List of University of Adelaide people

This is a list of notable alumni and staff associated with the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

• William Lawrence Bragg, BS 1908 – physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his father (William Henry Bragg, a member of the faculty of the University of Adelaide) "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
• Howard Florey, MB and BS 1921 –pharmacologist , Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine,1945) "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
• Robin Warren, MBBS 1961–pathologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2005), for the "discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"

Business

• Tim Cooper – Managing Director of Coopers Brewery
• Jane Francis, former research Associate – geologist, received the Polar Medal (2002)
• Simon Hackett – Managing Director of Internode (ISP)
• Thorburn Brailsford Robertson – pioneered insulin manufacture in Australia
• Jerry Rossi – chartered accountant and founder of BCFR Chartered Accountants
• Datuk Yong Poh Kon – Managing Director of Royal Selangor
• Neil Weste – microelectronics engineer and entrepreneur

Governnment

Presidents and Prime Ministers

• Ong Teng Cheong BA Architecture 1962 – 5th President of Singapore (September 1993- September 1999)
• Julia Gillard (attended 1979 to 1982, transferred to the University of Melbourne) – the 27th, and first female, Prime Minister of Australia
• Tony Tan Keng Yam, PhD – Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1995-2005) ; 7th President of Singapore (August 2011-current).

Premiers and governors

• John Bannon, BA, LLB – academic, politician and Premier of South Australia
• Julie Bishop, LLB 1979 – member of the Australian House of Representatives and Deputy Leader of the Opposition, held numerous ministerial positions in the John Howard administration(Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Minister for the Status of Women, and Minister for Education, Science and Training)
• Don Dunstan, BA – lawyer, politician and Premier of South Australia
• Shane Stone Minister and Chief Minister of the Northern Territory , Federal President of the Liberal Party
• Abdul Taib Mahmud, LLB 1960– Chief Minister of Sarawak
• David Tonkin – politician, Premier of South Australia
• Raymond Lim - politician, Minister for Transport and the Second Minister for Foreign Affairs, Singapore. Previously held positions include Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Minister of State for Trade & Industry, Minister of State in charge of entrepreneurship, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.

Justices

• Dean Mildren – judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
• Robin Millhouse – lawyer, politician, Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru

Executive council

• Robert Hill – Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, 49th Australian Defence Minister , former Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations , former member of the Senate of Australia , former Minister for the Environment in the John Howard administration
• Roger Lough – Australian Chief Defence Scientist
• Dato' Sri Adenan bin Satem – Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (Malaysia)
• Nagendra Kumar Singh, PhD– National Professor, Dr. B.P.Pal Chair, Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Diplomats

• Sim Cheok Lim – Singapore's Ambassador (Non-Resident) to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
• Maurice de Rohan – South Australian Agent General

Legislators

• Nick Bolkus – member of the Australian Senate
• Vickie Chapman, Law 1979 – member of the Parliament of South Australia
• Natasha Stott Despoja, BA – senator, member of the Parliament of Australia
• Chloe Fox – member of the South Australian House of Assembly
• Pru Goward, BA Economics 1974 – member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
• Annette Hurley, BS – member of the Australian Senate
• Linda Kirk, BA Economics and BA Law– member of the Australian Senate
• Christopher Pyne, LLB– member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Lockwood Smith, PhD – Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
• Jack Snelling – member of the South Australian House of Assembly
• Andrew Southcott – member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Amanda Vanstone, BA and LLB – member of the Australian Senate , former Ambassador to Italy
• David Vigor, BA– member of the Australian Senate
• Penny Wong, BA Laws and Arts 1993 – member of the Australian Senate , first Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency

Other

• Lynton Crosby – campaign strategist and Liberal Party official

Literature

• Georgia Blain – author
• James Bradley – author
• John Jefferson Bray – poet and jurist
• David Chalmers – philosopher and Federation Fellow (2004)
• Geoffrey Dutton – author and historian
• Max Harris – poet and publisher
• Darren Porter – author, poet, social commentator
• Nick Spyropolous – Australian-Greek philosopher
• Colin Thiele – writer
• Margaret Somerville – ethicist
• Morgan Randall – egyptologist
• Sean Williams – Science Fiction author

Science and mathematics

• Keith Briggs – mathematician
• Helen Caldicott – MD 1961, physician and anti-nuclear advocate
• Herbert Thomas Condon – ornithologist
• Basil Hetzel – authority on iodine deficiency
• Rodney Jory – BS, physicist
• Aubrey Lewis – BS, MB – first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry
• Helen Mayo – pioneer in women's and children's health
• Anton Middelberg – chemical engineer, Federation Fellow (2003)
• Brian Morris – molecular biologist
• Keith Nugent – BS, physicist, Federation Fellow (2001)
• Mark Oliphant – nuclear physicist
• Ian Plimer – professor and global warming critic
• Hugh Possingham – mathematical ecologist, Rhodes scholar and Federation Fellow (2006)
• Mark Sparnon – engineer and Chief of Design of the Airbus A380
• Andy Thomas – the first Australian in space
• Cecil Edgar Tilley – petrologist and geologist

Music

• Julian Cochran – composer
• Graham Jenkin – poet, composer and historian
• Graham Koehne – composer
• Stephen Whittington – composer, pianist and writer on music

Performing arts

• Francis Greenslade – comedian
• Dichen Lachman – actress (portrayed Sierra on Dollhouse)
• Shaun Micallef – comedian

Sports

• Leonidas Bott (1889–1969), Australian cricketer
• David Fitzsimons – athlete, middle distance runner, winner of eith Australian Athletics Championships
• Darren Ng - professional basketball player for the Adelaide 36ers (2002-07, 2009-). Also a resident doctor at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Other

• David Penberthy – editor-in-chief of the Australian The Daily Telegraph

Notable staff

Nobel laureates

• Sir William Bragg – physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his son William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
• J.M. Coetzee – retired to Adelaide and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Discipline of English, an acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel laureate (Literature, 2003)

Business

• Barry Burgan – head of the business school and economist

Law

• Leo Blair (senior) – the father of British Prime Minister Tony Blair – was a law lecturer at the University of Adelaide while Tony was a child.

Science

Geologists

• William Noel Benson – geologist
• Cecil Madigan – geologist
• Sir Douglas Mawson – Antarctic explorer and geologist
• Ian Plimer – Geologist and noted global warming critic
• Ralph Tate – botanist and geologist
• Richard Hillis Geoscientist

Mathematicians

• Keith Briggs – mathematician, was formerly on the staff of the Physics Department
• Gavin Brown – mathematician
• Charles E. M. Pearce – applied mathematician
• Renfrey Potts – Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematics
• George Szekeres – mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem
• Ernie Tuck – applied mathematician
• Mathai Varghese – pure mathematician

Physicists

• Derek Abbott – physicist and engineer, pioneered the first terahertz (T-ray) program in Australia and led the early development of a branch of game theory known as Parrondo's paradox.
• Rod Crewther – physicist, was a PhD student of the Nobel prize winner Murray Gell-Mann
• Bert Green was a PhD student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born and Green is the "G" in "BBGKY."
• Tanya Monro – physicist and Federation Fellow (2008)
• Albert Percival Rowe – Vice-Chancellor, physicist and previously Radar pioneer in Britain

Other

• Barry Brook (scientist) – climate scientist and advocate of nuclear power
• Alan Cooper – ancient DNA expert and Federation Fellow (2004)
• Paul Davies – Professor of Natural Philosophy, Templeton Prize winner (1995)
• Tim Flannery – paleontologist, Australian of the Year
• Fay Gale – Adelaide's First Honours Geography graduate, first woman President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, President, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 1998-2000, Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia 1990-1997
• Frederic Wood Jones – naturalist
• Peter Sutton – anthropologist
• Mark Tester – botanist and Federation Fellow (2004)
• Mike Tyler – Ig Nobel Prize winner (2005)
• Sir Joseph Cooke Verco – physician and conchologist

Humanities

• Tristram Cary – composer of the Dalek theme tune for Doctor Who
• Brian Castro – novelist
• Robert Champion de Crespigny – industrialist
• Graeme Hugo – demographer and Federation Fellow (2002)
• Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher
• Gavan McCormack – orientalist
• Sir Leslie Melville – inaugural Professor of Economics at age 27; later Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
• Sir William Mitchell – philosopher
• George Rudé – Marxist historian
• J. J. C. Smart – philosopher
• Andrew Taylor – poet
• Ghil'ad Zuckermann – linguist