Alumni
An Alumnus of St Virgil's College is known as an 'Old Virgilian' and may elect to join the school's alumni association, the Old Virgilians' Association. The Association was established in 1916 as a way for Old Virgilians to meet regularly and keep in touch with news about the College. Some notable Old Virgilians include:
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- Entertainment, media and the arts
Anthony Ackroyd - comedian, writer
- Geoff "Jeff" Hook - Cartoonist
- Don Sharp - film director
- Dr Tom Lewis OAM - author and military historian (also LCDR Lewis - see below)
- Dr Peter Williams - author and military historian
- Military
- Brigadier Michael Crane AM - Commander of all Australian Forces in the Middle East area of operations (Iraq)
- Captain Stephen (Sid) Dalton, RAN - former Commanding Officer of HMAS ONSLOW and HMAS SHEEAN a submarine named after Tasmanian war-hero Ordinary Seaman Edward 'Teddy'Sheean, former Captain SM and Chief of Staff Submarine Force Element Group October 2005 - December 2008 during a period of reforms driven by severe submarine personnel shortages and minor author of Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies Shedden Paper
- Lieutenant Commander Tom Lewis PhD, OAM, RAN (also author - see above)
- Politics, public service and the law
- His Honour Judge Richard Cogswell - Judge of the District Court of New South Wales and formerly NSW Crown Advocate
- Associate Professor Jeff Coombes, BEd(Hons), BAppSc, MEd(UTas), PhD(Florida). Jeff Coombes is an Associate Professor in the school of Human Movement Studies. He completed undergraduate degrees in applied science and education and a research Masters at the University of Tasmania before gaining a PhD from the University of Florida. After completing his PhD he returned to Australia to spend two years in an academic position at the University of Tasmania before moving to the University of Queensland in 2000.
- Henry Cosgrove AM - Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania
- William Cox - Governor of Tasmania
- Anthony Fletcher - Former member of the Legislative Council
- Associate Professor Marek Havlat MBBS, BMedSci, FRCPA, DipCytoRCPath, FRCPath, FFPathRCPI, FASCP, FIAC. Associate Professor at St John of God and University of Notre Dame Fremantle. He is an anatomical pathologist and cytopathologist with interests in pathology teaching, dermatopathology and neuropathology. A/Prof Havlat joined St John of God Pathology in 2001 and is currently the Deputy Director of Histo/Cytopathology. A/Prof Havlat received a Diploma of Cytopathology by examination in 2009 under the auspices of the Royal College of Pathologists and has also received the School of Medicine Dean's Teaching Excellence Award in 2010 from the University of Notre Dame Fremantle. He has recently been appointed Director of Registrar Teaching at St John's and Deputy Director of Anatomical Pathology.
- Peter Heerey - Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
- Paul Lennon - 42nd Premier of Tasmania
- Doug Lowe - 35th Premier of Tasmania
- Sergeant Greg Lowe, Tasmanian Police
- Kenneth Lowrie OBE - Former member of the Legislative Council and Glenorchy Alderman
- Ashton Shirley - Former State Public Servant and Sportsman
- Religion
- Rev. Adrian Doyle - Archbishop of Hobart
- Rev. Prof. Michael Tate - Catholic priest and former Federal Justice Minister
- Sport
- Scott Brennan - Australian Rowing Olympic gold medallist and World Champion
- Sean Clingeleffer - Cricketer; Tasmanian wicketkeeper
- Michael Di Venuto - Tasmanian Tigers and Derbyshire County Cricketer
- Brodie Holland - AFL player for the Collingwood Football Club
- Simon Hollingsworth - 400 metre hurdles 2X Olympian and 3X Commonwealth Games representative; Rhodes Scholar
- Jack Riewoldt - AFL player for the Richmond Football Club
- Ted Terry — outstanding schoolboy athlete, winner of the 1925 Burnie Gift, and AFL player for the St Kilda Football Club
- Tristan Thomas - Australian representative to the 2012 Olympics in Athletics
- Sid Taberlay - Mountain Bike (Cross Country) Olympian
- Peter Toogood - Former Australian Amateur Golf Champion
- Hamish Hingston - Volleyball 12 Games Australian National Men's Team, Swedish Elite Serien Champion with club Linkoping
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