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* [[Matt Walters]] - Award Winning Singer/Songwriter and public figure <ref>http://www.myspace.com/mattwaltersmusic</ref>
* [[Matt Walters]] - Award Winning Singer/Songwriter and public figure <ref>http://www.myspace.com/mattwaltersmusic</ref>
* [[Grant Smillie]] - Prominent Melbourne based house music DJ
* [[Grant Smillie]] - Prominent Melbourne based house music DJ
* [[John Course]] - [[Nova 100 FM]] DJ and popular public figure
* [[John Course]] - [[Nova 100]] DJ and popular public figure
* [[RudemZ]] - Popular Australian Hip-Hop artist and Co-Founder of Defects Rap Crew
* [[RudemZ]] - Popular Australian Hip-Hop artist and Co-Founder of Defects Rap Crew
* [[Chris Butler]] - Lead Singer of Melbourne punk band [[Meet Me at Montauk]] <ref>http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=25640</ref>
* [[Chris Butler]] - Lead Singer of Melbourne punk band [[Meet Me at Montauk]] <ref>http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=25640</ref>

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This article is about the school in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. For other institutions of the same name, see Xavier (disambiguation).
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This is a List of Old Xaverians, they being notable former students—known as "Old Xaverians" (Old Xavs) being members of the "Old Xaverians' Association" ("OXA") of the Roman Catholic school, Xavier College in Kew, Victoria, Australia. Most entries have been sourced to the official announcement of the Old Xaverians' Association "Roll of Men of Achievement" announced at the 71st Annual Old Xaverians' Dinner held at Xavier College on 21 March 1997.

Arts, Academia, Entertainment and Media

Music

Business

  • Sir Lewis Burne – (XC 1907–13) President of the Master Builders' Association of Victoria; President of the Victorian Employer's Federation (1948–50, 1953–61); President Australian Council of Employers' Federations 1957–58; Delegate to the International Labour Organisation
  • Edward J Connellan – (XC 1927–29) Aviator; founder of Connellan Airways Limited; pioneer air surveyor of Northern Australia
  • Sir Bernard Freeman – (XC 1911) Chairman and Managing Director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Austt Pty Ltd, Australia and New Zealand (41 years); Member of the Sydney Opera House Trust; Life Governor of the Royal Institute for the Deaf and the Blind
  • James P. Gorman – (XC 1970–76) banker, CEO-designate of Morgan Stanley[3]
  • H. Mitchell McKenzie AO – (XC 1923–30) Chairman Younghusband Limited 1963–71; Chairman Australian Agricultural Company Limited 1973–85; member Monash University Council 1969–85
  • Flight Lt Damien Miller DFC – (XC 1925–34) Aviator; director of Connellan Airways Limited; pioneer air surveyor of Northern Australia
  • Hugh Niall – (XC 1944–54) Molecular biologist; Chief Executive Officer, Biota Holdings Limited
  • Group Captain John P Ryland DFC – (XC 1926–30) Founding director of TAA Trans Australia Airways Limited, later Australian Airways, later Qantas Airways Limited
  • William J Stutt – (XC 1925–33) Head of the Thoroughbred Racehorse Authority; Chairman of Moonee Valley Race Club
  • Frank Sweeney AM – (XC 1928–32) Public company director; Lay member of the Solicitors' Board; President of the Australian Jesuit Mission Overseas Aid Fund; President of the OXA
  • Lloyd J. Williams – Property developer; entrepreneur (owner of the Crown Casino)

Clergy

  • The Most Reverend Denis Hart, Archbishop of Melbourne
  • Father William Connors MSC – (XC 1918) Crossed the Owen Stanley Ranges in New Guinea in the late 1920s over what became known as the Kokoda Track in World War II
  • Rev Father Gerald Daly SJ – (XC 1945) Rector of Newman College (University of Melbourne) 1968–77
  • Rev Father Philip Gleeson SJ – (XC 1920–29) First Old Xaverian Rector of Xavier College; noted Jesuit Scholar
  • Bishop Phillip Kennedy – (XC 1939–47) Auxiliary Bishop of Adelaide
  • Rev Father Patrick Stephenson SJ OBE – Patron of the OXA and teacher and mentor at Xavier College for 50 years
  • Father William James Uren SJ – (XC 1949–53) First Old Xaverian Provincial of the Society of Jesus ([1])

Law

Medicine and the Sciences

  • John Billings AM, MD, FRACP, FRCP, St Michael NFP Svcs, KCSG – (XC 1931–35) Neurologist and world acknowledged expert in reproductive fertility.
  • Henry Burger – (XC 1943–50) Professor and Director, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research
  • John Kevin Clarebrough AM OBE MBBS FRACS FRCS – (XC 1932–41) President RACS 1981; Director St Vincent's Private Hospital; Director National Heart Foundation; President Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand; Pioneer of Open Heart Surgery and use to the Heart Valve Replacement
  • Leo Clarebrough FAA, BMetE, MEng, PhD, DSc] – (XC 1933–41) Chief Research Scientist CSIRO 1970–88; Council of Australian Academy of Science
  • *Dr Timothy J Cotter MBE MBBS – (XC 1915–18) Surgical pioneer in using sulphur drugs to treat typhoid. Cotter also was a Pathologist under Dr JHL Cumpston for the Commonwealth Department of Health in Townsville, investigating tropical diseases and fevers. Superintendent of Innisfail Hospital
  • John Funder – (XC 1953–57) Professor and Director of the Baker Medical Institute
  • Carl de Gruchy – (XC 1937–38) Professor, world renowned haematologist, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
  • Augustus Leo Kenny CBE KGCSG – (XC 1878–81) Pioneering Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon
  • John Martin AO MBBS FRACP MD Hon MD – (XC 1950–54) Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne; Director Institute of Medical Research, St Vincent's Hospital
  • Sir Ian Douglas Miller – (XC 1916–18) Pioneering Australian Neurosurgeon, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney. Founder of the Garvan Instiute of Medical Research
  • Sir Peter Morris MBBS PhD MA MD FRACS FRCS MRCP Eng – (XC 1947–51) Nutfield Professor of Surgery Radcliffe Hospital Oxford University; Professorial Fellow Balliol College
  • Wayne Morrison – (XC 1951–61) Professor of Surgery, University of Melbourne, St Vincent's Hospital
  • Jeremy Mould – (XC 1963–67) Professor of Astronomy, Australian National University; Director Mount Stromlo Observatory, Siding Spring Anglo-Australian Telescope
  • Bernard O'Brien – (XC 1928–42) Microsurgeon, St Vincent's Hospital
  • Hugh Ryan MBBS FRACS FRACO FRACP KCSG – (XC 1928–30) Ophthalmologist
  • Eric Rowland Seal MA MBBS – (XC 1923–35) First director of Clinical Psychiatry St Vincent's Hospital
  • John Grantley Shelton MBE FRCOG FAGO FRACOG – (XC 1931–35) RAAF Medical officer in World War II; OB/GYN who initiated the Air-Sea Rescue Services

Military and Defence

  • Lt Col Geoffrey Brennan OBE DSO – (XC 1920–27) CO, Royal Military College, Duntroon; Served in the British Army, landed in France on D-Day, Mentioned in Despatches, served in India, the North West Territories, the Middle East and Korea
  • Brig John Augustus Clarebrough ED DDSc LDS – (XC 1911–13) Served in World War I and World War II; Mentioned in Despatches in World War I 37th Battalion; Wounded in Action; World War II Commander 2 Armoured Brigade; President of the OXA
  • Lt Gen Sir Thomas Daly KBE OBE CB DSO – (XC 1929) Chief of the General Staff, war service mentioned in despatches; Chairman of the Council of the Australian War Memorial 1974–82
  • Lt Col Oliver Francis Dixon DSC DSO – (XC 1897–99) World War I Mentioned in despatches, wounded at the Somme, OC 10th Battery 4th Brigade Royal Australian Field Artillery. World War II served in the Royal Australian Engineers in charge of construction of the first road to link Darwin with Alice Springs
  • Maj Gen Peter Falkland AO – (XC 1934–42) Chief of the Australian Defence Force
  • Brig Thomas Fogarty – (XC 1917–27) War service in World War II in Darwin and under Field Marshal Montgomery at El Alamein. In Italy at the landing at Salerno. Appointed to the staff of Field Marshall Thomas Blamey in New Guinea and Borneo
  • Flt Lt Brian Higgins DFC – (XC 1927–30) Penned the RAAF Catalina Squadron song, "The Cat Boats Are Flying Tonight"; killed in action in New Guinea
  • Air Commodore Leon Lachal – (XC 1919–22) Senior Commander World War II Australian Defence Force
  • Peter Lalor – (XC 1893–99) British Foreign Legion, AIF, killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915
  • Maj Gen Charles Long CBE – (XC 1929–30) – Chief of Staff, Australian Defence Force
  • Lt Raymond John Paul Parer – (XC 1895) Aviator, England-Australia 1920 DeHaviland DH9 G-EAQM
  • Ben Quinn MBBS – (XC 1906–14) World War II war hero. Medical Officer Nauru. Offered repatriation to Australia when the Japanese occupation of Nauru was imminent. He refused and sent his wife and family home to Australia so that he may stay and tend to the needs of the local native population. After a US air raid of Nauru on the Japanese, the Japanese Army summarily beheaded him as a retaliation for the air raid as a lesson to the local population. [citation needed]
  • Brig George Taylor CBE – (XC 1917–21) World War II service in the British Army

Politics and Public Service

  • Richard Alston – (XC 1947–59) Victorian Senator (Lib) (1986–2004); Communications Minister (1996–2003)
  • Thomas J Byrne – (XC teacher 1880s) served as solicitor-general, attorney-general and premier of Queensland during the 1890s
  • Sir Bede Clifford – (XC 1902–07) Surveyor and Officer Royal Engineers and Royal Fusiliers in World War I; Governor of the Bahamas 1931; Governor of Mauritius 1937; Governor of Trinidad 1942
  • Harold E Cohen – (XC 1895–98) Solicitor-General for Victoria; Brigadier in World War I and was twice mentioned in despatches. Founding partner of Pavey Wilson & Cohen which became Corrs Chambers Westgarth, lawyers. Chairman of Carlton & United Breweries Limited; Swan Breweries Limited and Electrozinc Australia Limited
  • Sir Raymond Connelly – (XC 1903–13) Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1945–47
  • William Cox – (XC 1948–53) Governor of Tasmania
  • Tim Fischer – (XC 1958–63) MHR (Nat) (1984–2001); leader of the National Party (1990–1999) and deputy Prime Minister (1996–1999)
  • Sir James Gobbo – (XC 1944–48) Governor of Victoria (1997–2000
  • Rob Hulls – (XC 1968–74) Deputy Premier and Attorney General for the State of Victoria
  • Leo St Clare Gondrona – (XC 1910–14) Economist and advisor to the British Government on Agricultural Development and Trade. Author of several books concerning this area. In 1925 invited to address a Committee of the House of Commons on Rural Settlement. Director of the Australian Section at the Empire Exhibition, Wembley 1924–25.
  • Sir Phillip Lynch – (XC 1950–51) Treasurer of Australia; Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia; Acting Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
  • Julian McGauran – Former National Senate Whip and now Liberal Senator for Victoria
  • Peter McGauran – MHR (Nat); Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
  • Pat McNamara – (XC 1957–68) Victorian MLA (Nat); former leader of the Victorian Nationals
  • John Roskam - (XC 1984) Executive Director, Institute of Public Affairs
  • Thomas Ryan KC – (XC 1890) Premier of Queensland
  • Bill Shorten – National Secretary of the Australian Workers Union; ALP federal member for Maribyrnong
  • Raymond Triado – (XC 1922–28) Associate to Justice McTiernan of the High Court of Australia; selection officer, Australian Department of Immigration; Attache, Australian Olympic Team, Rome 1960
  • Hugh Wirth AM – (XC 1949–57) National President of the RSPCA; Executive Director World Society for the Protection of Animals

Rhodes Scholars

  • John Glover – (XC 1964–71) Rhodes Scholar, law
  • Edmund Britten Jones – (XC 1898) Rhodes Scholar, law
  • Norman O'Bryan AM S.C. – (XC 1967–74) Rhodes Scholar, law
  • Barry O'Dwyer – (XC 1950–53) Rhodes Scholar, medicine

Sport

AFL

Xavier College has produced over 100 AFL/VFL players in the 112-year history of the competition, including:

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.myspace.com/mattwaltersmusic
  2. ^ http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=25640
  3. ^ The Age (2009). Melbourne-raised Gorman new chief of Morgan Stanley. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
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