List of Melbourne High School alumni

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This is a List of Melbourne High School alumni, they being notable former students - known as "Old Boys" of the public selective school, the Melbourne High School in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia.

In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked Melbourne High School third in Australia's top ten boys' schools, based on the number of its alumni mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians).^[1]

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1 Academic
2 Business
3 Entertainment, media and the arts
4 Medicine and science
5 Military
6 Politics, public service and the law
7 Sport
8 Other
9 Notes
10 References
11 See also
12 External links

[edit] Academic

Professor Kwong Lee Dow - Current Deputy Chair of Teaching Australia and former vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne

[edit] Business

Lawrence Apopei - Builder
Owen Charles Batt – Entrepreneur
Lindsay Fox AO – trucking magnate^[a]
Michael Gudinski – entrepreneurial businessman, founder of Mushroom Records
Ian MacFarlane – former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
David Morgan – Westpac CEO
Scott Richards – Entrepreneur
Bruce Ruxton AM OBE – President of the RSL (1979-2002)

[edit] Entertainment, media and the arts

Graeme Base – author and artist
Andrew Bergen - Journalist, photographer, musician, record label manager & DJ
Leigh Bowery - Fashion designer
George Dreyfus - noted Australian composer
Jon Faine- ABC broadcaster
Raimond Gaita - Philosopher, and author of Memoir "Romulus, my Father"
Paul Gartside – Writer, Actor and Composer
Dean Geyer - Australian Idol contestant, Season 4, 2006, 3rd place
Athol Guy - Member of Australian Folk band The Seekers
Graham Kennedy – television personality
Keith Potger - Member of Australian Folk band The Seekers
Bruce Woodley – Member of Australian Folk band The Seekers
James Hazelden – Musician, comedian, performer with Australian band Man Bites God

[edit] Medicine and science

Dr Eric Burhop - Contributed to the development of the Atomic bomb
Sir John Eccles – Nobel Prize winner for Medicine
Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld – surgeon, Victorian of the Year (2002)

[edit] Military

Harry Zvi Abrahams - Brigadier General of the SAS serving in East Timor
Frank Berryman - Australian Army general
Keith William "Bluey" Truscott – Squadron Leader 76 RAAF, WWII fighter ace and Melbourne AFL player (After whom the club's annual Best and Fairest award is named)

[edit] Politics, public service and the law

Daniel Bowen - Current president of the Public Transport Users Association
Rodney Damon Cocks, CSM – Victorian of the Year - 2005, Politician
Simon Crean – MHR (ALP), Federal Opposition leader (2001–2003)
Mark Dreyfus QC – barrister, endorsed ALP candidate for the seat of Isaacs at the 2007 federal election
Gareth Evans – Senator (ALP) (1978–1996), MHR (1996–1999), Foreign Minister (1988–1996)
Max Gillies AM – political satirist
Barry Jones AO – MHR (ALP) (1977–1998), former Minister for Science
Alan Stockdale – former Victorian MLA, (Lib), Victorian Treasurer (1992–1999), Macquarie Banker (1999–2005)
Tom Wodak – current Judge of the County Court of Victoria

[edit] Sport

Cameron Bruce – AFL footballer
Ron Clarke – Olympian, former holder of 17 world records for long distance running, philanthropist and Mayor of the Gold Coast
Ralph Doubell – Olympic athlete, Australia's last male Track & Field Gold Medallist (1968 800m)
Nick Green - Australian Olympic Rower and member of the Oarsome Foursome
Rene Kink – AFL player
Mark Lee - AFL Player
Garry Lyon – AFL player, television sport personality
Phil Manassa – AFL player
Keith Miller MBE – cricketer, former AFL player
David Parkin – AFL premiership captain of Hawthorn (1978), former Carlton Coach
Bill Picken – AFL player
Neil Roberts – AFL player and Brownlow Medalist
David Schwarz – AFL player
Dale Weightman – AFL player
Evan Willis - Australian Lacrosse Player; son of former Australian Federal Treasurer Ralph Willis
William Maldon Woodfull – Australian Test Cricket Captain, was principal of the school and attended it as a student

[edit] Other

Julian Knight - Convicted murderer of the infamous 'Hoddle Street Massacre'.

[edit] Notes

^{^} Lindsay Fox was expelled from Melbourne High School due to bad behaviour. The common consensus is that he was expelled due to poor academic performance.^[2] Despite this, he has maintained a good relationship with the school and has made many large donations. As part of this relationship he is permitted to land his helicopter on the school football oval whenever required.^[2]