List of Flinders University people

This is an incomplete list of Flinders University people including notable alumni and staff associated with the Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.

Graduates of Flinders University include:

• Australian of the Year: Richard Harris
• Fields Medalist (for maths): Terry Tao
• Several Rhodes scholars

Other notable alumni include:

Arts and humanities

Creatives

• Mario Andreacchio – film director and producer
• Michael Atkinson – (founding member of Redgum)
• Benedict Andrews – theatre director (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Matthew Bate – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
• Geordie Brookman – theatre director (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Matthew Cormack – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
• Matt Crook – actor
• Mem Fox – children's author
• Alex Frayne – film director
• Gale Edwards – Theatre Director (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Nuala Hafner – TV presenter (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Noni Hazlehurst – actress (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Scott Hicks – film director (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Victoria Hill – actress, writer and producer (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Nicholas Hope – actor (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Aimee Horne – actress and singer
• Jackie Huggins – author, historian, Aboriginal rights advocate, and academic
• Sophie Hyde – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
• Paul Kelly – (1973; did not complete)
• Hannah Kent – author, winner of the Stella Prize
• Steve Knapman – TV producer (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Craig Lahiff – film director
• Nina Landis – actress
• Verity Laughton – playwright (PhD, Creative Arts thesis, 2020)
• Caleb Lewis – playwright (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Sam Mac – radio and television personality
• Anthony Maras – film director, writer and producer
• Peter Martin – economics journalist and commentator (Distinguished Alumnus 2016)
• Bryan Mason – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
• Louisa Mignone – actress
• Sudesh Mishra – poet
• Susan Mitchell – author (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Doc Neeson – singer, songwriter, and front man of The Angels
• Tania Nehme – film editor (Flinders Drama Centre, 1983)
• Christopher Pearson – journalist, founder of the Adelaide Review and speechwriter for Prime Minister John Howard
• Mark Peel – Australian historian
• Greig Pickhaver (also known as H.G. Nelson) – actor, comedian and writer (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Michael Pope – TV presenter and producer (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Damien Richardson – actor (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Brendan Rock – film actor (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Dario Russo – film director and writer
• Xavier Samuel – actor (Flinders Drama Centre)
• John Schumann – founding member of Redgum
• Wendy Strehlow – actress
• Rebecca Summerton – film producer
• Chris Timms – founding member of Redgum
• Verity Truman, Chris Timms – founding member of Redgum
• Melanie Vallejo – actress (Flinders Drama Centre)
• Matt Vesely – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
• Eddie White – animation writer and director(Flinders Drama Centre)
• Sean Williams – author

Academics

• Jack Barbalet – professor of sociology
• Carl Bridge – professor of history at King's College London
• Wal Cherry (1932–1986), foundation professor of Flinders Drama Centre,
• Jackie Huggins – author, historian, Aboriginal rights advocate, and academic
• Marion Jones – nursing and interprofessional practice academic (PhD, 2000)
• Marion Maddox – author and professor of history at Macquarie University
• Haydon Manning – political scientist (PhD1994; later, associate professor, Politics and Public Policy at Flinders)
• Andrekos Varnava – writer and professor of history
• Wesley Wildman – professor of theology at Boston University
• Graham Hill – associate professor of missiology and World Christianity at the University of Divinity, Australia

Science and medicine

Medicine

• Nazira Abdula – pediatrician and Mozambican Minister of Health
• Richard "Harry" Harris – anaesthetist and 2019 Australian of the Year
• Sally Goold – first Indigenous nurse in New South Wales and 2006 Senior Nurse of the Year
• Philip Nitschke – (PhD in applied physics)

Other sciences

• Rod Boswell – professor, Plasma Research Laboratory, ANU
• Philip Bourne – professor of pharmacology at UCSD
• Rodney Brooks – professor of robotics at MIT
• Sabine Dittmann – marine biologist
• Mohammad Kaykobad – computer scientist, professor of CSE, BUET
• Mamoru Mohri – retired astronaut, scientist and engineer
• Colin Raston – professor of green chemistry, SA Scientist of the Year inventor of the Vortex Fluidic Device
• Cori Stewart – associate professor and innovator, Women in AI: manufacturing, winner 2022
• Terence Tao – Fields Medalist, professor of mathematics at UCLA
• Tony Thomas – professor of physics at the University of Adelaide

Politics

• John Bannon – former South Australian premier
• Zoe Bettison – South Australian state politician and minister
• Susan Close – South Australian state politician, minister and deputy premier
• David Cox – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Kate Ellis – Member of the Australian House of Representatives and minister
• Chris Gallus – Federal politician for the Liberal Party
• Bronwyn Halfpenny – Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
• Don Hopgood – (PhD) Deputy Premier of South Australia from 1985 to 1992
• Ian Hunter – South Australian state politician and minister
• Tom Kenyon – South Australian state politician and minister
• Stephanie Key – South Australian state politician and minister
• Jenny Leong – Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
• Brendan Nelson – former Australian leader of the opposition
• Chris Picton – South Australian state politician and minister
• Mike Rann – former premier, appointed as a Flinders University professor
• Amanda Rishworth – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Don Russell – former Australian ambassador to the United States
• Robert Simms – Australian senator
• Andrew Southcott – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Gayle Tierney – Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
• SialeÊ»ataonga TuÊ»ivakanō – Prime Minister of Tonga
• Lynne Walker – Northern Territory deputy leader of the opposition
• Pratikno – Minister of State Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia
• Nicolle Flint – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Sport

• Matthew Liptak – Adelaide Crows footballer
• Agnes Milowka – technical diver and author
• Nigel Smart – Adelaide Crows footballer

Faculty

• Donald Brook (1927–2018) – artist; founder of the Experimental Art Foundation; inaugural professor of fine arts; after retirement in 1989, emeritus professor
• Elena Carapetis – actor and playwright; lecturer at Flinders Drama Centre
• Rosalba Clemente – actor; head of Flinders Drama Centre
• Roz Hervey (1965/67–2024) – dancer, choreographer, artistic and creative director; taught movement at Flinders Drama Centre
• Jeri Kroll – poet and author, inaugural dean of graduate research, later emeritus professor
• Caleb Lewis – playwright; lecturer at Flinders Drama Centre
• Haydon Manning – political scientist (PhD 1994); associate professor, politics and public policy
• Genevieve Mooy – film director; lecturer at Flinders Drama Centre
• Mike Rann – professorial fellow in social and policy studies, 2012–?

See also

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