Alumni
Arts and entertainment
- Roger Davies – artist manager, business manager, and music producer [1]
- Rennie Ellis - photographer [2]
- Bland Holt - comedian and theatrical producer [3]
- Corbett Lyon AO – architect, co-founder of Lyons, art patron and academic [1] [4]
- Claude McKay – journalist, newspaper proprietor [5]
- Sean O'Boyle AM – composer and conductor [1]
- Charlie Pickering – comedian, television and radio presenter, author and producer [1] [6]
- Jim Vickers-Willis – journalist and square dance caller [7]
- Masa Yamaguchi – actor, stunt performer and fight choreographer [1]
- Allan Zavod OAM – pianist, composer, jazz musician and conductor [1] [8]
Business
- Andrew Bassat – co-founder of SEEK [1] [9]
- Paul Bassat – co-founder of SEEK [1] [9]
- Marcus Bastiaan – businessman; former vice-president of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party [10]
- Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp KBE – railway administrator, Director-General of Australia's Land Transport Board (1942–1951) [11]
- David Smorgon OAM – businessman and member of the Smorgon family [1] [12]
- Sam Walsh AO – businessman, philanthropist [1] [13]
- Doug Warbrick – co-founder of Rip Curl [14]
Medicine, science and technology
- Robin Batterham AO – chemical engineer; Chief Scientist of Australia (1999–2006) [1] [15]
- Lt. Col Sir Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny DSO VD – soldier, medical practitioner, pathologist, academic and hospital administrator [16] [17] [18]
- John Robertson Duigan MC – pioneer aviator who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft [1] [19] [20]
- Brad McKay – doctor, author and host of Embarrassing Bodies Down Under [ citation needed ]
- Samuel McLaren – mathematician, mathematical physicist, killed in action during the Battle of the Somme [21]
- Ian Meredith AM – interventional cardiologist, Director of MonashHeart and Professor of Cardiology at Monash University [1]
Military
- Brigadier Lewis Ernest Stephen Barker CBE , DSO , MC – Australian Army officer who fought in both world wars [22]
- James Catanach – RAAF pilot and World War II PoW; took part in the 'Great Escape' in March 1944 but was re-captured and executed by the Gestapo [ citation needed ]
- Air Vice Marshal Hugh Vivian Champion de Crespigny, CB , MC , DFC – Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, and senior Royal Air Force officer during World War II [18]
- William Grant CMG , DSO & Bar , VD – soldier and commander of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at the Battle of Beersheba [1] [23]
- Peter Isaacson AM , DFC , AFC , DFM – publisher and decorated military pilot [1] [24]
- Major-General Cyril Lloyd CB , CBE – senior British Army officer during the Second World War [25]
- Brigadier John Lloyd CBE , DSO , MC & Bar – senior Australian Army officer who fought in the First and Second World Wars, farmer, and licensing magistrate [26]
- Alexander Augustus Norman Dudley "Jerry" Pentland MC , DFC , AFC – aviator, World War I fighter ace [27]
Politics and law
- William Adamson – grain merchant, Brighton City councillor (1897–1913), Brighton City Mayor (1901–1902) and Member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1910–1922) [28]
- Sir Stanley Argyle KBE ,, – former Premier of Victoria; Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (Nationalist) for the seat of Toorak [1] [29]
- Mordy Bromberg – Federal Court judge, and VFL footballer with St Kilda [1] [30]
- John Gray - member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1904-1917) and longtime councillor [31]
- Kim Hargrave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Court of Appeal [1]
- Clifford Hayes – Mayor of Bayside (2008-2010); member of the Victorian Legislative Council (2018-2022)[ citation needed ]
- Neville Read Hudson DFC – RAAF pilot during World War II and Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1976–1979) [32]
- Roy Morgan – pollster, market researcher, and Melbourne City councillor (1959–1974) [33]
- Roy Paton – farmer, President of Towong Shire Council (1929–1930, 1932–1933), Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1932–1947) [34]
- Sir Murray Victor Porter – Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly [35]
- Peter Reith – politician (Liberal); Minister in Howard Government (1996–2003); Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Flinders [1] [36]
- John Ross – Member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1996–2002) [37]
- Michael Rozenes AO , QC – Chief judge of the County Court of Victoria (2002-2015) [1] [38]
- Herbert Valentine Tarte – Fiji-born planter, and Member of the Legislative Council of Fiji (1920-1922)[ citation needed ]
- Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell CBE , DSO & Bar , ED – distinguished soldier, Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1945-1955) [1] [39]
Religion
- Horace Percy Finnis – Anglican priest and organist [40]
- Peter Thomson – Anglican priest notable for influencing Tony Blair while the two were classmates [1]
Sport
- Levi Ashcroft - AFL footballer with Brisbane [41]
- Will Ashcroft - AFL footballer with Brisbane, 2024 premiership player and Norm Smith Medal winner [42]
- Dylan Alcott AO – wheelchair tennis player, Paralympian and radio host [1] [43]
- Gerry Balme – VFL footballer with St Kilda [44]
- Travis Brooks OAM – Olympic field hockey player [1]
- Louis Butler – AFL footballer with Western [45] [41]
- Ben Canham – Australian representative rower [46]
- Bill Cannon – VFL footballer with St Kilda [ citation needed ]
- Warwick Capper – AFL footballer with Sydney and Brisbane [47] [41]
- Josh Clayton – AFL footballer with Brisbane [48] [41]
- Andrew Cooper – Olympic rower [1]
- Chris Dawes – AFL footballer with Collingwood and Melbourne [1] [49] [41]
- Jayden Hunt – AFL footballer with Melbourne and West Coast [50] [41]
- Matthew Jackson - AFL footballer with St Kilda [41]
- Ben Jacobs – AFL footballer with Port Adelaide and North Melbourne [1] [51] [41]
- Josh Kelly – AFL footballer with GWS [1] [52] [41]
- Andrew Lauterstein – Olympic swimmer [1]
- Matthew Lloyd – Olympic cyclist [1]
- Cameron Mackenzie - AFL footballer with Hawthorn [53]
- Craig Marais – international field hockey player [54]
- Alex Mastromanno - American football player for Florida State [55]
- Archer May - AFL footballer for Essendon [56]
- Mat McBriar – American football player in the NFL [1] [57]
- William C. McClelland CBE – VFL footballer, Victorian Football League President (1926-1956) and medical doctor [1] [58]
- Andrew McGrath – AFL footballer with Essendon [1] [59] [41]
- Andrew McLean - AFL footballer with St Kilda [41]
- Gary Minihan – Olympic and Commonwealth sprinter, and Australian record holder for relay (since 1984) [1]
- Nathan Murphy – AFL footballer with Collingwood [60] [41]
- Lieutenant-Colonel James Joachim Nicholas – VFL footballer with University; killed in action in World War I [61]
- Bill O'Hara – VFL footballer with St Kilda and surgeon [62]
- Archie Perkins – AFL footballer with Essendon [63] [41]
- Andrew Plympton – sports administrator and President of St Kilda FC (1993–2000) [1] [64]
- Harry Potter – rugby union player with Western Force [65]
- Will Pucovski – cricketer [1] [66]
- Christian Salem – AFL footballer with Melbourne [1] [41]
- Jack Shelton – VFL footballer with St Kilda and South Melbourne; killed in action at Tobruk in 1941[ citation needed ]
- David Shepherd – cricketer with Victoria and VFL footballer with St Kilda [1]
- Tommy Smith – international racing driver [67]
- Ivan Stedman – Olympic swimmer [68]
- Jock Sturrock MBE – yachtsman and Olympic sailor [1] [69]
- Albert Thurgood – VFA, WAFA and VFL footballer with Essendon and Fremantle [1] [70]
- Will Thursfield – AFL footballer with Richmond [41]
- Luke Trainor - AFL footballer with Richmond [41]
- Matthew Warnock – AFL footballer with Melbourne and Gold Coast [41]
- Robert Warnock – AFL footballer with Fremantle and Carlton [41]
- Jack Watts – AFL footballer with Melbourne and Port Adelaide; No. 1 Draft pick 2008 [1] [41]
- Julien Wiener – Test cricketer for Victoria [1]
- Harry Williams – golfer; Australian Amateur Champion in 1931 and 1937 [71]
- David Wittey – AFL footballer with St Kilda and Sydney [41]
Misc
- James Ryan O'Neill (born Leigh Anthony Bridgart) – convicted murderer and suspected serial killer[ citation needed ]