List of University of Melbourne people

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

Alumni

Academia

Sir John Behan, educator; Australia's first Rhodes Scholar
Geoff Bowker, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine
Alec Broers, Baron Broers, electrical engineer, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Karen Burns, architectural historian
Joseph Camilleri, professor at La Trobe University
Simon Chesterman, Dean of Law at the National University of Singapore
Michael Clyne, linguist
Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University
John Deeble, architect of Medicare Australia
Richard Dowell, audiologist, academic and researcher
Ding Dyason, medical historian
Alan Ebringer, immunologist, professor at King's College in the University of London
Arie Freiberg,, legal academic
Germaine Greer, feminist
Maria Gough, art historian at Harvard University
Bella Guerin, educator and activist; first female university graduate in Australia
John Alexander Gunn, philosophy professor
Peter Karmel, former vice-chancellor of Australian National University and Flinders University
Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith, Australian educator; landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.
Arthur Lucas, principal of King's College London
Robert Manne, professor of politics at La Trobe University
Samaresh Mitra, bioinorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Jennifer McKay, Professor of Business Law at the University of South Australia
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
Richard G. Pestell, Executive Vice President at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia USA
Abbas Rajabifard, professor and head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Melbourne School of Engineering
Michael Roe, historian
John Ralston (scientist), physical chemist and researcher at the UniSA
David Shallcross, chemical engineer
James Simpson, Harvard University professor
Alexander Smits, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
John Tasioulas, Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Oxford University
Gillian Triggs, international legal academic and President of the Australian Human Rights Commission
Frances Valintine, education futurist
Sally Walker, Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University
Frank T. M. White, Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Queensland; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics, McGill University

Architecture

Business

Leigh Clifford, Chairman of Qantas
Robert Champion de Crespigny
Margaret Dick
Anthony Di Pietro, President of Melbourne Victory Football Club and CEO of Premier Fresh Australia
John Elliott, President of Liberal Party of Australia & Carlton Football Club
Aubrey Gibson
Charles Goode, Chairman of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
James P. Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
David Hains
John Holland, founder of John Holland Group
Margaret Jackson
Ananda Krishnan, CEO, Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd
Hugh Morgan, former board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia
Rupert Myer, director, Myer Family Company
Richard Pratt
James Riady, Chairman, Lippo Group
Graeme Samuel,
Karl Siegling, funds manager
Peter Smedley, CEO of Colonial Group, Mayne Nickless
Evan Thornley, entrepreneur

Community activism

Julian Assange, Wikileaks spokesperson and founder
Waleed Aly
Alex Dekker, Humanitarian
Helen Durham, international humanitarian lawyer
Lorna Lippmann, campaigner for the rights of Aboriginal Australians
Avery Ng, Hong Kong activist
Tilman Ruff, public health scholar and founder of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

Government

Politicians

Prime Ministers of Australia

Alfred Deakin
Julia Gillard,
Harold Holt,
Sir Robert Menzies,
Premiers of Victoria
Ted Baillieu
John Brumby
John Cain II
Rupert Hamer
Sir William Irvine,, also a former Chief Justice of Victoria
Joan Kirner
William Shiels
Lindsay Thompson
Premier of Queensland
Thomas Ryan
Federal politicians
Lyn Allison, former Member of the Australian Senate and leader of the Australian Democrats
Richard Alston,, former Member of the Australian Senate
Kevin Andrews,, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Bruce Baird,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Neil Brown,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Anna Burke,, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
John Button, former Member of the Australian Senate
Jim Cairns, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
Sam Cohen, former Member of the Australian Senate
Barney Cooney, former Member of the Australian Senate
Mark Dreyfus,, Member of Australian House of Representatives
Gareth Evans,, international policymaker, academic, and former Member of the Australian Senate
John Alexander Forrest
Petro Georgiou, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
Andrew Giles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
Ivor Greenwood, former Member of the Australian Senate
Ray Groom,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Premier of Tasmania
H. B. Higgins, former Attorney-General of Australia and Justice of the High Court of Australia
Greg Hunt,, Member of Australian House of Representatives
Dennis Jensen, Member of Australian House of Representatives
Barry Jones, AC former Member of Australian House of Representatives and Parliament of Victoria.
David Kemp, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
John Langmore, Member of Australian House of Representatives
William Maloney, Member of Australian House of Representatives
Richard Marles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
Peter McGauran, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
Kelly O'Dwyer,, Member of Australian House of Representatives
Andrew Peacock,, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
Sir Arthur Robinson,, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
Nicola Roxon, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Roger Shipton,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Bill Shorten,, Member of Australian House of Representatives
Bruce Smith,, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
Sir John Spicer, former Member of the Australian Senate
Sid Spindler, former Member of the Australian Senate
Lindsay Tanner, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Ralph Willis,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Agar Wynne, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Australian state and territory politicians
Sir Clifden Eager, former President of the Victorian Legislative Council
Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
John Bourke, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Thomas Brennan, political journalist and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
Bruce Chamberlain,, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
Robert Clark, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Neil Cole, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and playwright and researcher
Robert Dean, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Frank Field, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
John Galbally,, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
Matthew Groom,, Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
Ray Groom,, former Premier of Tasmania and Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Tim Holding, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Robert Wilfred Holt, Minister for Lands in the Cain government 1952–54
Trevor Oldham, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Deputy Premier
Herbert Postle, former Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
Robert Ramsay, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Edward Reynolds,, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
T. J. Ryan,, former Premier of Queensland
Sir Arthur Rylah,, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Deputy Premier
Prue Sibree, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Oswald Snowball, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Speaker
Alan Stockdale, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Treasurer
Shane Stone,, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
Richard Ward,, former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council and Supreme Court judge
Sir Henry Wrixon,, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
Agar Wynne, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
International politicians
Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs
Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor
Hun Many, Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia
Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
Tajol Rosli Mohd Ghazali, former Menteri Besar of Perak
Dato' Sri Mustapa Mohamed, Member of Parliament of Jeli, former Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry
Baru Bian, Member of Parliament of Selangau, former Malaysian Minister of Works
Raja Kamarul Bahrin, former Malaysian Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government
Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister
Public servants
William Macmahon Ball, diplomat
Jean-Pierre Blais, Canadian bureaucrat; Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Peta Credlin, political advisor
Francis Patrick Donovan,, diplomat and jurist
Bill Paterson, Australian Ambassador to Republic of Korea; previously Australian Ambassador to Thailand and Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism
Trevor Ashmore Pyman, diplomat.
John So, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Fred Whitlam, Crown Solicitor; father of Gough
Danielle Wood, economist and incoming chair of the Productivity Commission
Luke Lazarus Arnold, Australian diplomat

Humanities

Arts

Angela Brennan, artist
Steve Cox, painter and watercolourist
John Dahlsen, environmental artist
Hugh Davies, mixed media artist
Lisa Gervasoni, artist
Bill Henson, photographer and Venice Biennale representative
Ali Hogg, photographer and activist
Pamela Irving, artist and educator
Anastasia Klose, video artist and Biennale of Sydney representative
Brian McFarlane, film historian, writer, and educator
Doris McKellar, photographer
Azlan McLennan, artist and activist
Lewis Miller, Archibald Prize winning painter
Victor O'Connor, artist
Daniel Palmer, historian, critic, academic, and theorist of contemporary art, photography, and digital media
Shaun Parker, award-winning choreographer, founder of Shaun Parker & Company
Stieg Persson, painter
Patricia Piccinini, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
Van Thanh Rudd, artist and activist
Anne-Louise Sarks, theatre director and writer
Matt Scholten, theatre director, teacher and writer
Ricky Swallow, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
Timothy James Webb, artist
Bradd Westmoreland, artist
Marcus Wills, Archibald Prize winning painter

Film and television

Adam Arkapaw, cinematographer '
Gillian Armstrong, director '
Tony Ayres, Australian Film Institute award-winning director '
Alison Bell, Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award nominated actor '
Tahir Raj Bhasin, Indian actor
Jill Bilcock, Academy Award-nominated editor '
Hamish Blake, comedian
Cate Blanchett, actress
Jamie Blanks, director '
John Bluthal, actor
Sibylla Budd, actor and documentary presenter '
Ronny Chieng, comedian
Santo Cilauro, television and feature film producer
Vince Colosimo, Australian Film Institute Award winning actor '
Marg Downey, comedian and actress
Elizabeth Debicki, actress
Adam Elliot, Academy Award-winning animator '
Alexander England, actor
Alice Garner, historian, musician and actress
Antony I. Ginnane, film producer
Tom Gleisner, director, producer, writer, comedian, actor and author
Libbi Gorr, comedian
Barry Humphries, comedian
Red Hong Yi, artist and architectural designer
Sammy J, comedian
Clayton Jacobson, director '
Justin Kurzel, director
Andy Lee, comedian
Anthony Lucas, Academy Award nominated animator '
Robert Luketic, director '
Catherine Mack-Hancock, actress
Lara Jean Marshall, actress best known for her role on The Saddle Club
Belinda McClory, actor and screenwriter '
David Michôd, director '
Rhys Muldoon, actor
Lloyd Newson, director, dancer and choreographer
Michael Pattinson, producer '
Hannie Rayson, Australian Writers' Guild Award and Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award winning playwright and actor '
Glenn Robbins, comedian and actor
Portia de Rossi, actress
Pallavi Sharda, Indian actor
Jonathan M. Shiff, Australian Film Institute and British Academy of Film and Television Arts award-winning producer '
Rob Sitch, co-writer and co-director of the movies The Castle and The Dish; co-host of The Panel
Matt Scholten, director
Simon Stone, director and actor
Sam Strong, director, artistic director, Queensland Theatre
Magda Szubanski, comedian and actress
Nadia Townsend, actor and theatre director '
Andrew Upton, director and playwright
Steve Vizard, television and radio presenter, lawyer, comedian, producer, author and screenwriter
Luke Walker, director/producer
Sarah Watt, director and animator '
Angela White, pornographic actress, director
Alison Whyte, Logie Award-winning actor '
Geoffrey Wright, director
Julia Zemiro, television presenter
Randeep Hooda, Indian actor
Yashma Gill, Pakistani actor
Lydia Zimmermann, director
Ashley Zukerman, Logie Award nominated actor ''''

History

Geoffrey Blainey, one of the Australian Living Treasures
Manning Clark
Charles Coppel, former barrister and historian
Keith Hancock
Stuart Macintyre
Michael Roe, historian and academic
Ben Schrader, urban historian
A. G. L. Shaw

Journalism

Tiffiny Hall, journalist, author and television personality
Joe Hildebrand, journalist, social commentator and news columnist
Christine Kenneally, New York City-based journalist
Matt Tinney, newsreader
Bill Tipping, former journalist, social commentator and activist

Literature, writing and poetry

Randa Abdel-Fattah, Australian Muslim author and lawyer
Russell Blackford, writer, philosopher and critic
Caroline Brothers, novelist and foreign correspondent
Vincent Buckley
Anna Ciddor, author and illustrator
Helen Garner, author
Kerry Greenwood, crime writer
Germaine Greer, feminist writer and academic
Jack Hibberd
Fulvio Melia
Gerald Murnane, novelist and short story writer
Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University
Lynne Kelly, writer, researcher and science educator

Music

Harry James Angus, trumpeter and vocalist
Wouter De Backer, musician known as 'Gotye'
Cheryl Barker, opera singer
Michael Barker, drummer
Don Banks, composer
Nicole Car, opera singer
Arthur Chanter 1866–1950, composer
Diana Doherty, oboe soloist
Leonard Dommett, violinist and conductor
Julian Gavin, opera singer
Antoinette Halloran, opera singer
Phil Harvey, manager and creative director
Missy Higgins, singer-songwriter
Rex Hobcroft, pianist and administrator
Tania de Jong, soprano and social entrepreneur
Liza Lim, composer
John McAll, pianist and musical director
Mona McBurney 1867–1932 composer
Ryan Monro, bassist
Ian Munro, pianist and composer
Patrick Savage, film composer and former principal first violin
Peter Sculthorpe, composer
Dudley Simpson, conductor and television composer
Jan Skubiszewski, multi-award-winning record producer film composer
Red Symons, musician, television and radio personality
Penelope Thwaites, musicologist and pianist
Yelian He, cellist
Charles Zwar, songwriter, composer, lyricist, pianist and music director
David Burd, US rapper, known as Lil Dicky

Philosophy

Samuel Alexander
Leslie Cannold
Raimond Gaita
Charles Leonard Hamblin
Frank Cameron Jackson
Graham Oppy
Toby Ord
Brian O'Shaughnessy
Graham Priest
Ian Robinson
Peter Singer
John Tasioulas, moral and legal philosopher
Nick Trakakis
John Weckert
Damon Young

Law

;Chief Justices of Australia

; Justices of the High Court of Australia

Sir Keith Aickin,, former justice
Susan Crennan
Sir Daryl Dawson,, former justice
Sir Wilfred Fullagar,, former justice
Kenneth Hayne
H. B. Higgins, former justice
Sir Douglas Menzies, former justice
Geoffrey Nettle
Sir Ninian Stephen,, also a previous Governor-General of Australia

;Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

Michael Black,, former Chief Justice

;Justices of the Federal Court of Australia

Geoffrey Giudice
Sir Edward Woodward,, also served as a Royal Commissioner and Director-General of Security

;Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia

Diana Bryant,, Chief Justice since 2004
Alastair Nicholson,, former Chief Justice

;Justices of the Family Court of Australia

Linda Dessau,, former justice

;Chief Justices of Victoria

Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring,, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
Sir William Irvine,, also a former Premier of Victoria
Sir John Madden,, also a former Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University
Sir Frederick Mann,, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
John Harber Phillips,, also a former Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions and Director of the National Crime Authority
Sir Henry Winneke,, also a former Governor of Victoria
Sir John Young,

;Justices of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Sir Kevin Anderson,
Sir Arthur Dean,
Sir James Gobbo,, also a former Governor of Victoria
Sir George Pape
Joseph Santamaria

;Presidents of the Victorian Court of Appeal

Other legal professionals

Philip Alston, international law scholar; former United Nations Special Rapporteur
John Bennett, civil libertarian
Matthew Collins, barrister and Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School
Mario Condello, lawyer; murdered during Melbourne gangland killings
Frank Costigan,, lawyer, Royal Commissioner and social justice activist
Rowan Downing,, barrister and international jurist
Frank Galbally,, criminal defence lawyer
Flos Greig, first woman to be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Australia
Philip Griffiths,, jurist
Francis Gurry, international intellectual property lawyer and bureaucrat
Colin Lovitt,, criminal barrister
Julian McMahon, A.C., barrister, humanitarian, campaigner against death penalty
Rob Stary, criminal defence lawyer
Tengku Amalin A'ishah Putri, Princess of Kelantan Royal Family
Lord Uthwatt, Judge, Chancery Division, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords

Military

Group Captain John Balmer,, World War II RAAF bomber pilot
Major General Sir Julius Bruche,, Second Boer War and World War I army officer
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
Major General Harold "Pompey" Elliott,, politician and World War I army general
Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, army doctor
Brigadier General William Grant,, World War I general
Sir James Whiteside McCay, politician and World War I general
Sir John Monash, World War I general
Sir Kingsley Norris, army doctor and major general
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Rhoden,, lawyer and World War II army officer
Ian Upjohn,, Army Reserve officer and barrister

Religious leaders

Rabbi Raymond Apple

Sciences

Agriculture

Yvonne Aitken, botanist, first woman to earn a PhD in Agriculture form the University of Melbourne in 1970

Biology

Elizabeth Blackburn, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009
Margaret Blackwood, botanist and geneticist
Kirsten Parris, urban ecologist
Grant Sutherland, human geneticist
Torsten Seemann, bioinformatician

Computing

Andrew Freeman, FACS – Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, and an Honorary Life Member of the ACS

Geology

Norman Greenwood

Chemistry

Engineering

Sir Walter Bassett
William Charles Kernot
Diane Lemaire, first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a degree in engineering
Anthony Michell
John Monash
Elizabeth Jens
Ian A. Young, senior fellow of Intel; co-inventor of BiCMOS logic family and clocks for Pentium series microprocessors
Frank Caruso

Mathematics

Medicine

Lilian Helen Alexander, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
Ellen Balaam, first woman surgeon in Melbourne
Marjorie Bick, biochemist
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"
Amy de Castilla, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
Clara Stone, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
Sir John Carew Eccles, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
Constance Ellis, first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine from the university
Mavis Freeman, bacteriologist and biochemist
Jane Stocks Greig, public health specialist
Janet Greig, Victoria's first female anaesthetist
David Handelsman, Australia's first professor in reproductive endocrinology and andrology
Girlie Hodges, Australian surgeon and field hockey player who represented Australia
James Lawson, public health doctor and scientist
Annie O'Hara, doctor and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
Elizabeth O'Hara, one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
Lorna Verdun Sisely, Surgeon and founder of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre Breast Clinic.
Elizabeth Scarr, associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, project leader of Cooperative Research Centre for Mental Health, and leader of the Psychiatric Neuropathology laboratory at the university
Helen Sexton, surgeon, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
Emily Mary Page Stone, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
Jaishankar Raman, cardiothoracic surgeon and academic.
Rajaratnam Sundarason, surgeon, one of the founders of International House
Elizabeth Kathleen Turner, medical superintendent of the (Royal) Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1943 until 1946. She was first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.
Grace Vale, Physician and co-founder of the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
Sydney James Van Pelt, pioneer of modern hypnotherapy
Margaret Whyte, Physician, and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.

Physics

Nicole Bell
Walter Boas
Samuel L. Braunstein
John M. Cowley
Rod Crewther
Richard Dalitz, inventor of the Dalitz plot
Terence James Elkins
Colin J. Gillespie
Kerr Grant
Peter Hannaford
Alan Head
T. H. Laby
Rodney Marks
Leslie H. Martin
Sir Harrie Massey
Fulvio Melia
Keith Nugent
Helen Quinn, former president of the American Physical Society; recipient of the Dirac Medal in 2000 and the Sakurai Prize in 2013
William Sutherland

Psychology

Vicki Anderson, pediatric neuropsychologist
Kathleen Funder, researcher, Australian Institute of Family Studies
Peter O'Connor, psychologist

Veterinary Science

Cyril Seelenmeyer, VFL footballer, veterinary surgeon, winner of Military Cross
Harold Addison Woodruff, Professor of veterinary pathology and director of the veterinary institute

Sport

Russell Basser, Olympic water polo player
Kim Crow, London Olympics silver and bronze medallist for doubles and singles sculling respectively
Eva Duldig, Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
Bev Francis, IFBB professional Australian female bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion
Geoff Grover, VFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative
Jemima Montag, Olympic 2x bronze medal winning racewalker
John Robinson, VFL footballer; recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal

Faculty

Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson
Peter Baines, geophysicist
Lisa Cameron
Henri Daniel Rathgeber
Jocelyn Hyslop, inaugural Director of Social Studies
Josephine Forbes, Principal Research Fellow, Department of Medicine
Katja Hölttä-Otto