List of notable Old Aquinians, who were students of Aquinas College Perth & Christian Brothers College, Perth (1894–1937, see List of Old Boys of Trinity College, Perth for period 1938-1961)
Cabinet
Sir Fred Chaney, Sr, AFC (1914–2001) – Minister for the Navy (1964–1966), Australian Senator for Western Australia (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Fred Chaney, Jr – Minister for Aboriginal Affairs 1978–1980, Minister for Social Security 1980–1983, Australian Senator for Western Australia
Peter Durack – Minister for Veterans Affairs 1976–77, Attorney-General 1977–1983, Australian Senator for Western Australia
Sean L'Estrange Minister for Finance; Mines & Petroleum; Small Business; MLA for Churchlands
Emil Nulsen (1885-1965) - Minister for Justice 1939-1947 MLA for Kanowna & 1953-1959 MLA for Eyre (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
John Quigley – McGowan Ministry, MLA for Mindarie
Ben Wyatt – McGowan Ministry, Victoria Park MLA
Ignatius Boyle (1882–1960) – MLA for Avon (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Thomas Ronan (1907–1976) – Northern Territory Legislative Council, for Batchelor (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Presiding judges
John Chaney – President of the State Administrative Tribunal 2009-2014, Justice of the Supreme Court of WA
Jeremy Curthoys – President of the State Administrative Tribunal 2015-, Justice of the Supreme Court of WA 2014-
Judges, superior courts
Edward Dunphy – Justice of the Supreme Court of the ACT (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Eric Heenan – Justice of the Supreme Court of WA
John Lavan (1911–2006) – Justice of the Supreme Court of WA (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Rene Le Miere – Justice of the Supreme Court of WA
Air and general officers
Robert Brown, DSO – Air Commodore Royal Australian Air Force (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Redmond Green, DSO – Air Commodore Royal Australian Air Force (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Philip Masel(1908–1972) – Brigadier Australian Army (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Duncan Francis -(1937-2004)- Major-General, Australian Army
Others, military
John Barrett (1898–?) – inaugural honorary Colonel of Western Australian University Regiment (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
James McMahon DSC, DSM - SAS Commanding Officer
Ignatius Boyle (1882–1960) – President of Australian Wheatgrowers Association (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
David Fenbury (1916–1976) – delegate to the secretariat of the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations, New York (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Sir Lancelot Goody (1908–1992) – sixth Archbishop of Perth and first Bishop of Bunbury, Western Australia (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Freddie Johnston (1885–1963) – first Australian Director of National Mapping (Christian Brothers College, Perth, also attended The High School now Hale School)
Sir Thomas Meagher (1902–1979) – Lord Mayor of Perth (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Alec Masel (1898–1988) – Jewish leader, President of the Zionist Movement of Australia and president of Jewish welfare boards in Australia & the United States (Christian Brothers School, Perth)
Sir William Samson (1898–1974) – Mayor of Fremantle (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Christopher Shanahan – senior counsel barrister, acting commissioner of the Corruption and Crime Commission in Western Australia
Judah Waten (1911–1985) – political activist, writer & publisher (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Cedric Wyatt – Aboriginal rights activist
Michael Chaney – Chancellor, University of Western Australia
Others, academia and science
Kim Durack – agricultural scientist
Richard Alan Fox – medical physician
Gilbert Henderson (1890–1977) – Dean of Dental Science University of Western Australia (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Guido Mayrhofer (1898-1968) - medical practitioner, co-founder (Royal) Australian College of General Practitioners, posthumously awarded Francis Hardey Faulding memorial research prize and bronze medal (1967) for his work Some Observations on Virus Diseases in General Practice (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
1906: Alexander Juett (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
1908: J W Horan (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
1911: J J Savage (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
1913: Alaric Pinder Boor (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
1949: Peter Durack
1958: Maurice Cullity
1987: Trevor Jack
2008: John McAnearney
Jacob Allan - actor
Paddy Baker (1898–1986) – proprietor of Regal Theatre (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Brian Coyne, editor & publisher, www.catholica.com.au
Reg Cribb – Actor and playwright
Geoff Gibbs – actor and principal of WAAPA
Paul Lockyer – news reporter
Philip Masel (1908–1979) – scriptwriter BBC & war correspondent (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Mark Priestley – actor
Thomas Ronan (1907–1976) – writer (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
George Thompson (1913-1997) - architect (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Dave Warner – writer & rock musician
Sir Lewis Burne (1898–1978) – founder W. C. Burne & Sons Pty Ltd, President of the Master Builders Association of Victoria (Christian Brothers College, Perth and also attended Xavier College)
Michael Chaney – Chairman of National Australia Bank, Woodside Petroleum, CEO of Wesfarmers
Herb Elliot, AC – Chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, Puma (also attended CBC Perth, now Trinity College, Perth)
Trevor Flugge – Chairman of AWB Limited
Trevor Kennedy – Chairman of Oil Search Limited, Commsoft Group Limited and Cypress Lakes Group Limited, business director
John “Jack” Kilfoyle (1893-1962) - pastoralist, Rosewood station (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Sir William Samson (1898–1974) – Chairman of Home Building Society (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Peter Smedley – CEO of Colonial Mutual
Eddie Withnell – leader of the Coffin Cheaters Motorcycle Club
Christian Foyle – Director of Foyle Legal
AFL
Ben Allan – Hawthorn premiership player and Fremantle inaugural captain
Simon Black – Brisbane Lions three times premiership player, Brownlow Medal 2002, Norm Smith Medal 2003, captain 2007–2008
Peter Bell – North Melbourne premiership player and Fremantle captain
Paul Duffield – Fremantle
Nathan Fyfe – Fremantle, Brownlow Medal 2015
Robert Haddrill – Fremantle
Daniel Kerr – West Coast Eagles premiership player
Mark LeCras – West Coast Eagles
Jamie Merillo – Fremantle
Stephen O'Reilly – Geelong and Carlton
Quinten Lynch – West Coast Eagles premiership player, Collingwood
Alan Toovey – Collingwood premiership player
Elliot Yeo – Brisbane Lions, West Coast Eagles
Others, Australian rules football
VFL
Gerry Bahen (1929–2012) – North Melbourne
Ross Ditchburn – Carlton premiership player
Peter Spencer – North Melbourne, also WA state representative and dual Sandover Medal 1976 & 1984 – Western Australian Football Hall of Fame 2007
WAFL
John Bridgwood – Claremont, WA state representative
David Crawford - Claremont premiership player and WA state representative
David Gault – South Fremantle premiership captain
Percy Johnson – East Fremantle premiership player, Swan Districts captain coach, and Claremont, WA state representative and Channel 7 football critic – Western Australian Football Hall of Fame 2010
Simon McPhee – Claremont premiership coach
Terry Moriarty – Perth, Sandover Medal 1943 – Western Australian Football Hall of Fame 2010 (also attended St Patrick's Boys School)
Murray Ward – Claremont, also coached Aquinas to 13 consecutive PSA premierships
Frank Walker – Perth, WA state representative
Tom Garlepp – Perth Wildcats/Adelaide 36ers/Sydney Kings
Bradley Ness – wheelchair basketball Sydney Paralympics 2000, Athens Paralympics 2004 silver medal Australia, Beijing gold medal Australia and captain, London Paralympics 2012 silver medal Australia
Australian Test cricketers
Terry Alderman
Ernest Bromley (1912–1967) – first Western Australian Test cricketer (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
Brad Hogg
Justin Langer
Others, cricket
Cameron Bancroft – list-A Western Warriors
Nathan Coulter-Nile – first-class cricket Western Warriors, and Twenty20 Australia, Perth Scorchers, Mumbai Indians
Tom Outridge, Jr – first-class Western Australia
Kevin Prindiville – first-class Western Australia
Terry Prindiville – first-class & list-A Western Australia
Sean Terry – first-class Hampshire
Darren Wates – first-class & list-A Western Warriors
Ben O'Connor - Team Dimension Data, 1st Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic 2016
Athletics
Herb Elliott, AC – Rome 1960 gold medal 1500m Australia (also attended CBC Perth, now Trinity College, Perth)
Hockey
David Bell – Montreal 1976 silver medal Australia – Western Australia Hockey Hall of Fame
Don Martin – Tokyo 1964 bronze medal Australia, Mexico 1968 silver medal Australia
Rowing
Nick Garratt – Beijing 2008 coach of Australian women's sculling team
David McGowan – Athens 2004 men's coxless four
Stuart Reside – Sydney 2000 quadruple men's scull, Athens 2004 bronze medal men's eight Australia
Volleyball
Luke Smith – London 2012
Water polo
Tim Neesham – Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, & Beijing 2008
Tom Hoad – Rome 1960; Australian captain Tokyo 1964, Mexico 1968, & Munich 1972; Australian water polo coach Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984 & Seoul 1988
Ross Brown – world championships: 2007 men's light coxless pair, bronze medal Australia; 2010 men's lightweight eight, silver medal Australia
David McGowan - World Junior Champion coxless 4 1999, Dutch Olympic Men's Heayyweight coach 2008, 2012
Kyle Godwin – Western Force
Zack Holmes – ACT Brumbies
