List of University of Melbourne people

This is an incomplete list of University of Melbourne people, including alumni and staff.

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

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)

Politicians

Prime Ministers of Australia

• Alfred Deakin
• Julia Gillard (Incumbent)
• Harold Holt
• Sir Robert Menzies

Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

• Dr Jim Cairns (Deputy Prime Minister of Australia)

Premiers of Victoria

• Ted Baillieu
• John Brumby
• John Cain II
• Rupert Hamer
• Sir William Irvine
• Joan Kirner
• William Shiels
• Lindsay Thompson
• Ian MacFarlan

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

Lord Mayor of Melbourne

• John So

First Lady

• Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor

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

Legal profession

• Philip Lewis Griffiths, jurist

Chief Justices of Australia

• Sir Owen Dixon
• Sir Frank Gavan Duffy
• Sir Isaac Isaacs
• Sir John Latham

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

Chief Justice of Federal Court of Australia

• Michael Black

Chief Justice of Family Court of Australia

• Alastair Bothwick Nicholson

Chief Justices of Victoria

• Sir John Madden
• Sir William Irvine
• Sir Frederick Mann
• Sir Edmund Herring
• Sir Henry Winneke
• John Harber Phillips

Presidents of Victorian Court of Appeal

• John Winneke
• Chris Maxwell

Corporate Figures

• Robert Champion de Crespigny
• John Elliott
• Aubrey Gibson
• Sir John Holland
• Sir Brian Inglis
• Margaret Jackson
• Ananda Krishnan
• Richard Pratt
• Leigh Clifford

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

Scientists

Physicists

• Fulvio Melia
• William Sutherland
• Richard Dalitz

Geologists

• Sir Albert Ernest Kitson, winner of the 1927 Lyell Medal

Mathematicians

• Keith Briggs
• Mark S. Joshi

Engineers

• John Monash
• Anthony Michell
• William Charles Kernot
• Sir Walter Bassett

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

Historians

• Geoffrey Blainey, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
• Manning Clark
• Alice Garner
• Keith Hancock
• Stuart Macintyre
• A. G. L. Shaw

Architect

• Barry Patten
• John Denton
• Bill Corker
• Barrington Marshall
• Roy Grounds
• Peter Ho
• John Gollings - Architectural Photographer

Organisation leaders

• Waleed Aly

Authors

• Germaine Greer
• Helen Garner
• Jack Hibberd
• Fulvio Melia
• Tanya Ha

Philosopher

• Peter Singer

Sport

• Boxer "Gentleman Jack" John Reid McGowan

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

Poets

• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University
• Vincent Buckley

Persons of Notoriety

• Keith William Allan, Murdered lawyer
• David Bowen, Deregistered medical practitioner
• Mario Condello, Murdered lawyer during Melbourne gangland killings.
• Colin Lovitt, Criminal barrister

Journalists

• Julian Assange, Wikileaks spokesperson & founder

External links

• Prominent alumni - from the University of Melbourne website