List of Australian Club members

The following is a list of notable past and present members of the Australian Club.

A

 * Hon Joseph Palmer Abbott OBE MC, Grazier and politician
 * Haynes Gibbes Alleyne, Medical practitioner.
 * Hon John Anderson (Australian politician) AO, Grazier and politician (deputy prime minister)
 * Rt Hon Doug Anthony Grazier and politician (deputy prime minister)
 * Hon Larry Anthony AO

B

 * Sir Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough KBE VD, Engineer
 * Rt Hon Sir Edmund Barton GCMG QC, First Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
 * Rt Hon Sir Garfield Barwick GCMG AK, Attorney-General of Australia (1958–61), Minister for External Affairs (1961–64) and the seventh and longest serving Chief Justice of Australia (1964–81). He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1964 and a judge of the International Court of Justice (1973–74)[1]
 * Hon Sir Thomas Bavin KCMG, 24th Premier of New South Wales.
 * General Sir Phillip Bennett AC, KBE, DSO, KStJ
 * Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO.
 * Lester Joseph Brain (1903–1980) aviator and aviation administrator
 * Hon Sir Gerard Brennan KBE AC QC
 * John Le Gay Brereton
 * Major-General Sir William Throsby Bridges KCB CMG, First Australian appointed to General rank, KIA Gallipoli
 * Sir Thomas Buckland, Goldmine-manager, pastoralist, businessman and philanthropist.
 * Hon Sir James Burns KCMG, Businessman, shipowner and philanthropist
 * Hon Sir William Westbrooke Burton KCMG, Politician and judge.

C

 * Robert Campbell, Landowner
 * Robert Campbell, Politician
 * Hon Sir John Carrick AC KCMG
 * Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy AC
 * John Henry Challis, Benefactor University of Sydney
 * General Sir Harry Chauvel GCMG, KCB
 * David S. Clarke AO, Chairman Macquarie Bank.
 * Hon Terence Cole AO QC
 * General The Hon Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC CNZM
 * Sir Bob Cotton KCMG AO
 * Sir Charles Cowper, KCMG, Premier of NSW
 * Sir Norman Lethbridge Cowper
 * James Charles Cox (1834–1912) medical practitioner
 * Major-General Paul Alfred Cullen AC CBE DSO ED, Soldier and Grazier.
 * Sir Arthur Roden Cutler VC, AK,, KCVO, CBE

D

 * William John Dakin, Zoologist
 * Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Joseph Daly KBE, CB, DSO
 * Rt Hon Sir William Bede Dalley QC, Attorney-General of NSW
 * Frederick Matthew Darley GCMG, Chief Justice & lieutenant-governor of New South Wales.
 * Sir James Ralph Darling OBE, Headmaster Geelong Grammar School.
 * Hon Sir John Bayley Darvall KCMG QC, Attorney-general of NSW
 * Hon Sir William Deane AC, KBE, KStJ, QC, Australian judge and 22nd Governor-General of Australia.
 * Peter Debnam MP
 * Hon Sir George Dibbs KCMG, Three times Premier of NSW
 * Rt Hon Sir Owen Dixon OM GCMG KBE, Australian judge and diplomat, was the sixth Chief Justice of Australia.
 * Sir Stuart Donaldson
 * Sir Talbot Duckmanton CBE. Australian broadcaster and General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, former Chairman of Newington College Council 1968-1973
 * Sir Walter Gordon Duncan (1885–1963) pastoralist and politician in SA
 * Lieutenant General Sir Donald Dunstan AC, KBE, CB (born 18 February 1923) is a former Australian Army officer, who was Governor of South Australia from 1982 to 1991.
 * Donald J. Dwyer, former Chairman of Newington College Council 1994-2000

E

 * Malcolm Henry Ellis, Journalist and historian,

F

 * James Fairfax AO
 * Sir Warwick Oswald Fairfax
 * Charles Brunsdon Fletcher, Editor Sydney Morning Herald (1918–1937)
 * Sir James Foots AO, Mining engineer and company director.
 * Sir Francis Forbes
 * Hon Sir George Warburton Fuller KCMG, Barrister and politician.
 * Sir Hudson Fysh KBE, DFC, Aviator and businessman.

G

 * Rt Hon Sir Harry Gibbs AK GCMG KBE, Chief Justice of Australia
 * David Gonski AC, businessman and arts patron.
 * William Deuchar Gordon, grazier and president of the club.
 * Sir Albert John Gould VD, lawyer and politician.
 * Hon Justice Peter Graham, Federal court judge.
 * Sir Norman McAlister Gregg MC, ophthalmologist who discovered Congenital Rubella Syndrome.
 * Hon Justice William Gummow AC, Justice High Court of Australia.

H

 * Jack Hannes Businessman, founder of HANIMEX
 * Hon Sir John Hay KCMG
 * Sir Samuel Hordern KBE
 * Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC AFC
 * Hon John Howard AC, Prime Minister of Australia (1996–2007)
 * Admiral Michael Wyndham Hudson AC
 * Hon Tom Hughes AO QC
 * Hon Justice Sir Percival Halse Rogers KBE, Judge
 * Dr Timothy Hawkes OAM, former Headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta

J

 * Sir George Alfred Julius (1873–1946) mechanical engineer and inventor
 * Alan Jackson AASA FCA FCPA FAIM CBIM (1936-2018), Businessman and corporate executive.

K

 * Hon Norman William Kater
 * Sir Norman William Kater, Medical practitioner, grazier and politician.
 * Stephen Lackey Kessell (1897–1979) forester and administrator
 * Stephen Kimpton, Australian first-class cricketer and company director.
 * Philip Gidley King (1817-1904) pastoralist and politician.
 * Phillip Parker King, Naval officer, hydrographer and company manager.
 * David Kirk MBE, Rugby World Cup winning captain of New Zealand and former CEO of John Fairfax
 * Rt Hon Sir Frank Kitto AC, KBE, KC
 * Frederick Percival Kneeshaw (1883–1955) engineer and company director
 * Rt Hon Sir Adrian Knox KCMG QC, Second Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

L

 * Lieutenant General Peter Leahy AC is a former Chief of the Australian Army.
 * George Le Couteur OBE, company director.
 * Sir Charles Lloyd Jones, Chairman David Jones Limited
 * Hon Jim Longley
 * Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, British and Australian statesman; served in William Ewart Gladstone's cabinet as Chancellor of the exchequer 1868–1873.

M

 * Hon Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur Australian colonist, politician, businessman and wool pioneer.
 * Hon Sir William Macarthur, Pastoralist
 * Major-General Sir Denzil Macarthur-Onslow CBE DSO ED
 * Major General Hon James Macarthur-Onslow VD Soldier, grazier and politician.
 * Professor Sir Mungo William MacCallum KCMG, Educationist, scholar and administrator.
 * Hugh Mackay
 * Sir Charles Mackellar, surgeon and M.P.
 * Hon Michael MacKellar
 * Brigadier-General Henry Normand MacLaurin
 * Sir Normand MacLaurin, Physician, company director and university administrator.
 * Hon Sir Alexander Macleay MLC FLS FRS, Colonial secretary NSW.
 * Sir George Macleay KCMG, Explorer and Politician.
 * William Sharp Macleay FRS, Entomologist.
 * Sir Herbert Lethington Maitland, Surgeon and sportsman.
 * Sir William Montagu Manning KCMG
 * Conrad Martens
 * Rear-Admiral Sir David Martin KCMG AO, Governor of NSW
 * Hon Sir James Martin KCB QC, Three times Premier of New South Wales, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
 * Sir David Maughan QC, Barrister.
 * John McCallum AC, CBE, Actor.
 * Samuel McCaughey (1892–1955) grazier
 * Rt Hon Sir William McMahon CH GCMG
 * Sir William McMillan, Merchant and politician,
 * Hon Roddy Meagher AO QC
 * Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether, Public servant and university chancellor.
 * Sir Denison Samuel King Miller KCMG, Banker governor of the Commonwealth Bank.
 * Jim Milner, Former President of the NRMA and Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson
 * David Scott Mitchell, Founder of the Mitchell library, Sydney, Australia.
 * Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia.
 * Max Moore-Wilton AC
 * Hugh Morgan AC
 * Sir William Morrow, DSO ED.
 * Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED
 * Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
 * Allan Moss AO, Former Managing Director/CEO of Macquarie Bank
 * Sir Rupert Myers KBE, Vice chancellor, University of NSW.

N

 * Sir Charles Nicholson Bt, Founder of University of Sydney and Australia's first Baronet
 * Lieutenant General Sir John Northcott KCMG KCVO CB

O

 * Richard Edward O'Connor, Foundation Justice of the High Court of Australia
 * Arthur Alexander Walton Onslow, Naval officer and politician.
 * Sir Alexander Campbell Onslow, Judge.
 * Rt Hon Sir William Francis Langer Owen KBE, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia.
 * Sir William Owen, Royal commissioner and Chief Judge in Equity of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

P

 * Hon Clyde Packer
 * Sir Frank Packer
 * James Packer AM
 * Kerry Packer AC
 * Rt Hon Sir Earle Page GCMG CH
 * Banjo Paterson CBE
 * Hon Andrew Peacock AC
 * Professor Sir John Beverley Peden KCMG, barrister and professor of law
 * Cardinal George Pell AC
 * Brigadier Hon Thomas Alfred John Playfair DSO OBE VD MLC, Meat exporter, soldier and politician.

R

 * Rt Hon Sir George Edward Rich KCMG, Justice of High Court of Australia
 * Hon Justice Bernard Blomfield Riley, Federal Court Judge
 * Sir Alfred Roberts KCMG, surgeon
 * Sir Stephen Henry Roberts CMG, Historian and university vice-chancellor
 * Joseph Phelps Robinson (1815–1848) banker and landowner
 * Hon William Robson MLC, NSW parliamentarian
 * Christopher Rolleston CMG
 * Air Marshal Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC, Governor of NSW
 * George Alfred Russell (1839–1926), insurance executive

S

 * Gordon Samuels, AC, CVO, QC, KStJ,
 * Hon Justice Kim Santow AC
 * Paul D. Scully-Power AM
 * Hon Sir John See KCMG, Premier of New South Wales.
 * Sir Nicholas Shehadie, AC, OBE, former Lord Mayor of Sydney (1973–1975) and ex-Captain in the Australia national rugby union team.
 * Sir Colin Sinclair KBE
 * Rt Hon Ian Sinclair AC.
 * Robert Burdett Smith (1837–1895) solicitor and politician
 * Hon Warwick Smith AM
 * Rt Hon Sir Alfred Stephen GCMG CB
 * Hon Justice Sir Matthew Henry Stephen, Puisne judge of the supreme court of New South Wales.
 * Sir Bertram Stevens KCMG, Premier of New South Wales from 16 May 1932 to 5 August 1939.
 * Hon Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor,
 * Sir Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart KCMG, Professor of physiology and medical administrator.

T

 * The Hon. Angus Talbot, former Chairman of Newington College Council 2007-2013
 * Sir Edward Deas Thomson KCMG CB
 * Robert Towns, Businessman and founder of Townsville.
 * Dr Ralph Townsend, Headmaster Winchester College, formerly Oundle and Sydney Grammar School.
 * Malcolm Turnbull, MP, former Prime Minister of Australia

V

 * Walter Liberty Vernon VD, Architect and soldier.

W

 * Hon Thomas Waddell, Premier of New South Wales
 * Hon Sir Charles Gregory Wade KCMG KC, Premier of New South Wales
 * Sir Samuel Robert Walder, (1879–1946), Businessman and politician (Lord Mayor of Sydney)
 * William Wilkinson Wardell (1823–1899) architect and civil servant
 * Hon William Wentworth, Explorer & Founder University of Sydney
 * Morris West AM
 * A B Weigall CMG
 * Hunter White
 * Richard Windeyer KC
 * Major-General Rt Hon Sir Victor Windeyer KBE CB DSO KC, Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia
 * Sir William Charles Windeyer
 * John Woolley
 * Hon Mr Justice Edward Wise
 * James Wolfensohn AO KBE
 * Lieutenant General Sir Eric Woodward KCMG, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO, Governor of New South Wales from 1 August 1957 to 1 August 1965

Z

 * Sir David Zeidler AC CBE FAA FTSE, Australian chemist and industrialist.