List of Old Xaverians
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This is a List of Old Xaverians, they being notable former students—known as "Old Xaverians" (Old Xavs)—and 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.
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John Caleo
Arts, academia, entertainment and media
- Philip Brady – TV and radio personality
- Michael Chamberlin – stand up comedian; TV personality
- Santo Cilauro – comedian; cast member of The Panel
- Charlie Clausen – actor and comedian
- Timothy Conigrave – author of Holding the Man
- Greg Dening – emeritus professor of history, University of Melbourne; author of the official history of Xavier College and the OXA
- Paul Fitzgerald AM – world-renowned artist. Founding president of the Realist Artists Guild of Australia. Artist of official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
- Ben Gannon AO - film, theatre, and TV producer
- Simon Gleeson – theatre actor based in London
- Tom Gleisner – comedian; The Panel cast member
- Michael Gracey - director of The Greatest Showman
- Gerard Henderson – syndicated newspaper columnist and former adviser to prime minister John Howard
- Gypsy and the Cat – two-piece band: Xavier Bacash and Lionel Towers
- Peter Landy – Seven Network sports commentator
- Lawrence Leung – comedian, star of Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure
- Dan Lonergan – ABC radio sports commentator
- Sam McClure - AFL journalist
- James Massola – south-east Asia correspondent, previously chief political correspondent, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
- Matthew Newton – actor (Underbelly, Thank God You're Here); Logie nominee
- Jack O'Hagan OBE – musician and poet
- Brian O'Shaughnessy (philosopher) – philosopher based in London
- Peter O'Shaughnessy OAM – actor, author, folklorist based in the UK
- Boyd Oxlade – author of Death in Brunswick.
- Grant Smillie – one half of TV Rock
- Matt Walters – Australian musician
- Mike Walsh AM, OBE – TV personality, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
- Sam McClure - Sports journalist
Business
- Sir Lewis Burne CBE – President of the Australian Council of Employers' Federations (1957-58).[1]
- Edward Connellan AO, CBE – Founder of Connair.[2]
- Sir Nathaniel Freeman CBE (XC 1912) – Philanthropist, film distributor and Managing Director of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Australia.[3]
- James P. Gorman AO (XC 1970–76) – banker, CEO of Morgan Stanley[4]
- James Lavan CMG, ED – Head of Trading at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia[5]
- Mark Mentha (XC 1977) – co-founder of KordaMentha
- Jiro Muramats (XC 1895–97) – pearler and storekeeper from Cossack, Western Australia
- Lloyd J. Williams – property developer and entrepreneur
- Adam D’Sylva (XC 1995)- Head Chef and owner of TONKA and CODA
- George Taylor CBE – Chairman of Bank of London & South America Ltd (1970-1971) which later merged with Lloyds Bank Europe Ltd.[6]
Clergy
- Denis Hart – Archbishop of Melbourne (2001-2018)
- Romuald Denis Hayes SSC – Bishop of Rockhampton (1932-1945)[7]
Law
High Court of Australia
- Simon Steward QC, Judge of the High Court of Australia (since 2020)[8]
Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea
- Sir Colman Michael O'Loghlen Bt – acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea, inaugural judge of the National Court of Papua New Guinea.[9]
Australian State Supreme Courts
- Sir Kevin Victor Anderson QC – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1969-1984)
- David Byrne QC – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1991-2010), Deputy Chief Justice (2001-2010).[10]
- William Cox AC, QC (XC 1948–53) – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania
- Philip Cummins AM, QC – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1988-2009), Chairperson of the Victorian Law Reform Commission (2012-2019).[11] [12]
- Sir Charles Duffy CMG – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1933-1961)[13][14]
- Jack Forrest – Judge of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Victoria (2007-2018)
- Terry Forrest QC – Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria (since 2018) [15]
- Sir James Gobbo AC, CVO, QC (XC 1944–48) – Governor of Victoria and Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Sir John Lavan – Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (1969-1981)
- Kevin Lyons QC – Judge of Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Victoria (since 2018)
- Sir Murray McInerney QC – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1965-1983)[16][17]
- Richard Naill QC – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (since 2017)[18] and Solicitor-General of Victoria (2015-2017)
- Norman O'Bryan QC – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1977-1992)[19]
- Peter Riordan QC – Judge of Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Victoria (since 2015)[20]
- Simon Whelan QC (XC 1967–1971) – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (2004-2020)
Senior courts
- Hubert Frederico QC – Judge of the Family Court of Australia (1976-2003).[21]
- Anthony Howard AM, QC – Judge of the County Court of Victoria (2006-2016).[22]
- Xavier Connor AO, QC (1926–34) – Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory; the Federal Court of Australia; Chairman of the Victorian Bar
- John Walters QC – Judge of the Family Court of Australia [23]
Medicine and the sciences
- John Billings AM, KC*SG (XC 1931–35) – neurologist and expert in reproductive fertility
- Sir Edmund Britten Jones – Rhodes Scholar and leading physician in Adelaide.
- Daniel Mahoney – President of the Royal Society of Victoria (1939-1940), Director of the National Museum of Victoria.[24]
- Professor Sir Peter Morris AC (XC 1947–52) – Nuffield Professor of Surgery at the University of Oxford; President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2001–2004)[25]
Military and defence
- Colonel Geoffrey Brennan CBE, DSO (XC 1920–27) – commanding officer of the Royal Military College, Duntroon; served in the British Army as a lieutenant colonel, landed in France on D-Day, mentioned in despatches, served in India, the North West Territories, the Middle East and Korea, Awarded the Croix de Guerre.[26]
- Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly KBE, CB, DSO – Chief of the General Staff (1966–1971)
- Michael Parker CVO, AM – former private secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh (1947-1957)
Politics and public service
Vice-Regal
- William Cox AC, RFD, ED, QC (XC 1948–53) – Governor of Tasmania (2004–2008)
- Sir James Gobbo AC, CVO, QC (XC 1944–48) – Governor of Victoria (1997–2000) and receiver of the Xaverian Award in 2012.[27]
Federal Parliament
- Richard Alston AO (XC 1947–59) – Federal Minister for Communications (1996-2003), Victorian Senator (1986–2004); Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2005-2008), Federal President of Liberal Party (2014-2017)
- Tim Fischer AC (XC 1958–63) – Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (1996–1999), Leader of the National Party (1990–1999), Federal MP for Farrer (1984–2001); Australian Ambassador to the Holy See (2008-2012)
- Rob Hulls (XC 1968–74) – Federal MP for Kennedy (1990-1993)
- Edward Jolley – Federal MP for Grampians (1914-1915)
- Pat Kennelly AO – Victorian Senator (1953-1971)
- Sir Phillip Lynch KCMG (XC 1950–51) – Treasurer of Australia (1975-1977); Deputy Liberal Party Leader (1972-1982); Privy Councillor; Federal MP for Flinders (1966-1982)
- Julian McGauran – National Party Senate Whip, National Senator for Victoria (1987-1990; 1993-2006), Liberal Senator for Victoria (2006-2011)
- Peter McGauran – Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Federal MP for Gippsland (1983-2008)
- Arthur Rodgers (XC 1890) – Federal Minister for Trade and Customs (1921-1923), Federal MP for Wannon (1913-1922)
- Thomas Ryan KC (XC 1890) – Federal MP for West Sydney (1919–1921)
- Bill Shorten – Federal Leader of the Opposition and Australian Labor Party Leader (2013-2019), Federal MP for Maribyrnong (since 2007)[28]
- Dan Tehan – Federal Minister for Education (since 2018), Federal MP for Wannon (since 2010)
- Tom Tehan – Senator for Victoria (1975-1978)
State Parliaments
- Harold Cohen CMG, CBE, DSO, VD (Xavier Captain 1898) – Solicitor-General of Victoria (1935), State MP for Caulfield (1935-1943), MLC for Melbourne South (1929-1935)
- Robin Cooper – Victorian State MP for Mornington (1985-2006), Minister for Transport, Ports and Roads (1997-1999)
- Luke Donnellan – Victorian State MP for Narre Warren North (since 2002), Minister for Ports and Minister for Roads and Road Safety (since 2014)
- Julian Doyle – Victorian State MP for Gisborne (1967 to 1971)
- Tim Fischer AC (XC 1958–63) – NSW State MP for Sturt (1971-1980) and Murray (1980-1984)
- Michael Gidley – Victorian State MP for Mount Waverley (2010–2018)
- Rob Hulls (XC 1968–74) – Deputy Premier of Victoria (2007-2010), Attorney-General of Victoria (1999-2010), Victorian State MP for Niddrie (1996-2012)
- Pat Kennelly AO – Minister in Cain's first and second ministries; Victorian MLC for Melbourne West (1932-1952)
- Brendan Lyons – Tasmanian State MP for Bass (1982-1986), Minister for Housing (1984-1986).[29]
- Kevin Lyons QC – Deputy Premier of Tasmania (1969–1972), Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1956-1959)
- Pat McNamara (XC 1957–68) – Deputy Premier of Victoria (1992–1999), Victorian State MP for Benella (1982–2000)
- David O'Brien (XC 1985–88) – Victorian MLC for Western Victoria (2010-2014)
- Thomas Ryan KC (XC 1890) – Premier of Queensland (1915–1919)
Public Service
- Philip Alston – United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2004–2010). UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (since 2014).[30]
- George Brouwer – Victorian Ombudsman
- Sir Reginald Robert Barnewall Bt – aristocrat
- Sir Francis Connolly – Lord Mayor of Melbourne (1945-1948)[31]
- Gerard Henderson – Chief of Staff to John Howard (1984-1986)
- Sir Colman Michael O'Loghlen Bt – aristocrat
- Franz Schneider – Private Secretary to Prime Minister Joseph Lyons (1938-1939), Secretary to The Australian Public Service Board.[32]
- George Taylor CBE – Chief of Staff to Sir Frank Nelson KCMG, head of the Special Operations Executive.[33]
Sport
- Peter Antonie – Olympic gold medallist in rowing
- Robert de Castella – former marathon runner; Commonwealth Games gold medallist
- Paul Dumbrell – current V8 supercar driver and one-time Bathurst 1000 winner
- Will Davison – current V8 supercar driver and two-time Bathurst 1000 winner
- Zak Evans – cricketer; Australia U19s, Melbourne Renegades, Victorian Men’s
- Leslie "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith – test cricketer
- Dick Garrard – Olympic rower (1964)
- Nick Green – member of the Oarsome Foursome; Olympic gold medallist in rowing
- Alan Jones – 1980 Formula One world champion
- Mike McKay – member of the Oarsome Foursome; Olympic gold medalist in rowing
- David McNeill – Australian representative to the 2012 Olympics in athletics[34]
- Jonathan Merlo – cricketer; Australia U19s, Cricket Australia XI, Melbourne Stars
- Leo O'Brien – Australian Test cricketer; 1932-1936
- Pat O'Dea – US college football Hall of Fame inductee 1962
- Tom O'Donnell – cricketer
- Ken Roche – Commonwealth Games 400m hurdles gold medalist
- Percy Rodriguez - Australian rules footballer, killed in action during the Battle of the Somme.
- Karl Schneider – former Victorian first class cricketer
- Paul Trimboli – former Socceroos player
21st century players
- Andrew Leoncelli XC1992 – Melbourne Demons
- David Bourke XC1993 – Richmond Tigers, North Melbourne Kangaroos
- Andrew Schauble XC1994 – Collingwood Magpies, Sydney Swans
- Tim Fleming XC1996 – Richmond Tigers
- John Baird XC1998 – North Melbourne Kangaroos
- Matthew Ball XC1999 – Hawthorn Hawks
- Caydn Beetham XC1999 – St Kilda Saints
- Ted Richards XC2000 – Essendon Bombers, Sydney Swans
- James Davies XC2000 – Essendon Bombers
- Luke Ball XC2002 – St Kilda Saints, Collingwood Magpies
- Jobe Watson XC2002 – Essendon Bombers
- Cameron Hunter XC2002 – Melbourne Demons
- Marcus Allan XC2004 – Brisbane Lions
- Matthew Spangher XC2005 – West Coast Eagles, Sydney Swans, Hawthorn Hawks
- Josh Kennedy XC2006 – Hawthorn Hawks, Sydney Swans
- Robbie Tarrant XC2006 – North Melbourne
- Casey Sibosado XC2008 – Fremantle Dockers
- Dan Hannebery XC2009 – Sydney Swans
- Alex Johnson XC2009 – Sydney Swans
- Sam Shaw XC2009 – Adelaide Crows
- Patrick Ambrose XC2009 – Essendon Bombers[35]
- Alex Browne XC2010 – Essendon Bombers
- Tim Golds XC2011 – GWS Giants, Collingwood Magpies
- Xavier Richards XC2011 – Sydney Swans
- Daniel Robinson XC2012 – Sydney Swans
- Daniel Howe XC2013 – Hawthorn Hawks
- Marc Pittonet XC2014 – Hawthorn Hawks
- Jack Silvagni XC2015 – Carlton Blues
- Sean Darcy XC2016 – Fremantle Dockers
- Willie Rioli XC2011 – West Coast Eagles
- Billy Gowers XC2014 – Western Bulldogs
- Bailey Smith XC2018 – Western Bulldogs
- Changkuoth Jiath XC2017 – Hawthorn Hawks
- Laitham Vandermeer XC2017 – Western Bulldogs
As of the 2013 AFL season, Ted Richards, Josh Kennedy, Dan Hannebery, Alex Johnson, Daniel Robinson, and Xavier Richards are all listed on the Sydney Swans playing list, holding the record for the most Old Xavierians at one AFL club.
The 2012 AFL season was a successful year for Old Xaverians as Ted Richards, Josh Kennedy, Dan Hannebery and Alex Johnson were all in the Swans premiership team, and Watson, Richards, and Kennedy were all selected in the All-Australian side.
See also
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