List of Melbourne High School Alumni - Sport

Sport

Australian Football League – Members of the AFL Hall of Fame

• Brian Dixon – Melbourne Football Club
• Dale Weightman – Richmond Football Club
• Gordon Roy Wright – Richmond Football Club
• Tom Hafey – Richmond Football Club

Australian Football League – Members of the Team of the Century for each AFL club

• Brian Dixon – Melbourne Football Club, wing
• Matthew Knights – Richmond Football Club, interchange bench
• Garry Lyon – Melbourne Football Club, half-forward flank
• Billy Picken – Collingwood Football Club, half-back flank
• Neil Roberts – St Kilda Football Club, centre-half back
• Dale Weightman – Richmond Football Club, forward pocket
• Gordon Roy Wright – Richmond Football Club, 1st ruckman
• Tom Hafey – Richmond Football Club, coach

Australian Football League (players)

Collingwood Football Club

• Rene Kink – 7th in Brownlow Medal count 1979
• Phil Manassa – after whom the AFL Goal-of-the-Year award is named
• Billy Picken – Best and Fairest 1978 and 1983, 3rd in the Brownlow Medal count 1977

Hawthorn Football Club

• David Parkin – Captain 1971 premiership team, Best and Fairest 1965

Melbourne Football Club

• Cameron Bruce – Co-captain 2008, Best and Fairest 2008
• Brian Dixon – Member of 5 premiership teams, Best and Fairest 1960, Tassie Medal 1961, All-Australian 1961
• Andy Lovell – Runner-up Best and Fairest 1992
• Glenn Lovett – Best and Fairest 1992
• Garry Lyon – Captain 1991–97, Best and Fairest 1990, 1994, All-Australian 1993–95
• David Schwarz – Vice-Captain 2000, Best and Fairest 1999
• Stephen Tingay – Runner-up Best and Fairest 1994, All-Australian 1994

Richmond Football Club

• Matthew Knights – Captain 1997–2000, Best and Fairest 1990 & 1992, Runner-up for the Brownlow medal 1995
• Mark Lee – Member of 1980 Premiership team, Captain 1985–86, Best and Fairest 1984, All-Australian 1980, 1983, 1985
• Stephen Ryan – Member of 1989 Under 19s Premiership team, Leading goalkicker 1990
• Dale Weightman – Member 1980 Premiership team, Captain 1988–92, Best and Fairest 1986–87, Tassie Medal 1985, All-Australian 1985–86,1988
• Gordon Roy Wright Captain 1958–59, Best and Fairest 1951–52,1954,1957, All-Australian 1956

St Kilda Football Club

• Lindsay Edward Fox AC
• David Grant – Runner-up Best and Fairest 1989, All Australian 1991
• Keith Ross Miller MBE – Also a champion Test cricketer
• Neil Roberts Captain 1959–62, Best and Fairest 1955 & 1958, All-Australian 1958

West Coast Football Club

• Andy Lovell

Australian Football League (Brownlow medalists)

• Neil Roberts – St Kilda Football Club 1958
• Gordon Roy Wright – Richmond Football Club 1952 & 1954

Australian Football League (coaches)

• Tom Hafey – Richmond Football Club, Collingwood Football Club, Geelong Football Club, Sydney Football Club
• Matthew Knights – Essendon Football Club
• David Parkin – Hawthorn Football Club (premiers 1978), Carlton Football Club (premiers 1981–82 and 1995), and Fitzroy Football Club.

Australian Football League (administrators)

• Lindsay Fox AC – President of the St Kilda Football Club

Australian Football League (television personalities)

• Garry Lyon – Nine Network
• David Schwarz – Seven Network

Cricket

• Keith Miller MBE – Test cricketer, former VFL player
• Doug Ring – Test cricketer
• Jack Wilson – Test cricketer
• William Maldon Woodfull – Australian Test cricket captain, he returned to the school as a mathematics teacher and became principal.

National Basketball League

• Brad Barnes – NBL player
• Brendan Dillon – NBL player
• Andrew Parkinson – NBL player

Olympians

• Ron Clarke – Olympian, former holder of 17 world records for long distance running, philanthropist and Mayor of the Gold Coast
• Ralph Doubell – Olympic athlete, Australia's last male Track & Field Gold Medallist (1968 800m)
• Nick Green – Australian Olympic Rower and member of the Oarsome Foursome
• Peter Winter – Olympic athlete