This is a list of Old Scotch Collegians, who are notable former students of Scotch College in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Alumni of Scotch College are known as Old Boys or Old Collegians, and automatically become members of the schools alumni association, the Old Scotch Collegians Association (OSCA).
Studies over the years have found that Scotch College had more alumni mentioned in Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians) than any other school, and its alumni had received more top Order of Australia honours than any other school.
Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors
Sir Zelman Cowen – Vice Chancellor of University of New England, Vice-Chancellor of University of Queensland
Peter Darvall – Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
Sir Arthur Dean – Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
Sir David Derham – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
Sir Archibald Glenn – Chancellor of La Trobe University
Raymond Martin – Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
Sir John Monash – Monash University named after him, Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne
Sir Walter Murdoch – Murdoch University named after him, Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of University of Western Australia
Sir George Paton – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
David Penington – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
Ian Renard – Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
Sir Lindsay Ride – Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
Sir Kenneth Wheare – Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
Others – academia and science
Robert Bartnik – Mathematician
John Cade – discovered lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of depression
Dr Robert Percival Cook FRSE - nutrition expert
Rev. Dr Andrew Harper – Biblical scholar and Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne and St Andrew's College, Sydney
Ian Johnston – IVF and reproductive medicine pioneer
James P. Leary – Professor of Folklore and Scandinavian Studies University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stuart Macintyre – Dean of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, voted one of Australia's leading public intellectuals
Robert Marks – Editor of the Australian Journal of Management, Emeritus Professor at Australian Graduate School of Management
John McLaren – Emeritus Professor Australian literary historian
Dr. E. Neil McQueen – Second Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney
Stephen Newton – Principal of Caulfield Grammar School
Sir Benjamin Rank – pioneering plastic surgeon
Alan Geoffrey Serle – historian and biographer
James Simpson – Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University
Peter Singer – philosopher, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, voted one of Australia's leading public intellectuals
Thomas Gibson Sloane- entomologist
Hugh Stretton – Social scientist, voted one of Australia's leading public intellectuals
George Tait – First Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne
David Vines – Professor of Economics at Oxford University
Sir James Balderstone – Chairman of BHP and AMP
David Crawford – Chairman Foster's Group and Lend Lease Corporation
Sir Archibald Glenn – Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Australia (Orica)
Charles Goode – Chairman of ANZ Bank and Woodside Petroleum
Sir Harold Knight – Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
John Landels – Chairman and CEO of Caltex Australia
Jonathan Ling – CEO of Fletcher Building, New Zealand's second largest company
Sir Ian McLennan – Chairman of BHP and ANZ Bank
Sir Laurie Muir – stockbroker and director
John Reid – CEO of James Hardie Industries Ltd., the asbestos manufacturer
Evan Thornley – Founder of Looksmart, Chief Executive of Better Place Australia
Sir David Zeidler – Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Australia (Orica)
Sir John Latham – Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
Alastair Nicholson – Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
Sir Henry Winneke – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Governor of Victoria
Geoffrey John Digby – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria,
Greg Garde – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, President of Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Kenneth Hayne – Justice of the High Court of Australia
Clifford Menhennitt – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, delivered the landmark 1969 Menhennitt ruling which was the first legal precedent with regard to abortion law in Australia
Richard Refshauge – Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
Sir Hayden Starke – Justice of the High Court of Australia
Sir Ninian Stephen – Justice of the High Court of Australia and Governor General of Australia
John Winneke (son of Sir Henry) – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, President of Victorian Court of Appeal
Graeme Bell – jazz musician
Roger Bell – jazz musician
Ric Birch – designer of Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies
Creighton Burns – editor of The Age newspaper 1981–1989
Richard Davies – actor
John Ewart – AFI award-winning actor
Alexander Frater – writer and chief travel correspondent, the Observer
Sir Roy Grounds – architect, works include National Gallery of Victoria and Victorian Arts Centre
Mark Kwong – Music Producer and DJ known as Maarcos
Patrick McCaughey – Director of the National Gallery of Victoria
Campbell McComas – entertainer, impersonator
Ned Napier – actor
Ian Munro – pianist, composer
Peter Nicholson – cartoonist for The Australian
Ron Radford – Director of the National Gallery of Australia
Felix Riebl – lead singer of The Cat Empire
Jesse Spencer – actor
Chris Wallace-Crabbe – poet, Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne
John Williamson – country music singer
Yelian He - cellist
Major General Sir Julius Bruche – Chief of the General Staff
Air Marshal Barry Gration – Chief of the Air Staff
General Peter Gration – Chief of the Australian Defence Force
Vice Admiral Sir Alan McNicoll – Chief of the Royal Australian Navy
General Sir John Monash – First Australian overall Commander of the Australian Corps, face on Australian $100 note, Monash University named after him
Raymond Brownell – Air Commodore, WWI flying ace
Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley – Brigadier, Director of Medicine, Australian Military Forces during WWII
Greg Garde – Major General, Deputy Chief Australian Defence Force (Reserves) (Australia's highest ranking reservist)
Oliver David Jackson – Commander 1st Australian Task Force in South Vietnam (1966–1967)
Robert Little – top scoring Australian fighter pilot in WWI, killed in action May 1918
Sir James Whiteside McCay – Lieutenant General
Sir William Refshauge – Major General
Sir Clive Steele – Major General
Alan Stretton – Major General, Head of National Disaster Organisation, responsible for managing and rebuilding Darwin after Cyclone Tracy
Hugh Randall Syme - Bomb Defuser, grandson of David Syme
Paul Symon – Major General, Deputy Chief of Army
Ian Upjohn – Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding Officer of 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse, commander of Australian troops in Solomon Islands
Prime ministers and presidents
Sir John Latham – Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
Kalkot Mataskelekele – President of Vanuatu
Sir George Reid – Prime Minister of Australia, Premier of NSW, member of British House of Commons
Jim Bacon – Premier of Tasmania
John Cain – Premier of Victoria
Jeff Kennett – Premier of Victoria
Sir Harry Lawson – Premier of Victoria
John MacPherson – Premier of Victoria
Sir George Reid – Premier of NSW
William Shiels – Premier of Victoria
Vaiben Louis Solomon – Premier of South Australia
Bill Baxter – Victorian Nationals Roads & Ports Minister
Mark Dreyfus – Federal Attorney General
Ivor Greenwood – Federal Liberal Minister
Mac Holten – Federal Nationals Minister, Administrator of Christmas Island
Dr David Kemp – Federal Liberal Minister
Rod Kemp – Federal Liberal Minister
Jim Kennan – Victorian Attorney General, Victorian Labor Opposition Leader
Sir John Latham – Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
John Leckie – Federal Minister
Sir James Whiteside McCay – Federal Defence Minister
James McColl – Federal Minister
Andrew Peacock – Federal Liberal Opposition Leader, Ambassador to United States of America
Andrew Refshauge – Labor Deputy Premier of New South Wales
Sir Arthur Robinson – Victorian Attorney General
Tony Staley – Federal Liberal Minister, Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia
George Wise – Federal Minister, Postmaster-General
Michael Wooldridge – Federal Liberal Health Minister
Others – politics and public service
John Arthur Andrews – anarchist theoretician, agitator, poet,journalist
Alexander Buchanan – Member of Australian Parliament
James Gibb – Member of Australian Parliament
Robert Bell Hamilton – Renowned Victorian architect, Member for Toorak in Parliament of Victoria and Mornington Shire Council President
Norman Charles Harris – engineer, later lieutenant colonel, Victorian Railways Chairman of Commissioners, honoured by the naming of Melbourne Suburban blue electric 'Harris Train'
Sir Lenox Hewitt – senior public servant
Ken Jasper – veteran Nationals member for Murray Valley in Parliament of Victoria
Sir George Knox – Speaker of Victorian Legislative Assembly, City of Knox named after him
William Knox – Federal Member of Parliament, responsible for moving a motion to begin each sitting day of parliament with prayers
Sir William Refshauge – Director-General of the Commonwealth Department of Health 1960–73
Charles Carty Salmon – Member of Australian Parliament, Speaker of House of Representatives
Sir David Smith – official Secretary to five Australian Governors-General from 1973 to 1990
Tom Hackett - two time Ray Guy Award winner with Utah Utes Football
Drew Ginn – three time rowing Olympic gold medalist
Cameron Mackenzie – Olympic sprinter
Cameron McKenzie-McHarg – Olympic rowing silver medalist
Samuel Patten – Olympic rower and member of the Oarsome Foursome
Dean Pullar – Olympic diving silver medalist
Matthew Targett – Olympic swimming silver medalist
Matt Welsh – Olympic swimming silver medalist
Rob Woodhouse – Olympic swimming medalist
Bob Cowper – Australian cricket team
Colin McDonald – Australian cricket team
Ray Steele – Treasurer of the Australian Cricket Board, President of the Victorian Cricket Association and AFL premiership footballer
David Fitter – Australian national rugby union team
Richard Harry – Australian national rugby union team
Andrew Heath – Australian national rugby union team
Tom McColl – Captain Hong Kong national rugby union team
Ewen McKenzie – head coach of the Australian national rugby union team in which he also played, also head coach of the New South Wales Waratahs, Stade Français and Queensland Reds
Gerald Patterson – two times Wimbledon singles champion and world number 1 tennis player
Ed Barlow – Sydney Swans Football Club player
Jack Billings – St. Kilda Football Club player, pick no.3 2013 National NAB AFL Draft
Darcy Byrne-Jones – Port Adelaide Football Club player
Campbell Brown – 2008 Premiership player for Hawthorn Football Club. Gold Coast Suns player
Nathan Djerrkura – Geelong Football Club player
Andrew Erickson – Sydney Swans Football Club player
Rob Fuller – Richmond Football Club player
Nick Gill – Adelaide Football Club player
Duncan Harris - Hawthorn FC - 1 game - 1962
John Hendrie – 1976 & 1978 Premiership Player for Hawthorn Football Club
Doug Heywood – Melbourne Football Club player
Lachie Hill – Carlton Football Club player
Malcolm Hill - Hawthorn FC - 22 games - 1960-1962 including 1961 Premiership
Liam Jones – Western Bulldogs Football Club player
Jake Kelly – Adelaide Football Club player
Ian Law – Hawthorn FC - 106 games - 1960-1969 including 1961 Premiership
Richard Loveridge – 1983 & 1986 Premiership Player for Hawthorn Football Club
Jamie Macmillan – North Melbourne Football Club player
Scott Maginness – 1988 & 1989 Premiership player for Hawthorn Football Club
Will Maginness – West Coast Football Club player
Bill Morris – Brownlow Medal winner, Richmond Football Club player
Neil Pearson – Hawthorn FC - 133 games - 1945-1954
Michael Perry – Richmond Football Club player
Stan Reid – Fitzroy Football Club player
Cyril Rioli – 2008 & 2014 Premiership player for Hawthorn Football Club
Michael Rix – St Kilda Football Club player
Ben Sinclair – Collingwood Football Club player
Jack Sinclair – St. Kilda Football club player
Will Slade – Geelong Football Club player
Nick Smith – 2012 Premiership player for Sydney Swans Football Club
James Strauss – Melbourne Football Club player
Terry Waites – Collingwood Football Club player
John Winneke – Hawthorn FC - 50 games - 1960-1962 including 1961 Premiership
Colin Youren – Hawthorn FC - 135 games - 1958-1965 including 1961 Premiership
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