian jurist and was the author of several books. He is best known as the chair of the landmark 1973-74 Moffitt Royal Commission, which investigated organised crime in New South Wales.-Biography:...
CMG, Supreme Court judge for 22 years, former President of NSW Court of Appeal, Chair of the landmark 1973-74 Moffitt Royal Commission, which investigated organised crime in New South Wales,author of A Quarter to Midnight; - Justice Sir John MooreJohn Moore (Australian jurist)Sir John Cochrane Moore AC was an Australian jurist. In 1973 he became the presiding judge of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission...
AC, President of Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; - Rev Winston O'Reilly, President-General of the Methodist Church of Australia 1972-74; former Principal of Methodist Ladies College, Burwood.
- Hon. Frederick Meares Osborne, MHR, President of the NSW Liberal Party (1967–1970), held various Federal Ministries (1956–1961);
- Rev Professor David Peterson, Principal of Oak Hill Theological CollegeOak Hill Theological CollegeOak Hill College is a theological college located on Chase Side in Southgate, London, England. It is one of the largest seminaries in the UK....
, London; - Howard Purnell AM QC, the first person appointed as Senior Public Defender in NSW (1969–83), the first barrister to argue and win two High Court appeals on the same day, President of Australian Academy of Forensic SciencesAustralian Academy of Forensic SciencesThe Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences is a multi-disciplinary learned society founded in 1967 modelled on the British Academy of Forensic Sciences...
, World War Two fighter-bomber pilot who flew 33 missions over Europe, the first Western Allied officer to enter Hitler’s bunker in 1945 (from which he souvenired the ornamental door handles), co-author of standard text "Criminal Law in NSW: Vol I - Indictable Offences"; - Michael RichardsonMichael RichardsonMichael John Richardson , a former Australian politician, was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorates of The Hills between 1993 and 2007 and Castle Hill between 2007 and 2011 for the Liberal Party of Australia.Richardson was educated at North Sydney Boys...
, NSW MLA (Lib), Shadow Minister for the Environment; - Tim Robertson SC (Captain of School 1976), barrister, civil libertarian, co-founder of Australian Privacy FoundationAustralian Privacy FoundationThe Australian Privacy Foundation is an NGO formed for the purpose of protecting the privacy rights of Australians. Its aim is to focus public attention on emerging issues which pose a threat to the freedom and privacy of Australians, and also takes a leading role on issues of defending rights of...
; - Most Rev Donald Robinson AO, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney (also attended SCEGSSydney Church of England Grammar SchoolSydney Church of England Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
); - Hugh Walker Robson QC, Judge of the New South Wales District Court and Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions, his divorced wife Anne remarried to become Lady Kerr, wife of the Governor-General Sir John Kerr;
- Judge John Roder AM, Judge of the District Court of South Australia from 1970 to 1994, in 1967 he was appointed the first Chairman of the SA Planning Appeals Board, has co-authored planning and environmental law textbooks (also attended Adelaide High School);
- Justice David Roper, Chief Judge in Equity in NSW Supreme Court, Deputy Chancellor of University of SydneyUniversity of SydneyThe University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
; - Tom Roper, Victorian MLA (ALP), Victorian Treasurer (1990–1992);
- Kerry Sibraa, NSW Senator (ALP) (1976–1994), President of Australian SenateAustralian 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,...
(1987–1994); - Dr Hugo Storey, Senior Immigration Judge of the United Kingdom; joint author of Immigration and the Welfare State, Asylum Law.
- James UdyJames UdyReverend James Stuart Udy OAM was an Australian Uniting Church minister, Master of Wesley College, University of Sydney, author and President of the World Methodist Historical Society during the 1980s. ....
OAM was an Australian Uniting Church minister, Master of Wesley College at the University of Sydney, author and President of the World Methodist Historical Society. Author of Paul: A Conflux of Streams and Church Union in Australia; - Professor Ted Wolfers CMG, adviser to the Papua New GuineaPapua New GuineaPapua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
Government, Assisted in negotiations of BougainvilleBougainville ProvinceThe Autonomous Region of Bougainville, previously known as North Solomons, is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea. The largest island is Bougainville Island , and the province also includes the island of Buka and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets...
Peace Accord;
Public service
- Charles Chambers AM MBE (Vice-Captain of School 1942, Captain of First XV 1942), for decades devoted to helping the disadvantaged in Australia and overseas, as Executive Director, President and Chairman of Mission AustraliaMission AustraliaMission Australia is a provider of family and community services throughout Australia. The organisation has at least 3200 staff, 1,000 volunteers and 300 services in every state and territory of Australia, and is one of the largest community organisations in the nation. It is currently headed by...
transformed the original local Sydney City Mission into a large-scale national aid agency; Inaugural Chairman of City Mission World Association which created a global network; - Christopher Conybeare AO, Secretary of Immigration Department (1990–1996);
- Ross Deane, Principal Adviser in Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Deputy Secretary-General of Commonwealth Secretariat, London;
- Philip Dietrich MC, Executive Officer of National Heart Foundation of Australia, Victoria; winner of Military Cross in World War Two;
- Laurie Glanfield AM, Director General of NSW Department of Justice and Attorney General;
- Dr Ronald Greville, Director of Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (1961-65), Medical Director of Australian Kidney Foundation;
- Stelios Hatzivlastis, Scientific Advisor to the Vice President of Greece;
- Ian LawrenceIan LawrenceIan Lawrence is a Wellington lawyer, and was the Mayor of Wellington from 1983 to 1986. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and University of Sydney. He was previously Chairman of the National Housing Commission....
CBE, former Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand(1983–86); Chairman of National Housing Commission of New Zealand - Philip Roper CVO, Permanent Head of NSW Premier's Department, Director of Royal Tour, NSW, 1954;
- Rae Taylor AO, former Managing Director of Australian Postal Corporation, former Commissioner of the National Road Transport Commission;
- Leonard Verrills, President of Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales;
Business and industry
- Arthur Ernest BishopArthur Ernest BishopArthur Ernest Bishop was a noted Australian engineer and inventor, and was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1917.-Life:Bishop demonstrated highly innovative capabilities during the Second World War relating to overcoming problems of instability of aircraft tail-wheel landing gear during take-off...
, arguably Australia's most successful inventor with over 300 patents in 17 countries, one in five of the world's cars use his power and variable-ratio rack-and-pinion steering technology; - Alexander Boden AO Hon DSc FAA, Philanthropist, industrialist and publisher, founder of Boden Chair of Human Nutrition at Sydney University, founder of Bioclone Australia, Hardman Chemicals and Science Press, awarded Leighton Medal of Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1986, author of A Handbook of Chemistry 1937 (11 editions);
- (Alan) Phillip de Boos-Smith, former CEO of Total OilTotal S.A.Total S.A. is a French multinational oil company and one of the six "Supermajor" oil companies in the world.Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and...
Paris;, - John Brew, former CEO of NSW State Rail, President of Baptist Unions of NSW & ACT;
- Donald Charles Bucknall, former CEO of CaltexCaltexCaltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in more than 60 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and southern Africa.-History:...
Australia; - Ian Bund, President of White Pines Ventures, American venture capitalist who has played a founding or lead role with several US venture capital firms, investor in more than 300 companies over 30 of which have listed on NASDAQ including Lifescan, Stratacom, Ventana, and Neogen;
- Harry Bunn, Founder, President and CEO of Ronin Corporation which provides market intelligence on a global scale in real time;
- Mitch Davis, the former head of Encyclopædia Britannica's online business whose moment of inspiration to conceive dynamic advertising within video games led to a business purchased by Microsoft for up to $US400 million;
- Dr Warren Dent, Vice President of Business Development at American Airlines (USA), Managing Director of Animal Pharmaceutical Division of Eli Lilly (UK), former Professor of Statistics at University of Iowa where he established “an international reputation, publishing in excess of fifty papers”;
- Ron Eaton MBE, Chairman and Managing Director of Overseas Containers Australia;
- Ian Ferrier, co-founder (with Tony Hodgson) of Ferrier Hodgson, insolvency specialists, former Chairman of NSW Rugby Union and former director of Australian Rugby UnionAustralian Rugby UnionThe Australian Rugby Union is the governing body of rugby union in Australia. It was founded in 1949 and is a member of the International Rugby Board the sport's governing body. It consists of eight member unions, representing each state and territory...
;, - John Harkness, National Executive Chairman of KPMG 1993-98, Chairman of ICA Property Development Funds;
- Tony Hodgson, co-founder of Ferrier Hodgson, insolvency specialists, Former Chairman of Melbourne Port Corporation, Former Deputy Chairman of Tabcorp, Director of Coles Myer Ltd, Director of HSBC Bank Australia;,
- Donald Junor, Chairman and Managing Director of Mauri Bros & Thomson Ltd, Director of AMP Society, WW2 Lt-Col;
- Bob McComas, Chairman of Trade Practices Commission, Executive Director of Coca-Cola Amatil, Senior Partner of Clayton Utz;
- Ian McNair, Executive Chairman of McNair Ingenuity Research
- Colonel Sir Oscar Meyer Kt OBE, Chairman of Melbourne's West Gate BridgeWest Gate BridgeThe West Gate Bridge is a steel box girder cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It spans the Yarra River, just north of its mouth into Port Phillip, and is a vital link between the inner city and Melbourne's western suburbs with the industrial suburbs in the west and with the city...
Authority, Commissioner of Victorian Railways, Commander of RAE (CMF) in Victoria, John Storey Medal 1977; - Roger Moore, Chairman of Novo Nordisk Pharma Japan, awarded Danish Order of Dannebrog for promotion of Danish interests in Japan together with his efforts to combat diabetes and other diseases;
- David M. MorganDavid M. MorganDavid M. Morgan is currently Chancellor of Deakin University who took over position on 1 January 2006, following the retirement of his predecessor Dr Richard Searby, QC....
, Chancellor of Deakin University, former President of Ford Motor Company Australia; - Allan Moyes AO HonDSc, former Chairman and Managing Director of IBMIBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
Australia; - Maurice Newman AC, Chairman of ABC, Chairman of Australian Stock Exchange, Chairman of Deutsche Bank, Chancellor of Macquarie University;
- Geoffrey Norris, Managing Director of Dow Chemical (Australia);
- John Prescott AC HonDSc HonLLD, CEO of BHPBHP BillitonBHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...
; - Sir Raymond Purves, philanthropist, Chairman of Clyde EngineeringClyde EngineeringClyde Engineering was the name of part of the business now known as Downer EDI Rail. Clyde Engineering were involved in the construction of railway locomotives and rolling stock, as well as larger scale engineering projects on behalf of the governments of Australia...
, endowed Raymond E Purves Chair of Dermatology at Sydney University; - Mark Rayner, Chairman National Australia BankNational Australia BankNational Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation and customers. NAB is ranked 17th largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation...
(1985–2001); - Murray Sime, Former Vice-President of Citibank, former Director of Balmain TigersBalmain TigersThe Balmain Tigers are a rugby league football club based in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Balmain. They were a founding member of the New South Wales Rugby League and one of the most successful in the history of the premiership, with eleven titles...
;, - Ian Stanwell AM, former Managing Director of AMP;
- Professor Peter Westerway, Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Management, Macquarie UniversityMacquarie UniversityMacquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...
, former Chairman of Australian Broadcasting TribunalAustralian Communications and Media AuthorityThe Australian Communications and Media Authority is an Australian government statutory authority within the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy portfolio...
,; - Dr Lionel Wilson, President of Australian Medical AssociationAustralian Medical AssociationThe Australian Medical Association is a professional association for Australian doctors and medical students.The AMA uses a representative structure involving state branches and committees to work with members to promote and protect the interests of doctors.The mechanisms that allow this include:*...
(1979–1982);
Academia
- Dr James Adams FBA FAHA, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College Oxford, Professor of Latin at Manchester University (1993–95), awarded Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies and Archaeology 2009, author of The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC-AD 600 and Bilingualism and the Latin Language
- Professor John Andrews, Assistant Vice-Chancellor (1969–73) and Professor of Geography (1959–68) at Melbourne University;
- Dr Lorand Bartels, specialist in international law and Fellow of Trinity Hall at Cambridge University, legal consultant to the European Parliament, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg, author of Human Rights Conditionality in the EU's International Agreements;
- Emeritus Professor Noel Beadle, Professor of Botany at University of New England 1955-79, Clarke Medal of Royal Society of NSW 1982, author of Vegetation of Australia (1981);
- Dr Alan Carey Taylor, Dean of Arts Faculty at London University, Professor of French at Birkbeck College, Author of Bibliography of Unpublished Theses on French Subjects, appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1961;
- Dr Nikola Casule, lecturer in Roman History at Christ Church, Oxford University, recipient of the Oxford Vice Chancellor’s Award for exceptional merit, Clarendon Bursar at Oxford;
- Professor Raewyn ConnellRaewyn ConnellRaewyn Connell is an Australian sociologist. She is currently University Professor at the University of Sydney.-Profile:...
(birth name Robert Connell), polled the most influential contemporary Australian sociologist, former Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard, known for research on large-scale class dynamics ("Ruling Class, Ruling Culture", 1977 and "Class Structure in Australian History", 1980), and the ways class and gender hierarchies are re-made in the everyday life of schools ("Making the Difference", 1982), advisor to UNESCO and UNO initiatives relating men, boys and masculinities to gender equality and peacemaking, her work is translated into 13 languages; - Keith Dan, Headmaster of Slade School, Warwick, Queensland (1959–66);
- Emeritus Professor Arthur Delbridge, linguist, former editor of the Macquarie DictionaryMacquarie DictionaryThe Macquarie Dictionary is a dictionary of Australian English. It also pays considerable attention to New Zealand English. Originally it was a publishing project of Jacaranda Press, a Brisbane educational publisher, for which an editorial committee was formed, largely from the Linguistics...
;, - Dr Eric Dobson FBA, Professor of English Language at Oxford, Fellow of Jesus College Oxford, "He will be remembered as one of the finest historical philologists...", author of English Pronunciation 1500-1700;
- Dr Christian Enemark (Captain of School 1994), Deputy Director of National Centre for Biosecurity, specialist in security issues include infectious diseases, biological and chemical weapons, author of Disease and Security: Natural Plagues and Biological Weapons in East Asia;
- Emeritus Professor David Fraser, Former Dean of Veterinary Science at Sydney University;,
- Emeritus Professor John Furedy, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto (1975-2005), President of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, co-author of Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception: A Psychophysiological and International Perspective;
- Emeritus Professor the Rev Graeme Griffin, Centre for Theology & Ministry, Uniting Church, President of Melbourne College of Divinity, Former Chairman of Australian Twin Registry;,
- Professor Charles HamblinCharles Leonard HamblinCharles Leonard Hamblin was an Australian philosopher, logician, and computer pioneer, as well as a professor of philosophy at the Technical University of New South Wales in Sydney....
, philosopher and pioneer computer scientist. In philosophy, he advanced the classical logical fallacies, using the formal dialogue games first studied by Aristotle. In computer science, he was the originator of the recursive stack (or last-in, first-out store), an idea first implemented in 1957. Also, inventor of Reverse Polish Notation, - Associate Professor Michael Horsburgh, Head of Social Work at the University of Sydney, Chair of the Academic Board of the Sydney College of Divinity, Chairman of the Board of the Anglican Board of Mission – Australia, former Methodist Minister, former Vice-Master of Wesley College at Sydney University;
- Dr Terry Irving, former President of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Associate Professor of Government at Sydney University, for nine years edited Labour History – A Journal of Labour and Social History, co-author of Class Structure in Australian History and Radical Sydney;
- Emeritus Professor Francis Johnson, Professor of English at Kanda University of International Studies (Japan), Inaugural Chair of English Language at University of Papua New Guinea, Chair of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, author of textbooks used throughout Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands;
- Professor Wallace Kirsop FAHA, the first Australian to be a member of the exclusive Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, in 1980-81 held the appointment of Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge;
- Professor Douglas Lampard FAA, Foundation Professor of Monash UniversityMonash UniversityMonash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
; - Professor Barry Leal, Professor Emeritus of Macquarie University and University of Wollongong, Vice-Chancellor of University of Southern Queensland, author of Wilderness in the Bible: Toward a Theology of Wilderness;
- Emeritus Professor Graham Maddox, former Dean of Faculty of Arts at University of New EnglandUniversity of New England, AustraliaThe University of New England is an Australian public university with approximately 18,000 higher education students. Its original and main campus is located in the city of Armidale in northern New South Wales....
;, - Dr David MakinsonDavid MakinsonDavid Clement Makinson, D.Phil, , is an Australian mathematical logician living in London, England.- Career :Makinson began his studies at Sydney University in 1958 and was an associate of the Libertarian Society and Sydney Push...
, Professor in Department of Computer Science at King's College, London University, authority on mathematical logic; - Michael Maniska, Principal of International Grammar School, Sydney;
- Dr Angus Martin, McCaughey Professor of French at Sydney University (daughter is Catherine, Oscar-winning theatrical designer);
- Professor Raymond Martin FAA, former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University;
- Dr Peter McCallum, Chairman of the Academic Board and Associate Professor of Musicology at Sydney University, classical music critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, he has published on the music of Beethoven, Boulez, and the classical era (brother of William McCallum [qv]);
- Trevor McCaskill, Headmaster of Barker College (1963–86), where the Music Centre is named in his honour (also attended SCEGSSydney Church of England Grammar SchoolSydney Church of England Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
); - Emeritus Professor Gordon McClymont AO, Dean of Faculty of Rural Science at University of New England 1955-76, author of Formal Education and Rural Development (1975);
- Professor Maxwell McKay, Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Papua New GuineaUniversity of Papua New GuineaThe University of Papua New Guinea was established by ordinance of the Australian administration in 1965. This followed the Currie Commission which had enquired into higher education in Papua New Guinea...
; - Dr Bruce McKern, Professor of International Business and Director of Executive Program on US Business, US Studies Centre at Sydney University, former Visiting Professor of International Business at Stanford and Founding Professor of Management and first Dean of Macquarie University's Graduate School of Management, author of Managing the Global Network Corporation;
- Emeritus Professor William Morison, Challis Professor of Law at Sydney University 1982-85, NSW Law Reform Commissioner between 1968 and 1970, author of "The System of Law and Courts Governing New South Wales", first sole editor of Cases on Torts, an influential casebook first published in 1955;
- Professor Raoul Mortley FAHA, former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences Pro Vice-Chancellor, Bond University.;
- Dr Milton OsborneMilton OsborneMilton Osborne is an Australian historian, author, and consultant specializing in Southeast Asia.He attended North Sydney Boys High School, graduated from the University of Sydney and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Osborne held academic positions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the...
, authority on Southeast Asia and the French role there; Visiting Professor at Yale 1974-75; First Director of the British Institute in Southeast Asia 1975-79; Author of numerous books on Asian issues including Before Kampuchea: Preludes to Tragedy - Emeritus Professor Robert Parker MBE, Political Science, Australian National University;
- Dr Neil Radford, the 8th Librarian of University of Sydney (1980–96), in 2005 endowed the Radford Scholarships at the University to provide assistance to Library staff members on education programs or research projects;
- Dr Marc de Rosnay, Lecturer in Psychology at Sydney University, Rhodes Scholar, Junior Research Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge;
- Rev Dr Harry Reynolds-Smythe, Fellow of Pusey College, Oxford; Foundation Professor of Anglican Studies at Pontifical Gregorian University;
- Professor John Sharpham, Vice-Chancellor of Ballarat University;
- Professor David Simonett, the first geography Ph.D. graduated from any Australian university, Chair of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His achievement in building an international-quality remote sensing unit there is honoured by the David Simonett Center for Spatial Analvsis;
- Professor Malcolm Skilbeck, Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University 1985-91;
- Professor Peter Spearritt, social historian, Director of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland, Director of The Brisbane Institute 2001-2006, Director of the National Key Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University (1989–2001), author of Sydney's Century: a history, winner of the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History in 2000;
- Dr Michael Stone, Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, authority on Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period and the Dead Sea Scrolls, awarded the Landau Prize for Science and Research in Humanities, Foreign Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, author of A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve and Adam's Contract with Satan: The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam,
- Dr David Throsby, title of Distinguished Professor bestowed by Macquarie University (its highest honour), widely known for his research and writing in the field of the economics of art and culture, consultant to the World Bank, the OECD, FAO and UNESCO, playwright whose works have been performed on ABC Radio and at the old Nimrod Theatre in Kings Cross, author of The Economics of the Performing Arts and Economics and Culture (brother of TV personality Margaret Throsby);
- Emeritus Professor Donald Titchen, former Dean of Veterinary Science at the University of SydneyUniversity of SydneyThe University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; - Dr John Vallance, Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge at which time he wrote The Lost Theory of Asclepiades of BithyniaAsclepiades of BithyniaAsclepiades was a Greek physician born at Prusa in Bithynia in Asia Minor and flourished at Rome, where he established Greek medicine near the end of the 2nd century BCE. He attempted to build a new theory of disease, based on the flow of atoms through pores in the body...
, ; - Professor Robert Wasson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research at Charles Darwin UniversityCharles Darwin UniversityCharles Darwin University is an Australian public university with about 20,000 students in 2007.The University offers a wide range of Higher Education degrees and Vocational Education and Training courses with flexible study options, including part-time, external and online.CDU has campuses in the...
;
Science and medicine
- Dr Andrew Vern-BarnettAndrew Vern-BarnettAndrew Elgar Vern-Barnett MBE AM was the pioneer in Australia of the care and treatment of autistic children.Andrew Elgar Vern-Barnett was born in Sydney on 30 March 1923. He was the son of George Vern Barnett, organist and choir master, and his wife Doris Kathleen...
MBEOrder of the British EmpireThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
AM, the pioneer in Australia of the care and treatment of autistic children, the Autistic Children’s Association which he chaired at its beginning in 1966 has grown to over 600 staff and claims to be the largest single autism specific school system in the world with 800 students; - Emeritus Professor Felix Bochner AM, Foundation Chair and Head, Clinical Pharmacology, Adelaide University (1981–2003), co-author of Handbook of Clinical Pharmacology and Introduction to Pharmacology;
- Colonel Peter Braithwaite AO CBE, Honorary Surgeon to the Governor-General, Chairman of Menzies Foundation of Tasmania, Chairman of Tasmanian Division of Australian Red Cross, President of Thoracic Society of Australia;
- Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM, Professor of Discipline of Immunology & Microbiology, University of NewcastleUniversity of Newcastle, AustraliaThe University of Newcastle is an Australian public university that was established in 1965. The University's main and largest campus is located in Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle in New South Wales...
, Inventor of vaccine against bronchitis, author of The Mapping of Terra AustralisTerra AustralisTerra Australis, Terra Australis Ignota or Terra Australis Incognita was a hypothesized continent appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century...
,; - Dr Alec Costin AM FAA, ecologist who has spent the past sixty years working in the Australian Alps, authority on the ecology of high mountain and high latitude ecosystems, Chief Research Scientist, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO (1955–74);
- Professor Marshall Edwards, Dean of Veterinary Science at Sydney University, the discoverer of maternal hyperthermia as a human teratogen;
- Dr Wolf Elber, Director of the United States Army Research Laboratory Vehicle Technology Center, he discovered the phenomenon of
plasticity-induced fatigue crack closure, which has revolutionized fatigue crack growth analyses, the publication of this pioneering work has become the most cited paper in the discipline, awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award;
- Dr John Falk FAA, Chief of CSIROCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationThe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is the national government body for scientific research in Australia...
Plant Industry; - Dr Ian Gardner, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California, Davis, recipient of a New South Wales Residency Expatriate Scientists Award in 2004;
- Dr John Gero, Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, formerly Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of Sydney, author or editor of 50 books and over 600 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, design cognition and cognitive science;
- Emeritus Professor Campbell "Cam" Graham, Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry at Sydney University (1961-77);
- Dr John Grant AO OBE HonMD, neurosurgeon and humanitarian, President of Organising Committee of 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games;
- Colonel Peter Grant OBE, Medical Superintendent of Royal Children's Hospital Brisbane, Commander of Medical 1 Division RAAMC;
- Sir Thomas Greenaway, President of Royal Australasian College of Physicians;
- Professor Donald Hall, Director of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii; Deputy Director of the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, Winner of Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, 1977;
- Professor Richard HunsteadRichard HunsteadProfessor Richard Waller Hunstead is a member and former head of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy and the Director of the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope , within the University of Sydney. Dick is internationally recognised for his work in the field of quasars and radio galaxies...
, Head of the Astrophysics Group at Sydney University, one of 33 Australian Science Citation Laureates, the minor planet 171429 Hunstead is named in his honour; - Dr Kosuke Ishii (Dux of School 1975), Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Design Division) at Stanford, Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Design, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991), Pitney Bowes-ASME Award for Excellence in Mechanical Design (1993);
- Emeritus Professor Denis Kermode, Inaugural Head of Department of Surgery at University of Western Australia in 1983;
- Professor Cheviot Kidson, Director of Queensland Institute of Medical Research;
- Professor Paul Klemens, leading American theoretical physicist whose life work is honoured by the triennial award of the Klemens Medal in Phonon Physics;
- Professor Iven Klineberg, Dean of Dentistry at Sydney University;
- Dr Alexander Lascelles, Chief of Division of Animal Health CSIRO (1973–83); Professor of Dairying at Sydney University (1964–73);
- Emeritus Professor Ian Lewis AO, former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (1984-88) and Inaugural Professor of Child Health (1969-88) at the University of Tasmania, Dean of the Fiji School of Medicine (1989-91), Finalist in 2007 for Senior Australian of the Year, author of The Abuse of Medicine in Children, 1978 (also attended St Paul’s School, London);
- Professor Ian Lin, former Director of Centre for Engineering Management and Innovation at Sydney University;,
- Dr William McCallum, Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Institute for Mathematics and Education at the University of Arizona, lead author of the Harvard calculus consortium's multivariable calculus and college algebra texts;
- Sir (John) Kempson Maddox, founder of Diabetic Association of Australia, former President of International Society of Cardiology;,
- Dr Donald Melrose FAA, Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director, Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics at Sydney University,
- Roger Morse AO, pioneer in solar energy research and development; President of the International Solar Energy Society; awarded the Peter Nicol RussellPeter Nicol RussellSir Peter Nicol Russell was an Australian foundry owner, philanthropist and university benefactor.-Early life:Russell was born at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of eleven children of Robert Russell, an engineer and ironfounder, and his wife Janet, née Nicol...
Memorial Medal in 1980 - Emeritus Professor Ernest Newbrun Hon DDS, Professor of Oral Biology, Professor of Biology and Professor of Biology and Periodontology at the University of California, contributed many original articles to the dental literature and is internationally recognised for the 29 books and book chapters which he has written, his work on the fundamental mechanisms of dental caries and periodontal disease has led to a revised approach throughout the world to these two major dental problems, his many honours have included the Award for Special Distinction in Dental Education from the Eastman Dental Centre, the Presidential Citation of the American Dental Association and the Research Award in Dental Caries from the International Association of Dental Research;
- Dr Gilbert Phillips, neurosurgeon who rushed from England to Austria to try to save the life of American General George Patton who had been injured (mortally as it proved) in a car accident; former officer-in-charge of the surgical division of the hospital for head injuries, St Hugh's College, Oxford, founder of The Wine Society;,
- Professor John Prineas AO, “He has received international acclaim and several major awards for his lifetime of achievements in MS research including in 2009, the MS International Federation’s highest accolade, the Charcot award”, now at Brain and Mind Institute at Sydney University following 25 years of groundbreaking research at New Jersey Medical School,USA, discoverer of how brain and spinal cord myelin is destroyed in MS, awarded the 2001 John Dystel Prize for MS Research, co-developer of new method to study proteins from brain tissue;
- Dr Leo Radom FAA, Professor of Chemistry at Sydney University, Professor in Research School of Chemistry at Australian National University, specialist in computational quantum chemistry, awarded Schrödinger Medal 1994, H G Smith Medal 1988 and Rennie Medal 1977;
- Professor John Read, former Dean of Medicine at Sydney University, in 1968 became the youngest ever Professor in Australian academia at only 39;
- Dr Brian Robinson FAA FRAS, radio astronomer, deeply involved in design and construction of the Australia Telescope Project, becoming its Vice-Chairman, Director of Research, Australian National Radio Astronomy Observatory Parkes (1971–79);
- David Robinson AM DSc Hon, pioneer of diagnostic ultrasound in Australia, with colleague George Kossoff built Australia's first ultrasound scanner and, in May 1962, recorded Australia's first ultrasound image of a foetus, President of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers from 1985–87, awarded the Professor Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer award for basic science from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine in 2000;
- Professor Sydney Rubbo, Professor of Bacteriology at Melbourne University;
- Dr Martin Silink, President of International Diabetes Federation, Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at Sydney University;
- Emeritus Professor Richard Stanton AO FAA, geologist, Hoffman Research Fellow at Harvard, Visiting Professor at Oxford;
- Emeritus Professor George Stevenson, Director of Tenovus Research Laboratory, Professor of Immunochemistry at Southampton University UK;
- Dr Jonathan Stone FAA, Challis Professor of Anatomy at Sydney University, specialist in developmental biology; degenerative disease of retina (brother of Michael Stone [qv]);
- Dr Russell Tickle, Professor of Dentistry at University of Malaya, author of A comparison of the gas percentage delivery and dial percentage setting in anaesthetic machines,1947;
- Professor Alan Treloar, Head of the Department of Biostatistics at University of Minnesota where in 1934 he initiated The TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health, now one of the world's oldest ongoing research programs in this area, the first person to describe the concept of the peri-menopause (uncle of John Treloar [qv]);
- Dr John Turner, Professor of Agricultural Chemistry and Dean of Faculty of Agriculture at Sydney University;
- Emeritus Professor Stewart Turner FRS, specialist in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Australian National University, Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge;
- Dr Harry Tyer OAM MS Hon, Orthopaedic surgeon, responsible for introduction into Australia of the modern surgical treatment of spinal deformity, in 1986 awarded the L. O. Betts Memorial Medal; In 1984 established what is believed to have been the first 'Bone Bank' in Australia at The Rachel Forster Hospital, Redfern.
- Professor Rupert Vallentine (First XV 1934), Dean of Faculty of Engineering (1978 – 80) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1981 – 82) at University of NSW where the Vallentine Annexe in Civil Engineering was named in his honour and in 2010 the Rupert Vallentine Fellowship Scheme was instituted to celebrate the career of “a visionary researcher, educator, strategic thinker and humanitarian”;
- Associate Professor Marcus Vowels AM, Chairman of Paediatric Haematology/Oncology and Head of Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Prince of Wales Children's Hospital;
- Dr George Wilson, Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University, author of Bispectral symmetry, the Weyl algebra and differential operators on curves;
- Professor John Wong, Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, has published over 500 original scientific papers and chapters in books, pioneer of new techniques in oesophageal cancer which have been responsible for reducing the mortality from these procedures to near zero, President of Pan-Pacific Surgical Association and Asian Surgical Association
- Associate Professor John Yeo AO, a leader in spinal injury care and rehabilitation, Head of Spinal Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital;
Arts and media
- Richard AppletonRichard AppletonRichard Appleton was an Australian poet, raconteur and editor who became editor-in-chief of the Australian Encyclopaedia and, in 1987, was co-editor with Alex Galloway of the posthumous Lex Banning poetry collection There Was a Crooked Man...
, poet, raconteur and editor who became editor-in-chief of the Australian Encyclopaedia. He was described in Clive James’s 2003 book As of This Writing as “among the most gifted” Australian poets of his time. In conjunction with his wife, Barbara, he compiled the Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places. In the 1980s Appleton edited the Australian content of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In response to the premature announcement of his death, he famously said: "not everybody gets to read his own obituary". - Leigh BlackmoreLeigh BlackmoreLeigh David Blackmore is an Australian horror writer, critic, editor, occultist and musician. He served as the second President of the Australian Horror Writers Association . His work has been nominated twice for the Ditmar Award, once for fiction and once for criticism...
, horror writer, critic, editor and occultist. - Paul Chester Jerome BrickhillPaul BrickhillPaul Chester Jerome Brickhill was an Australian writer, whose World War II books were turned into popular movies.-Biography:...
, author of The Dam Busters, Reach For The Sky, The Great Escape; - Rob Butler, founder of HyperDyne Pty Ltd who co-authored Microsoft Video for Windows 1990 - 1991, Microsoft 3D Animator, Microsoft P.J.'s Reading Adventures and Microsoft My Personal Tutor series. Rob later worked with Microsoft to develop software to make internet access easy for beginners and is still involved with software that empowers the user to solve their own internet problems.
- Michael Carson, ABC television director who directed Jimmy Dancer, Scales of Justice, Police Rescue, Phoenix, Janus and Sea Change;
- Jason DaseyJason DaseyJason Dasey is a journalist and broadcaster, a former CNN International, BBC World News and ESPN anchor who works as a TV sports host and executive producer for Asian satellite network, ASTRO...
, Broadcaster and Journalist, first Australian sports presenter on BBC WorldBBC WorldBBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world...
and CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, now working for ESPN in Connecticut, USA - Robert DessaixRobert Dessaix- Biography :Dessaix was born in Sydney and adopted at an early age. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School. He studied in Moscow during the early 1970s, and taught Russian Studies at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales from 1972 to 1984...
, novelist, essayist and journalist, his first fictional work, Night Letters, was published in 1996 and translated into German, French, Italian, Dutch, Finnish and Portuguese; - John Gordon AO Hon MMus, he was appointed as the first Canberra carillonist and gave the inaugural recital on 25 April 1970 in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the National Carillon (a gift of the British Government) is located on Aspen Island and the footbridge there is now named in his honour, he was appointed to the new post of Sydney University Carillonist in 1944, a position he held continuously until his death in 1991;
- Gordon GostelowGordon GostelowGordon Gostelow was a New Zealand actor. He was educated in Australia at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University where he graduated in Economics....
, English actor often cast in villainous roles; he appeared notably as Barkis in David Copperfield (1966) and as Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby (1968); - Ken G. HallKen G. HallKenneth George Hall, AO OBE , better known as Ken G. Hall, was an Australian film director, considered one of the most important figures in the history of the Australian film industry.-Early years:...
AO OBEOrder of the British EmpireThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
, first Australian to win an OscarAcademy AwardsAn Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
, awarded in 1942 for documentary Kokoda Front Line; - Jackson Harrison, pianist and composer, winner of National Jazz Award at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival in 2006, debut CD is Land Tides;
- George HouvardasGeorge HouvardasGeorge Houvardas is an Australian actor who is best known for his role as Nick "Carbo" Karandonis in the television series Packed to the Rafters.-Biography:...
, actor well known for his role as Nick "Carbo" Karadonis in Packed to the RaftersPacked to the RaftersPacked to the Rafters is an Australian family-orientated television series which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The drama series features a mix of lighthearted comedy woven through the plot. It revolves around the Rafter family facing work pressures and...
, contestant on Dancing With The Stars 2010; - Martin Johnston, Australian poet (son of authors George Johnston and Charmain Clift), his work was published by Queensland University Press under title The Sea-Cucumber;
- Sir Robert MadgwickRobert MadgwickSir Robert Bowden Madgwick, OBE , Australian teacher, soldier, academic and public servant, was the first vice-chancellor of the University of New England from 1954 until 1966, and chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission from 1967 until 1973.Born in North Sydney, New South Wales in 1905,...
, former Chairman of the ABC, inaugural Vice-Chancellor of University of New England; - Alexander Francis "Lex" MarinosLex MarinosLex Marinos OAM is an Australian television actor, director and writer. Notable for his acting role as 'Bruno', the Italian son-in-law of bigot Ted Bullpitt, on the Australian comedy television series Kingswood Country as and host of Late Night Legends on ABC2, he was also a presenter on radio...
OAM, Deputy Chairperson of Australia Council, actor, writer, director, host of Late Night Legends on ABC Digital 2; - Rodney Marks, Comedian, Artist-in-residence at Harvard in 1995, master of comic hoax who has fooled thousands of Australians at corporate events;
- John Moyes, Editor of Sunday Telegraph, author of Scrapiron Flotilla, 1943 (brother of Allan Moyes [qv];
- David Myles, film, theatre and television director in the UK, USA and Europe for over 25 years, directed Laurence Olivier in The Merchant of Venice and Derek Jacobi in As You Like It, also City Homicide and SBS show Carla Cametti P.D.;
- Chris NoonanChris NoonanChris Noonan is a Sydney-based Australian filmmaker and actor best known for the pioneering live-action / CG film Babe, for which he received Academy Award nominations as both director and writer.-Biography:...
, director of the 1995 movie BabeBabe (film)Babe is a 1995 Australian-American film directed by Chris Noonan. It is an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the United States, by Dick King-Smith and tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog...
'; - Peter OvertonPeter OvertonPeter Overton is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.-Career:He joined the Nine Network as a reporter for National Nine News and graduated to weekend sports presenter on National Nine News in Sydney and substitute for Ken Sutcliffe...
, Television Journalist; - Ben OxenbouldBen OxenbouldBen Oxenbould is an Australian actor and comedian, best known for his work in the Australian film and television industry....
, actor and comedian, best known for his role in the television series Hey Dad..!Hey Dad..!Hey Dad..! was an Australian sitcom produced by Gary Reilly Productions, originally airing from 1987 to 1994 on the Seven Network.-Synopsis:Architect Martin Kelly singlehandedly raises his children Simon, Debbie and Jenny...
; - Dr Vladimir Pleshakov, American concert pianist, recording artist, founder of Pleshakov Music Centre at Hudson, New York, Doctor of Musical Arts from Stanford;
- Donald Hosie, member of Australia's number 1 mod band The Sets and leader (aka Ace Face) of the Sydney Mods in the early 1980s and later, lead singer/songwriter with popular Sydney band Stupidity (HSC 1976). Killed in a car accident in April 2000
- Gary Hosie, singer and songwriter for Australia's number 1 mod band The Sets. Also, The Mustard Club which released a mumber of now sought after singles in the 80's (HSC-1977)
- John PolsonJohn PolsonJohn Polson is an Australian actor, director and founder of Tropfest. In February 2001, Polson attended the 12th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Hokkaidō, Japan where his film Siam Sunset won the Minami Toshiko Award...
, actor and film director, founded TropfestTropfestTropfest is the world's largest short film festival.Tropfest began in 1993 as a screening for 200 people in a cafe in Sydney but has since become the largest platform for short films in the world. Tropfest Australia takes place in February each year in front of a live audience of approximately...
in 1994, the biggest short-film festival in the world, directed Hide and SeekHide and Seek (2005 film)Hide and Seek is a 2005 American horror film starring Robert De Niro, Famke Janssen and Dakota Fanning. It was directed by John Polson. The film opened in the United States in January 2005 and was top of the box office. It did not reach the same level of critical success; it garnered mainly...
in 2005, currently directing US television series including Flash Forward, Without a Trace, Fringe, The Mentalist, The Good Wife and Happy Town (expelled after Completing Year 7, also attended GlenaeonGlenaeon Rudolf Steiner SchoolGlenaeon Rudolf Steiner School is a Steiner school located in Middle Cove and Castlecrag in Sydney, New South Wales. It was the first Steiner school established in Australia. The school is spread over two campuses with the Kindergarten and Years One and Two at Castlecrag and Years Three to Twelve...
); - James Powditch, joint winner of 2005 Blake Prize for Religious Art;
- Dr Lionel Sawkins, Europe-based music conductor, choral director, scholar, editor, in 1996 named by the French Minister of Culture as Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of diffusing French music "dans le monde" (throughout the world);
- Geoff Sirmai, writer, publicist, performer, comedian, consumer advocate and broadcaster, known as the 'consumer watchdog', author of best-selling guide The Confident Consumer;
- Greedy SmithGreedy SmithGreedy Smith is the pseudonym of Andrew McArthur Smith or Andy Smith , who is a vocalist, keyboardist, harmonicist and songwriter with Australian pop/R&B band Mental As Anything. Smith wrote many of their hit songs including "Live it Up" which peaked at #2 on the Australian singles chart...
, keyboardist/vocalist with Mental As AnythingMental As AnythingMental As Anything are an Australian New Wave–rock music band formed at an art school in Sydney in 1976. Their most popular line-up was Martin Plaza on vocals and guitar; Reg Mombassa on lead guitar and vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty on bass guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird"...
, has been an entertainer in Australia for over 20 years. Born Andrew McArthur Smith. - Stephen Ure, actor, cast by director Peter Jackson for the role of the grisly Orc captain Grishnákh in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, also Gorbag in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King;
- Nathan Waks, Cellist in Sydney Symphony OrchestraSydney Symphony OrchestraThe Sydney Symphony Orchestra , commonly known as the Sydney Symphony, is an Australian symphony orchestra based in Sydney...
, former Director of Music at ABC, composer of score for My Brilliant Career; - Justin Way, one of the Directors of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden;
- Ormsby Wilkins, Musical Director and Principal Conductor of the American Ballet Theatre;
- Dr John Knight AM better known as Dr James Wright, one of Australia's first celebrity doctors, radio presenter, columnist, bestselling author and philanthropist with aged accommodation
Sport
- Mark Francis Bethwaite, Australian Olympic Yachting Team 1972, 1976 and 1980; World Champion Soling and J24 Class 1982; Australian Yachtsman of Year 1982, Managing-Director Renison Goldfields Consolidated Ltd, the first investor in "magic bullet" cancer treating nano technology developed in Australia by EnGeneIC;
- Kanga Birtles, international yachtsman and boatbuilder, in 1990-91 became fastest Australian to solo circumnavigate the world, holder of record for fastest non-stop circumnavigation of Australia;
- Allan BorderAllan BorderAllan Robert Border AO is a former Australian cricketer. A batsman, Border was for many years the captain of the Australian team. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Test matches in his career, a record until it was passed by fellow Australian Steve Waugh...
, Australian Test Cricket Captain; holder of the world record for the number of consecutive Test appearances of 153 and the number of Tests as captain, Australian of the Year in 1989, the Allan Border Medal, awarded to the leading Australian player each year, is named in his honour; - John Cheadle (First XI 1945), in 1957 was both Australian and New Zealand Squash Champion and Captain of Australian Squash Team to tour New Zealand;
- Ian CraigIan CraigIan David Craig is a former Australian Test cricketer who represented Australia in 11 Tests between 1953 and 1958. A slightly built right-handed batsman, Craig holds the record for being the youngest Australian to make a first-class double century, gain Test selection and captain his country...
, the youngest Australian to play Test cricket (17 years 239 days) and the youngest Australian Test cricket captain (22 years); - Greg FlorimoGreg FlorimoGreg Florimo is a retired Australian Rugby League player and administrator known for his lifelong association with the North Sydney Bears both as a player and a manager....
, Rugby League (North Sydney Bears, NSW and Australia); - Jock Gibson, 1952 Olympian in Fencing (Helsinki);
- Spencer Grace, 1948 Olympian in Rowing;
- Bjarne Halvorsen, member of Australian-Norwegian family of boatbuilders noted for their classic wooden cruisers, Rugby Union administrator, as Manager of 1961 Wallaby tour of South Africa he created the all Gold Wallabies jersey which has become one of the most recognisable and iconic sporting jerseys in Australia and arguably the world - now adopted by most national sporting teams (previously the colour was green as retained by Rugby League Kangaroos), he was instrumental in changing the rugby law which allowed a fullback to kick out on the full without territorial loss;
- Peter Hanlin, 1956 Olympian in shot put at Melbourne, winner of seven national titles in shot put (equal record);
- Dr John Harrison, 1968 Olympian in water polo;
- Dr David Hawkins, 220 yards breaststroke gold medallist at 1950 Empire Games, 1952 Olympian at Helsinki, Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School;
- Ben HinshelwoodBen HinshelwoodBenjamin Gerald Hinshelwood . Son of famous Scottish winger Sandy Hinshelwood, Ben was the outstanding sportsman in his days at North Sydney Boys High School...
, Scottish Rugby international, as a Full Back won 19 Caps from 2002 to 2005, previously a centre with Sydney University Premiership XV 2001; - Graeme HoleGraeme HoleGraeme Blake Hole was an Australian cricketer....
, cricketer for New South Wales, South Australia (Captain) and Australia. Also played baseball for South Australia. - Dennis Hughes, the winger from Northern Suburbs Rugby Union Club Sydney who represented Australia at 75th Jubilee Celebration of South African Rugby in 1964, member of World XV;
- Sir Lincoln Hynes, Chairman of Royal North Shore Hospital (where the Chapel is named in his honour), who once bowled Donald Bradman for a duck in the Sheffield Shield;
- Gregory Johns, in 1976 he was a reserve Crew Member for the Australian Olympic Sailing Team, in 1980 he was selected to represent in the 470 class, in 1984 he was the Australian Olympic Sailboard Coach, in 1988 he was once again Reserve Crew Member and Coach and in 1992 and 1996 he was coach to the Australian team;
- Dr Keith Kirkland (Captain of School 1916, 1917 & 1918), 1928 Olympian in Swimming, Vice-President of International Society of Urology, a ward of (former) Sydney Hospital was named in his honour;
- ‘Ginty’ Lush, Sheffield Shield fast bowler for New South Wales whose career of 20 first class matches spanned 1933 to 1947, unlucky to miss selection for 1938 Australian tour of England;
- Alan Murray (golfer)Alan Murray (golfer)Alan Albert Murray is an Australian professional golfer.Murray was born in Sydney. He played golf worldwide, winning more than 60 tournaments including the 1962 French Open, the 1961 Australian PGA Championship and the 1967 Australian Wills Masters. He was the 1961 Australian PGA Order of Merit...
, Winner of 1961 Australian PGA Championship, 1962 French Open Golf Championship, Australian Wills Masters Champion 1967; - Peter, John and Richard Notley, three brothers with their yacht ‘Ajax’ that represented Australia in the Interdominion 12 ft Skiff Regattas at Sydney 1956/57 and Auckland 1958/59;
- Jack PettifordJack PettifordJohn "Jack" Pettiford was an Australian cricketer. He played over 200 first-class matches, mostly for Kent and New South Wales. In the 1949 and 1950 seasons he was the professional for Nelson Cricket Club in the Lancashire League.-References:...
, Sheffield Shield cricketer for New South Wales who played over 200 first class matches in his career making 7077 runs, played for Australian Services in the 1945 ‘Victory Tests’ against England and India and scored two centuries in the latter; - Peter PhilpottPeter PhilpottPeter Ian Philpott was a leg-spin bowler and middle order batsman for New South Wales and Australia in the 1960s. He made his debut in the West Indies in 1964-65 and took 18 wickets...
(Captain of School First XI 1950, including Ian Craig), Australian Test Cricketer, later coached widely including Sri Lanka, in the Sydney Grade Cricket Competition the Manly-Warringah and Mosman Clubs compete each year for the Peter Philpott Cup; - Justice John PurdyJohn Purdy (chess player)John Purdy was an Australian chess player and Family Court judge.- Early life and education :John Spencer Purdy was born on 25 September 25 1935 in Sydney, New South Wales...
of the Family Court, Australian Chess ChampionAustralian Chess ChampionshipThe Australian Chess Championship is a tournament organised by the Australian Chess Federation and held every two years. The tournament is usually restricted to Australian chess players, although exceptions have been made on occasion. The winner of the tournament holds the title of Australian Chess...
1955, 1963; whilst at NSBH, he became Australian Junior Chess Champion; - Ron Sharpe, at fourteen-years-old became the youngest swimmer in Australian history (at that time) to represent the country when he was selected for the Empire Games in New Zealand in 1950 following an unofficial trial organised by his coach Forbes CarlileForbes CarlileForbes Carlile MBE was Australia's first post-World War II Olympics swimming coach and later Australia's first competitor in the modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He remains the only person to have coached and later competed at the Olympic Games.Born in Armadale, Victoria,...
; - Tony SteeleTony SteeleJohn Anthony Steele, better known as Tony Steele, is a first class cricketer who played 15 Sheffield Shield matches for New South Wales from 1968/69 to 1970/71. He toured New Zealand with an Australian party in 1969/70, playing 3 matches for Australia B against New Zealand and 3 for the...
, Australian international cricketer, selected to tour NZ with Australia 'B' in 1970; - John Treloar, the first Australian to run in Final of Olympic Games 100 Metres Sprint (Helsinki 1952);
- Gary Hosie, 7 times Australian Subbuteo Table Soccer Champion (87-93) and runner up in the 2002 Australian Championship of Petanque (Boules)
- Alex Watson, Disqualified Olympian in the Modern pentathlonModern pentathlonThe modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run...
, 1988 Olympics; - Wallabies Ron Meadows, Frank O'Brien, brothers Frank and Eric Hutchinson (both killed in WW2), Jim Cross, Rob Heming, Rod Phelps, Andy Stewart and Roger Cornforth (Captain of School 1935, Japanese POW, also 1948 Olympian in Water Polo);
- Rugby League Internationals Herman PetersHerman PetersHerman Peters was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s. An international representative centre, he played his club football with North Sydney in the NSWRFL premiership....
, Frank Stanton (later Coach of Kangaroos 'The Invincibles' on their historic unbeaten tour of England and France in 1982) and Don McKinnonDon McKinnon (rugby league)Don McKinnon is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. He played for the North Sydney Bears in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership as well as the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, and represented New South Wales and Australia...
;
Foreign affairs
- Roger Brown, former Consul-General in Shanghai, Oxford Blue in Athletics;
- Dato Tom Critchley, Malaysian Knight, High Commissioner in PNGPapua New GuineaPapua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
(1975–1978); - Phillip Flood, High Commissioner in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
; - Hon Justice Russell Walter FoxRussell Walter FoxRussell Walter Fox AC QC LLB is an Australian author, educator, jurist and former chief judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. He is best known for his extensive report on uranium mining in Australia in the early 1980s....
AC, former Ambassador-at-Large for Australia for Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Chief Judge of Supreme Court of Australian Capital Territory, the library at the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory was named in his honour; - HE Ian James, High Commissioner to Madagascar;
- HE Donald Kingsmill, Ambassador to Saudi ArabiaSaudi ArabiaThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
; - HE Daniel Nutter, Ambassador to ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
(1985–1988); - HE Gregory Wood, High Commissioner to Canada and Bermuda;
Armed forces
- Captain Walter Armitage RAN, Director of Engineering at Navy Office, Melbourne;
- Admiral Chris BarrieChris Barrie (Admiral)Admiral Christopher Alexander "Chris" Barrie AC is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy, who served as Chief of the Defence Force from 4 July 1998 to 3 July 2002.-Naval career:...
AC, Chief of the Australian Defence Force; - Commodore Paul Berger LVO, Director of Naval Manpower Planning;
- Brigadier Walter Campbell MC, who as a Lieutenant in 1957 during the Malayan Emergency was awarded the Military Cross for outstanding leadership under hostile fire
- John Cash, 21-year-old RAAF pilot attached to 274 Squadron RAF in the Middle East whose sacrifice in 1941 is honoured by the John Francis Cash Memorial Chapel at Moore Theological College, Sydney;
- Brigadier Noel 'Chic' Charlesworth DSO, Chief of Staff Headquarters Field Force Command, Australian Army Attaché Washington DC, Charlesworth Place at Moree is named in his honour;
- Brigadier Sir Frederick Chilton Kt CBE DSO and Bar, 100-year-old leader of the Sydney Anzac Day march;
- Commodore Antony Cooper, RAN Hydrographer, former Commander of HMAS Warrego, Naval Officer-in-Charge of Northern Australia 1959-61;
- Rear-Admiral Ian Crawford AO, Head of Naval Logistics;
- Commodore Henry Hunter Gardner Dalrymple, General Manager Williamtown Naval Dockyard and subsequently Director General Naval Design at Naval HQ in Canberra;
- Midshipman Robert Davies served in the British battle cruiser HMS Repulse when it was sunk in the South China Sea off Malaya just before the fall of Singapore in 1942. Davies strapped himself to an anti-aircraft gun and was still firing at Japanese aircraft as Repulse carried him under. Sydney Morning Herald of 16 April 2011 reports Davies under consideration for posthumous award of Victoria Cross;
- Colonel Anthony Delaney FACSP, Director Health Services Army Reserve - Eastern Region, team doctor of 1988 Australian Bicentennial Everest Expedition;
- Brigadier Adrian d'HageAdrian d'HagéBrigadier Adrian Stuart d'Hagé AM, MC, is a retired Australian military officer and a novelist. He was born in Sydney and educated at North Sydney Boys High School and the Royal Military College Duntroon...
MC, author of The Omega Scroll; - Rear-Admiral William Dovers DSC, Flag Officer Commanding the Australian Fleet;
- Major-General David Engel AO OBE, Deputy Chief of the General Staff;
- Brigadier Conrad Ermert, Commander RAEME;
- Major-General Charles Finlay CB CBE, Commandant of RMC Duntroon;
- Major-General Timothy Ford AO, Chief of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, Commander 1st Division (1996–97);
- Air Vice Marshal Roy Frost AO, Chief of RAAF Personnel;
- Air Commodore the Rev Alwyn Greenaway OBE DFC, Staff Officer RAAF Education Services;
- Brigadier David Hanlin AM, Chief Engineer for Army Construction in Australia, played three Sheffield Shield cricket matches for NSW;
- Major-General Albert Hellstrom CBE, Controller of Army Design and Inspection;
- Admiral Michael Hudson AC, Chief of Naval Staff;
- Group Captain Jack 'Congo' Kinninmont DSO DFC and Bar, Commanding Officer of 77 Squadron in Korean War, World War II fighter ace destroying 3 Japanese aircraft during the Malayan campaign;
- Brigadier David Leece, Commander 8th Infantry Brigade (1988–90), Assistant Commissioner of Natural Resources Commission of NSW;
- Colonel Allan Limburg CVO, Commander of Headquarters Supply Division, Director for 1963 Royal Visit to Northern Territory, author of Behind Enemy Lines;
- Brigadier Frederick McAlister CBE, Commander RAA 1 Corps, President of Sydney Legacy;
- Captain Stuart Campbell Mayer, Royal Australian Navy, Chief Staff Officer (Operations), former commander of HMAS Canberra;
- Air Vice Marshal Graham Neil AO DFC, Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Personnel);
- Captain Roger Parker OBE RAN, Managing Director of Cockatoo Docks, General Manager of Williamstown Naval Dockyard;
- Dr Peter Pedersen, Graduate Royal Military College Duntroon; former analyst, Office of National Assessments; military historian and author of The Anzacs: Gallipoli To The Western Front and Monash as Military Commander;
- Air Vice Marshal Ronald Ramsay-Rae CB, Commander of Royal Air Force in Malaya;
- Commodore Michael Rayment AM, Director-General of Naval Programmes and Resource Management;
- Brigadier George Salmon AM, Director-General of Army Materiel (1987–93);
- Air Vice Marshal Peter Scully, Former Assistant Chief of Defence Force;
- Major-General Noel Simpson CB CBE DSO & Bar, Commander of 3rd Infantry Division;
- Rear-Admiral Peter Sinclair AC, Governor of NSW (1990–1996), Flag Officer Commanding the Australian Fleet;
- Air Commodore Gordon SteegeGordon SteegeAir Commodore Gordon Henry Steege DSO, DFC is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Air Force . He became a fighter ace in World War II, credited with eight aerial victories...
DSO, DFC, senior RAAF officer and fighter aceFlying aceA flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...
of World War II; - Brigadier Philip Stevens, Commander of the First Military District (CMF), Winner of Sword of Honour at RMC Duntroon for exemplary conduct and performance of duties;
- Captain Norman White RAN, Commander RAN College, awarded Japanese decoration of The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays, for advancement of relations between Australia and Japan;
- Colonel Tony Williams, Colonel Commandant and Director of Royal Australian Artillery;
- Major-General Arthur Wilson CBE DSO, Commander BCOF Japan;
Miscellaneous
- Professor John Hamilton Andrews AOOrder of AustraliaThe Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
, architect, designer of Scarborough College Toronto, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cameron Offices Canberra, American Express Tower Sydney (original form), Intelsat HQ Building Washington DC and the CN TowerCN TowerThe CN Tower is a communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Standing tall, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of the Burj...
in Toronto, Canada. Completed in 1976, it became the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years. In 1995, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers; - Sir William Broun, 13th Baronet of Colstoun, Chief of Brown Clan of Scotland
- Darrel Conybeare, architect and town planner, practicing as a multidisciplinary design consultant, carrying out masterplanning and design with award winning projects in the fields of architecture, urban design and strategic planning, major award winning projects include the design and documentation of the Bicentennial Macquarie Street/Queens Square project and Circular Quay (West), also responsible for the $1.5billion Westlink M7 project and the Liverpool to Parramatta Transitway (son of Theo Conybeare [qv] and brother of Christopher Conybeare [qv]);
- Katherine Cummings (birth name John Cummings), author of Katherine's Diary: The Story of a Transsexual, winner of Australian Human Rights Award for Non-fiction 1992
- Bruce Garnsey AO MBE, Chief Commissioner of Scouts Australia, Chairman of World Scout Committee;
- Sir Robert Gordon, 10th Baronet of Afton and Earlston
- Raymond HoserRaymond HoserRaymond Terrence Hoser is an Australian herpetologist, snake-catcher, and author. Since 1976 he has written books and articles about official corruption in Australia. He has also authored works on Australian frogs and reptiles and operates a snake handling business, Snakebusters, in Melbourne...
, wildlife activist and authority, has published numerous articles in journals worldwide, author of Australian Reptiles and Frogs - Harry Howard, architect, designer of native landscape projects such as the High Court and National Gallery gardens as well as local projects like North Sydney's Sawmiller Reserve and Lane Cove Plaza, he is honoured by the Harry Howard Reserve at Wollstonecraft;
- Graham Keating, 5 Times World Champion Town Crier;
- Peter McGregor, activist, academic, and writer.
- Don Scott, leader of legendary racecourse betting syndicate named the Legal Eagles which in its day attracted huge media attention, by using special techniques he re-engineered the odds to turn betting into a successful business with spectacular wins in the 1960s, he shared his secrets with the public in a number of books including Winning and The Winning Way;
- Roelof Smilde (Captain of School 1947), member of Australian Team that gained Third Place at World Bridge Championship for the Bermuda Bowl in 1971 at Taipei
- Dorjee SunDorjee SunDorjee Sun , a social entrepreneur, is the CEO of Carbon Conservation. His work for Carbon Conservation was a subject of the international feature documentary The Burning Season in 2008....
, a social entrepreneur, is the CEO of Carbon Conservation. His work for Carbon Conservation was a subject of the international feature documentary The Burning Season in 2008. In 2009 a newly discovered species of blue spotted chameleon from the rainforests of Tanzania was named after Sun. In 2009 Time Magazine recognised Sun as a Hero of the Environment; - Sir Anthony Trollope, 16th Baronet of CasewickTrollope BaronetsThe Trollope Baronetcy, of Casewick in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 5 February 1642 for Thomas Trollope. The seventh Baronet was a Conservative politician. In 1868 he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Kesteven, of Casewick...
and Sir Anthony Trollope, 17th Baronet of Casewick (direct descendants of English novelist Anthony Trollope); - Bill WaterhouseBill WaterhouseBill Waterhouse, born 22 January 1922, is an Australian bookmaker, businessman and former barrister. He is also Tonga's honorary consul-general in Australia....
, barrister, in May 2010 retired from the betting ring at 88-years-old, once known as the world's biggest bookmaker, famous for his betting duels with the big punters of the past, he took what is believed to be the first $1 million bet on a horse race when the "Filipino Fireball" Felipe Ysmael challenged him to a wager in 1968, Ysmael won the bet, but was still left owing money to Waterhouse at the end of the day, former Consul General for Tonga; - John Waterhouse, President of Royal Zoological Society of NSW, author of The Black Honeyeater