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
• Ian Renard – Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
• Sir Lindsay Ride – Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
• David Penington – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
• Sir Kenneth Wheare – Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University

Others – Academia and Science

• John Cade – discovered lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of depression
• 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
• Dr. E. Neil McQueen – Second Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney
• Colin Norman – Director of the Hubble Space Telescope Program, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University
• Sir Benjamin Rank – pioneering plastic surgeon
• 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
• 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^[7]
• David Vines – Profesor 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
• 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; Awarded the Légion d'honneur^[8]
• Evan Thornley – Founder of Looksmart, Chief Executive of Better Place Australia
• Sir David Zeidler – Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Australia (Orica)

Law

• 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
• 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
• Alastair Nicholson – Chief Justice of the Family Court 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
• Sir Henry Winneke – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Governor of Victoria
• John Winneke (son of above) – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

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
• John Ewart – AFI award-winning actor
• Sir Roy Grounds – architect, works include National Gallery of Victoria and Victorian Arts Centre
• Dugald Mackenzie - lead singer of Venom P. Stinger and Fungus Brains
• Patrick McCaughey – Director of the National Gallery of Victoria director
• Campbell McComas – entertainer, impersonator
• 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
• Richard Davies – actor

Military

Chiefs of Services

• Sir Julius Henry Bruche – Chief of the Australian Army
• Air Marshal Barry Gration – Chief of Royal Australian Air Force
• General Peter Gration – Chief of the Australian Defence Force
• Vice Admiral Sir Alan McNicholl – Chief of the Royal Australian Navy^[9]
• 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 – senior Royal Australian Air Force officer and WWI flying ace
• Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley – Director of Medicine, Australian Military Forces during WWII
• Greg Garde – Deputy Chief Australian Defence Force (Reserves), Australia's highest ranking reservist
• Sir James Whiteside McCay – General
• Sir William Refshauge – General
• Sir Clive Steele – General
• Paul B. 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, recipient of the Conspicuous Service Cross
• Robert Alexander Little – DSO and Bar DSC and Bar CdeG(Fr), top scoring Australian fighter pilot in WWI, killed in action May 1918.

Politics and Public Service

Prime Ministers and Presidents

• Sir George Reid – Prime Minister of Australia, Premier of NSW, member of British House of Commons
• Kalkot Mataskelekele – President of Vanuatu

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 Solomon – Premier of South Australia

Cabinet Ministers

• Bill Baxter – Victorian Liberal Minister
• Ivor Greenwood – Federal Liberal Minister
• Mac Holten – Federal 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 – 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
• Michael Wooldridge – Federal Health Minister
• George Wise – Federal Minister, Postmaster-General

Others – Politics and Public Service

• Norman Charles Harris – engineer, military cross, distinguished service order WWI, later lieutenant colonel, Victorian Railways Chairman of Commissioners, honoured by the naming of Melbourne Suburban blue electric 'Harris Train'
• John Arthur Andrews – anarchist theoretician, agitator, poet,journalist
• Alexander Buchanan – Member of Australian Parliament
• James Gibb – 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
• Sir Stephen Morell – Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• Sir William Refshauge – Director-General of the Commonwealth Department of Health 1960–73
• Charles Salmon – Member of Australian Parliament, Speaker of House of Hepresentatives
• Julian Marcus Sheezel – State Director (Victoria) of the Liberal Party of Australia^[10]
• Sir David Smith – official Secretary to five Australian Governors-General from 1973 to 1990

Sport

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
• 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

• Richard Harry – Australian national rugby union team
• Andrew Heath – Australian national rugby union team
• David Fitter – Australian national rugby union team
• Ewen McKenzie – Australian national rugby union team and New South Wales Waratahs Coach

Tennis

• Gerald Patterson – two times Wimbledon singles champion and world number 1 tennis player

Australian rules football

• Ed Barlow – Sydney Swans Football Club player
• Campbell Brown – Hawthorn Football Club 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
• Doug Heywood – Melbourne Football Club player
• Lachie Hill – Carlton Football Club player
• Liam Jones – Western Bulldogs Football Club player
• Richard Loveridge – Hawthorn Football Club player
• Bill Morris – Brownlow Medal winner, Richmond Football Club player
• Scott Maginness – Hawthorn Football Club player
• Michael Perry – Richmond Football Club player
• Cyril Rioli – Hawthorn Football Club player
• Michael Rix – St Kilda Football Club player
• Stan Reid – Fitzroy Football Club player
• Nick Smith – Sydney Swans Football Club player
• Will Slade – Geelong Football Club player
• James Strauss – Melbourne Football Club player
• Terry Waites – Collingwood Football Club player
• Tom Wills – cricketer and inventor of Australian rules football

References

1. ^ "Membership". About OSCA. Scotch College. http://www.oscanet.com.au/index.cfm/page/content/contentid/87/menuid/99. Retrieved 2008-03-26. 
2. ^ Walker, Frank (2001-07-22). "The ties that bind". Sunday Life (The Sun-Herald): p. 16. http://newsstore.smh.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=smh&kw=%22presbyterian+ladies+college%22&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=author&sf=headline&sf=text&rc=10&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=SHD01072295GNI6E8E6E. Retrieved 2007-09-12. 
3. ^ 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
4. ^ Ian Hansen, Nor Free Nor Secular: Six Independent Schools in Victoria, a First Sample, Oxford University Press, 1971
5. ^ Topsfield, Jewel (4 December 2010). "Ties that bind prove a private education has its awards". The Age. p. 11. http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/ties-that-bind-prove-a-private-education-has-its-awards-20101203-18jx0.html?from=age_sb.  The hard copy article also published a table of the schools which were ranked in the top ten places, as follows: (1st with 19 awards) Scotch College, Melbourne, (2nd with 17 awards) Geelong Grammar School, (3rd with 13 awards) Sydney Boys High School, (equal 4th with 10 awards each) Fort Street High School, Perth Modern School and St Peter's College, Adelaide, (equal 7th with 9 awards each) Melbourne Grammar School, North Sydney Boys High School and The King's School, Parramatta, (equal 10th with 6 awards each) Launceston Grammar School, Melbourne High School, Wesley College, Melbourne and Xavier College.
6. ^ English: Graduate & alumni profiles – Melbourne University
7. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography (2007). [1].
8. ^ Suzannah Pearce, ed (2006-11-17). "SOMERVAILLE Robert Duncan". Who's Who in Australia Live!. North Melbourne, Vic: Crown Content Pty Ltd. 
9. ^ James Mitchell, A Deepening Roar – Scotch College, Melbourne, 1851–2001, Allen & Unwin, 2001, page 308
10. ^ Suzannah Pearce, ed (2006-11-17). "SHEEZEL Julian Marcus". Who's Who in Business Live!. North Melbourne, Vic: Crown Content Pty Ltd. 

See also

• List of schools in Victoria
• List of boarding schools
• Associated Public Schools of Victoria

External links

• Scotch College, Melbourne website
• Old Scotch Collegians' Association website