List of old boys of The King's School, Parramatta

This is a List of Notable Old Boys of The King's School, Sydney, former students of the Anglican school, The King's School in North Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

Business



 * Hugh Mosman (1843–1909) – discovered gold in Charters Towers
 * David Droga (born 1968) – Founder and chair of Droga5
 * Basil Fairfax-Ross (1910–84) – Australian businessman

Media, entertainment and the arts

 * Bruce Beresford (born 1940) – Film director
 * Michael Blakemore AO OBE (1928–2023) – Freelance theatre and film director
 * Richard Brancatisano (born 1983) – Actor
 * David Campbell (1915–79) – Poet
 * Robert Crawford (1868–1930) – Poet
 * John Marsden (born 1950) – Author; founder and principal of Candlebark School
 * Andrew Upton (born 1966) – Playwright and screenwriter; husband of Cate Blanchett
 * John Farquharson (1929–2016) – Journalist
 * Charles Mackerras (1925–2010) – Orchestral conductor

Medicine and science

 * James Charles Cox – Physician and oncologist
 * Stephen John James Frank Davies – Adjunct Professor, Division of Science at Murdoch University; Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Biology at Curtin University of Technology (also attended The Elms School)
 * James W. Lance – Neurologist; specialist in headache and migraine
 * Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE – Ornithologist; elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and served as President
 * Edward Pierson Ramsay – Zoologist; specialist in ornithology
 * Greg Retallack (senior year 1969) – Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon; specialist in paleopedology and paleobotany.
 * Thomas Griffith Taylor – Pioneering geographer; physiographer; weather service's official representative on the Terra Nova Expedition; foundation head of Australia's first university geography department (also attended Sydney Grammar School)

Military

 * Vice Admiral Sir John Gregory Crace KBE, CB – officer of the British Royal Navy (RN); commanded the Australian–United States Support Force (Task Force 44) at the Battle of the Coral Sea
 * Lieutenant John Steel ("Jock") Lewes – British Army officer and founding principal training officer of the British Special Air Service; killed in action, 1941.
 * Major-General Sir Denzil Macarthur-Onslow CBE, DSO – commander of the 1st Armoured Brigade during World War II.
 * Major-General Sir Granville Ryrie KCMG, CB – served in both the Second Boer War and World War I.
 * Sydney Christian – Australian Army Colonel

Politics, public service and the law

 * Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott KB – Politician and solicitor; Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the district of Maitland; Elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for Gunnedah, and later for Wentworth
 * John Anderson – MHR (Nat); Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party (1999–2005)
 * John Douglas Anthony AC, CH – MHR (Nat) (1957–1984); Deputy Prime Minister (1971–72) and (1975–83); Leader of the National Party (1971–84)
 * Mike Baird – Former Premier of NSW
 * Sir Joshua Peter Bell – Pastoralist and parliamentarian
 * Sir Nigel Bowen AC KBE – Politician; Member for Parramatta (Liberal); Appointed Attorney-General of Australia in the Second Holt Ministry
 * Francis Stewart Boyce – Barrister, Supreme Court judge and politician (also attended Sydney Grammar School and Rugby School)
 * Dr Arthur Chesterfield-Evans – NSW MLC (Dem) (1998–2007)
 * Russell Cooper – Premier of Queensland (Sept–Dec 1989); Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (Nat) (1983–2001)
 * Alfred Cox – New Zealand politician.
 * Somerset de Chair – MP, philanderer and author
 * Frederick Augustus Forbes – Store-keeper, grazier and politician; Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
 * William Forster – Politician; Premier of New South Wales (1859–60); Author of poetry and prose
 * Sir Joseph George Long Innes – Politician, elected to the Legislative Assembly for Mudgee; Queensland District Court judge
 * Stewart Wolfe Jamieson – Official secretary at the Australian High Commission, Ottawa (1947–50); Officer-in-charge of the information and defence liaison branches, Canberra (1950–52); Consul-general in San Francisco, United States of America; Chargé d'affaires in Dublin; Australia's first high commissioner to Ghana
 * Jeremy Kinross – NSW MLA (Lib) (1992–99)
 * Sir David Maughan – Barrister; President of the Law Council of Australia
 * John Frederick McDougall, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council (1860–1895)
 * Sandy McPhie – Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Toowoomba North (1983–1989) (Nat)
 * Leon Ashton Punch – Former NSW deputy premier and minister of the crown
 * Bernard Blomfield Riley – Barrister; Judge of the Federal Court of Bankruptcy; Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
 * John Randall Sharp – Former National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing Gilmore and Hume; Business Executive
 * The Hon. Keith Mason QC – former President of the NSW Court of Appeal
 * John Anderson – Former Australian Politician
 * Horace Berry – Former Australian Politician
 * Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor – Pastoralist and politician; Elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bathurst
 * Angus Taylor – Australian Shadow Treasurer
 * George Thorn – Premier of Queensland (1876–77), Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
 * John Lloyd Waddy, OBE, DFC (1916–1987) – a senior officer and aviator in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) who later served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and Minister of the Crown.
 * Sir Charles Gregory Wade KCMG – Premier of New South Wales (1907–1910); Judge (also attended All Saints College, Bathurst)
 * Bret William Walker SC – Barrister; Member of the NSW Health Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel; Former President of the NSW Bar Association; Former President of the Law Council of Australia
 * Sir William Charles Windeyer – Politician and judge
 * John Ewing – Former Australian Politician
 * John Gunther – Public servant
 * Hovenden Hely – Australian Explorer and politician
 * Jerome Laxale – Federal Member for Bennelong

Religion

 * Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick – Anglican bishop (also attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School)
 * Percival Stacy Waddy – Anglican clergyman; Cricketer; Headmaster of The King's School
 * Geoffrey Cranswick – Anglican Bishop
 * George Cranswick – Bishop

Royalty

 * Maha Vajiralongkorn – King of Thailand
 * Charles Cavendish – 7th Baron Chesham

Australian football

 * Ryan Davis

Athletics

 * Nicholas Hough – winner of 110m hurdles 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.

Basketball

 * Josh Green – NBA player for the Dallas Mavericks

Cricket

 * Baxter Holt – Current player for Sydney Thunder and New South Wales cricket team
 * Reg Bettington – Former Australian Cricketer

Soccer

 * Travis Cooper – Currently playing for GHFA Spirit FC

Rowing

 * John Ryrie – Australian men's eight 1912 Olympics
 * Robert Waley – cox of Australian men's eight 1912 Olympics
 * Robert Paver – dual Olympian, Australian men's eight 1972 and 1976 Olympics
 * Samuel Loch – dual Olympian, Australian men's eight 2008 and 2012 Olympics
 * Matt Ryan – Australian men's four 2008 Olympics (silver medalist) and men's eight 2012 Olympics
 * Nick Hudson – Australian quad scull, silver medallist 2008 World Championships
 * Cam Girdlestone – Olympic Medalist at 2016 Olympic Games
 * Andrew Cox – Former Australian Coxswain

Rugby league

 * Daniel Conn – Former Rugby League player for the Gold Coast Titans
 * Joseph Suaalii – Rugby League Player for the Sydney Roosters
 * Will Penisini – Rugby League Player for the Parramatta Eels

Rugby union

 * Ben Batger – ACT Brumbies
 * Will Caldwell – NSW Waratahs
 * Mitchell Chapman – Queensland Reds, NSW Waratahs and ACT Brumbies
 * Tim Davidson – Western Force, NSW Waratahs
 * Daniel Halangahu – NSW Waratahs
 * Ben Hand – NSW Waratahs
 * James Hilgendorf – Western Force
 * Julian Huxley – ACT Brumbies, Queensland Reds and Wallabies
 * Nicholas Phipps – Melbourne Rebels, New South Wales Waratahs and Wallabies
 * Stirling Mortlock – ACT Brumbies and Wallabies
 * Dean Mumm – NSW Waratahs and Wallabies
 * Benn Robinson – NSW Waratahs and Wallabies
 * Jon White – Wallabies (1958–1965).
 * Lalakai Foketi – NSW Waratahs and Wallabies
 * Dylan Pietsch – NSW Waratahs ,Australia A andAustralia National Rugby Sevens Team
 * Charlie Cale (rugby union)– ACT Brumbies
 * Tom Connor - Australia National Rugby Sevens Team
 * Archer Holz – NSW Waratahs
 * Fergus Lee-Warner – NSW Waratahs

Shooting

 * Glenn Kable – Fijian sport shooter, competitor in the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics in Men's Trap. World Cup winner 2001 Korea..

Tennis

 * Rinky Hijikata – Japanese-Australian tennis player, whose career high ATP singles ranking is World No. 82. (2013–2016).