This is a list of those Old Falconians with articles in Wikipedia or who are obviously qualified for one, who are the alumni of North Sydney Boys High School. The Old Falconians Union is the alumni body of the school. The name "Old Falconians" is derived from Falcon Street which is the address of the school. All those who attended the School are included, even if they were only on the roll for a short amount of time.
Business and industry
Arthur Ernest Bishop, inventor with over 300 patents in 17 countries, one in five of the world's cars use his power and variable-ratio rack-and-pinion steering technology.
Alexander Boden AO Hon DSc FAA, Philanthropist, industrialist and publisher, founder of Boden Chair of Human Nutrition at Sydney University, founder of Bioclone Australia, Hardman Chemicals and Science Press, awarded Leighton Medal of Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1986, author of A Handbook of Chemistry 1937 (11 editions).
(Alan) Phillip de Boos-Smith, former CEO of Total Oil Paris.
John Brew, former CEO of NSW State Rail, President of Baptist Unions of NSW & ACT.
Donald Charles Bucknall, former CEO of Caltex Australia.
Ian Bund, President of White Pines Ventures, American venture capitalist who has played a founding or lead role with several US venture capital firms, investor in more than 300 companies over 30 of which have listed on NASDAQ including Lifescan, Stratacom, Ventana, and Neogen.
Harry Bunn, Founder, President and CEO of Ronin Corporation which provides market intelligence on a global scale in real time.
Satyajit Das, national television commentator on the global financial crisis, authority on "derivatives", consultant to financial institutions and corporations in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, author of Traders, Guns & Money (which in 2006 warned of the coming crisis) and Extreme Money.
Mitch Davis, the former head of Encyclopædia Britannica's online business whose moment of inspiration to conceive dynamic advertising within video games led to a business purchased by Microsoft for up to $US400 million.
Dr Warren Dent, Vice President of Business Development at American Airlines (USA), Managing Director of Animal Pharmaceutical Division of Eli Lilly (UK), former Professor of Statistics at University of Iowa where he established "an international reputation, publishing in excess of fifty papers".
Ron Eaton MBE, Chairman and Managing Director of Overseas Containers Australia.
Ian Ferrier, co-founder (with Tony Hodgson) of Ferrier Hodgson, insolvency specialists, former Chairman of NSW Rugby Union and former director of Australian Rugby Union.
Keith Hamilton CBE, as CEO of Qantas he successfully steered the airline through a difficult period when many other world carriers were making losses.
John Harkness, National Executive Chairman of KPMG 1993–98, Chairman of ICA Property Development Funds.
Donald Junor, Chairman and Managing Director of Mauri Bros & Thomson Ltd, Director of AMP Society, WW2 Lt-Col.
Bob McComas, Chairman of Trade Practices Commission, Executive Director of Coca-Cola Amatil, Senior Partner of Clayton Utz.
Ian McNair, Executive Chairman of McNair Ingenuity Research.
Colonel Sir Oscar Meyer OBE, Chairman of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge Authority, Commissioner of Victorian Railways, Commander of RAE (CMF) in Victoria, John Storey Medal 1977.
Roger Moore, Chairman of Novo Nordisk Pharma Japan, awarded Danish Order of Dannebrog for promotion of Danish interests in Japan together with his efforts to combat diabetes and other diseases.
David M. Morgan, Chancellor of Deakin University, former President of Ford Motor Company Australia.
Allan Moyes AO HonDSc, former Chairman and Managing Director of IBM Australia.
Maurice Newman AC, Chairman of ABC, Chairman of Australian Stock Exchange, Chairman of Deutsche Bank, Chancellor of Macquarie University.
Geoffrey Norris, Managing Director of Dow Chemical (Australia).
John Prescott AC HonDSc HonLLD, CEO of BHP.
Sir Raymond Purves, philanthropist, Chairman of Clyde Engineering, endowed Raymond E Purves Chair of Dermatology at Sydney University.
Mark Rayner, Chairman National Australia Bank (1985–2001).
Ian Stanwell AM, former Managing Director of AMP.
Gavin Thomas, Managing Director and CEO of goldminer Kingsgate Consolidated, in 2005 at a symposium, he was declared a ‘‘Legend of the Australian Mining Industry’’;
Professor Peter Westerway, Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, former Chairman of Australian Broadcasting Tribunal.
Dr Lionel Wilson, President of Australian Medical Association (1979–1982).
Dr James Adams CBE FBA FAHA, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College Oxford, Professor of Latin at Manchester University (1993–95), awarded Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies and Archaeology 2009, author of The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC-AD 600 and Bilingualism and the Latin Language.
Professor John Andrews, Assistant Vice-Chancellor (1969–73) and Professor of Geography (1959–68) at Melbourne University.
Dr Lorand Bartels, specialist in international law and Fellow of Trinity Hall at Cambridge University, legal consultant to the European Parliament, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg, author of Human Rights Conditionality in the EU's International Agreements.
Dr Stephen Barton, Reader in the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University.
Emeritus Professor Noel Beadle, Professor of Botany at University of New England 1955–79, Clarke Medal of Royal Society of NSW 1982, author of Vegetation of Australia (1981).
Dr Benjamin K. M. Brown, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney (University Medalist at Macquarie University, 1991).
Professor Richard Bryant AC, Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Traumatic Stress Clinic, Awarded Australia’s highest accolade as Companion in the Order of Australia for his work in Indigenous and refugee mental health, and as an adviser to government and international organisations.
Rev Arthur Capell Hon D Litt FAAH, linguist and anthropologist, Reader in Linguistics at Sydney University, authority on Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic languages, author of A New Approach to Australian Linguistics.
Dr Alan Carey Taylor, Dean of Arts Faculty at London University, Professor of French at Birkbeck College, Author of Bibliography of Unpublished Theses on French Subjects, appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1961.
Dr Nikola Casule, lecturer in Roman History at Christ Church, Oxford University, recipient of the Oxford Vice Chancellor’s Award for exceptional merit, Clarendon Bursar at Oxford.
Professor Raewyn Connell (birth name Robert Connell), polled the most influential contemporary Australian sociologist, former Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard, known for research on large-scale class dynamics ("Ruling Class, Ruling Culture", 1977 and "Class Structure in Australian History", 1980), and the ways class and gender hierarchies are re-made in the everyday life of schools ("Making the Difference", 1982), advisor to UNESCO and UNO initiatives relating men, boys and masculinities to gender equality and peacemaking, her work is translated into 13 languages.
Emeritus Professor Arthur Delbridge, linguist, former editor of the Macquarie Dictionary.
Dr Eric Dobson FBA, Professor of English Language at Oxford, Fellow of Jesus College Oxford, "He will be remembered as one of the finest historical philologists...", author of English Pronunciation 1500–1700.
Emeritus Professor David Fraser, Former Dean of Veterinary Science at Sydney University.
Professor John J. Furedy, Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto (1975–2005), President of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, co-author of Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception: A Psychophysiological and International Perspective.
Professor John Gero, formerly Professor of Design Science and Co-Director, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney (1966-2007), Visiting Professor MIT, Visiting Professor Columbia University, Visiting Professor University of California - Berkeley, Visiting Professor Carnegie-Mellon University, currently Research Professor, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, USA, developer of the Function-Behaviour-Structure ontology
Emeritus Professor the Rev Graeme Griffin, Centre for Theology & Ministry, Uniting Church, President of Melbourne College of Divinity, Former Chairman of Australian Twin Registry.
Professor Charles Hamblin, philosopher and pioneer computer scientist. In philosophy, he advanced the classical logical fallacies, using the formal dialogue games first studied by Aristotle. In computer science, he was the originator of the recursive stack (or last-in, first-out store), an idea first implemented in 1957. Also, inventor of Reverse Polish Notation.
Associate Professor Michael Horsburgh, Head of Social Work at the University of Sydney, Chair of the Academic Board of the Sydney College of Divinity, Chairman of the Board of the Anglican Board of Mission – Australia, former Methodist Minister, former Vice-Master of Wesley College at Sydney University.
Dr John Hunt CBE, Plowden Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School, authority in behavioural science, author of The Restless Organisation (1971) and Managing People at Work (1979)
Dr Terry Irving, former President of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Associate Professor of Government at Sydney University, for nine years edited Labour History – A Journal of Labour and Social History, co-author of Class Structure in Australian History and Radical Sydney.
Emeritus Professor Francis Johnson, Professor of English at Kanda University of International Studies (Japan), Inaugural Chair of English Language at University of Papua New Guinea, Chair of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, author of textbooks used throughout Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.
Professor Wallace Kirsop FAHA, the first Australian to be a member of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, in 1980–81 held the appointment of Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge.
Professor Douglas Lampard FAA, Foundation Professor of Monash University.
Professor Barry Leal, Professor Emeritus of Macquarie University and University of Wollongong, Vice-Chancellor of University of Southern Queensland, author of Wilderness in the Bible: Toward a Theology of Wilderness.
Professor Robert Lee, Professor of History at University of Western Sydney, author of 'Transport an Australian History'.
Emeritus Professor Graham Maddox, former Dean of Faculty of Arts at University of New England.
Dr Robert Madgwick, educationist. Madgwick was commander of the Australian Army Education Service during World War II, then first Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England. From 1967 to 1973 he was chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Dr David Makinson, Professor in Department of Computer Science at King's College, London University, authority on mathematical logic.
Dr Angus Martin, McCaughey Professor of French at Sydney University (daughter is Catherine, Oscar-winning theatrical designer).
Professor Raymond Martin FAA, former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University.
Trevor McCaskill, Headmaster of Barker College (1963–86), where the Music Centre is named in his honour (also attended SCEGS).
Emeritus Professor Gordon McClymont AO, Dean of Faculty of Rural Science at University of New England 1955–76, author of Formal Education and Rural Development (1975).
Professor Maxwell McKay, Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Papua New Guinea.
Dr Bruce McKern, Professor of International Business and Director of Executive Program on US Business, US Studies Centre at Sydney University, former Visiting Professor of International Business at Stanford and Founding Professor of Management and first Dean of Macquarie University's Graduate School of Management, author of Managing the Global Network Corporation.
Emeritus Professor William Morison, Challis Professor of Law at Sydney University 1982–85, NSW Law Reform Commissioner between 1968 and 1970, author of The System of Law and Courts Governing New South Wales, first sole editor of Cases on Torts, an influential casebook first published in 1955.
Professor Raoul Mortley FAHA, former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences Pro Vice-Chancellor, Bond University.
Dr Milton Osborne, authority on Southeast Asia and the French role there; Visiting Professor at Yale 1974–75; First Director of the British Institute in Southeast Asia 1975–79; Author of numerous books on Asian issues including Before Kampuchea: Preludes to Tragedy.
Emeritus Professor Robert Parker MBE, Political Science, Australian National University.
Professor Graham Pyke, Distinguished Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Dux of school 1965, Designated as Highly Cited Author
Dr Neil Radford, the 8th Librarian of University of Sydney (1980–96), in 2005 endowed the Radford Scholarships at the University to provide assistance to Library staff members on education programs or research projects.
Rev Dr Harry Reynolds-Smythe, Fellow of Pusey College, Oxford; Foundation Professor of Anglican Studies at Pontifical Gregorian University.
Professor John Sharpham, Vice-Chancellor of Ballarat University.
Professor David Simonett, first geography Ph.D. graduated from any Australian university, Chair of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His achievement in building an international-quality remote sensing unit there is honoured by the David Simonett Center for Spatial Analvsis.
Professor Malcolm Skilbeck, Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University 1985–91.
Emeritus Professor Ian Smith, Professor of French at Tasmania University (1958–88), Honorary Consul for France for fifteen years, recognised by the French Government who conferred two decorations upon him: Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite and Officier des Palmes Académiques.
Professor Peter Spearritt, social historian, Director of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland, Director of The Brisbane Institute 2001–2006, Director of the National Key Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University (1989–2001), author of Sydney's Century: a history, winner of the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History in 2000.
Dr Michael Stone, Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, authority on Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period and the Dead Sea Scrolls, awarded the Landau Prize for Science and Research in Humanities, Foreign Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, author of A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve and Adam's Contract with Satan: The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam.
Dr Michael Taussig, Class of 1933 Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and also Professor at European Graduate School in Switzerland, acclaimed for his commentaries on Karl Marx and Walter Benjamin, especially in relation to the idea of commodity fetishism, winner of a Berlin Prize 2007 from the American Academy in Berlin, author of The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (1980) and Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (1987).
Dr David Throsby, Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University, known for his research and writing in the field of the economics of art and culture, consultant to the World Bank, the OECD, FAO and UNESCO, playwright whose works have been performed on ABC Radio and at the old Nimrod Theatre in Kings Cross, author of The Economics of the Performing Arts and Economics and Culture (brother of TV personality Margaret Throsby).
Emeritus Professor Donald Titchen, former Dean of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Professor Robert Wasson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research at Charles Darwin University.
Dr Robin Winkler (School Captain 1961), pioneer activist for psychiatric treatment in the community, his tenure as Professor of Psychology at University of Western Australia was cut short by his early death in 1988, his life work is honoured by Robin Winkler Clinic at the University as well as Robin Winkler Award of Australian Psychological Society.
Dr Jonathan Wooding FSA FrHistS, Sir Warwick Fairfax Professor of Celtic Studies at Sydney University, has published widely in medieval Irish, Welsh and Scottish studies;
Science and medicine
Associate Professor Bob Bain Hon DVSc, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at Sydney University, known for his work in Southeast Asia, working with teams that eradicated foot and mouth disease from Indonesia, and for developing a vaccine for hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle and buffalo in Sri Lanka and Thailand (the vaccine is still known in the area as 'Bain's vaccine').
Dr Andrew Vern-Barnett MBE AM, the pioneer in Australia of the care and treatment of autistic children, the Autistic Children’s Association which he chaired at its beginning in 1966 has grown to over 600 staff and claims to be the largest single autism specific school system in the world with 800 students.
Emeritus Professor Felix Bochner AM, Foundation Chair and Head, Clinical Pharmacology, Adelaide University (1981–2003), co-author of Handbook of Clinical Pharmacology and Introduction to Pharmacology.
Colonel Peter Braithwaite AO CBE, Honorary Surgeon to the Governor-General, Chairman of Menzies Foundation of Tasmania, Chairman of Tasmanian Division of Australian Red Cross, President of Thoracic Society of Australia.
Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM, Professor of Discipline of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Newcastle, Inventor of vaccine against bronchitis, author of The Mapping of Terra Australis.
Dr Alec Costin AM FAA, ecologist who has spent the past sixty years working in the Australian Alps, authority on the ecology of high mountain and high latitude ecosystems, Chief Research Scientist, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO (1955–74).
Professor Marshall Edwards AO, Dean of Veterinary Science at Sydney University, the discoverer of maternal hyperthermia as a human teratogen - described as "a seminal contribution ...... on the history of birth defects".
Dr Wolf Elber, Director of the United States Army Research Laboratory Vehicle Technology Center, he discovered the phenomenon of plasticity-induced fatigue crack closure, which has revolutionized fatigue crack growth analyses, the publication of this pioneering work has become the most cited paper in the discipline, awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award.
Dr John Falk FAA, Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry.
Dr Ian Gardner, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California, Davis, recipient of a New South Wales Residency Expatriate Scientists Award in 2004.
Dr John Gero, Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, formerly Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of Sydney, author or editor of 50 books and over 600 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, design cognition and cognitive science.
Dr Malcolm Gillies, a medical registrar who died in 1958, after whom is named the annual Malcolm Gillies Oration at Royal North Shore Hospital.
Emeritus Professor Campbell "Cam" Graham, Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry at Sydney University (1961–77).
Dr John Grant AO OBE HonMD, neurosurgeon and humanitarian, President of Organising Committee of 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games.
Colonel Peter Grant OBE, Medical Superintendent of Royal Children's Hospital Brisbane, Commander of Medical 1 Division RAAMC.
Sir Thomas Greenaway, President of Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Professor Donald Hall, Director of the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii; Deputy Director of the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, Winner of Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, 1977.
Professor Clifford Hughes AO, CEO of Clinical Excellence Commission of NSW, Clinical Professor of Surgery at Sydney University.
Emeritus Professor Leonard Humphreys, Pro Vice Chancellor of Queensland University (Biological Sciences).
Professor Richard Hunstead, Head of the Astrophysics Group at Sydney University, one of 33 Australian Science Citation Laureates, the minor planet 171429 Hunstead is named in his honour.
Dr Kosuke Ishii (Dux of School 1975), Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Design Division) at Stanford, Associate Editor of Journal of Mechanical Design, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991), Pitney Bowes-ASME Award for Excellence in Mechanical Design (1993).
Emeritus Professor Denis Kermode, Inaugural Head of Department of Surgery at University of Western Australia in 1983.
Dr Garo Khanarian, Principal Research Scientist Dow Electronic Materials, New Jersey USA, inventor.
Professor Cheviot Kidson, Director of Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
Professor Paul Klemens, leading American theoretical physicist whose life work is honoured by the triennial award of the Klemens Medal in Phonon Physics.
Professor Iven Klineberg, Dean of Dentistry at Sydney University.
Dr Alexander Lascelles, Chief of Division of Animal Health CSIRO (1973–83); Professor of Dairying at Sydney University (1964–73).
Emeritus Professor Ian Lewis AO, former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (1984–88) and Inaugural Professor of Child Health (1969–88) at the University of Tasmania, Dean of the Fiji School of Medicine (1989–91), Finalist in 2007 for Senior Australian of the Year, author of The Abuse of Medicine in Children, 1978 (also attended St Paul’s School, London).
Professor Ian Lin, former Director of Centre for Engineering Management and Innovation at Sydney University.
Dr William McCallum, Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Institute for Mathematics and Education at the University of Arizona, lead author of the Harvard calculus consortium's multivariable calculus and college algebra texts (brother of John McCallum and Peter McCallum [qv]).
Emeritus Professor Graham Macdonald AM, Executive Chairman of Australian Stem Cell Centre, Medical Director at Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia), between 1974 and 1998 an academic nephrologist at the Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals Clinical School of the University of New South Wales.
Emeritus Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, 2017 Australian of the Year.
Sir (John) Kempson Maddox, founder of Diabetic Association of Australia, former President of International Society of Cardiology.
Gordon McClymont, agricultural scientist, Foundation Chair of the Faculty of Rural Science at the University of New England, and originator of the term "sustainable agriculture".
Dr Donald Melrose FAA, Rhodes Scholar, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director, Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics at Sydney University.
Roger Morse AO, pioneer in solar energy research and development; President of the International Solar Energy Society; awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal in 1980.
Emeritus Professor Ernest Newbrun Hon DDS, Professor of Oral Biology, Professor of Biology and Professor of Biology and Periodontology at the University of California, contributed many original articles to the dental literature and is internationally recognised for the 29 books and book chapters which he has written, his work on the fundamental mechanisms of dental caries and periodontal disease has led to a revised approach throughout the world to these two major dental problems, his many honours have included the Award for Special Distinction in Dental Education from the Eastman Dental Centre, the Presidential Citation of the American Dental Association and the Research Award in Dental Caries from the International Association of Dental Research.
Dr Gilbert Phillips, neurosurgeon who rushed from England to Austria to try to save the life of American General George Patton who had been injured (mortally as it proved) in a car accident; former officer-in-charge of the surgical division of the hospital for head injuries, St Hugh's College, Oxford, founder of The Wine Society.
Professor John Prineas AO, "He has received international acclaim and several major awards for his lifetime of achievements in MS research including in 2009, the MS International Federation’s highest accolade, the Charcot award", now at Brain and Mind Institute at Sydney University following 25 years of groundbreaking research at New Jersey Medical School,USA, discoverer of how brain and spinal cord myelin is destroyed in MS, awarded the 2001 John Dystel Prize for MS Research, co-developer of new method to study proteins from brain tissue.
Dr Leo Radom FAA, Professor of Chemistry at Sydney University, Professor in Research School of Chemistry at Australian National University, specialist in computational quantum chemistry, awarded Schrödinger Medal 1994, H G Smith Medal 1988 and Rennie Medal 1977.
Professor John Read, former Dean of Medicine at Sydney University, in 1968 became the youngest ever Professor in Australian academia at only 39.
Dr Brian Robinson FAA FRAS, radio astronomer, deeply involved in design and construction of the Australia Telescope Project, becoming its Vice-Chairman, Director of Research, Australian National Radio Astronomy Observatory Parkes (1971–79).
David Robinson AM DSc Hon, pioneer of diagnostic ultrasound in Australia, with colleague George Kossoff built Australia's first ultrasound scanner and, in May 1962, recorded Australia's first ultrasound image of a foetus, President of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers from 1985–87, awarded the Professor Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer award for basic science from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine in 2000.
Professor Sydney Rubbo, Professor of Bacteriology at Melbourne University.
Professor Philip Sambrook OAM, Head of Rheumatology at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital and Director of the Institute for Bone & Joint Research.
Dr Martin Silink, President of International Diabetes Federation, Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at Sydney University.
Emeritus Professor Richard Stanton AO FAA, geologist, Hoffman Research Fellow at Harvard, Visiting Professor at Oxford.
Emeritus Professor George Stevenson, Director of Tenovus Research Laboratory, Professor of Immunochemistry at Southampton University UK.
Dr Jonathan Stone FAA, Challis Professor of Anatomy at Sydney University, specialist in developmental biology; degenerative disease of retina (brother of Michael Stone [qv]).
Professor Alan Treloar, Head of the Department of Biostatistics at University of Minnesota where in 1934 he initiated The TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health, now one of the world's oldest ongoing research programs in this area, the first person to describe the concept of the peri-menopause (uncle of John Treloar [qv]).
Dr John Turner, Professor of Agricultural Chemistry and Dean of Faculty of Agriculture at Sydney University.
Emeritus Professor Stewart Turner FRS, specialist in geophysical fluid dynamics at the Australian National University, Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
Dr Harry Tyer OAM MS Hon, Orthopaedic surgeon, responsible for introduction into Australia of the modern surgical treatment of spinal deformity, in 1986 awarded the L. O. Betts Memorial Medal; In 1984 established what is believed to have been the first 'Bone Bank' in Australia at The Rachel Forster Hospital, Redfern.
Professor Rupert Vallentine (First XV 1934), Dean of Faculty of Engineering (1978–81) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1981–82) at the University of New South Wales where the Vallentine Annexe in Civil Engineering was named in his honour and in 2010 the Rupert Vallentine Fellowship Scheme was instituted to celebrate the career of "a visionary researcher, educator, strategic thinker and humanitarian".
Professor Garry Walter AM, Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Editor of Australasian Psychiatry, has published over 300 articles and has won many prestigious awards for his research.
Dr George Wilson, Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University, author of Bispectral symmetry, the Weyl algebra and differential operators on curves.
Professor John Wong, Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, has published over 500 original scientific papers and chapters in books, pioneer of new techniques in oesophageal cancer which have been responsible for reducing the mortality from these procedures to near zero, President of Pan-Pacific Surgical Association and Asian Surgical Association.
Hartley 'Hart' Amos, an influential and prolific early Australian comic book artist.
Richard Appleton, poet, raconteur and editor who became editor-in-chief of the Australian Encyclopaedia. He was described in Clive James’s 2003 book As of This Writing as "among the most gifted" Australian poets of his time. In conjunction with his wife, Barbara, he compiled the Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places. In the 1980s Appleton edited the Australian content of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In response to the premature announcement of his death, he famously said: "not everybody gets to read his own obituary".
David Barnett OBE, Chief Press Secretary to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser 1975-82, Co-author of John Howard: Prime Minister.
Leigh Blackmore, horror writer, critic, editor and occultist.
Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill, author of The Dam Busters, Reach For The Sky, The Great Escape.
Michael Carson, ABC television director who directed Jimmy Dancer, Scales of Justice, Police Rescue, Phoenix, Janus and Sea Change.
Patrick Conroy AM, Head of ABC TV (1988–95).
Jason Dasey, Broadcaster and Journalist, first Australian sports presenter on BBC World and CNN. Also former Vice President for Astro. Now Coordinating Producer for ESPN in Asia.
Robert Dessaix, novelist, essayist and journalist, his first fictional work, Night Letters, was published in 1996 and translated into German, French, Italian, Dutch, Finnish and Portuguese.
Gordon Gostelow, English actor often cast in villainous roles; he appeared notably as Barkis in David Copperfield (1966) and as Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby (1968).
Ken G. Hall AO OBE, first Australian to win an Oscar, awarded in 1942 for documentary Kokoda Front Line, his life is honoured by the Ken G. Hall Award for film preservation from the National Film and Sound Archive.
George Houvardas, actor well known for his role as Nick "Carbo" Karadonis in Packed to the Rafters, contestant on Dancing With The Stars 2010.
Robert Loader, producer of mini-series "The Challenge", "The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy" and documentary "Drought" which won the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1985. Writer and editor of Australian television.
Sir Robert Madgwick, former Chairman of the ABC, inaugural Vice-Chancellor of University of New England.
Alexander Francis "Lex" Marinos OAM, Deputy Chairperson of Australia Council, actor, writer, director, host of Late Night Legends on ABC Digital 2.
John Moyes, Editor of Sunday Telegraph, author of Scrapiron Flotilla, 1943 (brother of Allan Moyes [qv].
David Myles, film, theatre and television director in the UK, USA and Europe for over 25 years, directed Laurence Olivier in The Merchant of Venice and Derek Jacobi in As You Like It, also City Homicide and SBS show Carla Cametti P.D..
Chris Noonan, director of the 1995 movie Babe.
Peter Overton, Television Journalist.
Ben Oxenbould, actor and comedian, best known for his role in the television series Hey Dad..!.
John Polson, actor and film director, founded Tropfest in 1994, the biggest short-film festival in the world, directed Hide and Seek in 2005, currently directing US television series including Flash Forward, Without a Trace, Fringe, The Mentalist, The Good Wife and Happy Town (expelled after Completing Year 7, also attended Glenaeon).
James Powditch, joint winner of 2005 Blake Prize for Religious Art.
Dr Lionel Sawkins, Europe-based music conductor, choral director, scholar, editor, in 1996 named by the French Minister of Culture as Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of diffusing French music "dans le monde" (throughout the world).
Greedy Smith, keyboardist/vocalist with Mental As Anything, has been an entertainer in Australia for over 20 years. Born Andrew McArthur Smith.
Nathan Waks, Cellist in Sydney Symphony Orchestra, former Director of Music at ABC, composer of score for My Brilliant Career.
Justin Way, one of the Directors of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Ormsby Wilkins, Musical Director and Principal Conductor of the American Ballet Theatre.
Daniel Wyllie, actor
Mark Francis Bethwaite, Australian Olympic Yachting Team 1972, 1976 and 1980; World Champion Soling and J24 Class 1982; Australian Yachtsman of Year 1982, Managing-Director Renison Goldfields Consolidated Ltd, the first investor in "magic bullet" cancer treating nano technology developed in Australia by EnGeneIC.
Kanga Birtles, international yachtsman and boatbuilder, in 1990–91 became fastest Australian to solo circumnavigate the world, holder of record for fastest non-stop circumnavigation of Australia.
Allan Border, Australian Test Cricket Captain; holder of the world record for the number of consecutive Test appearances of 153 and the number of Tests as captain, Australian of the Year in 1989, the Allan Border Medal, awarded to the leading Australian player each year, is named in his honour.
John Cheadle (First XI 1945), in 1957 was both Australian and New Zealand Squash Champion and Captain of Australian Squash Team to tour New Zealand.
Ian Craig, the youngest Australian to play Test cricket (17 years 239 days) and the youngest Australian Test cricket captain (22 years).
Greg Florimo, Rugby League (North Sydney Bears, NSW and Australia).
Jock Gibson, 1952 Olympian in Fencing (Helsinki).
Spencer Grace, 1948 Olympian in Rowing.
Bjarne Halvorsen, Whilst Manager of Australian Rugby Union team in South Africa in 1961, he devised the now iconic Wallaby golden jersey subsequently adopted as the national colour by most Australian sports.
Peter Hanlin, 1956 Olympian in shot put at Melbourne, winner of seven national titles in shot put (equal record).
Dr John Harrison, 1968 Olympian in Water Polo.
Dr David Hawkins, 220 yards breaststroke gold medallist at 1950 Empire Games, 1952 Olympian at Helsinki, Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Ben Hinshelwood, Scottish Rugby international, as a Full Back won 19 Caps from 2002 to 2005, previously a centre with Sydney University Premiership XV 2001.
Graeme Hole, cricketer for New South Wales, South Australia (Captain) and Australia. Also played baseball for South Australia.
Dennis Hughes, the winger from Northern Suburbs Rugby Union Club Sydney who represented Australia at 75th Jubilee Celebration of South African Rugby in 1964, member of World XV.
Gregory Johns, in 1976 he was a reserve Crew Member for the Australian Olympic Sailing Team, in 1980 he was selected to represent in the 470 class, in 1984 he was the Australian Olympic Sailboard Coach, in 1988 he was once again Reserve Crew Member and Coach and in 1992 and 1996 he was coach to the Australian team.
Dr Keith Kirkland (Captain of School 1916, 1917 & 1918), 1928 Olympian in Swimming, Vice-President of International Society of Urology, a ward of (former) Sydney Hospital was named in his honour.
Tyler Martin, 2016 Olympian in Water Polo. World Championships in 2013 and 2015.
Chris McKay, Water Polo, Australian Men's Team 1986
‘Ginty’ Lush, Sheffield Shield fast bowler for New South Wales whose career of 20 first class matches spanned 1933 to 1947, unlucky to miss selection for 1938 Australian tour of England.
Alan Murray (golfer), Winner of 1961 Australian PGA Championship, 1962 French Open Golf Championship, Australian Wills Masters Champion 1967.
Kevin Bluey Myers OAM, during a career of over 50 years with the Freshwater Surf Life Saving Club, he won more than 24 national and NSW state medals, including four Australian gold medals and seven state championship golds, Club President for many years.
Jack Pettiford, Sheffield Shield cricketer for New South Wales who played over 200 first class matches in his career making 7077 runs, played for Australian Services in the 1945 ‘Victory Tests’ against England and India and scored two centuries in the latter.
Peter Philpott (Captain of School First XI 1950, including Ian Craig), Australian Test Cricketer, later coached widely including Sri Lanka, in the Sydney Grade Cricket Competition the Manly-Warringah and Mosman Clubs compete each year for the Peter Philpott Cup.
Justice John Purdy of the Family Court, Australian Chess Champion 1955, 1963; whilst at NSBH, he became Australian Junior Chess Champion.
Ron Sharpe, at fourteen-years-old became the youngest swimmer in Australian history (at that time) to represent the country when he was selected for the Empire Games in New Zealand in 1950 following an unofficial trial organised by his coach Forbes Carlile.
Tony Steele, Australian international cricketer, selected to tour NZ with Australia 'B' in 1970.
John Treloar AM, the first Australian to run in Final of Olympic Games 100 Metres Sprint (Helsinki 1952), the gymnasium at North Sydney Boys High School has been named in his honour.
Wallabies Harry Bartley, Ron Meadows, Frank O'Brien, brothers Frank and Eric Hutchinson (both killed in WW2), Jim Cross, Rob Heming, Rod Phelps, Andy Stewart and Roger Cornforth (Captain of School 1935, Japanese POW, also 1948 Olympian in Water Polo).
Rugby League Internationals Herman Peters, Frank Stanton (later Coach of Kangaroos 'The Invincibles' on their historic unbeaten tour of England and France in 1982) and Don McKinnon.
Daniel Trist, Basketball Player for Australia's U19 international basketball team.
Dato Tom Critchley, Malaysian Knight, High Commissioner in PNG (1975–1978).
Philip Flood, High Commissioner in London.
Hon Justice Russell Walter Fox AC, former Ambassador-at-Large for Australia for Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Chief Judge of Supreme Court of Australian Capital Territory, the library at the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory was named in his honour.
HE Ian James, High Commissioner to Madagascar.
HE Donald Kingsmill, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
HE Gerry Nutter, Ambassador to Italy (1985–1988).
HE Gregory Wood, High Commissioner to Canada and Bermuda.
Admiral Chris Barrie AC – Chief of the Australian Defence Force.
Commodore Paul Berger LVO – Director of Naval Manpower Planning.
Brigadier Walter Campbell MC – who as a Lieutenant in 1957 during the Malayan Emergency was awarded the Military Cross for outstanding leadership under hostile fire.
John Cash – 21-year-old RAAF pilot attached to 274 Squadron RAF in the Middle East whose sacrifice in 1941 is honoured by the John Francis Cash Memorial Chapel at Moore Theological College, Sydney.
Brigadier Noel 'Chic' Charlesworth DSO – Chief of Staff Headquarters Field Force Command, Australian Army Attaché Washington DC, Charlesworth Place at Moree is named in his honour.
Brigadier Sir Frederick Oliver Chilton CBE, DSO & Bar – in his 100th year he commanded the Anzac Day march in Sydney.
Commodore Antony Cooper – RAN Hydrographer, former Commander of HMAS Warrego, Naval Officer-in-Charge of Northern Australia 1959–61.
Rear-Admiral Ian Crawford AO – Head of Naval Logistics.
Colonel M C Crawford MBE – As the Battery Commander of the Direct Support Battery for 4RAR/NZ (Anzac) Battalion in Vietnam he displayed outstanding leadership and devotion to duty which resulted in exceptionally high standards of morale and operational efficiency in his battery. His technical knowledge, judgement and meticulous attention to detail was responsible for the rapid and accurate application of supporting fire and was instrumental in reducing the number of casualties sustained by 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. Major Crawford’s ability to cooperate with supported arms and the reliability of his battery in action impressed all ranks of the 4th Battalion and developed in them a supreme confidence in the employment of close supporting artillery fire. When required as an aerial observer he personally directed artillery support with skill and without regard to personal safety. Throughout eleven months of continuous operations Major Crawford’s coolness, professional ability and outstanding leadership were a source of inspiration both to his own unit and the battalion which he supported.[Award citation]
Commodore Henry Hunter Gardner Dalrymple – General Manager Williamtown Naval Dockyard and subsequently Director General Naval Design at Naval HQ in Canberra.
Midshipman Robert Davies – served in the British battle cruiser HMS Repulse when it was sunk in the South China Sea off Malaya just before the fall of Singapore in 1942. Davies strapped himself to an anti-aircraft gun and was still firing at Japanese aircraft as Repulse carried him under. Sydney Morning Herald of 16 April 2011 reported Davies was one of 13 servicemen from the First and Second World Wars and Vietnam whose cases for the award of a retrospective VC were to be considered by the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal. On 7 March 2013 Sydney Morning Herald reported the finding of that Tribunal: for reasons of process, history and fact it was not appropriate to retrospectively award the Victoria Cross.
Brigadier Adrian d'Hage MC – author of The Omega Scroll.
Rear-Admiral William Dovers DSC – Flag Officer Commanding the Australian Fleet.
Major-General David Engel AO, OBE – Deputy Chief of the General Staff.
Brigadier Conrad Ermert – Commander RAEME.
Major-General Charles Finlay CB, CBE – Commandant of RMC Duntroon.
Major-General Timothy Ford AO – Chief of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, Commander 1st Division (1996–97).
Air Vice Marshal Roy Frost AO – Chief of RAAF Personnel.
Air Commodore the Rev Alwyn Greenaway OBE, DFC – Staff Officer RAAF Education Services.
Brigadier David Hanlin AM – Chief Engineer for Army Construction in Australia, played three Sheffield Shield cricket matches for NSW.
Major-General Albert Hellstrom CBE – Controller of Army Design and Inspection.
Admiral Michael Hudson AC – Chief of Naval Staff.
Brigadier David Leece PSM, RFD, ED – Commander 8th Infantry Brigade (1988–90), Executive Director & Chief Scientist, NSW Environment Protection Authority/Deputy Commissioner Murray Darling Basin Commission (1990 - 2002).
Colonel Allan Limburg CVO – Commander of Headquarters Supply Division, Director for 1963 Royal Visit to Northern Territory, author of Behind Enemy Lines.
Brigadier Frederick McAlister CBE – Commander RAA 1 Corps, President of Sydney Legacy.
Rear Admiral Stuart Mayer CSC & Bar – Commander of Australian Fleet from June 2014, Commander from 2009 of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF), former Commander of HMAS Canberra.
Air Vice Marshal Graham Neil AO, DFC – Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Personnel).
Captain Roger Parker OBE, RAN – Managing Director of Cockatoo Docks, General Manager of Williamstown Naval Dockyard.
Air Vice Marshal Ronald Ramsay-Rae CB – Commander of Royal Air Force in Malaya.
Commodore Michael Rayment AM – Director-General of Naval Programmes and Resource Management.
Brigadier George Salmon AM – Director-General of Army Materiel (1987–93).
Air Vice Marshal Peter Scully, Former Assistant Chief of Defence Force.
Major-General Noel 'Red Fox' Simpson CB, CBE, DSO & Bar – Commander of 3rd Infantry Division, a frontline leader whose citation read: “tenacity of purpose, imperturbable character and firm control of his command”.
Rear-Admiral Peter Sinclair AC – Governor of NSW (1990–1996), Flag Officer Commanding the Australian Fleet.
Air Commodore Gordon Steege DSO, DFC – senior RAAF officer and fighter ace of World War II.
Brigadier Philip Stevens, Commander of the First Military District (CMF), Winner of Sword of Honour at RMC Duntroon for exemplary conduct and performance of duties.
Major-General Arthur Wilson CBE, DSO – Commander BCOF Japan.
Professor John Hamilton Andrews AO, architect, designer of Scarborough College Toronto, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cameron Offices Canberra, American Express Tower Sydney (original form), Intelsat HQ Building Washington DC and the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. Completed in 1976, it became the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years. In 1995, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Sir William Broun, 13th Baronet of Colstoun, Chief of Brown Clan of Scotland.
Darrel Conybeare, architect and town planner, practicing as a multidisciplinary design consultant, carrying out masterplanning and design with award-winning projects in the fields of architecture, urban design and strategic planning, major award-winning projects include the design and documentation of the Bicentennial Macquarie Street/Queens Square project and Circular Quay (West), also responsible for the $1.5billion Westlink M7 project and the Liverpool to Parramatta Transitway (son of Theo Conybeare [qv] and brother of Christopher Conybeare [qv]).
Katherine Cummings (birth name John Cummings), author of Katherine's Diary: The Story of a Transsexual, winner of Australian Human Rights Award for Non-fiction 1992, rev. ed. 2007, also 'The Life and Loves of a Transgendered Lesbian Librarian', 2014.
Bruce Garnsey AO MBE, Chief Commissioner of Scouts Australia, Chairman of World Scout Committee.
John Goldring, former District Court Judge and Foundation Dean of Wollongong University Law Faculty, the only person to have two separate entries in the one edition (1993) of Who’s Who in Australia – one under John (Jack) Goldring and another under John Lester Goldring.
Sir Robert Gordon, 10th Baronet of Afton and Earlston.
Raymond Hoser, wildlife activist and authority, has published numerous articles in journals worldwide, author of Australian Reptiles and Frogs.
Harry Howard, architect, designer of native landscape projects such as the High Court and National Gallery gardens as well as local projects like North Sydney's Sawmiller Reserve and Lane Cove Plaza, he is honoured by the Harry Howard Reserve at Wollstonecraft.
Graham Keating, 5 Times World Champion Town Crier.
Peter McGregor, activist, academic, and writer.
Don Scott, leader of legendary racecourse betting syndicate named the Legal Eagles which in its day attracted huge media attention, by using special techniques he re-engineered the odds to turn betting into a successful business with spectacular wins in the 1960s, he shared his secrets with the public in a number of books including Winning and The Winning Way.
Roelof Smilde (Captain of School 1947), member of Australian Team that gained Third Place at World Bridge Championship for the Bermuda Bowl in 1971 at Taipei.
Dorjee Sun, a social entrepreneur, is the CEO of Carbon Conservation. His work for Carbon Conservation was a subject of the international feature documentary The Burning Season in 2008. In 2009 a newly discovered species of blue spotted chameleon from the rainforests of Tanzania was named after Sun. In 2009 Time Magazine recognised Sun as a Hero of the Environment.
Sir Anthony Trollope, 16th Baronet of Casewick. and Sir Anthony Trollope, 17th Baronet of Casewick (direct descendants of English novelist Anthony Trollope).
Bill Waterhouse, barrister, in May 2010 retired from the betting ring at the age of 88 years, once known as the world's biggest bookmaker, famous for his betting duels with the big punters of the past, he took what is believed to be the first $1 million bet on a horse race when the "Filipino Fireball" Felipe Ysmael challenged him to a wager in 1968, Ysmael won the bet, but was still left owing money to Waterhouse at the end of the day, former Consul General for Tonga.
John Waterhouse, President of Royal Zoological Society of NSW, author of The Black Honeyeater.
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