- Source: List of Cranbrook School, Sydney alumni
This is a list of notable old boys of Cranbrook School, Sydney, former students – known as "Old Cranbrookians" – of Cranbrook School, an Anglican school in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Academia and medicine
Prof. David Cooper – HIV researcher
Prof. James Dale – Professor of biotechnology at Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Assoc. Prof. Paul Darveniza – senior lecturer in neurology at St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales and international Rugby Union Wallaby
Prof. Richard Hunter FBA – Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, the University of Cambridge
Earl Owen – microsurgeon pioneer
Yi-Fu Tuan – Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; one of the first Cranbrook students of Asian descent
Business
Rodney Adler – former director of failed telecommunications company One.Tel and HIH Insurance
Mike Cannon-Brookes – CEO and co-founder of Atlassian
Michael Crouch – former Chairman of Zip Industries
Ken Dixon – chairman of Rowntree's
James Fairfax – former arts patron and philanthropist (also attended Geelong Grammar School)
David Gyngell – CEO of Australian commercial broadcasting network, Channel Nine
Samuel Hordern – stockbroker and Grazier
The Hon Clyde Packer – journalist, media entrepreneur, politician and author
James Packer – chairman of CPH Investments and Crown Limited
Kerry Packer – former media tycoon
Jodee Rich – founder of One.Tel and PeopleBrowsr
Government, politics and the law
The Hon Tim Bruxner – former elected member of the NSW Parliament and Deputy Premier of New South Wales
Ben Franklin – elected member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales
Hugh Gilchrist – diplomat and author of Australians and Greeks
Sir David Griffin – elected 74th Lord Mayor of Sydney
Michael Knight – elected former member of the NSW Parliament and Sydney 2000 Olympics Minister
Julian Martin Leeser – member for Berowra
Thomas Walter Mitchell – Country Party member for Benambra in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Attorney-General
The Hon Dugald Munro – former grazier and Member for Eden-Monaro
Andrew Rogers – justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales; spouse of Helen Coonan, a former Australian Senator
John Spender – Liberal party member for North Sydney and Australian Ambassador to France
The Hon Sir Laurence Whistler Street – 14th Chief Justice of New South Wales
Media, entertainment and the arts
Oliver Ackland – actor
Sumner Locke Elliott – writer, playwright
Billy Field – singer and songwriter
John Gaden – actor
Peter Kingston – artist
Mungo Wentworth MacCallum – political journalist, humorist and commentator
Jim Maxwell – ABC Radio cricket commentator
Garry McDonald – comedian, star of Mother and Son and creator of alter-ego Norman Gunston
Craig McGregor – writer/novelist, academic, and cultural critic
Andrew Pfeiffer – landscape architect
Sam Reid – film & television actor, co-lead of Interview with the Vampire and The Newsreader
Adam Shand – writer and freelance journalist, located in Africa for three years to report on Rwanda and Zimbabwe
Martin Sharp – artist, cartoonist, songwriter, and filmmaker
Tony Sheldon – stage actor/singer, film and TV actor
Harvey Shore – Logie-winning TV writer/producer
Nick Vindin – kids TV host, all-rounder, entrepreneur sports presenter with SBS World News Australia; travel correspondent with Smooth radio network
Peter Vogel – co-designer of the Fairlight CMI
Patrick White – writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
Kip Williams – Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company
Simon Wincer – film director
Military
Group Captain Pete Jeffrey – WWII fighter ace
Air Marshal Sir James Anthony Rowland – former naval officer, Governor of New South Wales and Chancellor of the University of Sydney
Sport
Daniel Batman (1998) – Sydney 2000 Olympic 400m runner (also attended The Scots College)
Edward Cowan (2000) – Australian test cricketer
Paul Darveniza – international Rugby Union Wallaby and neurologist
James Hunter (2009) – basketball player
Luke Kendall – Australian basketball player
Will Langford (2010) – Australian rules football premiership player (2014) for Hawthorn Football Club
Cecil Purdy – chess International Master and inaugural World Correspondence Chess champion
Murray Rose (1956) – Olympic gold medal swimmer
Steven Solomon (2011) – London 2012 Olympic 400m runner
William Somerville – New Zealand cricket bowler
Ed Stubbs (2006) – Australian Rugby 7s representative
See also
Combined Associated Schools
Category:People educated at Cranbrook School, Sydney
References
External links
Cranbrook School website