This is a list of notable past students and staff of Brighton Grammar School. Alumni of the school are known as "Old Brighton Grammarians".

Alumni Arts and entertainment

Roger Davies – artist manager, business manager, and music producer Rennie Ellis - photographer Bland Holt - comedian and theatrical producer Corbett Lyon – architect, co-founder of Lyons, art patron and academic Claude McKay – journalist, newspaper proprietor Sean O'Boyle – composer and conductor Charlie Pickering – comedian, television and radio presenter, author and producer Jim Vickers-Willis – journalist and square dance caller Masa Yamaguchi – actor, stunt performer and fight choreographer Allan Zavod – pianist, composer, jazz musician and conductor

Business Andrew Bassat – co-founder of SEEK Paul Bassat – co-founder of SEEK

Nick Farrow – Bitcoin engineer; creator of open-source Bitcoin payment processor SatSale, co-developer of FROST threshold cryptography for multisignature wallets, and co-founder of Frostsnap

Marcus Bastiaan – businessman; former vice-president of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp – railway administrator, Director-General of Australia's Land Transport Board (1942–1951) David Smorgon – businessman and member of the Smorgon family Sam Walsh – businessman, philanthropist Doug Warbrick – co-founder of Rip Curl

Medicine, science and technology

Robin Batterham – chemical engineer; Chief Scientist of Australia (1999–2006) Lt. Col Sir Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny – soldier, medical practitioner, pathologist, academic and hospital administrator John Robertson Duigan – pioneer aviator who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft Brad McKay – doctor, author and host of Embarrassing Bodies Down Under Samuel McLaren – mathematician, mathematical physicist, killed in action during the Battle of the Somme Ian Meredith – interventional cardiologist, Director of MonashHeart and Professor of Cardiology at Monash University

Military

Brigadier Lewis Ernest Stephen Barker – Australian Army officer who fought in both world wars 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 Air Vice Marshal Hugh Vivian Champion de Crespigny, – Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, and senior Royal Air Force officer during World War II William Grant – soldier and commander of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at the Battle of Beersheba Peter Isaacson – publisher and decorated military pilot Major-General Cyril Lloyd – senior British Army officer during the Second World War Brigadier John Lloyd – senior Australian Army officer who fought in the First and Second World Wars, farmer, and licensing magistrate Alexander Augustus Norman Dudley "Jerry" Pentland – aviator, World War I fighter ace

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) Sir Stanley Argyle – former Premier of Victoria; Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (Nationalist) for the seat of Toorak Mordy Bromberg – Federal Court judge, and VFL footballer with St Kilda John Gray - member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1904-1917) and longtime councillor Kim Hargrave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Court of Appeal Clifford Hayes – Mayor of Bayside (2008-2010); member of the Victorian Legislative Council (2018-2022) Neville Read Hudson – RAAF pilot during World War II and Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1976–1979) Roy Morgan – pollster, market researcher, and Melbourne City councillor (1959–1974) Roy Paton – farmer, President of Towong Shire Council (1929–1930, 1932–1933), Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1932–1947) Sir Murray Victor Porter – Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Peter Reith – politician (Liberal); Minister in Howard Government (1996–2003); Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Flinders John Ross – Member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1996–2002) Michael Rozenes – Chief judge of the County Court of Victoria (2002-2015) Herbert Valentine Tarte – Fiji-born planter, and Member of the Legislative Council of Fiji (1920-1922) Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell – distinguished soldier, Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1945-1955)

Religion Horace Percy Finnis – Anglican priest and organist Peter Thomson – Anglican priest notable for influencing Tony Blair while the two were classmates

Sport

Levi Ashcroft - AFL footballer with Brisbane Will Ashcroft - AFL footballer with Brisbane, 2024 premiership player and Norm Smith Medal winner Dylan Alcott – wheelchair tennis player, Paralympian and radio host Gerry Balme – VFL footballer with St Kilda Travis Brooks – Olympic field hockey player Louis Butler – AFL footballer with Western Ben Canham – Australian representative rower Bill Cannon – VFL footballer with St Kilda Warwick Capper – AFL footballer with Sydney and Brisbane Josh Clayton – AFL footballer with Brisbane Andrew Cooper – Olympic rower Chris Dawes – AFL footballer with Collingwood and Melbourne Jayden Hunt – AFL footballer with Melbourne and West Coast Matthew Jackson - AFL footballer with St Kilda Ben Jacobs – AFL footballer with Port Adelaide and North Melbourne Josh Kelly – AFL footballer with GWS Andrew Lauterstein – Olympic swimmer Matthew Lloyd – Olympic cyclist Cameron Mackenzie - AFL footballer with Hawthorn Craig Marais – international field hockey player

Alex Mastromanno - American football player for Florida State Archer May - AFL footballer for Essendon Mat McBriar – American football player in the NFL William C. McClelland – VFL footballer, Victorian Football League President (1926-1956) and medical doctor Andrew McGrath – AFL footballer with Essendon Andrew McLean - AFL footballer with St Kilda Gary Minihan – Olympic and Commonwealth sprinter, and Australian record holder for relay (since 1984) Nathan Murphy – AFL footballer with Collingwood Lieutenant-Colonel James Joachim Nicholas – VFL footballer with University; killed in action in World War I Bill O'Hara – VFL footballer with St Kilda and surgeon Archie Perkins – AFL footballer with Essendon Andrew Plympton – sports administrator and President of St Kilda FC (1993–2000) Harry Potter – rugby union player with Western Force Will Pucovski – cricketer Christian Salem – AFL footballer with Melbourne Jack Shelton – VFL footballer with St Kilda and South Melbourne; killed in action at Tobruk in 1941 David Shepherd – cricketer with Victoria and VFL footballer with St Kilda Tommy Smith – international racing driver Ivan Stedman – Olympic swimmer Jock Sturrock – yachtsman and Olympic sailor Albert Thurgood – VFA, WAFA and VFL footballer with Essendon and Fremantle Will Thursfield – AFL footballer with Richmond Luke Trainor - AFL footballer with Richmond Matthew Warnock – AFL footballer with Melbourne and Gold Coast Robert Warnock – AFL footballer with Fremantle and Carlton Jack Watts – AFL footballer with Melbourne and Port Adelaide; No. 1 Draft pick 2008 Julien Wiener – Test cricketer for Victoria Harry Williams – golfer; Australian Amateur Champion in 1931 and 1937 David Wittey – AFL footballer with St Kilda and Sydney

Misc James Ryan O'Neill (born Leigh Anthony Bridgart) – convicted murderer and suspected serial killer

Members of staff Weston Bate - historian; taught History at BGS Christian Jollie Smith – solicitor and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia; taught English Literature at BGS (1919) William Hancock – Anglican priest and vicar at St Andrew's Church, Brighton (1918–1928); was instrumental in acquiring BGS for the Anglican Church in 1924, and was chairman of the school's Council (1925–1935) Ray Harper – VFL footballer with St Kilda, Carlton, and North Melbourne; taught at BGS Michael McCarthy – VFL footballer with Hawthorn and Brisbane; taught Physical Education and Health at BGS Simon McPhee - AFL football coach for St Kilda; football coach at BGS Simon Newcomb - Olympic rower; Director of Rowing at BGS Robert Shaw - former AFL footballer for Essendon; football coach at BGS Major General Victor Stantke, – senior officer in the Australian Army during the First and Second World Wars; taught at BGS Charles Henry Zercho – Anglican minister and VFA footballer with Essendon; resident master at BGS (1891–1892, and 1911–1913)

References

External links Brighton Grammar School website The Brighton Grammar School Hall of Fame Old Brighton Grammarians Society (alumni association) Old Brighton Grammarians Football Club (Victorian Amateur Football Association)