List of Macquarie University people

This is a list of Macquarie University people.

Australia

 * Peter Andren, Australian politician, former Member for Calare in the Australian House of Representatives
 * Kerry Bartlett, Australian politician, former Member for Macquarie in the Australian House of Representatives
 * Meredith Burgmann, Australian politician, former President of the New South Wales Legislative Council
 * Sam Dastyari, Australian politician, Senator representing New South Wales
 * Peter Debnam, Australian politician, former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Vaucluse
 * Victor Dominello, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Ryde and NSW Cabinet minister
 * Trish Doyle, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the electorate of Blue Mountains
 * Harry Edwards, Australian politician and economist
 * John Faulkner, Australian politician, former Senator representing New South Wales
 * John Hewson, Australian politician and former leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
 * Stephen Jones, Australian politician, Member for Throsby in the Australian House of Representatives
 * Mike Kelly, Australian politician, former member for Eden Monaro in the Australian House of Representatives
 * David Leyonhjelm, Australian politician, Senator representing New South Wales
 * Jann McFarlane, Australian politician, former Member for Stirling in the Australian House of Representatives
 * Sally McManus, Australian union leader, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions
 * Tania Mihailuk, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Bankstown
 * Rev. Fred Nile, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
 * Rob Oakeshott, Australian politician, former Member for Lyne in the Australian House of Representatives
 * Jamie Parker, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balmain
 * Tanya Plibersek, Australian politician, Member for Sydney in the Australian House of Representatives
 * Steven Pringle, former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
 * Eric Roozendaal, Australian politician, former Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
 * Janelle Saffin, Australian politician, Member for Page in the Australian House of Representatives
 * Carl Scully, Australian politician, former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Smithfield
 * Helen Sham-Ho, Australian politician, former Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
 * Lisa Singh, Australian politician, Senator representing Tasmania
 * Jim Soorley, Australian politician, former Lord Mayor of Brisbane
 * Karin Sowada, Australian politician, former Senator representing New South Wales
 * Rob Stokes, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Minister for Planning (New South Wales)

Other

 * Peter Anderson, Australian former police minister and former Director of the Centre for Policing
 * John Avery, Australian Chief Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force
 * Alison Broinowski, Australian academic, journalist, writer and former Australian public servant
 * John Connor, Australian chief executive of Climate Institute of Australia
 * Kathryn Greiner, Australian politician, alderman of the City of Sydney
 * Frank Howarth, Australian public servant; former Director of the Australian Museum
 * Greg Lindsay, Australian founder and executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies
 * Judy Mundey, Australian feminist and activist
 * Cameron Murphy, Australian civil libertarian
 * Christine Nixon, Australian former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police and Chair, Monash College and Deputy Chancellor, Monash University
 * Kathryn Paterson, Australian New Zealand public servant
 * Andrew Scipione, Australian Chief Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force
 * Patricia Scott, Australian public servant
 * Jeannette Young, Australian medical doctor and Chief Health Officer of Queensland

Arts

 * Thea Astley, Australian writer, four time Miles Franklin Award winner
 * Boey Kim Cheng, Singapore-born Australian poet
 * Timothy Hawkes, Australian educator and writer, headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta
 * Paul Kraus, Australian writer
 * Jeni Mawter, Australian writer
 * Liane Moriarty, Australian writer
 * Şahînê Bekirê Soreklî, Kurdish writer
 * Kimberley Starr, Australian writer
 * Les Wicks, Australian poet

Media

 * Jane Caro, Australian writer
 * Anja Coleby, Australian model, television actress, television producer
 * Miranda Devine, Australian journalist
 * Michael Duffy, Australian journalist, writer, radio presenter
 * Martin Flood, Australian quiz show contestant, top prize winner on Australia's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
 * Kate Forsyth, Australian writer and journalist
 * Hugh Mackay, Australian journalist, novelist, psychologist and sociologist
 * Robert Ovadia, Australian journalist and television presenter
 * Peter Overton, Australian journalist and television presenter
 * Hugh Riminton, Australian journalist and television presenter
 * Magdalena Roze, Australian meteorologist and television presenter
 * Keith Windschuttle, Australian historian and writer, editor of Quadrant
 * Irfan Yusuf, Australian social commentator and writer

Law

 * Lloyd Babb, Australian barrister and NSW Director of Public Prosecutions
 * Jayne Jagot, Australian judge, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
 * Lindy Jenkins, Australian judge, Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
 * Brian Preston, Australian judge, Chief Justice of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

Religion

 * Paul Barnett, Australian Anglican bishop, historian and biblical scholar
 * Graham Joseph Hill, academic at the University of Divinity
 * Tony Nichols, Australian Anglican bishop

Sport

 * Grant Brits, Australian swimmer
 * Christine Jensen Burke, Australian-New Zealand mountain climber
 * Liz Ellis, Australian netball player, former captain of Australian netball team
 * Patrik Hefti, Liechtenstein association football player
 * Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
 * Holly Lincoln-Smith, Australian water polo player
 * Joel Milburn, Australian athlete
 * Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer (attended)
 * Tom Trbojevic, rugby league player, currently playing for Manly Sea Eagles
 * Melissa Wu, Australian diver

Other faculty
Notable past and current faculty members include:


 * Wally Abraham, Australian architect and town planner
 * Deidre Anderson, Australian sports psychologist and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
 * Joan Beck, Egyptian archaeology, Honorary Fellow of Macquarie University
 * David Christian, British-American historian
 * Max Coltheart, Australian cognitive scientist and academic at Macquarie University
 * Raewyn Connell, Australian sociologist
 * Stephen Crain, American-Australian linguist
 * Paul Davies, British physicist, writer and broadcaster
 * Patrick De Deckker (de), Australian paleontologist
 * William Dumbrell, Australian biblical scholar
 * Tim Flannery, Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist
 * Jacqueline Jarrett Goodnow, Australian cognitive psychologist
 * Jenny Hammond, Australian linguist
 * Anita Heiss, Australian writer, presenter and commentator
 * Ann Henderson-Sellers, Australian climatologist
 * Ian Hogbin, British-born Australian anthropologist
 * Bryan Horrigan, Australian legal academic
 * Geoffrey Hull, Australian linguist
 * Sohail Inayatullah, Pakistani-Australian futurologist
 * Naguib Kanawati, Egyptian-Australian Egyptologist
 * Daniel Kane, Australian linguist
 * Konrad Kwiet, German Australian historian
 * Marion Maddox, Australian writer, academic and political commentator
 * Richard Makinson, Australian physicist
 * Gabriele Marranci, Italian anthropologist
 * John Mathews, Australian competitive dynamics and global strategist
 * Christian Matthiessen, Swedish linguist
 * Pat Michie, Australian neuroscientist/psychologist and academic at Newcastle University
 * B. K. Misra, neurosurgeon
 * Michael Morgan, Australian neurosurgeon
 * José Enrique Moyal, Israeli-Australian mathematician
 * Alanna Nobbs, Australian historian and writer
 * Marlene Norst, Austrian Australian linguist
 * Boyo Ockinga, Australian Egyptologist, epigrapher, and philologist
 * Suzanne O'Reilly, Australian geologist
 * Brian Orr, Australian physicist
 * Pam Peters, Australian linguist
 * Josef Pieprzyk, Polish-Australian cryptologist
 * Ingrid Piller, Australian linguist
 * Jim Piper, New Zealand-Australian physicist
 * Andrew Pitman, British atmospheric scientist
 * Arthur William Pryor, Australian physicist
 * Murry Salby, American atmospheric scientist
 * Leonie Sandercock, Canadian Australian urban theorist
 * Patricia Margaret Selkirk, Australian biologist
 * David Skellern, Australian electronic engineer and computer scientist
 * Christina Slade, Australian academic and vice-chancellor of Bath Spa University
 * Ross Street, Australian mathematician and Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society
 * Keith Suter, Australian social scientist
 * Esther Szekeres, Hungarian–Australian mathematician
 * David Throsby, Australian economist
 * Andrew Tink, Australian former politician, writer and legal academic
 * Alfred van der Poorten, Dutch Australian mathematician and Fellow of the Australian Mathematical Society
 * John Veevers, Australian geologist
 * Neil Weste, Australian inventor and engineer
 * Clive Williams, British Australian political scientist