The Marist Alumni Project identifies and celebrates the contribution Marist educated men and women have made to our nation. This project aligns itself with Marcellin Champagnat’s call to all of us, particularly in the education of the young, to ‘form good Christians and virtuous citizens.’
The main outcome of this project is the creation of an Anthology of Outstanding Australian Marist Alumni. The Anthology is a way of recognising those alumni who have made a significant and outstanding contribution to Australian life. All our schools and organisations unquestionably have many, many ex-students who have gone on to became highly productive, influential and honourable citizens of this country. The intent of the Marist Alumni Project is to capture some of those who have truly made their mark on Australian society.
Marist schools are invited to provide further nominations to the Marist Alumni: submit nominees via the online form.
For inquiries related to the Marist Alumni, please email: alumniproject@marists.org.au.
St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill
A strong, no nonsense prop who played seven tests for the Wallabies between 1970-1974.
Additionally served as technical coach for the Wallabies in retirement.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
St Joseph’s Hunters Hill 1916.
With the advent of World War I, waited eight years before representing Australia in athletics at the 1924 Olympics.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Marist College Ashgrove 1953-1961.
Made Rugby test debut in 1964. Played in the centres against the All blacks in both tests in 1964.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Marist College Ashgrove 1955-1964.
A rugby centre with outstanding ability, playing in nine tests over four years.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Marist College Canberra 1983-1990.
Member of the Australian Judo team at the 2000 Olympics, and coach at the 2012 Olympics.
Won the Gold Medal in the Men’s -73kg division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Has been Australian Champion nine times.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Marist College Canberra 1980-1988.
Represented Australia in Judo at numerous international competitions, including the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2000 Olympics.
Has been the Australian Champion five times.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Marist College Ashgrove 1983-1990.
Talented rugby union player, earned first selection to the Queensland side in 1993.
Debuted for the Wallabies in 1994, playing a total of 67 caps.
Named in the Team of the World Cup in 1999.
Awarded the coveted L’equipe International Player of the Year in 1999.
Promoted to the role of Captain of the Queensland Reds and Vice Captain of the Australian side in 2001.
During international career, was part of numerous victories including the World Cup, a British Lions Series, a Rugby Championship and five consecutive Bledisloe Cups.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Marist College Ashgrove 1974 - 1983.
Selected to the Australian Schoolboys Rugby team in 1982 and 1983.
Represented Australia in ten tests before switching to Rugby League, playing for the South Queensland Crushers.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
St Francis Xavier's College Hamilton
As a sprinter, successfully represented Australia at international competition, including Silver Medals at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and 1995 World Championships - both in the 4 x 100m relay.
Additionally competed in the 1996 Olympics.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill 1952.
A prodigious Rugby Union player, representing Australia in two-tests in 1954. Successive injuries prompted an early retirement from sport.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill 1957.
A top class flanker (Rugby union) who played 90 club games for Randwick from 1958-1964.
Made 11 appearance for NSW.
Played for Australia on 33 occasions, 10 of which were capped.
Switched to Rugby League in 1965, signing with the Parramatta Eels.
Source: Marist College Canberra 1998: Celebrating 125 Years of Sporting Achievement Australia 1872-1997.
Marcellin College Bullen 1950-1958.
Chair of Genazzano College Council for 10 years.
Chair of MacKillop Board for 10 years.
Legal Advisor to the Catholic Primary and Secondary Teachers’ Association.
Chairman Kooyong Electorate Council (Liberal Party).
Married to Catherine for 53 years, with 5 children and 14 grandchildren.
Marcellin College Bulleen 1958-1967.
Joined the Australian Army in 1970, serving in the Vietnam War.
Active member of the community and contributor to programs such as Habitat for Humanity.
Sacred Heart College Adelaide 1983-1985.
Gained a BA from the The University of Adelaide (1989), a MA from the University of Lancaster, UK (1992), and a PhD from the University of London (1995).
Professor of Sociology at The London School of Economics and Political Science and Internationally renowned figure in urban and economic sociology.
Research interests include urban inequalities, spatial divisions and public space, cities and social theory, urban development and design.
Currently the managing editor of the international journal Economy and Society; previously an editor of the British Journal of Sociology.
Publications in these fields include Cities by Design: the social life of urban form (Polity, 2013), Space, the City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality (Routledge, 2006).
Co-author of Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2001, with Don Slater), and co-editor of Trust and Civil Society (Macmillan, 2000, with Andrew Passey).
Marist Brothers Dundas 1975-1980 & Marist College Eastwood 1981-1982.
Australian Ambassador to Poland, the Czech Republic and Lithuania, resident in Warsaw since 2019.
Previously posted overseas in Baghdad,The Hague and Geneva, and served with the Truce Monitoring Group on Bougainville in 1998.
Lloyd was Vice Captain in his final year at Marist Brothers Eastwood.
Marist College Eastwood 1970-1976.
Joined the Society of the Divine Word in 1984. Took final vows in 1990 and ordained a priest in 1991.
Worked 6 years in Mexico City in a densely crowded barrio principally in parish ministry. Ministry with drug gangs, marriage encounters and lay ministers of the Word.
Diploma in Spiritual Direction, Hear of Life, Melbourne (1997).
SVD Provincial of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand (2005 - 2013).
Director of SVD sabbatical courses, Nemi Italy (2014 - 2021).
Appointed Auxiliary Bishop for Brisbance (2021)
Parramatta Marist High School 1949-1954.
Captained the 1956 Olympic Swimming Squad at the Melbourne Olympics, winning gold in the 200m freestyle relay and silver in the 100m freestyle.
Captained the 1960 Olympics Swimming Squad at the Rome Olympics, winning gold in the 100m freestyle, breaking the world record which he held for over 4 years.
Worked as a member of the Australian Olympic Committee.
Inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1979.
Made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1989.
Received the Australian Sports Medal in 2000.
Parramatta Marist High School 1949-1955.
Established the Gastroenterology Research Unit at the University of Western Australia and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.
Recipient of the Most Outstanding Paediatrician in Asia in 1997.
Became the first Australian to be made the President of the International Paediatric Association (IPA) in 1988
Worked extensively with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Received the Medal of Honour of the IPA and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2001.
Had a private audience with the 14th Dalai Lama.
Parramatta Marist High School 1950-1955.
Bachelor of Arts and Law (first class honours) followed by a Masters in Law from Harvard Law School.
Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1981 followed by an appointment to the Federal Court as Justice in 1994 where he served on the bench for 15 years.
Parramatta Marist High School 1981-1988.
Announced as CEO of St Vincent’s Health Network Sydney in 2014.
Adjunct Professor in Health Sciences at Australian Catholic University and Adjunct Professor in Medicine at University of Notre Dame Australia. Also a Conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney.
Sits on numerous health and Medical Research Boards.
Named as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2019 for significant service to medical research and hospital administration.