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The Australian National University
has had numerous notable alumni and faculty.
, the role is now largely ceremonial, though still quite prestigious.
of the university, and oversees most of the university's day-to-day operations, with the Chancellor serving in a largely ceremonial role. It was for many years a position generally only held by prominent academics, but this has changed in recent years, as universities have tended to look for specialist administrators.
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
has had numerous notable alumni and faculty.
Notable alumni
- Don AitkinDon AitkinDon Aitkin is a writer, strategist, consultant and director who is currently the Chairman of Australia’s National Capital Authority. He served as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra from 1991 to 2002, and as Vice-President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee in 1994...
, writer - Nicholas AgarNicholas AgarNicholas Agar is a professor of ethics and an associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington. Agar has a BA from Auckland University, an MA from Victoria and a PhD from the Australian National University. He has been teaching at Victoria since 1996. Agar's main research interests are in...
, ethicist - Bettina ArndtBettina ArndtBettina Arndt is an Australian sex therapist, journalist and clinical psychologist.-Biography:She was born in Penrith, England to Heinz Arndt and Ruth , the youngest of three children .In 1971 after completing her Bachelor of Science at Australian National...
, psychologist and journalist - Diane BellDiane BellDiane Robin Bell is a pioneering Australian feminist anthropologist, author and activist, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the George Washington University in Washington, D. C., Writer and Editor in Residence at Flinders University, South Australia and Visiting Professor School of Social...
, anthropologist, author - David Bradbury, filmmaker
- Rosi BraidottiRosi BraidottiRosi Braidotti is a contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician.-Biography:Braidotti, who holds Italian and Australian citizenship, was born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received degrees from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1977 and was awarded the...
, feminist - Michael BrandMichael BrandDr Michael Brand is an art scholar from Australia. Throughout his career, Brand has specialised in the art of Asia, in particular Indian art....
, art scholar - Ian BrookerIan BrookerMurray Ian Hill Brooker AM , better known as Ian Brooker, is an Australian botanist. He is widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus Eucalyptus....
, botanist - Verity BurgmannVerity BurgmannVerity Burgmann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne.Burgmann was born in Sydney, Australia, the daughter of Victor Burgmann and Lorna Bradbury. In 1971 she ran away from home to attend the London School of Economics, where she completed a B.Sc with a major in politics...
, academic - Colin ButlerColin ButlerDr Colin Butler is a Director of the Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight and Associate Professor at the , ANU. He is a former Senior Research Fellow of the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. His work lies at the intersection of globalisation,...
, physician and humanitarian - Michael ByrneMichael Byrne (poet)Michael Patrick Byrne is an Australian poet, reviewer, anthologist and freelance poetry tutor. He was born in Sydney, spent his early childhood in Tuross Head on the New South Wales South Coast, and came to Canberra in 1987, where he currently lives. Byrne attended high school at Radford College...
, poet - Dipesh ChakrabartyDipesh ChakrabartyDipesh Chakrabarty is a Bengali historian who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies.He attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a diploma in business management from the...
, historian and theorist - William CheungWilliam CheungWilliam Cheung or Cheung Cheuk Hing , born ? October, 1940, is a Chinese Wing Chun kung fu practitioner and currently the Grandmaster of his lineage of Wing Chun, entitled Traditional Wing Chun...
, kung fu practitioner - Iftekhar Ahmed ChowdhuryIftekhar Ahmed ChowdhuryDr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury was Adviser for the Foreign Ministry to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh from January 2007 to January 2009. In addition, he was also given the portfolios of the Ministries of Expatriates' Welfare and Chittagong Hill Tracts....
, diplomat - John Coates, mathematician
- Chris CorriganChris CorriganChris Corrigan is an Australian businessman. He was the Managing Director of the Patrick Corporation until it was taken over in 2006....
, businessman - Jessica CottisJessica CottisJessica Cottis is an Australian-British conductor.Cottis is the daughter of an Australian diplomat, high ranking Royal Australian Air Force officer and Defence Attaché. Her older sister is immigration expert Sophie Montgomery-Male; her older brother is the musician and writer James...
, conductor - Jim CotterJim CotterClive James Cotter is an Australian composer currently based in Canberra, Australia. His career has largely been in music for theater, film, and radio...
, composer - Peter CouttsPeter CouttsPeter John Frazer Coutts was an Australian archaeologist who was first director of the Victoria Archaeological Survey , the precursor to the Heritage Branch of Aboriginal Affairs Victoria....
, archaeologist - Michael CowlingMichael CowlingMichael George Cowling is an Australian pure mathematician who was born in Melbourne in 1949. He gained a BSc from the Australian National University and a PhD from Flinders University. After rising to the rank of professor at the University of Genoa, he became Professor of Pure Mathematics at...
, mathematician - Ian CresswellIan CresswellIan Cresswell is an Australian composer born in 1968. He obtained Bachelor of Music at the Australian National University in 1996 and Master of Music at the University of Queensland in 2002...
, composer - Glyn DavisGlyn DavisGlyn Conrad Davis, AC is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.- Early life :Professor Davis was educated at Marist Brothers College, Kogarah...
, Vice-Chancellor, University of MelbourneUniversity of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria... - Tupou DraunidaloTupou DraunidaloTupou Draunidalo is a Fijian lawyer. On 9 September 2006, she was elected Vice-President of the Fiji Law Society, defeating Rajesh Gordon. -Political activism and arrest:...
, lawyer - Alan DupontAlan DupontProfessor Alan Dupont has worked on Australian defence and Asian security issues for more than thirty years as a strategist, diplomat, policy analyst and scholar. He is Michael Hintze Chair of International Security and the Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University...
, academic - Stevan Eldred-GriggStevan Eldred-GriggStevan Treleaven Eldred-Grigg is the New Zealand author of nine novels, eight history books and various essays and short stories.Born in the Grey Valley, New Zealand, he was one of nine children of Valerie 'Darkie' Forbes, a former factory worker, and her mining official husband Gilbert...
, historian and novelist - Nicholas EvansNicholas Evans (linguist)Nicholas Evans is an Australian-American linguist.Holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Australian National University , he is Head and Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University...
, linguist - Brian George FarranBrian George FarranBrian George Farran is an Australian Anglican bishop. He is the current Bishop of Newcastle in New South Wales.Farran was educated at the Australian National University and St John's College Morpeth, New South Wales. Ordained in 1968 his first positions were curacies at St Phillip's O’Connor...
, bishop - Patrick O'FarrellPatrick O'FarrellPatrick O'Farrell was a historian known for his histories of Roman Catholicism in Australia, Irish history and Irish Australian history...
, historian - Thomas Alured FaunceThomas Alured FaunceThomas Alured Faunce is an Associate Professor jointly in the College of Law and Medical School at the Australian National University at Canberra Australia...
, academic - Alan FinkelAlan FinkelAlan Simon Finkel AM FTSE PhD is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. In 2007, he was appointed as the new Chancellor of Monash University, a position he commenced on January 1, 2008....
, historian - John FrowJohn FrowJohn Frow is an Australian professor and Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne. He was educated at Wagga High School and the Australian National University, and has lived and worked in South America in 1970 and 1971 and then did graduate studies from 1971 to 1975...
, academic - David GallopDavid GallopDavid Gallop is an Australian sports administrator who has been the Chief Executive Officer of the National Rugby League since February 2002. He has also been the Secretary of the Rugby League International Federation since its inception in 1998.-Early life:...
, Chief Executive Officer of the National Rugby LeagueNational Rugby LeagueThe National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand... - Bill GammageBill GammageWilliam Leonard "Bill" Gammage AM is an Australian academic historian, Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre of Australian National University....
, historian - Alan Gilbert, Vice Chancellor, University of ManchesterUniversity of ManchesterThe University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
- Malcolm GilliesMalcolm GilliesProfessor Malcolm George William Gillies is Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University.-Career:Gillies graduated with a degree in classics from the Australian National University, and subsequently earned a further degree in music from the University of Cambridge...
, Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University. - Bettina GortonBettina GortonBettina Gorton, Lady Gorton was the American-born wife of John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia 1968-71.Bettina Edith Brown was born in Bangor, Maine, USA, in about 1915. Her father Arthur A. Brown was the president of an American bank in Cuba. He died when she was two years old and her...
, wife of John GortonJohn GortonSir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH , Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.-Early life:...
, Prime Minister of Australia (1968-71) - Alister GriersonAlister GriersonAlister Grierson is an Australian film director and scriptwriter. Born in Canberra in 1969, he completed his secondary schooling at Canberra Grammar, graduated in Economics and Arts from the Australian National University and studied Japanese in Tokyo...
, director and scriptwriter - Nicholas GruenNicholas GruenNicholas John Gruen Nicholas John Gruen Nicholas John Gruen (22 April 1957 in Beacon Hill, New South Wales is a prominent Australian economist and commentator on Web 2.0 and the CEO of Lateral Economics and Chairman of Kaggle, Peach Financial and Online Opinion...
, economist - William HaleWilliam Hale (professor)Professor William Mathew Hale is a specialist on Turkey and Turkish politics, and Professor of Politics with reference to Turkey at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. ....
, academic - Peter Hall, statistician
- Clive HamiltonClive HamiltonClive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the The...
, ethicist - Kevin Hart, poet and literary critic
- Allan HawkeAllan HawkeAllan Douglas Hawke AC is a former Australian senior public servant and diplomat. He was the Chief of Staff to the former Prime Minister, Paul Keating; Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs 1994–1996; Secretary of the Department of Transport and Regional Services 1996–1999; and...
, Diplomat and ANU Chancellor - Chris HeydeChris HeydeChristopher Charles "Chris" Heyde AM was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics....
, probabilist - Terence HigginsTerence Higgins (judge)Terence John Higgins is Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory, a territory of Australia.-Early years:Higgins was born in 1943 in Hobart, Tasmania. He was educated at St Augustines Christian Brothers College in Yarraville, Victoria, and subsequently at St Edmund's College in Canberra...
, judge - Catherine HolmesCatherine HolmesThe Honourable Justice Catherine Ena Holmes was appointed as a judge on 16 March 2000 to the Supreme Court of Queensland, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Queensland.-Education:...
, Supreme Court Judge - S A HosseiniS A HosseiniDr S A Hamed Hosseini is a sociologist , Lecturer at The University of Newcastle, Australia. He is noted for work in the fields of the global social movements, global social problems, sociology of knowledge, and the political sociology of ethnic minorities in the West.He has written articles and a...
, Supreme Court Judge - Wassana Im-EmWassana Im-EmWassana Im-Em is a Thai demographer and academic.She was born in Chiang Mai. After obtaining a nursing degree in Thailand she worked as a nursing instructor in maternal and child health nursing at the Royal Thai Army Nursing College...
, demographer - Rodney JoryRodney JoryProfessor Rodney Leonard Jory AM, , is an Australian physicist noted for establishing and running the National Youth Science Forum and for his contributions to Australian teams which have competed at the International Physics Olympiad...
, physicist - M. Ilyas KambohM. Ilyas KambohProf. Dr. M. Ilyas Kamboh is a Pakistani-American Professor and chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health...
, geneticist - Eugene KamenkaEugene KamenkaEugene Kamenka was born in Cologne in 1928 and taken to Australia in 1937. Kamenka family is of Odessa descent. He was educated at the Sydney Technical High School, and went on to take first-class honours in philosophy at the University of Sydney under John Anderson...
, philosopher - John KekesJohn KekesJohn Kekes is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University at Albany . He received his Ph.D...
, philosopher - Cheong Choong KongCheong Choong KongDr. Cheong Choong Kong is the Malaysian-born former Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Airlines. After the collision of Singapore Airlines Flight 006 during take-off, he appeared as the public face of the airline...
, former CEO of Singapore AirlinesSingapore AirlinesSingapore Airlines Limited is the flag carrier airline of Singapore. Singapore Airlines operates a hub at Changi Airport and has a strong presence in the Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and "Kangaroo Route" markets... - Brij LalBrij LalBrij V. Lal is a Indo-Fijian historian . He was born in Labasa, on the northern island of Vanua Levu. He was educated at the University of South Pacific, the University of British Columbia and the Australian National University.- Academic career :...
, historian - Geoffrey LancasterGeoffrey LancasterGeoffrey Lancaster AM is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with Larry Sitsky...
, classical pianist and conductor - Marcia LangtonMarcia LangtonMarcia Lynne Langton is one of Australia's leading Aboriginal scholars. She holds the Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia...
, anthropologist - Stephen LarkhamStephen LarkhamStephen Larkham is an Australian rugby union footballer currently playing for the Ricoh Black Rams in Japan. He is best known for his career with the Brumbies in Super Rugby, for whom he played from the inception of the professional Super 12 in 1996 through 2007, and his long tenure with the...
, Rugby player, World Cup winner - Donald LaycockDonald LaycockDr Donald Laycock was an Australian linguist and anthropologist. He is best remembered for his work on the languages of Papua New Guinea.-Biography:...
, linguist - Rodolfo LlinásRodolfo LlinásRodolfo R. Llinás PhD is a neuroscientist. He is presently the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine...
, neuroscientist - Tim Macartney-SnapeTim Macartney-SnapeTim Macartney-Snape is a mountaineer and author. On 3 October 1984 Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer were the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest. They reached the summit, climbing without supplementary oxygen, via a new route on the North Face...
, mountaineer - Ross H. McKenzieRoss H. McKenzieRoss H. McKenzie is a Professor in Physics at the University of Queensland. He currently holds an Australian Professorial Fellowship from the Australian Research Council...
, physicist - Michael McRobbieMichael McRobbieMichael McRobbie is the eighteenth president of Indiana University. He took office on July 1, 2007.Before his appointment as president, McRobbie served as interim provost and vice president of academic affairs of the Bloomington campus. Prior to this, he held the position of vice president for...
, President of Indiana UniversityIndiana UniversityIndiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000... - Toby MillerToby MillerToby Miller is a British/Australian-American interdisciplinary social scientist with areas of concentration including cultural studies and media studies. He is also the author of several books, numerous articles, and is a guest commentator on television and radio programs across the globe...
, academic - David NashDavid NashDavid Charles Nash is a retired English cricketer.-Career:Nash played 257 matches for Middlesex in both first class and List A cricket as a wicket-keeper and right-handed batsman....
, linguist - Henry NixonHenry NixonHenry Nixon is an Australian actor.Henry Nixon was born in the 1970s at St Margaret's Hospital on Crown Street in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills...
, actor - Keith NugentKeith NugentKeith Alexander Nugent is an Australian physicist. He is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Melbourne, Australia specialising in X-ray optics and near-field optics. He was born in Bath, England...
, physicist - Harjot OberoiHarjot OberoiHarjot Singh Oberoi is a Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He formerly held the chair of Sikh studies there until he was forced to resign it and wrote The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity, and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition.His book is...
, academic - Patrick O'FarrellPatrick O'FarrellPatrick O'Farrell was a historian known for his histories of Roman Catholicism in Australia, Irish history and Irish Australian history...
, historian - John OndawameJohn OndawameJohn Otto Ondawame is an academic and activist of the West Papua liberation movement. He is the head of West Papua People’s Representative Office at Port Vila, Vanuatu, international spokesperson for the Free Papua Movement, and member of the Papua Presidium Council...
, academic - Debra OswaldDebra OswaldDebra Oswald is an Australian writer for film, television, stage, radio and children's fiction. In 2008 her Stories in the Dark won Best Play in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. She is creator and head writer of the Channel 10 drama series Offspring, for which she won the 2011 NSW Premier's...
, scriptwriter - Adrian PaganAdrian PaganAdrian Pagan is an Australian economist and Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney...
, econometrician - John PascoeJohn PascoeJohn Henry Pascoe, AO, CVO is Chief Federal Magistrate of Australia and Deputy Chancellor of the University of New South Wales. Previous positions he has held have included Chairman and CEO of George Weston Foods, Chairman of Centrelink, Deputy Chairman of Aristocrat Leisure Limited and Managing...
, jurist - Charles E. M. PearceCharles E. M. PearceCharles Edward Miller Pearce is a New Zealand/Australian mathematician.He is currently the Elder Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.-Education:...
, mathematician - Guy PearseGuy PearseGuy Pearse is an Australian author and a Research Fellow at the at the University of Queensland. His first book titled High & Dry: John Howard, climate change and the selling of Australia's future was published in 2007....
, author - John QuigginJohn QuigginJohn Quiggin is an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, obtaining bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. Quiggin was awarded...
, economist - Margaret ReesonMargaret ReesonMargaret Reeson is an Australian historian, biographer, and author, and prominent leader of the Uniting Church in Australia.-History:...
, historian - Ralph RegenvanuRalph RegenvanuRalph John Regenvanu is a ni-Vanuatu anthropologist, artist and politician. He has been a Member of Parliament since September 2008, a member of Cabinet for most of the period since December 2010, and was the Director of the Vanuatu National Cultural Council from 1995 until December 2010.He has...
, anthropologist, artist and politician - Elizabeth Anne ReidElizabeth Anne ReidElizabeth Anne Reid AO, FASSA, is an Australian development practitioner, feminist and academic with a distinguished career in and significant contribution to national and international public service. She founded, established and worked with a number of pioneering and specialised United Nations...
, academic - Gayla ReidGayla ReidGayla Reid is an Australian-born Canadian writer.Born and raised in Armidale, New South Wales, Reid was educated at the University of New England, Australian National University and the University of British Columbia...
, writer - Stephen RiceStephen Rice (journalist)Stephen Rice is an Australian journalist, author and television producer. He has been a producer on Australia's 60 Minutes since 2004, following ten years as executive producer of the Nine Network's news and public affairs program, Sunday....
, journalist - David RisstromDavid RisstromDavid Risstrom is a Melbourne barrister, a former Melbourne City Councillor, and a former Australian Greens candidate for the Australian Senate....
, barrister - Michael RoeMichael Roe (historian)Owen Michael Roe is an Australian historian and academic, focusing on Australian history.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School , Roe attended the University of Melbourne and began studying a combined BA/LL.B. degree...
, historian - Tim RogersTim RogersTim Rogers is the frontman of Australian rock band You Am I. He is also a solo artist, as well as having fronted and released albums with bands The Twin Set and The Temperance Union.-History:...
, musician - Richard RoxburghRichard RoxburghRichard Roxburgh is an Australian actor who has starred in many Australian films and has appeared in supporting roles in a number of Hollywood productions, usually as villains.-Early life:...
, actor - Leonie SandercockLeonie SandercockLeonie Sandercock is an Australian academic currently teaching at the School of Community & Regional Planning at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada...
, academic - Carmel SchrireCarmel SchrireCarmel Schrire is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University.She was born in Cape Town, South Africa and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town , going on to attend the University of Cambridge...
, anthropologist - Brendan ShanahanBrendan Shanahan (author)Brendan Shanahan is an Australian journalist and author. Shanahan was born in Sydney, but grew up in Canberra, the Australian Capital. He has an honours degree in Art History and Curatorship from the Australian National University in Canberra...
, author - John ShineJohn ShineProfessor John Shine AO is an Australian biochemist; he discovered the nucleotide sequence, called the Shine-Dalgarno sequence, necessary for the initiation of bacterial protein synthesis. He currently directs the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia.Shine was born in Brisbane...
, biochemist - Anu SinghAnu SinghAnu Singh is an Australian of Indian descent who, in 1997, while a law student at the Australian National University, murdered her boyfriend, Joe Cinque. She laced his coffee with Rohypnol, then injected him with heroin. The crime was very widely reported in Australia...
, killer - Adam Spreadbury-MaherAdam Spreadbury-MaherAdam Spreadbury-Maher is a multi-award winning Australian/Irish theatre artistic director, producer and translator. He is the founding Artistic Director of London's Cock Tavern Theatre from January 2009 until the venues closure in April 2011. He became Artistic Director of the Kings Head Theatre...
, theatre director and producer - Anita Ondine Smith, writer-producer
- John TarrantJohn TarrantJohn Tarrant is a Western Zen teacher, currently director of the Pacific Zen Institute in Santa Rosa, California.-Biographical Portrait:...
, Zen master - Clem TisdellClem TisdellClement Allan Tisdell is an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland...
, economist - Katia TiutiunnikKatia TiutiunnikKatia Tiutiunnik is an Australian violist, scholar and composer. She is of Russian, Ukrainian and Irish descent.-Education:...
, composer - Andrew TridgellAndrew TridgellAndrew "Tridge" Tridgell is an Australian computer programmer best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm....
, computer programmer - Donald TuzinDonald TuzinDonald F. Tuzin was a social anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work on the Ilahita Arapesh, a horticultural people living in northeast lowland New Guinea, and for comparative studies of gender and sexuality within Melanesia. Tuzin was born in Chicago, Illinois, grew up in Winona,...
, social anthropologist - Don VandenBergDon VandenBergDon VandenBerg is a professor of Astronomy at the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. VandenBerg is internationally acclaimed for his work on modelling stars of different size and composition.Using basic input physics , Dr...
, astronomer - Barbara VernonBarbara VernonBarbara Vernon PhD is an Australian birth activist who lobbies government for improved provision of maternity services, particularly the expert use of midwives. She was the Executive Officer of the Australian College of Midwives from 2002 to 2010....
, birth activist - David Vernon, writer and sceptic
- Robert Webster, virologist
- Gerard WindsorGerard WindsorGerard Charles Windsor is an Australian author and literary critic. He was dux of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in both 1961 and 1962, where, like Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. He trained as a Jesuit from the age of 18 to 24. He studied Arts at the Australian National...
, author and literary critic - Jean-Philippe WispelaereJean-Philippe WispelaereJean-Philippe Wispelaere is a former intelligence analyst for the Australian Defence Intelligence Organisation. He was convicted of attempting to sell United States military secrets to a foreign country in 1999....
, convicted on espionage related charges - Vanessa WoodsVanessa WoodsVanessa Woods is an internationally published Australian scientist, author and journalist, and is the main Australian/New Zealand feature writer for the Discovery Channel...
, author - Rolf M. ZinkernagelRolf M. ZinkernagelRolf Martin Zinkernagel AC is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich.-Career:...
, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winning medical researcher
Politics and government
- Andrew BarrAndrew BarrAndrew Barr is an Australian politician and Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. He has been an Australian Labor Party member for the seat of Molonglo in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 5 April 2006, after being elected on a countback to replace...
, politician - Phil Barresi, politician
- Kim Beazley, seniorKim Edward BeazleyKim Edward Beazley, AO , known as Kim Beazley during his career, Australian politician, was Minister for Education in the government of Gough Whitlam and a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives for 32 years, from 1945 to 1977.Beazley, the youngest of seven children, was born in...
, politician - Stephen BradyStephen BradyStephen Brady, CVO is a senior Australian career diplomat. In 1999 he and his partner Peter Stephens became the world's first officially acknowledged gay ambassadorial couple, when they were presented to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark at the start of Brady's posting as Australian Ambassador to...
, diplomat and Official SecretaryOfficial Secretary to the Governor-General of AustraliaThe Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia and his staff provide governors-general with the necessary support to enable them to carry out their constitutional, statutory, ceremonial and public duties. The position of Official Secretary was established in 1901, although only...
to Governor-General of AustraliaGovernor-General of AustraliaThe Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...
Quentin BryceQuentin BryceQuentin Bryce, AC, CVO is the 25th and current Governor-General of Australia and former Governor of Queensland....
. - Don BrashDon BrashDonald "Don" Thomas Brash , a New Zealand politician, was Leader of the Opposition, parliamentary leader of the National Party from 28 October 2003 to 27 November 2006 and the leader of the ACT Party for 28th April 2011 - 26 November 2011...
, politician from New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga... - Richard ButlerRichard Butler (diplomat)Richard William Butler AC has served as an Australian diplomat, a United Nations weapons inspector and the Governor of Tasmania.-Life and career:...
, diplomat, United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
weapons inspector and Governor of Tasmania - Bob CatleyBob CatleyFor the Australian politician, see Bob Catley Robert Adrian 'Bob' Catley is a British musician, perhaps best known as the lead singer of the rock band Magnum. He is also an accomplished solo artist.- Early years :...
, politician - Barry CohenBarry CohenBarry Cohen AM is a former Australian Labor politician. He was a minister in the government of Bob Hawke.-Biography:He was born in Griffith, New South Wales and educated at Griffith High School, Sydney Grammar School and North Sydney Technical High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the...
, politician - Stephen ConroyStephen ConroyStephen Michael Conroy is an Australian politician and the current Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in the Gillard Ministry...
, politician - Roslyn DundasRoslyn DundasRoslyn Dundas is an Australian politician. She was an Australian Democrats member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2004, when she was defeated in a bid for re-election...
, politician - Craig EmersonCraig EmersonCraig Anthony Emerson , Australian politician, has represented the House of Representatives seat of Rankin in Queensland for the Australian Labor Party since the 1998 federal election...
, politician - Concetta Fierravanti-WellsConcetta Fierravanti-WellsConcetta Anna Fierravanti-Wells , Australian politician, is a member of Australian Senate for the state of New South Wales...
, politician - Katy GallagherKaty GallagherKaty Gallagher , an Australian politician, is the sixth and current Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory and a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2001, representing the electorate of Molonglo for the Australian Labor Party...
, politician - Christine GallusChristine GallusChristine Ann Gallus , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Hawker, South Australia 1990-93 and for Hindmarsh, South Australia 1993-2004...
, politician - Peter GarrettPeter GarrettPeter Robert Garrett, AM, MP , is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.Garrett was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002...
, rock singer and politician - Gary GrayGary Gray (Australian politician)Gary Gray AO , Australian politician, is the Australian Labor Party representative for the Division of Brand in Western Australia in the Australian House of Representatives. Gray is currently the Special Minister of State and the Special Minister of State for the Public Service and Integrity.Gary...
, former National Secretary of the Australian Labor PartyAustralian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
, current MP and Parliamentary Secretary - Alan GriffinAlan GriffinAlan Peter Griffin , an Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1993, representing the Division of Corinella, Victoria 1993–96 and the Division of Bruce, Victoria, since March 1996. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria,...
, politician - Dame Margaret GuilfoyleMargaret GuilfoyleDame Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle, AC, DBE was a British-born Australian Senator for the state of Victoria from 1971 to 1987. She was the second woman to receive a federal ministerial portfolio, after Dame Enid Lyons...
, politician - John HannafordJohn HannafordJohn Planta Hannaford is a former Australian politician. Born in Goulburn, the son of William Henry Planta and Amy Frances Hannaford, he became a lawyer, having studied at the Australian National University in Canberra. He commenced legal articles in 1971...
, politician - Bob HawkeBob HawkeRobert James Lee "Bob" Hawke AC GCL was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from March 1983 to December 1991 and therefore longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister....
, Prime Minister of Australia. Abandoned doctoral studies for job at ACTU. - Patricia HewittPatricia HewittPatricia Hope Hewitt is an Australian-born British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Leicester West from 1997 until 2010. She served in the Cabinet until 2007, most recently as Health Secretary....
, BritishUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
politician - Gary HumphriesGary HumphriesGary John Joseph Humphries has been a member of the Australian Senate representing the Australian Capital Territory for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2003...
, politician - Martin IndykMartin IndykMartin Sean Indyk is Vice President and Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Indyk served as United States ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton Administration. He is known as the framer of the U.S...
, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel - Carlos JarqueCarlos JarqueCarlos M. Jarque Uribe is a Mexican economist and politician, currently the Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank to Europe and Principal Advisor to the President of the IDB....
, Mexican economist and politician - Harry JenkinsHarry JenkinsHenry Alfred "Harry" Jenkins , an Australian politician, is a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Division of Scullin, Victoria, since the 1986 by-election for the Australian Labor Party...
, politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives - Kate JonesKate JonesKate Jennifer Jones is an Australian politician and Queensland Government minister. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party and was elected in the seat of State Electorate of Ashgrove in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 2006 which was previously held by former Speaker of the Queensland...
, politician - Michael KeenanMichael KeenanMichael Fayat Keenan , Australian politician, was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the Division of Stirling, Western Australia for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2004 federal election. He was educated at Murdoch University, Perth, the Australian National University, and...
, politician - Catherine King, politician
- Gordon Darcy Lilo, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands
- Sione Ngongo KioaSione Ngongo KioaSione Ngongo Kioa is a Tongan diplomat and is currently the High Commissioner of the Kingdom of Tonga to the United Kingdom...
, Togan diplomat - Joe LudwigJoe LudwigSenator the Hon Joseph William Ludwig , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1999, representing the Australian Labor Party.-Biography:...
, politician - Brett MasonBrett MasonDr Brett John Mason , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1999, representing the state of Queensland. He was the Parliamentary Secretary for Health....
, politician - Andrew McIntoshAndrew McIntosh (Australian politician)Andrew John McIntosh is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999, representing the seat of Kew. He is currently Shadow Minister for Corrections, Crime Prevention and Integrity of Government and Freedom of Information...
, politician - Nick MinchinNick MinchinNicholas Hugh "Nick" Minchin is a former Australian politician, serving as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing South Australia from July 1993 to June 2011, and a former cabinet minister in the Howard Government....
, politician - Michael MooreMichael Moore (Australian politician)Michael John Moore , former Australian politician and socially progressive health academic, was the first independent Member of any Australian Parliament to be appointed as a Minister to a Government Executive; serving as Minister of Health and Community Care from 1998 to 2001 in the Liberal...
, politician - Marty NatalegawaMarty NatalegawaRaden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa, more commonly known as Marty Natalegawa, is an Indonesian diplomat and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet...
, Foreign Minister of Indonesia - Barry O'FarrellBarry O'FarrellBarry Robert O'Farrell MP, is an Australian politician and is the 43rd Premier of New South Wales, Minister for Western Sydney, Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party and a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Ku-ring-gai for the Liberal Party since 1999.Born in...
, politician - Simon OverlandSimon OverlandSimon Overland APM is the former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police in Australia. He previously worked with the Australian Federal Police, and then with Victoria Police, focusing on Melbourne's gangland wars. On 2 March 2009 he was named by Premier John Brumby as Victoria Police Chief...
, Chief Commissioner of Victoria PoliceVictoria PoliceVictoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. , the Victoria Police has over 12,190 sworn members, along with over 400 recruits, reservists and Protective Service Officers, and over 2,900 civilian staff across 393 police stations.-Early history:The Victoria Police... - Mari PangestuMari PangestuMari Elka Pangestu was the Minister of Trade of Indonesia from October 2004 to October 2011. In a cabinet reshuffle in October 2011 she was appointed to the newly-created position of minister of Tourism and Creative Economy. She is the first female Chinese Indonesian to hold a cabinet position in...
, IndonesiaIndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
n politician - Shane RattenburyShane RattenburyShane Rattenbury , Australian politician and Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, is a member of the multi-member unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo for the ACT Greens since 2008...
, politician - Kevin RuddKevin RuddKevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
, first ANU graduate to become Prime Minister of Australia - Susan RyanSusan RyanSusan Maree Ryan AO is an Australian educator who served as a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory 1975–87...
, politician - Warwick SmithWarwick SmithWarwick B. Smith is a Scottish curler from Bridge of Earn, Perth and Kinross.Smith made his international debut at the 1996 World Curling Championships as the skip for the Scotland team...
, politician - Warren SnowdonWarren SnowdonWarren Edward Snowdon is an Australian politician. He is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives. He represented the Division of Northern Territory from July 1987 to March 1996, and from October 1998 to November 2001.Since November 2001 he has represented the...
, politician - Alex SomlyayAlex SomlyayAlexander Michael Somlyay MP , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Fairfax, Queensland. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to Australia as a child. He was educated at the Australian...
, politician - Kuini SpeedKuini SpeedAdi Kuini Teimumu Vuikaba Speed was a Fijian chief and politician, who served as Deputy Prime Minister in 1999 and 2000....
, former Deputy Prime Minister of FijiFijiFiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island... - Jon StanhopeJon StanhopeJonathan Ronald Stanhope is a former Australian politician who was Labor Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2001 to 2011. Stanhope represented the Ginninderra electorate in the ACT Legislative Assembly from 1998 until 2011. He resigned as Chief Minister on 12 May 2011 and as...
, politician and former Chief Minister of the Australian Capital TerritoryChief Minister of the Australian Capital TerritoryThe Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory is the head of government of the Australian Capital Territory. The leader of party with the largest representation of seats in the unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly usually takes on the role... - Shane StoneShane StoneShane Leslie Stone AC, QC is an Australian political figure. From 26 May 1995 to 8 February 1999 he was Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, representing the Country Liberal Party.-Biography:Stone was born in Bendigo, Victoria...
former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, Minister and Chief Minister of the NT; former Federal President of the Liberal Party of Australia - Feleti TeoFeleti TeoFeleti Penitala Teo , also spelled Feleti Te'o, is a Tuvaluan former Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum.-Education:...
, former Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum - Andrew TinkAndrew TinkAndrew Arnold Tink BA LLB MP is a former Australian politician, having served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 2007....
, politician - Peter WhitePeter White (Australian politician)Peter Nicholson Duckett White was an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at Duntroon Military College and the Australian National University in Canberra before serving in the military from 1954 to 1975. In 1977, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the...
, politician - Tony WhitlamTony WhitlamAntony Philip Whitlam QC, is an Australian lawyer who has served as a politician and judge. He is the son of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Margaret Whitlam.-Early life and education:...
, politician - Peter WoolcottPeter WoolcottPeter Woolcott is an Australian diplomat. He is the son of Richard Woolcott, one of Australia's most eminent diplomats, now retired. After practicing as a barrister in Sydney for a number of years, Peter Woolcott joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1981...
, diplomat - Michael YabsleyMichael YabsleyMichael Robert Yabsley is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Bligh from 1984 to 1988 and Vaucluse from 1988 to 1994....
, politician
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- Anthony Irvine AdamsAnthony Irvine AdamsAnthony Adams is an Australian Public Health physician.He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide graduating in 1959.He undertook postgraduate studies at Harvard School of Public Health obtaining a Master of Public Health degree in 1961...
, Public Health physician - Patrick AtiyahPatrick AtiyahPatrick S. Atiyah QC FBA is an English lawyer and academic. He is best known for his work as a common lawyer, particularly in the law of contract and for advocating reformation or abolition of the law of tort. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1979.-Biography:Atiyah is a son of the...
, EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
barristerBarristerA barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...
and legal writer - Arthur Llewellyn BashamArthur Llewellyn BashamProfessor Arthur Llewellyn Basham was a noted historian and indologist and author of a number of books. It is perhaps not a mere coincidence that two of the most renowned living historians of early India, Professors R.S...
South Asian historian - Michael BarnsleyMichael BarnsleyMichael Fielding Barnsley is a British mathematician, researcher and an entrepreneur who has worked on fractal compression; he holds several patents on the technology. He received his Ph.D in Theoretical Chemistry from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1972...
Mathematician and entrepreneur - Larissa BehrendtLarissa BehrendtLarissa Behrendt is an Australian academic and writer of Aboriginal and European descent. She is currently a Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney....
, indigenous academicor - David Bensusan-ButtDavid Bensusan-ButtDavid Miles Bensusan-Butt was an English economist who spent much of his career in Australia. Known as David, he published his work as D. M...
, economist - Arthur Birch, organic chemist
- BoedionoBoedionoBoediono is the Vice President of Indonesia, after winning the 2009 presidential election together with incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.-Education:Boediono received his early education in primary school in Blitar, East Java...
, Indonesian Vice President - Richard P. Brent, mathematical scientist
- Miroslav BukovskyMiroslav BukovskyMiroslav Bukovsky is one of Australia's leading jazz trumpeters and composer/arrangers.He has won the Jazz Action Society's Jazz Composers Competition several times and also teaches and does session work. He won an ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album of 1994 with his band Wanderlust, formed in 1991,...
, composer - Hedley BullHedley BullHedley Bull, FBA was Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford until his death from cancer in 1985...
, Professor of International Relations - Harvey Raymond ButcherHarvey Raymond ButcherHarvey Raymond Butcher III is an astronomer who has made significant contributions in observational astronomy and instrumentation which have advanced understanding of the formation of stars and of the universe. He received a B.Sc...
, astronomer - John CaldwellJohn Caldwell (demographer)John Charles "Jack" Caldwell AO is a leading demographer, particularly in the fields of fertility transition and health transition. He has researched extensively in Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia since 1959...
, demographer - David ChalmersDavid ChalmersDavid John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher specializing in the area of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, whose recent work concerns verbal disputes. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University...
, philosopher - Manning ClarkManning ClarkCharles Manning Hope Clark, AC , an Australian historian, was the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987...
, historian - John Coates, mathematician
- John CockcroftJohn CockcroftSir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS was a British physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power....
, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
- winning nuclear physicist, former chancellor - H. C. CoombsH. C. CoombsHerbert Cole H.C. "Nugget" Coombs was an Australian economist and public servant.-Early years:Coombs was born in Kalamunda, Western Australia, Australia, one of six children of a country railway station-master and a well-read mother.Coombs's political and economic views were formed by the Great...
, economist and public servant - David P. CraigDavid P. CraigDavid Parker Craig is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where he was the Foundation Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry in the Research School of Chemistry....
, research chemist - Gavan DawsGavan DawsGavan Daws writes about Hawaii, the Pacific, and Asia. His best-known works are Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands, in print since 1968; Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai, the biography of a nineteenth-century missionary priest to Hawaii who served leprosy sufferers, and who has...
, historian and writer - Rafe de CrespignyRafe de CrespignyDr Rafe de Crespigny is a retired Adjunct Professor with the China and Korea Centre, Australian National University in Canberra, Australia...
, sinologist - Robert DessaixRobert Dessaix- Biography :Dessaix was born in Sydney and adopted at an early age. He was educated at North Sydney Boys High School. He studied in Moscow during the early 1970s, and taught Russian Studies at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales from 1972 to 1984...
, novelist and essayist - Peter C. Doherty, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
-winning immunologist - Thomas K. DonaldsonThomas K. DonaldsonThomas K. Donaldson was a mathematician and well-known cryonics advocate. He was born in the state of Kentucky in the United States, and took his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1969. He also lived in Sunnyvale, California, and for many years in Canberra, Australia, where he taught...
, mathematician - Robert M. DouglasRobert M. Douglas (doctor)Robert Matheson Douglas AO MB BS Adel MD MA FRACP FRACGP FAFPHM . He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1959. In 1967 he took up a position as Specialist Physician and Deputy Medical Superintendent of the Port Moresby hospital in Papua New Guinea.- Life :Robert M. Douglas...
, medical researcher - Sir John Eccles, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
-winning neurophysiologist - Fred EmeryFred EmeryFrederick Edmund Emery, nick Fred, was an Australian psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in the field of Organizational development , particularly in the development of theory around participative work design structures such as self-managing teams. He was widely regarded as one of the finest...
, social scientist - Kep EnderbyKep EnderbyKeppel Earl "Kep" Enderby QC is a former Australian politician and retired judge. Enderby was a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Australian Labor Party between 1970 and 1975, and became a senior cabinet minister in the Gough Whitlam government...
, lawyer and politician - Denis EvansDenis EvansDenis James Evans, , is a Professor in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University...
, physicist and chemist - Frank FennerFrank FennerFrank John Fenner, AC, CMG, MBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology...
, scientist - Michael FloodMichael FloodMichael G Flood is an Australian sociologist at the University of Wollongong. Flood gained his doctorate in gender and sexuality studies from the Australian National University...
, sociologist - Lord Howard Florey, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winning medical researcher, former chancellor - Derek FreemanDerek FreemanJohn Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist best known for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work in Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa...
, anthropologist - John Gardner, Professor of Jurisprudence
- Robert Gilbert, polymer chemist
- Sasha Grishin, art historian
- Colin GrovesColin GrovesColin Peter Groves is Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.Born in England on 24 June 1942, Colin Groves completed a Bachelor of Science at University College London in 1963, and a Doctor of Philosophy at the Royal Free Hospital School of...
, anthropologist - Fred GruenFred GruenFred Henry George Gruen was an Australian economist, an early and influential voice in favour of free trade and tariff reductions in the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...
, economist - Wang GungwuWang GungwuWang Gungwu, CBE is an academic who has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, although he has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from China, because it is inaccurate and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat". He was born in...
, specialist in studying the Chinese diaspora - Sir Keith HancockKeith HancockSir Keith Hancock KBE was an Australian historian.He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Archdeacon William Hancock. At the age of nine, he won the Royal Humane Society's medal for rescuing another child from drowning in the Mitchell River. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School...
, historian - A. D. HopeA. D. HopeAlec Derwent Hope AC OBE was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic.-Life:...
, poet and essayist - Leonard HuxleyLeonard Huxley (physicist)Sir Leonard George Holden Huxley KBE was an Australian physicist.Huxley was born in London, the eldest son of George Hamborough and Lilian Huxley. He was a second-cousin once removed of Thomas Huxley...
, physicist - Shun IkedaShun IkedaShun Ikeda from Shinjuku, Tokyo, is a specialist in Japanese language, culture and society, and a senior lecturer at the Australian National University's School of Culture, History and Language...
, Japanese Language Specialist - Ken InglisKen InglisKenneth Stanley Inglis is an Australian historian.Inglis completed his Master's degree at the University of Melbourne and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. In 1956 he was appointed as a lecturer to the University of Adelaide...
, historian - Edward A. IrvingEdward A. IrvingEdward A. "Ted" Irving, CM, FRSC, FRS is a geologist and emeritus scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. His studies of paleomagnetism provided the first physical evidence of the theory of continental drift...
, geologist - Frank Cameron JacksonFrank Cameron JacksonFrank Cameron Jackson is an Australian philosopher, currently Distinguished Professor and former Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. In 2007-2008, he also became a regular visiting professor of philosophy at Princeton University...
, philosopher - J. C. Jaeger, geophysicist
- Zvonimir JankoZvonimir JankoZvonimir Janko is a Croatian mathematician who is the eponym of the Janko groups, sporadic simple groups in group theory.Janko was born in Bjelovar, Croatia. He studied at the University of Zagreb where he received Ph.D. in 1960. He then taught physics at a high school in Široki Brijeg in Bosnia...
, mathematician - Rhys Jones, archaeologist
- James JuppJames JuppJames Jupp AM is a British-Australian political scientist and author. He is Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and an Adjunct Professor of the RMIT University in Melbourne...
, political scientist - Peter KarmelPeter KarmelPeter Henry Karmel, AC, CBE was an Australian economist and professor.-Biography:Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge where he received a Ph.D., Karmel had served as the Vice-Chancellor of both Flinders University and the Australian...
, economist - Roger KeesingRoger KeesingProfessor Roger Martin Keesing was a linguist and anthropologist, noted for his fieldwork on the Kwaio people of Malaita in the Solomon Islands, and his writings on a wide range of topics including kinship, religion, politics, history, cognitive anthropology and language. Keesing was a major...
, anthropologist - Ben KerkvlietBen KerkvlietBen Kerkvliet is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, Australian National University. He works across the areas of comparative politics, Southeast Asia and Asian studies...
, political scientist - Brij LalBrij LalBrij V. Lal is a Indo-Fijian historian . He was born in Labasa, on the northern island of Vanua Levu. He was educated at the University of South Pacific, the University of British Columbia and the Australian National University.- Academic career :...
, historian, novelist and writer of non-fiction - Geoffrey LancasterGeoffrey LancasterGeoffrey Lancaster AM is an Australian classical pianist and conductor. Born in Sydney, he was raised in Dubbo, New South Wales before moving to Canberra. He attended the Canberra School of Music where he studied piano with Larry Sitsky...
, musicologist and pianist - Andrew LeighAndrew LeighAndrew Keith Leigh is an Australian politician and former professor of economics at the Australian National University. He has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2010, representing the Canberra seat of Fraser. In 2011, Andrew was awarded the Economic Society of...
, economist - Loren LomaskyLoren LomaskyLoren Lomasky is an American philosopher, currently a Professor of Political philosophy, Policy and Law at the University of Virginia. Lomasky earned his PhD from the University of Connecticut, and has previously taught at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, the University of Minnesota in...
, political philosopher - Gavan McCormackGavan McCormackGavan McCormack is a researcher specialising in East Asia who is currently Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History of the Australian National University...
, Orientalist - Brendan McKayBrendan McKayBrendan Damien McKay is a Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University . He has published extensively in combinatorics....
, computer scientist - Warwick McKibbinWarwick McKibbinWarwick McKibbin is an Australian Professor of Economics at the Australian National University who works across a wide range of areas in applied policy...
, economist - Henry Evans MaudeHenry Evans MaudeHenry "Harry" Evans Maude, OBE was a British civil servant and anthropologist. He was the husband of Honor Maude.Harry Maude was born 1 October 1906, in Bankipore, India....
, anthropologist - Achdiat Karta MihardjaAchdiat Karta MihardjaAchdiat Karta Mihardja was an Indonesian author, novelist and playwright. He is best known for his novel, Atheist, which was published in 1949. Atheist is considered one of Indonesia's most important literary works following World War II.| image = 09achdiat.gifMihardja was born on March 6, 1911,...
, novelist and writer - T. B. MillarThomas MillarThomas Bruce "T.B." Millar AO was an Australian historian, political scientist and a major figure in the development of strategic studies in Australia....
, historian and political scientists - John MinfordJohn MinfordJohn Minford is a sinologist and literary translator. He is primarily known for his translation of Chinese classics such as The Story of the Stone and The Art of War.-Early years and education:...
, sinologist and literary translator - Pat Moran, statistician
- Fred NadelSiegfried Frederick NadelSiegfried Frederick Nadel , known as Fred Nadel, was an Austrian-born British anthropologist, specialising in African ethnology.-Biography:Nadel was born in Lemberg, Galizia, the son of a lawyer...
, anthropologist - Bernhard NeumannBernhard NeumannBernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS was a German-born British mathematician who was one of the leading figures in group theory, greatly influencing the direction of the subject....
, mathematician - Hanna NeumannHanna NeumannJohanna Neumann was a German-born mathematician who worked on group theory.Johanna was born in Lankwitz, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. She attended Auguste-Viktoria-Schule and the University of Berlin and completed her studies in 1936 with distinctions in mathematics and physics. She began...
, mathematician, first female professor of mathematics in Australia - Cliff OllierCliff OllierCliff Ollier is a geologist, geomorphologist, soil scientist, emeritus professor and honorary research fellow, at the School of Earth and Geographical Sciences University of Western Australia...
, geologist - Sir Mark OliphantMark OliphantSir Marcus 'Mark' Laurence Elwin Oliphant, AC, KBE, FRS was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played a fundamental role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of the atomic bomb.During his retirement, Oliphant was appointed as the Governor of...
, physicist and Governor of South Australia - John PassmoreJohn PassmoreJohn Passmore AC was an Australian philosopher.Passmore was born in Manly, Sydney. He graduated from the University of Sydney with first-class honours in English literature and philosophy, and went on to study to become a secondary-school teacher...
, philosopher - Philip PettitPhilip PettitPhilip Noel Pettit is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University...
, political scientist - Lindsay PryorLindsay PryorLindsay Dixon Pryor AO was an Australian botanist noted for his work on Eucalyptus taxonomy and his role in the landscape design of Canberra, including the foundation of the Australian National Botanic Gardens....
, botanist - Leo RadomLeo RadomLeo Radom, born on December 13, 1944 in Shanghai, China, is a computational chemist. He attended North Sydney Boys High School. He has a Ph D and a D Sc from the University of Sydney and carried out post-doctoral work under the late Sir John Pople. He is Professor, School of Chemistry, University...
, research chemist - Anthony ReidAnthony Reid (academic)Anthony Reid is a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia. His doctoral work at Cambridge University examined the contest for power in northern Sumatra, Indonesia in the late 19th century, and he extended this study into a book The Blood of the People on the national and social revolutions in...
, historian of Southeast Asia - Malcolm Rennie, philosopher and logician
- Ted RingwoodTed RingwoodAlfred Edward "Ted" Ringwood FRS was an Australian experimental geophysicist and geochemist, and the 1988 recipient of the Wollaston Medal....
, geologist - Malcolm RossMalcolm RossMalcolm David Ross is a linguist and professor at the Australian National University. He has published work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact.-External links:**...
, linguist - Amin SaikalAmin SaikalProfessor Amin Saikal is Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies and Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. Professor Saikal has specialised in the politics, history, political economy and international relations of the Middle East and Central Asia...
, political scientist - Michael SallaMichael SallaMichael Emin Salla is an international politics scholar who in 2001 became interested in the study of exopolitics and subsequently embarked on a personal effort to disseminate his exopolitical beliefs and hypotheses via the mediums of the internet, UFO and Newsconferences and radio appearances...
, political scientist - Brian P. SchmidtBrian P. SchmidtBrian P. Schmidt is a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the Australian National University Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is widely known for his research in using supernovae as Cosmological...
, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winning Physicist - Jeremy ShearmurJeremy ShearmurJeremy Shearmur is Reader in Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He was educated at the London School of Economics....
, philosopher - Peter SingerPeter SingerPeter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...
, philosopher - J. J. C. SmartJ. J. C. SmartJohn Jamieson Carswell "Jack" Smart AC is an Australian philosopher and academic who is currently Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia...
, philosopher - Michael Smith, philosopher
- Thomas SmithThomas Smith (finance professor)Thomas Smith is an Australian finance academic. Smith has been a professor at the Australian National University since 2003. Prior appointments were at the Australian Graduate School of Management and Duke University ....
, economist - Allan SnyderAllan SnyderAllan Whitenack Snyder is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, Australia where he also holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind...
, optical physicist/visual scientist - Oskar SpateOskar SpateOskar Hermann Khristian Spate was a geographer best known for his role in strengthening geography as a discipline in Australia and the Pacific....
, geographer - Trevor SwanTrevor SwanTrevor Winchester Swan was an Australian economist. He is best known for his work on the neoclassical model of economic growth, published simultaneously with that of Robert Solow, for his work on integrating internal and external balance, represented by the Swan diagram and for pioneering work in...
, economist - Richard SylvanRichard SylvanRichard Sylvan was a philosopher, logician, and environmentalist.- Biography :Sylvan was born Francis Richard Routley in Levin, New Zealand, and his early work is cited with this surname...
, philosopher - Royall TylerRoyall Tyler (academic)Royall Tyler is a Japanologist. He is a descendant of the American playwright Royall Tyler . He was born in London, England, and grew up in Massachusetts, England, Washington D.C., and Paris, France. Between 1990 and 2000 he taught at the Australian National University. He was Reader at that...
, Japan specialist - Neil TrudingerNeil TrudingerNeil Sidney Trudinger is an Australian mathematician, known particularly for his work in the field of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations....
, Mathematician - Jonathan UngerJonathan UngerProfessor Jonathan Unger is a journalist and an expert on China. His major works include The Transformation of Rural China and The Nature of Chinese Politics from Mao to Jiang . Unger is currently conducting research on Chinese state-owned factories...
, contemporary China specialist - Michael VernonMichael VernonMichael 'Mike' Vernon A.M. was a prominent Australian consumer activist. Vernon was born in Portsmouth, United Kingdom in 1932 to John Ernest Vernon and Caroline Vernon . He emigrated to Australia in 1955 and settled in Canberra, Australia...
, scientist and consumer activist - Ling Wang (Wang Ling)Wang Ling (historian)Wang Ling was a Chinese and Australian historian and educator known for his collaboration with Joseph Needham on the history of science and technology in China.-Biography:...
, historian of Chinese science - Jack WaterfordJack WaterfordJack Waterford AM is an Australian journalist and commentator who is now Editor-at-Large of the Canberra Times.A law graduate from the Australian National University, John Edward Waterford began his journalism career as a cadet with the Canberra Times in 1972, covering a broad range of rounds...
, journalist - Anna WierzbickaAnna WierzbickaAnna Wierzbicka is a linguist at the Australian National University. She also lectures at Warsaw University and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. She studied at Warsaw University. From 1972 she moved from Poland to Australia.Wierzbicka is famous for her work in semantics,...
, linguist
Chancellors
The Chancellor of the Australian National University serves as the nominal head of the university. The basic outline of the position is detailed in the Australian National University Act 1991, which governs the operation of the university. As with most other university chancellorsChancellor (education)
A chancellor or vice-chancellor is the chief executive of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as president or rector....
, the role is now largely ceremonial, though still quite prestigious.
| Years | Chair of Interim Council |
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| 1946–1951 | Richard Mills:1, OBE, DSc (LSE), LLM (Melb) |
| Years | Chancellor |
|---|---|
| 1951–1961 | Viscount Bruce Stanley Bruce Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, CH, MC, FRS, PC , was an Australian politician and diplomat, and the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. He was the second Australian granted an hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, but the first whose peerage was formally created... , CH, MC, FRS, PC, BCL (Cantab) |
| 1961–1965 | Sir John Cockcroft John Cockcroft Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS was a British physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.... , OM, KCB, CBE, BMath (Cantab) |
| 1965–1968 | Baron Florey, OM, FRS, PhD (Cantab), MA (Oxon) |
| 1968–1976 | Dr. H. C. Coombs H. C. Coombs Herbert Cole H.C. "Nugget" Coombs was an Australian economist and public servant.-Early years:Coombs was born in Kalamunda, Western Australia, Australia, one of six children of a country railway station-master and a well-read mother.Coombs's political and economic views were formed by the Great... , PhD (LSE), MA (UWA) |
| 1976–1984 | Sir John Crawford John Crawford (economist) Sir John Grenfell Crawford AC CBE was an economist and a key architect of Australia's Post-War growth.Born in Sydney, among the positions he held were Adviser to the World Bank, Washington D.C., Director, Australian Japanese Economic Research Project, and Chairman, Advisory Board, Australian... , AC, CBE, MEc (Syd) |
| 1984–1987 | Sir Richard Blackburn Richard Blackburn Sir Richard Arthur Blackburn OBE was a judge, prominent legal academic and former military officer in Australia. He became a judge of three separate courts in Australia, and eventually became chief justice of the Australian Capital Territory. In the 1970s he decided one of Australia's earliest... , OBE, BA, BCL (Oxon) |
| 1987–1990 | Sir Gordon Jackson Gordon Jackson (businessman) Sir Gordon Jackson AK was an Australian businessman.-Biography:Gordon Jackson was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland .He joined CSR in 1941 and stayed with the organisation and its subsidiaries until 1985... , AK |
| 1990–1994 | Sir Geoffrey Yeend, AC, CBE, BComm (Melb) |
| 1994–2006 | Dr. Peter Baume Peter Baume Peter Erne Baume, AC is a former Australian politician.Baume was born in Sydney, New South Wales and was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney Grammar School. He married Jennifer Tucson 1958 and they have one son and one daughter... , AC, MD (Syd) |
| 2006–2009 | Dr. Allan Hawke Allan Hawke Allan Douglas Hawke AC is a former Australian senior public servant and diplomat. He was the Chief of Staff to the former Prime Minister, Paul Keating; Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs 1994–1996; Secretary of the Department of Transport and Regional Services 1996–1999; and... :10, BSc (Hons), PhD (ANU), FAIPA, FAIM, FAICD |
| 2009–2010 | Kim Beazley Kim Beazley In the October 1998 election, Labor polled a majority of the two-party vote and received the largest swing to a first-term opposition since 1934. However, due to the uneven nature of the swing, Labor came up eight seats short of making Beazley Prime Minister.... , AC, BA (Hons), MA (UWA), MPhil (Oxon) |
| 2010– | Gareth Evans Gareth Evans (politician) Gareth John Evans, AO, QC , is a former Australian politician from 1978 to 1999 representing the Australian Labor Party, serving in a number of ministries including Attorney-General and Foreign Minister from 1983 to 1996 in the Hawke and Keating governments. He was president and chief executive... , AO, QC, BA, LLB (Hons)(Melb), MA (Oxon) |
- 1 Mills served as Chair of the Interim Council while the University was initially beginning operations. While Bruce was officially the first Chancellor, Mills had been effectively fulfilling the same function.
- 10 Hawke retired on 1 January 2009 and was succeeded by Kim Beazley.
Vice Chancellors
The Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University serves as the chief executive officerChief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
of the university, and oversees most of the university's day-to-day operations, with the Chancellor serving in a largely ceremonial role. It was for many years a position generally only held by prominent academics, but this has changed in recent years, as universities have tended to look for specialist administrators.
| Years | Vice Chancellor |
|---|---|
| 1948–1953 | Sir Douglas Copland Douglas Copland Sir Douglas Copland was an Australian academic and economist.He was born in New Zealand in 1894, the thirteenth of sixteen children. In 1920, at the age of 26, he became Professor of Economics at the University of Tasmania... , CMG, MA (Hons)(UNZ), DLitt (Melb) |
| 1953–1960 | Sir Leslie Melville Leslie Melville Sir Leslie Galfreid Melville KBE was a renowned Australian economist, academic and public servant. He helped form Australia's central banking system and gave her a voice in international economic forums in the years following World War II... , KBE, BEc (Syd) |
| 1960–1967 | Sir Leonard Huxley Leonard Huxley (physicist) Sir Leonard George Holden Huxley KBE was an Australian physicist.Huxley was born in London, the eldest son of George Hamborough and Lilian Huxley. He was a second-cousin once removed of Thomas Huxley... , KBE, DPhil (Oxon) |
| 1968–1973 | Sir John Crawford John Crawford (economist) Sir John Grenfell Crawford AC CBE was an economist and a key architect of Australia's Post-War growth.Born in Sydney, among the positions he held were Adviser to the World Bank, Washington D.C., Director, Australian Japanese Economic Research Project, and Chairman, Advisory Board, Australian... , AC, CBE, MEc (Syd) |
| 1973–1975 | Robert Williams, ? |
| 1975–1982 | Donald Anthony Low Anthony Low Anthony Low is a historian of modern South Asia, Africa, the British Commonwealth, and, especially, decolonization... , AO, MA, DPhil (Oxon), PhD, LittD (Cantab), FAHA, FRHistS |
| 1982–1987 | Peter Karmel Peter Karmel Peter Henry Karmel, AC, CBE was an Australian economist and professor.-Biography:Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge where he received a Ph.D., Karmel had served as the Vice-Chancellor of both Flinders University and the Australian... , AC, CBE, PhD (Cantab) |
| 1988–1993 | Lawrence W Nichol, DSc, PhD (Adel), FAA, FASBMB |
| 1994–2001 | Richard Deane Terrell, AO, MEc (Hons)(Adel), PhD (Oxon) |
| 2001–2011 | Ian Chubb Ian Chubb Ian William Chubb, AC is the Chief Scientist of Australia. He has held this post since 2011. He was also the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University from 2001 to 2011, and president of the International Alliance of Research Universities from 2006 to 2009... , AC, MSc, DPhil (Oxon), HonDSc (Flinders) |
| 2011– | Ian Young, |