List of Monash University people

Politics and government

Daniel Andrews – 48th Premier of Victoria

Kevin Andrews – Australian Defence Minister

Louise Asher – former Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party

Jim Bacon – former Premier of Tasmania (did not graduate)

Adam Bandt – Federal Member of Parliament for the Australian Greens; first Green elected to Federal Parliament at a general election

Boediono – former Vice President of Indonesia

Sue Boyce – Australian Senator

Andrew Brideson – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Helen Buckingham – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Anna Burke – politician, current Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives

Elaine Carbines – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Peter Cleeland – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Jacinta Collins – Australian Senator

Ann Corcoran – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Peter Costello – longest-serving Treasurer of Australia; former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia

Simon Crean – Australian Minister for Trade; former Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the ALP

David de Kretser – medical researcher; former Governor of Victoria

John Delzoppo – former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria

Richard Di Natale – Leader of the Australian Greens, Senator for Victoria

Robert Doyle – former Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party; now Lord Mayor of Melbourne

John Elferink – Northern Territory Shadow Treasurer

Peter Falconer – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

David Feeney – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Jeannie Ferris – Australian Senator

Gail Gago – South Australian Minister for Environment, Conservation and Mental Health

James Gomez – Singaporean politician and academic at Monash

Alan Griffiths – former Australian Minister for Industry and Resources

Peter Hall – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Alistair Harkness – Member of the Parliament of Victoria, political commentator

Carolyn Hirsh – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Rob Hudson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Dennis Jensen – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Gary Johns – former Special Minister of State, academic

Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman

Norman Lacy – former Minister for Arts and Minister for Educational Services

Albert Langer – political activist

John Langmore – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives; Director of Social Policy and Development at the United Nations; academic

John Lenders – Victorian Treasurer; Victoria's longest-serving Finance Minister

Lim Guan Eng – Malaysian politician; current Chief Minister of the State of Penang

Hong Lim – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Tony Lupton – Member of the Parliament of Victoria; Secretary of Cabinet under John Brumby

Julian McGauran – Former Australian Senator

Marlene Moses – diplomat, Foreign Minister of Nauru

Lauren Moss - Member of the Northern Territory Parliament

Simbarashe Mumbengegwi – Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe

Janice Munt – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Brendan O'Connor – former Australian Minister for Home Affairs and Employment, now Opposition Cabinet member

Gavan O'Connor – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Neil O'Keefe – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Clare O'Neil – Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Hotham; former Mayor of the City of Greater Dandenong; youngest female mayor in Australian history

Martin Pakula – Attorney General of Victoria

John Pandazopoulos – former Victorian Minister for Employment and Major Projects

Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator; former Minister for Health

Chris Pearce – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Sue Pennicuik – Greens Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Victor Perton - former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Inga Peulich – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Robert Ray – Australian Senator; former Defence Minister

Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; former Defence Minister; former Minister for Workplace Relations

Gordon Rich-Phillips – Shadow Victorian Finance Minister

Tony Robinson – Victorian Minister for Consumer Affairs and Gaming

Bill Shorten – Federal Opposition leader, Member of the Australian House of Representatives; former National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union; President of the Victorian ALP

Helen Silver – public servant; Secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet

Adem Somyurek – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Sharman Stone – former Australian Minister for Workforce Participation, former Shadow Minister for Immigration

Kirsty Sword Gusmão – political activist; former first lady of East Timor

Murray Thompson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

John Thwaites – former Deputy Premier of Victoria; Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change

David Vigor – Australian Senator

Nick Wakeling – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

Don Watson – speechwriter to Paul Keating, author

Graeme Weideman – former Victorian Minister for Tourism

Dean Wells – former Attorney-General of Queensland; Minister for Education and Minister for the Environment

Steve Wettenhall – Member of the Parliament of Queensland

Greg Wilton (1955–2000) – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Michael Wooldridge – former Australian Minister for Health and Chairman of UNAIDS

Law

Greg Barns – barrister and political commentator

Kevin Bell – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; current President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)

Diana Bryant – current Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia

Julian Burnside, QC – high-profile barrister; human rights advocate; author; one of the Australian Living Treasures

Paul Cronin – Justice of the Family Court of Australia

Tom Danos – high-profile barrister; Treasurer of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association; defence lawyer in the Keith William Allan murder trial

Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

Ian Gray – current Chief Magistrate, Magistrates' Court of Victoria

Felicity Hampel – human rights lawyer; Judge of the County Court of Victoria

Peter Hayes QC – high-profile barrister

Peter Hogg – constitutional law scholar

Graeme Johnstone – current State Coroner of Victoria

Murray Kellam – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria;ffirst President of VCAT

Lex Lasry QC – high-profile barrister, Chairman of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association; human rights advocate; Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Stuart Morris – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; former President of VCAT

Ross Ray – current President of the Law Council of Australia

Neil Rees – current Chairman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission; foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School

Michael Rozenes – current Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria

Pamela Tate – current Solicitor-General of Victoria

Mark Weinberg – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia; former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions; current Chief Justice of Norfolk Island

Media and arts

Rory Barnes – novelist

Jean Bedford – novelist

Peter Bonner – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize

Damien Broderick – author, futurist

Peter Carey – Booker prize-winning novelist

Nick Cave – musician

Tim Charles – musician

Timothy Conigrave (1959–1994) – actor and writer

Peter Corris – crime fiction author

Andrew Daddo – actor, voice artist, author and television personality

Cecilia Dart-Thornton – author

Lindy Davies – actor; Dean of the Victorian College of Arts

Cherie Ditcham – actress, model

Laurie Duggan – poet

Hazel Edwards – children's author

Doug Chappel - comedian actor

Jon Faine – Melbourne radio personality

Phillip Frazer – publisher

Max Gillies – actor and satirist

Andy Griffiths – children's author

John Griffiths – musician and musicologist

Yalda Hakim – journalist

Mark Holden – singer, actor, television personality and barrister

Leslie Howard – pianist and composer

Russel Howcroft - advertiser, media personality and Executive General Manager of Network Ten

Paul Jennings – children's author

Adib Khan – novelist

Lucy Kiraly – fashion model and television presenter

Michael Leunig – cartoonist

Campbell McComas – comedian and actor

Brenda Niall – author

Nikolai Nikolaeff – actor

Eva Orner – Academy-Award-winning film producer

Charlie Pickering – comedian

Ben Quilty – artist

John Romeril – playwright

Raghav Sachar – Indian singer songwriter

John A. Scott – poet

Fiona Spence – actress, star of Prisoner

Jo Stanley – radio personality

Stelarc – performance artist

Yumi Stynes – radio and television personality

Lucy Sussex – author

Matt Tilley – comedian

Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize

Don Watson – author

Alan Wearne – poet

David Williamson – playwright

Shaun Wilson – artist

Marcus Kwok - Hong Kong artist (MBBS graduate)

Business

Fiona Balfour – businesswoman, former Qantas and Telstra executive

John F. O. Bilson – economist

Mark Birrell – company director; former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology

Tony D'Aloisio – Chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC); former CEO, Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)

Henry Ergas – economist

John A. Fraser – Chairman and CEO of Global Asset Management at UBS AG; former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury

Joshua Frydenberg – banker and political aspirant

Peter Ivany – media mogul and billionaire

Margaret Jackson – first female Chairman of Qantas

Ruslan Kogan – founder and CEO of Australia's biggest online retailer Kogan.com; co-founder of Milan Direct

Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman

Tan Le – technology businesswoman, Young Australian of the Year

Peter Lew – businessman

Michael Luscombe – CEO and Managing Director, Woolworths Limited

Ian Macfarlane - economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996–2006)

Paresh Narayan – economist

Trevor O'Hoy – President and CEO, Foster's Group

Pasuk Phongpaichit – economist, author, anti-corruption campaigner; recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Gary P. Sampson – WTO economist

Graeme Samuel – Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)

Jannie Tay – Executive Vice-Chairman and co-founder of the Hour Glass; recipient of the 2003 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

Medicine and science

Yahya Awang – cardiothoracic surgeon; performed the first heart transplant in Malaysia

Greg Ayers – atmospheric scientist, Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

David Brown – meteorologist, Seven News weatherman

Michael Cowley – physiologist, Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009

David de Kretser - medical researcher, former Governor of Victoria

Weary Dunlop – military surgeon, World War II leader (attended the Victorian College of Pharmacy, now Monash Parkville Campus)

Ian G. Enting – mathematician

Tim Flannery – biologist, author, 2007 Australian of the Year

Kristine French – plant biologist and conservationist

Susan Lim – surgeon, performed Singapore's first successful liver transplant; recipient of the 2005 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

John Mattick – Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, whose research led to the discovery of the function of non-coding DNA

Patrick McGorry – psychiatrist, 2010 Australian of the Year

Lee J. Slavutin – pathologist; recipient of the 1974 Monash University Sophie Davis Memorial Prize

Terry Speed – mathematician

Abu Bakar Suleiman – Vice-Chancellor of International Medical University; recipient of the 2007 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

Norman Arthur Wakefield – botanist

Social services and academia

Phillip Aspinall – Head of the Anglican Church of Australia

Diane Bell – anthropologist

Gidon Bromberg – environmentalist

Karen Burns – architectural historian

Michael Clyne – linguist

Anthony G. Collins – President of Clarkson University

Tim Costello – humanitarian, CEO of World Vision Australia, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures

Mick Dodson – indigenous rights campaigner; Convenor of the ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia; one of the Australian Living Treasures; 2009 Australian of the Year

Harriet Edquist – architectural historian

Hugh Evans – 2004 Young Australian of the Year, philanthropist

Ben Kiernan – leading researcher in the study of genocide

Peter Leslie Lee - Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross University

Stuart Macintyre – historian

Ron McCallum – Labour law scholar

Simon Molesworth QC, Chairman of the Australian Council of National Trusts

Justin Oakley – philosopher

George Pell – Australia's Cardinal of the Catholic Church

Neil Rees – foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School

Julian Savulescu – Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford

Brian Weatherson – philosopher

Beth Wilson – Victorian Health Services Commissioner

Dato' Michael Yeoh – founder, executive director and CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI)

Sport

Catherine Arlove – Olympic judo competitor

John Bertrand - yachtsman, skipper of Australia II

Mordy Bromberg – former AFL footballer, barrister, current Judge of the Federal Court of Australia

Travis Brooks – field hockey player, Olympic Games gold medallist

Nathan Burke – AFL footballer

Alastair Clarkson – former AFL footballer, current Coach of the Hawthorn Football Club

Tony Dodemaide – cricketer

Ron Evans – AFL footballer and sports administrator

Robby Foldvari – billiards and snooker player, world champion

Brett Gosper - former member of the Australia national under-21 rugby union team; current CEO of the International Rugby Board

Geoff Grover - former AFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)

Lauren Hewitt – athlete

Geoff Hunt – squash player, four-time world champion

Janine Ilitch – netballer

Paul McNamee – tennis player, sports administrator, winner of Wimbledon and Australian Open

Anna Millward, née Wilson – cyclist, world champion and world record holder

Brenton Rickard – swimmer, Olympic silver medallist

Paul Trimboli – soccer player

David Zalcberg – Olympic table tennis player, Commonwealth Games medallist

Creative arts

Dorothy Auchterlonie – writer and poet

Trevor Barnard - pianist

Janine Burke – author, novelist, art historian

Kevin Hart – poet and literary critic

Adrian Martin – film critic

Brian Nelson – French literature expert and translator

Jennifer Strauss – poet

Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize

Humanities and social sciences

Waleed Aly – Muslim community leader and political commentator

Andrew Benjamin – philosopher

Harold Bolitho – historian

Geoffrey Bolton – historian

John Brumby - former Premier of Victoria

Kate Burridge – prominent linguist and occasional ABC presenter

John Button – former Australian Senator; Leader of the Australian Labor Party in the Senate; Australian Minister for Industry (1983–1993)

David P. Chandler – historian

Chin Liew Ten – philosopher

Michael Clyne – linguist

Ken Coghill – former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria

Peter Costello – longest-serving Treasurer of Australia; former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia

Franz-Josef Deiters – literary critic

Nick Economou – political scientist and media commentator

Herbert Feith – Indonesian politics expert

Allan Fels – economist and former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

John Edward Fletcher – German studies expert

James Alexander Forrest – lawyer, former University Council member

Petro Georgiou - former Liberal Member of the Parliament of Australia

Fred Gruen – economist

Rob J. Hyndman – statistician, forecaster

Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher

David Kemp – political scientist; former Australian Minister for Education and the Environment

Helga Kuhse – philosopher and bioethicist

Andrew Linklater – international relations expert

Mal Logan – geographer, former Vice-Chancellor

Tony Lupton - former politician and Secretary to the Victorian Cabinet, now professor of public policy

Race Mathews – economist; Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam; former Minister for Community Services; former Minister for Police and Emergency Services

Yew-Kwang Ng – economist

Graham Oppy – philosopher

Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator and Minister for Health

Mark Peel – historian

Christian Reus-Smit – international relations expert

John Rickard - economist

Modjtaba Sadria – philosopher

Richard Scotton – health economist, creator of Australian Medicare program

Kamal Uddin Siddiqui – economist, diplomat

Peter Singer – philosopher (now at Princeton University, US)

J. J. C. Smart – philosopher

Michael A. Smith – philosopher

John Thwaites – former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change, now Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute

Nick Trakakis – philosopher

Hal Varian – economist

David Wright-Neville – political scientist, terrorism expert

Xiaokai Yang – economist, democracy campaigner, political prisoner

Law

Bob Baxt – lawyer, former Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission (now ACCC)

Enid Campbell – jurist

David Derham – jurist

Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

Arie Freiberg - Chairman of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council

George Hampel, QC – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; leading advocacy instructor

Felicity Hampel, SC – judge of the County Court of Victoria; human rights lawyer

Peter Heerey – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

Sarah Joseph – human rights scholar

Marcia Neave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Stephen John Parker – jurist

Mahadev Shankar – Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge

Louis Waller – medical and criminal law expert

Christopher Weeramantry – Judge and Vice-President of the International Court of Justice; human rights advocate

Medicine and life sciences

Bill Charman – pharmaceutical scientist

Michael Cowley – physiologist; Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009

David de Kretser – medical researcher; current Governor of Victoria

Basil Hetzel – medical researcher, public health advocate, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures

Frederic Jevons – biochemist

Richard Larkins – medical researcher; former Monash University Vice-Chancellor

A.T.S Sissons – pharmaceutical scientist

Elsdon Storey – neurologist

Alan O. Trounson – biologist, IVF pioneer and stem cell researcher

Carl Wood – IVF pioneer

Physical sciences

Robert Bartnik – mathematician

Jim Breen - computer scientist, known for his work on Japanese dictionary projects

Damian Conway – computer scientist, Perl

John Crossley - mathematician

John Michael Cullen – ornithologist

Kenneth H. Hunt – kinematics expert

Vit Klemes – hydrologist

Carlo Kopp – defence analyst / strategist, computer scientist

Gilah Leder - mathematics education

Raymond Martin – chemical scientist, former Vice-Chancellor

Louis Matheson – engineer, foundation Vice-Chancellor

Louis Moresi – geophysicist

Graeme Pearman – climate change scientist

Andrew Prentice – mathematician

Zenon J Pudlowski – engineering expert

John Stillwell – mathematician

Chris Wallace – computer scientist

Les William - physical instrumentation

Vice-Chancellors

Sir Louis Matheson (1960–1976)

William Alexander Gowdie Scott (1976–1977)

Raymond Martin AO (1977–1987)

Mal Logan AC (1987–1996)

David Robinson (1997–2002)

Peter Darvall AO (2002–2003)

Richard Larkins AO (2003–2009)

Ed Byrne AC (2009–2014)

Margaret Gardner AO (2014–)

Chancellors

Sir Robert Rutherford Blackwood (1958–1968)

Sir Douglas Ian Menzies (1968–1974)

Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston (1975–1983)

Sir George Hermann Lush (1983–1992)

David William Rogers (1992–1998)

Jerry Ellis (1999–2007)

Alan Finkel (2008–2016)

Simon McKeon (2016–)