List of University of Melbourne people

This is an incomplete list of University of Melbourne people, including alumni and staff.

Governors General of Australia

*Richard Casey, Baron Casey
*Sir Zelman Cowen
*Peter Hollingworth
*Sir Isaac Isaacs, also a previous Chief Justice of Australia
*Sir Ninian Stephen

Governors of Victoria

*Sir Henry Winneke , also a previous Chief Justice of Victoria
*Richard McGarvie
*Sir James Gobbo
*John Landy
*Professor David de Kretser

Politicians

Prime Ministers of Australia

*Alfred Deakin
*Harold Holt
*Sir Robert Menzies

Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

* Dr Jim Cairns (Deputy Prime Minister of Australia)
*Julia Gillard (Incumbent)

Premiers of Victoria

*John Brumby
*John Cain II
*Rupert Hamer
*Sir William Irvine
*Joan Kirner
*William Shiels
*Lindsay Thompson

Other prominent politicians

*Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
*Lyn Allison, current leader of Australian Democrats party
*Bruce Baird, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
*William Macmahon Ball, diplomat
*Anna Burke, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
*John Alexander Forrest
*Petro Georgiou, Member of Australian House of Representatives
*H.B. Higgins, former Attorney-General of Australia and Justice of the High Court of Australia
*Tim Holding- Current Victorian Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Victorian Minister for Corrections
*Greg Hunt, Member of Australian House of Representatives
*Dr. Dennis Jensen, Member of Australian House of Representatives
*David Kemp- Former Howard government Cabinet Minister
*John Langmore, Member of Australian House of Representatives
*William Maloney, Member of Australian House of Representatives
*Peter McGauran, federal government minister
*Dato' Mustapa Mohamed, Higher Education Minister of Malaysia
*Andrew Peacock former Australian Foreign Minister and Treasurer
*Nicola Roxon Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Health Minister
*Ralph Willis, Former Federal Treasurer of Australia and Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Lord Mayor of Melbourne

*John So

First Lady

*Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor

Prominent Members of the Military

*Sir Samuel Burston, Army doctor and World War II general.
*Rupert Downes, Army doctor and World War II general.
*Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, Army doctor and Humanitarian.
*Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, politician and World War I general.
*Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, Army doctor.
*Sir Edmund Herring, World War II general.
*Sir James Whiteside McCay, politician and World War I general.
*Sir John Monash, famed World War I general.
*Sir Kingsley Norris, Army doctor and Major General.

Legal profession

*Philip Lewis Griffiths, jurist

Chief Justices of Australia

* Sir Owen Dixon
* Sir Frank Gavan Duffy
* Sir Isaac Isaacs
* Sir John Latham

Justices of High Court of Australia

*Sir Keith Aickin
*Susan Crennan
*Sir Daryl Dawson
*Sir Owen Dixon
*Sir Wilfred Fullagar
*Sir Frank Gavan Duffy
*Kenneth Hayne
*H.B. Higgins
*Sir Isaac Isaacs
*Sir Douglas Menzies
*Sir Ninian Stephen

Chief Justice of Federal Court of Australia

* Michael Black

Chief Justice of Family Court of Australia

* Alastair Bothwick Nicholson

Chief Justices of Victoria

* Sir John Madden
* Sir William Irvine
* Sir Frederick Mann
* Sir Edmund Herring
* Sir Henry Winneke
* John Harber Phillips

Presidents of Victorian Court of Appeal

* John Winneke
* Chris Maxwell

Corporate Figures

*Robert Champion de Crespigny
*John Elliott
*Sir John Holland
*Sir Brian Inglis
*Margaret Jackson
*Ananda Krishnan
*Brian Loton
*Richard Pratt
*Graeme Samuel
*Evan Thornley

Academic

*Michael Clyne, linguist
*Bella Guerin, educator and activist; first female University graduate in Australia
*Peter Karmel, former vice-chancellor of Australian National University and Flinders University
*Peter McPhee, Provost of the University of Melbourne
*Fulvio Melia, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Arizona and associate editor of the Astrophysical Journal
*Michael Roe, historian
*David Shallcross, chemical engineer
*Rajkumar Buyya, software engineer
*Greg Craven Vice Chancellor of Australian Catholic University.

Scientists

Physicists

* Fulvio Melia
* William Sutherland
* Richard Dalitz

Geologists

* Sir Albert Ernest Kitson, winner of the 1927 Lyell Medal

Doctors

*Vera Scantlebury Brown
*Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
*Sir John Carew Eccles , awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
*Dr. David Richter, graduated third in the University of Melbourne's Medical School Class of 1971. Renowned Rheumatologist in the greater Akron, OH area.

Historians

*Geoffrey Blainey, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
*Manning Clark
*Alice Garner
*Keith Hancock
*Stuart Macintyre
*A.G.L.Shaw

Architect

*Barry Patten

Organisation leaders

*Waleed Aly

Authors

*Germaine Greer
*Helen Garner
*Jack Hibberd
*Fulvio Melia

Philosopher

*Peter Singer

Artists

*Cate Blanchett, actress
*Barry Humphries
*Alice Garner, historian, musician, actress
* Rob Sitch, co-writer and co-director of the movies "The Castle" and "The Dish"; and co-host of "The Panel"

Poets

*Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University
*Vincent Buckley

External links

* [http://www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/prominent.html Prominent alumni] - from the University of Melbourne website