Sydney Girls High School - Notable Alumnae

Notable Alumnae

Entertainment, media and the arts

• Glenda Adams – Novelist and short story writer, best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral
• Dorothy Alison – Stage, film and television actress
• Patricia Thelma Amphlett OAM (a.k.a. Little Pattie) – National President of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance; Singer/Performer
• Marjorie Barnard – Author
• Hilary Bell – Playwright
• Lucy Bell – Actor
• Prue Corlette – Writer and Journalist
• Liz Ham – Internationally acclaimed photographer
• Libby Hathorn – Children's author
• Tanya Halesworth – TV presenter
• Sacha Horler – Actor
• Jessica Rowe – Journalist and TV presenter
• Ethel Turner – Children's author
• Julia Zemiro – Actor, comedian and TV presenter

Medicine and science

• Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett – Pioneering medical practitioner and scientist (also attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dulwich Girls' High School and Abbotsleigh)
• Ruby Payne-Scott – Australia's first radio-physicist

Politics, public service and the law

• HE Prof. Marie Bashir AC CVO AO DStJ – Medico-/adolescent problems, first and current female Governor of New South Wales; Chancellor of the University of Sydney; psychiatrist
• Eva Cox A.O. - writer, feminist, sociologist, social commentator and activist.
• Dr Emily Crawford - international law specialist
• Ada Emily Evans – First woman in Australia to gain Law degree but not permitted to practise
• Janette Howard – Wife of Former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard
• Lee Rhiannon – MLC NSW Greens (School Vice-Captain 1969)

Sport

• Jessi Miley-Dyer; junior world champion surfer
• Edith Cochrane – 1956 Melbourne Olympics, Flat water - LK1500 m Kayak Single
• Ann Jones – Olympic diver, 1972 Munich Olympics
• Jane Saville – Olympic Walker 1996, 2000 and 2004