List of Old Melburnians

• Richard Casey – 16th Governor-General of Australia, Governor of Bengal, former Australian of the Year, and final Australian in the House of Lords{{Cite web|url=https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/richard-gardiner-casey-1890-1976|title=Richard Gardiner Casey 1890–1976 {{!}} Australian Academy of Science|website=www.science.org.au|access-date=2019-02-18}}
• Sir Edmund Herring – longest serving Lieutenant Governor of Victoria

• Stanley Bruce – 8th Prime Minister of Australia
• Alfred Deakin – 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
• Malcolm Fraser – 22nd Prime Minister of Australia

• Ted Baillieu – 46th Premier of Victoria{{cite web| url = https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/john--teds-school-days-20101120-181zk.html| title = John & Ted's school days}}
• John Brumby – 45th Premier of Victoria
• Sir Rupert Hamer – 39th Premier of Victoria
• Arthur Moore – 23rd Premier of Queensland

• Sir John George Davies – 19th mayor of Hobart and cricketer
• Sir Harold Luxton – 61st Lord Mayor of Melbourne and businessman
• Sir Harold Gengoult Smith – 62nd Lord Mayor of Melbourne and doctor

• Richard Casey – 16th Governor-General of Australia, Governor of Bengal, former Australian of the Year (1969), and final Australian in the House of Lords
• Manning Clark – historian and former Australian of the Year (1980)
• Simon Mckeon – yachtsman, businessman, lawyer, philanthropist, and former Australian of the Year (2011)

• William Joynt – served in France with the First Australian Imperial Force in World War I
• Bill Newton – served as a pilot with the RAAF in Papua New Guinea in World War II

• William Anderson – RAAF officer
• Alfred Brookes – first Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• Sir Wilfred Deakin Brookes – businessman and RAAF officer
• Sir Samuel Burston – doctor, soldier, horseracing identity
• Adrian Cole – Air Vice Marshall RAAF
• Sir Ernest Gaunt – Royal Navy Admiral
• Sir Guy Gaunt – Royal Navy Admiral and British Conservative member of parliament
• Harold Grimwade – soldier and businessman
• Jo Gullett – soldier, journalist and politician
• Sir Edmund Herring – soldier and judge
• Ronald Hopkins – WWII General
• Cedric Howell – First World War fighter pilot and flying ace
• Frederic Hughes – WWI General
• Tony Hyams – politician and banker
• Sir William Johnston – medical practitioner and army officer
• Ian Kennison – 5th Director-General of ASIS
• Sir Ian McIntosh – Royal Navy officer
• Richard Minifie – fighter pilot and flying ace
• Sir Leslie Morshead – soldier (MGS staff member)
• Sir Frank Kingsley Norris – military officer and soldier
• Philip Rhoden – Army officer and lawyer
• Sir Charles Ryan – military surgeon
• Cyril Seelenmeyer – VFL footballer, veterinary surgeon, winner of Military Cross
• Edward Smart – diplomat and general
• Sir Vernon Sturdee – Lieutenant-General and Chief of the General Staff
• Sir Roger Wheeler – former Chief of the General Staff
• Gordon Chesney Wilson – army officer
• Sir Edward Woodward – judge, Royal Commissioner and former head of ASIO
• Oscar Jenkins{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Sherryn Groch, Ashleigh |date=2024-12-23 |title=‘Your typical Aussie cricket boy’: Why Oscar Jenkins went to fight in Ukraine |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/your-typical-aussie-cricket-boy-why-oscar-jenkins-went-to-fight-in-ukraine-20241223-p5l0ck.html |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}

• Horace Crotty – Anglican Bishop of Bathurst
• Peter John Elliott – Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne
• Awdry Julius – Dean of Christchurch
• Geraldine MacKenzie – missionary
• John McKie – Archdeacon of Melbourne
• Gerard Tucker – priest and advocate for the poor
• Allen Winter – theological scholar and Bishop

• Arthur Abbott – Attorney-General of Western Australia
• Sir Keith Aickin – former Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Austin Asche – 3rd Chief Justice of the Northern Territory
• John Batt – former justice of the Supreme Court
• Maurice Blackburn – politician, lawyer and founder of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
• Julian Burnside – barrister and human rights advocate
• Sam Calder – politician and flying ace
• Frank Callaway – former judge of the Supreme Court{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp – transport administrator responsible for an overhaul of Victoria's train network
• Les Craig – politician in Western Australia
• Sir John George Davies – mayor of Hobart and cricketer
• Noël St. Clair Deschamps – public servant and diplomat
• Theodore Fink – solicitor and politician
• Jo Gullett – soldier, journalist and politician
• Sir Rutherford Guthrie – politician and grazier
• David Harper – former judge of the Supreme Court
• Sir Edmund Herring – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and soldier
• Sir Edwin Hicks ("Ted") – diplomat and secretary of defence
• Sir Henry Hodges – Supreme Court Justice
• Vasey Houghton – politician
• Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes – Rhodes Scholar, politician, Olympic hurdler, and organiser of the 1956 Olympics
• Geoffry Hurry – politician and lawyer
• {{ill|Alexander Wigram Allen Leeper|de}} – diplomat
• Sir Reginald Leeper – diplomat and founder of the British Council
• Sir Harold Luxton – businessman and Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• Sir Thomas Chester Manifold – politician and horse breeder
• Sir Walter Manifold – president of the Legislative Council
• Kenneth Marks – former Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Royal Commissioner
• Chris Maxwell – Rhodes Scholar and President of the Victorian Court of Appeal
• John McMillan – diplomat
• William Moule – politician and cricketer
• Sir Keith Officer – diplomat
• Philip Opas – Barrister; defence counsel for Ronald Ryan
• William Ormiston – former Judge of the Supreme Court
• Sir Reginald Sholl – Rhodes scholar and former Judge of Victorian Supreme Court
• Tony Street – former Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Ted Tanner – Opposition whip (Victorian Legislative Assembly)
• John Thwaites – 24th deputy Premier of Victoria
• Agar Wynne – politician and Attorney-General of Victoria

• Mervyn Austin – Rhodes Scholar and former Headmaster of Newington College and professor in classics
• Edward Bage – polar explorer
• Sir James William Barrett – ophthalmologist and academic
• John F. O. Bilson – Professor of Finance
• Sir Robert Blackwood – businessman and first Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
• Manning Clark – historian and former Australian of the Year
• Frank Cumbrae-Stewart – barrister and Garrick Professor of Law
• Peter Dixon – economist
• Pierre Gorman – expert on deaf communication
• Sir John Grice – businessman and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Melbourne
• Sir Russell Grimwade – chemist, botanist, and philanthropist
• Sir Keith Hancock – Rhodes Scholar and historian
• Sir Edward Hughes – eminent surgeon and former president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Sir George Julius – inventor of the first tote-board and first chairman of CSIRO
• Charles Kellaway – medical researcher and second director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
• Richard Larkins – physician and vice-chancellor of Monash University
• Miles Lewis – expert on urban conservation
• Sir Irvine Masson – chemist and vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield
• Ainslie Meares – psychiatrist and expert in the medical use of hypnotism
• Sir Edward Fancourt Mitchell – barrister and expert in constitutional law
• Norval Morris – legal academic and criminologist
• Alfred John North – ornithologist
• Andrew Prentice – mathematician and expert on the formation of the Solar System
• John Rymill – Polar explorer
• A.G.L. Shaw – historian and academic
• Godfrey Tanner – academic
• Gerard Tucker – priest and advocate for the poor

• Ross Adler – business executive and philanthropist
• Sir Harry Brookes Allen – pathologist
• Clive Baillieu – businessman, public servant, and rower
• Ameet Bains – CEO of Western Bulldogs
• Robert Champion de Crespigny – multi-millionaire founder of Normandy Mining Limited and former Australian Businessman of the Year
• Martin Chapman – New Zealand barrister and founder of Chapman Tripp
• Sir Peter Derham – business executive and philanthropist
• Carrillo Gantner – founder of the Playbox Theater and patron of the arts, former Victorian of the Year
• Michael Georgeff – computer scientist
• Aubrey Gibson – businessman and philanthropist
• Sir John Grice – businessman and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Melbourne
• Sir Russell Grimwade – businessman and philanthropist
• Simon Mckeon – champion yachtsman, businessman, lawyer, philanthropist, and Australian of the Year
• Andrew Michelmore – Rhodes Scholar, mining executive, and first Australian gold medal for rowing
• Lancelot de Mole – engineer and inventor of the first tank
• Jim Penman – founder of Jim's Group and historian
• Brian Roet – hypnotist and AFL premiership winner
• Cedric Ian Turner – architect

• Oscar Asche – actor, director, and writer
• John Brack – artist
• John Bryson – author
• James Campbell – journalist
• Robin Casinader – musician
• Manning Clark – historian and Australian of the Year
• Erle Cox – journalist and science fiction writer
• Caroline Craig – actress
• Andrew Daddo – actor, voice artist, author and television personality
• Jonathan Dawson – screenwriter, director, academic and columnist
• Keith Dunstan – journalist and author
• Peggy Frew – ARIA-winning composer and novelist
• Ian Gawler – author
• William Hay – historical author
• Sir Randal Heymanson – journalist
• Leslie Howard – decorated pianist
• Barry Humphries – Tony award-winning actor and comedian{{Cite web|url=http://www.the-rathouse.com/PC_TheRealBH.html|title=PC_TheRealBH|website=www.the-rathouse.com|access-date=2019-02-20}}
• Barrie Kosky – opera and theatre director
• Nam Le – writer
• Derwent Lees – artist
• Terence (Terry) James McCrann – Australia's leading business journalist
• Angus McKean - Drummer and Musician
• Sir William McKie – former Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey
• Tom Morris
• Christopher Muir – producer, director and Head of ABC Television drama
• Ken Myer – founding chairman of the ABC and patron for the arts
• Rupert Myer – Chairman of the Australia Council for the Arts
• Li-Wei Qin – international concert cellist
• Hugo Race – musician{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• Dan Robinson – singer
• Nick Russell – television actor, producer, and director
• Michael Schildberger – journalist and host of A Current Affair
• Geoffrey Simon – orchestra conductor
• Rob Sitch – film director, producer, and screenwriter
• Sir Frank Tait – theatre entrepreneur
• Frank Thring – actor in Ben-Hur and King of Kings
• Mick Turner – musician (Dirty Three) and artist
• Michael Veitch – actor, broadcaster, author
• Chester Wilmot – war correspondent

• Richard de Crespigny – Pilot of Qantas Flight 32

see also: Old Melburnians Football Club

• James Aitken
• Jack Atkins
• Dick Atkinson
• Simon Beaumont
• Toby Bedford
• Sam Berry
• Arthur Best
• Lewis Blackmore
• Rohan Brown
• Murray Clapham
• Dylan Clarke
• Ryan Clarke
• Jack Cockbill
• John Conway – captain of Carlton and cricketer
• Peter Cooper
• David Cordner
• Denis Cordner
• Don Cordner{{Cite web|url=https://mgs.vic.edu.au/about/our-people/meet-our-alumni/dr-donald-pruen-cordner|title=Dr Donald Pruen Cordner {{!}} Melbourne Grammar School|website=mgs.vic.edu.au|access-date=2019-02-18}} – Brownlow Medallist, 2-time Premiership winner, captain of Melbourne, and doctor
• Harry Cordner
• John Cordner
• Ted Cordner
• Simon Crawshay
• David Cuningham
• Percy Damman
• Johnny Dando
• Simon Deacon
• Bill Denehy
• Frank Dossetor
• Harcourt Dowsley – AFL player and cricketer
• Nathan Drummond
• Kyle Dunkley
• Charlie Edwards
• Shaun Edwards
• Xavier Ellis – Premiership player for Hawthorn
• Ken Forge
• Simon Fraser – AFL player and Olympic rower
• Corrie Gardner – first Premiership winner for Melbourne and Olympic hurdler
• Eric Gardner
• Mark Gardner
• Ed Garlick
• David Gaunson
• Dave Gibson
• Audley Gillespie-Jones
• Hugh Goddard
• John Goold – 2-time Premiership winner for Carlton
• Steven Greene
• Stuart Griffiths
• Housie Grounds
• Herbert Guthrie – AFL player and cricketer
• Dick Hallo
• Jack Hawkins
• Tom Hawkins – 5× All Australian, 3× premiership player, Coleman medallist, All-Australian captain
• Michael Hawkins
• Robb Hawkins
• Will Hayes
• Wilfrid Heron
• Maurie Herring – Premiership winner for Melbourne
• Herb Hunter – champion athlete, dentist and AFL player
• Alex Keath – AFL player and cricketer
• Graham Kerr
• John Kerr
• Bruce Lang
• Ed Langdon – Premiership winner for Melbourne
• Mark Langdon
• Tom Langdon
• Chris Langford – 4-time Premiership winner, Hawthorn Football Club captain and AFL commissioner
• Ron Larking
• Ben Long
• Ned Long
• Steven May – Melbourne premiership full-back, Indigenous all-star, 2× All-Australian
• Ken McKaige
• Peter McLean – 2-time Premiership winner for Melbourne and Carlton
• Ian McMullin
• Zach Merrett – Captain of Essendon, 3× best-and-fairest winner, 2× All-Australian
• Luke Mitchell
• Derek Mollison – AFL player and military officer
• Jeremy Nichols
• George O'Mullane – AFL player and cricketer
• Jackson Paine
• Leslie Rainey – AFL player, tennis player and cricketer
• Fletcher Roberts – Premiership winner for Western Bulldogs
• Brian Roet – Premiership winner for Melbourne
• Ken Rollason
• Ron Rutherford
• Ryley Sanders
• Cyril Seelenmeyer
• Jack Shelley
• Joe Shelley
• Peter V. Smith
• Ben Sordello
• Charlie Spargo – Premiership player
• Jim Sprigg
• Cyril Steele
• Ian Synman – Premiership player and prominent Jewish player
• Matt Thomas
• Andrew Thompson
• John Tilbrook
• Bonnie Toogood – AFLW Premiership winner for Western Bulldogs
• Athol Tymms – AFL player and doctor
• Ed Vickers-Willis
• Francis Vine – Premiership winner and captain of Melbourne
• Jack P. Walker – VFL player and soldier
• Josh Ward
• Fred Warry
• Russ Watson – AFL player, cricketer and athlete
• Mal Williams – AFL player and soldier
• Andrew Witts
• Barney Wood – AFL player, cricketer, motorsports driver and soldier
• Mike Woods

• Joel Baden – Olympic high jumper
• Sam Baines – youth record holder for 110m hurdles
• Dennis Duigan – Olympic decathlete
• Edwin Flack (Teddy) – 2-time Olympic gold medallist, Australia's first Olympian and earning Australia's first gold medal
• Henry Frayne – Olympic triple jumper
• Corrie Gardner – national Australian hurdle champion, Olympic hurdler, and AFL player
• Peter Gardner – Olympic hurdler
• Lachlan Francis Gooley – Champion sprinter, represented Malvern in several meets through the late 1990s and early 2000s
• Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes – Rhodes Scholar, politician, Olympic hurdler, and organiser of the 1956 Olympics
• Herb Hunter – champion athlete, dentist, and AFL player
• Charles Lane – Olympic sprinter
• Jack Newman – Olympic middle-distance runner
• Fred Woodhouse – Olympic pole vaulter

• Dane Pineau – centre for the Sydney Kings

• Ted à Beckett – cricket all-rounder
• Richard Bell – English bowler
• John Conway – cricketer and AFL player
• Sir John George Davies – cricketer and mayor of Hobart
• Harcourt Dowsley – cricketer and AFL player
• Herbert Guthrie – cricketer and AFL player
• Alex Keath – cricketer and AFL player
• Wallscourt Kelly – bowler
• William Moule – politician and cricketer
• George O'Mullane – wicketkeeper and AFL player
• Ernest Osborne – bowler
• Robert James Parish – cricket administrator and Chairman of ACB 1966–1969 and a second term from 1975 to 1980

• Lachlan Dreher – 3-time Olympic medallist
• Danni Roche – Olympic gold medallist

• Ivo Whitton – 5-time Australian Open winner

• Clive Baillieu – businessman, public servant, and rower
• David Colvin – 10-time King's Cup champion and Olympic coxswain
• David Crawshay – Olympic gold medallist
• Ben Dodwell – rower, Olympic medallist, and 9-time national champion
• Karsten Forsterling – Olympic silver medallist
• Simon Fraser – Olympic rower, first Australian Henley winner, and AFL player
• Lewis Luxton – Olympic rower
• Timothy Masters – Olympic rower
• Andrew Michelmore – Rhodes Scholar, mining executive, and first Australian gold medal for rowing
• Jessica Morrison – Olympic gold medalist
• David Webster – 2-time World Champion coxswain
• Tim Webster – coxswain

• Alec Boswell Timms – national rugby player for Scotland and the British Isles

• Tom King – sailor, Olympic gold medallist
• Simon Mckeon – champion yachtsman, businessman, lawyer, philanthropist, and Australian of the Year

• Cam Bolton – Olympic snowboarder
• Anton Grimus – Olympic freestyle skier
• Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes – first Australian overseas skier
• Piers Jalland – Olympic tobogganist, colloquially known as “The beast of Buller”

• Jason Davidson
• Stefan Nigro – A-League player

• Sir Norman Brookes{{Citation|last=Frederick|first=W. H.|title=Brookes, Sir Norman Everard (1877–1968)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brookes-sir-norman-everard-5373|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-02-18}} – Wimbledon and Davis Cup champion, businessman, and eponym of Australian Open trophy
• Colin Long – 4-time Australian Open champion in mixed doubles
• Arthur O'Hara Wood – Australian Open champion
• Pat O'Hara Wood – 2-time Grand Slam winner in singles and 6-time Grand Slam winner in doubles

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