Academia, Medicine and Science
- Dr Walter Burfitt CBE – Surgeon and co-founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; Founder of the Medical Benevolent Association of New South Wales (also attended Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview)
- Alistair Mackerras AM – Long serving headmaster of Sydney Grammar School
- Professor Jacques Miller AC FRS (1931- ) – a distinguished research scientist; famous for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes (T cells and B cells) and their function.
- Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE FRS FAA (1931- ) – a distinguished research scientist; famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance; a former director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (1965-1996); and Australian of the Year in 2000
- Professor Peter Rowe – Head of the Children's Medical Research Institute 1980-2006; and Australian Father of the Year in 1984
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