List of University of Adelaide people

This is a list of University of Adelaide people including notable alumni and staff associated with the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Chancellors and vice-chancellors

Source: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/records/archives/former/

Chancellors

Vice-chancellors

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

• William Lawrence Bragg, BS 1908 ^[3] – physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his father (William Henry Bragg, a member of the faculty of the University of Adelaide) "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
• Howard Florey, MB and BS 1921 ^[4] – pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine,1945) "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
• Robin Warren, MBBS 1961 – pathologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2005), for the "discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"

Business

• Shaun Bonett - founder of the Precision Group
• John Langdon Bonython - founding chairman of Santos
• Bruce Carter - chairman of ASC Pty Ltd
• Cheong Choong Kong - former chief executive officer of Singapore Airlines, chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
• Tim Cooper - managing director of Coopers Brewery
• Simon Hackett - founder of Internode (ISP)
• Tim Harcourt - economist
• Edward Holden - managing director of General Motors-Holden
• Wayne Jackson - former chief executive officer of the Australian Football League (AFL)
• Lim Siong Guan - group president of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation
• Gillon McLachlan - chief executive officer of the AFL
• Thorburn Brailsford Robertson - pioneered insulin manufacture in Australia
• John Spalvins - managing director of the Adelaide Steamship Company
• Raymond Spencer - chair of the South Australian Economic Development Board
• Neil Weste - microelectronics engineer and entrepreneur
• Philip Wollen - former general manager at Citicorp, philanthropist

Military

• Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC CMG CBE - soldier and lawyer; awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916^[5]
• Brigadier Andrew Nikolic (see under Politics, Legislators)

Politics

National leaders

• Julia Gillard - 27th Prime Minister of Australia (2009–12) (attended 1979 to 1982, transferred to the University of Melbourne^[6]) – first female Prime Minister of Australia
• Peter Ong Boon Kwee - Head of the Civil Service, Singapore since 2010,^[7][8] the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Singapore since 2009,^[9] and Permanent Secretary with Special Duties in the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore^[10]
• Ong Teng Cheong - 5th President of Singapore (1993–99)^[11]
• Joseph Pairin Kitingan - 7th Chief Minister of Sabah, Malaysia (1985–94)
• Abdul Taib - 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (1981-2014); Governor of Sarawak (2014-)
• Adenan Satem - 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (2014-present)
• Tony Tan Keng Yam - 7th President of Singapore (2011-);^[12] Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1995-2005^[13])

South Australian premiers

• Lynn Arnold - Premier of South Australia 1992-1993
• John Bannon - Premier of South Australia 198-1992
• Henry Barwell - Premier of South Australia 1920-1924
• Dean Brown - Premier of South Australia 1993-1996
• Don Dunstan - Premier of South Australia 1967-1968, and 1970-1979
• Rob Kerin - Premier of South Australia 2001-2002
• David Tonkin - Premier of South Australia 1979-1982
• Jay Weatherill - Premier of South Australia 2011-present

South Australian governors

• Roma Mitchell - Australia's first female judge; its first female governor 1991-1996
• Eric Neal - business leader, governor 1996-2001
• Mark Oliphant - physicist; governor 1971-1976
• Keith Seaman - Uniting Church minister; governor 1977-1982
• Hieu Van Le - Lieutenant Governor of South Australia 2007-2014; governor 2014-present

Legislators

• Benjamin Benny - Australian Senator
• Gordon Bilney - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for Defence Science
• Simon Birmingham - Australian Senator and Minister for Education
• Julie Bishop - Australian Foreign Minister and former Deputy Leader of the Opposition^[6]
• Mark Bishop - Australian Senator
• Adair Blain - Member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Northern Territory
• Nick Bolkus - Australian Senator and Minister for Immigration
• Mark Butler - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for the Environment
• Peter Duncan - Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Don Farrell - Australian Senator and Minister for Science
• Pru Goward - Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
• Janine Haines - Australian Senator and first female leader of an Australian political party
• Sarah Hanson-Young - Australian Senator
• Robert Hill - Australian Senator; Australian Defence Minister; and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations
• Annette Hurley - Australian Senator
• Linda Kirk - Australian Senator
• Keith Laught - Australian Senator
• Raymond Lim - Minister for Transport; second Minister for Foreign Affairs (Singapore)
• Alexander McLachlan - Australian Senator and Postmaster-General
• Andrew Nikolic - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and former Government Whip
• Christopher Pyne - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for Education
• Margaret Reid - first female President of the Australian Senate
• John E. Scanlon - Secretary General of CITES
• Ivan Shearer - Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee,^[14] Former Dean of Adelaide and Sydney University Law Schools.^[15]
• Lockwood Smith - Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
• Andrew Southcott - Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Shane Stone - Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
• Natasha Stott Despoja - Australian Senator and Leader of the Australian Democrats
• Amanda Vanstone - Australian Senator; Minister for Immigration; and Ambassador to Italy
• David Vigor - Australian Senator
• Ian Wilson - Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
• Keith Wilson - Australian Senator
• Penny Wong - Australian Senator and Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency^[6]
• Nick Xenophon - Australian Senator

Other

• David Combe - former Secretary of the Australian Labor Party
• Finlay Crisp - public servant, academic and political scientist
• Lynton Crosby - campaign strategist and co-founder of the Crosby Textor Group
• Lim Soo Hoon - first female Permanent Secretary of Singapore
• Peter Malinauskas - Australian trade union leader
• John Menadue - Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Martin Parkinson - Secretary of the Department of the Treasury

Judiciary and the law

• John Basten - Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
• Richard Blackburn - former Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory
• Catherine Branson - former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• John Bray - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, poet and classicist
• James Crawford - legal academic; Judge of the International Court of Justice (2014)
• Bill Denny - Attorney-General of South Australia
• John Doyle - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• John Finnis - legal scholar and philosopher
• Regina Graycar - Emeritus Professor of Law School, University of Sydney
• Hermann Homburg - Attorney-General of South Australia
• Elliott Johnston - Communist activist and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Len King - South Australian Attorney-General; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Robert Lawson - Attorney-General of South Australia
• Chris Kourakis - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Bruce Lander - South Australia's first Independent Commissioner Against Corruption
• George Ligertwood - Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Brian Martin - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
• Robin Millhouse - lawyer, politician, Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru
• Roma Mitchell - lawyer, first female Queen's Counsel in Australia (1962); Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; first female superior court judge in the British Commonwealth (1965)
• George Murray - Chief Justice of South Australia
• Mellis Napier - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Rosemary Owens - Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide Law School
• Herbert Parsons - Former judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and former Attorney-General of South Australia
• Geoffrey Reed - Judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia; the first Director-General of ASIO
• Len Roberts-Smith - Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
• Paul Rofe - Former South Australian Director of Public Prosecutions
• Colin Rowe - Attorney-General of South Australia
• Reginald Rudall - Attorney-General of South Australia
• Chris Sumner - Attorney-General of South Australia
• Margaret White - first female judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland

Diplomats

• Frances Adamson - Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China (2011-)
• Walter Crocker - diplomat and writer
• Maurice de Rohan - South Australian Agent General in London (1998-2006)
• Tim George - Australian Ambassador to Mexico (2012-); High Commissioner to Pakistan (2009-2012), Special Coordinator for the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (2006-2009), Ambassador to Israel (2003-2006); Ambassador to Spain (2000-2003)
• Sim Cheok Lim - Singapore's Ambassador (Non-Resident) to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan^[16]

Literature

• Georgia Blain - author
• James Bradley - author
• John Jefferson Bray - poet and jurist
• Nancy Cato - author
• David Chalmers - philosopher and Federation Fellow (2004)
• Garry Disher - author
• Geoffrey Dutton - author and historian
• Anna Goldsworthy - writer and classical pianist
• Kerryn Goldsworthy - writer and critic
• Peter Goldsworthy - author
• Max Harris - Angry Penguins poet and publisher
• Rex Ingamells - poet and founder of the Jindyworobak Movement
• Joe Penhall - playwright
• Margaret Somerville - ethicist
• Colin Thiele - writer
• Russel Ward - historian and author of The Australian Legend
• Sean Williams - science fiction author

Science and mathematics

• Herbert Basedow - anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer and medical practitioner
• Warren Bonython - conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer
• Keith Briggs - mathematician
• Henry Brose - physicist
• Helen Caldicott - physician and anti-nuclear advocate
• Herbert Condon - ornithologist
• Constance Davey - psychologist
• Margaret M. Davies - herpetologist
• Tim Jarvis - environmental scientist
• Norman Jolly - Forrester
• Rodney Jory - physicist
• Abdul Karim - soil scientist^[17]
• Aubrey Lewis - first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry
• Brian Morris - molecular biologist
• Keith Nugent - physicist
• Mark Oliphant - nuclear physicist
• Ian Plimer - professor and global warming critic
• Hugh Possingham - mathematical ecologist
• Lindsay Pryor - botanist and founding designer of the Australian National Botanic Gardens
• Roy Robinson - Forester
• Nagendra Kumar Singh - National Professor, Dr. B.P.Pal Chair, Indian Council of Agricultural Research
• Reg Sprigg - geologist and conservationist (Arkaroola); discovered Ediacara biota
• Ted Strehlow - Australian anthropologist
• Andy Thomas - first Australia-born professional astronaut to enter space
• Cecil Edgar Tilley - petrologist and geologist
• Norman Tindale - Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist

Medicine

• Henry Fry - physician and anthropologist
• Basil Hetzel - authority on iodine deficiency
• Loretta Marron, OAM - CEO of Friends of Science in Medicine
• Helen Mayo - pioneer in women's and children's health
• Henry Simpson Newland - surgeon
• Philip Nitschke - pro euthanasia advocate

Music

• Julian Cochran - composer
• Mark Holden - singer, actor, television personality and barrister
• Graham Jenkin - poet, composer and historian
• Graham Koehne - composer
• Guy Sebastian - singer-songwriter
• Stephen Whittington - composer, pianist and writer on music

Performing and visual arts

• Robyn Archer - performer and director
• John Dowie - painter and sculptor
• Francis Greenslade - comedian
• Robert Hannaford - realist artist
• Dichen Lachman - actress (portrayed Sierra on Dollhouse)
• Anthony "Lehmo" Lehmann - comedian
• Lionel Logue - speech and language therapist and stage actor who successfully treated King George VI
• Gary McCaffrie - comedy writer and producer
• Shaun Micallef - comedian and writer
• Keith Mitchell - film and television actor
• Steve J. Spears - playwright and director

Media and journalism

• Keith Conlon - television and radio presenter
• Annabel Crabb - political writer and commentator
• Fran Kelly - journalist and political correspondent
• Christian Kerr - political commentator and journalist
• Samantha Maiden - national political editor of News Corporation Sunday papers
• Hamish McLachlan - television sports commentator for the Seven Network
• David Penberthy - editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph
• Michael Stutchbury - editor-in-chief of The Australian Financial Review
• Anne Summers - feminist writer and commentator

Sports

• Max Basheer - football administrator
• Leonidas Bott - cricketer
• Matthew Cowdrey - swimmer; Australia's most successful Paralympian
• Collier Cudmore - Olympic rower and gold medal winner at 1908 Summer Olympics
• Albert Curtis - 1896 Queensland Doubles Champion; 1897 NSW Singles Championship; 1905 runner-up in the singles final of the inaugural Australasian Championships^[18]
• Hannah Davis - Olympic medal winning sprint canoer
• Moya Dodd - soccer official and player
• Annette Edmondson - Olympic cyclist and bronze medal winner at 2012 Summer Olympics
• Jaime Fernandez - three time Olympic rower in the Men's Eight (1992, 1996 and 2000), winning a silver medal in 2000
• David Fitzsimons - middle distance runner
• Amber Halliday – three time world champion in the Women's Lightweight Double Scull (2002, 2003, 2007) and in the Lightweight Quad Scull (2001)
• Juliet Haslam - Olympic hockey player and winner of gold medals at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics
• Marguerite Houston - Olympic rower
• James McRae - world champion and Olympic medal winning rower
• Chris Morgan - world champion in the Quadruple Scull in 2011 and Coxed Pair in 2010,^[19] 4th place in the Quadruple Scull at the Athens Olympics
• Darren Ng - professional basketball player for the Adelaide 36ers
• Kate Slatter - Olympic rower; won gold at Atlanta 1996 and a silver at Sydney 2000
• Tim Willoughby - rowed twice in the Olympic Men's Eight (1980 and 1984), winning bronze in 1984

Notable staff

Nobel laureates

• Sir William Bragg - physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his son William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
• J. M. Coetzee - acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel laureate (Literature, 2003); retired to Adelaide and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Discipline of English

Law

• Leo Blair - father of British Prime Minister Tony Blair; law lecturer at the University of Adelaide while Tony was a child
• William Jethro Brown - professor of law
• Hilary Charlesworth - feminist international law scholar
• Norval Morris - U.S. law professor
• Marcia Neave - Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Daniel Patrick O'Connell - international law professor
• John Salmond - professor of law and judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand

Science

Natural sciences

• William Noel Benson - geologist
• Martin Glaessner - geologist and palaeontologist
• Victor Gostin - geologist
• Maciej Henneberg - physical anthropologist, anatomist
• Arthur Mills Lea - entomologist
• Cecil Madigan - geologist
• Sir Douglas Mawson - Antarctic explorer and geologist
• Ian Plimer - geologist and noted global warming critic
• Ralph Tate - botanist and geologist
• Frederic Wood Jones - naturalist and anthropologist

Mathematicians

• Keith Briggs - mathematician, formerly on the staff of the Physics Department
• Gavin Brown - mathematician, former Vice Chancellor of Adelaide and Sydney Universities
• Charles E. M. Pearce - applied mathematician
• Renfrey Potts - Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematics
• George Szekeres - mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem
• Ernie Tuck - applied mathematician
• Mathai Varghese - pure mathematician

Physicists

• Derek Abbott - physicist and engineer; pioneered the first terahertz radiation (T-ray) program in Australia; led the early development of a branch of game theory known as Parrondo's paradox
• Rod Crewther - physicist; former PhD student of the Nobel prize winner Murray Gell-Mann
• Sir Kerr Grant - Elder professor of physics 1911-1948
• Bert Green - former PhD student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born; the "G" in "BBGKY"
• Kenneth G. McCracken - physicist and former director of CSIRO
• Tanya Monro - physicist and Federation Fellow (2008)
• Albert Percival Rowe - Vice-Chancellor, physicist; previously radar pioneer in Britain
• Anthony William Thomas - Elder professor of physics; South Australian Scientist of the Year 2014

Medicine

• Brendon Coventry - discovered the immune cycle; cancer pioneer
• Edward Charles Stirling - physiologist, politician and advocate for women's suffrage
• Sir Joseph Cooke Verco - physician and conchologist

Humanities

• Neal Blewett - academic, politician and diplomat
• Tristram Cary - composer of the Dalek theme tune for Doctor Who
• Brian Castro - novelist
• Robert Champion de Crespigny - industrialist
• Alexander Downer - former Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Keith Hancock - historian
• Graeme Hugo - demographer and Federation Fellow (2002)
• Ken Inglis - journalist and historian
• Frank Cameron Jackson - philosopher
• Jill Jones - poet
• Charles Jury - poet
• Gavan McCormack - orientalist
• Sir Leslie Melville - inaugural Professor of Economics at age 27; later Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
• Sir William Mitchell - philosopher
• Sir Archibald Grenfell Price - historian and politician
• George Rudé - Marxist historian
• J. J. C. Smart - philosopher
• J. I. M. Stewart - novelist
• Randolph Stow - novelist
• Hugh Stretton - historian and sociologist
• Andrew Taylor - poet
• Ghil'ad Zuckermann - linguist

Other

• Barry Brook - climate scientist and advocate of nuclear power
• Alan Cooper - ancient DNA expert and Federation Fellow (2004)
• Paul Davies - Professor of Natural Philosophy, Templeton Prize winner (1995)
• Tim Flannery - paleontologist, Australian of the Year
• Fay Gale - Adelaide's first Honours Geography graduate; first female President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee; President of Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 1998-2000; Vice-Chancellor of University of Western Australia 1990-1997
• Elizabeth Grant - architect and anthropologist
• Geoff Harcourt - economist
• Frederic Wood Jones - naturalist
• Peter Sutton - anthropologist

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