Cartwright is a suburb in south-western Sydney which is located 38 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district.
Cartwright was only formally declared a suburb in 1972 and was finally developed as part of the Green Valley Housing Estate in the 1960s. The area is named after Robert Cartwright – the reverend of St Luke’s church in Liverpool who received a land grant in the local area. Cartwright Public school was officially opened in 1967.