List of famous Old Sydneians

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The following is a list of famous past pupils of Sydney Grammar School (SGS). Former pupils of the School are known as Old Sydneians.

Sydney Grammar School has had the most High Court Justices (7) and Rhodes Scholars (26) of any high school in Australia, and Sydney Grammar School has had an old boy sitting on the High Court almost constantly since the Court was founded. Also, the current Chancellors of two of Australia's most notable universities - the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales - are Old Sydneians (Kim Santow and David Gonski respectively). Current Attorney General of New South Wales Bob Debus and Shadow Attorney General Andrew Tink were teacher and student at SGS, respectively.

Contents 1 Government, law, and public policy 2 Film 3 Media 4 Business 5 Sport 6 Arts 7 Other fields 8 Footnotes

[edit] Government, law, and public policy

Name	Class years	Notability	Reference
Sir Edmund Barton	1859-1864	Prime Minister of Australia, Justice of the High Court of Australia	[1]
Sir William McMahon	1923-1926	Prime Minister of Australia	[2]
Sir James Martin		Premier of New South Wales, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Sir Boyd Morehead		Premier of Queensland	[3]
Sir David Griffin		Lord Mayor of Sydney	[4]
Sir Anthony Mason		Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Justice of the High Court of Australia	[5]
Sir George Rich		Justice of the High Court of Australia	[6]
William Gummow		Justice of the High Court of Australia
Sir Victor Windeyer		Justice of the High Court of Australia
Sir Richard O'Connor	1867	Justice of the High Court of Australia	[7]
Albert Piddington		Justice of the High Court of Australia	[8]
Sir Philip Street		Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales	[9]
Sir Kenneth Street		Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales	[10]
Sir Leslie Herron		Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales	[11]
Sir Kim Santow		Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal, Chancellor of the University of Sydney.	[12]
Philip Devenish	1989-2001	Scholar and gentleman
Sir John Hubert Plunkett Murray		Lieutenant-Governor of the Territory of Papua	[13]
John Antill		Army Major General in World War I.	[14]
Peter Baume		Politician, professor of medicine and Chancellor of the Australian National University.	[15]
General Sir Henry George Chauvel		Army Chief of Staff.
Nicholas Cowdery		NSW Director of Public Prosecutions.	[16]
Sir Norman Cowper		Lawyer and administrator.
Sir Robert Garran		lawyer and first Solicitor-General of Australia.	[17]
General John Grey		Australian Army Chief and Chancellor of James Cook University
Sir Norman William Kater		politician, medical practitioner and grazier.	[18]
James Gordon Legge		Army Lieutenant General in World War I.	[19]
Sir Daniel Levy		Army Lieutenant General in World War I	[20]
James William Macarthur-Onslow		Politician, soldier and businessman	[21]
Henry Normand MacLaurin		Army Brigadier General in World War I	[22]
Sir John Peden		Lawyer, politician and law professor.	[23]
Malcolm Mackerras		psephologist	[24]
Harold Thorby		Politician and government minister	[25]
Malcolm Turnbull		Federal MHR for the seat of Wentworth, businessman	[26]
Andrew Tink		NSW Shadow Attorney General; State MLA for Epping

[edit] Film

Name	Class years	Notability	Reference
Richard Francis-Bruce		Academy Award-nominated film editor (The Shawshank Redemption 1994), (Seven 1995), (Air Force One 1997)
Andrew Lesnie		Academy Award-winning cameraman (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2002)
Julian McMahon		Actor and son of Prime Minister McMahon
Bud Tingwell		Film and theatre actor	[27]
Stephan Elliott		Writer & Director, (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994)

[edit] Media

Name	Class years	Notability	Reference
Hugh Mackay		Social commentator, former Chairman of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School	[28]
George Blaikie		author and journalist
Richard Carleton		60 Minutes reporter.	[29]
Tim Palmer		veteran ABC journalist.	[30]
Bruce Gyngell		first man on Australian television	[31]
Mike Kerry		Channel V presenter.
Richard Kingsmill		Broadcaster
Charles Firth		member of The Chaser team	[32]
Dominic Knight		member of The Chaser team	[32]
Chas Licciardello		member of The Chaser team	[32]

[edit] Business

Name	Class years	Notability	Reference
Len Ainsworth		Aristocrat Leisure Limited founder.
Sir James Reading Fairfax (1834-1919)		newspaper proprietor	[33]
Sir James Oswald Fairfax (1863-1928)		newspaper proprietor	[33]
Gordon Fell		funds manager and chair of Opera Australia.
David Gonski		Coca-Cola Amatil chairman, Australia Council chairman, President of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Chairman of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School, Chancellor of the University of New South Wales.	[5]
Simon Hannes		Macquarie Bank executive, convicted of insider trading
Sir Samuel Hordern		director of Anthony Hordern & Sons	[34]
David Lowy		Non Executive Deputy Chairman of The Westfield Group
Peter Lowy		Group Managing Director of The Westfield Group
Steven Lowy		Group Managing Director of The Westfield Group

[edit] Sport

Name	Class years	Notability	Reference
Fred Spofforth		First Test cricketer to take a hat-trick.
Andrew "Boy" Charlton		Swimmer	[35]
Albert Cotter		Australia's 85th Test Cricketer and soldier.	[36]
Stork Hendry		Australia's 116th Test cricketer.	[37]
Alan McGilvray		cricket commentator	[38]
Alan Walker		Australian rugby player and cricketer	[39]
Stuart Welch		Rowing silver medallist at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games	[40]
Colin James Windon		Australian rugby union captain and soldier
Sammy Woods		Australia's 54th Test cricketer, who later became England's 100th capped Test cricketer.	[41]
Frederick Lane		Australia's first Olympic swimmer	[42]

[edit] Arts

Name	Class years	Notability	Reference
John Le Gay Brereton		poet and Professor of English.	[43]
Sir Charles Mackerras		conductor
Michael Dransfield		Poet	[44]
Max Dupain		Photographer	[45]
Donald Friend		Artist	[46]
Rob Hirst		Drummer for Midnight Oil
Mark Kingsmill		Drummer for Hoodoo Gurus
Joseph Jacobs		preserved fairy-tales such as Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs.	[47]
Gregan McMahon		actor and theatrical producer	[48]
Dowell Philip O'Reilly		poet and short story writer.	[49]
Banjo Paterson		Poet	[50]
Antony Walker		Conductor	[51]
Nigel Butterley		Composer
Ross Edwards		Composer

[edit] Other fields

Name	Class years	Notability	Reference
Henry Kingsley Archdall		academic and clergyman.
Clive Caldwell		World War II ace fighter pilot.	[52]
Dr. Bryan Gaensler		Young Australian of the Year, 1999, former Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, currently Professor at the University of Sydney.
Dr. Rowan Gillies		international president of Médecins Sans Frontières.	[30]
Alastair Mackerras		First 'Old Boy' Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School.
Leonard Charles Robson		Headmaster, Sydney Church of England Grammar School.
Dr. Stephen Spurr		Headmaster, Westminster School.
Andrew Lock		One of Australia's most successful mountaineers	[30]

[edit] Footnotes