List of Old Boys of St Patrick's College, Strathfield

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This is a list of notable Old Boys of St Patrick's College, Strathfield, they being notable former students of the independent Roman Catholic school, St Patrick's College, located in Strathfield, in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Academia, science and medicine[]

  • Professor John Michael Dwyer AO – Australian doctor, professor of medicine, and public health advocate. Former Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology at Yale University
  • Professor Brian J O'Brien - Leading Australian physicist and first Australian to receive the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement[1]
  • Dr AM – former Head of Cardiology at Royal North Shore Hospital, former Vice Chairman Heart Research Australia[2]
  • Dr  – Director and Chief Executive NSW Zoological Parks 1987-1997[3]
  • John Stanley Mattick AO, FAA – geneticist[4] and microbiologist, former director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research,[5] inaugural Chief Executive Officer at Genomics England
  • Professor Peter McCluskey- Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Eye Health at Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney and Director of the Save Sight Institute at Sydney Eye Hospital. Internationally recognised inflammatory eye disease specialist with more than 30 years experience treating patients with vision threatening inflammatory eye disease.[6]
  • Michael K. Morgan AM – professor of Neurosurgery and Dean of Medicine, School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University
  • Professor AO – Vice-Chancellor at the Australian Catholic University 1998-2008[7]
  • Professor Gerard Sutton AO – Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wollongong 1995-2011[8]
  • Chris Tinney – professor and Associate Dean for the Faculty of Science at UNSW, where he heads the Exoplanetary Science at UNSW group within the School of Physics. Former head of the Australian Astronomical Observatory

Bureaucracy, politics and the law[]

  • John Brogden AM – former NSW Liberal Leader of the Opposition and former Member for Pittwater. Current Chairman of Lifeline and Patron of Kookaburra Kids.[9][10][11][12]
  • John J. Brown AO – Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism in the First Hawke Ministry 1983-1988. Minister for Administrative Services until 1984 and Minister assisting the Minister for Defence
  • Tony Burke MP – Federal Labor Member for Watson, Shadow Minister for Environment and Water, Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Australia, Shadow Minister for the Arts and Manager of Opposition Business and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council[13]
  • Ralph James "Mick" Clough – Labor Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1976 to 1981, representing the electorate of Blue Mountains and representing the electorate of Bathurst from 1981 to 1988 and again from 1991 to 1999
  • Bryan Doyle MP – former NSW Liberal Member for Campbelltown
  • Craig Emerson – former Federal Labor Member for Rankin and minister[13]
  • Laurie Ferguson MP – former Federal Labor Member for Werriwa, former NSW Member for Granville and brother of Martin[13]
  • Martin Ferguson AM – former Federal Member for Batman and minister[13] and brother of Laurie
  • AC – former Secretary of the Premier's Department, former Head of the Public Service Board[14]
  • Justin Gleeson SC – former Solicitor-General of Australia (2013–2016), the Commonwealth's second-ranking law officer.
  • Anthony C. Harris, NSW Auditor-General 1992-1999[15]
  • Dick Healey – former NSW Liberal Member for Davidson and Minister
  • Gary Humphries – former Liberal Chief Minister of the ACT and former Senator for the ACT
  • Craig Laundy MP – Former Federal Liberal Member for Reid and former Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation, former Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, former Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs
  • Paul Lynch MP – NSW Labor Member for Liverpool and Shadow Attorney General[16]
  • Paul McLeay – former NSW Labor Member for Heathcote and Minister
  • AO, QC – former Judge and President of NSW Supreme Court of Appeal, former Acting Chief Justice of NSW, former President of International Commission of Jurists, and former Member of the Board of the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals[17]
  • John Pierce – former Secretary of the Department and Chief Economist to The Treasury (New South Wales), former Secretary of the Department to the Australian Government Department of Resources Energy & Tourism and current Chairman of the Australian Energy Market Commission[18]
  • Kieran Prendergast KCVO, CMG – former British diplomat (High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ambassador to Turkey) and UN Under-Secretary-General 1997-2005
  • Douglas W. Sutherland AM – 78th Lord Mayor of Sydney

Business[]

  • Greg Coffey – a London hedge fund manager known as the "Wizard of Oz". Worth roughly US$734 million.
  • Rod de Aboitiz – former Chief Financial Officer of Rothschild Australia[19][20]
  • Peter Mattick AM – co-founder and former interim chief executive officer of Salmat[21][22]
  •  – managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at McDonald's Australia 1999-2005, President McDonald's Greater China 2005-2007, Managing Director at Kmart, Chief Executive Officer of the Department Stores division for Wesfarmers 2016 to present[23]
  • Phil Salter – co-founder of Salmat[24]
  •  – chief executive officer of Aussie Home Loans[25]
  • John Symond AM – Australian financial executive and founder of Aussie Home Loans[26]

Clergy[]

  • Most Reverend Bede Vincent Heather – Bishop Emeritus of Parramatta; former co-chairman of the Catholic/Baptist International Dialogue and first Bishop of Parramatta 1986-1997.[27]
  • Most Reverend Patrick Murphy – former Vice-President and Rector of the Post Graduate House at St Patrick's Seminary, former President of St Patrick's Seminary, former Episcopal Vicar for Education, former Chairman of the Sydney Archdiocesan Catholic Schools Board and former Chairman of the Catholic Education Commission of NSW; and the inaugural Bishop of Broken Bay 1986-1996[28]

Entertainment, media and the arts[]

Sport[]

See also[]

References[]

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  3. ^ "The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales · Page 9". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 May 1994. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
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  17. ^ Services, Archives and Records Management. "Honorary awards - ARMS - The University of Sydney". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
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  25. ^ "Aussie Home Loans appoints CEO". www.aussie.com.au. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  26. ^ Symond finds success as Aussie dream lives on at The Age
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  30. ^ "Thomas Keneally". Archived from the original on 3 May 2005. Retrieved 7 November 2005.
  31. ^ "St Pats Rugby Archive". Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
  32. ^ Peter Skrzynecki's Biography
  33. ^ "SGFRA Referee Adrian Arndt Makes His Mark – St George Football Association". sgfa.com.au. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  34. ^ "John Ballesty". espnscrum.com. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  35. ^ "Brian McCowage Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
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