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 and Deputy Leader of the Opposition
• James Bradley, author
• John Jefferson Bray, poet
• Nick Bolkus, politician
• William Lawrence Bragg, physicist, Nobel prize winner (1915)
• Keith Briggs, mathematician
• 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
• Dave Fitzsimons, athlete
• Howard Florey, pharmacologist, Nobel prize winner (1945)
• Chloe Fox, politician
• Jane Francis, former research Associate, Polar Medal (2002)
• Julia Gillard, politician and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
• Pru Goward, politician
• Francis Greenslade, comedian
• Max Harris, poet and intellectual
• Basil Hetzel, authority on iodine deficiency
• Robert Murray Hill, politician
• Annette Hurley, politician
• Rodney Jory, physicist
• Linda Kirk, politician
• Graham Koehne, composer
• John Lyster, dental practitioner
• 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
• Nanda Nandagopal, Australia's Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Policy and Programs)
• 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
• Jeremy Shum, television host
• 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
• Dato' Sri Adenan bin Satem, Malaysia's Former Minister of Natural Resources and Environment

[edit] Notable staff

• 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)
• Keith Briggs, mathematician, was formerly on the staff of the Physics Department
• Gavin Brown, mathematician
• Barry Burgan, head of the business school and economist
• Tristram Cary, composer of the Dalek theme tune for Dr Who
• 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
• Fay Gale, Professor Fay Gale (BA Hons): First Honours Geography graduate of the University of Adelaide, 1954, first woman President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, President, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 1998-2000, Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia 1990-1997
• Bert Green was a PhD 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, Australian of the Year
• Cecil Madigan, geologist
• Sir Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer and geologist
• Gavan McCormack, orientalist
• Sir William Mitchell, philosopher
• Tanya Monro, physicist and Federation Fellow (2008)
• 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)
• Ernie Tuck, applied mathematician
• Mike Tyler, Ig Nobel Prize winner (2005)
• Mathai Varghese, pure mathematician
• Sir Joseph Cooke Verco, physician and conchologist