List of alumni of Wesley College, Melbourne

This is a list of notable Old Wesley Collegians, former students of Wesley College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Alumni of Wesley College are known as Old Collegians and are automatically members of the school's alumni association, the Old Wesley Collegians Association (OWCA), which was founded in 1882.[1]

Academia, scholars, philosophers, clergymen and educators

• Samuel Alexander OM, British philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge College
• Waleed Aly, lecturer at Global Terrorism Research Centre, School of Political & Social Inquiry, and at the Monash University Faculty of Arts; spokesman for the Islamic Council of Victoria; presenter on Network Ten's The Project
• The Hon. Chief Justice Michael Black AC QC, Barrister, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, Foundation Chairman of the Victorian Bar’s Readers Course, chair of the Advisory Committee (Juris Doctor Degree at the Melbourne Law School)[2][3]
• Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC, historian
• Dr Andrew Dent AC, associate professor of medicine (Melbourne University)
• Professor Brian Lewis, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture (University of Melbourne)[4]
• Professor John Henry Michell, mathematician and Senior Wrangler (Cambridge University)
• Professor Graham Oppy, philosopher (Monash University)[5]
• Joseph Lade Pawsey, pioneer of the study of radio astronomy in Australia
• Lawrence Pyke, Rhodes Scholar, Headmaster of Newington College
• Sir David Rivett KCMG, Rhodes Scholar and associate professor and professor of chemistry (University of Melbourne)
• Walter Rosenhain, metallurgist
• Professor Chris Silagy AO, leading pioneer in evidence-based medicine[6]
• Professor Warren Thomson OAM, Music (University of Sydney)[7][8]
• Sir Harold L. White CBE, Parliamentary Librarian of Australia and National Librarian[9]
• Professor Carl Wood AC, CBE, FRCS, FRANZCOG; IVF pioneer (Monash University)

Business and sports administration

• Sir Frank Beaurepaire, founder of Beaurepaires and Olympic Tyres
• Sir John Grice, director of National Bank of Australasia (first Wesley student to qualify for entrance to University of Melbourne)
• Daryl Jackson AM, architect; chairman of the Australian Film Institute; trustee of NGV; vice president of MCC
• Poppy King, businesswoman; Young Australian of the Year 1995 (also attended Lauriston Girls' School)[10]
• Eric McCutchan, manager of the Victorian Football League; inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame in 1996
• Ross Oakley, chief executive officer of the Australian Football League, Victorian Rugby Union,[11] Melbourne Rebels[12][13] and Royal Insurance,[14] director of Harris Scarfe Holdings Limited (1997–2001); chairman of the Royal Australian Holdings Ltd, the Royal Life Insurance Australia Ltd, the State Training Board of Victoria, the Get Going Sport Foundation; director of AAMI Ltd and Tisdall Wines; inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame in 2009
• Wayne Reid OBE, president of Tennis Australia
• Graeme Samuel AC, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Entertainment, media and the arts

Actors

• Laura Brent, actor
• Isabella Dunwill, actor
• William Franklyn, British actor
• Christopher Gabardi, actor
• Christopher "Kick" Gurry, Hollywood actor (star of Speed Racer, Looking for Alibrandi)
• Alan Hopgood, actor and dramatist
• Lachy Hulme, actor
• Samuel Johnson, actor, AFI recipient and Logies nominee, radio host (Nova FM)
• Lloyd Lamble (1934-2008), Australian and British film, theatre, radio and television actor
• Kyal Marsh, actor
• Eloise Mignon, actor (also attended St Michael's Grammar School, St Kilda)
• Chris Scalzo, actor
• Jason Stephens, actor
• Ashley Zukerman, actor
• Jane Harber, actor

Comedians

• Richard Stubbs, comedian

Musicians

• David Briggs, musician (Little River Band)
• Sophia Brous, musician, former program director of the Melbourne Jazz Festival and former curator of music at the Adelaide Festival
• Justine Electra, musician
• Paul Grabowsky, musician
• The Groop, 1960s rock band (original lineup)
• Ollie McGill, musician (keyboard player in The Cat Empire)
• The Temper Trap, band
• Bruce Watson, songwriter

Producers

• Malcolm Douglas, Australian wildlife documentary filmmaker and crocodile hunter[15]

Radio and television

• Lloyd Lamble, radio announcer (3DB)[16]
• Pete Smith, radio and television announcer
• Richard Stubbs, Melbourne ABC radio host
• Derek Guille, Musician and radio host

Other

• Charles Baeyertz, publisher of The Triad, critic and broadcaster
• Margaret Jane Gurney (born 1943), Australian artist (Methodist Ladies' College, Elsternwick)
• Barry Kay, stage and costume designer and photographer
• Frank Arthur Nankivell, artist
• Lauren Phillips, model, National Ambassador (National Breast Cancer Foundation & Myer) and television presenter[17]
• Rohan Rivett, journalist and editor
• Athol Shmith, photographer
• John Spooner, political illustrator (The Age), 2002 winner of the Graham Perkin Award for the Australian Journalist of the Year[18]
• Shura Taft, television and radio presenter[19]
• Tom Wright, writer

Military

Victoria Cross recipients

• Captain Robert Cuthbert Grieve VC [20]

Australian Army

• Major General Herbert William Lloyd CB CMG CVO DSO
• Major General Edward Milford CB CBE DSO
• Major General George Vasey CB CBE DSO Bar
• Major General John Whitelaw AO CBE, son of Major General John Stewart Whitelaw
• Major General John Stewart Whitelaw CB CBE

Politics and government

• Kenneth Bailey
• James Bennett
• Russell Broadbent Federal MP
• Ian Cathie, Labor Victorian State Cabinet Minister
• Julian Hill, Federal MP
• Sam Cohen, Senator for Victoria
• Harold Edward Holt CH, Prime Minister of Australia[21]
• Michael Kroger
• Major General Herbert William Lloyd CB, CMG, CVO, DSO
• Sam Loxton OBE
• Alexander Mair, Premier of New South Wales
• John Maynard Hedstrom, member of the Legislative Council of Fiji
• Andrew McCutcheon, Labor Victorian State Cabinet Minister
• Sir Robert Gordon Menzies KT CH AK PC KC, Prime Minister of Australia[22]
• Peter Nixon, National Party politician, Federal cabinet minister
• Senator John Siddons, Australian Senator
• Bruce Arthur Smith
• Senator Reg Turnbull, Leader of the Australia Party
• William Henry Williams

Law

• The Hon. Chief Justice Michael Black AC QC, Queen's Counsel[2][3]
• Sir Robert Gordon Menzies KT CH AK PC KC, King's Counsul[22]
• Stuart Morris QC, Queen's Counsel
• The Hon. Justice Geoffrey Nettle QC, Queen's Counsel, current Justice of the High Court of Australia[23]
• Fred Whitlam, Australian Commonwealth Crown Solicitor (1936–1949); father of former Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam
• The Hon. Philip Mandie QC, Justice of Victorian Court of Appeal (2009-2012) and of Supreme Court of Victoria (1994-2012)

Sciences, medicine and engineering

• Doctor Tony Atkins AM, medical practitioner recognised for his work in famine relief and agricultural development in Africa
• Professor Sir Robert Chapman CMG, first Professor of Physics and Engineering at Adelaide University
• Doctor Andrew Dent AM, medical doctor and humanitarian worker
• Professor Graham Farquhar AO, FAA, FRS
• Doctor Alan William Greenwood CBE FRSE, zoologist and geneticist
• Charles Hoadley, geologist and Antarctic explorer
• Doctor Joseph Lade Pawsey, pioneer of the study of radio astronomy in Australia
• Sir David Rivett KCMG, chemist, chairman and chief executive officer of the CSIR and founder of the CSIRO[24]
• Walter Rosenhain, metallurgist
• John Springthorpe, physician
• William Sutherland, physicist
• Sir George Adlington Syme, surgeon and first president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
• Sir William George Dismore Upjohn, surgeon and chancellor of Melbourne University
• Professor Carl Wood AC CBE FRCS FRANZCOG, IVF pioneer, Monash University

Sport

Athletics

• Ted Best, Commonwealth Games track and field athlete (1938)
• Emma Carney, World Cross Country Championships distance runner (1993, 1994)
• Dean Kenneally, Commonwealth Games track and field athlete (1994)

Australian rules football

• Ross Abbey, Footscray Football Club
• Stuart Anderson, Fremantle Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club
• Simon Arnott, Geelong Football Club and Sydney Swans
• Darren Baxter, Hawthorn and Footscray
• James Bennett, Hawthorn Football Club
• Peter Bennett, St Kilda Football Club
• George Bickford, Melbourne Football Club
• Peter Box, Footscray Football Club and Brownlow Medalist
• Frank Boynton, Melbourne Football Club, Geelong Football Club and University Football Club
• Adam Cerra, Fremantle Football Club
• Arch Corbett, Melbourne University Football Club (VFL)
• Harry Curtis, Collingwood Football Club and Carlton Football Club[25]
• Sam Frost, Greater Western Sydney Giants and Melbourne Football Club
• Toby Greene, Greater Western Sydney Giants
• Warwick Green St Kilda Football Club
• Will Johnson, St Kilda Football Club[26]
• Allan McKellar, Richmond and Sydney
• Stephen Mount, Richmond, 1980 premiership
• Ross Oakley, St Kilda Football Club
• Roy Park, Melbourne Football Club and Melbourne University Football Club
• Arthur Pearce, St Kilda Football Club
• Gordon Rattray, Fitzroy Football Club, Brighton Football Club; first to use the torpedo punt[27]
• Nick Ries, Hawthorn Football Club
• Ivor Warne-Smith, Melbourne Football Club, dual Brownlow Medallist
• Fergus Watts, Adelaide Crows Football Club

Baseball and basketball

• Michael Nakamura, Olympic athlete (1996, 2000) and Major League Baseball player

Cricket

• Ross Gregory, First Class cricketer for Australia and Victoria
• Ian Johnson CBE, Australian Test Cricketer (Captain 1956) and member of "The Invincibles"
• Sam Loxton, Australian Test cricketer (1948–1951) and member of "The Invincibles"
• Dirk Nannes, First Class cricketer for Victoria
• Roy Park, First Class cricketer for Australia and Victoria
• Keith Rigg, First Class cricketer for Australia and Victoria
• Carl Willis, First Class cricketer for Victoria

Cycling

• Katie Mactier, Olympic Cycling gold medallist (2004, 2008), Commonwealth Games athlete (2006) and World Champion (1992, 2005)

Netball

• Sharelle McMahon, Australian netball Captain, world champion (1995, 1999) and Commonwealth Games netballer (1998, 2002, 2006, 2010)
• Molly Jovic

Rowing

• Paul Guest, three time Olympian rower and Family Court of Australia judge.

Sailing

• Jesse Martin, youngest person to have circumnavigated the globe solo, non-stop and unassisted (age 17); Ambassador of Reach Young & Young Endeavour

Swimming

• Michael Klim OAM, Olympic gold medallist (1996, 2000, 2004), world record holder (1996–2000), Commonwealth Games athlete (1998, 2006) and Australian Representative (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)

Triathlon

• Emma Carney, Triathlon World Champion 1994, 1997 World Number 1 Triathlete (1995, 1996, 1997) Australian Representative (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)

Tennis

• Mark Philippoussis, professional tennis player, runner-up at Wimbledon and US Open and Olympic athlete for tennis (1996, 2000, 2004)
• Christina Wheeler, member of the Federation Cup team (2001)

Water polo

• Peter Bennett, Olympic athlete (1952, 1956) and Commonwealth Games athlete (1950)

Other

• Curtis Good, footballer for Newcastle United
• Jack Hingert, footballer for Brisbane Roar in the A-League
• Mick Parker, mountaineer

See also

• List of Victoria Crosses by School

References

1. OWCA: About Us
2. ANU Law Conference and Sawer Lecture Program (2009)
3. Biographical Information Archived 2014-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
4. Crotty, Martin (June 2001). "The Limits of Manliness". Australian Humanities Review. Archived from the original on 28 April 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
5. The Secular Web: Curriculum Vitae – Graham Oppy
6. "Annual Report 2001" (PDF). The Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Foundation Limited. pp. 7–8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
7. The Lion: Issue 95
8. The Order of Australia Database - Warren Thomson
9. Powell, Graeme, "White, Sir Harold Leslie (1905–1992)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 21 May 2020
10. The Age: Girl power
11. VRU Staff & Board of Directors, accessed: 2010-10-03
12. Schlink, Leo (9 September 2010). "Melbourne Rebels land former AFL boss Ross Oakley". Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
13. Harris, Bret (10 September 2010). "Ross Oakley appointed CEO of Melbourne Rebels and Victorian Rugby Union". Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
14. "Victorian Rugby Announces New Management Structure" (Press release). Melbourne Rebels. 9 September 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
15. Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Malcolm Douglas & Crocs
16. The Age: Blacklisted performer took his talent to Britain and blossomed
17. Visit Victoria - Meet the team
18. The Lion: Issue 90
19. http://www.wesleytheatre.net/spotlight/21
20. McIntyre, Darryl (1983). "Grieve, Robert Cuthbert (1889–1957)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 9 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 106–107. Retrieved 23 January 2008.
21. Burke, Kelly (10 February 2004). "One of the old school". TV & Radio. Melbourne: The Age. Retrieved 20 February 2008.
22. http://www.gavmag.com/austpm/pm_menzies.htm Gavmag - Sir Robert Gordon Menzies
23. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/HCATrans/2015/5.html
24. "History". Wesley College. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
25. "Harry Curtis : Blueseum - Online Carlton Football Club Museum". Blueseum. 31 March 1968. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
26. "Will Johnson Player Profile bio - Official AFL Website of the St Kilda Football Club". Saints.com.au. 26 October 1989. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
27. Fitzroy Has Never Lacked Courage, The Argus Weekend Magazine, (Saturday, 6 August 1949), p.3.

Sources

• A brief history of Wesley College sport Wesley College, Melbourne (2006)
• Adamson Theatre Company Wesley College, Melbourne – Performing Arts, Season Brochures

External links

• Wesley College, Melbourne Website
• Old Wesley Collegians Association Website