Amongst the College's very many residents who have gone on to become successful have been some who have been more well known such as Gordon Childe the renowned prehistorian, Raymond Dart who discovered the hominid Taung child and hence the genus Australopithecus,
John Bradfield the engineer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge after whom the Bradfield Highway is named, Professor Samuel Angus the almost heretic and the Reverend Dr Peter Cameron the convicted one, H V Evatt the youngest ever High Court Justice and a President of the United Nations Assembly, the poet A D Hope, Mungo MacCallum the writer, in Rugby the renowned Wallaby captains John Solomon and Nick Farr Jones, Wallabies Phil Waugh, Myer Rosenblum, Dick Tooth, Saxon White and Scott Gourley who played both for the Wallabies and the Kangaroos. David Carter the swimmer was recently in College as was Dr Chris Brown the TV Vet. The cosmologists Michael Drinkwater (the discoverer of the ultra-compact dwarf galaxy) and Matthew Colless were students. Engineer and philanthropist Thyne Reid of Hardie Industries was a student and a most generous supporter of College all his days and his family have remained and still are closely connected with the College. John Crane of Crane Industries, the Fairfax family, the Blaxland family are or have been all great supporters of College.
