The Geelong College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Alumni of The Geelong College are known as Old Geelong Collegians and may elect to join the school's alumni association, the Old Geelong Collegians' Association (OGCA). Some notable Old Geelong Collegians include:

Academic

• Sir Robert Honeycombe – scientist and metallurgist, Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy at Cambridge University, UK.
• John Marden – first headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (1888–1919) and Pymble Ladies' College (1916–1919); pioneer of women's education; Presbyterian elder

Business

• Bill Dix – former Managing Director of Ford Australia and Chairman of Qantas.
• Don Kendell – founder of Kendell Airlines

Entertainment, media and the arts

• Russell Boyd – cinematographer: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, Crocodile Dundee.
• John Duigan – film director and writer
• Gideon Haigh – journalist and author
• Barry Hirst Jazz pianist and founder of the South Coast Stompers Jazz Band
• Peter Hirst Internationally acclaimed Savoyard
• Robert Ingpen – artist, writer and illustrator
• George Ernest Morrison – Australian adventurer; correspondent for The Times Peking (Beijing)
• Guy Pearce – actor.

Medicine and science

• Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet – biologist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine

Politics, public service and the law

• Justice Barry Beach – Supreme Court Judge
• The Hon John Button – federal politician in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments
• Sir Arthur Coles – retail founder, MP, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne; first Chairman of Australian National Airlines (TAA)
• The Hon Robert Doyle – Lord Mayor of Melbourne, politician; Member for Malvern in the Legislative Assembly (1992–2006); Leader of the Victorian Opposition (2002–2006)
• David Epstein – former chief of staff for Kevin Rudd (Australian Prime Minister 2007–10)
• Major General Sir James Harrison – former Governor of South Australia
• Major Cameron Hooke RAINF RL, Australian Army Officer and instructor at the Royal Military College, Duntroon
• Fergus Stewart McArthur MP – Federal Member for Corangamite (Liberal Party)
• Sir Gordon Stewart McArthur – Liberal Party politician, President of the Victorian Legislative Council (1958–1965), grazier and barrister
• Sir William Gilbert Stewart McArthur – Supreme Court Judge
• Justice Alan McDonald – Supreme Court Judge
• Lloyd Davies - former Greens councillor for the Borough of Queenscliffe

Religion

• Thomas Henry Armstrong – first Bishop of Wangaratta

Sport

• Jaxson Barham – current AFL footballer for the Collingwood Magpies
• Tim Callan – current AFL footballer for the Western Bulldogs
• Tim Clarke – former AFL footballer for the Hawthorn Hawks
• Ayce Cordy – current AFL footballer for the Western Bulldogs
• Ed Curnow – current AFL footballer for Carlton FC
• Josh Dunkley-Smith – 2012 Olympic rowing silver medallist
• Edward 'Carji' Greeves – winner of the inaugural Brownlow Medal for the best and fairest player in the Victorian Football League (1924)
• Lindsay Hassett – captain of the Australian Test cricket team from 1949 to 1953
• Lachlan Henderson – current AFL footballer for Carlton FC
• Peter Hirst Brilliant All-Rounder.
• Jack Iverson – Australian Test cricket bowler
• John Neil McArthur – horse racing identity
• Edward Russell Mockridge – Olympic cyclist
• Ian Redpath – Australian Test cricketer
• Josh Saunders – current AFL footballer for St Kilda
• Will Schofield – current AFL footballer for the West Coast Eagles
• Paul Sheahan – Australian Test Cricketer; Former Headmaster of The Geelong College, and Melbourne Grammar School
• Alec Boswell Timms – VFA footballer for Geelong and Scottish rugby international from 1896 to 1905
• Steve Horvat – former Australian International football player