List of Brighton Grammar School people

Sir Stanley Argyle

• William Adamson — grain merchant, Brighton City councillor (1897-1913), Brighton City Mayor (1901-1902), Member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1910-1922).
• Dylan Alcott – Paralympian.[1]
• Francis Henry Joseph Archer — headmaster at Caulfield Grammar School 1923-1954, teacher at Brighton Grammar School 1955-1957.[2]
• Sir Stanley Argyle KBE – Former Premier of Victoria; Member (Nationalist) for the seat of Toorak.[1][3]

Brigadier Lewis Barker

• Gerry Balme — VFL footballer with St Kilda.
• Brigadier Lewis Ernest Stephen Barker, CBE, DSO, MC — Australian Army officer.
• Andrew Bassat — co-founder of SEEK.[1]
• Paul Bassat — co-founder of SEEK.[1]
• Marcus Bastiaan — businessman; former vice-president of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party.
• Weston Bate — member of staff.
• Robin Batterham AO — chemical engineer; Chief Scientist of Australia 1999-2006.[1]
• Mordy Bromberg — Federal Court judge, and VFL footballer with St Kilda.[1]
• Travis Brooks – Olympic hockey player.[1]
• Louis Butler (footballer) – AFL Footballer

Josh Clayton

• Ben Canham — Australian representative rower
• Bill Cannon — VFL footballer with St Kilda.
• Warwick Capper – AFL footballer
• Sir Norman John Carson — businessman, wool industry leader, philanthropist.[4]
• James Catanach - RAAF pilot, taken prisoner during the Second World War, took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, was re-captured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo.
• Air Vice Marshal Hugh Vivian Champion de Crespigny, CB, MC, DFC — Royal Flying Corps pilot in First World War, and senior Royal Air Force officer during Second World War.
• Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp KBE — railway administrator, Director-General of Australia's Land Transport Board, 1942-1951.
• Josh Clayton – AFL footballer
• Andrew Cooper – Olympic rower.[1]
• George Henry Crowther - founder, and first headmaster of Brighton Grammar School.[5]
• Henry Arnold Crowther - second headmaster of Brighton Grammar School.[6]

John Duigan

• Roger Davies — artist manager, business manager, and music producer.[1]
• Chris Dawes – AFL footballer.[1]
• Lt. Col Sir Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny — soldier, medical practitioner, pathologist, academic, and hospital administrator.[7]
• John Leopold Denman — member of dynasty of architects
• Neil Douglas MBE – Environmental artist; Conservationist; Author.[8]
• Barry Robert Dove – Judge of the County Court of Victoria.[9]
• John Robertson Duigan and Reginald Duigan — Australian pioneer aviators who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft..[1][10][11]

H. P. Finnis, c.19180

• Horace Percy Finnis — Anglican priest, and organist.

General William Grant

• William Grant CMG, DSO and Bar, VD – Soldier and commander of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at the Battle of Beersheba.[1]

Jayden Hunt

• William Hancock — vicar at St Andrew's Church, Brighton (1918-1928), instrumental in acquiring Brighton Grammar School for the Anglican Church in 1924, and chairman of the School's council (1925-1935).
• The Honourable Justice Kim Hargrave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Court of Appeal.[1]
• Ray Harper — VFL footballer with St Kilda, Carlton, and North Melbourne.
• Clifford Hayes — Member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
• Sir Lionel Hooke – Pioneer in radio; Wireless operator in Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Antarctic Expedition; Engineer.[12]
• Jayden Hunt – AFL footballer
• Neville Read Hudson DFC — RAAF pilot, Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1976-1979).

Peter Isaacson

• Peter Isaacson AM, DFC, AFC, DFM — publisher and decorated military pilot.[1]

Ben Jacobs

• Ben Jacobs — AFL footballer.[1]
• Christian Jollie Smith — solicitor, co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia, taught English Literature at Brighton Grammar School (1919).

• Josh Kelly — AFL footballer.[1]

• Andrew Lauterstein – Olympic swimmer.[1]
• Cyril Lloyd — a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.
• Brigadier John Lloyd CBE, DSO, MC & Bar — senior Australian Army officer who fought in the First and Second World Wars, farmer, and licensing magistrate.
• Matthew Lloyd – Olympic cyclist.[1]
• Corbett Lyon — architect, art patron and academic.[1]

Mat McBriar

• Craig Marais — international field hockey player.
• Mat McBriar – American football player.[1]
• Michael McCarthy — member of staff, VFL footballer.
• William C. McClelland – doctor, VFL footballer and Victorian Football League President.[1][13]
• Andrew McGrath AFL footballer.[1]
• John Charles McIntyre – Former Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Gippsland, Victoria; Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003 (also attended Fort Street High School).[14]
• Brad McKay – Doctor, author and television personality.
• Claude McKay — journalist, newspaper proprietor.
• Samuel McLaren — mathematician, mathematical physicist, killed in action during the Battle of the Somme.
• Professor Ian Meredith AM – Interventional Cardiologist, Director of MonashHeart, Professor of Cardiology at Monash University.[1]
• Gary Minihan – Olympian, Commonwealth Medal Winner, Australian Record Holder (since 1984).[1]
• Roy Morgan — pollster, market researcher, and Melbourne City councillor 1959-1974.
• Nathan Murphy – AFL footballer

Lieutenant-Colonel James Nicholas

• Lieutenant-Colonel James Joachim Nicholas M.B.B.S., M.D. — VFL footballer, killed in action in World War I.

• Sean O'Boyle — composer and conductor.[1]
• Bill O'Hara — surgeon, VFL footballer with St Kilda.
• James Ryan O'Neill (born Leigh Anthony Bridgart in 1947), convicted murderer and suspected serial killer

Charlie Pickering

• Roy Paton — farmer, President Towong Shire Council (1929-1930, 1932-1933), Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1932-1947).
• Alexander Augustus Norman Dudley "Jerry" Pentland, MC, DFC, AFC — aviator, World War I fighter ace.
• Archie Perkins — AFL footballer with Essendon.
• Charlie Pickering – Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, author and producer, and host of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.[1]
• Andrew Plympton — businessman, sports administrator, President St Kilda Football Club 1993-2000.[1]
• Sir Sir Murray Victor Porter – Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
• Harry Potter — Rugby Union footballer with UK team Leicester Tigers.
• Will Pucovski — cricketer.[1]

Michael Rozenes

• Peter Reith – Australian politician (Liberal); Minister Howard Government 1996–2003; Member for the seat of Flinders.[1][15]
• John Ross — Member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1996-2002).
• Michael Rozenes QC – Chief judge of the County Court of Victoria.[1]

Tommy Smith

• Christian Salem – AFL footballer.[1]
• Jack Shelton — VFL footballer with St Kilda and South Melbourne; killed in action at Tobruk in 1941.
• David Shepherd — Victorian cricketer, and VFL footballer with St Kilda.[1]
• Tommy Smith — international racing driver.
• David Smorgon OAM — Australian businessman and member of the Smorgon family.[1]
• Major General Victor Stantke, CBE — senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War and Second World War, member of staff.
• Ivan Stedman — swimmer, silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
• Jock Sturrock MBE — yachtsman.[1]

Albert Thurgood

• Herbert Valentine Tarte — Fiji-born planter, and Member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
• Peter Thomson — influential Anglican priest.[1]
• Albert Thurgood – VFL footballer.[1]
• Will Thursfield – AFL footballer
• Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell – Distinguished soldier, Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.[1][16]

• Jim Vickers-Willis — journalist, and square dance caller.

Jack Watts

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• Sam Walsh AO — businessman, philanthropist.[1]
• Doug Warbrick — co-founder Rip Curl.
• Matthew Warnock – AFL footballer
• Robert Warnock – AFL footballer
• Jack Watts – AFL footballer, No.1 Draft pick 2008.[1]
• Charles William George Wheeler – Master of the Supreme Court of Victoria.[17][18]
• Julien Wiener — Australian Test cricketer.[1]
• Harry Williams — golfer, Australian Amateur Champion in 1931 and 1937.
• David Wittey – AFL footballer

• Masa Yamaguchi — professional actor on stage and in film.[1]

• Allan Zavod — pianist, composer, jazz musician, and conductor.[1]
• Charles Henry Zercho — VFA footballer with Essendon (1890), chaplain and resident master at Brighton Grammar School (1891-1892, and 1911-1913).

• Brighton Grammar School website
• The Brighton Grammar School Hall of Fame
• Old Brighton Grammarians Society (alumni association)
• Old Brighton Grammarians Football Club (Victorian Amateur Football Association)