List of Monash University people

Monash University has a number of notable alumni and staff.

Notable alumni

Politics and government

• Richard Alston – Former Australian Senator, Minister and Australian High Commissioner in London
• Daniel Andrews – Victorian Leader of the Opposition
• Kevin Andrews – Former Australian Minister for Immigration and Workplace Relations
• Louise Asher – Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party
• Jim Bacon – former Premier of Tasmania (did not graduate)
• Adam Bandt – Federal Member of Parliament for the Australian Greens, first Green elected to Federal Parliament at a general election.
• Dr Boediono – current Vice President of Indonesia
• Sue Boyce – Australian Senator
• Andrew Brideson – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Helen Buckingham – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Anna Burke – politician, current Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
• Elaine Carbines – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Peter Cleeland – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Jacinta Collins – Australian Senator
• Ann Corcoran – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Peter Costello – longest-serving Treasurer of Australia, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
• Simon Crean – Australian Minister for Trade, former Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the ALP
• David de Kretser – medical researcher, current Governor of Victoria
• John Delzoppo – Former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria
• Richard Di Natale – Greens Senator for Victoria
• Robert Doyle – Former Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party, now Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• John Elferink – Northern Territory Shadow Treasurer
• Peter Falconer – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• David Feeney – Australian Senator
• Jeannie Ferris – Australian Senator
• Steve Fielding – former Australian Senator
• Gail Gago – South Australian Minister for Environment, Conservation and Mental Health
• James Gomez – Singaporean politician and academic at Monash
• Alan Griffiths – former Australian Minister for Industry and Resources
• Dianne Hadden – politician
• Peter Hall – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Alistair Harkness – Member of the Parliament of Victoria, political commentator
• Carolyn Hirsh – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Rob Hudson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Dennis Jensen – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Gary Johns – former Special Minister of State, academic
• Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
• Norman Lacy – Former Minister for Arts and Minister for Educational Services
• Albert Langer – political activist
• John Langmore – Former Member of the Australian House of Representatives, Director of Social Policy and Development at the United Nations, academic
• John Lenders – Victorian Treasurer, Victoria's longest-serving Finance Minister
• Lim Guan Eng – Malaysian politician, current Chief Minister of the State of Penang
• Hong Lim – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Tony Lupton – Member of the Parliament of Victoria, Secretary of Cabinet under John Brumby
• Julian McGauran – Australian Senator
• Marlene Moses – Diplomat, Foreign Minister of Nauru
• Simbarashe Mumbengegwi – Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe
• Janice Munt – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Brendan O'Connor – Australian Minister for Home Affairs
• Gavan O'Connor – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Neil O'Keefe – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Clare O'Neil – youngest female Mayor in Australia's history
• John Pandazopoulos – Former Victorian Minister for Employment and Major Projects
• Kay Patterson – Former Australian Senator and Former Minister for Health
• Martin Pakula – Victorian Minister for Public Transport
• Chris Pearce – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Sue Pennicuik – Greens Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Inga Peulich – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Victor Perton- former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, former Defence Minister, former Minister for Workplace Relations
• Robert Ray – Australian Senator and Former Defence Minister
• Gordon Rich-Phillips – Shadow Victorian Finance Minister
• Teo Ming Kian – politician, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance (Singapore), Recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
• Tony Robinson – Victorian Minister for Consumer Affairs and Gaming
• Bill Shorten – Member of the Australian House of Representatives, former National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union and President of the Victorian ALP
• Helen Silver – public servant, Secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet
• Adem Somyurek – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Sharman Stone – Former Australian Minister for Workforce Participation, current Shadow Minister for Immigration
• Kirsty Sword Gusmão – political activist, former first lady of East Timor
• Murray Thompson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• John Thwaites – Former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change
• David Vigor – Australian Senator
• Nick Wakeling – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Don Watson – speechwriter to Paul Keating, author
• Graeme Weideman – Former Victorian Minister for Tourism
• Dean Wells – Former Attorney-General of Queensland, Minister for Education and Minister for the Environment
• Steve Wettenhall – Member of the Parliament of Queensland
• Greg Wilton(1955–2000) – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Michael Wooldridge – Former Australian Minister for Health and Chairman of UNAIDS

Law

• Kevin Bell – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Current President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
• Diana Bryant – Current Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
• Julian Burnside, QC – High profile barrister, human rights advocate, author, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
• Paul Cronin – Justice of the Family Court of Australia
• Tom Danos – High profile barrister. Treasurer of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association, defence lawyer in the Keith William Allan murder trial
• Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• Paul Grant – Current Chief Magistrate of the Victorian Children's Court
• Ian Gray – Current Chief Magistrate, Magistrates' Court of Victoria
• Felicity Hampel – Prominent human rights lawyer, now Judge of the County Court of Victoria
• Peter Hayes QC – High profile barrister
• Peter Hogg – constitutional law scholar
• Graeme Johnstone – Current State Coroner of Victoria
• Marc Jongebloed – lawyer, runner-up on The Mole in 2002
• Murray Kellam – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and first President of VCAT
• Lex Lasry QC – High profile barrister, Chairman of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association, human rights advocate and now Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Stuart Morris – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Former President of VCAT
• Ross Ray – Current President of the Law Council of Australia
• Neil Rees – Current Chairman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission, foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School
• Michael Rozenes – Current Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria
• Pamela Tate – Current Solicitor-General of Victoria
• Marilyn Warren – Current and first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Mark Weinberg – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, current Chief Justice of Norfolk Island

Media & Arts

• Rory Barnes - novelist
• Jean Bedford – novelist
• Peter Bonner – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize
• Damien Broderick – author, futurist
• Peter Carey – Booker prize-winning novelist
• Damien Carrick – presenter, ABC Radio National "Law Report".
• Nick Cave – musician (attended Caulfield Institute of Technology, now Monash Caulfield. He did not graduate)
• Timothy Conigrave (1959–1994) – actor and writer
• Peter Corris – crime fiction author
• Cecilia Dart-Thornton – author
• Lindy Davies – actor and Dean of the Victorian College of Arts
• Cherie Ditcham – actress, model
• Laurie Duggan – poet
• Hazel Edwards – children's author
• Jon Faine – prominent Melbourne radio personality
• Phillip Frazer – Australian publisher
• Max Gillies – actor/satirist
• Andy Griffiths – children's author
• Leslie Howard – Pianist and composer
• Sue Howard – Director of Radio and Regional Content, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Paul Jennings – children's author
• Adib Khan – novelist
• Lucy Kiraly - fashion model and television presenter
• Michael Leunig – cartoonist
• Campbell McComas (1952–2005) – Comedian and actor
• Louise Milligan – Journalist
• Raghav Sachar – Indian singer songwriter
• Brenda Niall – author
• Nikolai Nikolaeff - actor
• Eva Orner – Academy-Award winning film producer
• Charlie Pickering – comedian
• John Romeril – playwright
• John A. Scott – poet
• Fiona Spence – actress, star of Prisoner
• Jo Stanley – radio personality
• Stelarc – performance artist
• Matt Tilley – comedian
• Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize
• Don Watson – author
• Alan Wearne – poet
• David Williamson – playwright
• Shaun Wilson – artist

Business

• Fiona Balfour – Businesswoman, former Qantas and Telstra executive
• John F. O. Bilson – Economist
• Mark Birrell – Company director, former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology
• Henry Tay Yun Chwan – Executive Chairman and Co-founder, The Hour Glass
• Tony D'Aloisio – Chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and former CEO, Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
• Henry Ergas – economist
• Tracey Fellows – Managing Director of Microsoft in Australia and New Zealand
• M.agantaranansa fardhan – consultant technology oracle
• John A. Fraser – Chairman and CEO of Global Asset Management at UBS AG, former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury
• Joshua Frydenberg – banker and political aspirant
• Peter Ivany – Australian media mogul and billionaire
• Margaret Jackson – first female Chairman of Qantas
• Teo Ming Kian – Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board
• Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
• Tan Le – technology businesswoman, Young Australian of the Year
• Peter Lew – businessman
• Ian Little – Secretary, Department of Treasury and Finance, 1998–2006
• Michael Luscombe – CEO and Managing Director, Woolworths Limited
• Ian Macfarlane, economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996–2006)
• Naomi Milgrom – Owner and CEO of Sussan Group
• Andrew Mohl – Managing Director and CEO, AMP
• Paresh Narayan – economist
• Joel Neoh – businessman, TV personality
• Trevor O'Hoy – President and CEO, Foster's Group
• Pasuk Phongpaichit – Economist, author, anti-corruption campaigner, Recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
• Brad Davies - Dead Set Legend
• Rameshwari Ramachandra – Author and entrepreneur
• Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Gary P. Sampson – WTO economist
• Graeme Samuel – Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
• Jannie Tay – Executive Vice-Chairman and Co-founder, The Hour Glass, Recipient of the 2003 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

Medicine & Science

• Greg Ayers – atmospheric scientist, Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
• David Brown – meteorologist, Seven News weatherman
• Michael Cowley – physiologist, Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009
• Weary Dunlop – military surgeon, World War II leader (attended the Victorian College of Pharmacy, now Monash Parkville Campus)
• Ian G. Enting – mathematician
• Tim Flannery – biologist, author, 2007 Australian of the Year
• David de Kretser- medical researcher, current Governor of Victoria
• Patrick McGorry – psychiatrist, 2010 Australian of the Year
• Terry Speed – mathematician
• Tan Sri Dato' Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman – Vice-Chancellor of International Medical University, Recipient of the 2007 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
• Dr Susan Lim – surgeon, performed Singapore's first successful liver transplant, Recipient of the 2005 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
• Norman Arthur Wakefield – botanist
• Tan Sri Dato' Dr Yahya Awang – cardiothoracic surgeon, performed the first heart transplant in Malaysia

Social Services & Academia

• Phillip Aspinall – Head of the Anglican Church of Australia
• Diane Bell – anthropologist
• Gidon Bromberg – environmentalist
• Michael Clyne – linguist
• Anthony G. Collins – President of Clarkson University
• Tim Costello – humanitarian, CEO of World Vision Australia, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
• Mick Dodson – Indigenous rights campaigner, Convenor of the ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures, 2009 Australian of the Year
• Hugh Evans – 2004 Young Australian of the Year, philanthropist
• Siri Gamage – educationist focusing on social justice and immigrant issues
• Ben Kiernan – Leading researcher in the study of genocide
• Peter Leslie Lee - Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross University
• Stuart Macintyre – Historian
• Ron McCallum – Labour law scholar
• Simon Molesworth QC, Chairman of the Australian Council of National Trusts
• Justin Oakley – philosopher
• George Pell – Australia's Cardinal of the Catholic Church
• Neil Rees – foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School
• Matthew J. Gibney - Reader in Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford
• Julian Savulescu – Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford
• Brian Weatherson – philosopher
• Dato' Michael Yeoh – founder, executive director and CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI)
• Beth Wilson – Victorian Health Services Commissioner

Sport

• Catherine Arlove – Olympic judo competitor
• John Bertrand- yachtsman, skipper of Australia II
• Mordy Bromberg – Former AFL footballer, barrister, current Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
• Travis Brooks – hockey player, Olympic Games gold medallist
• Nathan Burke – AFL footballer
• Alastair Clarkson – Former AFL footballer, current Coach of the Hawthorn Football Club
• Tony Dodemaide – Australian cricketer
• Ron Evans – AFL footballer and sports administrator
• Robby Foldvari – billiards and snooker player, world champion
• Lauren Hewitt – athlete
• Geoff Hunt – squash player, 4 time world champion
• Janine Ilitch – netballer
• Paul McNamee – tennis player, sports administrator, winner of Wimbledon and Australian Open
• Brenton Rickard – swimmer, Olympic Silver medallist
• Paul Trimboli – soccer player
• Anna Wilson – cyclist, world champion and world record holder
• David Zalcberg – Olympic table tennis player, Commonwealth Games medallist

Notable staff (past and present)

Creative Arts

• Dorothy Auchterlonie – writer and poet
• Janine Burke – author, novelist, art historian
• Franz-Josef Deiters – literary critic
• Kevin Hart – poet and literary critic
• Adrian Martin – film critic
• Brian Nelson – French literature expert and translator
• Jennifer Strauss – poet
• Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Waleed Aly – Muslim community leader and political commentator
• Andrew Benjamin – philosopher
• Leslie Bodi – Founding Professor of German
• Harold Bolitho – historian
• Geoffrey Bolton – historian
• John Brumby - former Premier of Victoria
• Kate Burridge – prominent linguist and occasional ABC presenter
• John Button – former Australian Senator, Leader of the Australian Labor Party in the Senate, Australian Minister for Industry (1983–1993)
• Barbara Caine – historian
• David P. Chandler – historian
• Michael Clyne – linguist
• Ken Coghill – former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria
• Peter Costello – Longest-serving Treasurer of Australia, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
• Nick Economou – political scientist and media commentator
• Herbert Feith – Indonesian politics expert
• Allan Fels – economist and former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• John Edward Fletcher – German studies expert
• James Alexander Forrest – lawyer and business, former University Council member
• Petro Georgiou - Former Liberal Member of the Parliament of Australia
• Fred Gruen – economist
• Rob J. Hyndman – statistician, forecaster
• Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher
• David Kemp – political scientist and former Australian Minister for Education and the Environment
• Helga Kuhse – philosopher and bioethicist
• Andrew Linklater – international relations expert
• Mal Logan – geographer, former Vice-Chancellor
• Chin Liew Ten – philosopher
• Tony Lupton - former politician and Secretary to the Victorian Cabinet, now professory of public policy
• Race Mathews – economist, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, former Minister for Community Services, former Minister for Police and Emergency Services
• Yew-Kwang Ng – Economist
• Graham Oppy – philosopher
• Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator and Minister for Health
• Mark Peel – historian
• Christian Reus-Smit – international relations expert
• John Rickard, economist
• Modjtaba Sadria – philosopher
• Richard Scotton – health economist, creator of Australian Medicare program
• Kamal Uddin Siddiqui – economist, diplomat
• Peter Singer – philosopher (now at Princeton University, US)
• J. J. C. Smart – philosopher
• Michael A. Smith – philosopher
• John Thwaites – Former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change, now Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute
• Nick Trakakis – philosopher
• Hal Varian – economist
• David Wright-Neville – political scientist, terrorism expert
• Xiaokai Yang – economist, democracy campaigner, political prisoner

Law

• Bob Baxt – lawyer, former Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission (now ACCC)
• Enid Campbell – jurist
• Daryl Dawson – former Justice of the High Court of Australia
• David Derham – jurist
• Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• Arie Freiberg, Chairman of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council
• George Hampel, QC – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; leading advocacy instructor
• Felicity Hampel, SC – judge of the County Court of Victoria, human rights lawyer
• Peter Heerey – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• Sarah Joseph – human rights scholar
• Marcia Neave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Stephen John Parker – jurist
• Mahadev Shankar – Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge
• Louis Waller – medical and criminal law expert
• Christopher Weeramantry – Judge and Vice-President of the International Court of Justice, human rights advocate

Medicine and Life Sciences

• Bill Charman – pharmaceutical scientist
• Michael Cowley – physiologist, Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009
• Basil Hetzel – medical researcher, public health advocate, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
• Frederic Jevons – biochemist
• David de Kretser – medical researcher, current Governor of Victoria
• Richard Larkins – medical researcher, former Monash University Vice-Chancellor
• A.T.S Sissons – pharmaceutical scientist
• Elsdon Storey – neurologist
• Alan O. Trounson – world-renowned biologist, IVF pioneer and stem cell researcher
• Carl Wood – IVF pioneer

Physical Sciences

• Jim Breen, computer scientist (for his work on Japanese dictionary projects
• Robert Bartnik – mathematician
• Damian Conway – computer scientist, Perl
• John Crossley - mathematician
• John Michael Cullen – ornithologist
• Kenneth H. Hunt – kinematics expert
• Vit Klemes – hydrologist
• Carlo Kopp – defence analyst / strategist, computer scientist
• Louis Matheson – engineer, foundation Vice-Chancellor
• Raymond Martin – chemical scientist, former Vice-Chancellor
• Louis Moresi – geophysicist
• Graeme Pearman – climate change scientist
• Andrew Prentice – mathematician
• Zenon J Pudlowski – engineering expert
• John Stillwell – mathematician
• Chris Wallace – computer scientist
• Gilah Leder mathematics education

Administration

Vice-Chancellors

• Sir Louis Matheson (1960–1976)
• William Alexander Gowdie Scott (1976–1977)
• Raymond Martin AO (1977–1987)
• Mal Logan AC (1987–1996)
• David Robinson (1997–2002)
• Peter Darvall AO (2002–2003)
• Richard Larkins AO (2003–2009)
• Ed Byrne (2009–)

Chancellors

• Sir Robert Rutherford Blackwood (1958–1968)
• Sir Douglas Ian Menzies (1968–1974)
• Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston (1975–1983)
• Sir George Hermann Lush (1983–1992)
• David William Rogers (1992–1998)
• Jerry Ellis (1999–2007)
• Alan Finkel (2008–)

External links

• Monash Expertline