# List of St Paul's College, University of Sydney alumni

This is a list of notable Old Paulines, alumni of St Paul's College, University of Sydney.

## Rhodes scholars

* 1907 Garnet Portus
* 1908 Richard Waddy
* 1911 Hugh Ward
* 1915 Walter Crawford
* 1920 Vernon Treatt
* 1925 Allan Callaghan
* 1931 David Garnsey
* 1935 Keith Bradfield
* 1939 Walter Hughes
* 1940 Basil Travers
* 1946 William Woodward
* 1948 Louis Davies
* 1951 Adrian Henchman
* 1953 James McLeod
* 1956 John Bailey
* 1960 Malcolm Swinburn
* 1961 David Garnsey
* 1964 J. Dyson Heydon
* 1975 Peter King
* 1990 Andrew Bell
* 1992 Scott Nixon
* 1995 Peter Barnett
* 2001 Andrew Charlton
* 2003 Benjamin Juratowitch
* 2007 Eric Knight
* 2009 Nikolas Kirby
* 2010 David Llewellyn
* 2011 Nathaniel Ware

## Arts and humanities

* Michael Blakemore, actor, writer and theatre director
* Russell Braddon, writer and broadcaster
* Terence Clarke AM, composer and theatre director
* Peter Cousens, actor and singer
* Thomas Dunbabin, classicist and archaeologist
* Laurie Fitzhardinge, historian and librarian
* Tim Freedman, lead singer of The Whitlams
* John Gaden AM, actor
* Peter Garnsey, classicist and academic
* H. M. Green, literary historian
* James Halliday, wine writer and critic
* Tony Jones, journalist and television presenter
* Gavin Long, journalist and military historian
* David Marr, biographer and writer
* Jock Marshall, writer
* Jonathan Mills, composer and festival director
* David Musgrave, poet
* T. Inglis Moore, writer, anthologist and academic
* Peter Moyes, educator
* Morgan O'Neill, film director, actor, and singer
* Dowell O'Reilly, poet, short story writer and politician
* Hamish Rosser, musician
* Michael Rubbo, documentary filmmaker
* Garnet Portus, academic
* Martin Sharp, artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker
* Sebastian Smee, art critic
* Adam Spencer, comedian, media personality and former radio presenter
* Chris Taylor, comedian

## Business

* Aslam Azhar, television executive
* Warwick Oswald Fairfax, businessman and member of the Fairfax family of media proprietors

## Politics and law

* John Anderson (b. 1956), former Australian Deputy Prime Minister
* Julian Beale (1934–2021), billionaire and former Member for Deakin
* Andrew Bell, President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
* John Booth, former Member for Wakehurst
* Sir Nigel Bowen (1911–94), former Federal Court judge, Australian Foreign Minister
* Donald Alastair Cameron, Minister for Health and Member for Oxley
* Andrew Charlton, economist and Member for Parramatta
* Terence Cole AO RFD QC, former Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
* Percy Colquhoun, parliamentarian, lawyer and sportsman
* Nicholas Cowdery AO QC, former Director of Public Prosecutions for NSW
* Ernest Docker, judge and cricketer
* Clive Evatt QC, NSW Member of Parliament
* Andrew Gee, Member for Calare
* Jack Grahame, lawyer
* Roland Green, Member for Richmond
* Dyson Heydon AC, QC (b 1943), High Court judge
* Peter King, former Member for Wentworth
* Mark Leeming, Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
* Sandy Macdonald, Former Senator for NSW
* Kim Mackay, British politician
* Alan Mansfield KCMG KCVO, 18th Governor of Queensland and barrister
* Sir William McMahon CH (1908–88), former Australian Prime Minister
* Leslie Melville, economist, academic and public servant
* John Peden KCMG KC, President of the NSW Legislative Council
* Peter Phelps, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
* Albert PiddingtonKC (1862–1945), former High Court judge and Royal Commissioner
* Robert Pring, judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
* Andrew Refshauge (b. 1949), former New South Wales Deputy Premier
* Thomas Roseby (1867–1929), former Chief Judge of Mauritius
* James Rowland, Governor of New South Wales and senior Royal Australian Air Force officer
* John Rowland, diplomat and poet
* Ben Saul, international barrister
* Edward St John, Member for Warringah and barrister
* Sir Kenneth Street (1890–1972), former NSW Chief Justice
* Sir Philip Street (1863–1938), former NSW Chief Justice
* George Thorn, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and Premier of Queensland
* Robert Tickner (b. 1951), former Australian Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
* Sir Vernon Treatt KBE, MM, QC (1897–1984), Minister for Justice (1938–1941), Leader of the Opposition (1946–1952), and Member for Woollahra
* Bret Walker AO, SC (b. 1954), Australian barrister
* Gough Whitlam AC (1916-2014), former Australian Prime Minister
* Sir Dudley Williams (1889–1962), former High Court judge
* William Windeyer (b. 1936), NSW Supreme Court judge
* David Yates, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia

## Religion

* Fortescue Ash, 4th Bishop of Rockhampton
* Ernest Burgmann (1885–1967), church leader
* George Cranswick, 2nd Bishop of Gippsland
* David Garnsey, Bishop of Gippsland
* Max Thomas, bishop
* Henry Alexander Woodd, Anglican minister

## Science and medicine

* Peter Orlebar Bishop, neurophysiologist
* Sir Denis Browne (1892–1967), surgeon
* Ian Constable, ophthalmologist
* Lorimer Dods LVO, paediatrician
* Sir Lorimer Dods KB LVO (1900–1981), paediatrician
* William Sutherland Dun, palaeontologist
* A. P. Elkin CMG (1891–1979), anthropologist
* Charles Huxtable, doctor
* Bruce Kapferer, anthropologist
* Arthur Rex Knight, psychologist
* Colin Laverty, medical practitioner and founder of Laverty Pathology
* Patrick McGorry AO (b.1952), psychiatrist, academic, 2010 Australian of the Year
* Edward Pierson Ramsay, zoologist
* Douglas Reye, pathologist

## Sports

* Al Baxter (b. 1977), rugby union player with Australian national team
* Mark Bethwaite AM, Olympic sailor
* Ed Cowan, Australian Test cricketer
* Walter Crawford, first-class cricketer, Governor of Northern Sudan
* Tim Davidson, rugby union player
* Frank Futter, rugby union player
* Cameron Girdlestone, 2016 Olympic silver medallist for rowing
* Daniel Halangahu, rugby union coach
* Michael Hawker, Australian National Rugby Union player and captain
* Mitch Inman, rugby union player
* Jack Massie, cricketer
* Jim Phipps, Australian rules footballer
* Brian Power, Olympic judoka
* Lachlan Renshaw (b. 1987), Olympic and Commonwealth Games track athlete
* Claude Tozer, cricketer and medical doctor
* Basil Travers, rugby player and educator
* Mick Waddy, cricketer and clergyman
* Robert Waley, Olympic coxswain