List of Old Melburnians

This is a list of Old Melburnians, who are notable former students of Melbourne Grammar School in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Alumni of Melbourne Grammar are known as Old Melburnians (abbreviated to OM, followed by the year of graduation), and automatically become members of the school's alumni association, the Old Melburnians' Society.^[1]

Notable alumni include one Governor-General, three Prime Ministers, four State Premiers, three Lord Mayors, three Australians of the Year, two Victoria Cross recipients, ten Supreme Court Justices, fourteen AFL premiership players, forty-two Olympians, four Australian Open champions, and many prominent scientists and entertainers.

Military and security

William Anderson - RAAF officer
Alfred Brookes – first Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service^{[citation needed]}
Sir Wilfred Deakin Brookes - businessman and RAAF officer
Sir Samuel Burston – doctor, soldier, horseracing identity
Adrian Cole - Air Chief Vice Marshall RAAF
Sir Ernest Gaunt – Royal Navy Admiral
Sir Guy Gaunt – Royal Navy Admiral and British Conservative Member of Parliament
Harold Grimwade – soldier and businessman
Jo Gullett - soldier, journalist and politician
Sir Vernon Sturdee, Lieutenant-General and Chief of the General Staff
Sir Edmund Herring – soldier and judge
Richard Minifie - fighter pilot and flying ace
Cedric Howell – First World War fighter pilot and flying ace
Ronald Hopkins - WWII General
Frederic Hughes – WWI General
Tony Hyams - politician and banker
Ian Kennison - 5th Director-General of ASIS
Sir Ian McIntosh - Royal Navy officer
Leslie Morshead – soldier (MGS Staff member)
Sir Frank Kingsley Norris - military officer and soldier
Cyril Seelenmeyer — VFL footballer, veterinary surgeon, winner of Military Cross
Edward Smart - diplomat and general
Philip Rhoden - Army officer and lawyer
Sir Charles Ryan - military surgeon
Sir Roger Wheeler - former Chief of the General Staff
Sir Edward Woodward - judge, Royal Commissioner and former head of ASIO

Clergy

Horace Crotty - Anglican Bishop of Bathurst
Peter John Elliott - Auxilliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne
Awdry Julius - Dean of Christchurch
Geraldine MacKenzie - missionary
Gerard Tucker - priest and advocate for the poor
Allen Winter - theological scholar and Bishop

Law and government

Arthur Abbott - Attorney-General of Western Australia
Sir Keith Aickin – former Justice of the High Court of Australia
Austin Asche – 3rd Chief Justice of the Northern Territory
John Batt - former justice of the Supreme Court
Maurice Blackburn – politician, lawyer and founder of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
Julian Burnside – barrister and human rights advocate
Sam Calder – politician and flying ace
Frank Callaway – former judge of the Supreme Court^{citation needed]}
Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp - transport administrator responsible for an overhaul of Victoria's train network
Les Craig - politician in Western Australia
Sir John George Davies - mayor of Hobart and cricketer
Noël St. Clair Deschamps - public servant and diplomat
David Evans - politician
Theodore Fink - solicitor and politician
Jo Gullett - soldier, journalist and politician
Sir Rutherford Guthrie - politician and grazier
David Harper - former judge of the Supreme Court
Sir Edmund Herring – chief justice of the Supreme Court and soldier
Sir Edwin Hicks ("Ted") - diplomat and secretary of defence
Vasey Houghton – politician
Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes – Rhodes Scholar, politician, Olympic hurdler, and organiser of the 1956 Olympics
Geoffry Hurry - politician and lawyer
Alexander Leeper - diplomat
Sir Reginald Leeper - diplomat and founder of the British Council
Sir Harold Luxton - businessman and Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Sir Thomas Chester Manifold - politician and horse breeder
Sir Walter Manifold - president of the Legislative Council
Chris Maxwell – Rhodes Scholar, President of the Victorian Court of Appeal
Kenneth Marks – former Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Royal Commissioner
John McMillan - diplomat
William Moule – politician and cricketer
Sir Keith Officer - diplomat
William Ormiston – former Judge of the Supreme Court
Sir Reginald Sholl - Rhodes scholar, former judge Victorian Supreme Court
Sir Harold Gengoult Smith - Lord Mayor of Melbourne and doctor
Tony Street - former Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ted Tanner - Opposition whip (Victorian Legislative Assembly)
Agar Wynne - politician and Attorney-General of Victoria

Academia

Sir Robert Blackwood - businessman and first Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
Mervyn Austin – Rhodes Scholar, former Headmaster of Newington College and professor in classics
Edward Bage - polar explorer
Sir James William Barrett - opthalmologist and academic
John F. O. Bilson – Professor of Finance
Manning Clark – historian and former Australian of the Year
Frank Cumbrae-Stewart - barrister and Garrick Professor of Law
Pierre Gorman - expert on deaf communication
Sir John Grice - businessman and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Melbourne
Sir Russell Grimwade - chemist, botanist, and philanthropist
Sir Keith Hancock – Rhodes Scholar, historian
Sir Edward Hughes - eminent surgeon and former president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Sir George Julius - inventor of the first tote-board and first chairman of CSIRO
Charles Kellaway – medical researcher and second director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Richard Larkins - physician and vice-chancellor of Monash University
Miles Lewis - expert on urban conservation
Sir Irvine Masson - chemist and vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield
Ainslie Meares - psychiatrist, expert in the medical use of hypnotism
Sir Edward Fancourt Mitchell - barrister and expert in constitutional law
Norval Morris - legal academic and criminologist
Alfred John North - ornithologist
Andrew Prentice - mathematician and expert on the formation of the solar system
John Rymill - Polar explorer
A.G.L. Shaw - historian and academia
Godfrey Tanner - academic
Gerard Tucker - priest and advocate for the poor

Industry

Ross Adler - business executive and philanthropist
Sir Harry Brookes Allen – pathologist
Clive Baillieu - businessman, public servant, and rower
Julian Burnside - barrister and human rights advocate
Robert Champion de Crespigny - multi-millionaire founder of Normandy Mining Limited and former Australian Businessman of the Year
Martin Chapman - New Zealand barrister, founder of Chapman Tripp
Sir Peter Durham - business executive and philanthropist
Carrillo Gantner - founder of the Playbox Theater and patron of the arts
Michael Georgeff - computer scientist
Aubrey Gibson– businessman and philanthropist
Sir John Grice - businessman and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Melbourne
Simon Mckeon - champion yachtsman, businessman, lawyer, philanthropist, and Australian of the Year
Lancelot de Mole – Engineer and inventor of the first tank
Andrew Michelmore - Rhodes Scholar, mining executive, and first Australian gold medal for rowing
Ant Morell - founder of Bounce Inc.
Bruce Parncutt - chairman of Lion Capital
Brian Roet - hypnotist and AFL premiership winner
James Shipton - chairman of ASIC

Media, entertainment, and the arts

Oscar Asche – actor, director and writer
John Brack – artist
John Bryson - author
Manning Clarke - historian and former Australian of the Year
Robin Casinader - musician
Erle Cox - journalist and science fiction writer
Caroline Craig - actress
Andrew Daddo – actor, voice artist, author and television personality
Jonathan Dawson – screenwriter, director, academic and columnist
Keith Dunstan - journalist and author
Peggy Frew - ARIA winning novelist
Ian Gawler - author
William Hay - historical author
Sir Randal Heymanson - journalist
Leslie Howard - decorated pianist
Barry Humphries – Tony award-winning actor and comedian^[4]
Barrie Kosky – opera and theatre director
Nam Le – writer
Derwent Lees - landscape painter
Sir William McKie – former Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey
Ken Myer - founding chairman of the ABC and patron for the arts
Rupert Myer - Chairman of the Australia Council for the Arts
Hugo Race - Musician^{[citation needed]}
Max Rieble - Aria winning classical singer
Dan Robinson – singer
Nick Russell — television actor, producer and director
Michael Schildberger - journalist, host of A Current Affair
Rob Sitch – film director, producer and screenwriter
Geoffrey Simon - orchestra conductor
Frank Thring – actor in Ben-Hur and King of Kings
Mick Turner - musician (Dirty Three) and artist
Li-Wei Qin - International concert cellist
Chester Wilmot - war correspondent

Sport

AFL

James Aitken
Jack Atkins
Dick Atkinson
Simon Beaumont
Arthur Best
Lewis Blackmore
Rohan Browne
Murray Clapham
Dylan Clarke
Ryan Clarke
Jack Cockbill
John Conway - captain of Carlton (also cricketer)
Peter Cooper
David Cordner
Don Cordner^[5] – Brownlow Medallist, 2-ime premiership winner, captain of Melbourne Football Club, and doctor
Harry Cordner
Simon Crawshay
David Cuningham
Percy Damman
Johnny Dando
Simon Deacon
Bill Denehy
Nathan Drummond
Frank Dossetor
Harcourt Dowsley (also cricketer)
Xavier Ellis - 3-time premiership player 2008, 2012, 2015 (Hawthorn, West Coast)
Shaun Edwards
Ken Forge
Simon Fraser - (also Olympic rower)
Corrie Gardner - first premiership winner for Melbourne (also Olympic hurdler)
Eric Gardner
Mark Gardner
Ed Garlick
David Gaunson
Dave Gibson
Audley Gillespie-Jones
Hugh Goddard
John Goold - 2-time premiership winner (Carlton)
Steven Greene
Stuart Griffiths
Housie Grounds
Herbert Guthrie - (also cricketer)
Jack Hawkins
Tom Hawkins - 2-time premiership winner and 7-time leading goalkicker (Geelong)
Wilfrid Heron
Maurie Herring - premiership winner (Melbourne)
Herb Hunter - champion athlete, dentist and AFL player
Alex Keath - (also cricketer)
Graham Kerr
John Kerr
Bruce Lang
Ed Langdon
Mark Langdon
Tom Langdon
Chris Langford – four-time premiership winner, Hawthorn Football Club captain and AFL commissioner
Ron Larking
Ben Long
Steven May - Gold Coast captain
Ken McKaige
Peter McLean - two-time premiership winner (Melbourne, Carlton)
Ian McMullin
Zach Merrett - Essendon vice-captain
Luke Mitchell
Derek Mollison — (also a military officer)
George O'Mullane - (also cricketer)
Jeremy Nichols
Jackson Paine
Leslie Rainey - (also tennis and cricket)
Fletcher Roberts - premiership winner (2016)
Brian Roet - premiership winner (Melbourne)
Ken Rollason
Ron Rutherford
Cyril Seelenmeyer
Jack Shelley
Joe Shelley
Peter V. Smith
Charlie Spargo
Jim Sprigg
Cyril Steele
Ian Synman - premiership player, prominent Jewish player
Bonnie Toogood - AFLW premiership winner (2018)
Matt Thomas
Andrew Thompson - premiership player (St. Kilda)
John Tilbrook
Athol Tymms – (also doctor)
Ed Vickers-Willis
Francis Vine - premiership winner and captain of the Melbourne Football Club
Fred Warry
Russ Watson - (also cricket and athletics)
Andrew Witts
Mal Williams - (also soldier)
Barney Wood - (also cricket and motorsport)
Mike Woods

Athletics

Joel Baden - Olympic high jumper
Sam Baines - youth record holder for 110m hurdles
Dennis Duigan - Olympic decathlete
Edwin Flack (Teddy) – two-time Olympic gold medallist (Australia's first Olympian and first gold medal)
Henry Frayne - Olympic triple jumper
Corrie Gardner - national Australian hurdle champion and Olympic hurdler (also AFL)
Peter Gardner - Olympic hurdler
Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes – Rhodes Scholar, politician, Olympic hurdler, and organiser of the 1956 Olympics
Herb Hunter - champion athlete, dentist and AFL player
Charles Lane - Olympic sprinter
Jack Newman - Olympic middle-distance runner
Fred Woodhouse - Olympic pole vaulter

Basketball

Dane Pineau - centre for the Sydney Kings

Cricket

Ted à Beckett - Cricket all-rounder
John Conway - (also AFL)
Sir John George Davies - cricketer and mayor of Hobart
Harcourt Dowsley (also AFL)
Herbert Guthrie - (also AFL)
Alex Keath - (also AFL)
William Moule – politician and cricketer
George O'Mullane - wicketkeeper (also AFL)
Ernest Osborne - bowler

Field Hockey

Lachlan Dreher - 3-time Olympic medallist
Danni Roche - Olympic gold medallist

Golf

Ivo Whitton - 5-time Australian Open winner

Rowing

Clive Baillieu - businessman, public servant, and rower
David Colvin - ten-time King's Cup champion and Olympic coxswain
David Crawshay – 2008 Olympic gold medallist (Men's Double Sculls)
Ben Dodwell - triple Olympic rower, medallist and nine-time national champion
Karsten Forsterling - Rower, Olympic silver medallist
Simon Fraser - Olympic rower, first Australian Henley winner, and AFL player
Lewis Luxton - Olympic rower
Timothy Masters - Australian national rower
Andrew Michelmore - Rhodes Scholar, mining executive, and first Australian gold medal for rowing
Jessica Morrison - Olympic rower
David Webster - dual world champion coxswain
Tim Webster - coxswain

Rugby

Alec Boswell Timms - national player for Scotland and the British Isles

Sailing

Tom King – Sailor, Olympic Gold Medallist (2000)
Simon Mckeon - champion yachtsman, businessman, lawyer, philanthropist, and Australian of the Year

Snowsports

Cam Bolton - Olympic snowboarder
Anton Grimus - Olympic freestyle skier
Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes - first Australian overseas skier

Soccer

Stefan Nigro – A-League player

Tennis

Sir Norman Brookes^[6] – Wimbledon and Davis Cup champion, businessman, and eponym of Australian Open trophy
Colin Long - 4-time Australian Open champion (mixed doubles)
Arthur O'Hara Wood - Australian Open champion
Pat O'Hara Wood - 2 Grand Slams (singles) 6 Grand Slams (doubles)

References

^ "The Old Melburnians". www.onlymelbourne.com.au. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
^ "Richard Gardiner Casey 1890-1976 | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
^ ^a ^b https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/john--teds-school-days-20101120-181zk.html
^ "PC_TheRealBH". www.the-rathouse.com. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
^ "Dr Donald Pruen Cordner | Melbourne Grammar School". mgs.vic.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
^ Frederick, W. H., "Brookes, Sir Norman Everard (1877–1968)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2019-02-18

External links

Meet Our Alumni at Melbourne Grammar School

[1] "The Old Melburnians". www.onlymelbourne.com.au. Retrieved 2019-02-03.

[2] "Richard Gardiner Casey 1890-1976 | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 2019-02-18.

[john_and_ted-3] ttps://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/john--teds-school-days-20101120-181zk.html

[4] "PC_TheRealBH". www.the-rathouse.com. Retrieved 2019-02-20.

[5] "Dr Donald Pruen Cordner | Melbourne Grammar School". mgs.vic.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-02-18.

[6] Frederick, W. H., "Brookes, Sir Norman Everard (1877–1968)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2019-02-18

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