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List of University of Melbourne people

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

Alumni

Academia

Architecture

Business

Community activism

Julian Assange, Wikileaks spokesperson and founder (did not graduate)
Waleed Aly
Helen Durham, international humanitarian lawyer
Avery Ng, Hong Kong activist
Tilman Ruff, public health scholar and founder of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

Government

Governors General of Australia

Richard Casey, Baron Casey, , 16th Governor-General of Australia (did not graduate)
Sir Zelman Cowen,
Peter Hollingworth,
Sir Isaac Isaacs, , also former Chief Justice of Australia
Sir Ninian Stephen, , also a previous Justice of the High Court of Australia

Governors of Victoria

Alex Chernov,
Professor David de Kretser
Sir James Gobbo, , also a previous Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
John Landy
Richard McGarvie
Sir Henry Winneke, , also a previous Chief Justice of Victoria

Governors of other jurisdictions

Sir Bede Clifford , , , Governor of The Bahamas, then Governor of Mauritius and then Governor of Trinidad and Tobago

Politicians

Prime Ministers of Australia

Alfred Deakin
Julia Gillard,
Harold Holt,
Sir Robert Menzies,

Premiers of Victoria

Ted Baillieu
John Brumby
John Cain II
Rupert Hamer
Sir William Irvine, , also a former Chief Justice of Victoria
Joan Kirner
William Shiels
Lindsay Thompson

Premier of Queensland

Thomas Ryan

Federal politicians

Australian state and territory politicians

International politicians

Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor
Hun Many, Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia
Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
Tajol Rosli Mohd Ghazali, former Menteri Besar of Perak
Dato' Sri Mustapa Mohamed, Member of Parliament of Jeli, former Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry
Baru Bian, Member of Parliament of Selangau, former Malaysian Minister of Works
Raja Kamarul Bahrin, former Malaysian Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government
Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister

Public servants

William Macmahon Ball, diplomat
Jean-Pierre Blais, Canadian bureaucrat; Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Peta Credlin, political advisor
Francis Patrick Donovan, , diplomat and jurist
Bill Paterson, Australian Ambassador to Republic of Korea; previously Australian Ambassador to Thailand and Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism
Trevor Ashmore Pyman, diplomat.
John So, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Fred Whitlam, Crown Solicitor; father of Gough
Danielle Wood, economist and incoming chair of the Productivity Commission
Luke Lazarus Arnold, Australian diplomat

Humanities

Arts

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

Film and television

History

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

Journalism

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

Literature, writing and poetry

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

Music

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

Philosophy

Law

Julian McMahon, A.C., barrister, humanitarian, campaigner against death penalty
Rob Stary, criminal defence lawyer
Lord Uthwatt, Judge, Chancery Division, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords
Kissana Phathanacharoen, Deputy Commander of Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau and Deputy Spokesman of the Royal Thai Police

Military

Religious leaders

Sciences

Agriculture

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

Biology

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

Computing

Andrew Freeman, FACS – Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected in 1997), and an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the ACS (elected in 2018)

Geology

Norman Greenwood

Chemistry

Cyril Callister, creator of Vegemite
Beryl Splatt
Shu Jie Lam
Dr Ruth Wilson

Engineering

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

Mathematics

Medicine

Lilian Helen Alexander, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
Ellen Balaam, first woman surgeon in Melbourne
David Bowen, deregistered medical practitioner
Marjorie Bick, biochemist
Vera Scantlebury Brown
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
Amy de Castilla Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
Clara Stone Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
Sir John Carew Eccles, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
Aditya Tedjaseputra, inventor of pain-free speculum
Constance Ellis, first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine from the university
Mavis Freeman, bacteriologist and biochemist
Jane Stocks Greig, public health specialist
Janet Greig, Victoria's first female anaesthetist
David Handelsman, Australia's first professor in reproductive endocrinology and andrology
Girlie Hodges (1904-1999) Australian surgeon and field hockey player who represented Australia
James Lawson, public health doctor and scientist
Annie O'Hara doctor and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
Elizabeth O'Hara (medical doctor) one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
Lorna Verdun Sisely, Surgeon and founder of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre Breast Clinic.
Elizabeth Scarr, associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, project leader of Cooperative Research Centre for Mental Health, and leader of the Psychiatric Neuropathology laboratory at the university
Helen Sexton, surgeon, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
Emily Mary Page Stone Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
Rajaratnam Sundarason, surgeon, one of the founders of International House
Elizabeth Kathleen Turner, medical superintendent of the (Royal) Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1943 until 1946. She was first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.
Grace Vale Physician and co-founder of the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
Sydney James Van Pelt, pioneer of modern hypnotherapy
Margaret Whyte Physician, and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.

Physics

Psychology

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

Veterinary Science

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

Sport

Kim Crow, London Olympics silver and bronze medallist for doubles and singles sculling respectively
Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
Bev Francis, IFBB professional Australian female bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion
Geoff Grover, VFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)
John Robinson, VFL Footballer; recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal (1917)