List of Old Aquinians

Cabinet

• Sir Fred Chaney, Sr, AFC (1914–2001) – Minister for the Navy (1964–1966), Australian Senator for Western Australia (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
• Fred Chaney, Jr – Minister for Aboriginal Affairs 1978–1980, Minister for Social Security 1980–1983, Australian Senator for Western Australia[1]
• Peter Durack – Minister for Veterans Affairs 1976–77, Attorney-General 1977–1983, Australian Senator for Western Australia
• Sean L'Estrange Minister for Finance; Mines & Petroleum; Small Business; MLA for Churchlands
• Emil Nulsen (1885–1965) – Minister for Justice 1939–1947 MLA for Kanowna & 1953–1959 MLA for Eyre (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
• John Quigley – First McGowan Ministry, MLA for Mindarie
• Ben Wyatt – First McGowan Ministry, Victoria Park MLA

• Ignatius Boyle (1882–1960) – MLA for Avon (Christian Brothers College, Perth)

• John Chaney – President of the State Administrative Tribunal 2009–2014, Justice of the Supreme Court of WA
• Edward Arthur Dunphy – Justice of the Supreme Court of the ACT (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
• Eric Heenan – Justice of the Supreme Court of WA
• John Lavan (1911–2006) – Justice of the Supreme Court of WA (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
• Rene Le Miere – Justice of the Supreme Court of WA

• David Fenbury (1916–1976) – delegate to the secretariat of the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations, New York (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
• Sir Lancelot Goody (1908–1992) – sixth Archbishop of Perth and first Bishop of Bunbury, Western Australia (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
• Thomas William Meagher (1902–1979) – Lord Mayor of Perth (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
• Christopher Shanahan – senior counsel barrister, acting commissioner of the Corruption and Crime Commission in Western Australia
• Judah Waten (1911–1985) – political activist, writer & publisher (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
• Cedric Wyatt – Aboriginal rights activist

• Michael Chaney – Chancellor, University of Western Australia[1]

• Richard Alan Fox – medical physician

AFL

• Ben Allan – Hawthorn premiership player and Fremantle inaugural captain
• Liam Baker – Richmond dual premiership player
• Peter Bell – North Melbourne dual premiership player and Fremantle captain
• Simon Black – Brisbane Lions triple premiership player, Brownlow Medal winner 2002
• Jarrod Cameron – West Coast Eagles
• Patrick Cripps – Carlton captain
• Paul Duffield – Fremantle
• Nat Fyfe – Fremantle captain, Brownlow Medal winner 2015 and 2019
• Robert Haddrill – Fremantle
• Daniel Kerr – West Coast Eagles premiership player
• Quinten Lynch – West Coast Eagles premiership player, Collingwood
• Logan McDonald – Sydney Swans
• Jamie Merillo – Fremantle
• Stephen O'Reilly – Geelong, Fremantle and Carlton
• Deven Robertson – Brisbane Lions
• Jeremy Sharp – Gold Coast Suns
• Alan Toovey – Collingwood premiership player
• Chad Warner – Sydney Swans
• Elliot Yeo – Brisbane Lions, West Coast Eagles

Others, Australian rules football

VFL

• Gerry Bahen (1929–2012) – North Melbourne
• Ross Ditchburn – Carlton premiership player
• Peter Spencer – North Melbourne, also WA state representative and dual Sandover Medal 1976 & 1984 – Western Australian Football Hall of Fame 2007

WAFL

• John Bridgwood – Claremont, WA state representative
• David Crawford – Claremont premiership player and WA state representative
• David Gault – South Fremantle premiership captain
• Percy Johnson – East Fremantle premiership player, Swan Districts captain coach, and Claremont, WA state representative and Channel 7 football critic – Western Australian Football Hall of Fame 2010
• Simon McPhee – Claremont premiership coach
• Terry Moriarty – Perth, Sandover Medal 1943 – Western Australian Football Hall of Fame 2010 (also attended St Patrick's Boys School)
• Murray Ward – Claremont, also coached Aquinas to 13 consecutive PSA premierships
• Frank Walker – Perth, WA state representative

• Bradley Ness – wheelchair basketball Sydney Paralympics 2000, Athens Paralympics 2004 silver medal Australia, Beijing gold medal Australia and captain, London Paralympics 2012 silver medal Australia[1]

Australian Test cricketers

• Terry Alderman
• Cameron Bancroft
• Ernest Bromley (1912–1967) – first Western Australian Test cricketer (Christian Brothers College, Perth)
• Brad Hogg
• Justin Langer[1]

Others, cricket

• Nathan Coulter-Nile – first-class cricket Western Warriors, and Twenty20 Australia, Perth Scorchers, Mumbai Indians
• Alex Hepburn – first-class Worcestershire County Cricket Club, convicted rapist[3]
• Tom Outridge, Jr – first-class Western Australia
• Kevin Prindiville – first-class Western Australia
• Terry Prindiville – first-class & list-A Western Australia
• Sean Terry – first-class Hampshire
• Darren Wates – first-class & list-A Western Warriors

Ben O'Connor – Team Dimension Data, 1st Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic 2016

Athletics

• Herb Elliott, AC – Rome 1960 gold medal 1500m Australia (also attended CBC Perth, now Trinity College, Perth)

Hockey

• David Bell – Montreal 1976 silver medal Australia – Western Australia Hockey Hall of Fame[4][1]
• Don Martin – Tokyo 1964 bronze medal Australia, Mexico 1968 silver medal Australia

Volleyball

• Luke Smith – London 2012

Water polo

• Tim Neesham – Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, & Beijing 2008
• Tom Hoad – Rome 1960; Australian captain Tokyo 1964, Mexico 1968, & Munich 1972; Australian water polo coach Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984 & Seoul 1988[1]

• Ross Brown – world championships: 2007 men's light coxless pair, bronze medal Australia; 2010 men's lightweight eight, silver medal Australia
• Nick Garratt – Beijing 2008 coach of Australian women's sculling team[1]
• David McGowan – junior world champion 1999, Athens 2004 men's coxless four
• Stuart Reside – Sydney 2000 quadruple men's scull, Athens 2004 bronze medal men's eight Australia
• Alexander Cunningham (Max) – W.A Kings Cup Rowing 8 Winning crew Launceston 1960 Australian Olympic 8 Oarsman Rome 1960

• Kyle Godwin – Western Force
• Zack Holmes – ACT Brumbies