List of Melbourne High School alumni

This is a List of Melbourne High School alumni, they being notable former students – known as "Old Boys" of the public selective school, the Melbourne High School in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia.

In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked Melbourne High School third in Australia's top ten boys' schools, based on the number of its alumni mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians).^[1]

Academic

Professor Frederick Alexander – historian
Professor George Keith Batchelor – applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist, founder of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Professor Noel Bayliss, CBE – chemist
Dr Michael Birt, AO, CBE – biochemist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong (1975–1980), Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales (1981–1992)
Professor Warner Max Corden – economist
Dr Kevin Donnelly – educator and Senior Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University
Professor Ian Gust, AO – researcher on microbiology and immunology, former research and development director for CSL Limited
Major-General A. H. Ramsay – Director of Education^[2]
Professor Sir Leslie H. Martin (1900–1983) – physicist
Professor J. Hyam Rubinstein – Professor of Mathematics at the University of Melbourne
Professor John Tasioulas – Director of Institute for Ethics in AI and Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy at University of Oxford
Professor Frank T. M. White – Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Queensland; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics, McGill University

Business

Ray Evans — businessman
John Gandel – billionaire businessman and the ninth richest Australian in the 2011 BRW Rich 200.
Ruslan Kogan – founder and CEO of Kogan Technologies
Michael Gudinski – entrepreneur, businessman, founder of Mushroom Records
Geoff Lord – founder and CEO of Belgravia Group^[3]
Daniel CM May – Tech entrepreneur, co-founder of LIFX
Ian MacFarlane – former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
David Morgan – former Westpac CEO
Bruce Ruxton AM OBE – President of the RSL (1979–2002)
Lindsay Fox AC – billionaire CEO and Founder of trucking company Linfox and the seventeenth richest Australian in the 2011 BRW Rich 200.

Entertainment, media and the arts

Graeme Base – author and artist
Andrew Bergen – Journalist, photographer, musician, record label manager & DJ
Leigh Bowery – Fashion designer
Thanh Bui – Australian Idol contestant, Season 6, 2008, 8th place
George Dreyfus – composer
Jon Faine – ABC broadcaster
Raimond Gaita – philosopher, author of memoir Romulus, my Father
Dean Geyer – Australian Idol contestant, Season 4, 2006, 3rd place
Harry Gordon – journalist and Olympic historian
Athol Guy – Member of Australian Folk band The Seekers
Nazeem Hussain – Comedian
Graham Kennedy – television personality
George Megalogenis – Journalist
Keith Potger – Member of Australian Folk band The Seekers
Imre Salusinszky – columnist for The Australian and Chair of the Australia Council
Jonathon Welch – Opera singer, conductor and founder of The Choir of Hard Knocks
Bruce Woodley – Member of Australian Folk band The Seekers
Akshat Chopra – Founder and President of Germanic Languages Club

Medicine and science

Dr Eric Burhop, FRS – physicist and humanitarian
Sir John Eccles, AC, FRS – Nobel Prize winner for Medicine
Professor George Keith Batchelor – applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist, founder of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Professor Noel Bayliss, CBE – chemist
Professor Ian Gust, AO – researcher on microbiology and immunology, former research and development director for CSL Limited
Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, AC, OBE – neurosurgeon
Professor Brett Sutton – former Victorian Chief Health Officer

Military

Sir Frank Horton Berryman – Australian Army general and Royal Military College, Duntroon, graduate
Keith Truscott – Commanding Officer No. 76 Squadron RAAF, World War II fighter ace and Melbourne AFL player (after whom the club's annual Best and Fairest award is named)
Air Vice Marshal Henry Wrigley – founding member of the RAAF

Politics, public service and the law

Maurice Ashkanasy – Barrister and former Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council
Alan Bird – MHR (ALP) for Division of Batman (1949–1962)
Ryan Batchelor - Member of Victorian Legislative Council
Daniel Bowen – President of the Public Transport Users Association
Alex Chernov AO QC – Justice of the Supreme Court; Chancellor of the University of Melbourne; Governor of the State of Victoria
Frank Crean – MHR (ALP), Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Overseas Trade
Simon Crean – MHR (ALP), Federal Opposition leader (2001–2003), Minister for Trade (2007–2013)
Bill Cutts – diplomat
Rae Else-Mitchell – judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court and legal scholar
Gareth Evans AC QC – Chancellor of Australian National University; Senator (ALP) (1978–1996); MHR (1996–1999); Foreign Minister (1988–1996); Barrister
John Galbally CBE QC – MHR (ALP) – Barrister
Max Gillies AM – political satirist
Brian Howe AO MHR (ALP) – Deputy Prime Minister
Barry Jones AO MHR (ALP) (1977–1998) – former Minister for Science
Joseph Kay AM – Former judge of the appeal division of the Family Court of Australia
Isi Leibler – Jewish Community Leader and Businessman
Ron Merkel QC – Former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia; Recipient of the Human Rights Medal
Alan Missen – Federal Liberal Party Senator for Victoria (1974–1986)
Robert Redlich – Justice of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria
Alan Stockdale – former Victorian MLA, (Lib), Victorian Treasurer (1992–1999), Macquarie Banker (1999–2005)
J. B. Webb – Influential in shaping Australia's international relations and aid during the 1950s, '60s and '70s
Mark Weinberg – Justice of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria

Religion

Raymond Apple – leading Australian rabbi

Sport

Australian Football League – Members of the AFL Hall of Fame

Brian Dixon – Melbourne Football Club
Dale Weightman – Richmond Football Club
Neil Roberts – St Kilda Football Club
Gordon Roy Wright – Richmond Football Club
Tom Hafey – Richmond Football Club

Australian Football League – Members of the Team of the Century for each AFL club

Brian Dixon – Melbourne Football Club, wing
Matthew Knights – Richmond Football Club, interchange bench
Garry Lyon – Melbourne Football Club, half-forward flank
Billy Picken – Collingwood Football Club, half-back flank
Neil Roberts – St Kilda Football Club, centre-half back
Dale Weightman – Richmond Football Club, forward pocket
Gordon Roy Wright – Richmond Football Club, 1st ruckman
Tom Hafey – Richmond Football Club, coach

Australian Football League (players)

Collingwood Football Club

Rene Kink – 7th in Brownlow Medal count 1979
Phil Manassa – after whom the AFL Goal-of-the-Year award is named
Billy Picken – Best and Fairest 1978 and 1983, 3rd in the Brownlow Medal count 1977
Rupert Betheras

Hawthorn Football Club

David Parkin – Captain 1971 premiership team, Best and Fairest 1965

Melbourne Football Club

Cameron Bruce – Co-captain 2008, Best and Fairest 2008
Ross Dillon – Leading goalkicker 1969 & 1970
Brian Dixon – Member of 5 premiership teams, Best and Fairest 1960, Tassie Medal 1961, All-Australian 1961
Dick Fenton-Smith – Two-time premiership player
Andy Lovell – Runner-up Best and Fairest 1992, Harold Ball Memorial Trophy
Glenn Lovett – Best and Fairest 1992
Garry Lyon – Captain 1991–97, Best and Fairest 1990, 1994, All-Australian 1993–95
David Schwarz – Vice-Captain 2000, Best and Fairest 1999
Stephen Tingay – Runner-up Best and Fairest 1994, All-Australian 1994

North Melbourne Football Club

Will Walker – Midfielder

Richmond Football Club

Matthew Knights – Captain 1997–2000, Best and Fairest 1990 & 1992, Runner-up for the Brownlow medal 1995
Mark Lee – Member of 1980 Premiership team, Captain 1985–86, Best and Fairest 1984, All-Australian 1980, 1983, 1985
Stephen Ryan – Member of 1989 Under 19s Premiership team, Leading goalkicker 1990
Dale Weightman – Member 1980 Premiership team, Captain 1988–92, Best and Fairest 1986–87, Tassie Medal 1985, All-Australian 1985–86, 1988
Gordon Roy Wright – Captain 1958–59, Best and Fairest 1951–52, 1954, 1957, All-Australian 1956

St Kilda Football Club

David Grant – Runner-up Best and Fairest 1989, All Australian 1991
Keith Ross Miller MBE – Also a champion Test cricketer
Neil Roberts – Captain 1959–62, Best and Fairest 1955 & 1958, All-Australian 1958
John Stephens – Leading goalkicker 1972
Spencer White
Allan Davis

West Coast Eagles

Andy Lovell – Runner-up Best and Fairest 1992 (Melbourne Football Club), Harold Ball Memorial Trophy

Australian Football League (Brownlow medalists)

Neil Roberts – St Kilda Football Club 1958
Gordon Roy Wright – Richmond Football Club 1952 & 1954

Australian Football League (coaches)

Tom Hafey – Richmond Football Club, Collingwood Football Club, Geelong Football Club, Sydney Football Club
Matthew Knights – Essendon Football Club
David Parkin – Hawthorn Football Club (premiers 1978), Carlton Football Club (premiers 1981–82 and 1995), and Fitzroy Football Club.

Australian Football League (administrators)

Lindsay Fox AC – President of the St Kilda Football Club

Australian Football League (television personalities)

Garry Lyon – Nine Network
David Schwarz – Seven Network

Cricket

Keith Miller MBE – Test cricketer, former VFL player
Doug Ring – Test cricketer
Jack Wilson – Test cricketer
William Maldon Woodfull – Australian Test cricket captain, he returned to the school as a mathematics teacher and became principal.

National Basketball League

Andrew Parkinson – NBL player

National Football League

Jordan Berry – NFL punter, Pittsburgh Steelers

Olympians

Ron Clarke – Olympian, former holder of 17 world records for long-distance running, philanthropist and Mayor of the Gold Coast
Ralph Doubell – Olympic athlete, 1968 800m Gold Medallist
Nick Green – Australian Olympic Rower and member of the Oarsome Foursome
Peter Winter – Olympic athlete
Peter Lloyd – Olympic gymnastics. Attended MHS in 1967.

Notes

^{^} Lindsay Fox He has maintained a good relationship with the school and has made many large donations. As part of this relationship he is permitted to land his helicopter on the school football oval whenever required.^[4]

References

^ Walker, Frank (22 July 2001). "The ties that bind". Sunday Life. The Sun-Herald. p. 16. Retrieved 12 September 2007.
^ "Many roads to fame started at High". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 13 October 1953. p. 26. Retrieved 3 April 2020 – via Trove.
^ "Geoff Lord has $80m worth of fingers in many pies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney Morning Herald. 10 June 2003. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
^ MHS Sentinel. 2006 Edition 1

The vast majority of listed Old Boys are sourced from: Gregory, Alan (2005). Strong Like Its Pillars. Melbourne: Thompson Library Trust. ISBN 0-646-43922-7..

External links

Jones, Adrienne (25 June 2005). "High praise indeed". The Age. Melbourne.

[WhosWho-1] Walker, Frank (22 July 2001). "The ties that bind". Sunday Life. The Sun-Herald. p. 16. Retrieved 12 September 2007.

[many-2] "Many roads to fame started at High". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 13 October 1953. p. 26. Retrieved 3 April 2020 – via Trove.

[3] "Geoff Lord has $80m worth of fingers in many pies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney Morning Herald. 10 June 2003. Retrieved 19 April 2023.

[MHS2006-4] MHS Sentinel. 2006 Edition 1

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