- Taufa'Ahau Tupou IV
Tāufaāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga, GCMG, GCVO, KBE (4 July 1918 - 10 September 2006) son of Queen Sālote Tupou III and her consort Prince Viliami Tungī Mailefihi, was the king of Tonga from the death of his mother in 1965 until his own death in 2006. He was married to Queen Halaevalu Mataaho Ahomee, born in 1926, and the couple had four children: * Siaosi Tāufaāhau Manumataongo Tukuaho Tupou, …
- Michael Morgan
Michael Morgan is an Olympic-level rower, who has competed for Australia.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Tony Jones
Tony Jones is an Australian television journalist. He is the host of the ABC's "Lateline" nightly television news programme.
- Ian Clunies Ross
Sir Ian Clunies Ross (1899-1959) is described as the 'architect' of Australia's scientific boom, for his stewardship of Australia's scientific organisation the CSIRO.
- Thomas Bavin
Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin KCMG (5 May 1874 - 31 August 1941) was the 24th Premier of New South Wales.
- 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.
- Alex Popov
Alex Popov is a leading Australian architect working in the Late 20th Century Modern style.
- 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 Hardy Wilson
- 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, …
- Neil Perry
Neil Perry is a prominent Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television presenter. He also is the co-ordinator for Qantas Flight Catering under his company "Rockpool Consulting" and has a notable food brand sold under his name, available at Woolworths Supermarkets. He owns the critically acclaimed Sydney restaurants, "Rockpool", "XO" and previously, "Wockpool". In late 2006 Neil also opened "Rockpool Bar & Grill" in Melbourne
- John Turtle
John Ross Turtle (born January 13, 1937 -) is an Australian medical academic and endocrinologist. He is an Emeritous Professor of Medicine and an Honorary President of the International Diabetes Federation.
- Percival Halse Rogers
Sir Percival Halse Rogers was an Australian jurist and university chancellor.
- Duncan Gay
The Australian parliamentarian Duncan John Gay (born Goulburn 2 May, 1950) has been a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since March 1988. He was Deputy President of the Legislative Council from May 1991 until March 1999 and is presently NSW Leader of the National Party of Australia & Deputy Opposition Leader in the Legislative Council.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- Garry Downes
Justice Garry Keith Downes AM QC is a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Edward Psaltis
Edward McDonald Psaltis (born 7 April 1961 in Sydney) is an Australian ocean racing skipper and yachtsman.
- 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.
- Sever Sternhell
Sever Sternhell (born May 30, 1930 -) is a Polish born Australian academic and organic chemist. He has been professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. His current research is on the induction of chirality into mesophases, aspects of steric hindrance and the mechanochemistry of organic compounds.
- Gary Shearston
Gary Shearston, an Australian singer and songwriter, was a leading figure of the folk music revival of the 1960s.
- Alan McGilvray
Alan David McGilvray AM MBE, (December 6 1909, Paddington, Sydney - July 17 1996, Darlinghurst, Sydney) was a former cricketer who played several first-class seasons for New South Wales in the mid-1930s before becoming the doyen of cricket commentators in Australia. He became identified as the voice of Australian cricket through his ABC radio broadcasts. McGilvray's radio commentary career spanned over 50 years, …
- Iven Giffard Mackay
Lieutenant General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay KBE, CMG, DSO & Bar, VD (7 April 1882 - 30 September 1966) was a prominent Australian soldier. During World War II he achieved the rank of Lieutenant General
- 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.
- Eric Bowden
Eric Kendall Bowden (September 30 1871 - February 13 1931), was an Australian solicitor and politician.
- 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.
- Simon Penny
Simon Penny is an artist, theorist, curator and teacher in the field of Interactive Media Art. <br
- George Cakobau
Ratu Sir George Cakobau was Governor General of Fiji from 1972 to 1982. A great-grandson of Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the King of Bau who had unified all the tribes of Fiji under his reign in the mid-1800s and subsequently ceded the islands to the United Kingdom in 1874, Ratu Sir George held the traditional titles of Vunivalu of Bau and Tui Levuka and thus considered by many as Fiji’s highest-ranking traditional chief.
- 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.
- Robert James Webster
Robert James Webster (16 September 1951) was an Australian parliamentarian. He was born in Sydney and educated at Newington College and from 1970 until his election to State parliament was a grazier at Salisbury Downs, a property near Bigga.