Alumni
- Michael Atkinson – former South Australian Attorney-General
- John Bannon – former South Australian Premier
Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup - songwriter, musician and music producer and CEO Jimmy Little Foundation www.jlf.org.au
- Dean Brown – former South Australian Premier
- Mark Butler – federal member for Port Adelaide
- Leon Carmen – author
- Julia Gillard – current Australian Prime Minister
- Simon Goodwin – Adelaide Crows AFL Player
- Malcolm Greenslade – Australian Rules Footballer
- Cliff Hawkins – realtor and Member of the Order of Australia
- Linda Kirk – former Senator for South Australia
- Paul Lewis – Australian Hockey Player
- Sir John "Jack" McLeay – longest serving Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
- Hedley Marston – CSIRO scientist and early researcher into the effects of atomic fallout at Maralinga
- Lowitja O'Donoghue – AC, CBE, DSG Aboriginal Australian retired public administrator. Australian of the Year in 1984 and 1990
- Sir Mark Oliphant – physicist and former state Governor of South Australia
- Amanda Rishworth – federal member for Kingston
- Jeffrey Smart – artist
- Joseph Garnett Wood – professor of Botany and a president of the Royal Society of South Australia
- Kelly Vincent – current Dignity for Disability member of the South Australian Legislative Council
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