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List of University of Melbourne people

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

Contents

Community activism

  • Julian Assange, Wikileaks spokesperson and founder (did not graduate)
  • Waleed Aly
  • Helen Durham, international humanitarian lawyer
  • Avery Ng, Hong Kong activist

    • Governors General of Australia

  • Richard Casey, Baron Casey, 16th Governor-General of Australia (did not graduate)
  • Sir Zelman Cowen, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC, PC
  • Peter Hollingworth, AC, OBE
  • Sir Isaac Isaacs, also former Chief Justice of Australia
  • Sir Ninian Stephen, KG, AK, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, QC, also a previous Justice of the High Court of Australia

    • Governors of Victoria

  • Alex Chernov, AC, QC
  • Professor David de Kretser
  • Sir James Gobbo, AC, CVO, QC, also a previous Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
  • John Landy
  • Richard McGarvie
  • Sir Henry Winneke, AC KCMG KCVO OBE KStJ QC, also a previous Chief Justice of Victoria

    • Politicians

    Prime Ministers of Australia
  • Alfred Deakin
  • Julia Gillard
  • Harold Holt, CH
  • Sir Robert Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC
    • Premiers of Victoria
  • Ted Baillieu
  • John Brumby
  • John Cain II
  • Rupert Hamer
  • Sir William Irvine, GCMG, also a former Chief Justice of Victoria
  • Joan Kirner
  • William Shiels
  • Lindsay Thompson
    • Federal politicians
    Australian state and territory politicians
    International politicians
  • Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor
  • Dato' Mustapa Mohamed, Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister
  • Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
  • 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, AM, diplomat and jurist
  • Bill Paterson, Australian Ambassador to Republic of Korea; previously Australian Ambassador to Thailand and Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism
  • John So, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
  • Fred Whitlam, Crown Solicitor; father of Gough

    • 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
  • A. G. L. Shaw

    • Journalism

  • Tom Connell, political journalist
  • 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

    • Literature, writing and poetry

  • Randa Abdel-Fattah, Australian Muslim author and lawyer
  • Russell Blackford, writer, philosopher and critic
  • Vincent Buckley
  • Helen Garner, author
  • Kerry Greenwood, crime writer
  • Germaine Greer, feminist writer and academic
  • Jack Hibberd
  • Fulvio Melia
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University

    • Law

  • Rob Stary, criminal defence lawyer

    • Biology

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

    • Engineering

  • Sir Walter Bassett
  • William Charles Kernot
  • Anthony Michell
  • John Monash
  • Ian A. Young, senior fellow of Intel; co-inventor of BiCMOS logic family and clocks for Pentium series microprocessors

    • Medicine

  • Lilian Helen Alexander, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
  • David Bowen, deregistered medical practitioner
  • 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"
  • Sir John Carew Eccles, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
  • Constance Ellis, first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine from the university
  • Jane Stocks Greig, public health specialist
  • Janet Greig, Victoria's first female anaesthetist
  • James Lawson, public health doctor and scientist

    • Sport

  • Kim Crow, London Olympics silver and bronze medallist for doubles and singles sculling respectively
  • 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)

    • Faculty

  • Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson
  • Henri Daniel Rathgeber

    • References

    List of University of Melbourne people Wikipedia
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