List of University of Melbourne people
This is an incomplete list of University of Melbourne people, including alumni and staff.
Governors General of Australia
Governors of Victoria
Politicians
Prime Ministers of Australia
Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
Premiers of Victoria
Other prominent politicians
- Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Lyn Allison, current leader of Australian Democrats party
- Bruce Baird, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- William Macmahon Ball, diplomat
- Anna Burke, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- John Alexander Forrest
- Petro Georgiou, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- H.B. Higgins, former Attorney-General of Australia and Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Tim Holding- Former Victorian Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Victorian Minister for Corrections
- Robert Wilfred Holt - Minister for Lands in the Cain government 1952-54
- Greg Hunt, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Dr. Dennis Jensen, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- David Kemp- Former Howard government Cabinet Minister
- John Langmore, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- William Maloney, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Peter McGauran, federal government minister
- Dato' Mustapa Mohamed, Current Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister
- Andrew Peacock former Australian Foreign Minister and Treasurer
- Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister
- Nicola Roxon Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Health Minister
- Shane Stone former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, Minister and Chief Minister of the NT; former Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia
- Ralph Willis, Former Federal Treasurer of Australia and Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Lord Mayor of Melbourne
First Lady
Prominent Members of the Military
- Sir Samuel Burston, Army doctor and World War II general.
- Rupert Downes, Army doctor and World War II general.
- Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, Army doctor and Humanitarian.
- Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, politician and World War I general.
- Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, Army doctor.
- Sir Edmund Herring, World War II general.
- Sir James Whiteside McCay, politician and World War I general.
- Sir John Monash, famed World War I general.
- Sir Kingsley Norris, Army doctor and Major General.
- Brigadier General William Grant CMG, World War I General
- Lieutenant B. H. Ong, 3rd Combined Arms Division, Singapore Armed Forces, 1983–present
Legal profession
Chief Justices of Australia
Justices of High Court of Australia
Chief Justice of Federal Court of Australia
Chief Justice of Family Court of Australia
- Alastair Bothwick Nicholson
Chief Justices of Victoria
Presidents of Victorian Court of Appeal
Corporate Figures
Academic
- Michael Clyne, linguist
- Greg Craven Vice Chancellor of Australian Catholic University
- Audrey D'Souza Juma Director of the Notre Dame Institute of EducationKarachi, Pakistan
- Germaine Greer, Feminist
- Bella Guerin, educator and activist; first female University graduate in Australia
- Peter Karmel, former vice-chancellor of Australian National University and Flinders University
- Arthur Lucas, Principal of King's College London (1993–2003)
- Peter McPhee, Provost of the University of Melbourne
- Fulvio Melia, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Arizona and associate editor of the Astrophysical Journal
- Bruce Mitchell, Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- David S. Oderberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading
- Michael Roe, historian
- David Shallcross, chemical engineer
- James Simpson, Harvard University Professor
- Sally Walker, vice-chancellor of Deakin University
- Christina Cregan, Professor of Management
- Tim Lewis, Scholar
Scientists
Physicists
Geologists
Mathematicians
Engineers
Doctors
Historians
Architect
Organisation leaders
Authors
Philosopher
Sport
Artists
- Cate Blanchett, actress
- Portia de Rossi, actress
- Alice Garner, historian, musician, actress
- Julian Gavin, opera singer
- Barry Humphries
- Anastasia Klose, artist
- Andy Lee, comedian
- Rob Sitch, co-writer and co-director of the movies The Castle and The Dish; and co-host of The Panel
- Magda Szubanski, actress
- Matt Tinney, Newsreader
- Steve Vizard, actor, writer, producer
Poets
Persons of Notoriety
Journalists
References
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