List of University of Melbourne people
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This is an incomplete list of University of Melbourne people, including alumni and staff.
[edit] Governors General of Australia
- Richard Casey, Baron Casey
- Sir Zelman Cowen
- Peter Hollingworth
- Sir Isaac Isaacs, also a previous Chief Justice of Australia
- Sir Ninian Stephen
[edit] Governors of Victoria
- Sir Henry Winneke , also a previous Chief Justice of Victoria
- Richard McGarvie
- Sir James Gobbo
- John Landy
- Professor David de Kretser
- Alex Chernov (Incumbent)
[edit] Politicians
[edit] Prime Ministers of Australia
[edit] Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
[edit] Premiers of Victoria
- Ted Baillieu
- John Brumby
- John Cain II
- Rupert Hamer
- Sir William Irvine
- Joan Kirner
- William Shiels
- Lindsay Thompson
- Ian MacFarlan
[edit] Other prominent politicians
- Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Lyn Allison, current leader of Australian Democrats party
- Bruce Baird, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- William Macmahon Ball, diplomat
- Anna Burke, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- John Alexander Forrest
- Petro Georgiou, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- H.B. Higgins, former Attorney-General of Australia and Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Tim Holding- Former Victorian Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Victorian Minister for Corrections
- Robert Wilfred Holt - Minister for Lands in the Cain government 1952-54
- Greg Hunt, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Dr. Dennis Jensen, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- David Kemp- Former Howard government Cabinet Minister
- John Langmore, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- William Maloney, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Peter McGauran, federal government minister
- Dato' Mustapa Mohamed, Current Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister
- Andrew Peacock former Australian Foreign Minister and Treasurer
- Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister
- Nicola Roxon Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Health Minister
- Shane Stone former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, Minister and Chief Minister of the NT; former Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia
- Ralph Willis, Former Federal Treasurer of Australia and Member of the Australian House of Representatives
[edit] Lord Mayor of Melbourne
[edit] First Lady
- Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor
[edit] Prominent Members of the Military
- Sir Samuel Burston, Army doctor and World War II general.
- Rupert Downes, Army doctor and World War II general.
- Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, Army doctor and Humanitarian.
- Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, politician and World War I general.
- Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, Army doctor.
- Sir Edmund Herring, World War II general.
- Sir James Whiteside McCay, politician and World War I general.
- Sir John Monash, famed World War I general.
- Sir Kingsley Norris, Army doctor and Major General.
- Brigadier General William Grant CMG, World War I General
- Lieutenant B. H. Ong, 3rd Combined Arms Division, Singapore Armed Forces, 1983–present
[edit] Legal profession
- Philip Lewis Griffiths, jurist
[edit] Chief Justices of Australia
- Sir Owen Dixon
- Sir Frank Gavan Duffy
- Sir Isaac Isaacs
- Sir John Latham
[edit] Justices of High Court of Australia
- Sir Keith Aickin
- Susan Crennan
- Sir Daryl Dawson
- Sir Owen Dixon
- Sir Wilfred Fullagar
- Sir Frank Gavan Duffy
- Kenneth Hayne
- H.B. Higgins
- Sir Isaac Isaacs
- Sir Douglas Menzies
- Sir Ninian Stephen
[edit] Chief Justice of Federal Court of Australia
[edit] Chief Justice of Family Court of Australia
[edit] Chief Justices of Victoria
- Sir John Madden
- Sir William Irvine
- Sir Frederick Mann
- Sir Edmund Herring
- Sir Henry Winneke
- John Harber Phillips
[edit] Presidents of Victorian Court of Appeal
[edit] Corporate Figures
- Robert Champion de Crespigny
- John Elliott
- Aubrey Gibson
- Sir John Holland
- Sir Brian Inglis
- Margaret Jackson
- Ananda Krishnan
- Richard Pratt
- Leigh Clifford
[edit] Academic
- Michael Clyne, linguist
- Greg Craven Vice Chancellor of Australian Catholic University
- Audrey D'Souza Juma Director of the Notre Dame Institute of EducationKarachi, Pakistan
- Germaine Greer, Feminist
- Bella Guerin, educator and activist; first female University graduate in Australia
- Peter Karmel, former vice-chancellor of Australian National University and Flinders University
- Arthur Lucas, Principal of King's College London (1993–2003)
- Peter McPhee, Provost of the University of Melbourne
- Fulvio Melia, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Arizona and associate editor of the Astrophysical Journal
- Bruce Mitchell, Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- David S. Oderberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading
- Michael Roe, historian
- David Shallcross, chemical engineer
- James Simpson, Harvard University Professor
- Sally Walker, vice-chancellor of Deakin University
- Christina Cregan, Professor of Management
- Tim Lewis, Scholar
[edit] Scientists
[edit] Physicists
[edit] Geologists
- Sir Albert Ernest Kitson, winner of the 1927 Lyell Medal
[edit] Mathematicians
[edit] Engineers
[edit] Doctors
- Vera Scantlebury Brown
- Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
- Elizabeth Blackburn, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009 for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer.
- Sir John Carew Eccles, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
- James Lawson, public health doctor and scientist
[edit] Historians
- Geoffrey Blainey, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
- Manning Clark
- Alice Garner
- Keith Hancock
- Stuart Macintyre
- A. G. L. Shaw
[edit] Architect
- Barry Patten
- John Denton
- Bill Corker
- Barrington Marshall
- Roy Grounds
- Peter Ho
- John Gollings - Architectural Photographer
[edit] Organisation leaders
[edit] Authors
[edit] Philosopher
[edit] Sport
- Boxer "Gentleman Jack" John Reid McGowan
[edit] Artists
- Cate Blanchett, actress
- Portia de Rossi, actress
- Alice Garner, historian, musician, actress
- Julian Gavin, opera singer
- Barry Humphries
- Anastasia Klose, artist
- Andy Lee, comedian
- Rob Sitch, co-writer and co-director of the movies The Castle and The Dish; and co-host of The Panel
- Magda Szubanski, actress
- Matt Tinney, Newsreader
- Steve Vizard, actor, writer, producer
[edit] Poets
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University
- Vincent Buckley
[edit] Persons of Notoriety
- Keith William Allan, Murdered lawyer[1]
- David Bowen, Deregistered medical practitioner[2]
- Mario Condello, Murdered lawyer during Melbourne gangland killings.
- Colin Lovitt, Criminal barrister[3]
[edit] Journalists
- Julian Assange, Wikileaks spokesperson & founder
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Prominent alumni - from the University of Melbourne website