This is a list of Macquarie University people.
Academia and science
Business
Government and politics
Australia
- Peter Andren, Australian politician, former Member for Calare in the Australian House of Representatives
- Kerry Bartlett, Australian politician, former Member for Macquarie in the Australian House of Representatives
- Meredith Burgmann, Australian politician, former President of the New South Wales Legislative Council
- Sam Dastyari, Australian politician, former Senator representing New South Wales
- Peter Debnam, Australian politician, former NSW Leader of the Opposition and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Vaucluse
- Victor Dominello, Australian politician, Minister in the O'Farrell, Baird, Berejiklian and Perrottet ministries
- Trish Doyle, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the electorate of Blue Mountains
- Harry Edwards, Australian politician and economist
- John Faulkner, Australian politician, former Senator representing New South Wales
- John Hewson , Australian politician and former leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
- Stephen Jones, Australian politician, Minister in the Albanese government
- Mike Kelly , Australian politician, Minister in the Gillard and Rudd governments
- David Leyonhjelm, Australian politician, former Senator representing New South Wales
- Jann McFarlane, Australian politician, former Member for Stirling in the Australian House of Representatives
- Sally McManus, Australian union leader, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions
- Tania Mihailuk, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- Rev. Fred Nile, Australian politician, former member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
- Rob Oakeshott, Australian politician, former Member for Lyne in the Australian House of Representatives
- Jamie Parker, Australian politician, former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balmain
- Tanya Plibersek, Australian politician, Minister in the Rudd, Gillard and Albanese governments
- Steven Pringle, former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- Eric Roozendaal, Australian politician, Minister in the Iemma, Rees, and Keneally ministries
- Janelle Saffin, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and former Member for Page in the Australian House of Representatives
- Carl Scully, Australian politician, Minister in the Carr government
- Helen Sham-Ho , Australian politician, former Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
- Lisa Singh, Australian politician, former Senator representing Tasmania
- Jim Soorley, Australian politician, former Lord Mayor of Brisbane
- Karin Sowada, Australian politician, former Senator representing New South Wales
- Rob Stokes, Australian politician, Minister in the O'Farrell, Baird, Berejiklian and Perrottet ministries
International
Other
- Peter Anderson, Australian former police minister and former Director of the Centre for Policing
- John Avery, Australian Chief Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force
- Alison Broinowski, Australian academic, journalist, writer and former Australian public servant
- John Connor, Australian chief executive of Climate Institute of Australia
- Kathryn Greiner, Australian politician, alderman of the City of Sydney
- Frank Howarth, Australian public servant; former Director of the Australian Museum
- Greg Lindsay, Australian founder and executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies
- Judy Mundey, Australian feminist and activist
- Cameron Murphy , Australian civil libertarian
- Christine Nixon, Australian former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police and Chair, Monash College and Deputy Chancellor, Monash University
- Kathryn Paterson, Australian New Zealand public servant
- Andrew Scipione, Australian Chief Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force
- Patricia Scott, Australian public servant
- Jeannette Young, Australian medical doctor and Chief Health Officer of Queensland
Arts
- Thea Astley , Australian writer, four time Miles Franklin Award winner
- Boey Kim Cheng, Singapore-born Australian poet
- Timothy Hawkes , Australian educator and writer, headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta
- Paul Kraus, Australian writer
- Jeni Mawter, Australian writer
- Liane Moriarty, Australian writer
- Ã
Âahînê Bekirê Soreklî, Kurdish writer
- Kimberley Starr, Australian writer
- Les Wicks, Australian poet
Media
- Jane Caro, Australian writer
- Anja Coleby, Australian model, television actress, television producer
- Miranda Devine, Australian journalist
- Michael Duffy, Australian journalist, writer, radio presenter
- Martin Flood, Australian quiz show contestant, top prize winner on Australia's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Kate Forsyth, Australian writer and journalist
- Hugh Mackay , Australian journalist, novelist, psychologist and sociologist
- Robert Ovadia, Australian journalist and television presenter
- Peter Overton, Australian journalist and television presenter
- Hugh Riminton, Australian journalist and television presenter
- Magdalena Roze, Australian meteorologist and television presenter
- Shane Smith, Australian-Canadian film festival programmer and television producer
- Keith Windschuttle, Australian historian and writer, editor of Quadrant
- Irfan Yusuf, Australian social commentator and writer
Law
Religion
Sport
- Grant Brits, Australian swimmer
- Christine Jensen Burke, Australian-New Zealand mountain climber
- Liz Ellis, Australian netball player, former captain of Australian netball team
- Rachael Gunn, Australian Olympian and academic
- Patrik Hefti, Liechtenstein association football player
- Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
- Holly Lincoln-Smith, Australian water polo player
- Joel Milburn, Australian athlete
- Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer (attended)
- Tom Trbojevic, rugby league player, currently playing for Manly Sea Eagles
- Melissa Wu, Australian diver
Administration
Chancellor
Deputy Chancellor
Vice-Chancellors
Other faculty
Notable past and current faculty members include:
- Wally Abraham, Australian architect and town planner
- Deidre Anderson, Australian sports psychologist and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
- Joan Beck, Egyptian archaeology, Honorary Fellow of Macquarie University
- David Christian, British-American historian
- Max Coltheart , Australian cognitive scientist and academic at Macquarie University
- Raewyn Connell, Australian sociologist
- Stephen Crain, American-Australian linguist
- Paul Davies, British physicist, writer and broadcaster
- Patrick De Deckker (), Australian paleontologist
- William Dumbrell, Australian biblical scholar
- Tim Flannery, Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist
- Jacqueline Jarrett Goodnow, Australian cognitive psychologist
- Jenny Hammond, Australian linguist
- Anita Heiss, Australian writer, presenter and commentator
- Ann Henderson-Sellers, Australian climatologist
- Ian Hogbin, British-born Australian anthropologist
- Bryan Horrigan, Australian legal academic
- Geoffrey Hull, Australian linguist
- Sohail Inayatullah, Pakistani-Australian futurologist
- Naguib Kanawati, Egyptian-Australian Egyptologist
- Daniel Kane, Australian linguist
- Konrad Kwiet, German Australian historian
- Marion Maddox, Australian writer, academic and political commentator
- Richard Makinson, Australian physicist
- Gabriele Marranci, Italian anthropologist
- John Mathews, Australian competitive dynamics and global strategist
- Christian Matthiessen, Swedish linguist
- Pat Michie, Australian neuroscientist/psychologist and academic at Newcastle University
- B. K. Misra, neurosurgeon
- Michael Morgan , Australian neurosurgeon
- José Enrique Moyal, Israeli-Australian mathematician
- Alanna Nobbs, Australian historian and writer
- Marlene Norst, Austrian Australian linguist
- Boyo Ockinga, Australian Egyptologist, epigrapher, and philologist
- Suzanne O'Reilly, Australian geologist
- Brian Orr, Australian physicist
- Pam Peters, Australian linguist
- Josef Pieprzyk, Polish-Australian cryptologist
- Ingrid Piller, Australian linguist
- Jim Piper , New Zealand-Australian physicist
- Andrew Pitman, British atmospheric scientist
- Arthur William Pryor, Australian physicist
- Murry Salby, American atmospheric scientist
- Leonie Sandercock, Canadian Australian urban theorist
- Patricia Margaret Selkirk, Australian biologist
- David Skellern , Australian electronic engineer and computer scientist
- Christina Slade, Australian academic and vice-chancellor of Bath Spa University
- Ross Street, Australian mathematician and Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society
- Keith Suter, Australian social scientist
- Esther Szekeres, HungarianâÂÂAustralian mathematician
- David Throsby , Australian economist
- Andrew Tink , Australian former politician, writer and legal academic
- Alfred van der Poorten, Dutch Australian mathematician and Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society
- John Veevers, Australian geologist
- Neil Weste, Australian inventor and engineer
- Clive Williams, British Australian political scientist
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