List of Old Sydneians

The following is a list of famous past students of Sydney Grammar School (SGS). Former students of the school are known as Old Sydneians.

SGS has had the most High Court Justices (7) and Rhodes Scholars (26) of any high school in Australia, and Sydney Grammar School has had an old boy sitting on the High Court almost constantly since the Court was founded. Also, the current Chancellors of two of Australia's most notable universities - the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales - are Old Sydneians (Kim Santow and David Gonski respectively). Current Attorney General of New South Wales Bob Debus and Shadow Attorney General Andrew Tink were teacher and student at SGS, respectively.

Politics and Law

• Sir Edmund Barton, Australia's first Prime Minister.
• General Sir Henry George Chauvel, Army Chief of Staff.
• Nick Cowdery, NSW Director of Public Prosecutions.
• Sir Norman Cowper, lawyer and administrator.
• Sir David Griffin, Lord Mayor of Sydney.
• William Gummow, High Court judge.
• Sir Leslie Herron, 12th Chief Justice of New South Wales.
• Sir Daniel Levy, lawyer and politician.
• Malcolm Mackerras, psephologist.
• Sir James Martin, 4th Chief Justice of New South Wales.
• Sir Anthony Mason, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
• Sir William McMahon, Australia's 20th Prime Minister.
• Boyd Morehead, Premier of Queensland.
• Sir Richard O'Connor, High Court judge.
• Sir John Peden, lawyer, politician and law professor.
• Albert Piddington, High Court judge.
• Sir John Hubert Plunkett Murray, Administrator of Papua New Guinea.
• Sir George Rich, High Court judge.
• Kim Santow, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal, Chancellor of the University of Sydney.
• Sir Kenneth Street, 10th Chief Justice of New South Wales.
• Sir Philip Street, 8th Chief Justice of New South Wales.
• Andrew Tink, shadow Attorney General of New South Wales, State MP for Epping.
• Malcolm Turnbull, Federal Parliament member for the seat of Wentworth and businessman.
• Sir Victor Windeyer, High Court judge.

Film

• Richard Francis-Bruce, Academy Award-nominated film editor (The Shawshank Redemption 1994), (Seven 1995), (Air Force One 1997).
• Andrew Lesnie, Academy Award-winning cameraman (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2002).
• Baz Luhrmann, film director.
• Julian McMahon, actor and son of Prime Minister McMahon.
• Bud Tingwell, actor.

Media

• Richard Carleton, 60 Minutes reporter.
• Charles Firth, member of The Chaser team.
• Bruce Gyngell, first man on Australian television.
• Mike Kerry, Channel V presenter.
• Richard Kingsmill, broadcaster.
• Dominic Knight, member of The Chaser team.
• Chas Licciardello, member of The Chaser team.
• Hugh Mackay, social commentator, former Chairman of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School.
• Tim Palmer, veteran ABC journalist.

Business

• Len Ainsworth, Aristocrat Leisure Limited founder.
• David Gonski, Coca-Cola Amatil chairman, Australia Council chairman, President of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Chairman of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School, Chancellor of the University of New South Wales.
• Wallace King, CEO Leighton Holdings.
• David Lowy, Deputy Chairman of Westfield
• Peter Lowy, Group Managing Director of Westfield
• Stephen Lowy, Group Managing Director of Westfield

Sport

• Fred Spofforth, First Test cricketer to take a hat-trick
• Andrew "Boy" Charlton, swimmer.
• Albert Cotter, Australia's 85th Test Cricketer and soldier.
• Stork Hendry, Australia's 116th Test cricketer.
• Alan McGilvray, cricket commentator.
• Alan Walker, Australian rugby player and cricketer.
• Colin James Windon, Australian rugby union captain and soldier.
• Sammy Woods, Australia's 54th Test cricketer.

The Arts

• Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor.
• Michael Dransfield, poet.
• Max Dupain, photographer.
• Donald Friend, artist.
• Rob Hirst, drummer, Midnight Oil.
• Mark Kingsmill, drummer, Hoodoo Gurus.
• Joseph Jacobs, preserved fairy-tales such as Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs.
• Banjo Paterson, Australian poet.

Other fields

• Dr. Bryan Gaensler, Young Australian of the Year, 1999, now Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University.
• Dr. Rowan Gillies, international president of Médecins Sans Frontières.
• Alastair Mackerras, first 'Old Boy' Head Master of the school.