This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni.
Academia
, current Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne (Political science)
- John Deeble, Architect of Medicare Australia
- Rosalyn Diprose, philosopher and UNSW academic (Philosophy)
- Ross Fitzgerald , academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator (PhD Politics)
- Michael Fullilove, public and international policy academic, executive director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy (Arts/Law)
- David Gonski , prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Commerce/LLB)
- Atiqul Islam, accountant and current Vice-Chancellor of North South University, Bangladesh (Commerce)
- Koo Tsai Kee, Singaporean academic and former politician (Surveying)
- Chandran Kukathas, Malaysian-born Australian political theorist and academic (MA, Politics)
- Jane Stapleton, academic and Master at Christ's College, Cambridge
- Tony Vinson, emeritus Professor, Education and Social Work
- O. K. Harsh, Computer Scientist, Physicist, Current Honorary Pro-Chancellor (addl) of Glocal University
Business
- Rodney Adler, former FAI Insurance chief executive
- Brad Banducci, CEO of Woolworths Group.
- Cheryl Bart , lawyer, company director and mountain climber (Commerce/LLB 1986)
- Mark Bouris, chairman of Yellow Brick Road and television personality
- Mike Cannon-Brookes, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian (Information Science)
- Frank Cicutto, CEO of National Australia Bank (Commerce)
- Paul Clitheroe , television presenter and businessman (Arts)
- Matt Comyn, CEO of Commonwealth Bank
- Roger Corbett , former chairman of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and a former CEO of Woolworths (Commerce)
- Douglas Daft , prominent Australian and US business executive who served as CEO of The Coca-Cola Company between 1999 and 2004; now a global non-executive director (Dipl.Admin)
- Satyajit Das, banker, author and academic (Law)
- John De Margheriti, software developer and entrepreneur, founding father of Australia's video games industry (Electrical engineering)
- Michael Easson , businessman and former union leader (Politics/History)
- Richard Farleigh, private investor (Economics)
- Scott Farquhar, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian (Arts/Science)
- David Gonski , prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Commerce/LLB)
- John M. Green, deputy chairman of QBE Insurance; co-founder of Pantera Press; author
- Catherine Harris , co-founder and chairman of Harris Farm Markets and company director (Commerce)
- Philip Hercus, founder of International Catamaran Designs (Engineering)
- Grant King, managing director, Origin Energy (Engineering)
- David Lowy, non-executive deputy chairman of the Westfield Group
- Steven Lowy, group managing director of the Westfield Group
- Donald McDonald, former chairman of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
- Warwick McKibbin, Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of Australia; economist
- John Niland, director of Macquarie Group; Chairman of Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust; former Vice-Chancellor of UNSW Sydney
- John Prescott, former CEO of BHP
- Gregory G. Rose, principal engineer at Qualcomm (Engineering)
- George Savvides, managing director, Medibank Private (Engineering)
- Jillian Segal, non-executive director, National Australia Bank; Deputy Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Law)
- Gai Waterhouse, horse trainer and businesswoman
Community activism
- Sharan Burrow, global union leader (Education)
- Eva Cox , writer, feminist, sociologist, social commentator and activist (Sociology)
- Louise Crossley, scientist and environmental activist (PhD)
- Karen Dawn, American animal rights and welfare advocate and writer (Psychology)
- Graeme Dunstan, cultural and political activist (Engineering)
- Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist; 2007 Australian of the Year (PhD Palaeontology)
- Peter Garrett, musician, social activist, former politician (LLB 1977)
- Heinz Harant, student activist and founder of the university's alumni association (Electrical engineering (Hons) 1955)
- Betty Kitchener , Australian mental health educator and consumer advocate
Government
Prime Ministers
State Premiers
Federal politicians
- Larry Anthony, former politician (Commerce)
- Mark Arbib, former politician (Arts)
- Vicki Bourne, former politician (Science)
- Bob Carr, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Premier of New South Wales, former politician, author (Arts)
- Alan Cadman, former politician (Agriculture)
- Jason Clare, current Member for Blaxland, former Minister for Home Affairs and former Minister for Defence Materiel (Arts/Law)
- David Coleman, current Member for Banks (Arts/Law)
- Greg Combet, former politician and trade unionist (Engineering)
- Mehreen Faruqi, current Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Environmental Engineering)
- David Fawcett, current Senator for South Australia and former Army officer (Science)
- Michael Forshaw, former politician (Law)
- Jason Falinski, current Member for Mackellar (MBA)
- Peter Garrett , musician, social activist, former politician (LLB 1977)
- Michael Hatton former politician (Arts)
- Andrew Hastie, current Member for Canning, retired Army officer
- Mike Kelly , current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer (PhD Law)
- Craig Laundy, former Member for Reid (Economics)
- Michael Lee, former politician (Electrical Engineering)
- Julian Leeser, current Member for Berowra (LLB)
- Sussan Ley, current Member for Farrer, former Minister for Health and Ageing
- Ted Mack, former politician (Architecture)
- Louise Markus, former politician (Arts)
- Stephen Mutch, former politician (LLB)
- Gary Nairn, former politician
- Kerry Nettle, former politician
- Andrew Nikolic, former politician and retired Army officer (Management)
- Melissa Parke, former United Nations senior lawyer, former politician (Law)
- Marise Payne, current Senator for New South Wales and former Minister for Defence
- Lee Rhiannon, former Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Science)
- Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Army officer (Arts)
Australian state and territory politicians
- Jack Beale, former politician (Engineering)
- Stephen Bromhead, former Member for Myall Lakes (M.Law)
- Arthur Chesterfield-Evans, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Science)
- Ian Cohen, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Arts/DipEd)
- Kevin Conolly, current Member for Riverstone (Arts)
- Paul Crittenden former Member for Wyong (Commerce)
- Mehreen Faruqi, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales (Environmental Engineering)
- Luke Foley, former Member for Auburn and NSW Leader of the Opposition (Arts)
- Bryce Gaudry, former politician and teacher (Arts)
- Alex Greenwich, current Member for Sydney (Arts)
- Sylvia Hale, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (LLB 1998)
- Brad Hazzard, former Member for Wakehurst (Law)
- Courtney Houssos, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Arts)
- Andrew Humpherson, former Member for Davidson (Chemical Engineering)
- Trevor Khan, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (LLB/B.Juris.)
- Sonya Kilkenny, current Member for Carrum in the Victorian Legislative Assembly (BA/LLB 1995)
- Ernie Page, former politician
- Doug Parkinson, former politician in Tasmania
- Eleni Petinos, Member for Miranda (LLB 2011)
- Lee Rhiannon, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales (Science)
- Eric Roozendaal, former Treasurer of New South Wales and former politician (Law)
- Penny Sharpe, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Food Technology)
- Gabrielle Upton, current Member for Vaucluse (Arts/Law)
International politicians
- Jackie Chan, former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Engineering)
- Andrew Cheng, Hong Kong politician, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Law)
- Chua Tian Chang, Malaysian politician, current Member of Parliament for the Batu constituency (Philosophy)
- Emil Dardak, Vice Governor of East Java
- Mehdi Ghazanfari, former Iranian politician
- Meutya Hafid, Indonesian politician, member of People's Representative Council, former journalist
- Foo Mee Har, Singaporean politician, Member of Parliament for the West Coast Group constituency (Science)
- Koo Tsai Kee, former Singaporean politician and academic (Surveying)
- Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fijian politician and current Attorney General of Fiji (LLB)
- Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development of Singapore
- Jeremy Tam, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong, airline pilot (Engineering)
Australian local government politicians
Public servants
- Michele Bruniges , current secretary of the Department of Education and Training (Education)
- Elizabeth Broderick, former Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner (Law)
- Ian Campbell , former secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Economics)
- Jeff Harmer , former secretary of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (BA (Hons), DipEd, PhD)
- Ken Henry , economist and former secretary of The Treasury (Economics)
- John Holloway, former diplomat and public servant (Arts)
- Frank Howarth , former director of the Australian Museum (MSc Soc)
- Robyn Kruk , former secretary of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and a director-general of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet (Science [Honours])
- Patrick Lawless, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Brazil (LLB)
- Damien Miller, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Denmark, Norway and Iceland (Arts/Law)
- Anne-Marie Schwirtlich AM, Director-General of the National Library of Australia
Other public figures
Humanities
Architecture
- Philip Cox, architect and entrepreneur, founder of COX Architects (Science)
- Richard Johnson , architect, best known as the creator of some of the Australian most important and iconic cultural buildings and spaces (Architecture, 1969)
Arts
- Del Kathryn Barton, visual artist
- Matt Carroll, Australian film and television producer
- Queenie Chan, Chinese-Australian comic artist (Computer Programming)
- Barbara Cleveland, Australian contemporary performance artist
- Judith Clingan , composer, conductor, performer and music educator
- Adam Cullen, visual artist (Fine Arts)
- John Davis, documentary filmmaker, mountaineer, television producer, chemical engineer (Science)
- Marta Dusseldorp, actor (Film/Theatre)
- Anne Ferran, photographer (Fine Arts)
- David Fung, concert pianist (MB BS)
- Francis Giacco, visual artist (Architecture)
- Shaun Gladwell, visual artist
- Gordon Hanley, visual artist
- Noel Hodda, actor, writer, dramaturge, director and teacher (Acting)
- Frank Howarth, geologist, Director of the Australian Museum
- Byron Kennedy, film producer
- Amber Lawrence, singer, songwriter
- Stephanie Lemelin, Canadian actress
- Lenka, born Lenka Kripac, singer
- Yaron Lifschitz, theatre director
- George Miller, movie producer, television screenwriter, producer and director of Happy Feet
- John Misto, playwright and screenwriter
- Gregory Charles Rivers, Hong Kong actor
- Emile Sherman, Oscar winner, film producer (Arts/Law)
- Glenn Sorensen, Australia-born, Sweden artist
- Rebel Wilson, actress, writer, and producer (Arts/LLB 2009)
History
Journalism
Literature, writing and poetry
- Jack Bedson, writer, children's author, poet and academic librarian
- Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal writer and academic (LLB/B.Juri 1992)
- Alex Buzo, pioneer playwright
- Melissa Chiu, museum director, curator writer
- Tim Cook, historian and author
- Michael Dransfield, poet
- Suzanne Falkiner, writer (Arts)
- Susanne Gervay, author of young adult fiction (Education)
- John M. Green, author and publisher
- Anita Heiss, author, presenter and commentator (Arts/History)
- Tristan Jepson, comedic writer (LLB)
- Drusilla Modjeska, writer
- Matthew Reilly, author (Law)
- Pamela Stephenson, comedian/writer
- Natalie Tran, producer, actress, comedian, writer
- Rebel Wilson, actress, comedian and writer (Law)
- Markus Zusak, writer
Philosophy
Law
Judges and magistrates
- Bob Bellear, Australia's first indigenous District Court judge (LLB 1978)
- Annabelle Bennett , chancellor of Bond University and former Federal Court judge (LLB)
- Chris Craigie , District Court judge and former Director of Public Prosecutions
- Ros Croucher , lawyer and academic, incoming president of the Australian Human Rights Commission (PhD Legal history)
- Karin Emerton, Victorian Supreme Court judge (LLB)
- Anna Katzmann, current Federal Court judge (LLB)
- Megan Latham, current Supreme Court of New South Wales judge (BA/LLB 1979)
- Robert McClelland, Family Court judge and former Commonwealth Attorney-General (BA/LLB 1981)
- Anthony Meagher, current judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Commerce/LLB)
- Helen Murrell , Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
- Matthew Myers , Federal Circuit Court Judge and Commissioner Australian Law Reform Commission
- John Nicholas, Federal Court judge (BA/LLB)
- Pat O'Shane , teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist, Aboriginal activist; Australia's first Aboriginal magistrate; former chancellor of the University of New England (LLB 1976)
Other legal professionals
Military
- Peter Abigail, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general
- Tim Barrett , current Australian Chief of Navy, ranked vice admiral
- Greg Bilton , current Australian Army officer serving as Deputy Chief of Joint Operations, ranked major general
- Rick Burr , current Australian Army officer serving as Chief of Army, ranked lieutenant general
- John Caligari , retired Australian Army officer, ranked lieutenant general (Arts/Defence Studies)
- John Cantwell, , retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general
- Allan du Toit , retired Australian Navy officer, ranked real admiral (Defence/Strategic Studies)
- Gus Gilmore , current Australian Army officer, serving as Head of Military Strategic Commitments Division, ranked major general (Arts)
- James Goldrick , retired Australian Navy officer, ranked rear admiral (Arts)
- Ian Gordon , retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general (Science/Military Studies, 1973)
- John Harvey, retired Royal Australian Air Force officer, ranked air marshal (Architecture/Psychology/Information Science)
- Andrew Hastie, current Member for Canning, retired Australian Army officer
- Peter Jones , retired Australian Navy officer, ranked vice admiral (BA/MA)
- Mark Kelly , retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general (BA/MA)
- Mike Kelly , current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer (PhD Law)
- David Kilcullen, Australian author, strategist and global counterinsurgency expert; retired Australian Army officer, ranked lieutenant colonel (BA, PhD)
- Andrew Nikolic, former politician and retired Australian Army officer (Management)
- Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Australian Army officer (Arts)
Popular culture
Religious leaders
- Peter Chiswell, Anglican bishop, formerly the Bishop of Armidale
- Tom Frame, Anglican bishop, historian, academic, author and social commentator (Arts/PhD)
- Peter Hayward, Anglican bishop, currently serving as the Bishop of Wollongong (Civil Engineering)
- Brian King, former Anglican assistant bishop in the Diocese of Sydney (Theology)
- Julian Leow Beng Kim, current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur (Building)
Sciences
Biology
- Mark Burgman, ecologist (Science)
- Jessie Christiansen, exoplanetologist
- Bernard d'Abrera, entomological taxonomist and philosopher of science (Arts with majors in History/Science)
- Steve Donnellan, biologist and chief research scientist of the Evolutionary Biology Unit at the South Australian Museum (Science)
- Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist; 2007 Australian of the Year (PhD Palaeontology)
- Levon Khachigian, vascular cell and molecular biologist and academic (B.Science (Honours), PhD, D.Science)
- Zinnia Kumar, evolutionary biologist, ecologist and fashion model (B. Advanced Science [Honours])
- Alan O. Trounson, biologist
- Camille Goldstone-Henry, Wildlife Scientist
Chemistry
Computer scientists
- Clive Finkelstein, computer scientist, known as the "father" of information technology engineering (Science)
- Carsten Haitzler, computer scientist, creator of Enlightenment
- Gernot Heiser, operating systems and ACM Fellow
- Adam Kennedy, computer scientist
- Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, first Thai elected to IEEE Fellow; current President of Mahanakorn University of Technology; Thailand's Minister of Information and Communication Technologies
- Claude Sammut, computer scientist
- Raj Reddy, computer scientist, Turing Award
Engineering
- Julie Cairney, Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
- Michael Collins, Canadian structural engineer (PhD)
- Saeid Eslamian, Iranian hydrologist (Engineering)
- Ron Fitch, railway executive and railway engineer (PhD)
- Graham Goodwin, Australian electrical engineer and academic (Science, 1964; PhD, 1970)
- Saul Griffith, Australian American inventor and material science mechanical engineer (Mechanical Engineering, 1997)
- Sam Michael, sporting director of McLaren (Engineering)
- Jim May, CEO of AMIRA, Chemical Engineer and Metallurgist
- Stuart Wenham, Director of ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, UNSW Australia (Engineering)
Mathematics and economics
Medicine
- Samy Azer, international medical educator (Medicine)
- Julie Campbell, vascular biologist
- David A. Cooper, HIV/AIDS researcher and immunologist
- Sir Richard Feachem , global public health administrator and anti-malaria activist (PhD in Environmental Health)
- Peter Fricker , sports physician and administrator (MB BS)
- Michelle Haber , paediatric cancer researcher (Psychology, PhD [Pathology])
- Louise Maple-Brown , endocrinologist and clinical researcher
- Steven Krilis, immunologist
- Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon
Other medical sciences
Physics
Service sector
Sport
- Sally Bennett, sabre fencer
- Matt Carroll , sports administrator and current chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee (Construction)
- Todd Greenberg, sports administrator and current chief executive of the National Rugby League (Sports Science)
- Andrew Jones, sports administrator and current chief executive of Cricket NSW (BA/LLB)
- Phil Kearns , former rugby union international; former Wallabies captain (Arts)
- Tadhg Kennelly, former Australian rules football who played for the Sydney Swans
- Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-born Australian cricketer (Aviation)
- Geoff Lawson, cricketer
- Ewen McKenzie, current coach of the Queensland Reds
- Simon Poidevin, former Wallabies captain
- Marshall Rosen, cricketer
- Jane Saville, 2004 Summer Olympics medallist
- Michael Slater, cricketer
- Mark Taylor, cricketer (Australia's 39th test captain), Australian of the Year 1999
- Richard Walsh, professional mixed martial artist
- Michael Wenden, swimming champion, 1968 Summer Olympics gold medallist (two gold, one silver, one bronze)
See also
References
Further reading