List of Old Melburnians

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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.

Governors[]

  • Richard Casey – 16th Governor-General of Australia, Governor of Bengal, former Australian of the Year, and final Australian in the House of Lords[2]
  • Sir Edmund Herring – longest serving Lieutenant Governor of Victoria

Prime Ministers[]

  • Stanley Bruce – 8th Prime Minister of Australia
  • Alfred Deakin – 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
  • Malcolm Fraser – 22nd Prime Minister of Australia

State Premiers[]

Lord Mayors[]

Australians of the Year[]

  • Richard Casey – 16th Governor-General of Australia, Governor of Bengal, former Australian of the Year (1969), and final Australian in the House of Lords
  • Manning Clark – historian and former Australian of the Year (1980)
  • Simon Mckeon – yachtsman, businessman, lawyer, philanthropist, and former Australian of the Year (2011)

Victoria Cross recipients[]

  • William Joynt – soldier, Victoria Cross winner
  • Bill Newton – airman, Victoria Cross winner

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[]

Law and government[]

Academia[]

  • Sir Robert Blackwood – businessman and first Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
  • Mervyn Austin – Rhodes Scholar and former Headmaster of Newington College and professor in classics
  • Edward Bage – polar explorer
  • Sir James William Barrett – ophthalmologist 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
  • Peter Dixon – economist
  • 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 and 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 and 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 academic
  • 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
  • Robert Champion de Crespigny – multi-millionaire founder of Normandy Mining Limited and former Australian Businessman of the Year
  • Martin Chapman – New Zealand barrister and founder of Chapman Tripp
  • Sir Peter Durham – business executive and philanthropist
  • Carrillo Gantner – founder of the Playbox Theater and patron of the arts, former Victorian of the Year
  • 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
  • Brian Roet – hypnotist and AFL premiership winner
  • Jim Penman – founder of Jim's Group and historian

Media, entertainment, and the arts[]

  • Oscar Asche – actor, director, and writer
  • John Brack – artist
  • John Bryson – author
  • James Campbell – journalist
  • Manning Clark – historian and 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 composer and 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
  • Terence (Terry) James McCrann – Australia's leading business journalist
  • 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]
  • Dan Robinson – singer
  • Nick Russell – television actor, producer, and director
  • Michael Schildberger – journalist and 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[]

see also: Old Melburnians Football Club

Athletics[]

  • Joel Baden – Olympic high jumper
  • Sam Baines – youth record holder for 110m hurdles
  • Dennis Duigan – Olympic decathlete
  • Edwin Flack (Teddy) – 2-time Olympic gold medallist, Australia's first Olympian and earning Australia's first gold medal
  • Henry Frayne – Olympic triple jumper
  • – Champion sprinter, represented Malvern in several meets through the late 1990s and early 2000s
  • Corrie Gardner – national Australian hurdle champion, Olympic hurdler, and AFL player
  • 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[]

Cricket[]

Field Hockey[]

Golf[]

Rowing[]

Rugby[]

Sailing[]

  • Tom King – sailor, Olympic gold medallist
  • 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
  • – Olympic tobogganist, colloquially known as “The beast of Buller”

Soccer[]

Tennis[]

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

References[]

  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.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b https://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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