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.

Alumni

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

Administration

Chancellors

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	^[16]
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	4 years, 35 days	^[20]

Vice-chancellors

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
–	C. D. Blake (interim)	2001	2002	0–1 years
20	James McWha	2002	2012	9–10 years
21	Warren Bebbington	2012	2017	4–5 years
–	Mike Brooks (interim)	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]
–	Mike Brooks (interim)	4 May 2020 (2020-05-04)	12 February 2021 (2021-02-12)	284 days	^[24]^[25]
23	Peter Høj	8 February 2021 (2021-02-08)	incumbent	3 years, 192 days

Faculty

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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