List of famous Old Sydneians
Encyclopedia
Sydney Grammar School
Sydney Grammar School is an independent, non-denominational, selective, day school for boys, located in Darlinghurst, Edgecliff and St Ives, all suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
(SGS). Former pupils of the School are known as Old Sydneians.
Sydney Grammar School has educated seven High Court Justices
High Court of Australia
The 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...
and produced twenty eight Rhodes Scholars.
In 2001, The Sun-Herald
The Sun-Herald
The Sun-Herald is an Australian tabloid newspaper published on Sundays in Sydney by Fairfax Media. It is the Sunday counterpart of The Sydney Morning Herald. In the 6 months to September 2005, The Sun-Herald had a circulation of 515,000...
ranked Sydney Grammar School tenth in Australia's top ten schools for boys, based on the number of its alumni mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia
Who's Who in Australia
The Who's Who in Australia is an Australian biographical reference first published by Fred Johns in 1906 as Johns's Notable Australians. It has been used by academics as a resource that identifies Australia's leading individuals, and has been analysed when studying the social backgrounds –...
(a listing of notable Australians).
Government, law, and public policy
| Name | Class years | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Edmund Barton Edmund Barton Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC , Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.... |
1859–1864 | Prime Minister of Australia Prime Minister of Australia The 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... , Justice of the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The 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... |
|
| Sir William McMahon William McMahon Sir William "Billy" McMahon, GCMG, CH , was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia... |
1923–1926 | Prime Minister of Australia Prime Minister of Australia The 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... |
|
| Sir Boyd Dunlop Morehead | Premier of Queensland Premiers of Queensland Before the 1890s, there was no developed party system in Queensland. Political affiliation labels before that time indicate a general tendency only. Before the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, political parties were more akin to parliamentary factions, and were fluid, informal and... |
||
| Eric Griffin | Businessman, Financial Writer | ||
| Sir Anthony Mason | Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The 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... , Justice of the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The 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... |
||
| Sir George Rich George Rich Sir George Edward Rich KCMG PC , Australian judge, was a justice of the High Court of Australia.Rich was born in the town of Braidwood, New South Wales, in 1863. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, and later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in... |
Justice of the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The 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... |
||
| William Gummow William Gummow William Montague Charles Gummow AC is a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Biography:... |
Justice of the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The 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... |
||
| Sir Victor Windeyer Victor Windeyer Major General Sir William John Victor Windeyer KBE CB DSO and Bar PC KC Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.... |
Justice of the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The 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... |
||
| Sir Richard O'Connor Richard O'Connor (Australian politician) Richard Edward O'Connor, QC , Australian politician and judge, was a member of the first federal ministry.-Biography:... |
1867 | Justice of the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The 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... |
|
| Albert Piddington Albert Piddington Albert Bathurst Piddington was the shortest serving Justice of the High Court of Australia, never actually sitting at the bench. Appointed on 6 March 1913, he resigned on 5 April after opponents questioned his independence.-Early life:Piddington was born in 1862 in Bathurst, New South Wales... |
Justice of the High Court of Australia High Court of Australia The 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... |
||
| Sir Philip Street Philip Whistler Street Sir Philip Whistler Street KCMG was the eighth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Street was a distinguished lawyer, patron of many benevolent institutions and also the lieutenant governor of New South Wales. Biographer Percival Serle states "Street had the culture, dignity... |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Supreme Court of New South Wales The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales... |
||
| Sir Kenneth Street | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Supreme Court of New South Wales The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales... |
||
| Sir Leslie Herron Leslie Herron Sir Leslie James Herron, KBE, CMG, KStJ was a prominent Australian barrister, judge, chief justice and lieutenant governor of New South Wales. Biographer Martha Rutledge describes him as being “interested, interesting and with a lively sense of humour”, but that he “conducted his court with... |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Supreme Court of New South Wales The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales... |
||
| Kim Santow Kim Santow The Honourable Justice Geza Francis Kim Santow AO was an Australian Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal.... |
Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Supreme Court of New South Wales The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales... Court of Appeal, former Chancellor of the University of Sydney University of Sydney The 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... . |
||
| Sir John Hubert Plunkett Murray Hubert Murray Sir John Hubert Plunkett Murray, usually known as Hubert Murray, was a judge and Lieutenant-Governor of Papua from 1908 until his death at Samarai.-Early life:... |
Lieutenant-Governor of the Territory of Papua | ||
| General John Antill John Antill (General) Major General John Macquarie Antill, Jr. CB, CMG was a senior Australian Army officer in World War I. Antill is best known for his refusal to call off a suicidal charge on the Turkish lines at The Nek in the Gallipoli Campaign. He was forced to do so, as he was under direct orders from Major... |
Army Major General in World War I World War I World 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... . |
||
| Peter Baume Peter Baume Peter 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... |
Politician, Professor of Medicine and Chancellor of the Australian National University Australian National University The 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... . |
||
| General Sir Henry George Chauvel Henry George Chauvel General Sir Harry Chauvel GCMG, KCB was a senior officer of the Australian Imperial Force who fought at Gallipoli and in the Middle Eastern theatre during the First World War. He was the first Australian to attain the rank of lieutenant general and later general, and the first to lead a corps... |
Army Chief of Staff. | ||
| Nicholas Cowdery Nicholas Cowdery Nicholas Richard Cowdery AM QC was the Director of Public Prosecutions for the Australian state of New South Wales. He held the position from 1994 to 2011. Cowdery also served as President of the International Association of Prosecutors from 1999 to 2005.Cowdery attended Wollongong High School and... |
NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Director of Public Prosecutions The Director of Public Prosecutions is the officer charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world... . |
||
| Sir Norman Cowper Norman Lethbridge Cowper Sir Norman Lethbridge Cowper was an Australian lawyer best known as the Senior Partner of the legal firm of Allen Allen & Hemsley which is now Allens Arthur Robinson. Under Cowper's leadership, Allen Allen & Hemsley became one of Australia's leading law firms working for many of Australia's... |
Lawyer and administrator. | ||
| John Maddison John Maddison John Clarkson Maddison, was a New South Wales politician, Attorney General, Minister for Justice and Deputy Leader for the Liberal Party of New South Wales in the cabinets of Robert Askin, Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis until the Liberal party lost the 1976 election... |
Attorney General of New South Wales | ||
| Sir Robert Garran Robert Garran Sir Robert Randolph Garran GCMG KC was an Australian lawyer and public servant, an early leading expert in Australian constitutional law, the first employee of the Government of Australia and the first Solicitor-General of Australia... |
Lawyer and first Solicitor-General of Australia Solicitor-General of Australia The Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the Second Law Officer to the Attorney-General of Australia. The holders of this office are not members of parliament.... . |
||
| General John Grey John Grey (general) Lieutenant General John Cedric Grey AC was a senior officer in the Australian Army who served as Chief of the General Staff .-Military career:Educated at Sydney Grammar School, Grey joined the Australian Army in 1957... |
Australian Army Chief and Chancellor of James Cook University James Cook University James Cook University is a public university based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The university has two Australian campuses, located in Townsville and Cairns respectively, and an international campus in Singapore. JCU is the second oldest university in Queensland—proclaimed in 1970—and the... |
||
| Sir Norman Kater Norman William Kater Sir Norman William Kater MLC was a medical practitioner, pastoralist and member of the New South Wales legislative council. He was born into a socially prominent rural family. His father William Edward Kater also was a member of the legislative council, and his grandfather William Forster was... |
Politician, medical practitioner and grazier. | ||
| James Gordon Legge James Gordon Legge Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge CB, CMG was an Australian Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I. His son Stanley Ferguson Legge reached the rank of Major General.-Early life and career:... |
Army Lieutenant General in World War I World War I World 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... . |
||
| Daniel Levy | Army Lieutenant General in World War I World War I World 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... |
||
| James William Macarthur-Onslow James William Macarthur-Onslow Major General Hon James William Macarthur-Onslow VD was a soldier, grazier and politician. The son of a prominent New South Wales family, he was commissioned in the New South Wales Mounted Rifles in 1892 and served in the Chitral Expedition, Boer War and Great War... |
Politician, soldier and businessman | ||
| Henry Normand MacLaurin | Army Brigadier General in World War I World War I World 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... |
||
| John Peden | Lawyer, politician and law professor. | ||
| Malcolm Mackerras Malcolm Mackerras Malcolm Hugh Mackerras AO is an Australian psephologist and commentator and lecturer on Australian and American politics.-Education and works:... |
psephologist | ||
| Harold Thorby Harold Thorby Harold Victor Campbell Thorby was an Australian politician and government minister.-Early life:Thorby was born in the Sydney suburb of Annandale and was educated at Geurie Public School and Sydney Grammar School and worked on his grandparents' farm at Geurie. He studied woolclassing, veterinary... |
Politician and government minister | ||
| Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2004, and was Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party from 16 September 2008 to 1 December 2009.Turnbull has represented the Division... |
Former Opposition Leader of Australia | ||
| George Newhouse George Newhouse George Newhouse is an Australian human rights lawyer, a former local councillor and political activist. He was Mayor of Waverley in the eastern suburbs of Sydney from 2006 to 2007, and the Australian Labor Party candidate for the seat of Wentworth at the 2007 Australian federal election... |
Former Mayor of Waverley Waverley Municipal Council Waverley Municipal Council is a Local Government Area in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.- History :... |
||
Film
| Name | Class years | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Francis-Bruce Richard Francis-Bruce Richard Francis-Bruce is an Australian film editor who has received several nominations for the Academy Award for Film Editing.- Career :... |
Academy Award Academy Awards An 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... -nominated film editor (The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.... 1994), (Seven Seven (film) Seven is a 1995 American thriller film, which also contains horror and neo-noir elements, directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It was distributed by New Line Cinema and stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R... 1995), (Air Force One Air Force One (film) Air Force One is a 1997 American action-thriller film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell and Paul Guilfoyle... 1997) |
||
| Andrew Lesnie Andrew Lesnie Andrew Lesnie is an Australian cinematographer. Lesnie attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School , graduating in 1979. His first job after graduation was as a cameraman on the Logie Award-winning Australian magazine-style afternoon TV show Simon Townsend's Wonder World... |
Academy Award Academy Awards An 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... -winning cameraman (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2002) |
||
| Julian McMahon Julian McMahon Julian Dana William McMahon is an Australian actor and former fashion model. He is best known for his portrayals of Cole Turner in The WB hit series Charmed, womanizing plastic surgeon Christian Troy on the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning TV show Nip/Tuck, and Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four and... |
Actor and son of Prime Minister McMahon William McMahon Sir William "Billy" McMahon, GCMG, CH , was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia... |
||
| Bud Tingwell | Film Film A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects... and theatre Theatre Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance... actor |
||
| Stephan Elliott Stephan Elliott Stephan Elliott is an Australian film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Elliott began his career as an assistant director working in the boom of the Australian film industry of the 1980s.... |
Writer & Director, (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named... 1994) |
Media
| Name | Class years | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugh Mackay Hugh Mackay (social researcher) Hugh Mackay is the founder of the Australian quarterly research series The Ipsos Mackay Report . He is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He is a regular columnist in The Age and a regularly appearing commentator on radio and television. He is a graduate of Sydney Grammar School, the... |
Social commentator, former Chairman of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School Sydney Grammar School Sydney Grammar School is an independent, non-denominational, selective, day school for boys, located in Darlinghurst, Edgecliff and St Ives, all suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.... |
||
| George Blaikie George Blaikie George Neil Blaikie was an Australian author and journalist.He was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Grammar School and Melbourne University. He joined Smith's Weekly in December 1931. His bank manager father had impressed on its owner Joynton Smith, a customer, what an asset the boy would... |
author and journalist | ||
| Richard Carleton Richard Carleton Richard George Carleton was a multi-Logie Award winning Australian television journalist.-Education:Carleton was born in Bowral, New South Wales... |
60 Minutes reporter. | ||
| Tim Palmer | veteran ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster... journalist. |
||
| Bruce Gyngell Bruce Gyngell Bruce Gyngell was a hugely influential Australian television executive, prominent for 50 years in both Australian and U.K. television. Although Gyngell began his career in radio, in the 1950s he stepped into the arena of early television broadcasting, helping to set up Channel 9, the first... |
first man on Australian television | ||
| Mike Kerry | Channel V Channel V Channel [V] is the brand name for multiple international music television networks owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation.-Channel [V] International:... presenter. |
||
| Richard Kingsmill Richard Kingsmill Richard "The King" Kingsmill is an Australian radio announcer and music journalist.He is best known for his work at national youth broadcaster triple j. His career at the station started in 1988 as a producer for station presenters George Wayne, Tracee Hutchison and Tim Ritchie... |
Broadcaster | ||
| Charles Firth | member of The Chaser The Chaser The Chaser are an Australian satirical comedian group, known for their television programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation channel. The group take their name from their production of satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste... team |
||
| Dominic Knight Dominic Knight Dominic Sebastian Knight is an Australian comedy writer, best known as a member of the Australian political satire comedy group The Chaser, as well as being an independent writer and former blogger for the Sydney Morning Herald... |
member of The Chaser The Chaser The Chaser are an Australian satirical comedian group, known for their television programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation channel. The group take their name from their production of satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste... team |
||
| Chas Licciardello Chas Licciardello Chas John Licciardello is a comedian from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser... |
member of The Chaser The Chaser The Chaser are an Australian satirical comedian group, known for their television programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation channel. The group take their name from their production of satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste... team |
Business
| Name | Class years | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Len Ainsworth | Aristocrat Leisure Limited Aristocrat Leisure Limited Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian company, which has its administrative centre in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde, although the majority of its research and development is also done at its North Ryde site... founder. |
||
| Sir James Reading Fairfax (1834–1919) | newspaper proprietor | ||
| Sir James Oswald Fairfax (1863–1928) | newspaper proprietor | ||
| Gordon Fell | funds manager and chair of Opera Australia Opera Australia Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of its time spent in the The Arts Centre in Melbourne... . |
||
| David Gonski David Gonski David Michael Gonski, BComm, LLB, AC, is an Australian public figure and businessman. The Sydney Morning Herald has described him as "one of the country's best-connected businessmen" and dubbed him "Mr Networks" for being "arguably Sydney's most networked man".David Gonski was born in 1953 in... |
Coca-Cola Amatil Coca-Cola Amatil Coca-Cola Amatil is an Australian company that bottles and distributes The Coca-Cola Company soft drinks and other beverages in several countries... chairman, Australia Council Australia Council The Australia Council, informally known as the Australia Council for the Arts, is the official arts council or arts funding body of the Government of Australia.-Function:... chairman, President of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales , located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, was established in 1897 and is the most important public gallery in Sydney and the fourth largest in Australia... , Chairman of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School Sydney Grammar School Sydney Grammar School is an independent, non-denominational, selective, day school for boys, located in Darlinghurst, Edgecliff and St Ives, all suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.... , Chancellor of the University of New South Wales University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia... . |
||
| Simon Hannes Simon Hannes Simon Gautier Hannes was an Australian senior executive of Macquarie Bank convicted of insider trading over call options bought prior to the takeover of TNT by the Dutch postal service in 1996.... |
Macquarie Bank executive, convicted of insider trading | ||
| Sir Samuel Hordern Samuel Hordern Sir Samuel Hordern KBE was an Australian businessman. Educated at Sydney Grammar School and Bath College, England he directed the Hordern family company Anthony Hordern & Sons for more than fifty years.... |
director of Anthony Hordern & Sons Anthony Hordern & Sons Anthony Horderns was the largest department store in Sydney, Australia. It was originally established by a free immigrant from England, Anthony Hordern, in 1823, as a drapery shop... |
||
| David Lowy | Non Executive Deputy Chairman of The Westfield Group The Westfield Group The Westfield Group is an Australian shopping centre group undertaking ownership, development, design, construction, funds/asset management, property management, leasing and marketing activities... |
||
| Peter Lowy | Group Managing Director of The Westfield Group The Westfield Group The Westfield Group is an Australian shopping centre group undertaking ownership, development, design, construction, funds/asset management, property management, leasing and marketing activities... |
||
| Steven Lowy | Group Managing Director of The Westfield Group The Westfield Group The Westfield Group is an Australian shopping centre group undertaking ownership, development, design, construction, funds/asset management, property management, leasing and marketing activities... |
||
| Chris Coudounaris | 1967–1979 | Lawyer |
Sport
| Name | Class years | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Spofforth Fred Spofforth Frederick Robert "Fred" Spofforth , also known as "The Demon Bowler", was arguably the Australian cricket team's finest pace bowler of the nineteenth century and was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets, and the first to take a test hat-trick in 1879... |
First Test cricket Test cricket Test 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 to take a hat-trick Hat-trick A hat-trick or hat trick in sport is the achievement of a positive feat three times during a game, or other achievements based on threes. The term was first used in 1858 in cricket to describe HH Stephenson's feat of taking three wickets in three balls. A collection was held for Stephenson, and he... . |
||
| Slip Carr Slip Carr Edwin William "Slip" Carr was a rugby union player who represented Australia, an Australian 100 and 200 metre sprinter, and Olympic team member at the 1924 Summer Olympics.-Early life:... |
Australian rugby union international, and olympic sprinter at the 1924 Olympic games. | ||
| Andrew "Boy" Charlton | Swimmer | ||
| Albert Cotter Tibby Cotter Albert "Tibby" Cotter was an Australian cricketer who played in 21 Tests between 1904 and 1912.... |
Australia's 85th Test Cricketer and soldier. | ||
| Stork Hendry Hunter Hendry Hunter Scott Thomas Laurie Hendry was a cricketer who played for New South Wales, Victoria and Australia national cricket team.Nicknamed Stork, he was a formidable batsman who bowlers found difficulty in delivering to... |
Australia's 116th Test cricketer. | ||
| Alan McGilvray Alan McGilvray Alan David McGilvray AM MBE was an Australian cricketer who played several first-class seasons for New South Wales in the mid-1930s before becoming the doyen of Australian cricket commentators... |
Cricket commentator | ||
| Alan Walker Alan Walker (Australian sportsman) Alan Keith Walker was an Australian sportsman. He played rugby union for his country, winning five caps, and scored 19 tries on the tour to Britain and France in 1947-48, including a memorable effort against England at Twickenham... |
Australian rugby player and cricketer | ||
| Stuart Welch Stuart Welch Stuart Welch is an Australian rower.-References:*... |
Rowing silver medallist at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics Final results for the Rowing events at the 2000 Summer Olympics:The event is probably most noted for Steve Redgrave's winning his fifth Olympic gold medal in as many games in the British men's coxless four. However, there were a number of other dramatic races. Both the men's and women's single... , and bronze at Athens 2004. |
||
| Stuart Gyngell | 1968–1981 | Shot Put: Commonwealth Games Bronze medalist (1986 Edinburgh) 1986 Commonwealth Games The 1986 Commonwealth Games were held in Edinburgh, Scotland for the second time. The Games were held from 24 July-2 August 1986.-Organisation and Controversy:... & World Masters Champion (2005 San Sebastian) |
|
| Colin Windon Colin Windon Colin Windon was an Australian soldier and a state and national representative rugby union player who captained the Wallabies in six Test matches in 1951... |
Australian rugby union captain and soldier | ||
| Sammy Woods Sammy Woods Samuel Moses James "Sammy" Woods was an Australian sportsman who represented both Australia and England at Test cricket, and appeared thirteen times for England at rugby union, including five times as captain. He also played at county level in England at both soccer and hockey... |
Australia's 54th Test cricketer, who later became England's 100th capped Test cricketer. | ||
| Frederick Lane Frederick Lane Frederick Claude Vivian Lane was an Australian swimmer.Lane, from Manly, New South Wales, was the first Australian to represent his country in swimming at the Olympic Games, although he was actually a part of the British team when he competed at the 1900 Paris Games and won two gold medals.He... |
Australia's first Olympic Olympic Games The 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... swimmer |
||
| Charlie Fox Charlie Fox (rugby) Charlie Fox was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative second-rower who made 36 appearances for the Wallabies, playing in 17 Test matches and captained the national side on seven occasions in 1925.-Representative career:Charles Fox was twenty-one years of age and... |
Australian rugby union Australia national rugby union team The Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the Tri-Nations Series, in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the... captain |
||
| Johnnie Wallace Johnnie Wallace Arthur Cooper "Johnnie" Wallace was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative three-quarter who captained the Waratahs on 25 occasions in the 1920s as well as representing for Scotland early in his career.-University & early representative career:Wallace arrived at St... |
Australian rugby union Australia national rugby union team The Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the Tri-Nations Series, in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the... captain & Scotland rugby union Scotland national rugby union team The Scotland national rugby union team represent Scotland in international rugby union. Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The Scotland rugby union team is currently ranked eighth in the IRB World Rankings as of 19 September 2011... rep |
||
| Nick Pappas Nick Pappas Dr Nicholas George Pappas is a solicitor from Sydney, Australia, and also the current chairman of the South Sydney Rabbitohs Rugby league club. He was also chairman of the club from April 2003 to June 2006... |
1969–1978 | Chairman, South Sydney Rabbitohs South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital... |
|
| Lachlan Renshaw Lachlan Renshaw Lachlan Renshaw is a middle-distance track and field athlete and is the 2010 Australian Champion over 800m. He was also the 2008 800m national champion. Lachlan represented Australia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing sixth in his heat in a time of 1:49.19... |
Australian 800m champion, Australian representative at the 2008 Olympic Games Olympic Games The 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... for the 800m |
Arts
| Name | Class years | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Le Gay Brereton John Le Gay Brereton John Le Gay Brereton was an Australian poet, critic and Professor of English at the University of Sydney. He was the first president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers when it was formed in Sydney in 1928.-Early life:... |
poet and Professor of English. | ||
| Sir Charles Mackerras Charles Mackerras Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan... |
conductor | ||
| Alexander Briger Alexander Briger Alexander Briger is an Australian classical conductor. He is the nephew of the conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, and both are descended from the composer Isaac Nathan.-Biography:... |
conductor | ||
| Michael Dransfield Michael Dransfield Michael Dransfield was an Australian poet active in the 1960s and early 1970s who wrote close to 1000 poems. He has been described as "one of the most widely read poets of his generation." -Early life:... |
Poet | ||
| Max Dupain Max Dupain Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC was a renowned Australian modernist photographer.-Early life:Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography He later joined the Photographic Society of NSW, and when he left school, he worked for Cecil Bostock in Sydney.-Early... |
Photographer | ||
| Donald Friend Donald Friend Donald Stuart Leslie Friend was an Australian artist, writer and diarist.- Early life :Born in Sydney, precociously talented both as an artist and a writer, Friend grew up in the artistic circle of his bohemian mother... |
Artist | ||
| Rob Hirst Rob Hirst -External links:*******... |
Drummer for Midnight Oil Midnight Oil Midnight Oil , were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie... |
||
| Mark Kingsmill | Drummer for Hoodoo Gurus Hoodoo Gurus Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner and later joined by Richard Grossman , Mark Kingsmill , and Brad Shepherd... |
||
| Joseph Jacobs Joseph Jacobs Joseph Jacobs was a folklorist, literary critic and historian. His works included contributions to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, translations of European works, and critical editions of early English literature... |
preserved fairy-tales such as Jack and the Beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk is a folktale said by English historian Francis Palgrave to be an oral legend that arrived in England with the Vikings. The tale is closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant-killer. It is known under a number of versions... and The Three Little Pigs. |
||
| Gregan McMahon Gregan McMahon Gregan McMahon, CBE was an Australian actor and theatrical producer.McMahon was born in Sydney, elder son of John Terence McMahon, a clerk, and his wife Elizabeth, née Gregan. Both parents were emigrants from Ireland. McMahon was educated at Sydney Grammar School and St Ignatius' College, Riverview... |
actor and theatrical producer | ||
| Dowell Philip O'Reilly Dowell Philip O'Reilly Dowell Philip O'Reilly was an Australian poet, short story writer and politician.-Early life:O'Reilly was born at Sydney. His father, Rev. Thomas O'Reilly, was a well known clergyman of the Church of England, who came of a family with many military and naval associations... |
poet and short story writer. | ||
| Banjo Paterson Banjo Paterson Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, OBE was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood... |
Poet | ||
| Antony Walker | Conductor | ||
| Rob Morris Rob Morris Robert Samuel Morris , partly of Icelandic Mormon Decent . He is a retired American football linebacker who played for the Indianapolis Colts . He was originally drafted by the Indianapolis Colts 28th overall in the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Brigham Young University... |
Designer | ||
| Nigel Butterley Nigel Butterley Nigel Henry Cockburn Butterley AM is an Australian composer and pianist.-Life and career:Butterley learnt to play the piano at the age of five. He attended Sydney Grammar School, but as music wasn't taught at the school at that time, he also sought training from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.... |
Composer | ||
| Ross Edwards Ross Edwards (composer) Ross Edwards is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. He is not to be confused with a British up and coming singer-songwriter of the same name.-Life:Ross Edwards was born in Sydney... |
Composer |
Science and Medicine
| Name | Class years | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Norman McAlister Gregg Norman Gregg Sir Norman McAlister Gregg, MC was an Australian ophthalmologist, who discovered that rubella suffered by a pregnant woman could cause birth defects in her child .-Early life and education:... |
Ophthalmologist who discovered the link between maternal rubella and child birth defects. | ||
| Dr Bryan Gaensler Bryan Gaensler Bryan Malcolm Gaensler is an Australian astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year, currently based at the University of Sydney. He is best known for his work on magnetars, supernova remnants and magnetic fields.- Education :... |
Young Australian of the Year, 1999, former Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... , currently Professor at the University of Sydney University of Sydney The 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... . |
||
| Dr Rowan Gillies | international president of Médecins Sans Frontières Médecins Sans Frontières ' , or Doctors Without Borders, is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland... . |
||
| Dr David Celermajer | Scandrett Professor of Cardiology Cardiology Cardiology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the heart . The field includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology... , University of Sydney University of Sydney The 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... |
Rhodes Scholars
1904 Barton, Wilfred Alexander1906 MacCallum, Mungo Lorenz
1910 Hooton, John Russell
1911 Ward, Hugh Kingsley
1912 Robson, Alfred James
1913 Southee, Ethelbert Ambrook
1914
Henry, Harry Andre
1915
Crawford, Walter Ferguson
1916
Robson, Leonard Charles
1922
Wallace, Arthur Cooper
1923
Raymond, Roland Lionel
1931
Garnsey, David Arthur
1932
Wood, William Arnold Whitfield
1934
Barry, Hugh Collis
1953
McLeod, James Graham
1958
Wiley, James Saville
1962
Hodgson, David Hargraves
1965
Antill, John Kenneth
1967
Harris, Phillip John
1977
Watson, John Douglas Glenton
1978
Turnbull, Malcolm Bligh
1983
Celermajer, David Stephen
1984
Potok, Richard Charles
1987
Fell, Gordon Edward Christopher
1990
Bell, Andrew Scott
1992
Nixon, Scott Michael
2005
Winterton, David
2007
Knight, Eric
Other fields
| Name | Class years | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Kingsley Archdall Henry Kingsley Archdall Henry Kingsley Archdall was an Australian academic and clergyman. After teaching at Cambridge University, in Australia and in New Zealand, he became Principal of St David's College, Lampeter and Chancellor of St David's Cathedral.-Biography:Archdall was born in Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales in... |
academic and clergyman. | ||
| Clive Caldwell Clive Caldwell Group Captain Clive Robertson Caldwell DSO, DFC & Bar was the leading Australian air ace of World War II. He is officially credited with shooting down 28.5 enemy aircraft in over 300 operational sorties. In addition to his official score, he has been ascribed six probables and 15 damaged... |
World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... ace fighter pilot. |
||
| Leonard Charles Robson | Headmaster, Sydney Church of England Grammar School Sydney Church of England Grammar School Sydney Church of England Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.... . |
||
| Dr Stephen Spurr Stephen Spurr Dr M.S. Spurr, commonly known in the UK as Stephen Spurr, is currently the Head Master of Westminster School, the British public school, having taken over from Tristram Jones-Parry in 2005. He is an advocate of "exam reform"... |
Headmaster, Westminster School Westminster School The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college in Britain... . |
||
| Andrew Lock Andrew Lock Andrew James Lock OAM is Australia’s most accomplished high altitude mountaineer. He completed his personal mountaineering project to be the first Australian to climb all fourteen "eight-thousanders" in October 2009. In all he has climbed all 14 8000m peaks, with 18 personal 8000 metre summits,... |
One of Australia's most successful mountaineers Mountaineering Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists... |
See also
- List of non-government schools in New South Wales
- Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales