List of University of Adelaide people
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This is a list of University of Adelaide people, including its alumni and staff.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Julie Bishop, politician
- John Jefferson Bray, poet
- Nick Bolkus, politician
- William Lawrence Bragg, physicist, Nobel prize winner (1915)
- Neil Bryans, Australia's Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Information and Weapon Systems)
- Helen Caldicott, physician and anti-nuclear advocate
- David Chalmers, philosopher and Federation Fellow (2004)
- Vickie Chapman, politician
- Ong Teng Cheong, former President of Singapore
- Herbert Thomas Condon, ornithologist
- Lynton Crosby, leading Australian campaign strategist and Liberal Party official
- Timothy Cooper, Managing Director of Coopers Brewery
- Natasha Stott Despoja, politician
- Don Dunstan, politician
- Howard Florey, pharmacologist, Nobel prize winner (1945)
- Chloe Fox, politician
- Julia Gillard, politician
- Pru Goward, politician
- Francis Greenslade, comedian
- Basil Hetzel, authority on iodine deficiency
- Robert Murray Hill, politician
- Annette Hurley, politician
- Rodney Jory, physicist
- Linda Kirk, politician
- Graham Koehne, composer
- Dichen Lachman, actress
- Sim Cheok Lim, Singapore's Ambassador (Non-Resident) to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
- Roger Lough, Australia's Chief Defence Scientist
- Helen Mayo, pioneer in women's and children's health
- Abdul Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak
- Shaun Micallef, comedian
- Anton Middelberg, chemical engineer, Federation Fellow (2003)
- Dean Mildren, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
- Robin Millhouse, Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru and former politician
- Brian Morris, molecular biologist
- Doraisamy ("Nanda") Nandagopal, Australia's Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Corporate)
- Keith Nugent, physicist, Federation Fellow (2001)
- Sir Mark Oliphant, nuclear physicist
- David Penberthy, editor-in-chief The Daily Telegraph
- Hugh Possingham, mathematical ecologist, Rhodes scholar and Federation Fellow (2006)
- Christopher Pyne, politician
- Thorburn Brailsford Robertson, pioneered insulin manufacture in Australia
- Maurice de Rohan, South Australian Agent General
- Jack Snelling, politician
- Margaret Somerville, ethicist
- Andrew Southcott, politician
- Mark Sparnon, engineer and Chief of Design of the Airbus A380
- Colin Thiele, writer
- Andy Thomas, the first Australian in space
- Cecil Edgar Tilley, petrologist and geologist
- David Tonkin, politician
- Tony Tan, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
- Peter van Manen, Managing Director of McLaren Electronic Systems
- Amanda Vanstone, politician
- David Vigor, politician
- Robin Warren, pathologist, Nobel prize winner (2005)
- Stephen Whittington, composer, pianist and writer on music
- Neil H. E. Weste, microelectronics engineer and entrepreneur
- Penny Wong, politician
- Datuk Yong, Managing Director of Royal Selangor
[edit] Notable staff (past and present)
- Derek Abbott, physicist and engineer, pioneered the first terahertz (T-ray) program in Australia and led the early development of a branch of game theory known as Parrondo's paradox.
- Leo Blair (senior), the father of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was a law lecturer at the University of Adelaide while Tony was a child.
- Sir William Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1915)
- Gavin Brown, mathematician
- Rod Crewther, physicist, was a PhD student of the Nobel prize winner Murray Gell-Mann
- JM Coetzee, retired to Adelaide and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Discipline of English, an acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel Prizewinner for Literature (2003)
- Alan Cooper, ancient DNA expert and Federation Fellow (2004)
- Paul Davies, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Templeton Prize winner (1995)
- Robert Champion de Crespigny, industrialist
- Bert Green was a PhD student student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born and Green is the "G" in "BBGKY."
- Graeme Hugo, demographer and Federation Fellow (2002)
- Frank Cameron Jackson, philosopher
- Frederic Wood Jones, naturalist
- Tim Flannery, paleontologist
- Cecil Madigan, geologist
- Sir Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer and geologist
- Gavan McCormack, orientalist
- Sir William Mitchell, philosopher
- Charles E. M. Pearce, applied mathematician
- George Rudé, Marxist historian
- J. J. C. Smart, philosopher
- George Szekeres, mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem
- Ralph Tate, botanist and geologist
- Andrew Taylor, poet
- Mark Tester, botanist and Federation Fellow (2004)
- Mike Tyler, Ig Nobel Prize winner (2005)
- Mathai Varghese, pure mathematician
- Sir Joseph Cooke Verco, physician and conchologist
