List of University of New South Wales alumni
This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni.
Government, politicians
- Premiers of New South Wales
- Premiers of Queensland
- Lord Mayors of the City of Sydney
Other Australian politicians
- Larry Anthony, politician
- Elizabeth Broderick, former Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner (Law)
- Sharan Burrow, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions
- Alan Cadman, politician
- Jason Clare, Member for Blaxland, former Minister for Home Affairs and former Minister for Defence Materiel (Law)
- David Coleman, Member of the House of Representatives for Banks (Law)
- Greg Combet, former Federal Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation (Engineering alumnus)
- Mehreen Faruqi, Greens MLC - NSW Parliament (Engineering alumnus)
- Michael Forshaw, Senator (Law)
- Peter Garrett, musician/politician, former Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (LLB 1977)
- Ken Henry, Secretary, Australian Department of Treasury
- Sussan Ley, Federal Minister for Health, Member of the House of Representatives
- Damien Miller, Australian Ambassador to Denmark (Law)
- Scott Morrison, Federal Treasurer, Member of the House of Representatives
- Gary Nairn, House of Representatives
- Kerry Nettle, Australian Greens senator
- Andrew Nikolic, Member of the House of Representatives
- Melissa Parke, United Nations senior lawyer, former member of the House of Representatives for Fremantle (Law)
- Marise Payne, Senator for New South Wales and Federal Minister for Defence
- Eleni Petinos, Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly for the district of Miranda (LLB 2011)[1]
- Eric Roozendaal, former Treasurer of New South Wales and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (Law)
International politicians
- Andrew Cheng, Hong Kong politician, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Law)
- Meutya Hafid, Indonesian politician, member of People's Representative Council, former journalist
- Foo Mee Har, Singaporean MP
- Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development of Singapore
Law
- Attorneys-General
- Brad Hazzard, former NSW Attorney-General and current Member of Parliament
- Robert McClelland, former Commonwealth Attorney-General (LLB 1981)
- Gabrielle Upton, current NSW Attorney-General and Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse
- Justices of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- NSW District Court judges
- Bob Bellear, Australia's first Indigenous judge (LLB 1978)
- Chris Craigie SC, former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions[2]
- Federal Court judges
- Other
- Stuart Littlemore QC, barrister, writer and original host of ABC's Media Watch (Law)
- Matthew Myers, Commonwealth's first Indigenous judicial officer[3]
- Pat O'Shane, Magistrate; former Chancellor of the University of New England; Australia's first Aboriginal barrister (LLB 1976)
Business and industry
- Rodney Adler, former Director of HIH Insurance and One.Tel
- Rose Amal, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, UNSW Australia (Engineering alumnus)
- Mark Bouris, Chairman of Yellow Brick Road and television personality
- Richard Carleton, television journalist
- Chris Chapman, inaugural Chair and CEO, Australian Communications and Media Authority (LLB 1977)[4]
- Paul Clitheroe, television presenter and businessman
- Roger Corbett, Chairman of the Reserve Bank of Australia, CEO of Woolworths Limited
- Philip Cox, architect
- Douglas Daft, former CEO of The Coca-Cola Company
- Satyajit Das, banker, author and academic (Law)[5]
- Richard Farleigh, private investor
- David Gonski, prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW (Law)
- John M. Green, Deputy Chairman of QBE Insurance Group; co-founder of Pantera Press; author
- Philip Hercus, founder of International Catamaran Designs (Engineering alumnus)
- Grant King, Managing Director, Origin Energy; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
- David Lowy, Non Executive Deputy Chairman of the Westfield Group
- Steven Lowy, Group Managing Director of the Westfield Group
- Donald McDonald, former chairman of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
- Warwick McKibbin, Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of Australia; economist
- John Niland, Director of Macquarie Bank Limited; Chairman of Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust; former Vice-Chancellor of University of New South Wales
- John Prescott, former CEO of BHP Billiton
- Gregory G. Rose, Principal Engineer at QUALCOMM inc. (Engineering alumnus)
- George Savvides, Managing Director, Medibank Private; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
- Jillian Segal AM, Non-Executive Director, NAB; Deputy Chancellor of UNSW (Law)[6]
- Gai Waterhouse, horse trainer and businesswoman
Science, medicine, and academia
- Samy Azer, Professor of Medical Education; international medical educator
- David A. Cooper, HIV/AIDS researcher and immunologist
- Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne
- Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, global warming activist and author; 2007 Australian of the Year
- Carsten Haitzler, computer scientist, creator of Enlightenment
- Adam Kennedy, computer scientist
- Steven Krilis, immunologist
- Karl Kruszelnicki, scientist
- Sam Michael, sporting director of McLaren
- Gordon Parker, psychiatrist
- Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, first Thai elected to IEEE Fellow; current President of Mahanakorn University of Technology; Thailand's Minister of Information and Communication Technologies
- Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon
- Alan O. Trounson, biologist
- Tony Vinson, Emeritus Professor, Education and Social Work
- Stuart Wenham, Director of ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, UNSW Australia (Engineering alumnus)
Arts, literature, and religion
- Monica Attard, Australian Broadcasting Corporation host; award-winning journalist (Law)
- Jack Bedson, writer, children's author, poet and academic librarian
- Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal writer (Law)
- Alex Buzo, pioneer playwright
- Matt Carroll, film producer
- Tim Cook, historian and author
- Adam Cullen, artist
- Michael Dransfield, poet
- Francis Giacco, artist
- John M. Green, author and publisher
- Frank Howarth, geologist, Director of the Australian Museum
- Byron Kennedy, film producer
- Amber Lawrence, singer, songwriter
- Stephanie Lemelin, Canadian actress
- Lenka, born Lenka Kripac, singer
- Yaron Lifschitz, theatre director
- George Miller, movie producer, television screenwriter, producer and director of Happy Feet
- Drusilla Modjeska, writer
- Matthew Reilly, author (Law)
- Gregory Charles Rivers, Hong Kong actor
- Emile Sherman, Film Producer (Law)
- Pamela Stephenson, comedian/writer
- Rebel Wilson, actress, comedian and writer (Law)
- Markus Zusak, writer
Sport
- Geoff Lawson, cricketer
- Tadhg Kennelly, Australian rules football player in AFL team Sydney Swans
- Usman Khawaja, cricketer
- Ewen McKenzie, current coach of the Queensland Reds
- Simon Poidevin, former Wallabies captain
- Marshall Rosen, cricketer
- Jane Saville, 2004 Summer Olympics medallist
- Michael Slater, cricketer
- Mark Taylor, cricketer (Australia's 39th test captain), Australian of the Year 1999
- Richard Walsh, professional mixed martial artist[7]
- Michael Wenden, swimming champion, 1968 Summer Olympics gold medallist (two gold, one silver, one bronze)
See also
References
- ^ Trembath, Murray (17 February 2015). "State election: Candidates battle it out in Miranda marginal seat".
- ^ "Subscribe to The Australian".
- ^ http://www.familycourt.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/FCOA/home/about/Media/Media_Releases/Appointments_to_FCoA_and_FMC
- ^ http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/About/Corporate/Authority/authority-members-acma
- ^ "Panellist: Satyajit Das". ABC. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Jillian S Segal AM".
- ^ "Richard Walsh UFC Bio". Retrieved 2014.
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