List of University of Western Australia people

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This is a list of University of Western Australia people, including its notable alumni and staff:

[edit] Notable alumni

Kim Edward Beazley, former Whitlam Cabinet minister
Kim Beazley, former Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Prime Minister
Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Australia
Alan Carpenter, former Premier of Western Australia
Richard Court, former Premier of Western Australia
Geoff Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia
Peter Durack, former Federal Attorney General
Peter Dowding, former Premier of Western Australia
Sir Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia
Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia
Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of Western Australia, Federal Minister and President of the Australian Labor Party
Donton Samuel Mkandawire, former MP for Mzimba District, Malawi and Minister of Education for Malawi.
Billy Snedden, former Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
Daryl Williams, former Federal Attorney General
Yeo Cheow Tong, former Minister of Transport in Singapore
Stephen Smith, current Australian Minister for Defence
Narongchai Akrasanee, a former Minister of Commerce and a Senator with the Thai Government
Associate Professor Samakoses, a former Deputy Minister of Education with the Thai Government
Boediono, the Vice President of Indonesia

Michael Chaney, former chief executive officer of Wesfarmers, and the current chancellor of UWA
Janet Holmes à Court, businesswoman
Robert Holmes à Court, former entrepreneur
Sir Rod Eddington, former chief executive officer of British Airways
John A. Hay, current vice-chancellor of University of Queensland
Ken Michael, Governor of Western Australia and former Chancellor of UWA
Tan Sri Hamdan Mohamad, current Executive Director and President of Ranhill Berhad
Andrew Roberts, former chief executive Officer of Multiplex

Ameer Ali, former president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
Herbert Cole Coombs, The first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
Margaret Feilman, architect and town planner
Allan Fels, former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Ralph Townsend, headmaster of Winchester College
David Irvine, Director-General of Security, former Director-General of Australian Secret Intelligence Service, former Australian High Commissioner to PNG and Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.

Hugo Rietveld, Ph.D. Physics(1964), crystallographer, inventor of the Rietveld Method
Michelle Harvey, forensic entomologist
Barry Marshall, physician. 2005 Nobel Prize laureate
Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist. 2003 Australian of the Year
Kenneth Richard Norris, entomologist
Robin Warren, UWA Emeritus Professor. Nobel Prize laureate
Fiona Wood, UWA Professor of Medicine. 2005 Australian of the Year
Dr Eric John Underwood graduated UWA in 1928 B.Sci.Ag – Dean of faculty, Agriculture 1946 to 1970
Niall McLaren, psychiatrist and philosopher, author of Humanizing Madness and Humanizing Psychiatry.

Geoffrey Bolton, historian
Frederick Alexander, historian
Greg Egan, writer
Dorothy Hewett, writer
Barry Hickey, Catholic Archbishop of Perth
John Kinsella, writer
Randolph Stow, writer
John Andrew La Nauze, the first Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University in 1978
Rolf Harris, performer and artist
Sally Morgan, writer and artist
Shaun Tan, artist and writer
Niall Lucy, Australian writer and scholar, best known for his work on Jacques Derrida and deconstruction.