List of Old Falconians - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• Professor John Hamilton Andrews AO, architect, designer of Scarborough College Toronto, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cameron Offices Canberra, American Express Tower Sydney (original form), Intelsat HQ Building Washington DC and the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. Completed in 1976, it became the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years. In 1995, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers;
• Sir William Broun, 13th Baronet of Colstoun, Chief of Brown Clan of Scotland
• Darrel Conybeare, architect and town planner, practicing as a multidisciplinary design consultant, carrying out masterplanning and design with award winning projects in the fields of architecture, urban design and strategic planning, major award winning projects include the design and documentation of the Bicentennial Macquarie Street/Queens Square project and Circular Quay (West), also responsible for the $1.5billion Westlink M7 project and the Liverpool to Parramatta Transitway (son of Theo Conybeare and brother of Christopher Conybeare );
• Katherine Cummings (birth name John Cummings), author of Katherine's Diary: The Story of a Transsexual, winner of Australian Human Rights Award for Non-fiction 1992
• Bruce Garnsey AO MBE, Chief Commissioner of Scouts Australia, Chairman of World Scout Committee;
• John Goldring, former District Court Judge and Foundation Dean of Wollongong University Law Faculty, the only person to have two separate entries in the one edition (1993) of Who’s Who in Australia – one under John (Jack) Goldring and another under John Lester Goldring;
• Sir Robert Gordon, 10th Baronet of Afton and Earlston
• Raymond Hoser, wildlife activist and authority, has published numerous articles in journals worldwide, author of Australian Reptiles and Frogs
• Harry Howard, architect, designer of native landscape projects such as the High Court and National Gallery gardens as well as local projects like North Sydney's Sawmiller Reserve and Lane Cove Plaza, he is honoured by the Harry Howard Reserve at Wollstonecraft;
• Graham Keating, 5 Times World Champion Town Crier;
• Peter McGregor, activist, academic, and writer.
• Don Scott, leader of legendary racecourse betting syndicate named the Legal Eagles which in its day attracted huge media attention, by using special techniques he re-engineered the odds to turn betting into a successful business with spectacular wins in the 1960s, he shared his secrets with the public in a number of books including Winning and The Winning Way;
• Roelof Smilde (Captain of School 1947), member of Australian Team that gained Third Place at World Bridge Championship for the Bermuda Bowl in 1971 at Taipei
• Dorjee Sun, a social entrepreneur, is the CEO of Carbon Conservation. His work for Carbon Conservation was a subject of the international feature documentary The Burning Season in 2008. In 2009 a newly discovered species of blue spotted chameleon from the rainforests of Tanzania was named after Sun. In 2009 Time Magazine recognised Sun as a Hero of the Environment;
• Sir Anthony Trollope, 16th Baronet of Casewick and Sir Anthony Trollope, 17th Baronet of Casewick (direct descendants of English novelist Anthony Trollope);
• Bill Waterhouse, barrister, in May 2010 retired from the betting ring at 88-years-old, once known as the world's biggest bookmaker, famous for his betting duels with the big punters of the past, he took what is believed to be the first $1 million bet on a horse race when the "Filipino Fireball" Felipe Ysmael challenged him to a wager in 1968, Ysmael won the bet, but was still left owing money to Waterhouse at the end of the day, former Consul General for Tonga;
• John Waterhouse, President of Royal Zoological Society of NSW, author of The Black Honeyeater