List of Old Girls of PLC Sydney
This is a List of Old Girls of PLC Sydney, they being notable alumni - known as "P.L.C Old Girls" of the Presbyterian Church school, The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, New South Wales, Australia.
In 2001, The Sun-Herald ranked the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney fourth in Australia's top ten girls' schools, based on the number of its alumni mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia.
Academic
- Catherin Bull - Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne; Author; Former Commissioner of the Land and Environment Court
- Judith Anne Hancock AM - Educational Consultant; Executive Director of Education, Anglican Diocese of Brisbane; Chairman of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools ; Principal of Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Deputy Principal of P.L.C Sydney
- Silma Ihram - Pioneer of Islamic education; Founder of Noor Al Houda Islamic College and Al Noori Primary School; Democrats candidate for Auburn; Author; Secretary-General of the Australian Council for Islamic Education
- Eunice Macindoe - Educator; Former Principal of P.L.C Sydney and the Women's College at the University of Queensland
- Professor Elizabeth Webby AM - Author; Chair of Australian Literature, School of English at the University of Sydney; Recipient Centenary Medal 2001, AA Phillips Award for the Study of Australian literature 2003
Business
- Lyndall Bailye - Founding Partner of Dendrite International Inc; Secretary of the New Jersey Network Foundation Board of Trustees; Member of the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival Board of Trustees
Community and philanthropy
- Millicent Baxter - New Zealand pacifist and peace activist.
- Mary, Lady Fairfax AC, AM, OBE, FAICD - Mother of Warwick Fairfax; Philanthropist; Chairman, Founder and President of Friends of the Australian Ballet
- Madelyn Kelman AM - Chairman of the Queensland Country Women's Association; Member of the Rural Health Advisory Council; Awarded AM for service to Queensland CWA and the community of Emerald
- Samantha Gall - teacher, counsellor. Awarded the National Excellence in Teaching Awards QLD, 2002; Pride of Australia Medal QLD
Entertainment, media and the arts
- Rachel Corbett - contestant on Big Brother Australia series one, former radio presenter for Triple M Melbourne
- Olive Crane - sketcher and illustrator
- Jennifer Ephraim - botanical artist; winner of the Royal Horticultural Society's Grenfell Medal
- Gladys Harding Froggatt - author of the World of little lives and More about the world of little lives ; Daughter of Walter Wilson Froggatt
- Fairlie Hamilton - radio presenter for the WIN Corporation's i98FM ; 2007 ACRA Nominee
- Fenella Kernebone - radio presenter for Triple J
- Johanna Pigott - musician, song and television writer, co-writer of the Australian children's television series, Mortified, co-writer of the John Farnham song Age of Reason
- Alex Pye ; visual artist and radio presenter for FBi Radio
- Edith Podesta - actress, director, choreographer
- Margaret Pomeranz AM - film critic, former host of SBS's The Movie Show, host of ABC TV's At the Movies
- Chrissie Rose - actress, former presenter on the Seven Network's Girl TV
- Sue Smith - model, television and radio journalist, first female reporter on the Nine Network's A Current Affair, and Logie Award winner
- Leilah Waddell - violinist, music teacher and occultist.
- Angela Webber - broadcaster, author, comedian and television writer, creator/co-writer of the Australian television series, Mortified and Blue Water High
- Angelina Sondakh :id:Angelina Sondakh - actress, politician, ex-Miss Indonesia 2001, also attended Armidale Public School, Armidale
- Carol Bryson Taylor Daniels - artist, also attended Orange Boarding school 1942
Medicine and science
- Jessie Strahorn Aspinall - first female junior resident medical officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- Dr Kathleen Cuningham - pioneer of breast cancer treatment in Australia
- Sue Denison OAM - one of the first two Nurse Practitioners in Australia; Awarded an OAM for services to Nursing and the Nundle district
- Professor Susan Dorsch - Emeritus professor; pioneer of transplantation immunology. First woman appointed to a Professorship in the faculty of Medicine. Pro-Vice Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sydney
- Marie Montgomerie Hamilton - pioneering pathologist; Hockey player
Military
- Katherine-Anne Stewart - first female Commanding Officer of the 7th Signal Regiment; One of only three women COs in the Australian Army
Politics, public service and the law
- Helen Bauer - Director General of Industrial Relations and Director General of Community Services
- Marie Byles - first practicing female solicitor in NSW, Mountaineer, Explorer, Author and Feminist
- Louise McBride - barrister, Ground Floor Wentworth Chambers; Former Director of Grant Samuel and Partner at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Clayton Utz; Daughter of Dr. William McBride
- Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison - admitted to the NSW bar in 1924, first female practising Barrister in NSW; Wife of architect, Carlyle Greenwell
- Kerry Nettle - former Australian Greens Senator for New South Wales
- Hon. Justice Carolyn Chalmers Simpson - Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- Rosemary Edna Sinclair AO - Australian Government appointed Delegate to the United Nations Special Session on Children 2002; Miss Australia 1960
Sport
- Kate Bates - Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist and current Cycling World Points Race Champion
- Natasha Bowron - swimmer; FINA Short Course World Championship and World Championships gold medallist
- Nanette Duncan - Olympic swimmer
- Jennifer Emerson - rowing world championship gold medallist
- Elizabeth Fraser - Olympic medallist
- Emma Johnson - Olympic medallist
- Nicole Kriz - professional tennis player
- Nicole Ng - Australian diver
- Julia Veness-Collins - national and world championship rower
- Meg Wade - equestrian endurance champion and the first person to win the 100 mile Tom Quilty Gold Cup four times.
- Annabelle Williams - Commonwealth Games Medallist ; Current world-record holder of the EAD 100m freestyle
- Karen Brancourt - Australian rower, Olympic Games Bronze medallist 1984