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*[[Tom Williams (television)|Tom Williams]] - 'The Great Outdoors' reporter and star of 'Dancing With the Stars' |
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*[[Khoa Do]] - 2005 [[List_of_Young_Australian_of_the_Year_Award_recipients|Young Australian of the Year ]], Screenwriter and Director of [[Footy Legends]] |
*[[Khoa Do]] - 2005 [[List_of_Young_Australian_of_the_Year_Award_recipients|Young Australian of the Year ]], Screenwriter and Director of [[Footy Legends]] |
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Revision as of 05:30, 12 August 2007
This is a List of notable Old Boys of St Aloysius' College, Milsons Point (Sydney)
Clergy
- Archbishop Eris O'Brien - Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney 1948-1951, Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn 1951-1966.
- Right Reverend Joseph Dwyer - Bishop of Wagga Wagga 1918-1939.
- Honourable nugget Joshua Grech
- Peter L'Estrange-Rector of Newman College (University of Melbourne) 1991-2006 and Master of Campion Hall, Oxford 2006-.
- Nick Sauerman-Leader of the "Cult of Amman-Ra" (Egyptian Sun God)
Academic
- Sir Gustav Nossal - research scientist and Australian of the Year
- Professor Jacques Miller AO - contemporary of Nossal and equally a great scientist
- Professor Peter Rowe - Australian Father of the Year in 1984
- Jack Lonergan - Co-ordinator of the Media SIG at The University of Westminster in London.
- Alistair Mackerras AM - Long serving headmaster of Sydney Grammar School and brother of Charles and Malcolm (finished school for 4 years at Sydney Grammar)
- Professor Peter "cat" Doherty - known to all as "The Cat Nolan"
Rhodes Scholars
- 1927 - Vincent John 'Jack' Flynn - LLB University of Sydney - First Catholic Rhodes Scholar in NSW
- 1976 - Michael Gerrard L'Estrange - BA University of Sydney (see below)
Military
- Major-General Mike O'Brien - Former Commander of Army Support
- Peter Murray - First National Serviceman killed in Vietnam
- Major Commander Egg Harry Hampton- Fried during EGG WAR III
- John "Sarge" Williams - Member of the first (and only) successful UN Peacekeeping mission (East Timor)
Politics
- Joe Hockey - MHR (Lib); Minister for Industrial Relations
- Nick Greiner - MLA (Lib) (1980-1992); Premier of NSW (1988-1992)
- Tony Abbott - Minister for Health and Ageing and Leader of the House in the Australian federal government
- Michael L'Estrange - Secretary of the DFAT; Australian High Commissioner to the UK 2000-2004; Former Secretary to Cabinet; Rhodes Scholar [1]
- David P. Pollack - Former chief advisor to ATSIC Chairman Geoff Clark and current Secretary of Aboriginal Affairs to the Attorney-General
- Malcolm Mackerras - Psephologist; creator of the 'Mackerras Electoral Pendulum' and brother of Alistair and Charles
- Lionel J Courtenay - NSW Legislative Council; Senator (1932-34)
- John Francis McGrath - Legislative Assembly (NSW) Minister; Government Whip (1941-59)
- Joseph Farrar Coates - Legislative Council (NSW) Minister (1921-43)
- Richard D Meagher - Legislative Assembly (NSW); Speaker of the House; Lord Mayor of Sydney (1895-1920)
Law
- Sir Maurice Byers QC - Solicitor General during the Dismissal[2]
- Justice John Kearney (Retired) - Justice of the NSW Supreme Court
- Justice Tim Studdert - Justice of the NSW Supreme Court
- Judge Terry Christie - District Court Judge
- Judge Alan McDevitt - District Court Judge
- Judge John McGuire - District Court Judge
- Judge Tony Puckeridge - District Court Judge
- Justice Garth Thompson - SA District Court Judge
- The Honourable Earl Flanders - Justice of the middle school playground
Media, Entertainment and the Arts
- James MacLurcan - Actor and model
- Sir Charles Mackerras - Conductor and brother of Alistair and Malcolm (finished school at Sydney Grammar)
- Matthew Reilly - Author of the bestsellers: Ice Station, Area 7, Scarecrow, Hovercar Racer, Seven Ancient Wonders and Contest
- Don Burke - Television personality
- Adam Spencer - Mathematician, comic and radio host formerly on Triple J and currently breakfast announcer on radio 702 ABC Sydney.
- Mark Simkin - ABC Correspondent in Japan
- Geoff Thompson - ABC Correspondent in India - and winner of a Logie Award
- Tom Williams - 'The Great Outdoors' reporter and star of 'Dancing With the Stars'
- Cameron Caccamo - Co-writer for the Simpsons
- Anh Do - Comic, Footy Legends, 'Thank God You're Here'
- Khoa Do - 2005 Young Australian of the Year , Screenwriter and Director of Footy Legends
- Peter Wall - Head of SBS Radio, former Head of ABC Radio
- Julian Morrow - 'The Election Chaser', 'CNNNN', 'The Chaser's War on Everything'
- Melvyn Morrow - Playwright: wrote musicals "Shout!" and "Dusty - The Musical"; English Teacher
- Randall Churchill - Television Director 'The Graham Kennedy Show', 'Sydney Olympics', 'Dancing with the Stars', 'It Takes Two'
- Garry O'Callaghan - Radio 2UE broadcaster and "Australian Father of the Year" in late 1970's
- Daniel Lapaine - Actor
- Billy Birmingham - Comedian of 'Twelfth Man' fame
- Martin Cooke - Baritone with the Bavarian State Opera
- Paul Dyer - Conductor of the Brandenburg Orchestra
- Cyril T Ritchard - Broadway Actor
- Danny Clayton - Channel V presenter
- Alexander Grigg - Singer/Guitarist in indie rock band Red Riders
Business
- David Murray - Former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank
- Marco Belgiorno-Zegna - One of the Transfield empire owners
- Paul Robertson - Executive Director of Macquarie Bank
- Jim L'Estrange - CEO of NSW Rugby Union
- Angus James - CEO of Burton Snowboarding
- Ben Sweeney - apparently, according to himself, owns half of thredbo
Sport
- Angus "skull" Buncle - nuus of the highest order
- John Ferris, William McElhone, Ben Dwyer, William Dwyer, Eric McElhone and Austin Punch - all NSW and Australian Cricketers. John Ferris also played for England and was killed whilst on active service in the Boer War.
- Guillaume Buckley - RIDICULOUSLY GOOD LOOKING
- Herbert Moran - Wallabies
- Les Austin - Wallabies
- Jim Young - NSW Waratahs rugby union
- James Allen - NSW Waratahs rugby union
- Don Maclurcan - Ran across Australia to raise money for the Fred Hollows Foundation
- Patrick McCabe - NSW Waratahs Rugby Union
- Keith Gleeson - Irish Rugby Union International, Leinster Rugby Union
- Chris Yates - Australian 7's rugby rep
- Mark O'Halloran - Professional rugby league player
- Nick Lah, Michael Spalding, James Nakkan - Sydney First Grade rugby players
- Ed Brenac - Australian Seven's rugby, ACT Brumbies
- Ed Zelma, Nic Gardon - First grade cricketers
- Patrick Cullinan - climbed Mount Everest
- Alex Mclean - "'cos im big" -- AKA Jack Brown
- Neven Basic - Professional golfer
- Cecil Healy - Gold Medal in swimming, 1912 Olympics
- Chris Suffield - Captain of the Australian National Electric Wheelchair Sports Team, 2002 - 2006
- Matt Unicomb - West Sydney Razorbacks basketball player
- Steven Goh - Professional tennis player
- Ross Lalic - Tennis player
- Tom Wright - Australian Emus basketball captain. Augusta State University
- Michael Suffield - captain of the "i wish i was like tom hall" team of australia. really wishes he could be as intellectual and as good an arguer as the two toms