List of Old Scotch Collegians

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).

Scotch College has had more alumni mentioned in Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians) than any other school, and its alumni have received more top (Companion) Order of Australia honours than any other school. Although knighthoods are no longer bestowed in Australia, at least 71 Scotch College alumni have been knighted.

Viceroys

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

Eponyms of universities

Sir John Monash – after whom Monash University is named

Sir Walter Murdoch – after whom Murdoch University is named

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 La Trobe University

Raymond Martin – Vice-Chancellor of Monash University

Sir John Monash – Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne, Monash University named after him

Sir Walter Murdoch – Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of University of Western Australia, Murdoch University named after him

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

Members of the Royal Society

Sir Thomas Cherry

Richard Dalitz

Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley

Alan Head

Andrew Holmes

John Philip

John Spence

Others – academia and science

Robert Bartnik – mathematician

John Cade – discovered lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of depression

Robert Percival Cook FRSE – nutrition expert and Professor of Biochemistry, University of Dundee

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

Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith – Australian educator who, as a member of the Second Field Ambulance, landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915

James P. Leary – Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies University of Wisconsin–Madison

Noel Lothian – botanist and director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, 1948–1980; oversaw the garden's expansion to three sites in South Australia

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

Sir William Colin Mackenzie – anatomist, museum administrator, best known for creating Healesville Sanctuary

Robert Marks – editor of the Australian Journal of Management, Emeritus Professor at Australian Graduate School of Management

Dr. E. Neil McQueen – second Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney

Stephen Newton – Principal of Caulfield Grammar School

Sydney Patterson – first Director of WEHI, Australia's oldest medical research institute

Alan Geoffrey Serle – historian and biographer

James Simpson – Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University

Peter Singer – philosopher, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, voted one of Australia's leading public intellectuals

Thomas Gibson Sloane – entomologist

Hugh Stretton – social scientist, voted one of Australia's leading public intellectuals

Sir Sydney Sunderland – scientist and academic in the field of medicine

David Vines – Professor of Economics at Oxford University

Sir Ian Wark – chemist and science administrator

Business

Sir James Balderstone – Chairman of BHP and AMP

David Crawford – Chairman Foster's Group and Lendlease

Sir Archibald Glenn – Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Australia

Charles Goode – Chairman of ANZ Bank and Woodside Energy

Sir Lenox Hewitt – Chairman of Qantas

Sir Harold Knight – Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

Jonathan Ling – CEO of Fletcher Building

Sir Ian McLennan – Chairman of BHP and ANZ Bank

Sir Laurie Muir – stockbroker and director

Lionel Robinson – financier in Australia and England

Robert Somervaille – Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Chairman of the Australian Telecommunications Commission and Overseas Telecommunications Commission, which he merged to become Telstra, founding Director of Hill Samuel

Hugh Syme – proprietor of The Age newspaper

Evan Thornley – founder of Looksmart, Chief Executive of Better Place Australia

Sir David Zeidler – Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Australia

Law

Chief justices

Will Alstergren – Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia

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

High Court Justices

Kenneth Hayne – Justice of the High Court of Australia

Sir John Latham – Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

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

Supreme Court Justices

Peter Buchanan – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Sir Arthur Dean – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Chancellor of the University of Melbourne

Geoff Digby – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Greg Garde – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, President of Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Sir Joseph Hood – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Stephen Kaye – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

William Kaye – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

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

John Phillips – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Richard Refshauge – Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory

Sir Henry Winneke – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Governor of Victoria

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

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

Russel Howcroft – ABC TV panellist, businessman

Alistair Knox – mudbrick house designer, builder and landscape architect

Mark Kwong – music producer and DJ known as Maarcos

Patrick McCaughey – director of the National Gallery of Victoria

Nick McCallum – television and radio journalist

Campbell McComas – entertainer, impersonator

Will McMahon- radio show host

Ian Munro – pianist, composer

Ned Napier – actor

Peter Nicholson – cartoonist for The Australian

Chris Pang – actor

Andrew Probyn – journalist

Ron Radford – director of the National Gallery of Australia

Felix Riebl – lead singer of The Cat Empire

Jesse Spencer – actor

Walter J. Turner – writer and poet

Chris Wallace-Crabbe – poet, Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne

John Williamson – country music singer

Woody Whitelaw- radio show host

Michael Wipfli – radio presenter and comedian

Yelian He – cellist

Military and intelligence

Chiefs / heads of services

Sir Julius Bruche – Chief of the General Staff

Barry Gration – Chief of the Air Staff

Peter Gration – Chief of the Australian Defence Force

Sir Alan McNicoll – Chief of the Royal Australian Navy

Sir John Monash – first Australian overall Commander of the Australian Corps, face on Australian $100 note, Monash University named after him

Paul Symon – director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Deputy Chief of Army

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 McCay – Lieutenant General

Rev. Alexander Rowan Macneil - twice awarded the Military Cross in WW1, he was Presbyterian chaplain to the PoWs interred at Changi Prison during WW2 and established Rover Scouting in the Japanese PoW camp system.

Sir William Refshauge – Major General

Sir Lindsay Ride – Commander, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps Field Ambulance (1941); Commander, British Army Aid Group (1942-1945); Commandant, Royal Hong Kong Defence Force (1949-1967)

Robert Smith – Brigadier General, WWI, Commander 5th Brigade

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

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 Houston 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 Houston 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

Sir Gilbert Chandler – Victorian Cabinet Minister

Henry Cohen – Victorian Cabinet Minister

Mark Dreyfus – Federal Attorney General

Andrew Giles – Federal Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs

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 James Kennedy – Victorian Cabinet Minister

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

Jim Ramsay – Victorian Cabinet Minister

Andrew Refshauge – Labor Deputy Premier of New South Wales

Sir George Oswald Reid – Victorian Cabinet Minister, Attorney General

Sir Arthur Robinson – Victorian Attorney General

Tony Staley – Federal Liberal Minister, Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia

Haddon Storey – Victorian Cabinet Minister

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

Norman Bayles – Member of Victorian Parliament

Alexander Buchanan – Member of Australian Parliament

James Dunn – Member of Victorian 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

James Gordon Hislop – Member of Western Australian Parliament

Robert Holt – Member of Victorian Parliament, Member of Australian Parliament

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

Charles Hector McFadyen – Secretary, Department of Shipping and Transport 1948–57

Tich McFarlane – senior positions in the Commonwealth Public Service and statutory bodies

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

Sir David Smith – official Secretary to five Australian Governors-General 1973–1990

Sir Keith Waller – public servant and diplomat

Sport

American football

Tom Hackett – punter for the University of Utah Football Team; two time recipient of the Ray Guy Award and member of the Pac-12 All-Century football team

Athletics

Craig Hilliard – head coach of the Australian Athletics Team

Cameron Mackenzie – Olympic sprinter

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

Will Brodie – Gold Coast Football Club and Fremantle Football Club player

Campbell Brown – 2008 Premiership player for Hawthorn Football Club; Gold Coast Suns player

Darcy Byrne-Jones – Port Adelaide Football Club player

Sam Darcy-Western Bulldogs player

Nathan Djerrkura – Geelong Football Club player

Andrew Erickson – Sydney Swans Football Club player

Joel Garner – Port Adelaide Football Club player

Nick Gill – Adelaide Football Club player

Duncan Harris – Hawthorn FC, 1 game, 1962

Bob Hay – Fitzroy Football Club player

John McKenzie Hay – Collingwood Football Club player

John Hendrie – 1976 & 1978 Premiership Player for Hawthorn Football Club

Doug Heywood – Melbourne Football Club player

Malcolm Hill – Hawthorn FC, 22 games, 1960–1962 including 1961 Premiership

Aidyn Johnson – Port Adelaide Football Club player

Liam Jones – Western Bulldogs Football Club player

Jake Kelly – Adelaide Football Club player

Will Kelly – Collingwood Football Club player

Ian Law – Hawthorn FC – 106 games – 1960–1969 including 1961 Premiership

Jake Long – Essendon Football Club Player

Cooper Lord – Carlton Football Club Player

Richard Loveridge – 1983 & 1986 Premiership Player for Hawthorn Football Club

Jamie Macmillan – North Melbourne Football Club player

Finn Maginness – Hawthorn Football Club player

Scott Maginness – 1988 & 1989 Premiership player for Hawthorn Football Club

Will Maginness – West Coast Football Club player

Alex McCracken – sports administrator, first secretary of the Essendon Football Club and first president of the Victorian Football League

Reef McInnes

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, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Premiership player for Hawthorn Football Club

Maurice Rioli Jr – Richmond Football Club player

Michael Rix – St Kilda Football Club player

Jy Simpkin – North Melbourne Football Club player

Ben Sinclair – Collingwood Football Club player

Jack Sinclair – St.