# List of Brighton Grammar School people

This is a list of notable past students and staff of Brighton Grammar School. Alumni of the school are known as "Old Brighton Grammarians".
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* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
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* Y
* Z

## A

* Will Ashcroft - AFL footballer with Brisbane Lions, 2024 Premiership player and Norm Smith Medal winner
* William Adamson – grain merchant, Brighton City councillor (1897–1913), Brighton City Mayor (1901–1902), Member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1910–1922)
* Dylan Alcott – Paralympian
* Francis Henry Joseph Archer – headmaster at Caulfield Grammar School 1923–1954, teacher at Brighton Grammar School 1955–1957
* Sir Stanley Argyle KBE – former Premier of Victoria; Member (Nationalist) for the seat of Toorak

## B

* Gerry Balme – VFL footballer with St Kilda
* Brigadier Lewis Ernest Stephen Barker, CBE, DSO, MC – Australian Army officer
* Andrew Bassat – co-founder of SEEK
* Paul Bassat – co-founder of SEEK
* Marcus Bastiaan – businessman; former vice-president of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party
* Weston Bate – member of staff
* Robin Batterham AO – chemical engineer; Chief Scientist of Australia 1999–2006
* Mordy Bromberg – Federal Court judge, and VFL footballer with St Kilda
* Travis Brooks – Olympic hockey player
* Louis Butler – AFL footballer

## C

* Ben Canham – Australian representative rower
* Bill Cannon – VFL footballer with St Kilda
* Warwick Capper – AFL footballer
* Sir Norman John Carson – businessman, wool industry leader, philanthropist
* James Catanach – RAAF pilot, taken prisoner during the Second World War, took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, was re-captured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo
* Air Vice Marshal Hugh Vivian Champion de Crespigny, CB, MC, DFC – Royal Flying Corps pilot in First World War, and senior Royal Air Force officer during Second World War
* Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp KBE – railway administrator, Director-General of Australia's Land Transport Board, 1942–1951
* Josh Clayton – AFL footballer
* Andrew Cooper – Olympic rower
* George Henry Crowther – founder, and first headmaster of Brighton Grammar School
* Henry Arnold Crowther – second headmaster of Brighton Grammar School

## D

* Roger Davies – artist manager, business manager, and music producer
* Chris Dawes – AFL footballer
* Lt. Col Sir Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny – soldier, medical practitioner, pathologist, academic, and hospital administrator
* John Leopold Denman – member of dynasty of architects
* Neil Douglas MBE – environmental artist; conservationist; author
* Barry Robert Dove – Judge of the County Court of Victoria
* John Robertson Duigan and Reginald Duigan – Australian pioneer aviators who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft

## F

* Horace Percy Finnis – Anglican priest and organist

## G

* William Grant CMG, DSO and Bar, VD – soldier and commander of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at the Battle of Beersheba

## H

* William Hancock – vicar at St Andrew's Church, Brighton (1918–1928), instrumental in acquiring Brighton Grammar School for the Anglican Church in 1924, and chairman of the School's council (1925–1935)
* The Honourable Justice Kim Hargrave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Court of Appeal
* Ray Harper – VFL footballer with St Kilda, Carlton, and North Melbourne
* Clifford Hayes – Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
* Sir Lionel Hooke – pioneer in radio; wireless operator in Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Antarctic Expedition; engineer
* Neville Read Hudson DFC – RAAF pilot, Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1976–1979)
* Jayden Hunt – AFL footballer

## I

* Peter Isaacson AM, DFC, AFC, DFM – publisher and decorated military pilot

## J

* Ben Jacobs – AFL footballer
* Christian Jollie Smith – solicitor, co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia, taught English Literature at Brighton Grammar School (1919)

## K

* Josh Kelly – AFL footballer

## L

* Andrew Lauterstein – Olympic swimmer
* Cyril Lloyd – a senior British Army officer during the Second World War
* Brigadier John Lloyd CBE, DSO, MC & Bar – senior Australian Army officer who fought in the First and Second World Wars, farmer, and licensing magistrate
* Matthew Lloyd – Olympic cyclist
* Corbett Lyon – architect, art patron and academic

## M

* Craig Marais – international field hockey player
* Mat McBriar – American football player
* Michael McCarthy – member of staff, VFL footballer
* William C. McClelland – doctor, VFL footballer and Victorian Football League President
* Andrew McGrath – AFL footballer
* John Charles McIntyre – former Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Gippsland, Victoria; recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003 (also attended Fort Street High School)
* Brad McKay – doctor, author and television personality
* Claude McKay – journalist, newspaper proprietor
* Samuel McLaren – mathematician, mathematical physicist, killed in action during the Battle of the Somme
* Professor Ian Meredith AM – interventional cardiologist, Director of MonashHeart, Professor of Cardiology at Monash University
* Gary Minihan – Olympian, Commonwealth Medal winner, Australian record holder (since 1984)
* Roy Morgan – pollster, market researcher, and Melbourne City councillor 1959–1974
* Nathan Murphy – AFL footballer

## N

* Lieutenant-Colonel James Joachim Nicholas M.B.B.S., M.D. – VFL footballer, killed in action in World War I

## O

* Sean O'Boyle – composer and conductor
* Bill O'Hara – surgeon, VFL footballer with St Kilda
* James Ryan O'Neill (born Leigh Anthony Bridgart in 1947) – convicted murderer and suspected serial killer
* Michael S Osborne KC - Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria

## P

* Roy Paton – farmer, President Towong Shire Council (1929–1930, 1932–1933), Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1932–1947)
* Alexander Augustus Norman Dudley "Jerry" Pentland, MC, DFC, AFC – aviator, World War I fighter ace
* Archie Perkins – AFL footballer with Essendon
* Charlie Pickering – Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, author and producer, and host of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
* Andrew Plympton – businessman, sports administrator, President St Kilda Football Club 1993–2000
* Sir Sir Murray Victor Porter – Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* Harry Potter – rugby union footballer with UK team Leicester Tigers
* Will Pucovski – cricketer

## R

* Peter Reith – Australian politician (Liberal); Minister in Howard Government 1996–2003; Member for the seat of Flinders
* John Ross – Member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1996–2002)
* Michael Rozenes QC – Chief judge of the County Court of Victoria

## S

* Christian Salem – AFL footballer
* Jack Shelton – VFL footballer with St Kilda and South Melbourne; killed in action at Tobruk in 1941
* David Shepherd – Victorian cricketer, and VFL footballer with St Kilda
* Tommy Smith – international racing driver
* David Smorgon OAM – Australian businessman and member of the Smorgon family
* Major General Victor Stantke, CBE – senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War and Second World War, member of staff
* Ivan Stedman – swimmer, silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium
* Jock Sturrock MBE – yachtsman

## T

* Herbert Valentine Tarte – Fiji-born planter, and Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
* Peter Thomson – influential Anglican priest
* Albert Thurgood – VFL footballer
* Will Thursfield – AFL footballer
* Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell –distinguished soldier, Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

## V

* Jim Vickers-Willis – journalist and square dance caller

## W

* Sam Walsh AO – businessman, philanthropist
* Doug Warbrick – co-founder of Rip Curl
* Matthew Warnock – AFL footballer
* Robert Warnock – AFL footballer
* Jack Watts – AFL footballer, No.1 Draft pick 2008
* Charles William George Wheeler – Master of the Supreme Court of Victoria
* Julien Wiener – Australian Test cricketer
* Harry Williams – golfer, Australian Amateur Champion in 1931 and 1937
* David Wittey – AFL footballer

## Y

* Masa Yamaguchi – professional actor on stage and in film

## Z

* Allan Zavod – pianist, composer, jazz musician, and conductor
* Charles Henry Zercho – VFA footballer with Essendon (1890), chaplain and resident master at Brighton Grammar School (1891–1892, and 1911–1913)