List_of_University_of_Adelaide_people
This is an incomplete list of University of Adelaide people including notable alumni and staff associated with the University of Adelaide in Australia.
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Business
- Shaun Bonett – founder of the Precision Group
- John Langdon Bonython – founding chairman of Santos
- Bruce Carter – chairman of ASC Pty Ltd
- Cheong Choong Kong – former chief executive officer of Singapore Airlines, chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
- Tim Cooper – managing director of Coopers Brewery
- Simon Hackett – founder of Internode (ISP)
- Tim Harcourt – economist
- Edward Holden – managing director of General Motors-Holden
- Wayne Jackson – former chief executive officer of the Australian Football League (AFL)
- Lim Siong Guan – group president of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation
- Gillon McLachlan – chief executive officer of the AFL
- Thorburn Brailsford Robertson – pioneered insulin manufacture in Australia
- Bo Songvisava – chef and restaurateur
- John Spalvins – managing director of the Adelaide Steamship Company
- Raymond Spencer – chair of the South Australian Economic Development Board
- Neil Weste – microelectronics engineer and entrepreneur
- Philip Wollen – former Vice President Citibank; General Manager at Citicorp, Philanthropist
- Danielle Wood — economist and incoming chair of the Productivity Commission
- Wan Zulkiflee – chairman of Malaysia Airlines, former president and chief executive officer of Petronas
Government
Heads of state
- Frances Adamson – Governor 2021–present
- Roma Mitchell – Australia's first female judge; its first female Governor 1991–1996
- Eric Neal – business leader, Governor 1996–2001
- Mark Oliphant – physicist; Governor 1971–1976
- Keith Seaman – Uniting Church minister; Governor 1977–1982
- Hieu Van Le – Lieutenant Governor of South Australia 2007–2014; Governor 2014–2021
Politicians
National leaders
Australia
- Julia Gillard – 27th Prime Minister of Australia (2009–2012) (attended 1979 to 1982, transferred to the University of Melbourne[1])
All other countries
- Peter Ong Boon Kwee – Head of the Civil Service, Singapore since 2010,[2][3] the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Singapore since 2009,[4] and Permanent Secretary with Special Duties in the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore[5]
- Ong Teng Cheong – 5th President of Singapore (1993–1999)[6]
- Joseph Pairin Kitingan – 7th Chief Minister of Sabah, Malaysia (1985–1994)
- Abdul Taib – 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (1981–2014); Governor of Sarawak (2014–)
- Adenan Satem – 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (2014–2017)
- Tony Tan Keng Yam – 7th President of Singapore (2011–2017);[7] Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1995–2005[8])
South Australian premiers
- Lynn Arnold – Premier of South Australia 1992–1993
- John Bannon – Premier of South Australia 1982–1992
- Henry Barwell – Premier of South Australia 1920–1924
- Dean Brown – Premier of South Australia 1993–1996
- Don Dunstan – Premier of South Australia 1967–1968, and 1970–1979
- Rob Kerin – Premier of South Australia 2001–2002
- Peter Malinauskas – Premier of South Australia 2022–
- David Tonkin – Premier of South Australia 1979–1982
- Jay Weatherill – Premier of South Australia 2011–2018
Other Federal politicians
- Benjamin Benny – Senator for South Australia (1920–1926)
- Gordon Bilney – Member for Kingston (1983–1996), former minister
- Simon Birmingham – Senator for South Australia (2007–), former minister
- Julie Bishop – Member for Curtin (1998–), former minister
- Mark Bishop – Senator for Western Australia (1996–2014)
- Nick Bolkus – Senator for South Australia (1981–2005), former minister
- Mark Butler – Member for Hindmarsh (2007–), current minister
- Peter Duncan – Member for Makin (1984–1996), former minister
- Don Farrell – Senator for South Australia (2008–2014, 2016–), current minister
- Janine Haines – Senator for South Australia (1977–1978, 1981–1990)
- Sarah Hanson-Young – Senator for South Australia (2008–)
- Robert Hill – Senator for South Australia (1981–2006), former minister, and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations
- Annette Hurley – Senator for South Australia (2005–2011)
- Linda Kirk – Senator for South Australia (2002–2008)
- Keith Laught – Senator for South Australia (1951–1969)
- Alexander McLachlan – Senator for South Australia (1926–1944), Postmaster-General
- Andrew Nikolic – Member for Bass (2013–2016)
- Christopher Pyne – Member for Sturt (1993–2019), former minister
- Margaret Reid – Senator for the Australian Capital Territory (1981–2003)
- Andrew Southcott – Member for Boothby (1996–2016)
- Natasha Stott Despoja – Senator for South Australia (1995–2008), Leader of the Australian Democrats (2001–2002)
- Amanda Vanstone – Senator for South Australia (1984–2007), former minister, Ambassador to Italy (2007–2010)
- David Vigor – Senator for South Australia (1984–1987)
- Keith Wilson – Senator for South Australia (1938–1944), Member for Sturt (1949–1954, 1955–1966)
- Penny Wong – Senator for South Australia (2002–), current minister
- Nick Xenophon – Senator for South Australia (2008–2018)
Other state and territory politicians
- Adair Blain – Member for the Northern Territory (1934–1949)
- Pru Goward – Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, current minister
- Shane Stone – Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (1995–1999)
- Ian Wilson – Member for Sturt (1966–1969, 1972–1993), former minister
Other politician figures
- David Combe – former Secretary of the Australian Labor Party
- Lynton Crosby – campaign strategist and co-founder of the Crosby Textor Group
- Lim Soo Hoon – first female Permanent Secretary of Singapore
- Raymond Lim – Member of Parliament of Singapore (2001–2015), Minister for Transport
- Parameshwara Gangadharaiah – Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka
- Lockwood Smith – Member of the New Zealand Parliament (1984–2013), Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, High Commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom
Public servants
- Finlay Crisp – public servant, academic and political scientist
- John Menadue – Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Martin Parkinson – Secretary of the Department of the Treasury
- John E. Scanlon – Secretary General of CITES
Diplomats
- Richard Broinowski – Australian Ambassador to Mexico (1994–1997)
- Walter Crocker – diplomat and writer
- Maurice de Rohan – South Australian Agent General in London (1998–2006)
- Tim George – Australian diplomat
Military
- Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC, CMG, CBE – soldier and lawyer; awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916[9]
- Brigadier Andrew Nikolic (see under Politics, Legislators)
Humanities
Arts
- Robyn Archer – performer and director
- Julian Cochran – composer
- Ruby Davy – pianist and composer
- John Dowie – painter and sculptor
- Francis Greenslade – comedian
- Robert Hannaford – realist artist
- Mark Holden – singer, actor, television personality and barrister
- Graham Jenkin – poet, composer and historian
- Graeme Koehne – composer
- Dichen Lachman – actress
- Anthony "Lehmo" Lehmann – comedian
- Lionel Logue – speech and language therapist and stage actor who successfully treated King George VI
- Gary McCaffrie – comedy writer and producer
- Shaun Micallef – comedian and writer
- Keith Mitchell – film and television actor
- Steve J. Spears – playwright and director
- Stephen Whittington – composer, pianist and writer on music
History
- Geoffrey Dutton – author and historian
- Anne Philomena O'Brien – author and historian
- Russel Ward – historian and author of The Australian Legend
Journalism and media
- Keith Conlon – television and radio presenter
- Annabel Crabb – political writer and commentator
- Zoe Daniel – ABC foreign correspondent
- Chris Dore – editor in chief of The Australian
- Fran Kelly – journalist and political correspondent
- Christian Kerr – political commentator and journalist
- Samantha Maiden – national political editor of News Corporation Sunday papers
- Hamish McLachlan – television sports commentator for the Seven Network
- David Penberthy – editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph
- Angela Pippos – ABC sports journalist
- Michael Stutchbury – editor-in-chief of The Australian Financial Review
- Anne Summers – feminist writer and commentator
Literature, writing and poetry
- Georgia Blain – author
- James Bradley – author
- John Jefferson Bray – poet and jurist
- Nancy Cato – author
- Garry Disher – author
- Brian Elliott – academic
- Anna Goldsworthy – writer and classical pianist
- Kerryn Goldsworthy – writer and critic
- Peter Goldsworthy – author
- Max Harris – Angry Penguins poet and publisher
- Rex Ingamells – poet and founder of the Jindyworobak Movement
- Joe Penhall – playwright
- Colin Thiele – writer
- Sean Williams – science fiction author
Philosophy and theology
- David Chalmers – philosopher and Federation Fellow
- Margaret Somerville – ethicist
Judiciary and the law
- Amanda Banton – lawyer
- John Basten – Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
- Richard Blackburn – former Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory
- Catherine Branson – former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
- John Bray – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, poet and classicist
- James Crawford – legal academic; Judge of the International Court of Justice (2014)
- Bill Denny – Attorney-General of South Australia
- John Doyle – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- John Finnis – legal scholar and philosopher
- Regina Graycar – Emeritus Professor of Law School, University of Sydney
- Hermann Homburg – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Elliott Johnston – Communist activist and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Len King – South Australian Attorney-General; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Robert Lawson – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Chris Kourakis – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Bruce Lander – South Australia's first Independent Commissioner Against Corruption
- G. C. Ligertwood – Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Brian Martin – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
- Robin Millhouse – lawyer, politician, Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru
- Roma Mitchell – lawyer, first female Queen's Counsel in Australia (1962); Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; first female superior court judge in the British Commonwealth (1965)
- George Murray – Chief Justice of South Australia
- Mellis Napier – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Rosemary Owens – Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide Law School
- Angas Parsons – former judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and former Attorney-General of South Australia
- Geoffrey Reed – Judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia; the first director-general of ASIO
- Len Roberts-Smith – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
- Paul Rofe – former South Australian Director of Public Prosecutions
- Colin Rowe – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Reginald Rudall – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Chris Sumner – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Margaret White – first female judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland
Medicine and science
Nobel laureates
- William Lawrence Bragg – physicist, Nobel laureate with his father (William Henry Bragg) "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"[10]
- Howard Florey – pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1945) "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"[11]
- Robin Warren – pathologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2005), for the "discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"
Medicine
- Raymond Begg – orthodontist
- Henry Fry – physician and anthropologist
- John Charles Hargrave – surgeon and leprosy expert
- Basil Hetzel – authority on iodine deficiency
- Rory Hume – dentist
- Tareq Kamleh – doctor who joined Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Loretta Marron OAM – CEO of Friends of Science in Medicine
- Helen Marshall – vaccinologist
- Helen Mayo – pioneer in women's and children's health
- Henry Simpson Newland – surgeon
- Nicola Spurrier – SA Chief Public Health Officer
- Philip Nitschke – pro euthanasia advocate
Science and mathematics
- Herbert Basedow – anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer and medical practitioner
- Warren Bonython – conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer
- Keith Briggs – mathematician
- Henry Brose – physicist
- Helen Caldicott – physician and anti-nuclear advocate
- Herbert Condon – ornithologist
- Constance Davey – psychologist
- Margaret M. Davies – herpetologist
- Anthony C. Hearn – computer scientist
- Tim Jarvis – environmental scientist
- Norman Jolly – forest researcher
- Rodney Jory – physicist
- Abdul Karim – soil scientist[12]
- Aubrey Lewis – first professor of psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry
- Trevor McDougall – physical oceanographer and climate researcher
- Brian Morris – molecular biologist
- Keith Nugent – physicist
- Mark Oliphant – nuclear physicist
- Ian Plimer – professor and global warming critic
- Hugh Possingham – mathematical ecologist
- Lindsay Pryor – botanist and founding designer of the Australian National Botanic Gardens
- Enid Lucy Robertson – Systematic botanist
- Roy Robinson – forest researcher
- Nagendra Kumar Singh – National Professor, Dr. B.P.Pal Chair, Indian Council of Agricultural Research
- Reg Sprigg – geologist and conservationist; discovered Ediacara biota
- Ted Strehlow – Australian anthropologist
- Andy Thomas – first Australia-born professional astronaut to enter space
- Cecil Edgar Tilley – petrologist and geologist
- Norman Tindale – Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist
Sports
- Max Basheer – football administrator
- Leonidas Bott – cricketer
- Matthew Cowdrey – swimmer; Australia's most successful Paralympian
- Collier Cudmore – Olympic rower and gold medal winner
- Albert Curtis – tennis player[13]
- Hannah Davis – Olympic medal winning sprint canoer
- Moya Dodd – soccer official and player
- Annette Edmondson – Olympic cyclist and bronze medal winner at 2012 Summer Olympics
- Jaime Fernandez – three time Olympic rower in the Men's Eight (1992, 1996 and 2000), winning a silver medal in 2000
- David Fitzsimons – middle-distance runner
- Amber Halliday – rower
- Juliet Haslam – hockey player and Olympic gold medalist
- Marguerite Houston – Olympic rower
- James McRae – world champion and Olympic medal winning rower
- Chris Morgan – rower, world champion, and Olympian[14][15]
- Darren Ng – professional basketball player for the Adelaide 36ers
- Kate Slatter – Olympic rower; won gold at Atlanta 1996 and a silver at Sydney 2000
- Tim Willoughby – Olympic rower
Chancellors
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| Order | Chancellors | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sir Richard Hanson | 1874 | 1876 | 1–2 years | [16] |
| 2 | The Rt. Rev'd Augustus Short | 1876 | 1883 | 6–7 years | |
| 3 | Sir Samuel Way PC | 1883 | 1916 | 32–33 years | |
| 4 | Sir George Murray KCMG | 1916 | 1942 | 25–26 years | |
| 5 | Sir William Mitchell KCMG | 1942 | 1948 | 5–6 years | [17] |
| 6 | Sir Mellis Napier KCMG | 1948 | 1961 | 12–13 years | [16] |
| 7 | Sir George Ligertwood | 1961 | 1966 | 4–5 years | |
| 8 | Sir Kenneth Wills KBE, MC, KStJ, ED | 1966 | 1968 | 1–2 years | [18] |
| 9 | John Jefferson Bray AC | 1968 | 1983 | 14–15 years | [16] |
| 10 | Dame Roma Mitchell AC, DBE, CVO, QC | 1983 | 1990 | 6–7 years | |
| 11 | William Faulding Scammell AO, CBE | 1991 | 1997 | 5–6 years | |
| 12 | Bruce Phillip Webb AM | 1998 | 2000 | 1–2 years | |
| 13 | Robert Champion de Crespigny AC | 2000 | 2004 | 3–4 years | |
| 14 | John von Doussa AO, QC | 2004 | 2010 | 5–6 years | |
| 15 | Robert Hill AC | 2010 | 2014 | 3–4 years | |
| 16 | Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce AC, CSC, RANR | 1 December 2014 (2014-12-01) | 4 May 2020 (2020-05-04) | 5 years, 155 days | [19] |
| 17 | Catherine Branson AC, QC | 14 July 2020 (2020-07-14) | incumbent | 3 years, 285 days | [20] |
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Vice-chancellors
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| Order | Vice-Chancellors | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Augustus Short | 1874 | 1876 | 1–2 years | |
| 2 | Sir Samuel Way | 1876 | 1883 | 6–7 years | |
| 3 | W. Roby Fletcher | 1883 | 1887 | 3–4 years | |
| 4 | George Henry Farr | 1887 | 1893 | 5–6 years | |
| 5 | John Anderson Hartley | 1893 | 1896 | 2–3 years | |
| 6 | William Barlow | 1896 | 1915 | 18–19 years | |
| 7 | Sir George J. R. Murray | 1915 | 1916 | 0–1 years | |
| 8 | Sir William Mitchell | 1916 | 1942 | 25–26 years | [17] |
| 9 | Sir H. Angas Parsons | 1942 | 1945 | 2–3 years | |
| 10 | J. McKellar Stewart | 1945 | 1948 | 2–3 years | |
| 11 | Albert Rowe | 1948 | 1958 | 9–10 years | |
| 12 | Sir Henry Basten (né Cohen) | 1958 | 1967 | 8–9 years | |
| 13 | Sir Geoffrey Badger | 1967 | 1977 | 9–10 years | |
| 14 | Don Stranks | 1977 | 1986 | 8–9 years | |
| 15 | Kevin Marjoribanks | 1987 | 1993 | 5–6 years | |
| 16 | Gavin Brown | 1994 | 1996 | 1–2 years | [21] |
| 17 | Mary O'Kane | 1997 | 2001 | 3–4 years | |
| 18 | C. D. Blake | 2001 | 2002 | 0–1 years | |
| 19 | James McWha | 2002 | 2012 | 9–10 years | |
| 20 | Warren Bebbington | 2012 | 2017 | 4–5 years | |
| 21 | Mike Brooks | April 2017 | January 2018 | 8–9 months | [22] |
| 22 | Peter Rathjen | 8 January 2018 (2018-01-08) | 20 July 2020 (2020-07-20) | 2 years, 194 days | [23] |
| 23 | Mike Brooks | 4 May 2020 (2020-05-04) | 12 February 2021 (2021-02-12) | 284 days | [24][25] |
| 24 | Peter Høj | 8 February 2021 (2021-02-08) | incumbent | 3 years, 76 days |
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Nobel laureates
- Sir William Bragg – physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his son William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
- J. M. Coetzee – acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel laureate (Literature, 2003); retired to Adelaide and honorary visiting research fellow in the Discipline of English
Law
- Leo Blair – father of British Prime Minister Tony Blair; law lecturer at the University of Adelaide while Tony was a child
- William Jethro Brown – professor of law
- Hilary Charlesworth – feminist international law scholar
- Norval Morris – U.S. law professor
- Marcia Neave – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria
- D. P. O'Connell – international law professor
- John Salmond – professor of law and judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
Science
Natural sciences
- Noel Benson – geologist
- Lawrence A. Frakes – geologist and palaeoclimatologist
- Martin Glaessner – geologist and palaeontologist
- Victor Gostin – geologist
- Maciej Henneberg – physical anthropologist, anatomist
- Walter Howchin – geologist
- Arthur Mills Lea – entomologist
- Cecil Madigan – explorer and geologist
- Sir Douglas Mawson – Antarctic explorer and geologist
- Ian Plimer – geologist and noted global warming critic
- Ralph Tate – botanist and geologist
- Charles Rowland Twidale – geomorphologist
- Michael J. Tyler – herpetologist
- Frederic Wood Jones – naturalist and anthropologist
Mathematicians
- Keith Briggs – mathematician, formerly on the staff of the Physics Department
- Gavin Brown – mathematician, former vice chancellor of Adelaide and Sydney Universities
- Charles E. M. Pearce – applied mathematician
- Renfrey Potts – Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematics
- George Szekeres – mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem
- Ernie Tuck – applied mathematician
- Mathai Varghese – pure mathematician, Elder Professor of Mathematics, Australian Laureate Fellow (2018)
Physicists
- Derek Abbott – physicist and engineer; pioneered the first terahertz radiation (T-ray) program in Australia; led the early development of a branch of game theory known as Parrondo's paradox. He also cracked the Somerton Man case.
- Rod Crewther – physicist; former PhD student of the Nobel prize winner Murray Gell-Mann
- Sir Kerr Grant – Elder professor of physics 1911–1948
- Bert Green – former PhD student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born; the "G" in "BBGKY"
- Kenneth G. McCracken – physicist and former director of CSIRO
- Tanya Monro – physicist and Federation Fellow (2008)
- Albert Percival Rowe – Vice-Chancellor, physicist; previously radar pioneer in Britain
- Anthony William Thomas – Elder professor of physics; South Australian Scientist of the Year 2014
Medicine
- Caroline Crowther – professor of Women's and Children's Health
- Edward Charles Stirling – physiologist, politician and advocate for women's suffrage
- Sir Joseph Cooke Verco – physician and conchologist
Humanities
- Neal Blewett – academic, politician and diplomat
- Tristram Cary – composer of the Dalek theme tune for Doctor Who
- Brian Castro – novelist
- Robert Champion de Crespigny – industrialist
- Alexander Downer – former Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Keith Hancock – historian
- Graeme Hugo – demographer and Federation Fellow (2002)
- Ken Inglis – journalist and historian
- Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher
- Jill Jones – poet
- Charles Jury – poet
- Gavan McCormack – orientalist
- Sir Leslie Melville – inaugural professor of economics at age 27; later vice-chancellor of the Australian National University
- Sir William Mitchell – philosopher
- Sir Archibald Grenfell Price – historian and politician
- George Rudé – Marxist historian
- J. J. C. Smart – philosopher
- J. I. M. Stewart – novelist
- Randolph Stow – novelist
- Hugh Stretton – historian and sociologist
- Andrew Taylor – poet
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann – linguist
Other
- Barry Brook – climate scientist and advocate of nuclear power
- Adrian Cheok – electrical engineer, roboticist
- Alan Cooper – ancient DNA expert and Federation Fellow (2004)
- Paul Davies – Professor of Natural Philosophy, Templeton Prize winner (1995)
- Guy Debelle – economist and former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
- Tim Flannery – palaeontologist, Australian of the Year
- Fay Gale – geographer; vice-chancellor of University of Western Australia (1990–1997)
- Elizabeth Grant – architect and anthropologist
- Geoff Harcourt – economist
- Peng Shi – engineer
- Peter Sutton – anthropologist
- Riccardo Tossani – Italo-Australian architect
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