List of University of Sydney people
This is a list of notable staff and alumni of the University of Sydney, Australia.
Alumni or (Academic)
Government, politics and law
- Governors-General of Australia -
- Prime Ministers of Australia -
- Deputy Prime Ministers of Australia -
- Ministers for Foreign Affairs
- Justices of the High Court of Australia -
- State governors and Territory Administrators -
- Premiers of New South Wales -
- Other Premiers and Chief Ministers -
- Aboriginal leaders - Charles Perkins and Noel Pearson
- Other notable Federal politicians - Tony Abbott, Anthony Albanese, Kerry Bartlett, Chris Bowen, Lionel Bowen, Ross Cameron, Craig Emerson, Laurie Ferguson, Martin Ferguson, Jennie George, Joe Hockey, Tom Hughes, Ros Kelly, Peter King, Andrew Laming, Robert McClelland, Daryl Melham, Tsebin Tchen, Danna Vale, Bob Brown, Mark Latham.
Business and industry
- Fred Hilmer - CEO of University of New South Wales, former CEO of John Fairfax Holdings
- Peter C. Farrell - Founder, Chairman and CEO of ResMed
- Bryce Roxburgh - President of Exeter Resource Corporation
- Matt Barrie - CEO of Freelancer.com
- Richard Gibbs - The chief economist of Macquarie Bank
- Michael Blythe - The chief economist of Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Bill Evans - The chief economist of Westpac
- Besa Deda - The chief economist of St George Bank
- Nicholas Armstrong - CEO and Founder of COzero
- Barrington Joseph Noble - Owner and Chairman of GM Scott Pty. Ltd
- Mark S. Hauser - Managing Director of Sandell Asset Management Corp.,former CEO at Comtech Group Inc
- Lee Seng Huang - Executive Chairman of Sun Hung Kai & Co.
- Alan Gemes - Global Head of the Financial Services Practice at Booz & Company
- Rajeev Gupta - Former Executive Director at Goldman Sachs
- Paul Klepetko - Director of the investment banking division at Credit Suisse in New York
- Geoffrey Porges - Vice President of Alliance Bernstein
- Ashley Mullins - Global Compliance Officer of ACE Limited
- John Ford - Managing Director, Sony Pictures Television Pty Limited
- David W. Anstice - President of Banyu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. 万有製薬 and served as an Executive Vice President of Merck & Co. Inc.
- Jeni Klugman - the Director of the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Michael Patsalos-Fox - Chairman of McKinsey & Co in America
- William Cheng - General Manager and Group Chief Financial Officer, Bank of East Asia
- Gregor Lochite - Vice President and General Manager of American Express in Greater China,previously Vice President of American Express in Japan and Head of Global Commercial Cards
- Graham Bradley - Chairman of HSBC Australia, Stockland and Po Valley Energy;he is also a Non-executive and independent Director of SingTel
- Craig H. Barratt - CEO of Atheros Communications
- Andrew Dutton - General Manager of VMware (Asia Pacific and Japan), previously Vice President and General Manager for IBM Software Group Asia Pacific based in Tokyo
- Jennifer Ann Elliott - Group Managing Director of Moody's Corp (Asia-Pacific)
- John Grill - CEO of WorleyParsons
- Jim McIlvenny - Senior Vice President of Dow Chemical Company
- Jason Murray - CEO of Just Group,the largest fashion and apparel retailer in Australasia
- Franz Koch - CEO of Puma AG,Europe's second-largest sporting-goods maker
- Malcolm Carfrae - Executive Vice President of Calvin Klein
- Nick Curtis - CEO of Lynas Corp.
- Robert Rankin - CEO of Deutsche Bank (Asia-Pacific),Former Head of Investment Banking Asia Pacific, at UBS
- Margaret Gardner - CEO of RMIT University
- Belinda Hutchinson - Chairman of QBE Insurance,Director of St Vincent’s Health Australia
- Michael Hawker - former CEO of Insurance Australia Group
- Michael Wilkins - CEO of Insurance Australia Group
- Alaina Taylor - insurance adviser, contestant revealed as The Mole in 2002
- Thao Nguyen - law student who studied here, also a contestant on The Mole in 2002, runner-up of that season's Weakest Link special episode.
- Malcolm Turnbull - Politician, lawyer, investment banker, prominent Republican
- Michael Spence - Vice-Chancellor and Principal of University of Sydney,Former Head of Social Science Division at Oxford University and Former Head of Law Faculty at Oxford University
- James Wolfensohn - President of the World Bank (1995–2005)
- Byram Johnston - former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia
- Allan Moss - ex Managing Director/CEO of Macquarie Bank
- Glenn Stevens - current governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
- Alan Cameron - former Chairman of Australian Securities and Investment Commission
- David Mortimer - Chairman of Leighton Holdings and Australia Post
- Sir David Higgins - CEO of Network Rail and former CEO of the London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority and of Lend Lease Corporation
- Michael Hintze - Billionare, Previously Head of U.K. Trading and Head of European emerging markets trading at Goldman Sachs,Former managing director in the leveraged funds group at Credit Suisse First Boston,founder and CEO of asset managers CQS Management, UK Conservative Part donor and philathropist
- Jim L'Estrange - former managing director of Star City Casino and current CEO of NSW Rugby
- Cameron Clyne - CEO of National Australia Bank
- Richard Sheppard - CEO of Macquarie Bank Limited
- John Laker - Chairman of Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
- Jenny Fagg - CEO of ANZ New Zealand
- Steven Harker - CEO of Morgan Stanley Australia
- David S. Clarke - Former Chairman of Macquarie Bank
- Kevin McCann - Chairman of Macquarie Bank
- Glen Boreham - CEO of IBM Australia
- John Mulcahy - former CEO of Suncorp-Metway Ltd
- Gina Rinehart - Billionaire, the richest woman in Australia
- Bill Ferris - Executive Chairman of CHAMP, the largest venture capital and private equity funds management group in Australia
- Joanne Allen - Head of Human Resources for CitiGroup in Australia and New Zealand
- Joseph Skrzynski - President of the Australian Venture Capital Association
- Michael A. Aked - Managing Director, University of Virginia Investment Management Company
- Alexander ("Skander") Malcolm - CEO of GE Capital Australia
- Heather Ridout - CEO of Australian Industry Group
- Jim Millner - former Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson
- Paul Kelly - Editor-at-Large of The Australian, previously Editor-in-Chief of The Australian
- David W. Johnson - Chairman Emeritus and Former CEO of Campbell Soup Company, current Director of Colgate-Palmolive Company. The only Australian listed in the 20th Century American Leaders Database of Harvard Business School
Science and technology
- The Executive Director and CEO of IEEE
- E. James Prendergast - Former Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DuPont Electronic & Communication Technologies
- Chief Scientists of Australia
- Economists or Statisticians or Mathematicians
- Trevor Swan - The Swan in the Solow-Swan Model
- Graeme Segal - FRS, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge (from 1990 to 1999).[1]
- Peter Gavin Hall - Professor of Statistics at University of California, Davis
- Pat Moran - Who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics
- Kelvin Lancaster - Creator of the Theory of the Second Best and "A New Approach to Consumer Theory", John Bates Clark Professor of Economics at Columbia University
- Steven N. Evans - Professor of Statistics at University of California, Berkeley
- Eugene Seneta (academic) - Co-Inventor of the Variance-gamma distribution
- Richard M. Hain - Professor of Mathematics at Duke University
- Robert Griffiths - FRS,Professor of Mathematical Genetics at University of Oxford
- Yew-Kwang Ng - an Economist at Monash University
- Jan Kmenta - Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Michigan
- George Foster - Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Management at Stanford University
- Stephen Donald - Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin
- Justin Wolfers - Economist at Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business
- John Romalis - Economist at University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Richard Holden - Economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management
- Dennis A. Ahlburg - President of Trinity University,previously dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder and professor of human resources at Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota
- Michael J. Hiscox - Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
- Francis G. Vella - Edmond Villani Professor of Economics at Georgetown University
- Bruce McKern - Economist at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Sloan Master’s Program from 2001-2007 at Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Computer Scientists
- Michael Georgeff - AAAI Fellow,Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
- John S. Gero - AAAI Fellow,has held visiting and permanent appointments at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA,at USYD and UTS in Australia,at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK
- Rick Jelliffe - The inventor of the Schematron schema language
- Andrew Tridgell - The co-inventor of the rsync algorithm and the author of and contributor to the Samba file server
- John Lions - Author of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, commonly known as the Lions Book
- Ross Quinlan - AAAI Fellow,a highly-cited scholar and a pioneer in decision theory
- Vaughan Pratt - ACM Fellow,a pioneer in computer science,Professor Emeritus at Stanford University
- Rod Johnson - a best seller author and an expert in Java/Java EE, founder of the Spring Framework
- Jia Dong - CEO of Red Flag Software,which is the Producer of Red Flag Linux, the current most used Linux system in Asia and the current third most used Linux System in the world. He is also the CEO of Asianux
- Ken Thompson(academic) - co-creator of unix,Turing Award recipient[2]
- Veterinary Scientists
- Sir Ian Clunies Ross - Chairman Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
- William Allen CBE - Professor of Equine Reproduction at Cambridge Veterinary School
- William Beveridge - Professor of Animal Pathology and Director of the Institute of Animal Pathology at Cambridge University from 1947 to 1975
- Alan Wilton, named as the 1994 Australian Science Communicators Unsung Hero of Science. Whilst not strictly a veterinary scientist, his research identified rogue genes in Australian cattle dogs and Australian stumpy tail cattle dogs. Also identified the genes responsible for CL and TNS afflictions in border collies. He played a leading role in setting up a DNA sequencing facility that ultimately led to the establishment of the Ramaciotti Centre for Gene Function Analysis at the University of NSW.
- Hugh McLeod Gordon - World renowned Veterinary Parasitologist
- Dr Ross Perry, Australia’s first registered avian veterinarian, the first to study and name Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease for which he was co-discoverer of viral infection agent[3]
- Wesley Whitten, veterinary scientist whose research led to breakthroughs in infertility treatment in humans. In 1993 he was awarded the Marshall Medal from the Society for the Study of Fertility and in 1996 the Pioneer Award of the International Society for Embryo Transfer. He discovered the synchronisation of the oestrus cycle of female mice exposed to the pheromones in male mouse urine. It is known as the Whitten effect. He developed the Whitten medium, in use globally, which facilitates culturing mammalian eggs and developing embryos[4]
- Oceanographers -
- Anthony Haymet - Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography [5]
- Engineers or Physicists or Inventors -
- Neville Thiele - Co-inventor of Thiele/Small parameters
- Richard H. Small - Co-inventor of Thiele/Small parameters
- Robert May, Baron May of Oxford - Previously Chairman of the University Research Board and Professor of Zoology at Princeton University
- Edwin Ernest Salpeter - Famous for his contributions to Astronomy,Professor of Physics,Emeritus at Cornell University
- Bernard Mills - FRS,Inventor of the Mills Cross Telescope
- Herbert Huppert - FRS,Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University, since 1989 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1970.
- Bruce Bolt - Pioneer of engineering seismology,Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley
- Ruby Payne-Scott - First Female Radio Astronomer in the World
- Ronald N. Bracewell - Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University
- Paul Klemens, emeritus professor of physics at University of Connecticut,leading American theoretical physicist whose life work is honoured by the triennial award of the Klemens Medal in Phonon Physics;
- Dr John Bradfield - designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
- David Warren - inventor of the Black Box (flight data recorder)
- Graeme Clark - inventor of the bionic ear implant
- Eric Davis (1923–2009), who perfected the technology, now applied globally, for preserving food and drink in containers and casks.
- John O'Sullivan - Winner of 2009 Prime Minister's Prize for Science (the nation's top science award; one of the originators of wireless technology, earning hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.
- Bryan Gaensler - previously an associate professor of astronomy at Harvard University, now an ARC Federation Fellow at the University of Sydney
- Ronald Ernest Aitchison - solid-state physicist and electronics engineer
- Richard Makinson - physicist notable for his contributions to amorphous semiconductors
Medicine
- Professor Alan O. Trounson - President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
- Professor David Hunter - Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard School of Public Health
- Professor Dame Valerie Beral AC - (graduated with first-class honours in both medicine and surgery, 1969), epidemiologist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Head of Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and Cancer Research UK since 1989, leader of the survey of 1.3 million women that established hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a major cause of increased breast cancer rates in western nations.[6]
- Professor Virginia L. Hood - President of American College of Physicians
- Sir Michael Marmot - President of British Medical Association, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London, has conducted ground-breaking studies into stroke.
- Sir Archibald Collins, President of British Medical Association in Australia.[7]
- Sir Henry Harris FRS, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, who first demonstrated the existence of tumour-suppressing genes.
- Sir Norman Gregg, identified rubella in early pregnancy as a human teratogen.
- Professor Jacques Miller FRS, discoverer of the function of the thymus (the last major organ of the human body whose function remained unknown).
- Sir Brian Windeyer, Vice-Chancellor of London University 1969-72; Professor of Radiology at London University 1942-69.[8]
- Sir Gustav Nossal FRS, immunologist, discoverer of the so-called “one cell-one antibody” rule, which states that each B lymphocyte, developed in bone marrow, secretes a specific antibody in response to an encounter with a specific foreign antigen.
- Dr Gerald Lawrie, world-renowned American heart surgeon and pioneer in the surgical treatment of valvular heart disease. On 14 August 2007, Dr. Lawrie performed the first mitral vale repair using the daVinci robotic surgical system using an advanced technique called the American Correction. In 2008, he was appointed the Methodist Hospital Michael E. Debakey Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
- Raymond Dart, an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his discovery in 1924 of a fossil (first ever found) of Australopithecus africanus (extinct hominid closely related to humans).
- Dr. Mark C Lidwell, co-inventor of Artificial pacemaker
- Dr. Edgar H Booth, co-inventor of Artificial pacemaker
- Professor Graeme Clark FRS, inventor of cochlear ear implant .
- Professor Colin Sullivan, inventor of the Continuous Positive Airflow Pressure (CPAP) mask
- Dr. George Kossoff, co-inventor of the first ultrasound scanner
- Professor Robert Clancy, developer of first oral vaccine for acute bronchitis.
- Professor John Prineas, discoverer of how brain and spinal cord myelin is destroyed in multiple sclerosis.
- Professor Donald Metcalf FRS, his research revealed the control of blood cell formation.
- Dr Anna Donald (1966–2009), pioneer and advocate of evidence-based medicine.
- Professor Marshall Edwards, the discoverer of maternal hyperthermia as a human teratogen.
- Dr William McBride, obstetrician, who in 1961 first warned the medical world against thalidomide as a human teratogen.
- Dr John Hunter, Challis Professor of Anatomy at age 24 years whose brilliant career, achieving international recognition, was cut short by fever just 2 years later.
- Dr Victor Chang AC (1936–1991), one of the pioneers of modern heart transplantation
- Dr Max Lake OAM (1924–2009), Australia's first specialist hand surgeon
- Dr Nikos Athanasou, Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology at Oxford.
- Dr John Diamond, developer of Behavioral Kinesiology (now called Life-Energy Analysis), a system based upon Applied Kinesiology, incorporating the emotions.
- Professor Patrick McGorry, Australian of the Year 2010.
- Professor Earl Owen, microsurgery pioneer whose institute has trained hundreds of Asian doctors.
- Wirginia Maixner, director of neurosurgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. Graduated from the University of Sydney in 1986.
- Robert Kavanaugh, dentist and George Cross recipient.
- Mitchell Notaras, graduate who funded the $1.1 million Mitchel J Notaras Scholarship for Colorectal Medicine at the University of Sydney
Armed services
- Lieutenant General Sir Iven Mackay, outstanding leader of the 6th Australian Division in the Libya Campaign.
- Lieutenant General Sir Mervyn Brogan, Chief of the General Staff.
- Lieutenant General James Legge, Chief of the General Staff.
- Major-General Sir Victor Windeyer.
- Lieutenant General Sir Carl Jess.
- Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman.
- Major-General David Engel, Chief of Materiel.
- Major-General Greg Melick.[9]
- Air Vice Marshal Bruce Short.[10]
- Major-General Sir Ivan Dougherty.
- Major-General John Broadbent CBE[11]
- Major-General Paul Brereton AM RFD, Head Cadet, Reserve and Employer Support Division
- Major-General W B "Digger" James AC, Director-General of Army Medical Services.
- Major-General William Watson, Director-General of Army Medical Services.
- Major-General Frederick Maguire, Director-General of Army Medical Services.
- Captain Gordon King, commando leader awarded the Distinguished Service Order for action at the Battle of Kaiapit.[12]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Drew, Director-General of Army Medical Services (United Kingdom).
- Rear-Admiral Alec Doyle, Chief of Construction RAN
- Rear-Admiral Darryl Lynam, Director General of Fleet Maintenance RAN
- Air Vice Marshal Ian Esplin DFC, Royal Air Force.
Arts, literature and media
- Margaret Clunies Ross, McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature, Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies
- Professor Jill Ker Conway - Previously Vice-President of the University of Toronto and President of Smith College.She is a Visiting Professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society and She serves on the boards of Nike, Merrill Lynch, and Colgate-Palmolive, and as chairman of Lend Lease Corporation
- Professor Michael Halliday - Creator of the systemic functional grammar,an internationally influential grammar model.
- Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith - professor of philosophy at Harvard University
- Dr. Timothy Potts - Best known for his directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Kimbell Museum, and National Gallery of Victoria. Also known for his writings in the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean.
- Actors - John Bell, Rose Byrne, John Flaus, Dolph Lundgren
- Architects - John Andrews, designer of CN Tower, Toronto, Canada, the tallest concrete structure in the world and often listed as one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
- Broadcasters - Phillip Adams, Ray Martin, Adam Spencer
- Journalist - Richard McGregor
- Comedians - The Chaser (Charles Firth, Dominic Knight, Andrew Hansen, Chas Licciardello, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Chris Taylor)
- Opera singers - Dame Joan Sutherland, Yvonne Kenny
- Writers -
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- Christopher Brennan, Dymphna Cusack, Kate Grenville, A. D. Hope, Les Murray, Robert Hughes, Clive James, Bob Ellis, Kimberley Starr, Paul Brickhill, Kylie Tennant.
- Film Directors - Jane Campion, Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford
- Pulitzer Prize winners -
Religion
- Roman Catholic Bishops
- Anthony Fisher - Bishop of Parramatta
- John Satterthwaite - Bishop of Lismore
- Church of England Bishops (Australia)
- Sir Marcus Loane - Archbishop of Sydney
- Peter Jensen - Archbishop of Sydney
- Donald Robinson - Archbishop of Sydney
- Peter Watson - Archbishop of Melbourne
- Geoffrey Cranswick - Bishop of Tasmania
- Ian Shevill - Bishop of Newcastle
- Arthur Green - Bishop of Ballarat
- Henry Burgmann - Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
- Clive Kerle - Bishop of Armidale
- Glenn Davies - Bishop of North Sydney
- Edwin Davidson - Bishop of Gippsland
- Neville Chynoweth - Bishop of Gippsland
- Robert Forsyth - Bishop of South Sydney
- Anthony Howard Nichols - Bishop of North West Australia
- Leo Ash - Bishop of Rockhampton
- George Cranswick - Bishop of Gippsland
- David Garnsey - Bishop of Gippsland
- Church of England Bishops (International)
- Dudley Foord - Presiding Bishop of the Church of England in South Africa
- Eric Gowing - Bishop of Auckland
- William Hilliard - Bishop of Nelson
- Neville Langford-Smith - Bishop of Nakuru (Kenya)
- Henry Newton - Bishop of New Guinea
- Chen Fah Yong - Assistant Bishop of Sabah[13][14]
- Edward Wilton - Bishop of Northern Melanesia (New Guinea)
- George Chambers - First Bishop of Central Tanganyika
- Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales
- Coptic Orthodox Bishops
- Suriel El-Anba-Bishoy - Bishop of Melbourne (Coptic Orthodox)
Sport
- Australian Rugby Union Captains (This is not limited to members of the Sydney University Football Club but reflects the scope of the title of the article - University of Sydney people)
- Chess Player
- Dual Internationals
- World Record Holders
- Jack Metcalfe, Competing on Sydney University Oval on 14 December 1935, Metcalfe set a new world record in the triple jump, leaping 15.78 metres
- Nigel Barker, he is regarded as holder of Australia's first athletics world record, in the 400 yards.
- Notable
- John Treloar, first Australian to reach final of Olympic Games 100 metres sprint
- Brendon Cook, International race car driver
Staff
- Governors-general of Australia
- Archbishops of Sydney
- Astronauts
- Renowned Professors
Administration
Chancellors
The chancellor was elected by the fellows and presides at Senate meetings. In 1924, the executive position of vice-chancellor was created, and the chancellor ceased to have managerial responsibilities. Until 1860, the chancellor was known as the provost.
Vice-chancellors
The Vice-chancellor serves as the chief executive officer of the university, and oversees most of the university's day-to-day operations, with the chancellor serving in a largely ceremonial role. Before 1924, the vice-chancellors were fellows of the university, elected annually by the fellows.
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