List of University of Adelaide people

Chancellors and vice-chancellors

Source: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/records/archives/former/

Nobel laureates

William Lawrence Bragg, BS 1908 – physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his father (William Henry Bragg, a member of the faculty of the University of Adelaide) "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"

Howard Florey, MB and BS 1921 – pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine,1945) "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"

Robin Warren, MBBS 1961 – pathologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2005), for the "discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"

Business

Shaun Bonett - founder of the Precision Group

John Langdon Bonython - founding chairman of Santos

Bruce Carter - chairman of ASC Pty Ltd

Cheong Choong Kong - former chief executive officer of Singapore Airlines, chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation

Tim Cooper - managing director of Coopers Brewery

Simon Hackett - founder of Internode (ISP)

Tim Harcourt - economist

Edward Holden - managing director of General Motors-Holden

Wayne Jackson - former chief executive officer of the Australian Football League (AFL)

Lim Siong Guan - group president of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation

Gillon McLachlan - chief executive officer of the AFL

Thorburn Brailsford Robertson - pioneered insulin manufacture in Australia

John Spalvins - managing director of the Adelaide Steamship Company

Raymond Spencer - chair of the South Australian Economic Development Board

Neil Weste - microelectronics engineer and entrepreneur

Philip Wollen - former general manager at Citicorp, philanthropist

Military

Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC CMG CBE - soldier and lawyer; awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916

Brigadier Andrew Nikolic (see under Politics, Legislators)

National leaders

Julia Gillard - 27th Prime Minister of Australia (2009–12) (attended 1979 to 1982, transferred to the University of Melbourne) – first female Prime Minister of Australia

Peter Ong Boon Kwee - Head of the Civil Service, Singapore since 2010, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Singapore since 2009, and Permanent Secretary with Special Duties in the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore

Ong Teng Cheong - 5th President of Singapore (1993–99)

Joseph Pairin Kitingan - 7th Chief Minister of Sabah, Malaysia (1985–94)

Abdul Taib - 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (1981-2014); Governor of Sarawak (2014-)

Adenan Satem - 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (2014-present)

Tony Tan Keng Yam - 7th President of Singapore (2011-); Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1995-2005)

South Australian premiers

Lynn Arnold - Premier of South Australia 1992-1993

John Bannon - Premier of South Australia 198-1992

Henry Barwell - Premier of South Australia 1920-1924

Dean Brown - Premier of South Australia 1993-1996

Don Dunstan - Premier of South Australia 1967-1968, and 1970-1979

Rob Kerin - Premier of South Australia 2001-2002

David Tonkin - Premier of South Australia 1979-1982

Jay Weatherill - Premier of South Australia 2011-present

South Australian governors

Roma Mitchell - Australia's first female judge; its first female governor 1991-1996

Eric Neal - business leader, governor 1996-2001

Mark Oliphant - physicist; governor 1971-1976

Keith Seaman - Uniting Church minister; governor 1977-1982

Hieu Van Le - Lieutenant Governor of South Australia 2007-2014; governor 2014-present

Legislators

Benjamin Benny - Australian Senator

Gordon Bilney - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for Defence Science

Simon Birmingham - Australian Senator and Minister for Education

Julie Bishop - Australian Foreign Minister and former Deputy Leader of the Opposition

Mark Bishop - Australian Senator

Adair Blain - Member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Northern Territory

Nick Bolkus - Australian Senator and Minister for Immigration

Mark Butler - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for the Environment

Peter Duncan - Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Don Farrell - Australian Senator and Minister for Science

Pru Goward - Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

Janine Haines - Australian Senator and first female leader of an Australian political party

Sarah Hanson-Young - Australian Senator

Robert Hill - Australian Senator; Australian Defence Minister; and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations

Annette Hurley - Australian Senator

Linda Kirk - Australian Senator

Keith Laught - Australian Senator

Raymond Lim - Minister for Transport; second Minister for Foreign Affairs (Singapore)

Alexander McLachlan - Australian Senator and Postmaster-General

Andrew Nikolic - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and former Government Whip

Christopher Pyne - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for Education

Margaret Reid - first female President of the Australian Senate

John E. Scanlon - Secretary General of CITES

Ivan Shearer - Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, Former Dean of Adelaide and Sydney University Law Schools.

Lockwood Smith - Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives

Andrew Southcott - Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Shane Stone - Chief Minister of the Northern Territory

Natasha Stott Despoja - Australian Senator and Leader of the Australian Democrats

Amanda Vanstone - Australian Senator; Minister for Immigration; and Ambassador to Italy

David Vigor - Australian Senator

Ian Wilson - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs

Keith Wilson - Australian Senator

Penny Wong - Australian Senator and Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency

Nick Xenophon - Australian Senator

Other

David Combe - former Secretary of the Australian Labor Party

Finlay Crisp - public servant, academic and political scientist

Lynton Crosby - campaign strategist and co-founder of the Crosby Textor Group

Lim Soo Hoon - first female Permanent Secretary of Singapore

Peter Malinauskas - Australian trade union leader

John Menadue - Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

Martin Parkinson - Secretary of the Department of the Treasury

Judiciary and the law

John Basten - Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal

Richard Blackburn - former Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory

Catherine Branson - former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

John Bray - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, poet and classicist

James Crawford - legal academic; Judge of the International Court of Justice (2014)

Bill Denny - Attorney-General of South Australia

John Doyle - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia

John Finnis - legal scholar and philosopher

Regina Graycar - Emeritus Professor of Law School, University of Sydney

Hermann Homburg - Attorney-General of South Australia

Elliott Johnston - Communist activist and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia

Len King - South Australian Attorney-General; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia

Robert Lawson - Attorney-General of South Australia

Chris Kourakis - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia

Bruce Lander - South Australia's first Independent Commissioner Against Corruption

George Ligertwood - Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia

Brian Martin - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

Robin Millhouse - lawyer, politician, Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru

Roma Mitchell - lawyer, first female Queen's Counsel in Australia (1962); Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; first female superior court judge in the British Commonwealth (1965)

George Murray - Chief Justice of South Australia

Mellis Napier - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia

Rosemary Owens - Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide Law School

Herbert Parsons - Former judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and former Attorney-General of South Australia

Geoffrey Reed - Judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia; the first Director-General of ASIO

Len Roberts-Smith - Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia

Paul Rofe - Former South Australian Director of Public Prosecutions

Colin Rowe - Attorney-General of South Australia

Reginald Rudall - Attorney-General of South Australia

Chris Sumner - Attorney-General of South Australia

Margaret White - first female judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland

Diplomats

Frances Adamson - Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China (2011-)

Walter Crocker - diplomat and writer

Maurice de Rohan - South Australian Agent General in London (1998-2006)

Tim George - Australian Ambassador to Mexico (2012-); High Commissioner to Pakistan (2009-2012), Special Coordinator for the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (2006-2009), Ambassador to Israel (2003-2006); Ambassador to Spain (2000-2003)

Sim Cheok Lim - Singapore's Ambassador (Non-Resident) to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Literature

Georgia Blain - author

James Bradley - author

John Jefferson Bray - poet and jurist

Nancy Cato - author

David Chalmers - philosopher and Federation Fellow (2004)

Garry Disher - author

Geoffrey Dutton - author and historian

Anna Goldsworthy - writer and classical pianist

Kerryn Goldsworthy - writer and critic

Peter Goldsworthy - author

Max Harris - Angry Penguins poet and publisher

Rex Ingamells - poet and founder of the Jindyworobak Movement

Joe Penhall - playwright

Margaret Somerville - ethicist

Colin Thiele - writer

Russel Ward - historian and author of The Australian Legend

Sean Williams - science fiction author

Science and mathematics

Herbert Basedow - anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer and medical practitioner

Warren Bonython - conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer

Keith Briggs - mathematician

Henry Brose - physicist

Helen Caldicott - physician and anti-nuclear advocate

Herbert Condon - ornithologist

Margaret M. Davies - herpetologist

Tim Jarvis - environmental scientist

Norman Jolly - Forrester

Rodney Jory - physicist

Abdul Karim - soil scientist

Aubrey Lewis - first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry

Brian Morris - molecular biologist

Keith Nugent - physicist

Mark Oliphant - nuclear physicist

Ian Plimer - professor and global warming critic

Hugh Possingham - mathematical ecologist

Lindsay Pryor - botanist and founding designer of the Australian National Botanic Gardens

Roy Robinson - Forester

Nagendra Kumar Singh - National Professor, Dr. B.P.Pal Chair, Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Reg Sprigg - geologist and conservationist (Arkaroola); discovered Ediacara biota

Ted Strehlow - Australian anthropologist

Andy Thomas - first Australia-born professional astronaut to enter space

Cecil Edgar Tilley - petrologist and geologist

Norman Tindale - Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist

Medicine

Henry Fry - physician and anthropologist

Basil Hetzel - authority on iodine deficiency

Loretta Marron, OAM - CEO of Friends of Science in Medicine

Helen Mayo - pioneer in women's and children's health

Henry Simpson Newland - surgeon

Philip Nitschke - pro euthanasia advocate

Music

Julian Cochran - composer

Mark Holden - singer, actor, television personality and barrister

Graham Jenkin - poet, composer and historian

Graham Koehne - composer

Guy Sebastian - singer-songwriter

Stephen Whittington - composer, pianist and writer on music

Performing and visual arts

Robyn Archer - performer and director

John Dowie - painter and sculptor

Francis Greenslade - comedian

Robert Hannaford - realist artist

Dichen Lachman - actress (portrayed Sierra on Dollhouse)

Anthony "Lehmo" Lehmann - comedian

Lionel Logue - speech and language therapist and stage actor who successfully treated King George VI

Gary McCaffrie - comedy writer and producer

Shaun Micallef - comedian and writer

Keith Mitchell - film and television actor

Steve J. Spears - playwright and director

Media and journalism

Keith Conlon - television and radio presenter

Annabel Crabb - political writer and commentator

Fran Kelly - journalist and political correspondent

Christian Kerr - political commentator and journalist

Samantha Maiden - national political editor of News Corporation Sunday papers

Hamish McLachlan - television sports commentator for the Seven Network

David Penberthy - editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph

Michael Stutchbury - editor-in-chief of The Australian Financial Review

Anne Summers - feminist writer and commentator

Sports

Max Basheer – football administrator

Leonidas Bott – cricketer

Matthew Cowdrey – swimmer; Australia's most successful Paralympian

Collier Cudmore – Olympic rower and gold medal winner at 1908 Summer Olympics

Albert Curtis – 1896 Queensland Doubles Champion; 1897 NSW Singles Championship; 1905 runner-up in the singles final of the inaugural Australasian Championships

Hannah Davis – Olympic medal winning sprint canoer

Moya Dodd – soccer official and player

Annette Edmondson – Olympic cyclist and bronze medal winner at 2012 Summer Olympics

Jaime Fernandez – three time Olympic rower in the Men's Eight (1992, 1996 and 2000), winning a silver medal in 2000

David Fitzsimons – middle distance runner

Amber Halliday – three time world champion in the Women's Lightweight Double Scull (2002, 2003, 2007) and in the Lightweight Quad Scull (2001)

Juliet Haslam – Olympic hockey player and winner of gold medals at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics

Marguerite Houston – Olympic rower

James McRae – world champion and Olympic medal winning rower

Chris Morgan – world champion in the Quadruple Scull in 2011 and Coxed Pair in 2010, 4th place in the Quadruple Scull at the Athens Olympics

Darren Ng – professional basketball player for the Adelaide 36ers

Kate Slatter – Olympic rower; won gold at Atlanta 1996 and a silver at Sydney 2000

Tim Willoughby – rowed twice in the Olympic Men's Eight (1980 and 1984), winning bronze in 1984

Nobel laureates

Sir William Bragg - physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his son William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"

J. M. Coetzee - acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel laureate (Literature, 2003); retired to Adelaide and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Discipline of English

Law

Leo Blair - father of British Prime Minister Tony Blair; law lecturer at the University of Adelaide while Tony was a child

William Jethro Brown - professor of law

Hilary Charlesworth - feminist international law scholar

Norval Morris - U.S. law professor

Marcia Neave - Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Daniel Patrick O'Connell - international law professor

John Salmond - professor of law and judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand

Natural sciences

William Noel Benson - geologist

Martin Glaessner - geologist and palaeontologist

Maciej Henneberg - physical anthropologist, anatomist

Arthur Mills Lea - entomologist

Cecil Madigan - geologist

Sir Douglas Mawson - Antarctic explorer and geologist

Ian Plimer - geologist and noted global warming critic

Ralph Tate - botanist and geologist

Frederic Wood Jones - naturalist and anthropologist

Mathematicians

Keith Briggs – mathematician, formerly on the staff of the Physics Department

Gavin Brown – mathematician, former Vice Chancellor of Adelaide and Sydney Universities

Charles E. M. Pearce – applied mathematician

Renfrey Potts – Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematics

George Szekeres – mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem

Ernie Tuck – applied mathematician

Mathai Varghese – pure mathematician

Physicists

Derek Abbott - physicist and engineer; pioneered the first terahertz radiation (T-ray) program in Australia; led the early development of a branch of game theory known as Parrondo's paradox

Rod Crewther - physicist; former PhD student of the Nobel prize winner Murray Gell-Mann

Sir Kerr Grant - Elder professor of physics 1911-1948

Bert Green - former PhD student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born; the "G" in "BBGKY"

Kenneth G. McCracken - physicist and former director of CSIRO

Tanya Monro - physicist and Federation Fellow (2008)

Albert Percival Rowe - Vice-Chancellor, physicist; previously radar pioneer in Britain

Anthony William Thomas - Elder professor of physics; South Australian Scientist of the Year 2014

Medicine

Brendon Coventry - discovered the immune cycle; cancer pioneer

Edward Charles Stirling - physiologist, politician and advocate for women's suffrage

Sir Joseph Cooke Verco - physician and conchologist

Humanities

Neal Blewett - academic, politician and diplomat

Tristram Cary - composer of the Dalek theme tune for Doctor Who

Brian Castro - novelist

Robert Champion de Crespigny - industrialist

Alexander Downer - former Minister for Foreign Affairs

Keith Hancock - historian

Graeme Hugo - demographer and Federation Fellow (2002)

Ken Inglis - journalist and historian

Frank Cameron Jackson - philosopher

Jill Jones - poet

Charles Jury - poet

Gavan McCormack - orientalist

Sir Leslie Melville - inaugural Professor of Economics at age 27; later Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University

Sir William Mitchell - philosopher

Sir Archibald Grenfell Price - historian and politician

George Rudé - Marxist historian

J. J. C. Smart - philosopher

J. I. M. Stewart - novelist

Randolph Stow - novelist

Hugh Stretton - historian and sociologist

Andrew Taylor - poet

Ghil'ad Zuckermann - linguist

Other

Barry Brook – climate scientist and advocate of nuclear power

Alan Cooper – ancient DNA expert and Federation Fellow (2004)

Paul Davies – Professor of Natural Philosophy, Templeton Prize winner (1995)

Tim Flannery – paleontologist, Australian of the Year

Fay Gale – Adelaide's first Honours Geography graduate; first female President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee; President of Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 1998-2000; Vice-Chancellor of University of Western Australia 1990-1997

Elizabeth Grant – architect and anthropologist

Geoff Harcourt – economist

Frederic Wood Jones – naturalist

Peter Sutton – anthropologist