List of Old Scotch Collegians
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This is a list of Old Scotch Collegians, who are notable former students of Scotch College in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Alumni of Scotch College are known as Old Boys or Old Collegians, and automatically become members of the schools alumni association, the Old Scotch Collegians Association (OSCA).[1]
Studies over the years have found that Scotch College had more alumni mentioned in Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians) than any other school,[2][3][4] and its alumni had received more top Order of Australia honours than any other school.[5]
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Vice regal
- Sir Zelman Cowen – Governor General of Australia
- Peter Hollingworth – Governor General of Australia
- Sir Ninian Stephen – Governor General of Australia and Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Sir Henry Winneke – Governor of Victoria and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Academia and science
Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors
- Sir Zelman Cowen – Vice Chancellor of University of New England, Vice-Chancellor of University of Queensland
- Peter Darvall – Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
- Sir Arthur Dean – Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
- Sir David Derham – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
- Sir Archibald Glenn – Chancellor of Latrobe University
- Raymond Martin – Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
- Sir John Monash – Monash University named after him, Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne
- Sir Walter Murdoch – Murdoch University named after him, Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of University of Western Australia
- Sir George Paton – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
- David Penington – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
- Ian Renard – Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
- Sir Lindsay Ride – Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
- Sir Kenneth Wheare – Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
Others – academia and science
- Robert Bartnik – Mathematician
- John Cade – discovered lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of depression
- Dr Robert Percival Cook FRSE - nutrition expert
- Dr. Keith Cowen – Medical practitioner, one of the principal Australian specialists in tuberculosis, chief medical superintendent at Greswell Hospital, Ivanhoe
- Andrew Gleadow – Geologist, Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne
- Rev. Dr Andrew Harper – Biblical scholar and Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne and St Andrew's College, Sydney
- Ian Johnston – IVF and reproductive medicine pioneer
- Wilson Lai – Head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at Cambridge University
- James P. Leary – Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Stuart Macintyre – Dean of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, voted one of Australia's leading public intellectuals
- Robert Marks – Editor of the Australian Journal of Management, Emeritus Professor at Australian Graduate School of Management
- John McLaren – Emeritus Professor Australian literary historian
- Dr. E. Neil McQueen – Second Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney
- Stephen Newton – Principal of Caulfield Grammar School
- Colin Norman – Director of the Hubble Space Telescope Program, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University
- Sir Benjamin Rank – pioneering plastic surgeon
- Alan Geoffrey Serle – historian and biographer
- James Simpson – Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University[6]
- Peter Singer – philosopher, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, voted one of Australia's leading public intellectuals
- Thomas Gibson Sloane- entomologist [7]
- John Spence – Regent's Professor of Physics Arizona State University
- Hugh Stretton – Social scientist, voted one of Australia's leading public intellectuals
- George Tait – First Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne[8]
- David Vines – Professor of Economics at Oxford University
- Hugh White – strategic studies guru, Australian National University
Business
- Sir James Balderstone – Chairman of BHP and AMP
- David Crawford – Chairman Foster's Group and Lend Lease Corporation
- Peter Fox – Chairman of Linfox
- Sir Archibald Glenn – Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Australia (Orica)
- Charles Goode – Chairman of ANZ Bank and Woodside Petroleum
- Craig Kimberly – Founder of Just Jeans retail group
- Sir Harold Knight – Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
- John Landels – Chairman and CEO of Caltex Australia
- Jonathan Ling – CEO of Fletcher Building, New Zealand's second largest company
- Sir Ian McLennan – Chairman of BHP and ANZ Bank
- Sir Laurie Muir – stockbroker and director
- John Reid – CEO of James Hardie Industries Ltd., the asbestos manufacturer
- Robert Duncan Somervaille – Chairman of P&O Australia Ltd, Chairman of HydroMet Corp. Ltd, Deputy Chairman of Abigroup Ltd, Chairman of FAI Life Ltd etc. [9]
- Evan Thornley – Founder of Looksmart, Chief Executive of Better Place Australia
- Sir David Zeidler – Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Australia (Orica)
Law
Chief justices
- Sir John Latham – Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
- Alastair Nicholson – Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
- Sir Henry Winneke – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Governor of Victoria
Others – law
- Geoffrey John Digby – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria,
- Greg Garde – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, President of Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Kenneth Hayne – Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Clifford Menhennitt – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, delivered the landmark 1969 Menhennitt ruling which was the first legal precedent with regard to abortion law in Australia
- Richard Refshauge – Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
- Sir Hayden Starke – Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Sir Ninian Stephen – Justice of the High Court of Australia and Governor General of Australia
- John Winneke (son of Sir Henry) – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, President of Victorian Court of Appeal
Media, entertainment, culture and the arts
- Graeme Bell – jazz musician
- Roger Bell – jazz musician
- Ric Birch – designer of Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies
- Creighton Burns – editor of The Age newspaper 1981–1989
- Richard Davies – actor
- John Ewart – AFI award-winning actor
- Alexander Frater – writer and chief travel correspondent, the Observer
- Sir Roy Grounds – architect, works include National Gallery of Victoria and Victorian Arts Centre
- Mark Kwong – Music Producer and DJ known as Maarcos
- Patrick McCaughey – Director of the National Gallery of Victoria
- Campbell McComas – entertainer, impersonator
- Ned Napier – actor
- Adrian "Lazy Ade" Monsbourgh – jazz musician, composer
- Ian Munro – pianist, composer
- Peter Nicholson – cartoonist for The Australian
- Ron Radford – Director of the National Gallery of Australia
- Felix Riebl – lead singer of The Cat Empire
- Jesse Spencer – actor
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe – poet, Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne
- John Williamson – country music singer
- Yelian He - cellist
Military
Chiefs of services
- Major General Sir Julius Bruche – Chief of the General Staff
- Air Marshal Barry Gration – Chief of the Air Staff
- General Peter Gration – Chief of the Australian Defence Force
- Vice Admiral Sir Alan McNicoll – Chief of the Royal Australian Navy[10]
- General Sir John Monash – First Australian overall Commander of the Australian Corps, face on Australian $100 note, Monash University named after him
Others – military
- Raymond Brownell – Air Commodore, WWI flying ace
- Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley – Brigadier, Director of Medicine, Australian Military Forces during WWII
- Greg Garde – Major General, Deputy Chief Australian Defence Force (Reserves) (Australia's highest ranking reservist)
- Oliver David Jackson – Commander 1st Australian Task Force in South Vietnam (1966–1967)
- Robert Little – top scoring Australian fighter pilot in WWI, killed in action May 1918
- Sir James Whiteside McCay – Lieutenant General
- Sir William Refshauge – Major General
- Sir Clive Steele – Major General
- Alan Stretton – Major General, Head of National Disaster Organisation, responsible for managing and rebuilding Darwin after Cyclone Tracy
- Hugh Randall Syme - Bomb Defuser, grandson of David Syme
- Paul Symon – Major General, Deputy Chief of Army
- Ian Upjohn – Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding Officer of 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse, commander of Australian troops in Solomon Islands
Politics and public service
Prime ministers and presidents
- Sir John Latham – Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
- Kalkot Mataskelekele – President of Vanuatu
- Sir George Reid – Prime Minister of Australia, Premier of NSW, member of British House of Commons
Premiers
- Jim Bacon – Premier of Tasmania
- John Cain – Premier of Victoria
- Jeff Kennett – Premier of Victoria
- Sir Harry Lawson – Premier of Victoria
- John MacPherson – Premier of Victoria
- Sir George Reid – Premier of NSW
- William Shiels – Premier of Victoria
- Vaiben Louis Solomon – Premier of South Australia
Cabinet ministers
- Bill Baxter – Victorian Nationals Roads & Ports Minister
- Mark Dreyfus – Federal Attorney General
- Ivor Greenwood – Federal Liberal Minister
- Mac Holten – Federal Nationals Minister, Administrator of Christmas Island
- Dr David Kemp – Federal Liberal Minister
- Rod Kemp – Federal Liberal Minister
- Jim Kennan – Victorian Attorney General, Victorian Labor Opposition Leader
- Sir John Latham – Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
- John Leckie – Federal Minister
- Sir James Whiteside McCay – Federal Defence Minister
- James McColl – Federal Minister
- Andrew Peacock – Federal Liberal Opposition Leader, Ambassador to United States of America
- Andrew Refshauge – Labor Deputy Premier of New South Wales
- Sir Arthur Robinson – Victorian Attorney General
- Tony Staley – Federal Liberal Minister, Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia
- George Wise – Federal Minister, Postmaster-General
- Michael Wooldridge – Federal Liberal Health Minister
Others – politics and public service
- John Arthur Andrews – anarchist theoretician, agitator, poet,journalist
- Alexander Buchanan – Member of Australian Parliament
- James Gibb – Member of Australian Parliament
- Robert Bell Hamilton – Renowned Victorian architect, Member for Toorak in Parliament of Victoria and Mornington Shire Council President
- Norman Charles Harris – engineer, later lieutenant colonel, Victorian Railways Chairman of Commissioners, honoured by the naming of Melbourne Suburban blue electric 'Harris Train'
- Sir Lenox Hewitt – senior public servant
- Ken Jasper – veteran Nationals member for Murray Valley in Parliament of Victoria
- Sir George Knox – Speaker of Victorian Legislative Assembly, City of Knox named after him
- William Knox – Federal Member of Parliament, responsible for moving a motion to begin each sitting day of parliament with prayers
- Sir Stephen Morell – Lord Mayor of Melbourne
- Sir William Refshauge – Director-General of the Commonwealth Department of Health 1960–73
- Charles Carty Salmon – Member of Australian Parliament, Speaker of House of Representatives
- Julian Marcus Sheezel – State Director (Victoria) of the Liberal Party of Australia[11]
- Sir David Smith – official Secretary to five Australian Governors-General from 1973 to 1990
Sport
American football
- Tom Hackett - two time Ray Guy Award winner with Utah Utes Football
Olympics
- Drew Ginn – three time rowing Olympic gold medalist
- Cameron Mackenzie – Olympic sprinter
- Cameron McKenzie-McHarg – Olympic rowing silver medalist
- Sam Patten – Olympic rower and member of the Oarsome Foursome
- Dean Pullar – Olympic diving silver medalist
- Matthew Targett – Olympic swimming silver medalist
- Matt Welsh – Olympic swimming silver medalist
- Rob Woodhouse – Olympic swimming medalist
Cricket
- Bob Cowper – Australian cricket team
- Colin McDonald – Australian cricket team
- Ray Steele – Treasurer of the Australian Cricket Board, President of the Victorian Cricket Association and AFL premiership footballer
Rugby
- David Fitter – Australian national rugby union team
- Richard Harry – Australian national rugby union team
- Andrew Heath – Australian national rugby union team
- Tom McColl – Captain Hong Kong national rugby union team
- Ewen McKenzie – head coach of the Australian national rugby union team in which he also played, also head coach of the New South Wales Waratahs, Stade Français and Queensland Reds
Tennis
- Gerald Patterson – two times Wimbledon singles champion and world number 1 tennis player
Australian rules football
- Ed Barlow – Sydney Swans Football Club player
- Jack Billings – St. Kilda Football Club player, pick no.3 2013 National NAB AFL Draft
- Darcy Byrne-Jones – Port Adelaide Football Club player
- Campbell Brown – 2008 Premiership player for Hawthorn Football Club. Gold Coast Suns player
- Nathan Djerrkura – Geelong Football Club player
- Andrew Erickson – Sydney Swans Football Club player
- Rob Fuller – Richmond Football Club player
- Nick Gill – Adelaide Football Club player
- Duncan Harris - Hawthorn FC - 1 game - 1962
- John Hendrie – 1976 & 1978 Premiership Player for Hawthorn Football Club
- Doug Heywood – Melbourne Football Club player
- Lachie Hill – Carlton Football Club player
- Malcolm Hill - Hawthorn FC - 22 games - 1960-1962 including 1961 Premiership
- Liam Jones – Western Bulldogs Football Club player
- Jake Kelly – Adelaide Football Club player
- Ian Law – Hawthorn FC - 106 games - 1960-1969 including 1961 Premiership
- Richard Loveridge – 1983 & 1986 Premiership Player for Hawthorn Football Club
- Jamie Macmillan – North Melbourne Football Club player
- Scott Maginness – 1988 & 1989 Premiership player for Hawthorn Football Club
- Will Maginness – West Coast Football Club player
- Bill Morris – Brownlow Medal winner, Richmond Football Club player
- Neil Pearson – Hawthorn FC - 133 games - 1945-1954
- Michael Perry – Richmond Football Club player
- Stan Reid – Fitzroy Football Club player
- Cyril Rioli – 2008 & 2014 Premiership player for Hawthorn Football Club
- Michael Rix – St Kilda Football Club player
- Ben Sinclair – Collingwood Football Club player
- Jack Sinclair – St. Kilda Football club player
- Will Slade – Geelong Football Club player
- Nick Smith – 2012 Premiership player for Sydney Swans Football Club
- James Strauss – Melbourne Football Club player
- Terry Waites – Collingwood Football Club player
- John Winneke – Hawthorn FC - 50 games - 1960-1962 including 1961 Premiership
- Colin Youren – Hawthorn FC - 135 games - 1958-1965 including 1961 Premiership
See also
References
- ↑ "Membership". About OSCA. Scotch College. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- ↑ Walker, Frank (2001-07-22). "The ties that bind". Sunday Life. The Sun-Herald. p. 16. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ↑ Mark Peel and Janet McCalman, Who Went Where in Who's Who 1988: The Schooling of the Australian Elite, Melbourne University History Research Series Number 1, 1992
- ↑ Ian Hansen, Nor Free Nor Secular: Six Independent Schools in Victoria, a First Sample, Oxford University Press, 1971
- ↑ Topsfield, Jewel (4 December 2010). "Ties that bind prove a private education has its awards". The Age. p. 11.
The hard copy article also published a table of the schools which were ranked in the top ten places: - ↑ English: Graduate & alumni profiles – Melbourne University
- ↑ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16926412
- ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography (2007). .
- ↑ Suzannah Pearce, ed. (2006-11-17). "SOMERVAILLE Robert Duncan". Who's Who in Australia Live!. North Melbourne, Vic: Crown Content Pty Ltd. Check date values in:
|year= / |date= mismatch(help); - ↑ James Mitchell, A Deepening Roar – Scotch College, Melbourne, 1851–2001, Allen & Unwin, 2001, page 308
- ↑ Suzannah Pearce, ed. (2006-11-17). "SHEEZEL Julian Marcus". Who's Who in Business Live!. North Melbourne, Vic: Crown Content Pty Ltd. Check date values in:
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