List of Brighton Grammar School people

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

A

 * William Adamson – grain merchant, Brighton City councillor (1897–1913), Brighton City Mayor (1901–1902), Member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1910–1922)
 * Dylan Alcott – Paralympian
 * Francis Henry Joseph Archer – headmaster at Caulfield Grammar School 1923–1954, teacher at Brighton Grammar School 1955–1957
 * Sir Stanley Argyle KBE – former Premier of Victoria; Member (Nationalist) for the seat of Toorak

B

 * Gerry Balme – VFL footballer with St Kilda
 * Brigadier Lewis Ernest Stephen Barker, – Australian Army officer
 * Andrew Bassat – co-founder of SEEK
 * Paul Bassat – co-founder of SEEK
 * Marcus Bastiaan – businessman; former vice-president of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party
 * Weston Bate – member of staff
 * Robin Batterham AO – chemical engineer; Chief Scientist of Australia 1999–2006
 * Mordy Bromberg – Federal Court judge, and VFL footballer with St Kilda
 * Travis Brooks – Olympic hockey player
 * Louis Butler – AFL footballer

C

 * Ben Canham – Australian representative rower
 * Bill Cannon – VFL footballer with St Kilda
 * Warwick Capper – AFL footballer
 * Sir Norman John Carson – businessman, wool industry leader, philanthropist
 * James Catanach – RAAF pilot, taken prisoner during the Second World War, took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, was re-captured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo
 * Air Vice Marshal Hugh Vivian Champion de Crespigny, – Royal Flying Corps pilot in First World War, and senior Royal Air Force officer during Second World War
 * Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp KBE – railway administrator, Director-General of Australia's Land Transport Board, 1942–1951
 * Josh Clayton – AFL footballer
 * Andrew Cooper – Olympic rower
 * George Henry Crowther – founder, and first headmaster of Brighton Grammar School
 * Henry Arnold Crowther – second headmaster of Brighton Grammar School

D

 * Roger Davies – artist manager, business manager, and music producer
 * Chris Dawes – AFL footballer
 * Lt. Col Sir Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny – soldier, medical practitioner, pathologist, academic, and hospital administrator
 * John Leopold Denman – member of dynasty of architects
 * Neil Douglas MBE – environmental artist; conservationist; author
 * Barry Robert Dove – Judge of the County Court of Victoria
 * John Robertson Duigan and Reginald Duigan – Australian pioneer aviators who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft

F

 * Horace Percy Finnis – Anglican priest and organist

G

 * William Grant CMG, DSO and Bar, VD – soldier and commander of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at the Battle of Beersheba

H

 * William Hancock – vicar at St Andrew's Church, Brighton (1918–1928), instrumental in acquiring Brighton Grammar School for the Anglican Church in 1924, and chairman of the School's council (1925–1935)
 * The Honourable Justice Kim Hargrave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Court of Appeal
 * Ray Harper – VFL footballer with St Kilda, Carlton, and North Melbourne
 * Clifford Hayes – Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
 * Sir Lionel Hooke – pioneer in radio; wireless operator in Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Antarctic Expedition; engineer
 * Neville Read Hudson – RAAF pilot, Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1976–1979)
 * Jayden Hunt – AFL footballer

I

 * Peter Isaacson AM, DFC, AFC, DFM – publisher and decorated military pilot

J

 * Ben Jacobs – AFL footballer
 * Christian Jollie Smith – solicitor, co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia, taught English Literature at Brighton Grammar School (1919)

K

 * Josh Kelly – AFL footballer

L

 * Andrew Lauterstein – Olympic swimmer
 * Cyril Lloyd – a 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
 * Matthew Lloyd – Olympic cyclist
 * Corbett Lyon – architect, art patron and academic

M

 * Craig Marais – international field hockey player
 * Mat McBriar – American football player
 * Michael McCarthy – member of staff, VFL footballer
 * William C. McClelland – doctor, VFL footballer and Victorian Football League President
 * Andrew McGrath – AFL footballer
 * John Charles McIntyre – former Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Gippsland, Victoria; recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003 (also attended Fort Street High School)
 * Brad McKay – doctor, author and television personality
 * Claude McKay – journalist, newspaper proprietor
 * Samuel McLaren – mathematician, mathematical physicist, killed in action during the Battle of the Somme
 * Professor Ian Meredith AM – interventional cardiologist, Director of MonashHeart, Professor of Cardiology at Monash University
 * Gary Minihan – Olympian, Commonwealth Medal winner, Australian record holder (since 1984)
 * Roy Morgan – pollster, market researcher, and Melbourne City councillor 1959–1974
 * Nathan Murphy – AFL footballer

N

 * Lieutenant-Colonel James Joachim Nicholas M.B.B.S., M.D. – VFL footballer, killed in action in World War I

O

 * Sean O'Boyle – composer and conductor
 * Bill O'Hara – surgeon, VFL footballer with St Kilda
 * James Ryan O'Neill (born Leigh Anthony Bridgart in 1947) – convicted murderer and suspected serial killer

P

 * Roy Paton – farmer, President Towong Shire Council (1929–1930, 1932–1933), Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1932–1947)
 * Alexander Augustus Norman Dudley "Jerry" Pentland, – aviator, World War I fighter ace
 * Archie Perkins – AFL footballer with Essendon
 * Charlie Pickering – Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, author and producer, and host of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
 * Andrew Plympton – businessman, sports administrator, President St Kilda Football Club 1993–2000
 * Sir Sir Murray Victor Porter – Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * Harry Potter – rugby union footballer with UK team Leicester Tigers
 * Will Pucovski – cricketer

R

 * Peter Reith – Australian politician (Liberal); Minister in Howard Government 1996–2003; Member for the seat of Flinders
 * John Ross – Member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1996–2002)
 * Michael Rozenes QC – Chief judge of the County Court of Victoria

S

 * Christian Salem – AFL footballer
 * Jack Shelton – VFL footballer with St Kilda and South Melbourne; killed in action at Tobruk in 1941
 * David Shepherd – Victorian cricketer, and VFL footballer with St Kilda
 * Tommy Smith – international racing driver
 * David Smorgon – Australian businessman and member of the Smorgon family
 * Major General Victor Stantke, – senior officer in the Australian Army during the First World War and Second World War, member of staff
 * Ivan Stedman – swimmer, silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium
 * Jock Sturrock MBE – yachtsman

T

 * Herbert Valentine Tarte – Fiji-born planter, and Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
 * Peter Thomson – influential Anglican priest
 * Albert Thurgood – VFL footballer
 * Will Thursfield – AFL footballer
 * Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell –distinguished soldier, Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

V

 * Jim Vickers-Willis – journalist and square dance caller

W

 * Sam Walsh AO – businessman, philanthropist
 * Doug Warbrick – co-founder of Rip Curl
 * Matthew Warnock – AFL footballer
 * Robert Warnock – AFL footballer
 * Jack Watts – AFL footballer, No.1 Draft pick 2008
 * Charles William George Wheeler – Master of the Supreme Court of Victoria
 * Julien Wiener – Australian Test cricketer
 * Harry Williams – golfer, Australian Amateur Champion in 1931 and 1937
 * David Wittey – AFL footballer

Y

 * Masa Yamaguchi – professional actor on stage and in film

Z

 * Allan Zavod – pianist, composer, jazz musician, and conductor
 * Charles Henry Zercho – VFA footballer with Essendon (1890), chaplain and resident master at Brighton Grammar School (1891–1892, and 1911–1913)