List of University of Western Australia people

Politics

Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Australia

Kim Beazley, former Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Prime Minister

Kim Edward Beazley, former Whitlam Cabinet Minister

Boediono, former Vice President of Indonesia

Alan Carpenter, former Premier of Western Australia

Richard Court, former Premier of Western Australia

Peter Dowding, former Premier of Western Australia

Peter Durack, former Federal Attorney General

Geoff Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia

Sir Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia

Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia

Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of Western Australia, Federal Minister and President of the Australian Labor Party

Donton Samuel Mkandawire, former MP for Mzimba District, Malawi and Minister of Education for Malawi

Wangdi Norbu, Bhutanese Finance Minister

Stephen Smith, former Australian Minister for Defence

Billy Snedden, former Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia

Daryl Williams, former Federal Attorney General

Yeo Cheow Tong, former Minister of Transport in Singapore

Business

Michael Chaney, former CEO of Wesfarmers; current chancellor of UWA

Sir Rod Eddington, former CEO of British Airways

Andrew Forrest, mining magnate and founder of Fortescue Metals Group

Richard Goyder, CEO of Wesfarmers

Janet Holmes à Court, businesswoman

Robert Holmes à Court, entrepreneur

John A. Hay, current vice-chancellor of University of Queensland

Peter Lim, Singaporean billionaire

Michael Malone, iiNet founder

Ken Michael, Governor of Western Australia; former Chancellor of UWA

Tan Sri Hamdan Mohamad, current Executive Director and President of Ranhill Berhad

Public service and community

Ameer Ali, former president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils

Herbert Cole Coombs, first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

Margaret Feilman, architect and town planner

Allan Fels, former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Ron Fitch, commissioner of the South Australian Railways

David Irvine, Director-General of Security; former Director-General of Australian Secret Intelligence Service; former Australian High Commissioner to PNG; Ambassador to the People's Republic of China

Ralph Townsend, headmaster of Winchester College

Law

Robert French, current Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia

Zarah Garde-Wilson, criminal lawyer

Wayne Martin, current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia

Neville John Owen, current Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia

Christopher Steytler, current Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia

John Toohey, former Justice of the High Court of Australia

Ronald Wilson, former Justice of the High Court of Australia

James Edelman, justice of the Federal Court of Australia; appointed to the High Court of Australia commencing on 30 January 2017

Science, medicine, engineering and mathematics

Michelle Harvey, forensic entomologist

Barry Marshall, physician, 2005 Nobel Prize laureate

Kenneth Richard Norris, entomologist

Cheryl Praeger, mathematician, Australian Scientist of the Year 2009

Hugo Rietveld, Ph.D. Physics 1964, crystallographer, inventor of the Rietveld Method

Gordon Royle, Ph.D. Mathematics 1987, co-author of Algebraic Graph Theory

Amanda Sainsbury-Salis, molecular scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, educator and author

Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist, 2003 Australian of the Year

Eric John Underwood, B.Sci.Ag 1928, Dean of faculty, Agriculture 1946 to 1970

Robin Warren, UWA Emeritus Professor, Nobel Prize laureate

Fiona Wood, UWA Professor of Medicine, 2005 Australian of the Year

Arts, literature and religion

Frederick Alexander, historian

Geoffrey Bolton, historian

Greg Egan, writer

Geoff Gibbs, actor and WAAPA principal

Gracie Gilbert, actress

Rolf Harris, performer and artist

Dorothy Hewett, writer

Barry Hickey, Catholic Archbishop of Perth

Aisha Jefcoate, runner-up of the sixth season of the Australian version of The Mole

John Kinsella, writer

John Andrew La Nauze, the first Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University (1978)

Niall Lucy, writer and scholar, known for his work on Jacques Derrida and deconstruction

Sally Morgan, writer and artist

Randolph Stow, writer

Shaun Tan, artist and writer

Sport and entertainment

Sandra Angelia, Miss Indonesia 2008

Peter F. Bell, former captain of the Fremantle Dockers

Ric Charlesworth, former Australia national field hockey team Kookaburras Captain and Hockeyroos coach

Michael Fitzpatrick, former captain of the Carlton Football Club; current Chairman of the Australian Football League

Rachel Kum, Miss Singapore 2009

Matthew Pavlich, captain of the Fremantle Dockers

Jarrad Seng, photographer

Shirley Strickland, Olympic track and field athlete

Kylie Wheeler, Olympic heptathlete

Music

Mili Davies, classical guitarist

Sara Macliver, soprano

Tim Minchin, pianist and comedian

Roger Smalley, pianist and composer

Notable administrators

George Alexander Currie, second Vice Chancellor (1941-1952)

Chancellors

The Chancellor of The University of Western Australia is its most senior officer: