List of University of Sydney people
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This is a list of notable staff and alumni of the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Government, politics and law

  • Royalty -
    • The King of Tonga - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
      Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
      Tāufaāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, KStJ son of Queen Sālote Tupou III and her consort Prince Viliami Tungī Mailefihi, was the king of Tonga from the death of his mother in 1965 until his own death in 2006...

    • Princess of Swaziland - Sikhanyiso Dlamini

  • Governors-General of Australia -
    • Sir John Kerr
    • Sir William Deane
      William Deane
      Sir William Patrick Deane, AC, KBE, QC , Australian judge and the 22nd Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:William Deane was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He was educated at Catholic schools including St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in...


  • Prime Ministers of Australia -
    • Sir Edmund Barton
      Edmund Barton
      Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC , Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia....

    • Sir Earle Page
      Earle Page
      Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, GCMG, CH was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in Australian history, with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament.-Early life:...

    • Sir William McMahon
      William McMahon
      Sir William "Billy" McMahon, GCMG, CH , was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia...

    • Gough Whitlam
      Gough Whitlam
      Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC , known as Gough Whitlam , served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia. Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to power at the 1972 election and retained government at the 1974 election, before being dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the...

    • John Howard
      John Howard
      John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....


  • Deputy Prime Ministers of Australia -
    • John Anderson
      John Anderson (Australian politician)
      John Duncan Anderson AO is a former Australian politician. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the rural-based National Party of Australia from July 1999 to July 2005.-Early years:...

    • Lionel Bowen
      Lionel Bowen
      Lionel Frost Bowen AC , Australian politician, was a senior Labor Party figure, serving in the ministries of Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke...


  • Ministers for Foreign Affairs
    • Sir Percy Spender
      Percy Spender
      Sir Percy Claude Spender, KCVO, KBE, QC, , was an Australian politician. diplomat and jurist.Spender was born in Sydney and educated at the prestigious Fort Street High School and later the University of Sydney. He joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1915...

    • Sir Garfield Barwick
      Garfield Barwick
      Sir Garfield Edward John Barwick, was the Attorney-General of Australia , Minister for External Affairs and the seventh and longest serving Chief Justice of Australia...

    • Sir Nigel Bowen
      Nigel Bowen
      Sir Nigel Hubert Bowen, AC, KBE was an Australian politician and judge.-Biography:Bowen was born in a log cabin in Summerland, British Columbia, Canada, of Welsh and English parents. He came to Australia as a boy and was educated for two years in England and later at The King's School in Parramatta...


  • Chief Justices of the High Court of Australia
    High Court of Australia
    The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia and the parliaments of the States, and...

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    • Sir Samuel Griffith
      Samuel Griffith
      Sir Samuel Walker Griffith GCMG QC, was an Australian politician, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and a principal author of the Constitution of Australia.-Early life:...

    • Sir Garfield Barwick
      Garfield Barwick
      Sir Garfield Edward John Barwick, was the Attorney-General of Australia , Minister for External Affairs and the seventh and longest serving Chief Justice of Australia...

    • Sir Anthony Mason
    • Murray Gleeson
      Murray Gleeson
      Anthony Murray Gleeson AC QC is a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Biography:Gleeson was born in Wingham, New South Wales, the eldest of four children...


  • Justices of the High Court of Australia -
    • Sir Edmund Barton
      Edmund Barton
      Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC , Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia....

    • Richard O'Connor
      Richard O'Connor
      General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor KT, GCB, DSO & Bar, MC, ADC was a British Army general who commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years of World War II...

    • Albert Piddington
      Albert Piddington
      Albert Bathurst Piddington was the shortest serving Justice of the High Court of Australia, never actually sitting at the bench. Appointed on 6 March 1913, he resigned on 5 April after opponents questioned his independence.-Early life:Piddington was born in 1862 in Bathurst, New South Wales...

    • Sir George Rich
      George Rich
      Sir George Edward Rich KCMG PC , Australian judge, was a justice of the High Court of Australia.Rich was born in the town of Braidwood, New South Wales, in 1863. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, and later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in...

    • Dr H. V. Evatt
      H. V. Evatt
      Herbert Vere Evatt, QC KStJ , was an Australian jurist, politician and writer. He was President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948–49 and helped draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

    • Sir Edward McTiernan
      Edward McTiernan
      Sir Edward Aloysius McTiernan, KBE , was an Australian jurist, lawyer and politician. He served as an Australian Labor Party member of both the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and federal House of Representatives before being appointed to the High Court of Australia in 1930...

    • Sir Dudley Williams
      Dudley Williams
      Sir Dudley Williams, KBE, MC, KC , Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.Williams was born in Sydney, and was educated at Sydney Grammar School...

    • Sir Frank Kitto
      Frank Kitto
      Sir Frank Walters Kitto, AC, KBE, QC , Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.Kitto was born in Melbourne in 1903, but his family moved to Sydney, when his father James Kitto became the Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs in New South Wales. There he was educated at...

    • Sir Alan Taylor (jurist)
      Alan Taylor (jurist)
      Sir Alan Russell Taylor KBE KC, 25 November 1901 – 3 August 1969) Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.Taylor was born in 1901 in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales...

    • Sir Victor Windeyer
      Victor Windeyer
      Major General Sir William John Victor Windeyer KBE CB DSO and Bar PC KC Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia....

    • Sir Cyril Walsh
      Cyril Walsh
      Sir Cyril Ambrose Walsh KBE , Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.Walsh was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Michael and Mary Walsh. He grew up in the western suburb of Werrington, where his father owned a dairy farm...

    • Sir Kenneth Jacobs
      Kenneth Jacobs
      Sir Kenneth Sydney Jacobs KBE , Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.Jacobs was born in 1917 in Gordon, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales...

    • Lionel Murphy
      Lionel Murphy
      Lionel Keith Murphy, QC was an Australian politician and jurist who served as Attorney-General in the government of Gough Whitlam and as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1975 until his death.- Personal life :...

    • Sir William Deane
      William Deane
      Sir William Patrick Deane, AC, KBE, QC , Australian judge and the 22nd Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:William Deane was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He was educated at Catholic schools including St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in...

    • Mary Gaudron
      Mary Gaudron
      Mary Genevieve Gaudron, AC, QC , Australian lawyer and judge, was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia.-Youth:...

    • Michael McHugh
      Michael McHugh
      Michael Hudson McHugh, AC, QC is a former justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Judicial Activity:...

    • Michael Kirby
    • William Gummow
      William Gummow
      William Montague Charles Gummow AC is a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Biography:...

    • Dyson Heydon
      Dyson Heydon
      John Dyson Heydon AC QC is a Justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Education:...

    • Susan Crennan
      Susan Crennan
      Susan Maree Crennan AC , is an Australian judge, a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Biography:...

    • Virginia Bell
      Virginia Bell
      Virginia "Ding Dong" Bell is a topless model and actress. She started her career in the 1950s as a burlesque dancer....


  • State governors and Territory Administrators -
    • Sir Roden Cutler (NSW)
    • Sir James Rowland (NSW)
    • Professor Marie Bashir
      Marie Bashir
      Marie Roslyn Bashir AC, CVO is the present Governor of New South Wales since 2001 and also the Chancellor of the University of Sydney since 2007. Born in Narrandera, New South Wales, Bashir graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956 and held various medical positions, with a particular...

       (NSW)
    • Sir Alan Mansfield (Qld)
    • Richard Butler
      Richard Butler (diplomat)
      Richard William Butler AC has served as an Australian diplomat, a United Nations weapons inspector and the Governor of Tasmania.-Life and career:...

       (Tas)
    • Sir James Plimsoll
      James Plimsoll
      Sir James Plimsoll AC, CBE, KStJ was an Australian diplomat and Governor of Tasmania.-Life and career:Plimsoll was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys' High School . He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney 1938 and was appointed to the Bank of New South...

       (Tas)
    • Tom Pauling
      Tom Pauling
      Thomas Ian "Tom" Pauling, AO, QC is an Australian lawyer who is currently serving as Administrator of the Northern Territory....

       (NT)
    • Peter Coleman
      Peter Coleman
      William Peter Coleman is an Australian writer/journalist, former politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. Following Willis' resignation as leader he was made Leader of the New South Wales Opposition...

       (NF)
    • Sir Jack Keith Murray (Papua and New Guinea)

  • Premiers of New South Wales -
    • Sir Joseph Carruthers
      Joseph Carruthers
      Sir Joseph Hector McNeil Carruthers KCMG was an Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales.According to Percival Serle, few premiers of New South Wales succeeded in doing so much distinguished work...

    • Sir Thomas Bavin
    • Sir George Fuller
      George Fuller (Australian politician)
      Sir George Warburton Fuller KCMG was Premier of New South Wales, Australia on two occasions during the 1920s. His first term of office lasted less than one day ; his second lasted from 13 April 1922 to 17 June 1925.-Early life:Fuller was born in Kiama, New South Wales and was educated at Kiama...

    • James McGirr
      James McGirr
      James McGirr was the Labor Premier of New South Wales from 6 February 1947 to 3 April 1952.A Catholic, McGirr was the seventh son of John Patrick McGirr, farmer and Irish immigrant, and Mary McGirr, whose maiden name was O'Sullivan. Born in Parkes, New South Wales, he grew up on a dairy farm near...

    • Sir Eric Willis
      Eric Willis
      Sir Eric Archibald Willis KBE, CMG was an Australian politician, Cabinet Minister and the 34th Premier of New South Wales, serving from 23 January 1976 to 14 May 1976. Born in Murwillumbah in 1922, Willis was educated at Murwillumbah High School and the University of Sydney, where he obtained a...

    • Neville Wran
      Neville Wran
      Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986 and Chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1986...

    • Nick Greiner
      Nick Greiner
      Nicholas "Nick" Frank Hugo Greiner AC, is an Australian businessman and former politician. He was the 37th Premier New South Wales from 1988 to 1992. He was Leader of the New South Wales Division of the Liberal Party from 1983 to 1992 and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 to 1988. He is married...

    • John Fahey
      John Fahey (politician)
      John Joseph Fahey, AC is a former Premier of New South Wales and Federal Minister for Finance in Australia. John Fahey is currently the President of the World Anti-Doping Agency. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1996 and the federal House of Representatives...

    • Morris Iemma
      Morris Iemma
      Morris Iemma , is a former Australian politician and 40th Premier of New South Wales, succeeding Bob Carr after he resigned on 3 August 2005. Iemma led the Australian Labor Party to victory in the 2007 election before resigning as Premier on 5 September 2008, and as a Member of Parliament on 19...

    • Nathan Rees
      Nathan Rees
      Nathan Rees MP, , an Australian politician, was the 41st Premier of New South Wales and parliamentary leader of the New South Wales division of the Australian Labor Party from September 2008 to December 2009...


  • Other Premiers and Chief Ministers -
    • George Thorn
      George Thorn
      George Henry Thorn was a Premier of Queensland, Australia.Thorn was born in Sydney, New South Wales, a son of George Thorn, one of the founders of the city of Ipswich and a member of the first Queensland legislative assembly. He was schooled at The King's School, Parramatta and the University of...

       (QLD)
    • Clare Martin
      Clare Martin
      Clare Majella Martin is a former Australian politician. She is the current CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service . A former journalist, she was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in a shock by-election win in 1995...

       (NT)

  • Chief justices of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
    Supreme Court of New South Wales
    The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales...

     and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales -
    • Sir William Portus Cullen
      William Portus Cullen
      Sir William Portus Cullen KCMG was Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia.-Early life:Cullen was born at Mount Johnston, near Jamberoo, New South Wales, the seventh son of John and Rebecca Cullen. A brother, Joseph Cullen, was a Member of Parliament for both New South Wales and Western...

    • Sir Philip Whistler Street
      Philip Whistler Street
      Sir Philip Whistler Street KCMG was the eighth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Street was a distinguished lawyer, patron of many benevolent institutions and also the lieutenant governor of New South Wales. Biographer Percival Serle states "Street had the culture, dignity...

    • Sir Frederick Richard Jordan
      Frederick Richard Jordan
      Sir Frederick Richard Jordan KCMG was a barrister, chief justice and lieutenant governor of New South Wales.. He was the ninth Chief justice of New South Wales, a state of Australia. Jordan was a distinguished lawyer as well as the Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales...

    • Sir Kenneth Whistler Street
    • Dr H. V. Evatt
      H. V. Evatt
      Herbert Vere Evatt, QC KStJ , was an Australian jurist, politician and writer. He was President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948–49 and helped draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

    • Sir Leslie James Herron
      Leslie Herron
      Sir Leslie James Herron, KBE, CMG, KStJ was a prominent Australian barrister, judge, chief justice and lieutenant governor of New South Wales. Biographer Martha Rutledge describes him as being “interested, interesting and with a lively sense of humour”, but that he “conducted his court with...

    • Sir John Kerr
    • Sir Laurence Whistler Street
      Laurence Street
      Sir Laurence Whistler Street AC, KCMG, QC is an Australian jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.-Family:...

    • Murray Gleeson
      Murray Gleeson
      Anthony Murray Gleeson AC QC is a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.-Biography:Gleeson was born in Wingham, New South Wales, the eldest of four children...

    • James Spigelman
      James Spigelman
      James Jacob Spigelman AC QC is a former Australian judge. He served as Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 19 May 1998 until 31 May 2011.-Early years and education:...

    • Tom Bathurst
      Tom Bathurst
      Thomas Frederick Bathurst QC is an Australian judge. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales from 1 June 2011.-Early years and education:...


  • Chief justices of the Supreme Court of Queensland
    Supreme Court of Queensland
    The Supreme Court of Queensland, which is based at the Law Courts Complex, is the superior court for the Australian State of Queensland and sits around the middle of the Australian court hierarchy...

     -
    • Sir Alan Mansfield
      Alan Mansfield
      Sir Alan James Mansfield KCMG, KCVO was Governor of Queensland, Australia between 1966 and 1972.-Family:Sir Alan Mansfield was born in Brisbane and educated in Sydney. The Mansfield family had land in Gumdale. Mansfield lived in the Mount Gravatt area for many years...


  • Chief justices of Supreme Court of Western Australia
    Supreme Court of Western Australia
    The Supreme Court of Western Australia is the highest state court in the Australian State of Western Australia. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil matters , and hears the most serious criminal matters.The Supreme Court consists of a General Division The Supreme Court of Western...

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    • Sir Lawrence Jackson

  • Lord mayors of the City of Sydney
    City of Sydney
    The City of Sydney is the Local Government Area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia...

     -
    • Sir Emmet McDermott
      Emmet McDermott
      Sir Emmet McDermott KBE was an Australian dentist, politician and Lord Mayor of Sydney between 1969 and 1972.Emmet McDermott was born in Glebe, the sixth of ten children...

    • Nelson Meers
      Nelson Meers
      Nelson John Meers AO was Lord Mayor of Sydney between 1978 and 1980. He holds a degree in law from the University of Sydney.Prior to his term as Lord Mayor, Meers established an extensive commercial and defamation practice as a partner of two leading international law firms...

    • Jeremy Bingham
    • Frank Sartor
      Frank Sartor
      Francesco Ernest 'Frank' Sartor JP a former Australian politician, was New South Wales Minister for Climate Change and the Environment and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health between 2009 and 2011. He was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Rockdale for the...

    • Lucy Turnbull
      Lucy Turnbull
      Lucinda Mary "Lucy" Turnbull, née Hughes AO , a former Australian politician and former Lord Mayor of Sydney, is a prominent Australian business leader and company director. Turnbull was the first female Lord Mayor of Sydney, between 2003 and 2004 and was Deputy Lord Mayor, between 1999 and 2003...

    • Clover Moore
      Clover Moore
      Clover Moore , is an Australian politician, the Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney and an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Sydney. Moore is the first publicly elected female Lord Mayor of Sydney. Prior to the 2007 NSW state election, she...


  • Lord mayors of the City of Westminster
    City of Westminster
    The City of Westminster is a London borough occupying much of the central area of London, England, including most of the West End. It is located to the west of and adjoining the ancient City of London, directly to the east of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and its southern boundary...

    • Kevin Gardner

  • Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
    President of the United Nations General Assembly
    The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly on a yearly basis.- Election :...

    • Dr H. V. Evatt
      H. V. Evatt
      Herbert Vere Evatt, QC KStJ , was an Australian jurist, politician and writer. He was President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1948–49 and helped draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights...


  • Members of the House of Lords
    House of Lords
    The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....

    • Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
      Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
      Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, PRS is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton. He now holds joint professorships at Oxford, and Imperial College London...

    • Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes
      Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes
      Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, AM FRSA is an Australian-born dentist, Conservative politician, and life peeress of the United Kingdom parliament...


  • Aboriginal leaders - Charles Perkins and Noel Pearson
  • Other notable Federal politicians - Tony Abbott
    Tony Abbott
    Anthony John "Tony" Abbott is the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian House of Representatives and federal leader of the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Abbott has represented the seat of Warringah since the 1994 by-election...

    , Anthony Albanese
    Anthony Albanese
    Anthony Norman Albanese , Australian politician, who serves as Leader of the House of Representatives and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport in the Gillard Ministry...

    , Kerry Bartlett
    Kerry Bartlett
    Kerry Joseph Bartlett is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives between March 1996 and November 2007, representing the Division of Macquarie, New South Wales...

    , Chris Bowen
    Chris Bowen
    Christopher Eyles "Chris" Bowen , an Australian federal politician, is a member of the Australian House of Representatives, initially elected to represent the seat of Prospect in western Sydney for the Australian Labor Party at the 2004 federal election...

    , Lionel Bowen
    Lionel Bowen
    Lionel Frost Bowen AC , Australian politician, was a senior Labor Party figure, serving in the ministries of Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke...

    , Ross Cameron
    Ross Cameron
    Ross Alexander Cameron , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to October 2004, representing the Division of Parramatta, New South Wales...

    , Craig Emerson
    Craig Emerson
    Craig Anthony Emerson , Australian politician, has represented the House of Representatives seat of Rankin in Queensland for the Australian Labor Party since the 1998 federal election...

    , Laurie Ferguson
    Laurie Ferguson
    Laurie Donald Thomas Ferguson , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing Reid until 2010 and Werriwa thereafter, both in New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in the...

    , Martin Ferguson
    Martin Ferguson
    Martin John Ferguson AM , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Batman, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, the son of Jack Ferguson, who was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 1976...

    , Jennie George
    Jennie George
    Jennie George , Australian politician, is a former Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 2001 to July 2010, representing the Division of Throsby, New South Wales.-Early life:...

    , Joe Hockey
    Joe Hockey
    Joseph Benedict "Joe" Hockey , is an Australian politician and member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of North Sydney for the Liberal Party of Australia since 1996....

    , Tom Hughes, Ros Kelly
    Ros Kelly
    Ros Kelly AO was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Canberra from 18 October 1980 to 30 January 1995. She was a minister in the governments of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating....

    , Peter King
    Peter King (Australian politician)
    Peter Edward King , Australian politician, was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 2001 to October 2004, representing the seat of Wentworth, New South Wales. He was born in Bingara, New South Wales, and was educated at the Shore School,...

    , Andrew Laming
    Andrew Laming
    Andrew Charles Laming is an Australian politician who is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland, for the Liberal National Party of Queensland, having first won the seat at the 2004 federal election for the Liberal Party of Australia...

    , Robert McClelland
    Robert McClelland (Australian politician)
    Robert Bruce McClelland is the Attorney-General of Australia. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of theAustralian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Barton, New South Wales...

    , Daryl Melham
    Daryl Melham
    Daryl Melham , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Banks, New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to a family of Lebanese descent and studied Law and Economics at...

    , Tsebin Tchen
    Tsebin Tchen
    Tsebin Tchen is a former Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1999 to 2005, representing the state of Victoria....

    , Danna Vale
    Danna Vale
    Danna Sue Vale , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to July 2010, representing the Division of Hughes, New South Wales. She did not re-contest her seat at the 2010 federal election.From 1984 until 1988, Vale was a full-time wife,...

    , Bob Brown
    Bob Brown
    Robert James Brown is an Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia...

    , Mark Latham
    Mark Latham
    Mark William Latham , an author and former Australian politician, was leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from December 2003 to January 2005....

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  • Other political figures:
    • Martin Indyk
      Martin Indyk
      Martin Sean Indyk is Vice President and Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Indyk served as United States ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton Administration. He is known as the framer of the U.S...

      , former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, special assistant to U.S. President Bill Clinton
      Bill Clinton
      William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

       and senior director of Near East and South Asian Affairs at the United States National Security Council
      United States National Security Council
      The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...

      .

Business and industry

  • Fred Hilmer
    Fred Hilmer
    Professor Frederick George Hilmer AO is an Australian academic and business figure.Professor Hilmer obtained from the University of Sydney the degree of Bachelor of Laws with Honours Class II in April 1966....

     - CEO of University of New South Wales
    University of New South Wales
    The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

    , former CEO of John Fairfax Holdings
  • Peter C. Farrell - Founder, Chairman and CEO of ResMed
    ResMed
    Founded in Australia, ResMed is now a global manufacturer of products for the treatment of sleep disorders, particularly obstructive sleep apnea . ResMed employs about 2700 employees worldwide, it has direct operations in 18 countries and distribution in more than 50 countries...

  • Bryce Roxburgh - President of Exeter Resource Corporation
  • Matt Barrie - CEO of Freelancer.com
    Freelancer.com
    Formerly known as GetAFreelancer.com, the company was founded in 2004 by Plendo Sweden, headed up by Magnus Tibell of Swedish web solutions company Innovate It. GetAFreelancer.com was bought on the 7th May 2009 by the Australian company Ignition Networks...

  • Richard Gibbs - The chief economist of Macquarie Bank
  • Michael Blythe - The chief economist of Commonwealth Bank of Australia
    Commonwealth Bank of Australia
    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is a multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Fiji, Asia, USA and the United Kingdom. Commonwealth Bank provides a variety of financial services including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance,...

  • Bill Evans - The chief economist of Westpac
    Westpac
    Westpac , is a multinational financial services, one of the Australian "big four" banks and the second-largest bank in New Zealand....

  • Besa Deda - The chief economist of St George Bank
  • Nicholas Armstrong - CEO and Founder of COzero
  • Barrington Joseph Noble - Owner and Chairman of GM Scott Pty. Ltd
  • Mark S. Hauser - Managing Director of Sandell Asset Management Corp.,former CEO at Comtech Group Inc
  • Lee Seng Huang - Executive Chairman of Sun Hung Kai & Co.
  • Alan Gemes - Global Head of the Financial Services Practice at Booz & Company
    Booz & Company
    Booz & Company is a global management consulting firm established in the United States in 1914. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world and one of the best consulting firms to work for by Consulting Magazine...

  • Rajeev Gupta - Former Executive Director at Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

  • Paul Klepetko - Director of the investment banking division at Credit Suisse
    Credit Suisse
    The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...

     in New York
    New York
    New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

  • Geoffrey Porges - Vice President of Alliance Bernstein
  • Ashley Mullins - Global Compliance Officer of ACE Limited
  • John Ford - Managing Director, Sony Pictures Television Pty Limited
  • David W. Anstice - President of Banyu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. 万有製薬 and served as an Executive Vice President of Merck & Co. Inc.
  • Jeni Klugman
    Jeni Klugman
    Jeni Klugman is a development economist. She is currently the director of the UNDP's Human Development Report Office. Prior to her post at the UNDP, she worked for the World Bank on low-income countries in Africa, Europe and Asia and as a consultant with UNICEF, the Asian Development Bank and the...

     - the Director of the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme
    United Nations Development Programme
    The United Nations Development Programme is the United Nations' global development network. It advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP operates in 177 countries, working with nations on their own solutions to...

     (UNDP)
  • Michael Patsalos-Fox - Chairman of McKinsey & Co in America
  • William Cheng - General Manager and Group Chief Financial Officer, Bank of East Asia
    Bank of East Asia
    The Bank of East Asia Limited often abbreviated to BEA, is the largest independent local bank and the third largest bank in Hong Kong. Its chairman and chief executive is Sir David Li...

  • Gregor Lochite - Vice President and General Manager of American Express
    American Express
    American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...

     in Greater China
    Greater China
    Greater China is a term used to refer to mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. As a "phrase of the moment", the precise meaning is not entirely clear, and people may use it for only the commercial ties, only the cultural actions, or even as a euphemism for the Two Chinas, while others may...

    ,previously Vice President of American Express
    American Express
    American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...

     in Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

     and Head of Global Commercial Cards
  • Graham Bradley - Chairman of HSBC
    HSBC
    HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...

     Australia, Stockland
    Stockland
    Stockland may refer to:* Stockland, a multinational company.* Stockland, Devon, a small village in Devon, UK.* Stockland Bristol a village in Somerset, UK...

     and Po Valley Energy;he is also a Non-executive and independent Director of SingTel
  • Craig H. Barratt - CEO of Atheros
    Atheros
    Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductors for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. Founded under the name Atheros in 1998 by experts in signal processing from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and the private industry, it became a public company...

     Communications
  • Andrew Dutton - General Manager of VMware
    VMware
    VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....

     (Asia Pacific and Japan), previously Vice President and General Manager for IBM
    IBM
    International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

     Software Group Asia Pacific based in Tokyo
    Tokyo
    , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

  • Jennifer Ann Elliott - Group Managing Director of Moody's Corp (Asia-Pacific)
  • John Grill
    John Grill
    John Grill is the current CEO of Australian-based engineering company, WorleyParsons. He graduated with Honours in Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney before joining ESSO Australia in 1968. John then moved in 1971 to be Chief Executive of Wholohan Grill and Partners, a civil...

     - CEO of WorleyParsons
    WorleyParsons
    WorleyParsons Limited is a large Australian provider of professional services to the energy, resource, and complex process industries.The company has a market capitalisation greater than A$6 billion, and makes up about 0.55% of the S&P/ASX 200 index....

  • Jim McIlvenny - Senior Vice President of Dow Chemical Company
    Dow Chemical Company
    The Dow Chemical Company is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. As of 2007, it is the second largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue and as of February 2009, the third-largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization .Dow...

  • Jason Murray - CEO of Just Group,the largest fashion and apparel retailer in Australasia
    Australasia
    Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...

  • Franz Koch - CEO of Puma AG
    PUMA AG
    Puma SE, officially branded as PUMA, is a major German multinational company that produces high-end athletic shoes, lifestyle footwear and other sportswear. Formed in 1924 as Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik by Adolf and Rudolf Dassler, relationships between the two brothers deteriorated until the two...

    ,Europe's second-largest sporting-goods maker
  • Malcolm Carfrae - Executive Vice President of Calvin Klein
    Calvin Klein
    Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry....

  • Nick Curtis - CEO of Lynas
    Lynas
    Lynas Corporation, Ltd. is an Australian rare earths mining company, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange as a S&P/ASX 200 company. It has two major operations: a mining and concentration plant at Mount Weld, Western Australia, and a refining facility now under construction at Kuantan,...

     Corp.
  • Robert Rankin - CEO of Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank
    Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...

     (Asia-Pacific),Former Head of Investment Banking Asia Pacific, at UBS
  • Margaret Gardner
    Margaret Gardner
    Professor Margaret Elaine Gardner, AO is an Australian academic, community leader and economist, and the current Vice-Chancellor of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.-Education:Prof...

     - CEO of RMIT University
    RMIT University
    RMIT University is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. It has two branches, referred to as RMIT University in Australia and RMIT International University in Vietnam....

  • Belinda Hutchinson - Chairman of QBE Insurance
    QBE Insurance
    QBE Insurance Group Limited is an Australian based general insurance provider, providing insurance services mainly to the Asia Pacific region, but also America and Europe . It has offices in 45 countries...

    ,Director of St Vincent’s Health Australia
  • Michael Hawker - former CEO of Insurance Australia Group
    Insurance Australia Group
    Insurance Australia Group Limited is an Australian publicly-listed company with its shares traded on the Australian Stock Exchange as ....

  • Michael Wilkins - CEO of Insurance Australia Group
    Insurance Australia Group
    Insurance Australia Group Limited is an Australian publicly-listed company with its shares traded on the Australian Stock Exchange as ....

  • Alaina Taylor - insurance adviser, contestant revealed as The Mole
    The Mole (Australian TV series)
    The Mole was an Australian reality television series that aired on the Seven Network. It is based on The Mole franchise of programs that have aired in numerous countries. The sub-title for the Australian version of the show was a simple question: Who is the traitor?...

    in 2002
  • Thao Nguyen - law student who studied here, also a contestant on The Mole
    The Mole (Australian TV series)
    The Mole was an Australian reality television series that aired on the Seven Network. It is based on The Mole franchise of programs that have aired in numerous countries. The sub-title for the Australian version of the show was a simple question: Who is the traitor?...

    in 2002, runner-up of that season's Weakest Link special episode.
  • Malcolm Turnbull
    Malcolm Turnbull
    Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2004, and was Leader of the Opposition and parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party from 16 September 2008 to 1 December 2009.Turnbull has represented the Division...

     - Politician, lawyer, investment banker, prominent Republican
    Republicanism in Australia
    Republicanism in Australia is a movement to change Australia's status as a constitutional monarchy to a republican form of government. Such sentiments have been expressed in Australia from before federation onward to the present...

  • Michael Spence
    Michael Spence (academic)
    The Reverend Dr Michael J. Spence is an Australian-born academic. Dr Michael Spence began as the 25th Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney on 11 July 2008.-Education:...

     - Vice-Chancellor and Principal of University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

    ,Former Head of Social Science Division at Oxford University and Former Head of Law Faculty at Oxford University
  • James Wolfensohn
    James Wolfensohn
    Sir James David Wolfensohn AO KBE FKC was the ninth president of the World Bank Group.-Early life:James Wolfensohn was born in Sydney, Australia, on 1 December 1933...

     - President of the World Bank
    World Bank
    The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

     (1995–2005)
  • Byram Johnston - former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia
    Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia
    The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia is the professional accounting body representing Chartered Accountants in Australia. It has over 50,000 members and has some 12,000 students. It is a founding member of the Global Accounting Alliance .-History:The Institute of Chartered...

  • Allan Moss
    Allan Moss
    Allan Moss AO was the Managing Director/CEO of Macquarie Group Ltd. Allan Moss retired from Macquarie Group Limited on 23 May 2008 after a 15 year stint as the CEO of Macquarie. Prior to this Mr Moss was a director of Hill Samuel Australia and led the team responsible for preparing the submission...

     - ex Managing Director/CEO of Macquarie Bank
  • Glenn Stevens
    Glenn Stevens
    Glenn Robert Stevens is an Australian economist and the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.-Early life and education:...

     - current governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
    Reserve Bank of Australia
    The Reserve Bank of Australia came into being on 14 January 1960 as Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority, when the Reserve Bank Act 1959 removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank to it....

  • Alan Cameron - former Chairman of Australian Securities and Investment Commission
  • David Mortimer - Chairman of Leighton Holdings
    Leighton Holdings
    Leighton Holdings is Australia's largest project development and contracting group. It is active in the telecommunications, engineering and infrastructure, building and property, mining and resources, and environmental services industries...

     and Australia Post
    Australia Post
    Australia Post is the trading name of the Australian Government-owned Australian Postal Corporation .-History:...

  • Sir David Higgins
    David Higgins (businessman)
    Sir David Hartmann Higgins , is an Australian businessman, the Chief Executive of Network Rail and the former Chief Executive of the London 2012 Summer Olympics Delivery Authority....

     - CEO of Network Rail
    Network Rail
    Network Rail is the government-created owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain .; it is not responsible for railway infrastructure in Northern Ireland...

     and former CEO of the London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority
    Olympic Delivery Authority
    The Olympic Delivery Authority is the statutory corporation responsible for ensuring delivery of venues, infrastructure and legacy for the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in London...

     and of Lend Lease Corporation
    Lend Lease Corporation
    Lend Lease Group is a global property and infrastructure company headquartered in Sydney, Australia...

  • Michael Hintze
    Michael Hintze
    Michael Hintze is an Australian/British businessman, philanthropist and political patron, based in the United Kingdom. According to the latest Forbes Rich List, he is the world’s 880th richest person, worth $1.2 billion.-Early life:...

      - Billionare, Previously Head of U.K. Trading and Head of European emerging markets trading at Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

    ,Former managing director in the leveraged funds group at Credit Suisse First Boston
    Credit Suisse First Boston
    Credit Suisse First Boston was the former name of the banking firm Credit Suisse.-History:In 1978, Credit Suisse and First Boston Corporation formed a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture called the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston...

    ,founder and CEO of asset managers CQS Management, UK Conservative Part donor and philathropist
  • Jim L'Estrange - former managing director of Star City Casino
    Star City Casino
    The Star Sydney Casino & Hotel in Pyrmont, Sydney, is the second largest casino in Australia after rival Melbourne's Crown Casino. Overlooking Darling Harbour, The Star Sydney Casino features two gaming floors, eight bars, seven restaurants, 351 hotel rooms and 130 serviced and privately owned...

     and current CEO of NSW Rugby
    New South Wales Rugby Union
    The New South Wales Rugby Union is the organisation responsible for the sport of rugby union in most of the state of New South Wales, Australia...

  • Cameron Clyne
    Cameron Clyne
    Cameron Clyne is an Australian businessman, currently executive Director & Managing Director and Group CEO of the National Australia Bank Group, a position to which he was appointed on 1 January 2009...

     - CEO of National Australia Bank
    National Australia Bank
    National Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia in terms of market capitalisation and customers. NAB is ranked 17th largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation...

  • Richard Sheppard - CEO of Macquarie Bank Limited
  • John Laker - Chairman of Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
  • Jenny Fagg - CEO of ANZ New Zealand
  • Steven Harker - CEO of Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

     Australia
  • David S. Clarke
    David S. Clarke
    David Stuart Clarke AO was an Australian businessman. He attended Knox Grammar School on Sydney's North Shore, the University of Sydney , and Harvard Business School . Clarke was Executive Chairman of Macquarie Bank from its formation in 1985 until March 2007, when he ceased executive duties...

     - Former Chairman of Macquarie Bank
  • Kevin McCann - Chairman of Macquarie Bank
  • Glen Boreham - CEO of IBM
    IBM
    International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

     Australia
  • John Mulcahy
    John Mulcahy
    John Joseph Francis Mulcahy was the winner of the 1904 Olympic double scull event with his partner William Varley. The duo also won the silver medal in the pair without coxswain event...

     - former CEO of Suncorp-Metway
    Suncorp-Metway
    Suncorp Group Limited is an Australian finance, insurance, and banking corporation based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is one of Australia's largest banks and its largest general insurance group, formed on 1 December 1996 by the merger of Suncorp, Metway Bank and the Queensland Industry...

     Ltd
  • Gina Rinehart
    Gina Rinehart
    Georgina "Gina" Hope Rinehart is a mining heiress. She is the heiress of Hancock Prospecting and the daughter of the late mining magnate Lang Hancock and Hope Margaret Nicholas...

     - Billionaire
    Billionaire
    A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually the United States dollar, Euro, or Pound sterling. Forbes magazine updates a complete list of U.S. dollar billionaires around the...

    , the richest woman in Australia
  • Bill Ferris - Executive Chairman of CHAMP, the largest venture capital and private equity funds management group in Australia
  • Joanne Allen - Head of Human Resources for CitiGroup
    Citigroup
    Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...

     in Australia and New Zealand
  • Joseph Skrzynski - President of the Australian Venture Capital Association
  • Michael A. Aked - Managing Director, University of Virginia Investment Management Company
  • Alexander ("Skander") Malcolm - CEO of GE Capital
    GE Capital
    GE Capital is the financial services unit of General Electric, one of five major units. Its various divisions include GE Capital Aviation Services, GE Capital Real Estate, GE Energy Financial Services and GE Money....

     Australia
  • Heather Ridout - CEO of Australian Industry Group
    Australian Industry Group
    The Australian Industry Group, also called Ai Group, is an employers' organisation, whose member's employ over 750,000 staff from throughout Australia...

  • Jim Millner
    James Millner (pharmacist)
    James Sinclair Millner AM was an Australian corporate executive. He was head of many large Australian organisations including President of the NRMA, chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson, New Hope Coal, Brickworks Limited, Choiseul Investments, Queensland Mines Limitied and NBN Television....

     - former Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson
    Washington H. Soul Pattinson
    Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Company Limited is an Australian investment company.-History:In 1872, Caleb Soul and his son Washington opened their first store at 177 Pitt Street, Sydney, trading as Washington H. Soul and Co...

  • Paul Kelly
    Paul Kelly (journalist)
    Paul John Kelly is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney. He has worked in a variety of roles, principally for The Australian newspaper, and is currently its Editor-at-large. He has written several books on political events since the 1970s including on the Australian...

     - Editor-at-Large of The Australian
    The Australian
    The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....

    , previously Editor-in-Chief of The Australian
  • David W. Johnson - Chairman Emeritus and Former CEO of Campbell Soup Company
    Campbell Soup Company
    Campbell Soup Company , also known as Campbell's, is an American producer of canned soups and related products. Campbell's products are sold in 120 countries around the world. It is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey...

    , current Director of Colgate-Palmolive Company. The only Australian listed in the 20th Century American Leaders Database of Harvard Business School
    Harvard Business School
    Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...


Science and technology

  • Presidents of the Royal Society
    Royal Society
    The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...

    • Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
      Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
      Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, PRS is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton. He now holds joint professorships at Oxford, and Imperial College London...

       - Former president of The Royal Society and Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government

  • The Executive Director and CEO of IEEE
    • E. James Prendergast - Former Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DuPont
      DuPont
      E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company , commonly referred to as DuPont, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont. DuPont was the world's third largest chemical company based on market capitalization and ninth based on revenue in 2009...

       Electronic & Communication Technologies

  • Chief Scientists of Australia
    • Jim Peacock
      Jim Peacock
      William James Peacock AC was Chief Scientist of Australia , President of the Australian Academy of Science and Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry ....

       - Former President of Australian Academy of Science
    • Michael Pitman
      Michael Pitman
      Michael George Pitman OBE was an English-born Australian biologist, who was Chief Scientist of Australia from 1992 to 1996...


  • Nobel Laureates -
    • Sir Robert Robinson (academic) - Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1947)
    • Sir John Cornforth
      John Cornforth
      Sir John Warcup 'Kappa' Cornforth, AC, CBE, FRS , is an Australian scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions....

       - Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1975)
    • John Harsanyi
      John Harsanyi
      John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-Australian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner....

       - Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994)

  • Crafoord Prize
    Crafoord Prize
    The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord...

     Winners -
    • Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
      Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
      Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, PRS is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton. He now holds joint professorships at Oxford, and Imperial College London...

       Biosciences 1996
    • Edwin Ernest Salpeter
      Edwin Ernest Salpeter
      Edwin Ernest Salpeter FRS was an Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist. Born to a Jewish family, he emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his teens to escape the Nazis. He attended Sydney University, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1944 and his master's degree in 1945...

       Astronomy 1997

  • Economists or Statisticians or Mathematicians
    • Trevor Swan
      Trevor Swan
      Trevor Winchester Swan was an Australian economist. He is best known for his work on the neoclassical model of economic growth, published simultaneously with that of Robert Solow, for his work on integrating internal and external balance, represented by the Swan diagram and for pioneering work in...

       - The Swan in the Solow-Swan Model
      Exogenous growth model
      The neoclassical growth model, also known as the Solow–Swan growth model or exogenous growth model, is a class of economic models of long-run economic growth set within the framework of neoclassical economics...

    • Graeme Segal
      Graeme Segal
      Graeme Bryce Segal is a British mathematician, and professor at the University of Oxford.Segal was educated at the University of Sydney, where he received his BSc degree in 1961. He went on to receive his D.Phil...

       - FRS, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry
      Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry
      The Lowndean chair of Astronomy and Geometry is one of the two major Professorships in Astronomy at Cambridge University, alongside the Plumian Professorship...

      , and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge (from 1990 to 1999).
    • Peter Gavin Hall - Professor of Statistics at University of California, Davis
      University of California, Davis
      The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

    • Pat Moran - Who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population
      Population
      A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

       and evolutionary genetics
      Evolutionary genetics
      Evolutionary genetics is the broad field of studies that attempts to account for evolution in terms of changes in gene and genotype frequencies within populations and the processes that convert the variation with populations into more or less permanent variation between species...

    • Kelvin Lancaster
      Kelvin Lancaster
      Kelvin John Lancaster was a mathematical economist and John Bates Clark professor of economics at Columbia University. He is best known for the development of the Theory of the Second Best with Richard Lipsey...

       - Creator of the Theory of the Second Best
      Theory of the Second Best
      In welfare economics, the theory of the second best concerns what happens when one or more optimality conditions cannot be satisfied. Canadian economist Richard Lipsey and Australian economist Kelvin Lancaster showed in a 1956 paper that if one optimality condition in an economic model cannot be...

       and "A New Approach to Consumer Theory", John Bates Clark Professor of Economics at Columbia University
      Columbia University
      Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

    • Steven N. Evans - Professor of Statistics at University of California, Berkeley
      University of California, Berkeley
      The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

    • Eugene Seneta (academic) - Co-Inventor of the Variance-gamma distribution
    • Richard M. Hain - Professor of Mathematics at Duke University
      Duke University
      Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

    • Robert Griffiths
      Robert Griffiths (mathematician)
      Robert Charles Griffiths, FRS is an Australian mathematician and statistician known for his work in mathematical population genetics. He is Professor of Mathematical Genetics in the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall....

       - FRS,Professor of Mathematical Genetics at University of Oxford
      University of Oxford
      The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

    • Yew-Kwang Ng
      Yew-Kwang Ng
      Yew-Kwang Ng is an economist at Monash University. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Nanyang University in 1966 and later a Ph.D. from Sydney University in 1971....

       - an Economist at Monash University
      Monash University
      Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....

    • Jan Kmenta
      Jan Kmenta
      Jan Kmenta is a Czech-American economist. Currently he is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics at the University of Michigan, and Visiting Professor at CERGE-EI in Prague...

       - Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Michigan
      University of Michigan
      The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

    • George Foster - Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Management at Stanford University
      Stanford University
      The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

    • Stephen Donald - Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin
    • Justin Wolfers
      Justin Wolfers
      Justin Wolfers is an Australian-American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a contributor to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and an editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity...

       - Economist at Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business
    • John Romalis - Economist at University of Chicago Booth School of Business
    • Richard Holden - Economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management
      MIT Sloan School of Management
      The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

    • Dennis A. Ahlburg - President of Trinity University
      Trinity University (Texas)
      Trinity University is a private, independent, primarily undergraduate, university in San Antonio, Texas. Its campus is located in the Monte Vista Historic District and adjacent to Brackenridge Park....

      ,previously dean of the Leeds School of Business
      Leeds School of Business
      The Leeds School of Business is a college of the University of Colorado at Boulder in the United States. The enrollment of 3,300 students includes undgraduates, master's candidates, and Ph.D. candidates. The college was started in 1906 when the Board of Regents created the College of Commerce...

       at the University of Colorado at Boulder and professor of human resources at Carlson School of Management
      Carlson School of Management
      The school offers a bachelor's, MBA, and doctoral degrees, as well as executive education programs hosted domestically and abroad . Dual-degree programs include a JD/MBA, MD/MBA, MHA/MBA, and a MPP/MBA...

       at the University of Minnesota
    • Michael J. Hiscox - Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
      Harvard University
      Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    • Francis G. Vella - Edmond Villani Professor of Economics at Georgetown University
      Georgetown University
      Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

    • Bruce McKern - Economist at Stanford University
      Stanford University
      The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

      , Director of the Stanford Sloan Master’s Program from 2001-2007 at Stanford Graduate School of Business
      Stanford Graduate School of Business
      The Stanford Graduate School of Business is one of the professional schools of Stanford University, in Stanford, California and is broadly regarded as one of the best business schools in the world.The Stanford GSB offers a general management Master of Business Administration degree, the Sloan...


  • Computer Scientists
    • Michael Georgeff
      Michael Georgeff
      Michael Peter Georgeff is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who has made contributions in the areas of Intelligent Software Agents and eHealth.- Overview :...

       - AAAI Fellow,Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
      Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
      In Australia, the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute was a government funded research and development laboratory for investigating and commercializing Artificial Intelligence, specifically Intelligent Software Agents.- History :The AAII was started in 1988 as an initiative by the Hawke...

    • John S. Gero - AAAI Fellow,has held visiting and permanent appointments at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA,at USYD and UTS in Australia,at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK
    • Rick Jelliffe
      Rick Jelliffe
      Richard Alan Jelliffe is an Australian programmer and standards activist , particularly associated with web standards, markup languages, internationalization and schema languages. He is the founder and Chief Technical Officer of Topologi Pty. Ltd, an XML tools vendor in Sydney...

       - The inventor of the Schematron
      Schematron
      In markup languages, Schematron is a rule-based validation language for making assertions about the presence or absence of patterns in XML trees...

       schema language
    • Andrew Tridgell
      Andrew Tridgell
      Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell is an Australian computer programmer best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm....

       - The co-inventor of the rsync
      Rsync
      rsync is a software application and network protocol for Unix-like and Windows systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar...

       algorithm and the author of and contributor to the Samba
      Samba
      Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...

       file server
    • John Lions
      John Lions
      John Lions was an Australian computer scientist. He is best known as the author of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, commonly known as the Lions Book.-Early life:...

       - Author of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code
      Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code
      Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code by John Lions contains the complete source code of the 6th Edition Unix kernel plus a commentary. It is commonly referred to as the Lions book...

      , commonly known as the Lions Book
    • Ross Quinlan
      Ross Quinlan
      John Ross Quinlan is a computer science researcher in data mining and decision theory. He has contributed extensively to the development of decision tree algorithms, including inventing the canonical C4.5 and ID3 algorithms...

       - AAAI Fellow,a highly-cited scholar and a pioneer in decision theory
    • Vaughan Pratt - ACM
      Association for Computing Machinery
      The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

       Fellow,a pioneer in computer science,Professor Emeritus at Stanford University
      Stanford University
      The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

    • Rod Johnson - a best seller author and an expert in Java
      Java (programming language)
      Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

      /Java EE
      Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
      Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is widely used platform for server programming in the Java programming language. The Java platform differs from the Java Standard Edition Platform in that it adds libraries which provide functionality to deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-tier...

      , founder of the Spring Framework
    • Jia Dong - CEO of Red Flag Software,which is the Producer of Red Flag Linux
      Red Flag Linux
      Red Flag Linux is a Chinese Linux distribution developed by Red Flag Software. Red Flag's logo is Tux carrying a prominent red flag.The current executive president of Red Flag Software is Jia Dong .-Description:...

      , the current most used Linux
      Linux
      Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

       system in Asia and the current third most used Linux System in the world. He is also the CEO of Asianux
      Asianux
      Asianux is a Linux distribution. It is a joint development between Linux vendors Red Flag Software of China, Miracle Linux of Japan , Haansoft of South Korea, VietSoftware of Vietnam , WTEC from Thailand and Enterprise Technology Limited of Sri Lanka...

    • Ken Thompson
      Ken Thompson
      Kenneth Lane Thompson , commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science...

      (academic) - co-creator of unix
      Unix
      Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

      ,Turing Award recipient

  • Veterinary Scientists
    • Sir Ian Clunies Ross
      Ian Clunies Ross
      Sir Ian Clunies Ross, CMG is described as the 'architect' of Australia's scientific boom, for his stewardship of Australia's scientific organisation the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - CSIRO.-Family:...

       - Chairman Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
      Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
      The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is the national government body for scientific research in Australia...

       (CSIRO)
    • William Allen CBE - Professor of Equine Reproduction at Cambridge Veterinary School
    • William Beveridge - Professor of Animal Pathology and Director of the Institute of Animal Pathology at Cambridge University from 1947 to 1975
    • Alan Wilton, named as the 1994 Australian Science Communicators Unsung Hero of Science. Whilst not strictly a veterinary scientist, his research identified rogue genes in Australian cattle dogs and Australian stumpy tail cattle dogs. Also identified the genes responsible for CL and TNS afflictions in border collies. He played a leading role in setting up a DNA sequencing facility that ultimately led to the establishment of the Ramaciotti Centre for Gene Function Analysis at the University of NSW.
    • Hugh McLeod Gordon - World renowned Veterinary Parasitologist
    • Dr Ross Perry, Australia’s first registered avian veterinarian, the first to study and name Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease for which he was co-discoverer of viral infection agent
    • Wesley Whitten, veterinary scientist whose research led to breakthroughs in infertility treatment in humans. In 1993 he was awarded the Marshall Medal from the Society for the Study of Fertility and in 1996 the Pioneer Award of the International Society for Embryo Transfer. He discovered the synchronisation of the oestrus cycle of female mice exposed to the pheromones in male mouse urine. It is known as the Whitten effect. He developed the Whitten medium, in use globally, which facilitates culturing mammalian eggs and developing embryos

  • Astronauts -
    • Paul D. Scully-Power
      Paul D. Scully-Power
      Paul Desmond Scully-Power AM is an American oceanographer. While a civilian employee of the United States Naval Undersea Warfare Center, he flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-41-G as a Payload Specialist. He was the first Australian-born person to journey into space.-Personal :Scully-Power...

       - first Australian astronaut
    • Philip K. Chapman
    • Greg Chamitoff (academic)

  • Oceanographers -
    • Anthony Haymet - Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  • Explorers -
    • Griffith Taylor - Antarctic explorer and Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago and Founder of the Geography department at the University of Toronto
    • Sir Douglas Mawson
      Douglas Mawson
      Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...

       - Geologist and Antarctic explorer
    • Sir Edgeworth David
      Edgeworth David
      Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David KBE, DSO, FRS, was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer. A household name in his lifetime, David's most significant achievements were discovering the major Hunter Valley coalfield in New South Wales and leading the first expedition to reach the...

       - Geologist and Antarctic explorer

  • Engineers or Physicists or Inventors -
    • Neville Thiele
      Neville Thiele
      Dr. Albert Neville Thiele OAM born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, generally known as Neville Thiele and publishing under the name A...

       - Co-inventor of Thiele/Small
      Thiele/Small
      "Thiele/Small" commonly refers to a set of electromechanical parameters that define the specified low frequency performance of a loudspeaker driver. These parameters are published in specification sheets by driver manufacturers so that designers have a guide in selecting off-the-shelf drivers for...

       parameters
    • Richard H. Small
      Richard H. Small
      Richard H. Small is an American scientist, who worked mainly on electroacoustics. The Thiele/Small parameters are named after him and Neville Thiele.-Career:...

       - Co-inventor of Thiele/Small
      Thiele/Small
      "Thiele/Small" commonly refers to a set of electromechanical parameters that define the specified low frequency performance of a loudspeaker driver. These parameters are published in specification sheets by driver manufacturers so that designers have a guide in selecting off-the-shelf drivers for...

       parameters
    • Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
      Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
      Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, PRS is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton. He now holds joint professorships at Oxford, and Imperial College London...

       - Previously Chairman of the University Research Board and Professor of Zoology at Princeton University
      Princeton University
      Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

    • Edwin Ernest Salpeter
      Edwin Ernest Salpeter
      Edwin Ernest Salpeter FRS was an Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist. Born to a Jewish family, he emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his teens to escape the Nazis. He attended Sydney University, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1944 and his master's degree in 1945...

       - Famous for his contributions to Astronomy,Professor of Physics,Emeritus at Cornell University
      Cornell University
      Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

    • Bernard Mills - FRS,Inventor of the Mills Cross Telescope
      Mills Cross Telescope
      Bernard Mills built the two-dimensional Mills Cross Telescope in 1954 at the Fleurs field station of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in the area known now as Badgerys Creek, about 40km west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Each arm of the cross was...

    • Herbert Huppert
      Herbert Huppert
      Herbert Eric Huppert is an Australian-born geophysicist living in Britain. He has been Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University, since 1989 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1970.He was born and received...

       - FRS,Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University, since 1989 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
      King's College, Cambridge
      King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....

      , since 1970.
    • Bruce Bolt
      Bruce Bolt
      Bruce Bolt was a Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Bolt was a seismologist known as pioneer of engineering seismology...

       - Pioneer of engineering seismology
      Seismology
      Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies. The field also includes studies of earthquake effects, such as tsunamis as well as diverse seismic sources such as volcanic, tectonic, oceanic,...

      ,Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley
      University of California, Berkeley
      The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

    • Ruby Payne-Scott
      Ruby Payne-Scott
      Ruby Violet Payne-Scott was an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy and is the first female radio astronomer.-Early life:Payne-Scott was born in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, on 28 May 1912...

       - First Female Radio Astronomer in the World
    • Ronald N. Bracewell
      Ronald N. Bracewell
      Ronald Newbold Bracewell AO was the Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus of the at Stanford University.- Education :...

       - Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University
      Stanford University
      The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

    • Paul Klemens, emeritus professor of physics at University of Connecticut
      University of Connecticut
      The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...

      ,leading American theoretical physicist whose life work is honoured by the triennial award of the Klemens Medal in Phonon Physics;
    • Dr John Bradfield - designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
      Sydney Harbour Bridge
      The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district and the North Shore. The dramatic view of the bridge, the harbour, and the nearby Sydney Opera House is an iconic...

    • David Warren
      David Warren (inventor)
      David Ronald de Mey Warren AO was an Australian scientist, best known for inventing and developing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder .-Early life:...

       - inventor of the Black Box
      Flight recorder
      A flight recorder is an electronic recording device placed in an aircraft for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of an aircraft accident or incident. For this reason, flight recorders are required to be capable of surviving the conditions likely to be encountered in a severe aircraft...

       (flight data recorder
      Flight data recorder
      A flight data recorder is an electronic device employed to record any instructions sent to any electronic systems on an aircraft. It is a device used to record specific aircraft performance parameters...

      )
    • Graeme Clark - inventor of the bionic ear implant
    • Eric Davis (1923–2009), who perfected the technology, now applied globally, for preserving food and drink in containers and casks.
    • John O'Sullivan
      John O'Sullivan (astronomy/engineering)
      John O’Sullivan is an Australian electrical engineer whose work in the application of Fourier transforms to radio astronomyled to his invention with colleagues of a core technology that made wireless LAN fast and reliable...

       - Winner of 2009 Prime Minister's Prize for Science (the nation's top science award; one of the originators of wireless technology, earning hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.
    • Bryan Gaensler
      Bryan Gaensler
      Bryan Malcolm Gaensler is an Australian astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year, currently based at the University of Sydney. He is best known for his work on magnetars, supernova remnants and magnetic fields.- Education :...

       - previously an associate professor of astronomy at Harvard University
      Harvard University
      Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

      , now an ARC Federation Fellow at the University of Sydney
    • Ronald Ernest Aitchison
      Ronald Ernest Aitchison
      Ronald Ernest Aitchison , was born in Hurstville, NSW, Australia on 29 December 1921. From 1942 to 1945 Ron worked as an engineer with the Amalgamated Wireless Valve Company on the design and production of klystrons and radar magnetrons, which were new devices important to the war effort...

       - solid-state physicist and electronics engineer
    • Richard Makinson
      Richard Makinson
      Richard Elliss Bodenham Makinson was an Australian physicist who contributed to the understanding of thermal conductivity in crystals. His work is cited in the classical book Introduction to Solid State Physics by Charles Kittel. He also contributed to the physics of amorphous semiconductors...

       - physicist notable for his contributions to amorphous semiconductors

  • Archaeologists -
    • Timothy Potts
      Timothy Potts
      Dr Timothy Potts is an Australian art historian, archaeologist, and museum director.- Biography :Timothy Potts was educated at the University of Sydney and holds a DPhil in Near Eastern art and archaeology from the University of Oxford, where he was a research lecturer and British Academy Research...

    • Vere Gordon Childe
      Vere Gordon Childe
      Vere Gordon Childe , better known as V. Gordon Childe, was an Australian archaeologist and philologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. A vocal socialist, Childe accepted the socio-economic theory of Marxism and was an early proponent of Marxist archaeology...

    • Basil Hennessy
      Basil Hennessy
      John Basil Hennessy AO , is an Australian archaeologist of the Ancient Near East and Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney.-Childhood, early career and education:...

    • David O'Connor
      David O'Connor (Egyptologist)
      David O'Connor is an Australian Egyptologist, currently residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. O'Connor holds the position of Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art, in the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University.Ph.D. 1969, University of Cambridge;...

    • Stephen Bourke
      Stephen Bourke (archaeologist)
      Stephen Bourke is an Australian archaeologist of the ancient Near East. He obtained his Ph.D. from University College London in 1992, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Council for British Research in the Levant....

    • Alison Betts
    • Karin Sowada
      Karin Sowada
      Karin Nicole Sowada is an Australian archaeologist and former politician. She served two years as an Australian Democrats senator for New South Wales between 1991 and 1993, filling the casual vacancy created by the resignation of Paul McLean...

    • Paul James Cowie

Medicine

  • Professor Alan O. Trounson
    Alan O. Trounson
    Alan Trounson, Ph.D., is a biologist and President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine California’s $3 billion stem cell agency...

     - President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
    California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine was created by California's Proposition 71 , which authorized it to issue $3 billion in grants, funded by bonds, over ten years for embryonic stem cell and other biomedical research. It is claimed to be the world's largest single backer of...

     (CIRM)
  • Professor David Hunter - Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard School of Public Health
    Harvard School of Public Health
    The Harvard School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, which is next to Harvard Medical School. HSPH is considered a significant school focusing on health in the...

  • Professor Dame Valerie Beral AC - (graduated with first-class honours in both medicine and surgery, 1969), epidemiologist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Head of Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford
    University of Oxford
    The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

     and Cancer Research UK
    Cancer Research UK
    Cancer Research UK is a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom, formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Its aim is to reduce the number of deaths from cancer. As the world's largest independent cancer...

     since 1989, leader of the survey of 1.3 million women that established hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a major cause of increased breast cancer rates in western nations.
  • Professor Virginia L. Hood - President of American College of Physicians
    American College of Physicians
    The American College of Physicians is a national organization of doctors of internal medicine —physicians who specialize in the prevention, detection, and treatment of illnesses in adults. With 130,000 members, ACP is the largest medical-specialty organization and second-largest physician group in...

  • Sir Michael Marmot
    Michael Marmot
    Sir Michael Gideon Marmot is professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.- Career :Michael Marmot was born in London, England. He moved to Australia as a young child and graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1968. He earned a MPH in 1972...

     - President of British Medical Association
    British Medical Association
    The British Medical Association is the professional association and registered trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom. The association does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the General Medical Council. The association’s headquarters are located in BMA House,...

    , Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London, has conducted ground-breaking studies into stroke.
  • Sir Archibald Collins, President of British Medical Association in Australia.
  • Sir Henry Harris FRS, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, who first demonstrated the existence of tumour-suppressing genes.
  • Sir Norman Gregg
    Norman Gregg
    Sir Norman McAlister Gregg, MC was an Australian ophthalmologist, who discovered that rubella suffered by a pregnant woman could cause birth defects in her child .-Early life and education:...

    , identified rubella in early pregnancy as a human teratogen.
  • Professor Jacques Miller
    Jacques Miller
    Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller AC FRS is a distinguished research scientist. He is famous for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes and their function.-Early life:Miller was born on 2 April 1931,...

     FRS, discoverer of the function of the thymus (the last major organ of the human body whose function remained unknown).
  • Sir Brian Windeyer, Vice-Chancellor of London University 1969-72; Professor of Radiology at London University 1942-69.
  • Sir Gustav Nossal
    Gustav Nossal
    Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal, AC, CBE, FRS, FAA is an Australian research biologist.-Life and career:Gustav Nossal's family was from Vienna, Austria. He was born four weeks prematurely in Bad Ischl while his mother was on holiday...

     FRS, immunologist, discoverer of the so-called “one cell-one antibody” rule, which states that each B lymphocyte, developed in bone marrow, secretes a specific antibody in response to an encounter with a specific foreign antigen.
  • Dr Gerald Lawrie, world-renowned American heart surgeon and pioneer in the surgical treatment of valvular heart disease. On 14 August 2007, Dr. Lawrie performed the first mitral vale repair using the daVinci robotic surgical system using an advanced technique called the American Correction. In 2008, he was appointed the Methodist Hospital Michael E. Debakey Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
  • Raymond Dart
    Raymond Dart
    Raymond Arthur Dart was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominid closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the province...

    , an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his discovery in 1924 of a fossil (first ever found) of Australopithecus africanus (extinct hominid closely related to humans).
  • Dr. Mark C Lidwell, co-inventor of Artificial pacemaker
    Artificial pacemaker
    A pacemaker is a medical device that uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contacting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart...

  • Dr. Edgar H Booth, co-inventor of Artificial pacemaker
    Artificial pacemaker
    A pacemaker is a medical device that uses electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contacting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart...

  • Professor Graeme Clark FRS, inventor of cochlear ear implant
    Cochlear implant
    A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing...

     .
  • Professor Colin Sullivan, inventor of the Continuous Positive Airflow Pressure (CPAP) mask
  • Dr. George Kossoff, co-inventor of the first ultrasound
    Ultrasound
    Ultrasound is cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Ultrasound is thus not separated from "normal" sound based on differences in physical properties, only the fact that humans cannot hear it. Although this limit varies from person to person, it is...

     scanner
  • Professor Robert Clancy, developer of first oral vaccine for acute bronchitis.
  • Professor John Prineas, discoverer of how brain and spinal cord myelin is destroyed in multiple sclerosis.
  • Professor Donald Metcalf
    Donald Metcalf
    Emeritus Professor Donald Metcalf AC FRS FAA is an Australian medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne...

     FRS, his research revealed the control of blood cell formation.
  • Dr Anna Donald
    Anna Donald
    Anastasia Katherine "Anna" Donald was an Australian pioneer in the field of evidence-based medicine.-Education:...

     (1966–2009), pioneer and advocate of evidence-based medicine.
  • Professor Marshall Edwards, the discoverer of maternal hyperthermia as a human teratogen.
  • Dr William McBride, obstetrician, who in 1961 first warned the medical world against thalidomide as a human teratogen.
  • Dr John Hunter
    John Irvine Hunter
    John Irvine Hunter was an Australian professor of Anatomy.Hunter was born in Bendigo, Victoria, the third son of Henry Hunter, a furniture dealer, and Isabella née Hodgson. At eight years of age, Hunter had an attack of pneumonia and was sent to recuperate with an aunt in Albury, New South Wales,...

    , Challis Professor of Anatomy at age 24 years whose brilliant career, achieving international recognition, was cut short by fever just 2 years later.
  • Dr Victor Chang
    Victor Chang
    Victor Peter Chang, AC , was a Chinese Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation. Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he grew up in Hong Kong before moving to Australia...

     AC (1936–1991), one of the pioneers of modern heart transplantation
    Heart transplantation
    A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplantation, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. As of 2007 the most common procedure was to take a working heart from a recently deceased organ donor and implant it into the...

  • Dr Max Lake
    Max Lake
    Max Emory Lake, OAM was an Australian winemaker and surgeon, who is generally regarded as the "father of the Australian boutique wine industry".-Life:...

     OAM (1924–2009), Australia's first specialist hand surgeon
    Hand surgery
    The field of hand surgery deals with both surgical and non-surgical treatment of conditions and problems that may take place in the hand or upper extremity including injury and infection. Hand surgery may be practiced by graduates of general surgery, orthopedic surgery and plastic surgery...

  • Dr Nikos Athanasou, Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology at Oxford.
  • Dr John Diamond
    John Diamond (doctor)
    John Diamond, MD, graduated from Sydney Medical School in 1957 and was awarded his Diploma in Psychological Medicine in 1962...

    , developer of Behavioral Kinesiology (now called Life-Energy Analysis), a system based upon Applied Kinesiology
    Applied kinesiology
    Applied kinesiology is an alternative medicine method used for diagnosis and determination of therapy. According to practitioners using Applied Kinesiology techniques, it provides feedback on the functional status of the body. AK is a practice within the realm of alternative medicine and is...

    , incorporating the emotions.
  • Professor Patrick McGorry
    Patrick McGorry
    Patrick Dennistoun McGorry FRCP FASSA FRANZCP AO PhD MD is an Australian psychiatrist, best known for his development of the early intervention services for youth....

    , Australian of the Year 2010.
  • Professor Earl Owen, microsurgery pioneer whose institute has trained hundreds of Asian doctors.
  • Wirginia Maixner
    Wirginia Maixner
    Wirginia June Maixner is an Australian neurosurgeon and the director of neurosurgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia...

    , director of neurosurgery
    Neurosurgery
    Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.-In the United States:In...

     at the Royal Children's Hospital
    Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
    The Royal Children's Hospital is a major children's hospital in Melbourne, Australia.As the major paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital and offers a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents...

     in Melbourne. Graduated from the University of Sydney in 1986.
  • Robert Kavanaugh
    Robert Kavanaugh
    Robert Murray Kavanaugh GC was an Australian recipient of the Albert Medal, formerly the highest decoration for gallantry awarded to civilians or to military personnel for actions "not in the face of the enemy" in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth...

    , dentist and George Cross
    George Cross
    The George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...

     recipient.
  • Mitchell Notaras
    Mitchell Notaras
    Mitchell James Notaras was an Australian-born surgeon and philanthropist. -Early life:Notaras, and his twin brother Angelo, were born at Grafton, New South Wales, two of five children of Kytherian-Greek immigrants, Anthony and Ianthe Notaras. He attended Grafton primary and high schools before...

    , graduate who funded the $1.1 million Mitchel J Notaras Scholarship for Colorectal Medicine at the University of Sydney

Armed services

  • Lieutenant General Sir Iven Mackay, outstanding leader of the 6th Australian Division in the Libya Campaign.
  • Lieutenant General Sir Mervyn Brogan
    Mervyn Brogan
    Lieutenant General Sir Mervyn Francis Brogan KBE, CB was a senior officer in the Australian Army who served as Chief of the General Staff .-Military career:...

    , Chief of the General Staff.
  • Lieutenant General James Legge
    James Gordon Legge
    Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge CB, CMG was an Australian Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I. His son Stanley Ferguson Legge reached the rank of Major General.-Early life and career:...

    , Chief of the General Staff.
  • Major-General Sir Victor Windeyer
    Victor Windeyer
    Major General Sir William John Victor Windeyer KBE CB DSO and Bar PC KC Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia....

    .
  • Lieutenant General Sir Carl Jess
    Carl Jess
    Lieutenant General Sir Carl Herman Jess CB, CMG, CBE, DSO was an Australian Army officer who served in World War I and World War II.-Early life and career:...

    .
  • Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman.
  • Major-General David Engel, Chief of Materiel.
  • Major-General Greg Melick.
  • Air Vice Marshal Bruce Short.
  • Major-General Sir Ivan Dougherty
    Ivan Dougherty
    Major General Sir Ivan Noel Dougherty CBE, DSO & Bar, ED was an Australian Army officer during World War II.-Education and early life:...

    .
  • Major-General John Broadbent CBE
  • Major-General Paul Brereton AM RFD, Head Cadet, Reserve and Employer Support Division
  • Major-General W B "Digger" James AC, Director-General of Army Medical Services.
  • Major-General William Watson
    William Watson
    William Watson may refer to:*W. Marvin Watson , U.S. Postmaster General*William E. Watson, military historian*William H. Watson , Mexican-American War soldier from Maryland*William J. Watson...

    , Director-General of Army Medical Services.
  • Major-General Frederick Maguire, Director-General of Army Medical Services.
  • Captain Gordon King, commando leader awarded the Distinguished Service Order for action at the Battle of Kaiapit
    Battle of Kaiapit
    The Battle of Kaiapit was an action fought in 1943 between Australian and Japanese forces in New Guinea during the Finisterre Range campaign of World War II. Following the landing at Nadzab and landing at Lae, the Allies attempted to exploit their success with an advance into the upper Markham...

    .
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Drew
    Robert Drew
    Robert Lincoln Drew is an American documentary filmmaker known as a pioneer of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States....

    , Director-General of Army Medical Services (United Kingdom).
  • Rear-Admiral Alec Doyle, Chief of Construction RAN
  • Rear-Admiral Darryl Lynam, Director General of Fleet Maintenance RAN
  • Air Vice Marshal Ian Esplin DFC, Royal Air Force.


Arts, literature and media

  • Margaret Clunies Ross
    Margaret Clunies Ross
    Margaret Clunies Ross is the McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney. Her main research areas are Old Norse-Icelandic Studies and the history of their study. Since 1997 she has led the project...

    , McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature, Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies
  • Professor Jill Ker Conway
    Jill Ker Conway
    Jill Ker Conway is an Australian-American author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain. She was also Smith College's first woman president, from 1975–1985, and now serves as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

     - Previously Vice-President of the University of Toronto and President of Smith College
    Smith College
    Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...

    .She is a Visiting Professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

    's Program in Science, Technology, and Society and She serves on the boards of Nike
    Nike, Inc.
    Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...

    , Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch is the wealth management division of Bank of America. With over 15,000 financial advisors and $2.2 trillion in client assets it is the world's largest brokerage. Formerly known as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., prior to 2009 the firm was publicly owned and traded on the New York...

    , and Colgate-Palmolive
    Colgate-Palmolive
    Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American diversified multinational corporation focused on the production, distribution and provision of household, health care and personal products, such as soaps, detergents, and oral hygiene products . Under its "Hill's" brand, it is also a manufacturer of...

    , and as chairman of Lend Lease Corporation
    Lend Lease Corporation
    Lend Lease Group is a global property and infrastructure company headquartered in Sydney, Australia...

  • Professor Michael Halliday
    Michael Halliday
    Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday is a British linguist who developed an internationally influential model of language, the systemic functional linguistic model. His grammatical descriptions go by the name of systemic functional grammar .-Biography:Halliday was born and raised in England...

      - Creator of the systemic functional grammar
    Systemic functional grammar
    Systemic functional grammar , a component of systemic functional linguistics , is a form of grammatical description originally developed by Michael Halliday in a career spanning more than 50 years. It is part of a social semiotic approach to language called systemic-functional linguistics...

    ,an internationally influential grammar model.
  • Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith
    Peter Godfrey-Smith
    Peter Godfrey-Smith is a professor of philosophy at Harvard University. Born in Australia in 1965, he received a Ph.D. in philosophy from UCSD in 1991, and joined Harvard in 2006 after previous positions at Stanford University and Australian National University...

     - professor of philosophy at Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Dr. Timothy Potts
    Timothy Potts
    Dr Timothy Potts is an Australian art historian, archaeologist, and museum director.- Biography :Timothy Potts was educated at the University of Sydney and holds a DPhil in Near Eastern art and archaeology from the University of Oxford, where he was a research lecturer and British Academy Research...

     - Best known for his directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum
    Fitzwilliam Museum
    The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge, England. It receives around 300,000 visitors annually. Admission is free....

    , Kimbell Museum, and National Gallery of Victoria
    National Gallery of Victoria
    The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...

    . Also known for his writings in the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean.
  • Actors - John Bell
    John Bell (actor)
    John Anthony Bell, AO, OBE is an Australian actor and theatre director.Bell was born 1 November 1940 in the town of Maitland, New South Wales where he was educated at the Marist Brothers....

    , Rose Byrne
    Rose Byrne
    Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress.Byrne made her screen debut in 1994 with a small role in the film Dallas Doll...

    , John Flaus
    John Flaus
    John Flaus is an Australian broadcaster, actor, voice talent, anarchist and raconteur. He was formerly a prominent film academic and theorist. He was born in Maroubra, Sydney....

    , Dolph Lundgren
    Dolph Lundgren
    Dolph Lundgren is a Swedish actor, director, and martial artist. He belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the movie action hero stereotype including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.A graduate in chemical...

  • Architects - John Andrews
    John Andrews (architect)
    John Hamilton Andrews is a Canadian and Australian architect.John Andrews graduated with a bachelors from the University of Sydney in 1956. In 1957 he entered the masters of architecture program at Harvard University. After graduation he worked with John Parkin in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto,...

    , designer of CN Tower, Toronto, Canada, the tallest concrete structure in the world and often listed as one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
  • Broadcasters - Phillip Adams
    Phillip Adams
    Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, social commentator, satirist and left-wing pundit. He currently hosts a radio program, Late Night Live, four nights a week on the ABC, and he also writes a weekly column for the News Limited-owned newspaper, The...

    , Ray Martin
    Ray Martin (television presenter)
    Raymond George "Ray" Martin AM is an Australian television journalist. He is best known for his various on-air roles on Channel Nine from 1978 to 2008. In 2011 he returned to 60 Minutes....

    , Adam Spencer
    Adam Spencer
    Adam Barrington Spencer is an Australian radio presenter, comedian, and media personality. He first came to fame when he won his round of the comedic talent search Raw Comedy in the mid-1990s...

  • Journalist - Richard McGregor
    Richard McGregor
    Richard McGregor is a journalist, writer and author. He was the chief political correspondent, Japan correspondent and China correspondent for The Australian. He also worked for the International Herald Tribune, the BBC and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He has worked as a journalist in Taiwan,...

  • Comedians - The Chaser
    The Chaser
    The Chaser are an Australian satirical comedian group, known for their television programmes on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation channel. The group take their name from their production of satirical newspaper, a publication known to challenge conventions of taste...

     (Charles Firth, Dominic Knight
    Dominic Knight
    Dominic Sebastian Knight is an Australian comedy writer, best known as a member of the Australian political satire comedy group The Chaser, as well as being an independent writer and former blogger for the Sydney Morning Herald...

    , Andrew Hansen
    Andrew Hansen
    Andrew John Hansen is an Australian comedian and musician, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

    , Chas Licciardello
    Chas Licciardello
    Chas John Licciardello is a comedian from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

    , Julian Morrow
    Julian Morrow
    Julian Francis Xavier Morrow is an Australian comedian and television producer from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is best known for being a member of the satirical team The Chaser...

    , Craig Reucassel
    Craig Reucassel
    Craig Bruce Reucassel is a television and radio comedian from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

    , Chris Taylor
    Chris Taylor (comedian)
    Christopher Thornton "Chris" Taylor is an Australian comedian, writer and former radio host from Sydney. As a member of The Chaser, he is best known for co-writing and appearing on satirical ABC Television shows CNNNN and The Chaser's War on Everything...

    )
  • Opera singers - Dame Joan Sutherland
    Joan Sutherland
    Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s....

    , Yvonne Kenny
    Yvonne Kenny
    Yvonne Kenny AM is an Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel and Mozart roles.Born in Sydney, she first studied at the University of Sydney in science, hoping to become a biochemist, but decided to pursue a career in music instead...

  • Writers -
    • Geoffrey Robertson
      Geoffrey Robertson
      Geoffrey Ronald Robertson QC is an Australian-born human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster. He holds dual Australian and British citizenship....

       - human rights lawyer, academic, author and presenter.
    • Germaine Greer
      Germaine Greer
      Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....

       - feminist
    • Professor Niall Lucy
      Niall Lucy
      Niall Lucy is an Australian writer and scholar best known for his work in deconstruction.-Career:Niall Lucy is a professor in the School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts at Curtin University, and a former Head of the School of Arts at Murdoch University...

      , Australian writer and scholar, best known for his work on Jacques Derrida
      Jacques Derrida
      Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

       and deconstruction
      Deconstruction
      Deconstruction is a term introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1967 book Of Grammatology. Although he carefully avoided defining the term directly, he sought to apply Martin Heidegger's concept of Destruktion or Abbau, to textual reading...

      .
    • Oliver Feltham
      Oliver Feltham
      Oliver Feltham is an Australian philosopher and translator working in Paris, France. He is known primarily for his English translations of Alain Badiou, most notably Badiou’s magnum opus Being and Event . Feltham's own writings are drawn from many of his research interests including Marxism,...

       - philosopher, best known for his English translation of Alain Badiou
      Alain Badiou
      Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...

      's Being and Event

    • Christopher Brennan
      Christopher Brennan
      Christopher John Brennan was an Australian poet and scholar.-Biography:Brennan was born in Sydney, to Christopher Brennan , a brewer, and his wife Mary Ann , née Carroll, both Irish immigrants....

      , Dymphna Cusack
      Dymphna Cusack
      Dymphna Cusack AM was an Australian author.Born in West Wyalong, New South Wales, Dymphna Cusack was educated at St Ursula's College, and graduated from Sydney University with an honours degree in Arts and a diploma in Education...

      , Kate Grenville
      Kate Grenville
      Kate Grenville is one of Australia's best-known authors. She's published nine novels, a collection of short stories, and four books about the writing process....

      , A. D. Hope
      A. D. Hope
      Alec Derwent Hope AC OBE was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic.-Life:...

      , Les Murray
      Les Murray (poet)
      Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...

      , Robert Hughes, Clive James
      Clive James
      Clive James, AM is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism...

      , Bob Ellis
      Bob Ellis
      Bob Ellis is an Australian writer, journalist, film-maker and political commentator. He was a student at the University of Sydney at the same time as other notable Australians including Clive James, Germaine Greer, Les Murray, John Bell, Ken Horler, and Mungo McCallum...

      , Kimberley Starr
      Kimberley Starr
      Kimberley Starr is a novelist who moved to Australia as a young child. She began her education at the Armidale Demonstration School, moving on to Garran Primary School, and Padua Catholic High School, ACT , before completing her secondary education at Loreto Normanhurst...

      , Paul Brickhill, Kylie Tennant.
  • Film Directors - Jane Campion
    Jane Campion
    Jane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...

    , Peter Weir
    Peter Weir
    Peter Lindsay Weir, AM is an Australian film director. After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films—many of them major box office...

    , Bruce Beresford
    Bruce Beresford
    Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...

  • Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

     winners -
    • Geraldine Brooks for March
      March (novel)
      March is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a parallel novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American...

       (2006)

Religion

  • Roman Catholic Bishops
    • Anthony Fisher
      Anthony Fisher
      Bishop Anthony Fisher is the Catholic Bishop of Parramatta, NSW Australia and a friar of the Order of Preachers . He was installed as the third Bishop of Parramatta on 4 March 2010, having previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney.-Early life and education:Anthony Fisher...

        - Bishop of Parramatta
    • John Satterthwaite - Bishop of Lismore

  • Church of England Bishops (Australia)
    • Sir Marcus Loane
      Marcus Loane
      Sir Marcus Lawrence Loane KBE was the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney from 1966–1982 and Primate of Australia from 1978–1982. He was the first Australian-born Archbishop of Sydney and also the first Australian-born archbishop within the Anglican Church of Australia.Loane was born in...

        - Archbishop of Sydney
    • Peter Jensen  - Archbishop of Sydney
    • Donald Robinson - Archbishop of Sydney
    • Peter Watson - Archbishop of Melbourne
    • Geoffrey Cranswick - Bishop of Tasmania
    • Ian Shevill
      Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill
      Ian Wotton Allnutt Shevill AO was an Australian Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century.Shevill was educated at Scot’s College, Sydney and Sydney University. He was ordained in 1941 and his first position was as a curate of St Paul's Burwood, New South Wales...

        - Bishop of Newcastle
    • Arthur Green - Bishop of Ballarat
    • Henry Burgmann - Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
    • Clive Kerle - Bishop of Armidale
    • Glenn Davies - Bishop of North Sydney
    • Edwin Davidson - Bishop of Gippsland
    • Neville Chynoweth  - Bishop of Gippsland
    • Robert Forsyth
      Robert Forsyth
      Robert Forsyth is the Anglican Bishop of South Sydney - a region of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. He has been bishop since 2000. Prior to that he was the rector of St. Barnabas, Broadway.- Personal life:...

        - Bishop of South Sydney
    • Anthony Howard Nichols
      Anthony Howard Nichols
      Anthony Howard "Tony" Nichols is an Australian Anglican bishop.Nichols holds academic qualifications from the Universities of Sydney, London, Sheffield and Macquarie University. He was a Latin and history teacher until his ordination to the priesthood in 1963. He had curacies at St Paul’s...

        - Bishop of North West Australia
    • Leo Ash
      Fortesque Ash
      Fortescue Leo Ash was the fourth Anglican Bishop of Rockhampton in Australia from 1928 until 1946.Ash was born in Springfield, New South Wales on 26 August 1882, educated at St. Paul's College, Sydney and ordained in 1910...

        - Bishop of Rockhampton
    • George Cranswick
      George Harvard Cranswick
      George Harvard Cranswick was the 2nd Bishop of Gippsland from 1917 until 1942.Educated at The King's School, Parramatta and Sydney University, he was ordained in 1908...

        - Bishop of Gippsland
    • David Garnsey
      David Arthur Garnsey
      David Arthur Garnsey was the 5th Bishop of Gippsland from 1959 until 1974. Educated at the University of Sydney and New College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1935. His first post was as a Curate at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford...

        - Bishop of Gippsland

  • Church of England Bishops (International)
    • Dudley Foord - Presiding Bishop of the Church of England in South Africa
    • Eric Gowing - Bishop of Auckland
    • William Hilliard - Bishop of Nelson
    • Neville Langford-Smith - Bishop of Nakuru (Kenya)
    • Henry Newton - Bishop of New Guinea
    • Chen Fah Yong - Assistant Bishop of Sabah
    • Edward Wilton - Bishop of Northern Melanesia (New Guinea)

  • Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales
    • Reverend Professor Hubert Cunliffe-Jones
      Hubert Cunliffe-Jones
      The Reverend Professor Hubert Cunliffe-Jones was an Australian-born Congregational church minister and author, who became Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales and a Professor at the University of Manchester. He was an Honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of Edinburgh...


  • Coptic Orthodox Bishops
    • Suriel El-Anba-Bishoy - Bishop of Melbourne (Coptic Orthodox)

Sport

  • Australian Rugby Union Captains (This is not limited to members of the Sydney University Football Club but reflects the scope of the title of the article - University of Sydney people)
    • Herbert Moran
      Herbert Moran
      Herbert Michael "Paddy" Moran was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative flanker who captained the Wallabies' on their first overseas tour in 1908-09.-Early years:...

    • Tom Lawton, Snr
      Tom Lawton, Snr
      Tom Lawton Snr was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative five-eighth who made 44 appearances for the Wallabies, played in 14 Test matches and captained the national side on ten occasions....

    • John Solomon
      John Solomon (rugby)
      John Solomon was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative versatile back who captained the Wallabies in eight Tests in the 1950s and the led touring squads to New Zealand and South Africa....

    • Alex Ross
      Alex Ross (rugby union)
      Alex Ross was an Australian state and national representative rugby union player who captained the Wallabies in thirteen Test matches in 1933-34.-Career:...

    • Dick Tooth
      Dick Tooth
      Dick Tooth born 1929 is an Australian former rugby union footballer of the 1950s. He represented for the Wallabies in ten Test matches and nineteen total appearances and was Australian captain on two occasions. He resided at St Andrew's College while studying at Sydney University...

    • Phil Hardcastle
    • Johnnie Wallace
      Johnnie Wallace
      Arthur Cooper "Johnnie" Wallace was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative three-quarter who captained the Waratahs on 25 occasions in the 1920s as well as representing for Scotland early in his career.-University & early representative career:Wallace arrived at St...

    • Michael Hawker
    • Nick Farr-Jones
      Nick Farr-Jones
      Nicholas Campbell Farr-Jones is a former Australian rugby union footballer. His position was scrum-half. He attended Newington College and St Andrew's College within the University of Sydney...

    • Phil Waugh
      Phil Waugh
      Phillip Waugh is an Australian rugby union player, widely regarded as one of the world's leading flankers.His career as a player began at the Shore School, Captaining the school's team in 1997...

    • Ken Catchpole
      Ken Catchpole
      Ken Catchpole OAM, is a former Australian rugby union footballer. A state and national representative half-back, he played twenty-seven matches for Australia, thirteen as captain. Catchpole rose through the ranks at the Randwick club as a young man, before making his debut for New South Wales...

    • Stirling Mortlock
      Stirling Mortlock
      Stirling Austin Mortlock is an Australian professional rugby union player. He has scored over 1,000 points in Super Rugby, and nearly 500 test points for the Wallabies. Mortlock is a former Wallaby and Brumbies captain, and the current captain of the Melbourne Rebels.-Early life:Mortlock began...

    • John Thornett
      John Thornett
      John Thornett is a former Australian rugby union player, having played 37 Tests for Australia between 1955 and 1967. He captained Australia on four of the eight occasions that he went on tour....

    • Peter Johnson
    • Dean Mumm
  • Chess Player
    • Zhao Zong-Yuan
      Zhao Zong-Yuan
      Zhao Zong-Yuan is an Australian chess Grandmaster. He is the current Australian Chess Champion and number one ranked chess player in Australia.-Early life:...

       - The youngest Australian to become a chess Grandmaster and the current Australian Chess Champion
  • Dual Internationals
    • Roger Cornforth, Rugby Union and Water Polo
    • Scott Gourley
      Scott Gourley
      Scott Robert Gourley is an Australian former rugby league and rugby union player - An inspirational player who had absolutely dominated, a terrible day for Australian sport when this sportsman retired - a dual code international...

      , Rugby Union and Rugby League
    • Otto Nothling
      Otto Nothling
      Otto Ernest Nothling was a rugby union player who represented Australia, as well as an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1928...

      , Rugby Union and Cricket
    • Johnny Taylor (cricketer)
      Johnny Taylor (cricketer)
      John Morris "Johnny" Taylor was an Australian dual international in cricket and rugby union.He attended Newington College and St Andrew's College within the University of Sydney....

      , Rugby Union and Cricket
    • 'Snowy' Baker, Rugby Union, Diving, Boxing, Swimming and Polo
    • Kevin Ryan, Rugby Union and Rugby League

  • World Record Holder
    • Jack Metcalfe
      Jack Metcalfe
      John "Jack" Patrick Metcalfe was an Australian athlete who competed in high jump, long jump and javelin events, though he is best remembered as a triple jumper....

      , Competing on Sydney University Oval on 14 December 1935, Metcalfe set a new world record in the triple jump, leaping 15.78 metres

  • Notable
    • John Treloar, first Australian to reach final of Olympic Games 100 metres sprint
    • Brendon Cook
      Brendon Cook
      Brendon John Cook, , born 27 December 1970 in Belmont, Newcastle, Australia, is best known as a race driver, racing mainly in Australia, but also in Europe.-Open Wheelers:...

      , International race car driver

Staff

  • Governors-general of Australia
    • Quentin Bryce
      Quentin Bryce
      Quentin Bryce, AC, CVO is the 25th and current Governor-General of Australia and former Governor of Queensland....

       - principal of The Women's College, University of Sydney, from 1997 to 2003.
  • Archbishops of Sydney
    • Roger Vaughan
      Roger Vaughan
      Roger William Bede Vaughan was an English Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey, and the second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1877 to 1883.-Early life:...

       - Rector of St John's College, University of Sydney
      St John's College, University of Sydney
      ]St John's College, or the College of St John the Evangelist, is a residential College within the University of Sydney.Established in 1857, the College of St John the Evangelist is the oldest Roman Catholic university college and second-oldest university college in Australia, and is one of the...

      , from 1874 to 1877
  • Astronauts
    • Gregory Chamitoff
      Gregory Chamitoff
      Gregory Errol Chamitoff is an engineer and NASA astronaut. He was assigned to Expedition 17 and flew to the International Space Station on STS-124, launching 31 May 2008. He was in space 198 days, joining Expedition 18 after Expedition 17 left the station, and returned to Earth 30 November 2008 on...

       - adjunct professor
  • Renowned Professors
    • John Anderson
      John Anderson (philosopher)
      John Anderson was a Scottish-born Australian philosopher who occupied the post of Challis Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University in the years 1927-1958. He founded the empirical brand of philosophy known as Australian realism...

       - Challis Professor of Philosophy
    • Charles Badham
      Charles Badham
      Charles Badham was an English university professor, active in Australia.-Early life:Badham was born at Ludlow, Shropshire, the fourth son of Charles Badham senior, a classical scholar and regius professor of physic at Glasgow; and Margaret Campbell, a cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet. His elder...

       - Professor of Classics and Logic
    • John Burnheim
      John Burnheim
      John Burnheim is a former professor of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.In his book Is Democracy Possible? John Burnheim utilized the term "demarchy" to describe a political system without the state or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of...

       - Professor of General Philosophy
    • Robert Gilbert - Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Key Centre for Polymer Colloids
    • Enoch Powell
      Enoch Powell
      John Enoch Powell, MBE was a British politician, classical scholar, poet, writer, and soldier. He served as a Conservative Party MP and Minister of Health . He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made the controversial Rivers of Blood speech in opposition to mass immigration from...

       - British politician, Professor of Greek
    • Leo Radom
      Leo Radom
      Leo Radom, born on December 13, 1944 in Shanghai, China, is a computational chemist. He attended North Sydney Boys High School. He has a Ph D and a D Sc from the University of Sydney and carried out post-doctoral work under the late Sir John Pople. He is Professor, School of Chemistry, University...

       - Professor of Computational Chemistry
    • James Stewart
      James Stewart (archaeologist)
      James R. Stewart was a noted Australian archaeologist of Cyprus and the Ancient Near East at the University of Sydney.Stewart was born in Sydney and died at Bathurst, New South Wales.-Further reading:...

       - Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
    • Julius Stone
      Julius Stone
      Julius Stone was Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney from 1942 to 1972, and thereafter a visiting Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales and concurrently Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the Hastings...

       - Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law
    • George Winterton
      George Winterton
      George Graham Winterton was Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. Prior to his appointment to Sydney University in 2004, he taught for over 28 years at the University of New South Wales...

       - Professor of Constitutional Law
    • William Noel Benson
      William Noel Benson
      William Noel Benson FRS FRGS was a research geologist and academic. After studying geology at the University of Sydney, Benson worked temporarily at the University of Adelaide before returning to Sydney as a demonstrator...

       - Demonstrator in the Department of Geology
    • William Foley
      William Foley
      William Foley is an American linguist and professor at the University of Sydney. He specialises in Papuan and Austronesian languages. He is perhaps best known for his 1986 book The Papuan Languages of New Guinea and his partnership with Robert Van Valin in the development of role and reference...

       - Professor of Linguistics and co-developer of Role and Reference Grammar
      Role and reference grammar
      Role and Reference Grammar is a model of grammar developed by William Foley and Robert Van Valin, Jr. in the 1980s, which incorporates many of the points of view of current functional grammar theories....


Chancellors

  • 1851–1854: Edward William Terrick Hamilton
    Edward William Terrick Hamilton
    Edward William Terrick Hamilton was a British businessman and politician who spent fifteen years as a pastorialist in New South Wales....

  • 1854–1862: Sir Charles Nicholson
    Charles Nicholson
    Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet was a British-Australian politician, university founder, explorer, pastoralist, antiquarian and philanthropist...

  • 1862–1865: The Hon. Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether
  • 1865–1878: The Hon. Sir Edward Deas Thomson
    Edward Deas Thomson
    Sir Edward Deas Thomson, KCMG, was an Australian administrator, politician and chancellor of the University of Sydney....

  • 1878–1895: The Hon. Sir William Montague Manning
  • 1895–1896: The Hon. Sir William Charles Windeyer
    William Charles Windeyer
    Sir William Charles Windeyer was an Australian politician and judge.As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park , Lang Park , Observatory Park Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge.As a...

  • 1896–1914: The Hon. Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin
  • 1914–1934: The Hon. Sir William Cullen
    William Portus Cullen
    Sir William Portus Cullen KCMG was Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia.-Early life:Cullen was born at Mount Johnston, near Jamberoo, New South Wales, the seventh son of John and Rebecca Cullen. A brother, Joseph Cullen, was a Member of Parliament for both New South Wales and Western...

  • 1934–1936: Sir Mungo William MacCallum
    Mungo William MacCallum
    Sir Mungo William MacCallum KCMG was Chancellor of the University of Sydney from 1934 to 1936, and a noted literary critic....

  • 1936–1941: The Hon. Sir Percival Halse Rogers
    Percival Halse Rogers
    Sir Percival Halse Rogers KBE was an Australian jurist and university chancellor.-Early life:Halse Rogers was born in Gunnedah, New South Wales, the second son of a Methodist minister and was educated at Newington College . He became a resident of St Andrew's College, at the University of Sydney...

  • 1941–1964: Lt-Col. Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn
  • 1964–1970: Sir Charles George McDonald
  • 1970–1990: Sir Hermann David Black
  • 1990–1991: Sir James Rowland
    James Rowland (Australia)
    Air Marshal Sir James Anthony Rowland, AC, KBE, DFC, AFC was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force, serving as Chief of the Air Staff from 1975 to 1979. He later held office as Governor of New South Wales from 1981 to 1989, and was Chancellor of the University of Sydney from 1990...

  • 1991–2001: Emer. Professor Dame Leonie Kramer
    Leonie Kramer
    Dame Leonie Judith Kramer, AC, DBE is an Australian academic, educator and professor.-Education:Kramer was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, the University of Melbourne, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts in 1945, and Oxford University, where she gained a Doctor of...

  • 2001–2007: Justice Kim Santow
    Kim Santow
    The Honourable Justice Geza Francis Kim Santow AO was an Australian Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal....

  • 2007–present: Professor Marie Bashir
    Marie Bashir
    Marie Roslyn Bashir AC, CVO is the present Governor of New South Wales since 2001 and also the Chancellor of the University of Sydney since 2007. Born in Narrandera, New South Wales, Bashir graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956 and held various medical positions, with a particular...


The chancellor was elected by the fellows and presides at Senate meetings. In 1924, the executive position of vice-chancellor
Chancellor (education)
A chancellor or vice-chancellor is the chief executive of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as president or rector....

 was created, and the chancellor ceased to have managerial responsibilities. Until 1860, the chancellor was known as the provost.

Vice-chancellors

The Vice-chancellor serves as the chief executive officer of the university, and oversees most of the university's day-to-day operations, with the chancellor serving in a largely ceremonial role. Before 1924, the vice-chancellors were fellows of the university, elected annually by the fellows.
  • 1924–28: Professor Sir Mungo William MacCallum
    Mungo William MacCallum
    Sir Mungo William MacCallum KCMG was Chancellor of the University of Sydney from 1934 to 1936, and a noted literary critic....

  • 1928–47: Sir Robert Strachan Wallace
  • 1947–67: Emeritus Professor Sir Stephen Henry Roberts
    Stephen Henry Roberts
    Sir Stephen Henry Roberts CMG was an Australian academic, author, historian, international analyst and university vice-chancellor.-Early life and education:...

  • 1967–81: Professor Sir Bruce Rodda Williams
  • 1981–90: Professor John Manning Ward
    John Manning Ward
    John Manning Ward was a Vice Chancellor and Challis Professor of History at the University of Sydney.Professor Ward was born in Sydney and was educated at educated at Fort Street Boys High School and the University of Sydney...

  • 1990–96: Professor Donald McNicol
  • 1996 (acting): Professor Derek John Anderson
  • 1996–2008: Professor Gavin Brown
    Gavin Brown (academic)
    Gavin Brown, AO was a Scottish-born mathematician, and the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney....

  • 2008–present Dr Michael Spence
    Michael Spence (academic)
    The Reverend Dr Michael J. Spence is an Australian-born academic. Dr Michael Spence began as the 25th Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney on 11 July 2008.-Education:...

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