List of La Trobe University people

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

Academia

 * Lindsay Falvey – academic
 * Sze Flett – scientist

Business

 * Martyn Dunne – CEO of NZ Customs
 * Ahmed Fahour – former CEO of National Australia Bank and Australia Post
 * Jamila Gordon – former CIO of Qantas
 * Stephen Hill – co-founder of Globe International
 * David Morgan – Westpac CEO; former Treasury official; BHP Director
 * Scott Pape – The Barefoot Investor
 * Maureen Wheeler – founder of Lonely Planet

In Australia

 * Jacinta Allan – state politician and minister
 * Helen Buckingham – state politician
 * Ben Carrol – state politician; minister of public transport, roads and road safety
 * Phil Cleary – former federal politician; author; social activist; political and sports commentator; former VFL footballer
 * Jacinta Collins – Senator for Victoria
 * Mary Delahunty – state politician; former minister; former ABC TV presenter
 * Martin Dixon – state politician; opposition frontbencher
 * Matthew Guy – state politician
 * Sussan Ley – federal politician
 * Gladys Liu – federal politician
 * Andrew Robb – federal politician; Parliamentary secretary; former Liberal Treasurer
 * Tony Sheehan – state politician and Treasurer; deputy opposition leader
 * Sharman Stone – federal politician; former government minister
 * Theo Theophanous – state politician and minister
 * Christian Zahra – former federal politician

In other countries

 * Abdirahman Farole – former President of Puntland
 * Maximus Ongkili – Malaysian Cabinet Minister
 * Abdul Ghani Othman – former Chief Minister of Johor, Malaysia
 * Emília Pires – Finance Minister, East Timor
 * Mahinda Samarasinghe – Sri Lankan cabinet minister of disaster management; MP
 * Bisera Turkovic – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu - Former Member of Parliament in India state of Andhra Pradesh

Civil servants

 * Mary Amiti – senior official at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, formerly IMF and World Bank
 * Stephen Duckett – former Secretary of Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (1994–1996); current President and Chief Executive Officer of Alberta Health Services in Canada
 * Terry Moran – Head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet; Head of the Federal Public Service
 * Geoff Raby – Foreign Affairs secretary; Australia's most senior Trade official; World Trade Organization negotiator; Australian ambassador to China
 * Ian Watt – Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Finance; former Treasury and cabinet official; former diplomat
 * Vinod Kumar Yadav – 1980 batch IRSEE officer and current Chairman of the Indian Railways Board

Arts

 * Dailan Evans – comedian (current student)
 * Corinne Grant – TV personality, comedian, actor
 * Pia Miranda – actress
 * Bob Morley – actor, twice receiver of E! Online's Alpha Male Madness, ex-singer, star on The 100
 * Rachel Peters – model, beauty queen (Miss Universe Philippines 2017)

Journalism and media

 * Morag Fraser – academic, social commentator, journalist
 * Jane Gazzo – BBC presenter
 * Jennifer Keyte – journalist, TV news presenter
 * Naomi Robson – journalist, presenter
 * Tim Ross – TV and radio personality, comedian
 * Virginia Trioli – ABC presenter, journalist, author, political commentator
 * Geoff Walsh – former Australian Labor Party National Secretary; United Nations official and delegate; adviser to Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating; Consul General to Hong Kong; Age and Australian Financial Review journalist

Literature, writing and poetry

 * Paul Jennings – children's author
 * John Silvester – crime writer; The Age journalist
 * Don Watson – author, academic, political commentator, former speechwriter for Paul Keating

Medicine and science

 * Elaine Baker – marine science and environment researcher; Director of the University of Sydney Marine Studies Institute
 * Tim Flannery – biologist, author and commentator on global warming; 2007 Australian of the Year
 * Neil J. Gunther – Australian/American physicist and computer scientist
 * Lynne Kelly – researcher and science educator

Sport

 * Catherine Arlove – Olympian, Judo
 * Linda Beilharz – adventurer
 * Samuel Beltz – Olympian, rowing
 * Andrew Demetriou – former Australian Football League CEO
 * Warwick Draper – Olympic kayak competitor
 * Lachlan Giles – grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor
 * Brad Green – former Melbourne footballer; current Carlton development coach
 * Rachel Imison – Olympian, field hockey
 * Ahmed Kelly – Paralympian (current student)
 * Tamsyn Manou – Olympic athlete, world champion
 * Tim Matthews – Paralympian
 * Bree Mellberg – wheelchair basketball player
 * Angus Monfries – AFL player, Essendon (current student)
 * Chris Mullins – Paralympian

Other

 * Bill Kelty – former Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary; union official; AFL Commissioner
 * Brian Loughnane – Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia

Politics

 * Dennis Altman – academic; expert on the politics of gender
 * Nick Bisley – professor of politics and international relations; frequently contributes to the media and public debates
 * Judith Brett – academic in the field of politics; author of several books on Australian politics
 * Joseph Camilleri – academic in the field of international relations and director of the Centre for Dialogue
 * Robert Manne – academic; public intellectuals; author of books on Australian politics and society

Sociology and anthropology

 * Peter Beilharz – public intellectual
 * John Carroll – academic in the field of sociology; public intellectual

Economics and finance

 * Don Brash – former Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand; former New Zealand Opposition Leader
 * Joanna Poyago-Theotoky – professor of economics

Philosophy

 * Agnes Heller – philosopher
 * Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher

English

 * David Tacey – literature academic

History

 * Richard Broome – Aboriginal historian
 * Quinn Eades – historian
 * John Hirst – historian and commentator
 * Katie Holmes – historian
 * Marilyn Lake – social historian
 * Yves Rees – historian

Archaeology

 * David Frankel – archaeologist, known for work on sites in Cyprus
 * Peter Mathews – archaeologist, known for work on Mayan hieroglyphs
 * Tim Murray – archaeologist, Dean of faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Cinema and media studies

 * John Flaus – film academic and actor
 * Terrie Waddell – film academic and actress

Linguistics

 * David Bradley – linguist

Science

 * Michael Clarke – zoologist
 * Erinna Lee – biochemistry researcher
 * Bree Mellberg – biochemistry researcher, wheelchair basketball player
 * Roger Parish – botanist
 * Pamela Claire Snow – educational psychologist and speech pathologist

Past

 * Graeme Clark – key figure in the research and development of the cochlear implant
 * Inga Clendinnen
 * Peter Cochrane – historian and author
 * Burkhard Dallwitz – composer, Golden Globe winner
 * Edward Duyker – historian and author
 * Elizabeth Essex-Cohen – physicist
 * Alan Frost – historian
 * Petro Georgiou – Federal Liberal MP
 * Gerard Henderson
 * Daryl E. Hooper – inaugural professor in engineering
 * Rhys Isaac – Pulitzer Prize winner
 * Robert Lovell Reid – professor of agriculture 1968 to 1979 after whom the R L Reid Building is named
 * Andrew Robb – current Federal Liberal MP; former Liberal Party treasurer
 * J. J. C. Smart – philosopher

Administrative

 * Fran Kelly – journalist, ABC presenter