# List of old boys of The King's School, Parramatta

This is a List of Notable Old Boys of The King's School, Sydney, former students of the Anglican school, The King's School in North Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

## The arts and entertainment

* Bruce Beresford (born 1940) – film director
* Michael Blakemore AO OBE (1928–2023) – freelance theatre and film director
* Richard Brancatisano (born 1983) – actor
* David Campbell (1915–79) – poet
* Robert Crawford (1868–1930) – poet
* John Farquharson (1929–2016) – journalist
* Charles Mackerras (1925–2010) – conductor
* John Marsden (1950–2024) – author; founder and principal of Candlebark School
* Andrew Upton (born 1966) – playwright and screenwriter; husband of Cate Blanchett

## Business

* Hugh Mosman (1843–1909) – discovered gold in Charters Towers
* David Droga (born 1968) – Founder and chair of Droga5
* Basil Fairfax-Ross (1910–84) – Australian businessman

## Medicine and science

* James Charles Cox – Physician and oncologist
* Stephen John James Frank Davies – Adjunct professor, Division of Science at Murdoch University; adjunct professor, School of Environmental Biology at Curtin University of Technology (also attended The Elms School)
* James W. Lance – Neurologist; specialist in headache and migraine
* Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE – Ornithologist; elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and served as President
* Edward Pierson Ramsay – Zoologist; specialist in ornithology
* Greg Retallack (senior year 1969) – Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon; specialist in paleopedology and paleobotany.
* Thomas Griffith Taylor – Pioneering geographer; physiographer; weather service's official representative on the Terra Nova Expedition; foundation head of Australia's first university geography department (also attended Sydney Grammar School)

## Military

* Vice Admiral Sir John Gregory Crace KBE, CB – officer of the British Royal Navy (RN); commanded the Australian–United States Support Force (Task Force 44) at the Battle of the Coral Sea
* Lieutenant John Steel ("Jock") Lewes – British Army officer and founding principal training officer of the British Special Air Service; killed in action, 1941.
* Major-General Sir Denzil Macarthur-Onslow CBE, DSO – commander of the 1st Armoured Brigade during World War II.
* Major-General Sir Granville Ryrie KCMG, CB – served in both the Second Boer War and World War I.
* Sydney Christian – Australian Army Colonel

## Politics, public service, and the law

* Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott KB KCMG – Politician and solicitor; Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the district of Maitland; Elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for Gunnedah, and later for Wentworth
* John Anderson – MHR (Nat); Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party (1999–2005)
* John Douglas Anthony AC, CH – MHR (Nat) (1957–1984); Deputy Prime Minister (1971–72) and (1975–83); Leader of the National Party (1971–84)
* Mike Baird – Former Premier of NSW
* Sir Joshua Peter Bell – Pastoralist and parliamentarian
* Sir Nigel Bowen AC KBE – Politician; Member for Parramatta (Liberal); Appointed Attorney-General of Australia in the Second Holt Ministry
* Francis Stewart Boyce – Barrister, Supreme Court judge and politician (also attended Sydney Grammar School and Rugby School)
* Arthur Chesterfield-Evans – NSW MLC (Dem) (1998–2007)
* Russell Cooper – Premier of Queensland (Sept–Dec 1989); Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (Nat) (1983–2001)
* Alfred Cox – New Zealand politician.
* Somerset de Chair – MP, philanderer and author
* John Ewing – Former Australian Politician
* Frederick Augustus Forbes – Store-keeper, grazier and politician; Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
* William Forster – Politician; Premier of New South Wales (1859–60); Author of poetry and prose
* John Gunther – Public servant
* Hovenden Hely – Australian Explorer and politician
* Sir Joseph George Long Innes – Politician, elected to the Legislative Assembly for Mudgee; Queensland District Court judge
* Stewart Wolfe Jamieson – Official secretary at the Australian High Commission, Ottawa (1947–50); Officer-in-charge of the information and defence liaison branches, Canberra (1950–52); Consul-general in San Francisco, United States of America; Chargé d'affaires in Dublin; Australia's first high commissioner to Ghana
* Jeremy Kinross – NSW MLA (Lib) (1992–99)
* Jerome Laxale – Federal Member for Bennelong
* Sir David Maughan – Barrister; President of the Law Council of Australia
* John Frederick McDougall, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council (1860–1895)
* Sandy McPhie – Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Toowoomba North (1983–1989) (Nat)
* Leon Ashton Punch – Former NSW deputy premier and minister of the crown
* Bernard Blomfield Riley – Barrister; Judge of the Federal Court of Bankruptcy; Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
* John Randall Sharp – Former National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing Gilmore and Hume; Business Executive
* The Hon. Keith Mason QC – former President of the NSW Court of Appeal
* John Anderson – Former Australian Politician
* Horace Berry – Former Australian Politician
* Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor – Pastoralist and politician; Elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bathurst
* Angus Taylor – Australian Shadow Treasurer
* George Thorn – Premier of Queensland (1876–77), Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
* John Lloyd Waddy, OBE, DFC (1916–1987) – a senior officer and aviator in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) who later served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and Minister of the Crown.
* Sir Charles Gregory Wade KCMG – Premier of New South Wales (1907–1910); Judge (also attended All Saints College, Bathurst)
* Bret William Walker SC – Barrister; Member of the NSW Health Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel; Former President of the NSW Bar Association; Former President of the Law Council of Australia
* Sir William Charles Windeyer – Politician and judge

## Religion

* Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick – Anglican bishop (also attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School)
* George Cranswick – Bishop
* Percival Stacy Waddy – Anglican clergyman; Cricketer; headmaster of The King's School

## Sport
### Australian football

* Ryan Davis

### Athletics

* Nicholas Hough – winner of 110m hurdles 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.

### Basketball

* Josh Green – NBA player for the Dallas Mavericks

### Cricket

* Baxter Holt – Current player for Sydney Thunder and New South Wales cricket team
* Reg Bettington – Former Australian Cricketer

### Soccer

* Travis Cooper – Currently playing for GHFA Spirit FC

### Rowing

* John Ryrie – Australian men's eight 1912 Olympics
* Robert Waley – cox of Australian men's eight 1912 Olympics
* Robert Paver – dual Olympian, Australian men's eight 1972 and 1976 Olympics
* Samuel Loch – dual Olympian, Australian men's eight 2008 and 2012 Olympics
* Matt Ryan – Australian men's four 2008 Olympics (silver medalist) and men's eight 2012 Olympics
* Nick Hudson – Australian quad scull, silver medallist 2008 World Championships
* Cam Girdlestone – Olympic Medalist at 2016 Olympic Games
* Andrew Cox – Former Australian Coxswain
* Stuart Mackenzie – silver medallist in the single sculls at 1956 Olympics

### Rugby league

* Daniel Conn – Former Rugby League player for the Gold Coast Titans
* Joseph Suaalii – Rugby League Player for the Sydney Roosters
* Will Penisini – Rugby League Player for the Parramatta Eels

### Rugby union

* Ben Batger – ACT Brumbies
* Will Caldwell – NSW Waratahs
* Mitchell Chapman – Queensland Reds, NSW Waratahs and ACT Brumbies
* Tim Davidson – Western Force, NSW Waratahs
* Daniel Halangahu – NSW Waratahs
* Ben Hand – NSW Waratahs
* James Hilgendorf – Western Force
* Julian Huxley – ACT Brumbies, Queensland Reds and Wallabies
* Nicholas Phipps – Melbourne Rebels, New South Wales Waratahs and Wallabies
* Stirling Mortlock – ACT Brumbies and Wallabies
* Dean Mumm – NSW Waratahs and Wallabies
* Benn Robinson – NSW Waratahs and Wallabies
* Jon White – Wallabies (1958–1965).
* Lalakai Foketi – NSW Waratahs and Wallabies
* Dylan Pietsch – NSW Waratahs, Australia A, Australia National Rugby Sevens Team and [[ Australia national rugby union team | Wallabies
* Charlie Cale (rugby union)– ACT Brumbies
* Tom Connor - Australia National Rugby Sevens Team
* Archer Holz – NSW Waratahs
* Joseph Sua'ali'i - NSW Waratahs
* Fergus Lee-Warner – NSW Waratahs

### Shooting

* Glenn Kable – Fijian sport shooter, competitor in the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics in Men's Trap. World Cup winner 2001 Korea..

### Tennis

* Rinky Hijikata – Japanese-Australian tennis player, whose career high ATP singles ranking is World No. 82. (2013–2016).

## Others

* Charles Cavendish – 7th Baron Chesham
* Col James (1936–2013) – architect
* Maha Vajiralongkorn – King of Thailand