List of University of Western Australia people

This is a list of University of Western Australia people, including its notable alumni and staff:

Notable alumni

Politics

• Kim Edward Beazley, former Whitlam Cabinet minister
• Kim Beazley, former Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Prime Minister
• Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Australia
• Alan Carpenter, former Premier of Western Australia
• Richard Court, former Premier of Western Australia
• Geoff Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia
• Peter Durack, former Federal Attorney General
• Peter Dowding, former Premier of Western Australia
• Sir Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia
• Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia
• Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of Western Australia, Federal Minister and President of the Australian Labor Party
• Donton Samuel Mkandawire, former MP for Mzimba District, Malawi and Minister of Education for Malawi.
• Billy Snedden, former Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
• Daryl Williams, former Federal Attorney General
• Yeo Cheow Tong, former Minister of Transport in Singapore
• Stephen Smith, former Australian Minister for Defence
• Narongchai Akrasanee, a former Minister of Commerce and a Senator with the Thai Government
• Associate Professor Samakoses, a former Deputy Minister of Education with the Thai Government
• Boediono, former Vice President of Indonesia

Business

• Michael Chaney, former chief executive officer of Wesfarmers, and the current chancellor of UWA
• Janet Holmes à Court, businesswoman
• Robert Holmes à Court, former entrepreneur
• Sir Rod Eddington, former chief executive officer of British Airways
• John A. Hay, current vice-chancellor of University of Queensland
• Ken Michael, Governor of Western Australia and former Chancellor of UWA
• Tan Sri Hamdan Mohamad, current Executive Director and President of Ranhill Berhad
• Andrew Roberts, former chief executive Officer of Multiplex
• Peter Lim, Singaporean Billionaire
• Andrew Forrest, Founder and former CEO of Fortescue Metals Group

Public Service and Community

• Ameer Ali, former president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
• Herbert Cole Coombs, The first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Margaret Feilman, architect and town planner
• Allan Fels, former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• Ralph Townsend, headmaster of Winchester College
• David Irvine, Director-General of Security, former Director-General of Australian Secret Intelligence Service, former Australian High Commissioner to PNG and Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.

Law

• Robert French, current Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Zarah Garde-Wilson, criminal lawyer
• Wayne Martin, current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
• Neville John Owen, current Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
• Christopher Steytler, current Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
• John Toohey, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Ronald Wilson, former Justice of the High Court of Australia

Science, medicine, engineering and mathematics

• Amanda Sainsbury-Salis, molecular scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, educator and author
• Hugo Rietveld, Ph.D. Physics(1964), crystallographer, inventor of the Rietveld Method
• Gordon Royle, Ph.D. Mathematics(1987), co-author of book Algebraic Graph Theory
• Michelle Harvey, forensic entomologist
• Barry Marshall, physician. 2005 Nobel Prize laureate
• Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist. 2003 Australian of the Year
• Kenneth Richard Norris, entomologist
• Robin Warren, UWA Emeritus Professor. Nobel Prize laureate
• Fiona Wood, UWA Professor of Medicine. 2005 Australian of the Year
• Dr Eric John Underwood graduated UWA in 1928 B.Sci.Ag – Dean of faculty, Agriculture 1946 to 1970
• Niall McLaren, psychiatrist and philosopher, author of Humanizing Madness and Humanizing Psychiatry.
• Cheryl Praeger, mathematician. Australian Scientist of the Year 2009.

Arts, literature and religion

• Geoffrey Bolton, historian
• Frederick Alexander, historian
• Greg Egan, writer
• Geoff Gibbs, actor and WAAPA principal
• Dorothy Hewett, writer
• Barry Hickey, Catholic Archbishop of Perth
• Aisha Jefcoate, runner-up of the sixth season of the Australian version of The Mole^[1]
• John Kinsella, writer
• Randolph Stow, writer
• John Andrew La Nauze, the first Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University in 1978
• Rolf Harris, performer and artist
• Sally Morgan, writer and artist
• Shaun Tan, artist and writer
• Niall Lucy, Australian writer and scholar, best known for his work on Jacques Derrida and deconstruction.

Sport and entertainment

• Peter F. Bell, former captain of the Fremantle Dockers
• Michael Fitzpatrick, former captain of the Carlton Football Club and current Chairman of the Australian Football League
• Shirley Strickland, Olympic track and field athlete
• Ric Charlesworth, former Australia national field hockey team Kookaburras Captain and Hockeyroos coach
• Kylie Wheeler, Olympic heptathlete
• Sandra Angelia, Miss Indonesia 2008
• Rachel Kum, Miss Singapore 2009
• Matthew Pavlich, captain of the Fremantle Dockers

Music

• Mili Davies, classical guitarist
• Sara Macliver, soprano
• Tim Minchin, pianist and comedian
• Roger Smalley, pianist and composer

Notable administrators

• George Alexander Currie, second Vice Chancellor (1941-1952)

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