Melbourne Grammar School - Alumni

Alumni

Alumni of Melbourne Grammar School are commonly referred to as Old Melburnians and may elect to join the schools' alumni association, the Old Melburnians' Society (OMS). Some notable Old Melburnians include:

  • Sir Keith Aickin – former Justice of the High Court of Australia
  • Harry Brookes Allen – Notable pathologist
  • Austin Asche – former Administrator of the Northern Territory
  • Oscar Asche – actor; director; writer
  • David Ashley – Judge, Victorian Court of Appeal
  • Mervyn Austin – Rhodes Scholar, headmaster Newington College and professor
  • Ted Baillieu – current Premier of Victoria
  • Simon Beaumont – Australian rules footballer
  • John F.O. Bilson – academic
  • His Honour Judge Colonel Thomas Alfred Milton (Mick) Boulter QC GSO1 Lt.Col Eastern Command recipient of the Military Medal, for Bravery in the Field (1942).
  • John Brack – artist (MGS staff member)
  • Alfred Brookes – first head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
  • Sir Norman Brookes – tennis player
  • Stanley Bruce, Viscount Bruce of Melbourne – former Prime Minister of Australia
  • John Brumby – former Premier of Victoria
  • Samuel Burston – doctor, soldier, horseracing identity
  • Julian Burnside – prominent QC
  • Sam Calder – politician
  • Frank Callaway – former judge, Victorian Court of Appeal
  • Richard Casey, Baron Casey of Berwick – former Governor-General of Australia
  • Manning Clark – historian
  • Don Cordner – doctor and Australian rules footballer
  • David Crawshay – 2008 Olympic gold medallist Mens Double Sculls
  • Jonathan Dawson – Screenwriter/Director, Academic, Newspaper Columnist
  • Alfred Deakin – former Prime Minister of Australia
  • Lancelot De Mole – Engineer and inventor of the first tank
  • Xavier Ellis – Australian rules footballer, No. 3 draft pick 2005
  • Edwin Flack (Teddy) – 1896 Olympic gold medallist
  • Malcolm Fraser – former Prime Minister of Australia
  • Ernest Gaunt – Royal Navy Admiral
  • Guy Gaunt – Royal Navy Admiral and British Conservative Member of Parliament
  • Aubrey Gibson– businessman and philanthropist
  • Harold William Grimwade – soldier
  • William Keith Hancock – Rhodes Scholar, historian
  • Tom Hawkins – Australian rules footballer
  • Sir Edmund Herring – soldier and judge
  • Vasey Houghton – politician
  • Cedric Howell – First World War fighter pilot and flying ace
  • Frederic Godfrey Hughes – soldier
  • Wilfrid Kent Hughes – Rhodes Scholar, politician
  • Barry Humphries – entertainer
  • Matt Thomas – Australian rules footballer
  • William Donovan Joynt – soldier, Victoria Cross winner
  • Charles Kellaway – scientist
  • Tom King – Sailor, Olympic Gold Medallist (2000)
  • Barrie Kosky – opera and theatre director
  • Chris Langford – former Australian Rules Footballer (Hawthorn), AFL commissioner
  • Nam Le – writer
  • Chris Maxwell – Rhodes Scholar, President, Victorian Court of Appeal
  • Sir William Neil McKie – Former Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey
  • Leslie Morshead – soldier (MGS Staff member)
  • William Moule – cricketer; politician
  • William Ellis Newton – airman, Victoria Cross winner
  • William Ormiston – former Judge, Victorian Court of Appeal
  • Dan Robinson – singer
  • Andrew Thompson – Australian rules footballer
  • Frank Thring – actor
  • John Thwaites – politician
  • Athol Tymms – Australian rules footballer and doctor

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