List of Old Collegians of PLC Melbourne

This is a List of Old Collegians of PLC Melbourne – known as "P.L.C Old Collegians" – of the Presbyterian Church school, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne in Burwood, Victoria, Australia.

In 2001, The Sun-Herald named Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne the best girls' school in Australia based on the number of its alumni mentioned in Who's Who in Australia.

Academic

 * Maureen Brunt – Emeritus Professor of Economics, Monash University
 * Maud Martha Cameron – Headmistress of Firbank Girls' Grammar School (1911–54) and president of the Victorian Association of Headmistresses (1936–37)
 * Dymphna Clark (née Lodewyckx) – Language scholar and wife of historian Manning Clark
 * Nina Alison Crone OAM – Teacher; Former Headmistress of Melbourne Girls Grammar School; Historian; Linguist; Journalist
 * Mary (Isabel) Flinn – Prominent school teacher and university lecturer
 * Julia Teresa Flynn – Educationist; First female school inspector; Namesake of 'Julia Flynn Avenue' in Isaacs, Australian Capital Territory
 * Nancy Jobson – Educator; Former headmistress of Southland Girls' High School (Invercargill, New Zealand), Queen Margaret College (Wellington, New Zealand), Fairholme Presbyterian Girls' College (Toowoomba, Queensland), and Pymble Ladies' College (Pymble, New South Wales)
 * Dame Leonie Judith Kramer – Former Chancellor of the University of Sydney
 * Elizabeth Inglis Lothian – Teacher of Classics; Councillor of the Classical Association of Victoria
 * Isabel McBryde AO – Professor Emerita, Australian National University; School Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts; Independent Researcher
 * Joan Montgomery AM. OBE – Educator; former principal of Clyde School, Woodend and Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne
 * Helen Gwynneth Palmer – Educationist, Socialist and Writer
 * Rosemary Teele – Rhodes Scholar
 * Marjorie Jean Tipping MBE – Freelance Author, Art Historian, Consultant and Lecturer on Early Victorian and Tasmanian History and Oriental and Colonial Art History

Business

 * Fiona Balfour – Chief Information Officer of Telstra (2006–07), and Qantas (2001–06)
 * Dur-e Najaf Dara OAM – Restaurateur; Owner and Operator of EQ Cafebar (Melbourne); Partner/Menu Design of Nudel Bar (Melbourne); Partner of the Tea Corporation; Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003 (also attended Methodist Girls' School, Singapore)
 * Jane Harvey – Director of Medibank Private; Director of IOOF Holdings
 * Rosemary Jessamyn Howell – Proprietor, Strategic Action Pty Ltd (formerly Rosemary Howell Business Services); Director National Board of Directors, Quality in Law Inc.
 * Patricia Kailis AM, OBE – Governing Director and Co-Founder of the M G Kailis Group of Companies
 * Kerrie Kelly – Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Insurance Council of Australia (also attended Walford Anglican School for Girls)
 * Karen Mahlab AM – Managing Director of the Mahlab Group; Founder of Pro Bono Australia

Community

 * Annie Cohen – Charity worker
 * Gladys Maeva Cumpston – Community worker, prize winning gardener and Braille transcriber
 * Henrietta Jessie Shaw Daley – Community worker; Founder of the ACT branch of the National Council of Women
 * Dame Phyllis Frost – Welfare worker and philanthropist, known for her commitment to unpopular causes.
 * Jessie McLaren – Australian missionary in Korea, book collector, teacher and translator
 * Florence Mitchell - Girl Guide leader
 * Lady Eliza Fraser Morrison – Charity worker; Chairman of the Victorian Red Cross home hospitals committee; Assistant commissioner of the Australian Red Cross Society in England; Appointed C.B.E. and Edward K.C.M.G
 * Eleanor Harriett (Nell) Rivett – Missionary and principal of the Women's Christian College, Chennai, India
 * Philadelphia Nina Robertson – Red Cross administrator
 * Helen Macpherson Schutt – Philanthropist
 * Lady Alice Maud Sewell – First woman to win the Wyselaskie scholarship in classical and comparative philology and logic; Founder of the Lyceum Club, Melbourne; Awarded the Coronation medal
 * Hilda Stevenson DBE – philanthropist and community worker
 * Jean Marion Tom AO – Community worker; Recipient Centenary Medal 2003, ANZAC of the Year Award RSL 1999
 * Rita May Wilson – Community worker

Entertainment, media and the arts

 * Christine Dorothy Brunton – Actress
 * Felicity Cockram – Executive Producer, Producer, Business and Script Consultant; former CEO Australian Film Institute
 * Enid Derham – Poet
 * Lauris Margaret Elms – Opera Singer
 * Louise Berta Mosson Hanson Dyer – Patron of the arts and music publisher
 * Helen Mitchell – Soprano, who would be known as Dame Nellie Melba
 * Helen Morse – Australian actress and costume designer
 * Ida Rentoul Outhwaite – Artist
 * Janet Gertrude (Nettie) Palmer – Writer and critic
 * Ada May Plante – Artist
 * Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson – Author, published as Henry Handel Richardson
 * Irene Frances Taylor – Journalist and feminist
 * Violet Helen Evangeline Teague – Artist
 * Tamsin West – Actress best known for her role as Linda in Round the Twist
 * Helen Casey – Current Slushee Queen

Medicine and science

 * Lilian Helen Alexander – Pioneering medical practitioner
 * Constance Ellis – First Victorian woman to become a doctor of medicine
 * Ethel Godfrey – Victoria's first female dentist
 * Ethel Gray – Nursing sister and army matron
 * Robyn Guymer – Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne; Head, Macular Research Unit, Centre for Eye Research Australia; Consultant, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
 * Ida Gertrude Margaret Halley – Medical officer and Feminist; One of the first female medical students at the University of Melbourne
 * Dr Margaret Hilda Harper – Pioneering paediatrician, daughter of former PLC principal Rev. Dr Andrew Harper
 * Mary Jermyn Heseltine – One of the first Australian doctors to study exfoliative cytology; Established the first gynaecological cytology unit in Australia at King George V Hospital
 * Kate Mackay – Physician and public servant
 * Dame Annie Jean Macnamara – Medical scientist
 * Winifred Barbara Meredith – Pioneering medical practitioner specialising in child and infant care
 * Joan Janet Brown Refshauge – Pioneering medical practitioner and medical administrator
 * Alice Ross-King – Civilian and Army nurse
 * Anna "Nan" Schofield – One of the first Australian Army nurses to serve in the Middle East during World War II; Author
 * Dr Eleanor Margrethe (Rita) Stang – Pioneering medical practitioner
 * Elizabeth Kathleen Turner – Paediatrician who was a Medical Superintendent of the  Children's Hospital Melbourne (1943-1946) and was the first doctor in  Australia to administer penicillin.
 * Rose Ethel Janet White-Haney – Botanist

Politics, public service and the law

 * Sally Capp – Lord Mayor of Melbourne
 * Catherine Deakin – Sister of Alfred Deakin
 * Joan Rose Dwyer OAM – Former Chairman Equal Opportunity Board (Vic); Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal (Vic)
 * Elizabeth Moulton Eggleston – Academic lawyer and activist
 * Vida Goldstein – Suffragette and first woman to stand for election to the Federal Parliament of Australia
 * Flos Greig – First woman admitted to the Victorian Bar
 * Rosemary Claire Hunter – Professor of Law at the University of Kent; formerly Professor of Law at Griffith University, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Director of the Socio-Legal Research Centre
 * Fiona Krautil – Director of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
 * Eleanor May Moore – Pacifist
 * Alice Frances Mabel Moss – Campaigner for women's rights
 * Hon. Justice Marcia Ann Neave AO- Judge, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria; Chairwoman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission
 * Senator Jocelyn Newman – Former Senator for Tasmania
 * Kelly O'Dwyer – Federal member for the seat of Higgins.
 * Marion Phillips – Politician, first Australian woman to win a seat in a national parliament
 * Kim Rubenstein – Professor and Co-Director, 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, University of Canberra
 * Judge Meryl Elizabeth Sexton – Judge, County Court of Victoria
 * Jillian Skinner – Politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly; Former Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Minister for Health, Shadow Minister for Science and Medical Research, and Shadow Minister for Arts
 * Christian Brynhild Ochiltree Jollie Smith – Solicitor, second woman to be admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, first female taxi driver in Melbourne

Religion

 * Margaret Ruth Redpath AO – Former Acting Precentor, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, and ground-breaking surgeon.