List of University of New South Wales alumni
This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni.
Academia
- Dijana Alić, architect and academic
- Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University from 2008 until 2014
- Sharon Beder, arts academic
- Glyn Davis, current Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne
- John Deeble, Architect of Medicare Australia
- Rosalyn Diprose, philosopher and UNSW academic
- Ross Fitzgerald, academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator
- Michael Fullilove, public and international policy academic, executive director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy
- David Gonski, prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW Sydney
- Atiqul Islam, accountant and current Vice-chancellor of North South University, Bangladesh
- Koo Tsai Kee, Singaporean academic and former politician
- Chandran Kukathas, Malaysian-born Australian political theorist and academic
- Jane Stapleton, academic and Master at Christ's College, Cambridge
- Tony Vinson, Emeritus Professor, Education and Social Work
Business
- Rodney Adler, former company director
- Cheryl Bart, lawyer, company director and mountain climber
- Mark Bouris, chairman of Yellow Brick Road and television personality
- Mike Cannon-Brookes, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian
- Chris Chapman, inaugural chair and chief executive Australian Communications and Media Authority
- Paul Clitheroe, television presenter and businessman
- Matt Comyn, CEO of Commonwealth Bank
- Roger Corbett, former chairman of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and a former CEO of Woolworths Limited
- 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
- Satyajit Das, banker, author and academic
- John De Margheriti, software developer and entrepreneur, founding father of Australia's video games industry
- Michael Easson, businessman and former union leader
- Richard Farleigh, private investor
- Scott Farquhar, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian
- Angela Mak Soek Fun, Hong Kong-based business executive
- David Gonski, prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW Sydney
- John M. Green, deputy chairman of QBE Insurance Group; co-founder of Pantera Press; author
- Catherine Harris , co-founder and chairman of Harris Farm Markets and company director
- Philip Hercus, founder of International Catamaran Designs
- Grant King, managing director, Origin Energy
- 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
- Warwick McKibbin, Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of Australia; economist
- John Niland, director of Macquarie Bank Limited; Chairman of Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust; former Vice-Chancellor of UNSW Sydney
- John Prescott, former CEO of BHP Billiton
- Gregory G. Rose, principal engineer at QUALCOMM inc.
- George Savvides, managing director, Medibank Private
- Jillian Segal, non-executive director, NAB; Deputy Chancellor of UNSW Sydney
- Gai Waterhouse, horse trainer and businesswoman
Community activism
- Sharan Burrow, global union leader
- Eva Cox, writer, feminist, sociologist, social commentator and activist
- Louise Crossley, scientist and environmental activist
- Karen Dawn, American animal rights and welfare advocate and writer
- Graeme Dunstan, cultural and political activist
- Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist; 2007 Australian of the Year
- Peter Garrett, musician, social activist, former politician
- Heinz Harant, student activist and founder of the university’s alumni association
- Betty Kitchener, Australian mental health educator and consumer advocate
Government
Royalty
Vice-Regal
Politicians
Prime Ministers
- Scott Morrison, current Member for Cook and Prime Minister of Australia
State Premiers
- Gladys Berejiklian, current Premier of New South Wales
- Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales, former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, former politician, author
- Stephen Hatton, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
- Campbell Newman, former Premier of Queensland, former politician
Federal politicians
- Larry Anthony, former politician
- Mark Arbib, former politician
- Vicki Bourne, former politician
- Bob Carr, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Premier of New South Wales, former politician, author
- Alan Cadman, former politician
- Jason Clare, current Member for Blaxland, former Minister for Home Affairs and former Minister for Defence Materiel
- David Coleman, current Member for Banks
- Greg Combet, former politician and trade unionist
- Mehreen Faruqi, current Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council
- David Fawcett, current Senator for South Australia and former Army officer
- Michael Forshaw, former politician
- Jason Falinski, current Member for Mackellar
- Peter Garrett, musician, social activist, former politician
- Michael Hatton former politician
- Andrew Hastie, current Member for Canning, retired Army officer
- Mike Kelly, current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer
- Craig Laundy, current Member for Reid
- Michael Lee, former politician
- Julian Leeser, current Member for Berowra
- Sussan Ley, current Member for Farrer, former Minister for Health and Ageing
- Ted Mack, former politician
- Louise Markus, former politician
- Stephen Mutch, former politician
- Gary Nairn, former politician
- Kerry Nettle, former politician
- Andrew Nikolic, former politician and retired Army officer
- Melissa Parke, former United Nations senior lawyer, former politician
- Marise Payne, current Senator for New South Wales and Minister for Defence
- Lee Rhiannon, former Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council
- Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Army officer
Australian state and territory politicians
- Jack Beale, former politician
- Stephen Bromhead, current Member for Myall Lakes
- Arthur Chesterfield-Evans, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council
- Ian Cohen, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council
- Kevin Conolly, current Member for Riverstone
- Paul Crittenden former Member for Wyong
- Mehreen Faruqi, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales
- Luke Foley, current Member for Auburn and NSW Leader of the Opposition
- Bryce Gaudry, former politician and former teacher
- Alex Greenwich, current Member for Sydney
- Sylvia Hale, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council
- Brad Hazzard, current Member for Wakehurst
- Courtney Houssos, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council
- Andrew Humpherson, former Member for Davidson
- Trevor Khan, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council
- Sonya Kilkenny, current Member for Carrum in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
- Ernie Page, former politician
- Doug Parkinson, former politician in Tasmania
- Eleni Petinos, Member for Miranda
- Lee Rhiannon, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales
- Eric Roozendaal, former Treasurer of New South Wales and former politician
- Penny Sharpe, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council
- Gabrielle Upton, current Member for Vaucluse
International politicians
- Jackie Chan, former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Andrew Cheng, Hong Kong politician, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Chua Tian Chang, Malaysian politician, current Member of Parliament for the Batu constituency
- 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
- Koo Tsai Kee, former Singaporean politician and academic
- Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fijian politician and current Attorney General of Fiji
- Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development of Singapore
- Jeremy Tam, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong, airline pilot
Australian local government politicians
- Kathryn Greiner, former Alderman of the City of Sydney and social advocate
- Lucy Turnbull, former Lord Mayor of Sydney
Public servants
- Michele Bruniges, current secretary of the Department of Education and Training
- Elizabeth Broderick, former Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner
- Ian Campbell, former secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs
- Jeff Harmer, former secretary of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Ken Henry , economist and former secretary of The Treasury
- John Holloway, former diplomat and public servant
- Frank Howarth, former director of the Australian Museum
- 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
- Patrick Lawless, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Brazil
- Damien Miller, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Denmark, Norway and Iceland
- Anne-Marie Schwirtlich AM, Director-General of the National Library of Australia
Other public figures
- Bruce Hawker, political pundit, political writer, political consultant, political advisor
- Janette Howard, spouse of the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard
Humanities
Architecture
- Philip Cox, architect and entrepreneur, founder of COX Architects
- Richard Johnson, architect, best known as the ome of the Australian most important and iconic cultural buildings and spaces
Arts
- Del Kathryn Barton, visual artist
- Matt Carroll, Australian film and television producer
- Queenie Chan, Chinese-Australian comic artist
- Barbara Cleveland, Australian contemporary performance artist
- Judith Clingan, composer, conductor, performer and music educator
- Adam Cullen, visual artist
- John Davis, documentary filmmaker, mountaineer, television producer, chemical engineer
- Marta Dusseldorp, actor
- Anne Ferran, photographer
- David Fung, concert pianist
- Francis Giacco, visual artist
- Shaun Gladwell, visual artist
- Gordon Hanley, visual artist
- Noel Hodda, actor, writer, dramaturge, director and teacher
- 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
- Gregory Charles Rivers, Hong Kong actor
- Emile Sherman, Oscar winner, film producer
- Rebel Wilson, actress, writer, and producer
History
- John Blaxland, Australian historian, academic, and former Australian Army officer
- Tim Cook, Canadian military historian and author
- Jeffrey Grey, former Australian military historian and academic
- David Horner, Australian military historian and academic
Journalism
- Bettina Arndt, sex therapist and journalist
- Monica Attard, award-winning journalist and Australian Broadcasting Corporation host
- Richard Carleton, television journalist
- Allan Hogan, investigative journalist and television producer
- Craig James, economic journalist and economist, currently chief economist with Commsec
- Debbie Kruger, Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer
Literature, writing and poetry
- Jack Bedson, writer, children's author, poet and academic librarian
- Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal writer and academic
- Alex Buzo, pioneer playwright
- Melissa Chiu, museum director, curator writer
- Tim Cook, historian and author
- Michael Dransfield, poet
- Suzanne Falkiner, writer
- Susanne Gervay, author of young adult fiction
- John M. Green, author and publisher
- Anita Heiss, author, presenter and commentator
- Tristan Jepson, comedic writer
- Drusilla Modjeska, writer
- Matthew Reilly, author
- Pamela Stephenson, comedian/writer
- Natalie Tran, producer, actress, comedian, writer
- Rebel Wilson, actress, comedian and writer
- Markus Zusak, writer
Philosophy
- Khosrow Bagheri, Iranian philosopher
- Rosalyn Diprose, Australian philosopher and academic
- Moira Gatens, Australian academic
Law
Judges and magistrates
- Bob Bellear, Australia's first indigenous District Court judge
- Annabelle Bennett, chancellor of Bond University and former Federal Court judge
- Chris Craigie, District Court judge and former Director of Public Prosecutions
- Ros Croucher, lawyer and academic, incoming president of the Australian Human Rights Commission
- Karin Emerton, Victorian Supreme Court judge
- Anna Katzmann, current Federal Court judge
- Megan Latham, current Supreme Court of New South Wales judge
- Robert McClelland, Family Court judge and former Commonwealth Attorney-General
- Anthony Meagher, current judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- 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
- Pat O'Shane, teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist, Aboriginal activist; Australia's first Aboriginal magistrate; former chancellor of the University of New England
Other legal professionals
- Stuart Fuller, legal partner in the banking and finance team at law firm King & Wood Mallesons
- Stuart Littlemore, barrister, writer and original host of ABC's Media Watch
- George Newhouse, human rights lawyer and a former local councillor
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
- John Cantwell,, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general
- Allan du Toit, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked real admiral
- Gus Gilmore, current Australian Army officer, serving as Head of Military Strategic Commitments Division, ranked major general
- James Goldrick, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked rear admiral
- Ian Gordon, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general
- John Harvey, retired Royal Australian Air Force officer, ranked air marshal
- Andrew Hastie, current Member for Canning, retired Australian Army officer
- Peter Jones, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked vice admiral
- Mark Kelly, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general
- Mike Kelly, current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer
- David Kilcullen, Australian author, strategist and global counterinsurgency expert; retired Australian Army officer, ranked lieutenant colonel
- Andrew Nikolic, former politician and retired Australian Army officer
- Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Australian Army officer
Popular culture
- Amy Lyons – Internet personality in China
Religious leaders
- Peter Chiswell, Anglican bishop, formerly the Bishop of Armidale
- Tom Frame, Anglican bishop, historian, academic, author and social commentator
- Peter Hayward, Anglican bishop, currently serving as the Bishop of Wollongong
- Brian King, former Anglican assistant bishop in the Diocese of Sydney
Sciences
Biology
- Mark Burgman, ecologist
- Jessie Christiansen, exoplanetologist
- Bernard d'Abrera, entomological taxonomist and philosopher of science
- Jocelyn Dela-Cruz, eco-physioligist
- Steve Donnellan, biologist and chief research scientist of the Evolutionary Biology Unit at the South Australian Museum
- Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist; 2007 Australian of the Year
- Levon Khachigian, vascular cell and molecular biologist and academic
- Zinnia Kumar, evolutionary biologist, ecologist and fashion model
- Alan O. Trounson, biologist
Chemistry
- Rose Amal, chemical engineer
- Gordon Aylward, chemist and author
- Naiyyum Choudhury, Bangladeshi biochemist, founding Chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority
Computer scientists
- Clive Finkelstein, computer scientist, known as the "father" of information technology engineering
- Carsten Haitzler, computer scientist, creator of Enlightenment
- 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
- Saeid Eslamian, Iranian hydrologist
- Ron Fitch, railway executive and railway engineer
- Graham Goodwin, Australian electrical engineer and academic
- Saul Griffith, Australian American inventor and material science mechanical engineer
- Sam Michael, sporting director of McLaren
- Stuart Wenham, Director of ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, UNSW Australia
Mathematics and economics
- Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University from 2008 until 2014
- Lynne Billard, statistician and US academic
- Lawrie Brown, cryptographer and computer security researcher
- Stephen Duckett, health economist
Medicine
- Samy Azer, international medical educator
- Julie Campbell, vascular biologist
- David A. Cooper, HIV/AIDS researcher and immunologist
- Sir Richard Feachem, global public health administrator and anti-malaria activist
- Peter Fricker, sports physician and administrator
- Michelle Haber, paediatric cancer researcher
- Steven Krilis, immunologist
- Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon
Other medical sciences
- Ethan Arkin, actor
- John Ball, cognitive scientist
- Julie Campbell, vascular biologist and current Director of the Centre for Research in Vascular Biology at the University of Queensland
- David Cooper, Australian HIV/AIDS researcher, immunologist, professor at the University of New South Wales, and the director of the Kirby Institute
- Gordon Parker, psychiatrist
Physics
- Joan Adler, computational physicist
- Murray Batchelor, mathematical physicist
- Karl Kruszelnicki, physicist, medical practitioner, and science communicator
- John Pyke, physicist and retired law lecturer
Service sector
- Huen Su Yin, Malaysian blogger and cake designer
Sport
- Sally Bennett, sabre fencer
- Matt Carroll, sports administrator and current chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee
- Todd Greenberg, sports administrator and current chief executive of the National Rugby League
- Andrew Jones, sports administrator and current chief executive of Cricket NSW
- Phil Kearns, former rugby union international; former Wallabies captain
- Tadhg Kennelly, former Australian rules football who played for the Sydney Swans
- Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-born Australian cricketer
- 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, Australian of the Year 1999
- Richard Walsh, professional mixed martial artist
- Michael Wenden, swimming champion, 1968 Summer Olympics gold medallist