List of Shore Old Boys

Rhodes Scholars

• 1909 – Howard Bullock
• 1920 – Vernon Haddon Treatt
• 1935 – Keith Noel Everal Bradfield
• 1937 – Ian George Esplin
• 1940 – Basil Holmes Travers
• 1941 – Eric Brian Jeffcoat Smith
• 1946 – William Winslow Woodward
• 1948 – Louis Walter Davies
• 1952 – Frederick Rawdon Dalrymple
• 1960 – Malcolm John Swinburn
• 1964 – John Dyson Heydon
• 1971 – Richard John Lee
• 1973 – Ian Alfred Pollard
• 1975 – Peter Edward King
• 1982 – Graham Ross Dallas Jones
• 1995 – Evan Denis Fountain

Academia

• Vere Gordon Childe – Archeologist at the University of Edinburgh and Institute of Archaeology
• Laurie Fitzhardinge – Historian and Librarian
• John Conrad Jaeger – Mathematician and physicist; chair geophysics at the Australian National University, Elected Fellow of the Royal Society and has an Award named in his honour
• Richard Makinson – Noted physicist and Communist
• Professor Sir Brian Windeyer – Professor of Therapeutic Radiology; Dean at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London 1942–69; Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1969–72
• Phillip Wright – former Chancellor of the University of New England

Education

• Evan Mander-Jones – representative of Australia to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's biennial conference in Paris in 1952, Leading Pioneer of technical schools
• Harold Lusk – former Headmaster of King's College, Auckland
• Basil Holmes Travers – former Headmaster of Shore and Cricketer

Medicine

• Ian Constable – Founder of the Lions Eye Institute
• Sir Lorimer Dods – founder of the Children's Medical Research Institute
• Professor Anthony Gill – researcher, doctor, author
• Maurice Sando – anaesthetist
• Leslie St Vincent Welch – Chief Medical Officer of the Queensland Department of Public Instruction, visited rural schools to aid with an eye disease that infected 20% of all pupils in the communities

Science and engineering

• Bill Bradfield – Noted civil engineer
• Philip Cox – architect
• Robert Hickson – former Head Architect for the Bank of New South Wales and designed parts of The Armidale School and New England Girls School
• James Roy Kinghorn – naturalist and broadcaster

Industry

Finance and banking

• James Ashton – former CEO and Chairmen of MLC and board member on the Commonwealth Bank
• Sir John Cadwallader – former President of the Bank of New South Wales
• Robert Hamilton – founder of Mirvac
• Michael Hawker AM – former CEO of IAG, Former board member of Macquarie Group, and board member of Westpac
• Sir Norman Kater – Former Chairman of the Commercial Banking Company and Colonel Sugar Refinery
• Richard Lee – former CEO of Rothschild Australia and Rhodes Scholar
• John Marks – Founder of Development Finance Co. Ltd, an investment bank later purchased by ANZ Bank and Lendlease
• Hamish McLennan – Current Chairman of REA Group, former CEO of Network Ten, former Chairman of Rugby Australia
• Jack Massie – Tobacco Manufacturer and managing director of Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Also a former Cricketer
• Leslie Melville – Noted central banking pioneer and economist, and former vice chancellor of the Australian National University
• Jack Minnett – co-founder of Ord Minnett
• Sir John Grant Phillips – former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Thomas Alfred Playfair – Former Chairman of Perpetual Trustees the and National Bank of Australasia, as well as being a founding member of the United Australia Party
• John Sands – Created the Renal Medicine Unit in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, founder of John Sands Holdings and was a board member and director of the Bank of New South Wales
• Alastair Urquhart – chairman of the Sydney stock exchange from 1959 to 1966
• Tom Waterhouse – CIO of Waterhouse VC, co-founder of ListedReserve.com and a member of the Waterhouse family of gambling fame

Media and advertising

• Frank Packer – media proprietor, founder of TCN that would later become the Nine Network
• Thomas Wallace – former advertising executive, CEO of Lintas prior to merger, and CEO of SSC&B-Lintas Australia also lead Australian Government Advertising Advisory Council, and latter helped form the Association of National Advertisers and the Media Council of Australia
• James Warburton – current CEO of Supercars, former CEO of Seven West Media

Retail and services

• Harold Christmas – founder of Woolworths
• Roger Corbett – board member of Reserve Bank of Australia ; board member of Wal-Mart ; CEO of Woolworths
• Horace Ireland – former wholesale meat seller and solicitor
• Norman Nock – former director of David Jones and Lord Mayor of Sydney
• Jim Penman – founder of Jim's Group and historian.

Other

• Colin Bell – Noted grazier
• Tim Bristow – private eye, convicted criminal, corporate 'fixer', bouncer, rugby player
• Andrew Mills – Noted grazier
• Bill Pulver – Former CEO of Australian Rugby Union
• Geoffrey Remington – Former chairman of Rolls-Royce Australia

Entertainment, media, and the arts

• Peter Berner – comedian
• Russell Braddon – author of Naked Island
• Terence Clarke – composer, director, teacher
• Thomas Cocquerel – actor
• John Edwards – Producer
• Errol Flynn – legendary Hollywood actor known for swashbuckling roles
• Tim Freedman – musician, lead singer and songwriter for The Whitlams
• Frank Hinder – artist
• Eric Campbell – ABC foreign correspondent, author of 'Absurdistan', 'Silly Isles'
• Geoffrey Lehmann – poet, children's writer, lawyer
• David Marr – author, broadcast journalist, and columnist
• Morgan Mellish – award-winning Australian Financial Review journalist, killed in the Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 air accident in 2007
• Jim Moginie – musician with Midnight Oil
• Alan Osbiston - British Film Editor
• Garry Shead – artist
• Kenneth Slessor – poet and journalist
• Quentin Spedding – former lead editor of Labor Daily
• Daniel Lo Surdo - The Sydney Morning Herald reporter, author of ‘Growing Up in Sydney’
• Tim Storrier – artist
• Chris Taylor – member of The Chaser team and playwright
• John Wood – actor
• Sons of the East – Australian indie folk band

Politics, public service, and the law

Lawyers and judges

• Sir Adrian Curlewis – former Judge in the NSW Supreme Court and founding member of Palm Beach Surf Club
• Justice John Dyson Heydon – former Judge of the High Court of Australia
• Richard Gee – former family court judge, victim of family court bombings
• Justice Peter Graham - Former Federal Court Judge
• Frank Louat – Former High Court Lawyer
• Sir Alan Mansfield – former Governor of Queensland and former Chief Justice of the Queensland Supreme Court
• Justice Sir William Owen KBE, QC – former Judge on the High Court of Australia, and Chaired the Royal Commission on Espionage
• Chester Porter – Prominent barrister and second youngest person admitted to the NSW bar
• Justice Sir Dudley Williams KBE, MC, QC – former Judge on the High Court of Australia
• Gordon John Ford Yuill – inaugural member of the Family Court of Australia, awarded a United Nations Human Rights fellowship as well as having the Yuill scholarship at the Australian National University named after him
• Peter Young AO – former Chief Judge in Equity of the New South Wales Supreme Court

Public servants

• John Wilson Crawford – noted Brigadier and recipient of the Distinguished Service Order
• Claude Ewen Cameron – Recipient of the Military Cross
• Gother Clarke – War doctor, Cricketer
• James Henderson – Distinguished Air force Officer and recipient of the Distinguished Service Order
• Alexander Wilkinson – Recipient of the Military Cross

Politicians

• David Arblaster – former Minister for Culture, Sport and Recreation and Minister for Tourism and Member for Mosman, representing the Liberals
• John Booth – former Member for Wakehurst, representing the Liberals
• Vivian Gordon Bowden – public servant and diplomat
• Sir Harold Leslie Boyce – former Lord Mayor of London
• John Cockle – former Member for Warringah
• Keith Doyle - former Member for Valcause
• Sir John Gorton – politician and Prime Minister of Australia, representing the Liberals
• Eric Fairweather Harrison – former Member for Deakin and soldier during the First World War
• Gordon Freeth – former Foreign Minister, former Minister for Forest, former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Peter King – former Member for Wentworth
• Michael MacKellar – former Member for Warringah
• Thomas McKay – member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and chairman of committees
• Stuart St. Clair – former Member for New England, representing the Nationals
• Rob Stokes – Former New South Wales Minister for Infrastructure, the Minister for Cities, and the Minister for Active Transport, and the Member for Pittwater
• Sir Vernon Treatt – Minister for Justice, Leader of the Opposition, and Member for Woollahra, representing the Liberals

Religion

• Cecil Abel – Missionary, educator and author of the preamble to the Papua New Guinean Constitution
• Stephen Bradley – Bishop of the Church of England in South Africa
• Anthony Grigor-Scott – Minister of the antisemitic "Bible Believers Church", formerly in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• Donald Cameron – Bishop of North Sydney
• Geoffrey Cranswick – Anglican bishop
• Glenn Davies – Archbishop of Sydney
• Hamish Jamieson – Bishop of Carpentaria
• Donald Robinson – a former Archbishop of Sydney

Sport

Australian rules football

• Henry Playfair – Former AFL player at Geelong Football Club and Sydney Swans
• Lewis Roberts-Thomson – Former AFL player, dual AFL Premiership winner and Hall of Fame inductee at Sydney Swans
• Sam Wicks – Current AFL player at Sydney Swans
• Will Edwards - Current VFL player at Sydney Swans

Cricket

• Phil Emery – Australian test cricketer
• Jack Gregory – Australian test cricketer
• Leslie Minnett – Australian test cricketer
• Roy Minnett – Australian test cricketer
• Rupert Minnett – Australian test cricketer
• Bob Radford – Australian cricket administrator
• Dr Claude Tozer – cricketer

Rowing

• Nick Baxter – Olympic rower
• Peter Dickson – Olympic rower
• John Hudson – Olympic rower
• Jackson Kench – Australian rowing rower
• Tobias Lister – Australian rowing team
• Brian Lloyd – English Olympic rower
• Alexander Lloyd – Olympic rower
• Hamish Playfair – Australian rowing team
• Nick Purnell – Australian rowing team
• Alexander Purnell – Australian rowing team- Gold Medallist Tokyo 2020 – Men's Coxless 4
• Chris Stevens – Olympic Rower
• William Godfrey Thomas – Bow N.S.W. Crew 1936 Kings Cup, Silver Medal Australian Eight-Oared crew 1938 British Empire Games, coached the 1949 Kings Cup winning crew and was Shore G.P.S. coach 1951
• Roland Waddington – Olympic rower
• Barclay Wade – Commonwealth and Olympic Games rower
• William Woodward – English Olympic Rower

Rugby Union

• Al Baxter – Former Wallabies representative and Super Rugby player at NSW Waratahs
• Owen Crossman – Former Wallabies representative
• David Codey – former Wallabies captain
• David Dix – Former Wallabies representative
• Angus Gardner – Australian Rugby Union referee
• Garrick Fay – former Wallaby and Captain of the World XV side in 1977
• Mike Hercus – United States national rugby union team
• Mick Mathers – Former Wallabies representative
• Justin Sampson – sports television personality, professional speaker, former Australian rugby union player
• Haig Sare – Former Super Rugby player at Western Force
• Andrew Smith – Former Super Rugby player at ACT Brumbies
• Phil Waugh – CEO of Rugby Australia, former Wallabies captain and Super Rugby player at NSW Waratahs.
• Hugh Sinclair – Current Super Rugby player at NSW Waratahs

Tennis

• James Duckworth – Australian tennis player
• John Newcombe – tennis player, two-time US Open and three-time Wimbledon champion
• Eric Pockley – Australian tennis player, among the first dozen pupils

Other

• Glenn Bourke – Olympic Sailor
• Brian Cobcroft – Olympic Equestrian athlete
• Ben Tudhope – snowboarder and Olympic Bronze medallist
• Alex Watson – pentathlete