List of Monash University people
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Monash University has a number of notable alumni and staff.
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[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Politics and government
- Richard Alston, Former Australian Senator and Minister, current Australian High Commissioner in London
- Daniel Andrews, Victorian Minister for Health
- Kevin Andrews, Former Australian Minister for Immigration and Workplace Relations
- Louise Asher, Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party
- Jim Bacon, former Premier of Tasmania (did not graduate)
- Andrew Brideson, politician
- Helen Buckingham, politician
- Anna Burke, politician, current Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
- Elaine Carbines, politician
- Peter Cleeland, politician
- Ann Corcoran, politician
- 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, current Governor of Victoria
- John Delzoppo - Former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria
- Richard Di Natale - Greens politician
- Robert Doyle, Former Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party, now head of Melbourne Health
- John Elferink, politician
- David Feeney, Australian Senator
- Jeannie Ferris, Australian Senator
- Gail Gago, South Australian Minister for Enivornment, Conservation and Mental Health
- James Gomez - Singaporean politician
- Alan Griffiths, former Australian Minister for Industry and Resources
- Dianne Hadden, politician
- Peter Hall, politician
- Alistair Harkness, politician
- Carolyn Hirsh, politician
- Rob Hudson, politician
- Dennis Jensen, politician
- Michael Kroger, Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
- Albert Langer, political activist
- John Langmore, politician and author
- John Lenders, Victorian Treasurer, Victoria's longest-serving Finance Minister
- Lim Guan Eng, Malaysian politician, current Chief Minister of the State of Penang
- Tony Lupton, politician
- Julian McGauran, Australian Senator
- Marlene Moses - Diplomat, Foreign Minister of Nauru
- Simbarashe Mumbengegwi - Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe
- Janice Munt, politician
- Brendan O'Connor, Australian Minister for Employment Participation
- Gavan O'Connor, politician
- Clare O'Neil, youngest female Mayor in Australia's history
- John Pandazopoulos - Former Victorian Minister for Employment and Major Projects
- Kay Patterson, Australian Senator and Former Minister for Health
- Martin Pakula, politician
- Sue Pennicuik, politician
- Inga Peulich, politician
- Victor Perton, politician
- Peter Reith, Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, former Defence Minister, former Minister for Workplace Relations
- Chris Pearce, politician
- Robert Ray, Australian Senator and Former Defence Minister
- Gordon Rich-Phillips, Shadow Victorian Finance Minister
- Teo Ming Kian - politician, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance (Singapore), Recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
- Tony Robinson - Minister for Consumer Affairs
- Bill Shorten, politician, former National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union and President of the Victorian ALP
- Helen Silver, Secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet
- Adem Somyurek, politician
- Sharman Stone, Former Minister for Workforce Participation
- Murray Thompson, politician
- John Thwaites, Former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change
- David Vigor - Australian Senator
- Nick Wakeling, politician
- Don Watson, speechwriter to Paul Keating, author
- Graeme Weideman - Former Victorian Minister for Tourism
- Greg Wilton(1955-2000), politician
- Michael Wooldridge - Former Australian Minister for Health and Chairman of UNAIDS
[edit] The Law
- 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, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
- Paul Cronin - Justice of the Family Court of Australia
- Raymond Finkelstein - Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
- Paul Grant - Current Chief Magistrate of the Victorian Children's Court
- Ian Gray - Current Chief Magistrate, Magistrates' Court of Victoria
- Felicity Hampel - Prominent human rights lawyer, now 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 and first President of VCAT
- Lex Lasry QC - High profile barrister, Chairman of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association, human rights advocate and now Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Stuart Morris - Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Former President of VCAT
- 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
- Marilyn Warren - Current and first female Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Mark Weinberg - Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, current Chief Justice of Norfolk Island
[edit] Media & Arts
- Peter Bonner - artist, winner of the Dobell Prize
- Damien Broderick, author, futurist
- Peter Carey - Booker prize-winning novelist
- Damien Carrick - presenter, ABC Radio National "Law Report".
- Nick Cave - musician (attended Caulfield Institute of Technology, now Monash Caulfield. He did not graduate)
- Timothy Conigrave (1959-1994), actor and writer
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton - Author
- Lindy Davies - Actor and Dean of the Victorian College of Arts
- Laurie Duggan - poet
- Hazel Edwards - children's author
- Jon Faine, Prominent Melbourne radio personality
- Max Gillies - Actor/satirist
- Andy Griffiths - children's author
- Leslie Howard - Pianist and composer
- Sue Howard - Director of Radio and Regional Content, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Paul Jennings - children's author
- Michael Leunig - Cartoonist
- Campbell McComas (1952-2005) - Comedian and actor
- Louise Milligan - Journalist
- Brenda Niall - Author
- Eva Orner - Academy-Award winning film producer
- John Romeril - Plawright
- John A. Scott - poet
- Jo Stanley - radio personality
- Stelarc - performance artist
- Matt Tilley - Comedian
- Mary Tonkin - artist, winner of the Dobell Prize
- Don Watson - author
- Alan Wearne - poet
- David Williamson - playwright
- Shaun Wilson - artist
[edit] 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
- Henry Tay Yun Chwan - Executive Chairman and Co-founder, The Hour Glass
- Tony D'Aloisio - Chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and former CEO, Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
- Henry Ergas - economist
- Tracey Fellows - Managing Director of Microsoft in Australia and New Zealand
- Alan Finkel - Technology entrepreneur
- Joshua Frydenberg - banker and political aspirant
- Peter Ivany - Australian media mogul and billionaire
- Margaret Jackson - first female Chairman of Qantas
- Teo Ming Kian - Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board
- Michael Kroger - Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
- Tan Le - technology businesswoman, Young Australian of the Year
- Peter Lew - businessman
- Ian Little - Secretary, Department of Treasury and Finance, 1998-2006
- Michael Luscombe - CEO and Managing Director, Woolworths Limited
- Ian Macfarlane, economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996-2006)
- Naomi Milgrom - Owner and CEO of Sussan Group
- Andrew Mohl - Managing Director and CEO, AMP
- 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
- Rameshwari Ramachandra - Author and entrepreneur
- 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, The Hour Glass, Recipient of the 2003 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
[edit] Medicine
- Weary Dunlop - military surgeon, World War II leader (attended the Victorian College of Pharmacy, now Monash Parkville Campus)
- David de Kretser- medical researcher, current Governor of Victoria
- Tan Sri Dato' Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman - Vice-Chancellor of International Medical University, Recipient of the 2007 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
- Dr Susan Lim - surgeon, performed Singapore's first successful liver transplant, Recipient of the 2005 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
- Tan Sri Dato' Dr Yahya Awang - cardiothoracic surgeon , performed the first heart transplant in Malaysia
[edit] Socal Services & Academia
- Diane Bell - anthropoligist
- 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, , listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
- Ian G. Enting - mathematician
- Hugh Evans - 2004 Young Australian of the Year, philanthropist
- Tim Flannery - biologist, author, 2007 Australian of the Year
- Siri Gamage - sociologist
- Ben Kiernan - Leading researcher in the study of genocide
- Stuart Macintyre - Historian
- Ron McCallum - Labour law scholar
- Simon Molesworth QC, Chairman of the Australian Council of National Trusts
- Justin Oakley - philosopher
- George Cardinal Pell - Australia's Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- Neil Rees - foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School
- Julian Savulescu - philosopher
- Terry Speed - mathematician
- Norman Arthur Wakefield - botanist
- Dato' Michael Yeoh - founder, executive director and CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI)
- Beth Wilson - Victorian Health Services Commissioner
[edit] Sport
- John Bertrand- yachtsman, skipper of Australia II
- Nathan Burke - AFL footballer
- Alastair Clarkson - Former AFL footballer, current Coach of the Hawthorn Football Club
- Ron Evans - AFL footballer and sports administrator
- Robby Foldvari - billiards and snooker player, world champion
- Lauren Hewitt - athlete
- Geoff Hunt - squash player, 4 time world champion
- Janine Ilitch - netballer
- Paul McNamee - tennis player, sports administrator, winner of Wimbeldon and Australian Open
- Paul Trimboli - soccer player
- Anna Wilson - cyclist, world champion and world record holder
[edit] Notable staff (past and present)
- Waleed Aly - Muslim community leader and political commentator
- Dorothy Auchterlonie - writer and poet
- Robert Bartnik - mathematician
- Andrew Benjamin - philosopher
- Leslie Bodi - Founding Professor of German
- Harold Bolitho - historian
- Geoffrey Bolton - historian
- Jim Breen, computer scientist (for his work on Japanese dictionary projects)
- 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)
- Barbara Caine - historian
- Enid Campbell - jurist
- Bill Charman - pharmaceutical scientist
- Michael Clyne - linguist
- Damian Conway - computer scientist, Perl
- Peter Costello - Longest-serving Treasurer of Australia, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
- John Michael Cullen - ornithologist
- Daryl Dawson - former Justice of the High Court of Australia
- David Derham - jurist
- 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
- Raymond Finkelstein - Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
- John Edward Fletcher - German studies expert
- James Alexander Forrest - lawyer and business, former University Council member
- Arie Freiberg, Chairman of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council
- Fred Gruen - economist
- 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
- Kevin Hart - poet and literary critic
- Peter Heerey - Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
- Basil Hetzel - medical researcher, public health advocate, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
- Frank Cameron Jackson - philosopher
- Sarah Joseph - human rights scholar
- David Kemp - political scientist and former Australian Minister for Education and the Environment
- Vit Klemes - hydrologist
- Carlo Kopp - defence analyst / strategist, computer scientist
- David de Kretser - medical researcher, current Governor of Victoria
- Helga Kuhse - philosopher and bioethicist
- Richard Larkins - current Vice-Chancellor
- Andrew Linklater - international relations expert
- Mal Logan - geographer, former Vice-Chancellor
- Chin Liew Ten - philosopher
- Louis Matheson - foundation Vice-Chancellor
- Race Mathews - economist, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, former Minister for Community Services, former Minister for Police and Emergency Services
- Adrian Martin - film critic
- Raymond Martin - chemical scientist, former Vice-Chancellor
- Louis Moresi - geophysicist
- Marcia Neave - Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Yew-Kwang Ng - Economist
- Graham Oppy - philosopher
- Stephen John Parker - jurist
- Graeme Pearman - climate change scientist
- Mark Peel - historian
- Andrew Prentice - mathematician
- Zenon J Pudlowski - engineering expert
- Christian Reus-Smit - international relations expert
- John Rickard, economist
- Richard Scotton - health economist, creator of Australian Medicare program
- Mahadev Shankar - Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge
- Peter Singer - philosopher (now at Princeton University, US)
- A.T.S Sissons - pharmaceutical scientist
- J. J. C. Smart - philosopher
- John Stillwell - mathematician
- Elsdon Storey - neurologist
- John Thwaites - Former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change, now Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute
- Mary Tonkin - artist, winner of the Dobell Prize
- Nick Trakakis - philosopher
- Alan O. Trounson - world-renowned biologist, IVF pioneer and stem cell researcher
- Hal Varian - economist
- Chris Wallace - computer scientist
- Louis Waller - medical and criminal law expert
- Carl Wood - IVF pioneer
- Christopher Weeramantry - Judge and Vice-President of the International Court of Justice, human rights advocate
- David Wright-Neville - political scientist, terrorism expert
- Xiaokai Yang - economist, democracy campaigner, political prisoner
[edit] Administration
[edit] 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-)
[edit] 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-)
