- Nick Farr-Jones
Nicholas Campbell Farr-Jones (born 18 April 1962 in Caringbah, New South Wales) is a former Australian rugby union footballer. His position was scrum-half. He made his international debut for the Wallabies on 3rd November 1984 v England at Twickenham. He played in the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 and a year later was named Australian captain. In 1991, he guided Australia to victory in 1991 Rugby World Cup. He was also instrumental in 1992 for the Wallabies, …
- Phil Kearns
Phil Kearns is a former Australian Rugby Union player and national captain. He represented for the Wallabies 67 times and was captain of on 10 occasions. He was born in Sydney Australia and educated at Newington College and the University of New South Wales where he graduated with a degree in Economics. He played his provincial rugby for New South Wales. He made his Wallaby debut in 1989. A solid scrummager, accurate in his lineout throwing and good in the loose, …
- James Stewart
James Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the twin brother of Geoffrey Stewart and older brother of Stephen Stewart. They were the first trio of brothers to represent Australia in rowing at the same Olympics and were all educated at Newington College, and coached by olympian and fellow Old Newingtonian Michael Morgan.
- Geoffrey Stewart
Geoffrey Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the twin brother of James Stewart (olympian1996,2000,2004) and older brother of Stephen Stewart (olympian 2004). They were the first trio of brothers to represent Australia in rowing at the same Olympics and were all educated at Newington College, and coached by olympian and fellow Old Newingtonian Michael Morgan. In 1996 Geoffrey competed in the men's eight event at the Atlanta Olympics, …
- Stephen Stewart
Stephen Stewart is an Olympic-level rower, who competes for Australia. He is the younger brother of the dual bronze medal winning Olympic rowers James Stewart and Geoffrey Stewart. They were the first trio of brothers to represent Australia in rowing at the same Olympics and were all educated at Newington College, and coached by olympian and fellow Old Newingtonian Michael Morgan.
- Thomas Bavin
Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin KCMG (5 May 1874 - 31 August 1941) was the 24th Premier of New South Wales.
- Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee is a leading Australian TV writer who has written for Police Rescue, Cody, Big Sky, Secret Life of Us and the relatively short-lived soapie Echo Point. His hour of Bodysurfer won an AFI Award and he co-wrote the telemovie Secret Men's Business and the mini-series Do or Die. In 1980 he wrote the novel Bush Week. He is the son of a country doctor, …
- William Morrow
Sir William Morrow (b. 1888) DSO ED was a leading Australian physician and specialist in gastroenterology He also served as president of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Morrow founded the "AW Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre" at the Royal Price Alfred Hospital in 1948. He was educated at Newington College, Sydney. Morrow was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1961. He also served as president of the Australian Club.
- Tom Garrett
Thomas William Garrett (July 26 1858 in Wollongong, New South Wales - August 6 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales) was an early member of the Australian cricket team and a distinguished public servant. Tom Garrett was the second son of a newspaper proprietor and politician, bearing the same name, and his first wife, Mary. Garrett was educated at Newington College, while the school was still at at Newington House, Silverwater.
- Phillip Dutton
Phillip Peter Dutton is an Olympic-level equestrian rider, who competed for Australia. Dutton was born in Nyngan and was educated at Newington College. He pursued his passion for riding in Australia until 1991 when he moved to the United States to train in a more internationally competitive environment.
- Duncan Gifford
Australian virtuoso pianist Duncan Gifford was born in Sydney and educated at Newington College, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and in Russia at the Moscow Conservatory. Gifford's impressive record of international piano competition awards began in 1992, when he won the 3rd Prize in the Sydney International Piano Competition, followed by 4th Prize in the 1994 Dublin International Piano Competition and 3rd Prize in the 1996 Montreal International Piano Competition.
- Edwin Evans
Edwin Evans (March 26 1849 - July 2 1921) was an Australian cricketer who played in 6 Tests between 1881 and 1886. Born in Emu Plains, New South Wales and educated at Newington College, Evans was an off spinner with an ability to consistently land the ball wherever he wanted to and had some success in Australian First class cricket. However when called up for the national team his accuracy deserted him and he failed to make a serious impact.
- Richard White
Richard Weeks White is an Australian jurist. White, born 1954, was educated at Newington College and graduated from the University of Sydney with First-Class Honours in Law, and the University Medal, in 1976. In 1975 he was articled at Allen Allen and Hemsley to a partner, Bill Gummow, now Justice William Gummow of the High Court of Australia. From 1977 to 1978 White was an associate to Sir Nigel Bowen, the first Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
- Graham Davis
Graham Davis is a Walkley Award and Logie Award winning Australian journalist. The son of a Methodist minister and educated at Newington College, Davis worked mainly in radio for the BBC, ABC and the Macquarie Radio Network before moving to television in 1981. Two years later he joined the Nine Network and staff of "Sunday" and remained there until 1994.
- James Egan Moulton
James Egan Moulton was an English born Australian Methodist minister and headmaster and school president.
- Darren Yap
Darren Robert Yap ia an Australian actor and theatre director. The third child of a Sydney general practitioner, and a fifth generation Australian born Chinese on his mother's side, Darren Yap was educated at Newington College. At tertiary level, he studied theatre at the University of Western Sydney and directing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Yap was Australia's first M. Butterfly, with the Melbourne Theatre Company, …
- Eric Bowden
Eric Kendall Bowden (September 30 1871 - February 13 1931), was an Australian solicitor and politician.
- Joseph James Fletcher
Joseph James Fletcher was an Australian biologist. Fletcher was born at Auckland, New Zealand. His father, the Rev. Joseph Horner Fletcher (1823-1890), a Methodist clergyman, came to Australia early in 1861, and, after a term of four years in Queensland (where Joseph James studied at Ipswich Grammar School, went to Sydney to become principal of Newington College, from 1865 to 1887.
- Patrick Cook
Born in 1949 and educated at Newington College, Sydney, Patrick Cook is an Australian cartoonist who is probably best known for his output in "The Bulletin", Australia's weekly news magazine. His works include "Hot and Wet" and "Ship of Fools". During the 1970s and early 1980s Cook was a prolific cartoonist for the now-defunct "National Times".
- Douglas Trathen
Douglas Arthur Trathen was an Australian Methodist minister and the Headmaster of Newington College.
- Edward Psaltis
Edward McDonald Psaltis (born 7 April 1961 in Sydney) is an Australian ocean racing skipper and yachtsman.
- Mervyn Horton
Mervyn Emrys Rosser Horton (1917-1983) was the doyen of the Sydney art world for thirty years as a writer, collector, patron and philanthropist. The Mervyn Horton Bequest has to 2006 purchased over $8 million of contemporary art for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Mervyn Horton was born and grew up in Sydney, attending Newington College, Stanmore and the University of Sydney where he studied engineering.
- Charles Marr
Sir Charles William Clanan Marr (23 March 1880 - 20 October 1960) was an Australian politician and government minister. Marr was born in Sydney and educated at Newington College and Sydney Technical College, graduating as an electrical engineer.
- Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson (born 1973) is an Paralympic-level athlete, who competes for Australia. In 1986, whilst a student at Newington College, he was hit by a truck and doctors were forced to amputate his right leg just below the knee. He took up competitive running in 1997 and won two gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics.
- Jeff Bate
Henry Jefferson Percival "Jeff" Bate (b. 5 March 1906, Tilba Tilba - d. 15 April 1984 in Canberra) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly for almost eleven years representing the former electoral district of Wollondilly for the Liberal Party of Australia and then the Australian House of Representatives member for Macarthur from 1949 until 1972.
- Simon Fieldhouse
Simon Fieldhouse (born 25 March 1956) is an artist based in Sydney, Australia. He was educated at Newington College, Barker College, Geelong Grammar School and the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts. He studied law and practiced briefly as a Solicitor ceasing in 1988. He was co-author of "Portraits on Yellow Paper" with former Supreme Court of New South Wales judge Roderick Meagher. His works have been exhibited widely.
- Leycester Meares
Charles Leycester Devenish Meares was an Australian jurist, patron of the arts and benefactor and Chairman of Kidsafe. Leycester Meares, born 16 January 1909 died 5 August 1994, was educated at Newington College and graduated in Law from the University of Sydney. He was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1932 ans appointed Queen's Counsel in 1954. In 1967 and 1968 he was an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and in the following year was appointed a Judge.
- Laurence Pyke
Laurence Richard Dimond Pyke (1908 - 1987) was an Australian headmaster and university dean. Pyke was the son of Richard, an accountant, and Lillian, a teacher, journalist and author. He was one of three children and was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne. Pyke graduated as a Bachelor of Science form the University of Melbourne and was a Rhodes Scholar 1934. From 1952 to 1960 he was headmaster of Newington College, Sydney, …
- Peter Barter
Sir Peter Barter OBE MP (born March 26, 1940) is Minister for Health and Bougainville Affairs in the Papua New Guinean Government and is active in the reconciliation movement in Bougainville. He established the Melanesian Foundation in 1980, a not-for-profit organisation that invests in remote communities that have been hospitable to tourists.
- Garry Downes
Justice Garry Keith Downes AM QC is a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
- David Leckie
David Leckie (b.14 February 1956) is the Chief Executive Officer of the Seven Media Group. David Leckie was educated at Newington College and is an Economics graduate of Macquarie University. Prior to his appointment by Kerry Stokes to Seven, he was associated with the Nine Network for 23 years. Having joined GTV-9 (Melbourne) as a sales executive, he was promoted to National Sales Manager, then Nine Network Sales Director in 1982 at TCN-9 (Sydney).
- Clive Ramaciotti
Clive Ramaciotti (died 1967) was an Australian philanthropist. He was the only son of Major General Gustave Ramaciotti CMG, the owner of the Theatre Royal in King Street, Sydney, Australia. He was born in Ashfield and attended Newington College. After leaving school he worked in banking and on the death of his father he was a man of independent means. He was interested in bio-medical research and with his sister Vera, …
- Carlyle Greenwell
Carlyle Greenwell (1884 - 1961) was an Australian architect whose houses, designed in the first half of the 20th century, are now heritage listed and a philanthropist whose bequest to the University of Sydney funds research in Anthropology and Archaeology. Greenwell was born on 16 March, 1884 in Windsor and was educated at Newington College. He then studied architecture at Sydney Technical College before there was a university architecture course available in Sydney, …
- Harry Jago
Arnold Henry Jago, known as Harry Jago, was a former Liberal member of the New South Wales parliament representing the seat Gordon and a Minister of the Crown.
- William Doe
The Australian born medical educator Professor William Doe is Dean of Medicine at the University of Birmingham, a Non-Executive Director at the Strategic Health Authority and a Governor of the University of Worcester. He was educated at Newington College and graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1965 before training as a clinical academic at Hammersmith Hospital and the Scripps Research Institute in California.
- Roger Gyles
Roger Vincent Gyles is an Australian jurist. The Hon Justice Roger Vincent Gyles AO has been a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia since 1999. He is also an Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, a Deputy President of the Australian Competition Tribunal and a Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He is an Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
- Reuben Rose
The Australian veterinary educator Professor Reuben Rose is a former Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney. Reuben was educated at Newington College and graduated from the University of Sydney Veterinary School in 1972. After completing a postgraduate diploma in veterinary anaesthesia he worked in equine and mixed veterinary practice in New Zealand.
- Talbot Duckmanton
Sir Talbot Duckmanton (1921 - 1995) was General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1965 until 1982. Born on the 25th of October to parents Sidney James Duckmanton and Rita Margaret Hutchins, he married Florence Simmonds in 1947 and had four children, Christine, Susan, Craig Talbot and Kim.
- Leslie Holdsworth Allen
Leslie Holdsworth Allen (1879-1964) was educated at Newington College, the University of Sydney and the University of Leipzig. He became the Professor of English at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and the senior lecturer of English and Latin at Canberra University College. He was appointed as the chairman of the Literature Censorship Board.
- Don Weatherburn
Dr Don Weatherburn has been Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research in Sydney since 1988 and is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Social Science and Policy at the University of New South Wales. Don Weatherburn was educated at Newington College and the University of Sydney where in 1974 he received his BA with first class honours. He completed a Ph.D in 1979 and lectured in the School of Justice Administration at Charles Sturt University.