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University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...
alumni.


Academia

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Toby Walsh Toby Walsh is a Laureate fellow, and professor of artificial intelligence in the UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales and Data61 (formerly NICTA). He has served as Scientific Director of NICTA, ...
, computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert *
Dijana Alić Dijana Alić is a Bosnian-Australian architect and academic. She was born in Sarajevo and received degree in architecture from the University of Sarajevo and a M.Arch. and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. Alić is a lecturer and prog ...
, architect and academic * Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of
Flinders University Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator ...
from 2008 until 2014 (Mathematics) *
Gernot Heiser Gernot Heiser (born 1957) is a Scientia Professor and the John Lions Chair for operating systems at UNSW Sydney, where he leads thTrustworthy Systemsgroup (TS). Life In 1991 Heiser joined the School of Computer Science and Engineering of U ...
,
John Lions John Lions (19 January 1937 – 5 December 1998) 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 Lions ga ...
chair and computer scientist *
Sharon Beder Sharon Beder is an environmentalist and a former professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.
, arts academic (Engineering) *
Glyn Davis Glyn Conrad Davis AC (born 25 July 1959) is an Australian academic who is the Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, appointed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on 30 May 2022, and commenced on 6 June 2022. Davis was pre ...
, current Vice-Chancellor of
University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...
(Political science) * John Deeble, Architect of Medicare Australia *
Rosalyn Diprose Rosalyn Diprose is Emeritus Professor of philosophy at University of New South Wales. A graduate of the University of Technology Sydney, The University of Sydney and UNSW Sydney, she is known for her research on ethics, embodiment, generosit ...
, philosopher and UNSW academic (Philosophy) *
Ross Fitzgerald Ross Andrew Fitzgerald (born in 1944) is an Australian academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator. Fitzgerald is an Emeritus Professor in History and Politics at Griffith University. He has published forty-three books ...
, academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator (PhD Politics) *
Michael Fullilove Michael Fullilove , a public and international policy academic, is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, an international policy think tank located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Fullilove is the author ...
, public and international policy academic, executive director of the
Lowy Institute for International Policy The Lowy Institute is an independent think tank founded in April 2003 by Frank Lowy to conduct original, policy-relevant research about international political, strategic and economic issues from an Australian perspective. It is based in Sydney, ...
(Arts/Law) *
David Gonski David Michael Gonski (born 7 October 1953) is an Australian public figure and businessman. In 2008, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' described Gonski as "one of the country's best-connected businessmen" and dubbed him "Mr Networks" for being "a ...
, prominent businessman,
Chancellor Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
of
UNSW Sydney The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...
(Commerce/LLB) *
Atiqul Islam Atiqul Islam ( bn, আতিকুল ইসলাম; born 1 July 1961) is a Bangladeshi politician, businessman and the current mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation. He was elected in the position in the by-election held on 28 February 2019 an ...
, accountant and current Vice-chancellor of North South University, Bangladesh (Commerce) *
Koo Tsai Kee Koo Tsai Kee (; born 29 November 1954) is a Singaporean associate professor and former politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1991 to 2011, representing the Tiong Bahru division under the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (T ...
, Singaporean academic and former politician (Surveying) *
Chandran Kukathas Chandran Kukathas (born 12 September 1957) is a Malaysian-born Australian political theorist and the author of several books. Until 2019 he was Head of the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, where he held a Chair in Poli ...
, Malaysian-born Australian political theorist and academic (MA, Politics) *
Jane Stapleton Jane Stapleton (born 26 March 1952) is an Australian academic lawyer with a specialism in tort law. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and was the Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2016 to 2022. Early life and educat ...
, academic and Master at
Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...
* Tony Vinson, Emeritus Professor, Education and Social Work


Business

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Rodney Adler Rodney Stephen Adler (born 19 August 1959) is an Australian whose family founded the FAI Insurances group, of which he became chief executive in 1989, and which was at one stage Australia's third largest general insurer. Adler became a director of ...
, former FAI Insurance chief executive *
Cheryl Bart Cheryl Sarah Bart Order of Australia, AO is an Australian lawyer and company director. She is also the first Australian female and the 31st person worldwide to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam. Early life and education Bart was educated at Mor ...
, lawyer, company director and mountain climber (Commerce/LLB 1986) *
Mark Bouris Mark Leigh Bouris is an Australian businessman who is best known as the founder and chairman of 'Wizard Home Loans', Australia's second largest non-bank mortgage lender behind Aussie Home Loans. He is now the chairman of Yellow Brick Road, a b ...
, chairman of Yellow Brick Road and television personality *
Mike Cannon-Brookes Michael Cannon-Brookes (born 17 November 1979) is an Australian billionaire, co-founder, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian. Cannon-Brookes often carries the epithet of ''accidental billionaire'' after he and his business partner Sco ...
, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian (Information Science) * Paul Clitheroe , television presenter and businessman (Arts) * Matt Comyn, CEO of
Commonwealth Bank The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), or CommBank, is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom. It provides a variety of financial services including retail, busines ...
*
Roger Corbett Roger Campbell Corbett (born 6 September 1942) is an Australian businessman. From January 1999 to September 2006, Corbett served as CEO of Woolworths Limited, a large retailing conglomerate. Career Educated at Shore School, Corbett graduated f ...
, former chairman of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and a former CEO of
Woolworths Woolworth, Woolworth's, or Woolworths may refer to: Businesses * F. W. Woolworth Company, the original US-based chain of "five and dime" (5¢ and 10¢) stores * Woolworths Group (United Kingdom), former operator of the Woolworths chain of shops ...
(Commerce) *
Douglas Daft Douglas Neville Daft (born 20 March 1943 in Cessnock, New South Wales) is an Australian businessman. He graduated from the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Mathematics. ...
, prominent Australian and US business executive who served as CEO of
The Coca-Cola Company The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation founded in 1892, best known as the producer of Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Company also manufactures, sells, and markets other non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, ...
between 1999 and 2004; now a global non-executive director (Dipl.Admin) * Satyajit Das, banker, author and academic (Law) * John De Margheriti, software developer and entrepreneur, founding father of Australia's video games industry (Electrical engineering) *
Michael Easson Michael Bernard Easson AM (born 22 March 1955 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), is an Australian businessman and former trade union leader. On 8 June 1998 Easson was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia ( AM). Trade union wor ...
, businessman and former union leader (Politics/History) * Richard Farleigh, private investor (Economics) *
Scott Farquhar Scott Farquhar (born December 1979) is an Australian billionaire, the co-founder and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian. Farquhar often carries the epithet of ''accidental billionaire'' after he and his business partner Mike Cannon-Brook ...
, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian (Arts/Science) * Angela Mak Soek Fun, Hong Kong-based business executive (Commerce/LLB) *
David Gonski David Michael Gonski (born 7 October 1953) is an Australian public figure and businessman. In 2008, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' described Gonski as "one of the country's best-connected businessmen" and dubbed him "Mr Networks" for being "a ...
, prominent businessman,
Chancellor Chancellor ( la, cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the or lattice work screens of a basilica or law cou ...
of
UNSW Sydney The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...
(Commerce/LLB) *
John M. Green John M. Green (born 1953) is an Australian thriller writer, publisher and company director. He is a former executive director of an investment bank and was a partner of two law firms. Previously a director of publisher ''UNSW Press'', he co-foun ...
, deputy chairman of QBE Insurance; co-founder of Pantera Press; author * Catherine Harris , co-founder and chairman of Harris Farm Markets and company director (Commerce) * Philip Hercus, founder of International Catamaran Designs (Engineering) *
Grant King Grant King is an Australian engineer and business executive. He retired as Managing Director of Origin Energy in October 2016, and in November 2016 became President of the Business Council of Australia. Career * prior to 1994 General Manager, AGL ...
, managing director,
Origin Energy Origin Energy an ASX listed public company with headquarters in Sydney. It is a major integrated electricity generator, and electricity and natural gas retailer. It operates Australia’s largest coal-fired power station at Lake Macquarie, New ...
(Engineering) *
David Lowy David Hillel Lowy (born 31 December 1954) is an Australian businessman, aviator and musician. He is the eldest son of Westfield Corporation co-founder Frank Lowy and Principal of Lowy Family Group (LFG), the Family Office and private investmen ...
, non-executive deputy chairman of the
Westfield Group Westfield Group was an Australian shopping centre company that existed from 1960 to 2014, when it split into two independent companies: Scentre Group, which owns and operates the Australian and New Zealand Westfield shopping centre portfolio; ...
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Steven Lowy Steven Mark Lowy (born 24 November 1962) is the former co-Chief Executive Officer of Westfield Corporation, a leading global shopping centre company that was acquired by French company Unibail-Rodamco in 2018 in what was one of the largest tr ...
, group managing director of the Westfield Group * Donald McDonald, former chairman of
Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-own ...
(ABC) *
Warwick McKibbin Warwick James McKibbin (born 21 April 1957 in Sydney) is an Australian Professor of Economics at the Australian National University who works across a wide range of areas in applied policy. He has published more than 200 scholarly articles and ...
, Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of Australia; economist *
John Niland John Rodney Niland (born 10 September 1940) is an Australians, Australian academic and board director. Niland obtained a Bachelor and Master of Commerce from UNSW and his PhD is from the University of Illinois. He has held academic positions at ...
, director of
Macquarie Group Macquarie Group Limited () is an Australian global financial services group. Headquartered and listed in Australia (), Macquarie employs more than 17,000 staff in 33 markets, is the world's largest infrastructure asset manager and Australia' ...
; Chairman of Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust; former
Vice-Chancellor A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system. In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth n ...
of UNSW Sydney * John Prescott, former CEO of
BHP BHP Group Limited (formerly known as BHP Billiton) is an Australian multinational mining, metals, natural gas petroleum public company that is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company was founded ...
*
Gregory G. Rose Gregory G. "Greg" Rose (born July 15, 1955, in Sydney, Australia) was a senior vice president of technology for Qualcomm. Rose is noted for designing the SOBER family of stream cipher stream cipher is a symmetric key cipher where plaintext d ...
, principal engineer at
Qualcomm Qualcomm () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4 ...
(Engineering) * George Savvides, managing director,
Medibank Private Medibank Private Limited, better known as simply Medibank, is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers, covering 3.7 million people in 2021. Medibank initially started as an Australian Government not-for-profit insurer i ...
(Engineering) * Jillian Segal, non-executive director,
National Australia Bank National Australia Bank (abbreviated NAB, branded nab) is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia (colloquially referred to as "The Big Four") in terms of market capitalisation, earnings and customers. NAB was ranked 21st-la ...
; Deputy Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Law) * Gai Waterhouse, horse trainer and businesswoman


Community activism

* Sharan Burrow, global union leader (Education) * Eva Cox , writer, feminist, sociologist, social commentator and activist (Sociology) *
Louise Crossley Louise Crossley (1942 – 30 July 2015) was an Australian scientist and environmentalist who was closely involved in the establishment of the Tasmanian Greens and the Global Greens. Early life and education Crossley was born in Johannesburg ...
, scientist and environmental activist (PhD) *
Karen Dawn Karen Dawn is an American animal rights and welfare advocate and writer. Biography and work Karen Dawn was born in the United States and grew up and was schooled in Australia. She studied at the University of NSW — a science degree with a ...
, American animal rights and welfare advocate and writer (Psychology) *
Graeme Dunstan Graeme Clement Dunstan (born 4 August 1942) is a prominent Australian cultural and political activist. A graduate of Essendon High School, Graeme matriculated in 1960 as dux with honours in maths, physics and chemistry. He is an engineering gr ...
, cultural and political activist (Engineering) *
Tim Flannery Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, Conservation biology, conservationist, Exploration, explorer, author, Science communication, science communicator, activist and p ...
, mammalogist,
palaeontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
, environmentalist and
global warming In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...
activist; 2007
Australian of the Year The Australian of the Year is a national award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Governmentowned social enterprise. Similar awards are also conferred at the State and Territo ...
(PhD Palaeontology) * Peter Garrett, musician, social activist, former politician (LLB 1977) * Heinz Harant, student activist and founder of the university's alumni association (Electrical engineering (Hons) 1955) * Betty Kitchener , Australian mental health educator and consumer advocate


Government


Prime Ministers

* Scott Morrison, current Member for
Cook Cook or The Cook may refer to: Food preparation * Cooking, the preparation of food * Cook (domestic worker), a household staff member who prepares food * Cook (professional), an individual who prepares food for consumption in the food industry * ...
and 30th
Prime Minister of Australia The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia. The prime minister heads the executive branch of the Australian Government, federal government of Australia and is also accountable to Parliament of A ...


State Premiers

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Gladys Berejiklian Gladys Berejiklian (born 22 September 1970) is an Australian former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejiklian became a member ...
, former
Premier of New South Wales The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Government of New South Wales follows the Westminster Parliamentary System, with a Parliament of New South Wales acting as the legislature. ...
(Commerce) * Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales, former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, former politician, author (Arts) * Stephen Hatton, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory *
Campbell Newman Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman (born 12 August 1963) is a former Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of Queensland from 26 March 2012 to 14 February 2015. He served as the member for Ashgrove in the Legislative Assembly of Quee ...
, former Premier of Queensland, former politician


Federal politicians

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Larry Anthony Lawrence James Anthony (born 17 December 1961) is an Australian former politician. He was a National Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Richmond, New South Wales, from the March 1 ...
, former politician (Commerce) *
Mark Arbib Mark Victor Arbib (born 9 November 1971) is an Australian former Labor Party politician and trade unionist, who was an Australian Senator for New South Wales from 2008 to 2012. Arbib rose within the New South Wales Labor Party, and was event ...
, former politician (Arts) * Vicki Bourne, former politician (Science) * Bob Carr, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Premier of New South Wales, former politician, author (Arts) * Alan Cadman, former politician (Agriculture) * Jason Clare, current Member for Blaxland, former Minister for Home Affairs and former Minister for Defence Materiel (Arts/Law) * David Coleman, current Member for Banks (Arts/Law) * Greg Combet, former politician and trade unionist (Engineering) * Mehreen Faruqi, current Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Environmental Engineering) * David Fawcett, current
Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
for South Australia and former Army officer (Science) * Michael Forshaw, former politician (Law) * Jason Falinski, current Member for Mackellar (MBA) * Peter Garrett , musician, social activist, former politician (LLB 1977) *
Michael Hatton Michael John Hatton (born 28 August 1951, Sydney) is a former Australian politician who served as the Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives from June 1996 to October 2007, representing the Division of Blaxland, New Sou ...
former politician (Arts) *
Andrew Hastie Andrew William Hastie (born 30 September 1982) is an Australian politician and former military officer currently serving as the shadow minister for defence. He previously served as the Assistant Minister for Defence from 2020 to 2022 under Mi ...
, current Member for
Canning Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans). Canning provides a shelf life that typically ranges from one to five years, although u ...
, retired Army officer * Mike Kelly , current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer (PhD Law) *
Craig Laundy Craig Arthur Samuel Laundy (born 16 February 1971) is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Reid from 2013 until his retirement in 2019. He served as Minister for Small and Family Business, the Work ...
, former Member for
Reid Reid is a surname of Scottish origin. It means "red". People with the surname * Alan Reid (disambiguation) * Alex Reid (disambiguation), includes Alexander Reid * Amanda Reid, Australian Paralympic athlete * Amanda Reid (taxonomist), Australia ...
(Economics) * Michael Lee, former politician (Electrical Engineering) * Julian Leeser, current Member for Berowra (LLB) *
Sussan Ley Sussan Penelope Ley (pron. , "Susan Lee"; ; born 14 December 1961) is an Australian politician who has been deputy leader of the Liberal Party since May 2022. She has been member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales seat of Farrer since 2 ...
, current Member for
Farrer Farrer may refer to People * Alisha Farrer (born 1943), Australian actress and model * Austin Farrer (1904–1968), English theologian, philosopher, and friend of C. S. Lewis * Buster Farrer (1936-), South African cricketer * Claude Farrer (1862 ...
, former Minister for Health and Ageing * Ted Mack, former politician (Architecture) *
Louise Markus Louise Elizabeth Markus (born 6 September 1958) is a former Australian politician who served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives, initially elected to represent the seat of Division of Greenway, Greenway in western Sydney for ...
, former politician (Arts) *
Stephen Mutch Stephen Bruce Mutch (born 4 February 1956) is an Australian academic, and former politician with an academic interest in cultic organisations. A member of the Liberal Party, he served in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1988 to 1996 ...
, former politician (LLB) *
Gary Nairn Gary Roy Nairn (born 3 January 1951) is a former Australian politician. Nairn was born in Sydney, and was educated at Sydney Boys High School from 1963 to 1968 before attending University of New South Wales. He was a surveyor in private practi ...
, former politician *
Kerry Nettle Kerry Michelle Nettle (born 24 December 1973) is a former Australian Senator and member of the Australian Greens in New South Wales. Elected at the 2001 federal election on a primary vote of 4.36 percent with One Nation and micro-party pref ...
, former politician *
Andrew Nikolic Andrew Alexander Nikolic (born 20 June 1961) is a former Australian politician, retired senior Australian Army officer, and a former public servant in the Department of Defence. He was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the L ...
, former politician and retired Army officer (Management) *
Melissa Parke Melissa Parke (born 11 August 1966) is a former Australian Labor Party politician and UN human rights lawyer, who served as Member for the federal electoral Division of Fremantle in the Australian House of Representatives from 2007 to 2016. In ...
, former
United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
senior lawyer, former politician (Law) *
Marise Payne Marise Ann Payne (born 29 July 1964) is an Australian politician who served in the Morrison Government as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022 and as Minister for Women from 2019 to 2022. She has been a Senator for New South Wales sin ...
, current
Senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
for New South Wales and former
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*
Lee Rhiannon Lee Rhiannon (formerly O'Gorman, ''née'' Brown; born 30 May 1951) is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales between July 2011 and August 2018. She was elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Austr ...
, former Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the
NSW Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...
(Science) * Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Army officer (Arts)


Australian state and territory politicians

* Jack Beale, former politician (Engineering) *
Stephen Bromhead Stephen Bruce Bromhead (30 October 1957 – 16 March 2023) was an Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Myall Lakes for the Nationals from 26 March 2011 until his retirement on 3 Marc ...
, former Member for
Myall Lakes Myalls are any of a group of closely related and very similar species of ''Acacia'': * ''Acacia binervia ''Acacia binervia'', commonly known as the coast myall, is a wattle native to New South Wales and Victoria. It can grow as a shrub or as a t ...
(M.Law) *
Arthur Chesterfield-Evans Arthur Chesterfield-Evans (born 16 June 1950) is an Australian medical practitioner and politician who served as a member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales from 1998 to 2007. Medical career Graduated MB BS Sydney, 1975; FRCS (Eng) ...
, former Member of the
NSW Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...
(Science) * Ian Cohen, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Arts/DipEd) * Kevin Conolly, current Member for Riverstone (Arts) *
Paul Crittenden Paul Ronald Crittenden (born 31 January 1958) is a former ALP politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Wyong from 1991 to 2007 . Crittenden was educated Broken Hill High School a ...
former Member for Wyong (Commerce) * Mehreen Faruqi, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales (Environmental Engineering) * Luke Foley, former Member for
Auburn Auburn may refer to: Places Australia * Auburn, New South Wales * City of Auburn, the local government area *Electoral district of Auburn *Auburn, Queensland, a locality in the Western Downs Region *Auburn, South Australia *Auburn, Tasmania *Aub ...
and NSW Leader of the Opposition (Arts) *
Bryce Gaudry Bryce James Gaudry (23 November 1942 – 4 October 2019) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Newcastle. Gaudry was educated at Kendall District Rural School, Taree High Scho ...
, former politician and teacher (Arts) *
Alex Greenwich Alexander Hart Greenwich (born 28 November 1980) is the member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Sydney since the 2012 Sydney by-election. He ran as an independent and was backed by his predecessor, independ ...
, current Member for
Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...
(Arts) *
Sylvia Hale Sylvia Phyllis Hale (born 12 July 1942) is an Australian social justice, community and environmental campaigner, and a former politician. She was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2003 to 2010 for the Greens. Personal l ...
, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (LLB 1998) *
Brad Hazzard Bradley Ronald "Brad" Hazzard (born 30 August 1951), an Australian politician, has been the New South Wales Minister for Health since January 2017 in the Berejiklian and Perrottet ministries. Hazzard is a member of the New South Wales Legisla ...
, current Member for
Wakehurst Wakehurst may refer to: Places: *Electoral district of Wakehurst, electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales *Wakehurst (formerly known as Wakehurst Place), a property owned by the National Trust and m ...
(Law) *
Courtney Houssos Courtney Houssos is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since the 2015 state election. She is currently Minister for Finance and Natural Resources in the Minns government. Houssos w ...
, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Arts) * Andrew Humpherson, former Member for
Davidson Davidson may refer to: * Davidson (name) * Clan Davidson, a Highland Scottish clan * Davidson Media Group * Davidson Seamount, undersea mountain southwest of Monterey, California, USA * Tyler Davidson Fountain, monument in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA * ...
(Chemical Engineering) *
Trevor Khan Trevor John Khan (born 12 October 1957) is an Australian magistrate and former politician who served as a Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 24 March 2007 and 6 January 2022, including for a time as Deputy Pre ...
, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (LLB/B.Juris.) *
Sonya Kilkenny Sonya Kilkenny (born 15 May 1969) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2014, representing the Electoral district of Carrum. Kilkenny first entered parliament at th ...
, current Member for
Carrum Carrum is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne city centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston Local Government Areas of Victoria, local government ar ...
in the Victorian Legislative Assembly (BA/LLB 1995) * Ernie Page, former politician * Doug Parkinson, former politician in
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*
Eleni Petinos Eleni Marie Petinos is an Australian state politician in New South Wales. She served as the Minister for Small Business and the Minister for Fair Trading in the Perrottet ministry from December 2021 until her service was ceased on 31 July 2022 ...
, Member for Miranda (LLB 2011) *
Lee Rhiannon Lee Rhiannon (formerly O'Gorman, ''née'' Brown; born 30 May 1951) is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales between July 2011 and August 2018. She was elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Austr ...
, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales (Science) *
Eric Roozendaal Eric Michael Roozendaal (born 16 March 1962), a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving between 2004 and 2013. He is a former General Secretary of the Labor Party. Roozendaal was the Treasu ...
, former Treasurer of New South Wales and former politician (Law) * Penny Sharpe, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Food Technology) *
Gabrielle Upton Gabrielle Cecelia Upton (born 16 December 1964), an Australian politician, is the member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Vaucluse for the Liberal Party since 2011. Upton is currently serving as the Parlia ...
, current Member for
Vaucluse Vaucluse (; oc, Vauclusa, label= Provençal or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019.Jackie Chan Fang Shilong (born 7 April 1954), known professionally in English as Jackie Chan and in Chinese as Cheng Long ( zh, c=成龍, j=Sing4 Lung4; "becoming the dragon"), is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and stuntman known for ...
, former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Engineering) * Andrew Cheng, Hong Kong politician, Councillor of
Legislative Council of Hong Kong The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kong ...
(Law) *
Chua Tian Chang Chua Tian Chang, better known as Tian Chua (; born 21 December 1963), is a Malaysian people, Malaysian politician who served as Special Advisor to the Minister of Works (Malaysia), Minister of Works from March 2019 to February 2020 and Dewan R ...
, Malaysian politician, current Member of Parliament for the Batu constituency (Philosophy) * Mehdi Ghazanfari, former Iranian politician *
Meutya Hafid Meutya Viada Hafid (born 3 May 1978 in Bandung, West Java) is an Indonesian newscaster and politician. Since October 2019, she has been Chair of the First Commission of the People's Representative Council, responsible for matters regarding n ...
, Indonesian politician, member of
People's Representative Council The People's Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia ( id, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Republik Indonesia, DPR-RI), also known as the House of Representatives, is one of two elected chambers of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), ...
, former journalist *
Foo Mee Har Foo Mee Har ( zh, s=胡美霞, p=Hú Měixiá; born 1966) is a Singaporean politician and businesswoman. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), she has been the Parliament of Singapore, Member of Parliament (MP) representing the ...
, Singaporean politician, Member of Parliament for the West Coast Group constituency (Science) *
Koo Tsai Kee Koo Tsai Kee (; born 29 November 1954) is a Singaporean associate professor and former politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1991 to 2011, representing the Tiong Bahru division under the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (T ...
, former Singaporean politician and academic (Surveying) * Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fijian politician and current
Attorney General of Fiji The Attorney-General is a political and legal officer in Fiji. The attorney-general is the chief law officer of the State, and has responsibility for supervising Fijian law and advising the government on legal matters. Like other members of the ...
(LLB) *
Mah Bow Tan Mah Bow Tan ( zh, s=马宝山, p=Mǎ Bǎoshān; born 12 September 1948) is a Singaporean former politician who served as Leader of the House between 2007 and 2011, Minister for National Development between 1999 and 2011, Minister for the Envir ...
, Minister for National Development of
Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
* Jeremy Tam, Councillor of
Legislative Council of Hong Kong The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kong ...
, airline pilot (Engineering)


Australian local government politicians

* Kathryn Greiner , former Alderman of the City of Sydney and social advocate (Social Work) * Lucy Turnbull, former Lord Mayor of Sydney (MBA)


Public servants

*
Michele Bruniges Michele Denise Bruniges (born 1 June 1957) is an Australian teacher and education administrator. In April 2016 she began her role as Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. Bruniges has a Doctorate of Philo ...
, current
secretary A secretary, administrative professional, administrative assistant, executive assistant, administrative officer, administrative support specialist, clerk, military assistant, management assistant, office secretary, or personal assistant is a w ...
of the Department of Education and Training (Education) *
Elizabeth Broderick Elizabeth Broderick is an Australian lawyer, who was the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner for over eight years from 2007 to 2015 and has been a United Nations special rapporteur for Discrimination against Women and Girls since 2017. ...
, former Australian
Sex Discrimination Commissioner The Sex Discrimination Commissioner is an Australian federal government position established to oversee the operation of the ''Sex Discrimination Act 1984''. The position was created alongside the Act as one of the specialist commissioners of the ...
(Law) * Ian Campbell , former secretary of the
Department of Veterans' Affairs Veterans' affairs is an area of public policy concerned with relations between a government and its communities of military veterans. Some jurisdictions have a designated government agency or department, a Department of Veterans' Affairs, Minist ...
(Economics) *
Jeff Harmer Jeffrey Allan 'Jeff' Harmer (born 19 September 1949) is a former senior Australian public servant. He was appointed Secretary of the Department of Education, Science and Training in 2003 and served in a series of Secretary-level roles until his ...
, former secretary of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (BA (Hons), DipEd, PhD) * Ken Henry , economist and former secretary of The Treasury (Economics) * John Holloway, former diplomat and public servant (Arts) * Frank Howarth , former director of the Australian Museum (MSc Soc) * Robyn Kruk , former secretary of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and a director-general of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet (Science onours *
Patrick Lawless Patrick Colin Lawless is an Australian diplomat and senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Lawless served as the Australian Ambassador to Brazil, from 12 February 2014 until February 2016. Lawless previo ...
, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Brazil (LLB) *
Damien Miller Damien Patrick Miller is an Australian career diplomat and the first Indigenous Australian to head an List of diplomatic missions of Australia, Australian diplomatic mission. Early life and education Miller belongs to the Biri language, Gangul ...
, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Denmark, Norway and Iceland (Arts/Law) *
Anne-Marie Schwirtlich Anne-Marie Lucienne Schwirtlich , is an Australian librarian who was the Director-General of the National Library of Australia from 2011 to 2017. In 2015, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Born in Bombay in India to a Fre ...
AM, Director-General of the
National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...


Other public figures

*
Bruce Hawker Bruce Hawker (born 18 August 1955) is an Australian political strategist, commentator and chairman of Campaigns & Communications Group, which he founded in January 2011. Along with David Britton, he was the chairman and founding member of Hawke ...
, political pundit, political writer, political consultant, political advisor (LLB) *
Janette Howard Janette Howard (née Parker; born 11 August 1944) is the wife of John Howard, who was the Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007 and the second-longest-serving Australian Prime Minister. Early life, education, and ...
, spouse of the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard (Arts)


Humanities


Architecture

*
Philip Cox Philip Sutton Cox (born 1 October 1939) is an Australian architect. Cox is the founding partner of Cox Architecture, one of the largest architectural practices in Australia. He commenced his first practice with Ian McKay in 1962, and ...
, architect and entrepreneur, founder of COX Architects (Science) * Richard Johnson , architect, best known as the ome of the Australian most important and iconic cultural buildings and spaces (Architecture, 1969)


Arts

*
Del Kathryn Barton Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972) is an Australian artist who began drawing at a young age, and studied at UNSW Art & Design (formerly the College of Fine Arts) at the University of New South Wales. She soon became known for her psyche ...
, visual artist * Matt Carroll, Australian film and television producer *
Queenie Chan Queenie Chan is a Chinese-Australian Original English-Language comic artist who co-wrote and illustrated the graphic novel '' In Odd We Trust'', a prequel to Dean Koontz's '' Odd Thomas'', and published by Del Rey. She illustrated the sequel, ...
, Chinese-Australian
comic artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
(Computer Programming) *
Barbara Cleveland Barbara Cleveland is an Australian contemporary performance art collective who primarily work on Cadigal, Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. Barbara Cleveland's works examine the histories of visual and performing arts and are informed by queer ...
, Australian contemporary performance artist *
Judith Clingan Judith Ann Clingan (born 19 January 1945) is an Australian composer, conductor, performer and music educator. Since 1997, she has been the Director of Wayfarers Australia (formerly Waldorf Wayfarers) Australia Wide Choir. Early life Clingan ...
, composer, conductor, performer and music educator * Adam Cullen, visual artist (Fine Arts) * John Davis, documentary filmmaker, mountaineer, television producer, chemical engineer (Science) *
Marta Dusseldorp Marta Dusseldorp (born 1 February 1973) is an Australian stage, film and theatre actress. Her television credits include ''BlackJack'', ''Crownies'' (and its spin-off '' Janet King''), ''Jack Irish'' and '' A Place to Call Home''. Early life an ...
, actor (Film/Theatre) *
Anne Ferran Anne Ferran (born 1949) is an Australian photographer. Background Anne Ferran was born on 10 May 1949Newton, Gael (1988). Shades of Light. Canberra: Australian National Gallery. p. 157. . in Sydney, New South Wales.Judd, Craig. Anne Ferran's bir ...
, photographer (Fine Arts) *
David Fung David Fung (born August 17, 1988) is a concert pianist. Fung was born in Sydney, Australia. Early life and education Fung attended James Ruse Agricultural High School in Sydney, where he received the James Ruse Medal for Dux and the Medal for Musi ...
, concert pianist (MB BS) *
Francis Giacco Francis Giacco (born 1955) is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1994 with ''Homage to John Reichard''. Giacco has a Bachelor of Architecture from the UNSW and is a longtime teacher at the Julian Ashton Art School, The Rocks, Sy ...
, visual artist (Architecture) *
Shaun Gladwell Shaun Gladwell (born 1972) is an Australian contemporary artist whose work spans moving image, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, performance and virtual reality. Early life Gladwell was born in Sydney in 1972 and graduated from Syd ...
, visual artist * Gordon Hanley, visual artist *
Noel Hodda Noel Hodda (born 1954) is an Australian actor, writer, dramaturge, director and teacher. Acting career Hodda was a founding member of the Riverina Theatre Company, located in Wagga Wagga and Project TYER, a Theatre In Education Co., for whom h ...
, actor, writer, dramaturge, director and teacher (Acting) * Frank Howarth,
geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althou ...
, Director of the Australian Museum *
Byron Kennedy Byron Eric Kennedy (18 August 1949 – 17 July 1983) was an Australian film producer known for co-creating the ''Mad Max'' series of films with George Miller. Early life Byron Kennedy was born in Melbourne. At the age of 18, he formed his own ...
, film producer *
Amber Lawrence Amber Louise Lawrence (born 19 April 1978) is an Australian country music singer-songwriter-guitarist. Five of her studio albums have reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 50, ''3'' (2012), ''Superheroes'' (2014), ''Happy Ever After'' (2016), ...
, singer, songwriter *
Sushant KC Sushant may refer to: * Sushant Singh Rajput, an Indian actor * Sushant Singh, an Indian actor * Sushant Divgikar, an Indian model * Sushant School of Art and Architecture Sushant School of Art and Architecture is a private architecture college ...
, singer, songwriter * Stephanie Lemelin, Canadian actress *
Lenka Lenka Kripac (born 19 March 1978) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress best known for her song " The Show", from her debut album, ''Lenka''. " The Show" has been used in numerous advertisements, most notably for Old Navy, as well as ...
, born Lenka Kripac, singer *
Yaron Lifschitz Yaron Lifschitz (born 30 March 1970) is an Australian director most notable for his involvement in the circus arts. He has directed more than 80 productions over circus, opera, physical theatre, theatre, and large-scale live events. His work has ...
, theatre director * George Miller, movie producer, television screenwriter, producer and director of '' Happy Feet'' *
Gregory Charles Rivers Gregory Charles Rivers (; born 30 April 1965) is an Australian–Hong Kong actor. Biography Rivers hails from Gympie, Queensland, and attended medical school at University of New South Wales, where he was friends with students from Hong Kong ...
, Hong Kong actor *
Emile Sherman Emile Sherman is an Australian film and television producer best known for producing the film ''The King's Speech'' (2010), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA award for Best Film and Best British Film, and for exe ...
, Oscar winner, film producer (Arts/Law) * Glenn Sorensen, Australia-born, Sweden artist * Rebel Wilson, actress, writer, and producer (Arts/LLB 2009)


History

* John Blaxland, Australian historian, academic, and former Australian Army officer (Arts) * Tim Cook , Canadian
military historian Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships. Professional historians norma ...
and author (PhD) *
Jeffrey Grey Jeffrey Guy Grey (19 March 1959 – 26 July 2016) was an Australian military historian. He wrote two volumes of ''The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975'', and several other high-profile works o ...
, former Australian military historian and academic (PhD Military history) *
David Horner David Murray Horner, (born 12 March 1948) is an Australian military historian and academic. Early life and military career Horner was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 12 March 1948. He was raised in a military household—his father, Mur ...
, Australian military historian and academic (M.Arts onours


Journalism

* Jordan Shanks, Political commentator *
Bettina Arndt Bettina Mary Arndt (born 1 August 1949) is an Australian writer and commentator who specialises in sex and gender issues. Starting as a sex therapist and self-proclaimed feminist, she established her career in the 1970s publishing and broadcas ...
, sex therapist and journalist * Monica Attard , award-winning journalist and
Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-own ...
host (LLB) * Richard Carleton, television
journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
(Commerce) *
Allan Hogan Allan Hogan (born 1943) is a veteran Australian investigative journalist. Hogan studied commerce at the University of New South Wales and became interested in journalism when he got involved with the university paper. He started work at the Aus ...
, investigative journalist and television producer (Commerce) * Craig James, economic journalist and
economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...
, currently chief economist with
Commsec CommSec is Australia's largest online stockbroking firm. It is a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank. Though its Internet trading platform constitutes the vast majority of its business, it also offers a telephone based brokerage service, and ...
(Commerce/Economics) * Debbie Kruger, Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer (BA/MA)


Literature, writing and poetry

*
Jack Bedson John William "Jack" Bedson (born 5 March 1950) is an Australian writer, poet, children's picture book author, and former university librarian. Early life and education Bedson was born in the Sydney suburb of Redfern, New South Wales, Redfern an ...
, writer, children's author, poet and academic librarian *
Larissa Behrendt Larissa Yasmin Behrendt (born 1969) is an Australian legal academic, writer, filmmaker and Indigenous rights advocate. she is a professor of law and director of research and academic programs at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education ...
,
Aboriginal Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to: *Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology * Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area *One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see ...
writer and academic (LLB/B.Juri 1992) *
Alex Buzo Alexander John Buzo (23 July 194416 August 2006) was an Australian playwright and author who wrote 88 works. His literary works recorded Australian culture through wit, humour and extensive use of colloquial Australian English. Biography Ear ...
, pioneer playwright * Melissa Chiu, museum director, curator writer * Tim Cook, historian and author * Michael Dransfield, poet *
Suzanne Falkiner Suzanne Falkiner (born 1952) is an Australian writer. Biography Born in Sydney, Falkiner grew up in western New South Wales. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales and later completed postgraduate cour ...
, writer (Arts) * Susanne Gervay, author of young adult fiction (Education) *
John M. Green John M. Green (born 1953) is an Australian thriller writer, publisher and company director. He is a former executive director of an investment bank and was a partner of two law firms. Previously a director of publisher ''UNSW Press'', he co-foun ...
, author and publisher * Anita Heiss, author, presenter and commentator (Arts/History) *
Tristan Jepson Tristan Jepson (1978 – 28 October 2004) was an Australian law graduate and writer. He was educated at Trinity Grammar School and the University of New South Wales. While still an undergraduate law student, he began to write and perform comedy a ...
, comedic writer (LLB) *
Drusilla Modjeska Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946) is a contemporary Australian writer and editor. Life Modjeska was born in London and was raised in Hampshire. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea (where she was briefly a student at the University of Pa ...
, writer *
Matthew Reilly Matthew John Reilly (born 2 July 1974) is an internationally bestselling Australian action thriller writer.
". Retrieved 10 ...
, author (Law) * Pamela Stephenson, comedian/writer *
Natalie Tran Natalie Tran (born 24 July 1986), known online as communitychannel, is an Australian YouTuber, actress, and comedian. She is best known for her comedy videos in which she discusses everyday issues. She began posting on YouTube in 2006 while a ...
, producer, actress, comedian, writer * Rebel Wilson, actress, comedian and writer (Law) *
Markus Zusak Markus Zusak (born 23 June 1975) is an Australian writer with Austrian and German roots. He is best known for ''The Book Thief'' and '' The Messenger'' (US title: ''I Am the Messenger''), two novels which became international bestsellers. ...
, writer


Philosophy

*
Khosrow Bagheri Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast (in Persian: خسرو باقری نوع پرست) is an Iranian philosopher, educational theorist and the president of Philosophy of Education Society of Iran (PESI). Biography Bagheri was born in 1957 in Tehran. He t ...
, Iranian philosopher *
Rosalyn Diprose Rosalyn Diprose is Emeritus Professor of philosophy at University of New South Wales. A graduate of the University of Technology Sydney, The University of Sydney and UNSW Sydney, she is known for her research on ethics, embodiment, generosit ...
, Australian philosopher and academic (Philosophy) *
Moira Gatens Moira Gatens is an Australian academic feminist philosopher and current Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She previously held the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Biography Academic career G ...
, Australian academic


Law


Judges and magistrates

*
Bob Bellear Robert William "Bob" Bellear (17 June 1944 – 15 March 2005) was an Australian social activist, lawyer and judge who was the first Aboriginal Australian judge. He served as a judge of the District Court of New South Wales from 1996 until his d ...
, Australia's first indigenous District Court judge (LLB 1978) *
Annabelle Bennett Annabelle Claire Bennett (born 8 January 1950) is the Chancellor of Bond University and a former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Early life and education Annabelle Claire Bennett (born Darin) was born in Sydney, Australia, to Emanue ...
, chancellor of
Bond University Bond University is Australia's first private not-for-profit university and is located in Robina, a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland. Since its founding on 15 May 1989, Bond University has primarily been a teaching-focused higher ed ...
and former Federal Court judge (LLB) *
Chris Craigie Christopher Bruce Craigie , also known as Chris Craigie, is a Judge of the District Court of New South Wales and former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions who served in that role between 2007 and 2012. Biography Craigie originally stud ...
, District Court judge and former
Director of Public Prosecutions The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world. The title is used mainly in jurisdictions that are or have been members o ...
*
Ros Croucher Rosalind Frances Croucher (born 14 November 1954) is an Australian lawyer and academic who is the current President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, in office since July 2017. She was previously President of the Australian Law Reform ...
, lawyer and academic, incoming president of the
Australian Human Rights Commission The Australian Human Rights Commission is the national human rights institution of Australia, established in 1986 as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) and renamed in 2008. It is a statutory body funded by, but opera ...
(PhD Legal history) * Karin Emerton,
Victorian Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Victoria is the highest court in the Australian state of Victoria. Founded in 1852, it is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited and inherent jurisdiction within the state. The Supreme Court compri ...
judge (LLB) *
Anna Katzmann Anna Judith Katzmann SC is an Australian lawyer and a current judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Katzmann is a graduate of the University of New South Wales. Before her appointment as a justice of the Federal Court, Katzmann was the Pre ...
, current Federal Court judge (LLB) *
Megan Latham Megan Fay Latham (born 24 August 1954) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and was the sole Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (New South Wales), New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corr ...
, current Supreme Court of New South Wales judge (BA/LLB 1979) * Robert McClelland,
Family Court Family courts were originally created to be a Court of Equity convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, including custody of children, and could disregard certain legal requirements as long as the petitioner/plaintif ...
judge and former Commonwealth Attorney-General (BA/LLB 1981) *
Anthony Meagher Anthony John Meagher (born 4 September 1953) is a judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest court in the State of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australi ...
, current judge of the
Court of Appeal A court of appeals, also called a court of appeal, appellate court, appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In much of t ...
of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Commerce/LLB) *
Helen Murrell Helen Gay Murrell is an Australian lawyer and judge who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. She is the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice. Early life Murrell grew up in Seaforth, New Sout ...
, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory * Matthew Myers , Federal Circuit Court Judge and Commissioner Australian Law Reform Commission * John Nicholas, Federal Court judge (BA/LLB) *
Pat O'Shane Patricia June O'Shane (born 19 June 1941) is a retired Australian teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist, and Aboriginal activist. She was Australia's first Aboriginal magistrate, serving the Local Court in Sydney, New South Wales, Austral ...
, teacher,
barrister A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ...
, public servant, jurist, Aboriginal activist; Australia's first Aboriginal
magistrate The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a '' magistratus'' was one of the highest ranking government officers, and possessed both judici ...
; former chancellor of the University of New England (LLB 1976)


Other legal professionals

*
Stuart Fuller Stuart Raymond Fuller is an Australian lawyer. He is the National Leader, KPMG Law, aKPMG Australia Previously, he was a partner in the banking & finance team at law firm King & Wood Mallesons. Biography Fuller was born in Sydney and attended ...
, legal partner in the banking and finance team at law firm King & Wood Mallesons (Commerce/Law) *
Stuart Littlemore Stuart Littlemore KC is an Australian barrister and former journalist and television presenter. He created ABC Television's long-running '' Media Watch'' program, which he hosted from its inception in 1989 to 1997. Early career Littlemore wa ...
, barrister, writer and original host of
ABC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster ** Disney–ABC Television ...
's '' Media Watch'' (Law) *
George Newhouse George Newhouse is an Australian human rights lawyer and a former local councillor. He is the principal solicitor of the National Justice Project, a human rights and social justice legal service, and currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Macq ...
, human rights lawyer and a former local councillor (Commerce/Law)


Military

* Peter Abigail, retired Australian Army officer, ranked
major general Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...
* Tim Barrett , current Australian Chief of Navy, ranked vice admiral *
Greg Bilton Lieutenant General Gregory Charles Bilton, (born 2 March 1965) is a senior officer in the Australian Army. He was seconded to the United States Army Pacific as Deputy Commanding General – Operations from 2014 to 2017, served as Deputy Chief ...
, current Australian Army officer serving as Deputy Chief of Joint Operations, ranked major general *
Rick Burr Lieutenant General Richard Maxwell "Rick" Burr, (born 2 June 1964) is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army, who served as Chief of Army from 2 July 2018 to 1 July 2022. He was previously Commander 1st Division from 2011 to 2012, D ...
, current Australian Army officer serving as Chief of Army, ranked lieutenant general *
John Caligari Lieutenant General John Graham Caligari, (born 21 August 1960) is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He served as Chief Capability Development Group from October 2014 until his retirement in August 2015. Early life Caligari was b ...
, retired Australian Army officer, ranked
lieutenant general Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...
(Arts/Defence Studies) * John Cantwell, , retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general *
Allan du Toit Allan may refer to: People * Allan (name), a given name and surname, including list of people and characters with this name * Allan (footballer, born 1984) (Allan Barreto da Silva), Brazilian football striker * Allan (footballer, born 1989) ...
, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked real admiral (Defence/Strategic Studies) *
Gus Gilmore Major General Peter Warwick "Gus" Gilmore, (born 31 January 1962) is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, he was commissioned into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps in 1983 and s ...
, current Australian Army officer, serving as Head of Military Strategic Commitments Division, ranked major general (Arts) * James Goldrick , retired Australian Navy officer, ranked rear admiral (Arts) * Ian Gordon , retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general (Science/Military Studies, 1973) *
John Harvey John Harvey may refer to: People Academics * John Harvey (astrologer) (1564–1592), English astrologer and physician * John Harvey (architectural historian) (1911–1997), British architectural historian, who wrote on English Gothic architecture ...
, retired
Royal Australian Air Force "Through Adversity to the Stars" , colours = , colours_label = , march = , mascot = , anniversaries = RAAF Anniversary Commemoration ...
officer, ranked air marshal (Architecture/Psychology/Information Science) *
Andrew Hastie Andrew William Hastie (born 30 September 1982) is an Australian politician and former military officer currently serving as the shadow minister for defence. He previously served as the Assistant Minister for Defence from 2020 to 2022 under Mi ...
, current Member for
Canning Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans). Canning provides a shelf life that typically ranges from one to five years, although u ...
, retired Australian Army officer * Peter Jones , retired Australian Navy officer, ranked vice admiral (BA/MA) *
Mark Kelly Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, former astronaut, and United States Navy captain who has served as the junior United States senator from Arizona since 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, he was electe ...
, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general (BA/MA) * Mike Kelly , current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer (PhD Law) * David Kilcullen, Australian author, strategist and global counterinsurgency expert; retired Australian Army officer, ranked
lieutenant colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colone ...
(BA, PhD) *
Andrew Nikolic Andrew Alexander Nikolic (born 20 June 1961) is a former Australian politician, retired senior Australian Army officer, and a former public servant in the Department of Defence. He was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the L ...
, former politician and retired Australian Army officer (Management) * Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Australian Army officer (Arts)


Popular culture

*
Amy Lyons Amy Lyons () is an Australian media personality and influencer active in China, where she is known as a " wǎng hóng" (网红), which in China means people who are famous on social media. She originated from the city of Sydney, Re-postat ''New Zea ...
– Internet personality in China *
Sam Chui Sam Chui (; zh, link=no, 崔佳星; born 7 November 1980) is a Chinese-born Australian aviation and travel vlogger, photographer, and author. He has written four books including ''Air1'', ''Air2'', ''Air 3'', and ''Air747''. Chui is also a Y ...
– World's most popular Aviation Blogger based in
United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...
* Pranav Mohanlal – Malayalam film actor


Religious leaders

* Peter Chiswell,
Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
bishop, formerly the Bishop of Armidale * Tom Frame, Anglican bishop, historian, academic, author and social commentator (Arts/PhD) * Peter Hayward, Anglican bishop, currently serving as the Bishop of Wollongong (Civil Engineering) * Brian King, former Anglican assistant bishop in the Diocese of Sydney (Theology) *
Julian Leow Beng Kim Julian Leow Beng Kim (born 3 January 1964) is a Malaysian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur since 2014. Early life Archbishop Leow was born on 3 January 1964, in Seremb ...
, current Archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur ( la, Archidioecesis Kuala Lumpurensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia. It was erected as the Diocese of Kuala Lumpur by Pope Pius X ...
(Building)


Sciences


Biology

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Mark Burgman Mark A. Burgman is an Australian ecologist, Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy and Professor in Risk Analysis & Environmental Policy, Imperial College London and Editor-in-Chief of the journal '' Conservation Biology''. He was Direc ...
, ecologist (Science) *
Jessie Christiansen Jessie Christiansen is an Australian astrophysicist working at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She won the 2018 NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal for her work on the Kepler p ...
, exoplanetologist *
Bernard d'Abrera Bernard d'Abrera (28 August 1940 – 13 January 2017) was an Australian entomological taxonomist and philosopher of science, particularly noted for his books on true butterflies (Papilionoidea) and larger moths of the world (Saturniidae and Sphing ...
, entomological taxonomist and philosopher of science (Arts with majors in History/Science) *
Jocelyn Dela-Cruz Jocelyn Dela-Cruz (born Philippines) is a Principal Environmental Scientist at the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Australia. She was educated at the University of Sydney (BSc. Hons1 and MSc) and University of New South Wales ...
, eco-physiologist *
Steve Donnellan Steve Donnellan (12 November 1900 – 29 June 1934) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Football Donnellan came to Fitzroy from Cohuna and played 16 games in his debut season in ...
, biologist and chief research scientist of the Evolutionary Biology Unit at the South Australian Museum (Science) *
Tim Flannery Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, Conservation biology, conservationist, Exploration, explorer, author, Science communication, science communicator, activist and p ...
, mammalogist,
palaeontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
, environmentalist and
global warming In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...
activist; 2007
Australian of the Year The Australian of the Year is a national award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Governmentowned social enterprise. Similar awards are also conferred at the State and Territo ...
(PhD Palaeontology) *
Levon Khachigian Levon Michael Khachigian (born 6 March 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Australian medical research scientist notable for his work in vascular cell and molecular biology. He is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wa ...
, vascular cell and molecular biologist and academic (B.Science (Honours), PhD, D.Science) * Zinnia Kumar, evolutionary biologist, ecologist and fashion model (B. Advanced Science onours * Alan O. Trounson, biologist * Camille Goldstone-Henry, Wildlife Scientist


Chemistry

*
Rose Amal Rose Amal (born 1965) is an Australian chemical engineer, currently serving as Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where she is the director of the ...
, chemical engineer * Gordon Aylward, chemist and author *
Naiyyum Choudhury Naiyyum Choudhury (27 September 1944 – 7 September 2019) was a Bangladeshi biotechnologist and a nuclear scientist. He pioneered the development and adoption of the National Biotechnology policy of Bangladesh. He served as the Chairman of B ...
, Bangladeshi biochemist, founding Chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) (Biotechnology)


Computer scientists

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Clive Finkelstein Clive Finkelstein (born ca. 1939 died 9/12/2021) is an Australian computer scientist, known as the "Father" of information engineering methodology. Life and work In 1961 Finkelstein received his Bachelor of Science from the University of New ...
, computer scientist, known as the "father" of information technology engineering (Science) *
Carsten Haitzler Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the free software movement, open source community, is an Australian-German software engineer, best known for initiating and leading the development of the Enlightenment (software), Enli ...
, computer scientist, creator of
Enlightenment Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to: Age of Enlightenment * Age of Enlightenment, period in Western intellectual history from the late 17th to late 18th century, centered in France but also encompassing (alphabetically by country or culture): ...
*
Gernot Heiser Gernot Heiser (born 1957) is a Scientia Professor and the John Lions Chair for operating systems at UNSW Sydney, where he leads thTrustworthy Systemsgroup (TS). Life In 1991 Heiser joined the School of Computer Science and Engineering of U ...
, operating systems and ACM Fellow * Adam Kennedy, computer scientist *
Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom Sitthichai Pokai-udom ( th, สิทธิชัย โภไคยอุดม, born 10 November 1948) is Thai inventor and politician. He was appointed as Minister of Ministry of Information and Communication Technology of Thailand in 2006 by a ...
, first Thai elected to
IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...
Fellow A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher education ...
; current President of
Mahanakorn University of Technology Mahanakorn University of Technology ( th, มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีมหานคร, short MUT) is a university in Thailand. The university was established on February 27, 1990 at Nong Chok District, Bangkok. ...
;
Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
's Minister of Information and Communication Technologies *
Claude Sammut Claude Sammut is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of New South Wales and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring informati ...
, computer scientist *
Raj Reddy Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mello ...
, computer scientist,
Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in compu ...


Engineering

* Julie Cairney, Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis *
Michael Collins Michael Collins or Mike Collins most commonly refers to: * Michael Collins (Irish leader) (1890–1922), Irish revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician * Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930–2021), American astronaut, member of Apollo 11 and Ge ...
, Canadian
structural engineer Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants. Their work takes account mainly of safety, technical, economic ...
(PhD) * Saeid Eslamian, Iranian hydrologist (Engineering) *
Ron Fitch Ronald John Fitch (8 June 1910 – 20 July 2015) was an Australian railway executive and railway engineer. The majority of his working career was with the Western Australian Government Railways, Commonwealth Railways and the South Australian Ra ...
, railway executive and
railway engineer Railway engineering is a multi-faceted engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction and operation of all types of rail transport systems. It encompasses a wide range of engineering disciplines, including civil engineering, comput ...
(PhD) *
Graham Goodwin Graham Clifford Goodwin (born 20 April 1945 Broken Hill, New South Wales) is an Australian Laureate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Life Graham Goodwin is an Emeritus Laureate Professor of Electric ...
, Australian
electrical engineer Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
and academic (Science, 1964; PhD, 1970) *
Saul Griffith Saul Griffith (born 1974) is an Australian-American inventor and renewable electricity advocate. He is the founder or co-founder of multiple companies, including Otherlab (where he is currently CEO), Makani Power, and Instructables. Education ...
, Australian American inventor and material science mechanical engineer (Mechanical Engineering, 1997) *
Sam Michael Samuel David Michael (born 29 April 1971) is an Australian motor sports engineer and designer, who held senior positions with Formula One constructors Williams and McLaren. He is currently employed by Supercar team Triple Eight Race Engineeri ...
, sporting director of
McLaren McLaren Racing Limited is a British motor racing team based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, England. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor, the second oldest active team, and the second most successful Formul ...
(Engineering) * Stuart Wenham, Director of ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence,
UNSW The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...
Australia (Engineering)


Mathematics and economics

* Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of
Flinders University Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator ...
from 2008 until 2014 (Mathematics) *
Lynne Billard Lynne Billard (born 1943) is an Australian statistician and professor at the University of Georgia, known for her statistics research, leadership, and advocacy for women in science. She has served as president of the American Statistical Associa ...
, statistician and US academic (Science) *
Lawrie Brown Lawrence Peter "Lawrie" Brown is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently a (retired and now visiting) Senior Lecturer with Australian Defence Force Academy#UNSW Canberra at ADFA, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force A ...
, cryptographer and computer security researcher (Mathematics) *
Stephen Duckett Stephen John Duckett (born 18 February 1950) is a health economist and think-tanker who has occupied many leadership roles in health services in both Australia and Canada, including as Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Agei ...
, health economist (Health Administration/PhD)


Medicine

*
Samy Azer Samy A. Azer is an Egyptian-born Australian physician author and medical educator who has contributed to medical education internationally. Academic career Professor Azer has contributed to medical education at the University of Sydney (1997 ...
, international medical educator (Medicine) * Julie Campbell, vascular biologist * David A. Cooper, HIV/AIDS researcher and immunologist * Sir Richard Feachem , global public health administrator and anti-malaria activist (PhD in Environmental Health) * Peter Fricker , sports physician and administrator (MB BS) * Michelle Haber , paediatric cancer researcher (Psychology, PhD athology * Louise Maple-Brown , endocrinologist and clinical researcher * Steven Krilis, immunologist *
Charlie Teo Charles Teo AM ( zh, 张正贤; born 24 December 1957)''Who's Who in Australia'', ConnectWeb. is an Australian neurosurgeon. Early life and education Teo was born to Chinese-Singaporean parents who immigrated to Australia. He attended The Sc ...
, neurosurgeon


Other medical sciences

* John Ball, cognitive scientist * Julie Campbell, vascular biologist and current Director of the Centre for Research in Vascular Biology at the
University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...
(Physiology) * David Cooper , Australian HIV/AIDS researcher, immunologist, professor at the University of New South Wales, and the director of the Kirby Institute (Medicine) * Gordon Parker, psychiatrist


Physics

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Joan Adler Joan Elisabeth Adler (born 1950) is a computational physicist at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Originally from Australia, she is a citizen of both Australia and Israel. Her research involves percolation theory, lattice mod ...
, computational physicist * Murray Batchelor, mathematical physicist *
Karl Kruszelnicki Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki (born 1948), often referred to as "Dr Karl", is an Australian science communicator and populariser, who is known as an author and a science commentator on Australian radio and television. K ...
, physicist, medical practitioner, and science communicator (Biomedical Engineering) *
John Pyke John Richard Pyke (born 28 August 1940) is an Australian physicist and a former university law lecturer. In retirement he still writes about Constitutional Law. He was a Queensland Senate candidate at the 2001 and 2010 Australian Federal Electi ...
, physicist and retired law lecturer (LLB)


Service sector

* Huen Su Yin, Malaysian blogger and cake designer (Construction Management)


Sport

* Sally Bennett,
sabre A sabre ( French: sabʁ or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Originally associated with Central European cavalry such as th ...
fencer * Matt Carroll , sports administrator and current chief executive of the
Australian Olympic Committee Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Aus ...
(Construction) *
Todd Greenberg Todd Greenberg (born 2 July 1971) is an Australian rugby league administrator who was Chief Executive Officer of the NRL between March 2016 and April 2020. Background Greenberg was born in 1971 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is Jewi ...
, sports administrator and current chief executive of the National Rugby League (Sports Science) * Andrew Jones, sports administrator and current chief executive of
Cricket NSW Cricket NSW (officially known as the ''New South Wales Cricket Association'') is an Australian sporting association that administers cricket in New South Wales. It is based at the Sydney Olympic Park. The New South Wales Blues, the New South Wa ...
(BA/LLB) *
Phil Kearns Philip Nicholas Kearns (born 27 June 1967) is an Australian former rugby union player. He represented the Wallabies 67 times and was captain on ten occasions. He is a rugby commentator with the Fox Sports TV channel. Biography Kearns was bor ...
, former rugby union international; former
Wallabies A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and so ...
captain (Arts) *
Tadhg Kennelly Tadhg Kennelly (born 1 July 1981) is an Irish-Australian former international sportsperson turned recruiter and coach. He is most known for his top-level careers in both Gaelic football and Australian rules football being the only holder of bot ...
, former
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
who played for the
Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a reser ...
*
Usman Khawaja Usman Tariq Khawaja ( ur, ; born 18 December 1986) is an Australian cricketer who represents Australia and Queensland. Khawaja made his first-class cricket debut for New South Wales in 2008 and played his first international match for Australi ...
, Pakistani-born Australian cricketer (Aviation) * Geoff Lawson, cricketer *
Ewen McKenzie Ewen James Andrew McKenzie (born 21 June 1965) is an Australian professional rugby union coach and a former international rugby player. He played for Australia's World Cup winning team in 1991 and earned 51 caps for the Wallabies during his tes ...
, current coach of the Queensland Reds *
Simon Poidevin Simon Paul Poidevin (born 31 October 1958) is a former Australian rugby union player. Poidevin made his Test debut for Australia against Fiji during the 1980 tour of Fiji. He was a member of the Wallabies side that defeated New Zealand 2–1 ...
, former
Wallabies A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and so ...
captain *
Marshall Rosen Marshall Frederick Rosen (born 17 September 1948) is a former cricket player for New South Wales, and a member of the NSW Cricket Association Board. Cricket career Rosen represented New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield between 1971 and 1975 ...
, cricketer *
Jane Saville Jane Kara Saville (born 5 November 1974) is an Australian race walker who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She was born in Sydney. Saville, from an athletically inclined family, competed in swimming, surf lifesaving, ...
,
2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
medallist * Michael Slater, cricketer * Mark Taylor, cricketer (Australia's 39th test captain),
Australian of the Year The Australian of the Year is a national award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Governmentowned social enterprise. Similar awards are also conferred at the State and Territo ...
1999 * Richard Walsh, professional mixed martial artist *
Michael Wenden Michael Vincent Wenden, (born 17 November 1949) is a champion swimmer who represented Australia in the 1968 Summer Olympics and 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1968 he won four medals: gold in both the 100- and 200-metre freestyle (setting world reco ...
, swimming champion,
1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...
gold medallist (two gold, one silver, one bronze)


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Further reading

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