This is a list of Perth Modernians, the notable alumni of Perth Modern School, an academically-selective co-educational public high school located in Subiaco, an inner city suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Perth Modern School alumni have received more top Order of Australia honours than the alumni of any other school in Western Australia.
Heads of state
Viceroys
Sir Phillip Bennett, AC – Governor of Tasmania
Sir Paul Hasluck (1909–1993) – 17th Governor-General of Australia
Malcolm McCusker, AC – 31st Governor of Western Australia
Ken Michael, AC – 30th Governor of Western Australia
Sir Albert Wolff (1899–1977) – Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia
Government
Heads of government
Bob Hawke (1929–2019), AC – 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
Alexander Donald Taylor – Deputy Premier of Western Australia & Tonkin Ministry 1971–1974, Western Australia
Executive branch
Cabinet
Kim Edward Beazley (1917–2007) – Minister for Education 1972–1975, Australia
Joe Berinson – Burke Ministry 1983–1986, Dowding Ministry 1986–1990 & Lawrence Ministry 1991–1993, Western Australia Ron Davies (1926–2011) – Tonkin Ministry 1971–1974 & Burke Ministry 1983–1986, Western Australia Julian Grill – Burke Ministry 1983–1986 & Dowding Ministry 1986–1990, Western Australia Sir Paul Hasluck (1905–1993) – Minister for Home Affairs 1951–1963, Minister for Defence 1963–1964, Minister for Foreign Affairs 1964–1969, Australia Judyth Watson – Lawrence Ministry 1991–1993, Western Australia Daryl Williams – Attorney-General of Australia 1996–2003, Minister for Justice 1996–1997, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 2003–2004, Australia Ray Young (1938–2001) – Court Ministry 1977–1982, O'Connor Ministry 1982–1983, Western Australia
Other executives
Wilson Tuckey – Second Howard Ministry and Third Howard Ministry, Australia
John Wheeldon (1929–2006) – Australian Senator for Western Australia, Third Whitlam Ministry, Australia
Legislative branch
Adair Macalistar Blain (1894–1983) – Australian Senator for Northern Territory
Richard Cleaver (1917–2006) – MHR, Australia
Howard Olney – MLC, Western Australia
John Stone – Australian Senator for Queensland
Peter Watson – MLA, Western Australia
Laurie Wilkinson (1903–1991) – Australian Senator for Western Australia
Judicial branch
Presiding judges
Alan Barblett (1929–2013) – Deputy Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia Kevin Parker – Vice-President of the International Criminal Tribunal, Presiding Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Trial Chamber II, Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia Sir Albert Wolff (1899–1977) – Chief Justice of Western Australia
Judges, superior courts
Theodore Bredmeyer – Master of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
Gordon D'Arcy (1902–1969) – Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
Geoffrey Miller – Justice of the Court of Appeal Western Australia, Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia Roy Neville (1904–1970) – Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia Howard Olney – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, Justice of the Supreme Court of WA, Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the NT David Tonge (1933–2008) – Justice of the Family Court of Australia
Military
Chiefs of services
Sir Phillip Bennett, AC, DSO, KBE, LOM – General, first Chief of the Australian Defence Force David Leach (1928–2020), AC – Vice-Admiral, Chief of the Royal Australian Navy Sheila McClemans, OBE (1909–1988) – Chief Officer of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service Laurie O'Donnell, AC – Lieutenant General, Chief of the Australian Army
Air, flag, and general officers
Alfred Baxter-Cox (1898–1958) – Brigadier, Australian Army
Ron Grey, DSO – Major General, Australian Army
Charles Lloyd (1899–1956) – Major General, Australian Army, Chief of Staff during the Siege of Tobruk, Chief of Mission for the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency 1951–1953 Charles Norman Peters, OBE, (1907–?) – Brigadier, Australian Army Allan Walters, CBE, AFC (1905–1968) – Air Vice Marshall, Royal Australian Air Force, Head of the Australian Joint Services Staff in Washington DC 1952–1953