- William McMahon
Sir William McMahon, GCMG, CH (23 February 1908 - 31 March 1988), Australian politician and 20th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, where his father was a lawyer. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in law. He practised in Sydney with "Allen, Allen and Hemsley", the oldest law firm in Australia. In 1940 he joined the Army, but because of a hearing loss he was confined to staff work. - Julian McMahon
Julian Dana William McMahon (born 27 July 1968) is a Golden Globe- nominated Australian actor and former fashion model. - David Gonski
Mr. Gonski was appointed Non-Executive Independent Director of ASX on 1 June 2007. He is a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, and following the retirement of Mr Newman, will be appointed Chairman of the ASX Board and the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. - John Hughes
Dr. John Hughes (born 1961) is a Sydney-based Australian writer. His first book of autobiographical essays, "The Idea Of Home", published by Giramondo in 2004, was widely acclaimed and won both the NSW Premiers Literary Award for Non-Fiction (2005) and the National Biography Award (2006). The work, written over ten years, are reflections of Hughes' relationship with the Ukraine of his mother's ancestry, … - Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay is the founder of the Australian quarterly research series The Ipsos Mackay Report (previously The Mackay Report). He is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He is a regular columnist in The Age and regularly commentator appearing on radio and television. He is a graduate of Sydney Grammar School, the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. He is one of the founders of the St James Ethics Centre. - John Woolley
John Woolley, first principal of the University of Sydney. Woolley was born at Petersfield, Hampshire, England. He matriculated at the University of London in 1830, and during the next two years passed every subject he took with first-class honours. He then won an open scholarship at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1836, with a first-class in classics, M.A. in 1839, and D.C.L. in 1844. - Chas Licciardello
Chas John Licciardello (born in 1977) is a comedian and satirist from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. A former student of Sydney Grammar School and a law graduate of The University of Sydney, Licciardello is part of The Chaser team, and has helped to write and produce their newspaper and television shows. He currently appears on ABC television as part of "The Chaser's War on Everything". In the opening credits of the first season, … - Albert Piddington
Albert Bathurst Piddington (9 September 1862 - 5 June 1945) was the shortest serving Justice of the High Court of Australia, never actually sitting at the bench. Appointed on 6 March 1913, he resigned on 5 April after opponents questioned his independence. - Victor Windeyer
Sir William John Victor Windeyer KBE CB DSO PC KC (1900 - 1987) Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia. Windeyer was born in Sydney, into a legal family: his father, William Archibald Windeyer, was a Sydney solicitor, his uncle Richard Windeyer was a King's Counsel, his grandfather was William Charles Windeyer, twice Attorney-General of New South Wales and Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, … - George Rich
Sir George Edward Rich KCMG PC (3 May 1863 - 14 May 1956), Australian judge, was a justice of the High Court of Australia. Rich was born in the town of Braidwood, New South Wales, in 1863. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, and later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1883 and a Master of Arts in 1885. In 1887, Rich was admitted to the New South Wales Bar. - John Le Gay Brereton
John Le Gay Brereton was an Australian poet. - John Turner
John Harcourt Turner (b. 22 April 1949) is an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was educated at Aberdare Primary School and Sydney Grammar School. He received a Diploma of Law and practiced as a solicitor and tax agent before entering Parliament. Since entering Parliament he has received a Bachelor of Letters from Deakin University and a Bachelor of Arts from Murdoch University. - Sammy Woods
Sammy Woods (Samuel Moses James Woods; born April 13 1867, Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; died April 30, 1931, Taunton, Somerset, England) was an outstanding cricketer for Cambridge University in his early career and later the long-time captain of Somerset in their early years of Championship cricket. He was one of the few players to represent both England and Australia in Tests. Unusually, he also played rugby union for England, … - Stephen Spurr
Dr Stephen Spurr is currently the Head Master of Westminster School, the leading British Public school in London, having taken over from Tristram Jones-Parry in September 2005. He is an advocate for exam reform. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, as well as the University of Sydney and, later, Oxford. Before his current appointment Spurr was the headmaster of Clifton College, and prior to that he was a housemaster at Eton, … - Samuel Hordern
Samuel Hordern (b. 24 September 1876 d. 3 June 1956) was a Sydney businessman. Educated at Sydney Grammar School and Bath College, England he directed the Hordern family company Anthony Hordern & Sons for more than fifty years. The company which employed more than 4000 people in its store and mail-order business, imported, manufactured and sold a vast range of merchandise form 1909 until its sale to public investors in 1926. - Gregan McMahon
Gregan McMahon, CBE was an Australian actor and theatrical producer. McMahon's parents were emigrants from Ireland; his father was in the civil service. McMahon was educated at Sydney Grammar School and St Ignatius' College, Riverview. McMahon played in the Riverview football team, and took first-class honours in classics at his matriculation examination. McMahon graduated with a B.A. at the University of Sydney in 1896 and during his course, … - Dudley Williams
Sir Dudley Williams, KBE, MC, KC (1889 - 1963), Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia. Williams was born in Sydney, and was educated at Sydney Grammar School. He later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1912 and a Bachelor of Laws (with honours) in 1915. He was admitted to the New South Wales Bar later in 1915, but did not practise until 1921, because of his service in the First World War. - Michael Dransfield
Michael Dransfield (12 September 1948-20 April 1973) was an Australian poet of the 1960s and early 1970s, who acquired a considerable reputation before his premature death. Dransfield was born in Sydney, and educated at Sydney Grammar School. He briefly studied English literature and language at the University of New South Wales and Sydney University before dropping out. - William Owen
Sir William Francis Langer Owen, KBE, PC (21 November 1899 - 31 March 1972), Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia. Owen was born in 1899 in Sydney, New South Wales. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, where he was in the school's cadet unit. During World War I, from 1915 to 1919, Owen served in the First Australian Imperial Force. Owen enlisted on 31 December 1915, and was assigned as a sapper in the 9th Field Company Engineers, … - Andrew Tink
Andrew Arnold Tink BA LLB MP (b. 13 July 1953) was an Australian politician, serving as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 2007. Tink was educated at Sydney Grammar School and was an exchange student at Los Altos High School, in Los Altos, California. There he was the Vice President of the Student Body and was voted class politician. He received a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the Australian National University. - Clive Caldwell
Clive Robertson Caldwell, DSO, DFC and Bar (28 July 1910 – 5 August 1994) was the leading Australian fighter ace of World War II. He is officially credited with shooting down 28.5 enemy aircraft in over 300 operational sorties. In addition to his official score, he has been ascribed three shared victories, six probables and 15 damaged. - Henry Kingsley Archdall
Henry Kingsley Archdall (March 2 1886 - February 27 1976) was an Australian academic and clergyman. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, his education began at Sydney Grammar School. He then completed a BA at St Paul's College of the University of Sydney in 1908, before moving to the United Kingdom, and completing another First Class BA, and then an MA at Trinity College, Cambridge. - Dowell Philip O'Reilly
Dowell Philip O'Reilly (July 18 1865 - November 5 1923) was an Australian poet, short story writer and politician - Harold Thorby
Harold Thorby was an Australian politician and government minister - Boyd Morehead
Boyd Dunlop Morehead (24 August 1843 - 30 October 1905) was premier of Queensland, Australia from November 1888 to June 1890. Boyd Morehead was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and matriculated at University of Sydney. He, however, did not continue at the university but joined the Bank of New South Wales, where he obtained some training in finance. - Frederick Septimus Kelly
Frederick Septimus Kelly (born 29 May 1881 in Sydney, Australia, died 13 November, 1916, Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France) was a British and Australian rower, composer and soldier. Kelly, son of Thomas Herbert Kelly, woolbroker, was born at 47 Phillip Street, Sydney. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School then sent to England and educated at Eton, where he stroked the school eight which won the Ladies Plate at Henley in 1899. - Nicholas Cowdery
Nicholas Richard Cowdery AM QC (born March 19, 1946) is the Director of Public Prosecutions for the Australian state of New South Wales, a position he has held since 1994. Cowdery also served as President of the International Association of Prosecutors from 1999 to 2005. Cowdery attended Wollongong High School and completed his secondary schooling at the Sydney Grammar School. He graduated in Arts and Law at the University of Sydney where he was a resident of St. - George Blaikie
George Blaikie (born 1915) is an Australian author and journalist. He was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Grammar School and Melbourne University. He has worked for numerous papers included Smith's Weekly and the Courier Mail. His series "Our Strange Past" ran for 34 years as feature in The Australian. - Samuel Henry Harris
Samuel Henry (Harry) Harris was an Australian surgeon who developed a new technique for prostatectomy. Harry Harris (as he was usually known) was the son of Henry S. Harris, was born in Sydney. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School of which he was captain in 1900. He graduated M.B., Ch.M. "with credit" at the University of Sydney in 1906, where he also obtained his blue for cricket. After a term as resident medical officer at Sydney hospital, … - Edward Sydney Simpson
Edward Sydney Simpson was an Australian mineralogist and geochemist. Simpson was born in Woollahra, New South Wales to an Irish father and English mother. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney where he graduated B.E. with honours, in 1895 and D.Sc. in 1919. Simpson worked at the Rivertree silver mill, New South Wales and then for the Mount Morgan Gold-Mining Company in Queensland. - James William MacArthur-Onslow
Major-General Hon James William Macarthur-Onslow VD MLA (7 November 1867 – 17 November 1946) was a soldier, grazier and politician - Norman William Kater
Hon Sir Norman Kater MLC was born in 1874. He was a medical practitioner and grazier. Norman William Kater was the son of Hon William Edward Kater MLC. He was born into a socially prominent rual family. He was a noted shot and oarsman in his youth. He served as a member of the New South Wales legislative council for 30 years from 1921 to 1955. Educated at All Saint's College Bathurst and Sydney Grammar School. - Ian Murray Mackerras
Ian Murray Mackerras was an Australian zoologist. Mackerras was born in Balclutha, New Zealand to James Murray Mackerras, and Elizabeth Mary (née Creagh), both farmers. His parents separated and Ian and brother Alan lived with their mother in Sydney. Ian was educated at Sydney Grammar School, matriculating in 1915. On 17 December 1915 Mackerras enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force after advancing his age. - Nicholas John Vine-Hall
Nicholas John Vine-Hall (August 17, 1944-October 31, 2006), also known as Nick Vine-Hall, was a recognized Australian authority in the fields of family history, genealogy and heraldry, and an enthusiastic champion of family history research in Australia. Hall was born in Darlinghurst, Sydney, and educated at Sydney Grammar School, before working for CSR Limited in sales and marketing for 16 years, where he became the Australia Sugar sales manager in 1972. - Russell Ward
Russell Ward (died 1995), was an Australian historian best known as the author of "The Australian Legend" (1958), an examination of the development of the "Australian character". He studied English at the University of Adelaide and taught at Geelong and Sydney Grammar Schools. He was at the University of New England as a lecturer (1957) and deputy chancellor for eight years. During World War II he served in an army psychological unit. - Leonard Keith Ward
Leonard Keith Ward was an Australian geologist and public servant. Ward was born in Petersham, New South Wales and was educated at Sydney and Brisbane Grammar Schools then the University of Sydney (B.A., 1900; B.E., 1903) where he was taught by Edgeworth David. Ward work for Broken Hill Proprietary then at the Western Australia School of Mines, Kalgoorlie, from 1903. In 1919 he became secretary to the minister of mines. - Robert John Tillyard
Robert John Tillyard was an English–Australian entomologist and geologist. He was sometimes known as Robin. Tillyard was the son of J. J. Tillyard and his wife Mary Ann Frances, née Wilson and was born at Norwich, Norfolk. He was educated at Dover College and intended to enter the army but was rejected on account of having suffered from rheumatism. He won a scholarship for classics at Oxford and another for mathematics at Cambridge, … - Charles David Jones Bryant
Charles David Jones Bryant, known as Charles Bryant was an Australian artist. Bryant was born at Sydney and educated at Sydney Grammar School and then obtained a position in the Bank of New South Wales. He studied painting at Sydney under W. Lister Lister, and was an exhibitor at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales for some years. He went to London in 1908 and studied with John Hassall at London and Julius Olsson, A.R.A., at St Ives. - Mohammed Smith
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