page_title: Scotch College, Melbourne
section_title: Alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Scotch College, Melbourne / Alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Littlejohn Memorial Chapel and the Hill at Scotch College, Melbourne
context_page_description: Scotch College is an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spring Street, Melbourne, by James Forbes of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria. It is the oldest extant secondary school in Victoria and celebrated its sesquicentenary in 2001.
  Scotch is a founding member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria, and is affiliated with the International Boys' Schools Coalition, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria, and the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The School is a former member of the G20 Schools Group and a current member of the Global Alliance of Leading-Edge Schools.
context_section_description: Alumni of Scotch College are known as Old Boys or Old Collegians, and automatically become members of the School's alumni association, the Old Scotch Collegians' Association (OSCA).
  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. In 2010 The Age reported that Scotch College "has educated more of Australia's most honoured and influential citizens than any other school in the nation", based on research that revealed its alumni had received more top Order of Australia honours than any other school.
  Alumni of Scotch College include
  Three Governors-General of Australia - Sir Zelman Cowen, Sir Ninian Stephen and Peter Hollingworth.
  Prime Minister of Australia Sir George Reid.
  Four Justices of the High Court of Australia - Sir John Latham (Chief Justice), Kenneth Hayne, Sir Hayden Starke and Sir Ninian Stephen
  Eight State Premiers - Jim Bacon (Tas), John Cain (Vic), Jeff Kennett (Vic), Sir Harry Lawson (Vic), John MacPherson (Vic), Sir George Reid (NSW), William Shiels (Vic) and Vaiben Louis Solomon (SA)
  Chief of the Australian Defence Force General Peter Gration.
  The eponyms of two Universities - Monash University named after Sir John Monash (who features on the Australian $100 note) and Murdoch University named after Sir Walter Murdoch.
  Ten University Vice-Chancellors - Sir Kenneth Wheare of Oxford University; Sir Lindsay Ride of University of Hong Kong; Sir David Derham, Sir John Monash, Sir George Paton and David Penington of the University of Melbourne; Peter Darvall and Raymond Martin of Monash University; Sir Walter Murdoch of the University of Western Australia; and Sir Zelman Cowen of the University of Queensland and University of New England.
  Psychiatrist and former prisoner of war Dr John Cade AO who discovered lithium for the treatment of bipolar disorder.
  Two BHP Chairmen - Sir Ian McLennan and Sir James Balderstone.
  Governor of Victoria Sir Henry Winneke.
  Economist and founding Chief Editor of the International Monetary Fund Allan G B Fisher.
  Three times Olympic Gold Medalist Drew Ginn.
  Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia Sir Harold Knight.
  Alistair Knox (1912-1980) - mudbrick house designer and builder.
  Captain Robert Little, highest scoring Australian fighter ace in World War I.
  Player and Head Coach of the Australian National Rugby Union Team Ewen McKenzie.
  World number 1 and two times Wimbledon singles tennis champion Gerald Patterson.
  Actor Jesse Spencer.
  Singer-songwriter John Williamson.
  Australian moral philosopher and Laureate Professor Peter Singer.
caption: "The Hill", which is the location of the boarding precinct, above the Littlejohn Memorial Chapel (2009)
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