List of Monash University people

A list of Monash University people, including a number of notable alumni and staff.

Politics and government
• Daniel Andrews – 48th Premier of Victoria

• Kevin Andrews – former Australian Defence Minister

• Louise Asher – former Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party

• Jim Bacon – former Premier of Tasmania (did not graduate)

• Adam Bandt – Federal Member of Parliament for the Australian Greens; first Green elected to Federal Parliament at a general election

• Boediono – former Vice President of Indonesia

• Sue Boyce – Australian Senator

• Andrew Brideson – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Helen Buckingham – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Anna Burke – politician, former Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives

• Elaine Carbines – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Peter Cleeland – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives

• Jacinta Collins – Australian Senator

• Ann Corcoran – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

• Peter Costello – longest-serving Treasurer of Australia; former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia

• Simon Crean – Australian Minister for Trade; former Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the ALP

• David de Kretser – medical researcher; former Governor of Victoria

• John Delzoppo – former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria

• Richard Di Natale – Leader of the Australian Greens, Senator for Victoria

• Robert Doyle – former Leader of the Opposition in Victoria and Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party; former Lord Mayor of Melbourne

• John Elferink – Northern Territory Shadow Treasurer

• Peter Falconer – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

• David Feeney – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

• Jeannie Ferris – Australian Senator

• Gail Gago – South Australian Minister for Environment, Conservation and Mental Health

• James Gomez – Singaporean politician and academic at Monash

• Alan Griffiths – former Australian Minister for Industry and Resources

• Peter Hall – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Alistair Harkness – Member of the Parliament of Victoria, political commentator

• Carolyn Hirsh – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Rob Hudson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Dennis Jensen – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

• Gary Johns – former Special Minister of State, academic

• Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman

• Norman Lacy – former Minister for Arts and Minister for Educational Services

• Albert Langer – political activist

• John Langmore – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives; Director of Social Policy and Development at the United Nations; academic

• John Lenders – Victorian Treasurer; Victoria's longest-serving Finance Minister

• Lim Guan Eng – Malaysian politician; former Finance Minister of Malaysia

• Hong Lim – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Tony Lupton – Member of the Parliament of Victoria; Secretary of Cabinet under John Brumby

• Julian McGauran – Former Australian Senator

• Marlene Moses – diplomat, Foreign Minister of Nauru

• Lauren Moss – Member of the Northern Territory Parliament

• Simbarashe Mumbengegwi – former Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe

• Janice Munt – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Brendan O'Connor – former Australian Minister for Home Affairs and Employment, now Opposition Cabinet member

• Gavan O'Connor – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives

• Neil O'Keefe – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives

• Clare O'Neil – Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Hotham; former Mayor of the City of Greater Dandenong; youngest female mayor in Australian history

• Martin Pakula – Attorney General of Victoria

• John Pandazopoulos – former Victorian Minister for Employment and Major Projects

• Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator; former Minister for Health

• Chris Pearce – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

• Sue Pennicuik – Greens Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Victor Perton – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Inga Peulich – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Robert Ray – Australian Senator; former Defence Minister

• Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; former Defence Minister; former Minister for Workplace Relations

• Gordon Rich-Phillips – Shadow Victorian Finance Minister

• Tony Robinson – Victorian Minister for Consumer Affairs and Gaming

• Bill Shorten – Federal Opposition leader, Member of the Australian House of Representatives; former National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union; President of the Victorian ALP

• Helen Silver – public servant; Secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet

• Adem Somyurek – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Sharman Stone – former Australian Minister for Workforce Participation, former Shadow Minister for Immigration

• Kirsty Sword Gusmão – political activist; former first lady of East Timor

• Murray Thompson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• John Thwaites – former Deputy Premier of Victoria; Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change

• David Vigor – Australian Senator

• Nick Wakeling – Member of the Parliament of Victoria

• Don Watson – speechwriter to Paul Keating, author

• Graeme Weideman – former Victorian Minister for Tourism

• Dean Wells – former Attorney-General of Queensland; Minister for Education and Minister for the Environment

• Steve Wettenhall – Member of the Parliament of Queensland

• Greg Wilton (1955–2000) – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

• Michael Wooldridge – former Australian Minister for Health and Chairman of UNAIDS

• Luke Lazarus Arnold – Australian High Commissioner to Brunei

Law
• Greg Barns – barrister and political commentator

• Kevin Bell – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; current President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)

• Diana Bryant – current Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia

• Julian Burnside, KC – high-profile barrister; human rights advocate; author; one of the Australian Living Treasures

• Paul Cronin – Justice of the Family Court of Australia

• Tom Danos – high-profile barrister; Treasurer of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association; defence lawyer in the Keith William Allan murder trial

• Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

• Ian Gray – current Chief Magistrate, Magistrates' Court of Victoria

• Felicity Hampel – human rights lawyer; Judge of the County Court of Victoria

• Peter Hayes QC – high-profile barrister

• Peter Hogg – constitutional law scholar

• Graeme Johnstone – current State Coroner of Victoria

• Murray Kellam – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria;first President of VCAT

• Ron McCallum – legal scholar specialising in industrial law

• Francine McNiff – legal scholar, and first woman state magistrate in Victoria

• Lex Lasry KC – high-profile barrister, Chairman of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association; human rights advocate; Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

• Stuart Morris – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; former President of VCAT

• Ross Ray – current President of the Law Council of Australia

• Neil Rees – current Chairman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission; foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School

• Michael Rozenes – current Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria

• Pamela Tate – current Solicitor-General of Victoria

• Mark Weinberg – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia; former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions; current Chief Justice of Norfolk Island

Media and arts
• Rory Barnes – novelist

• Jean Bedford – novelist

• Peter Bonner – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize

• Damien Broderick – author, futurist

• Peter Carey – Booker prize-winning novelist

• Nick Cave – musician

• Doug Chappel – comedian actor

• Tim Charles – musician

• Timothy Conigrave (1959–1994) – actor and writer

• Peter Corris – crime fiction author

• Dagmar Evelyn Cyrulla – artist

• Andrew Daddo – actor, voice artist, author and television personality

• Cecilia Dart-Thornton – author

• Lindy Davies – actor; Dean of the Victorian College of Arts

• Cherie Ditcham – actress, model

• Laurie Duggan – poet

• Hazel Edwards – children's author

• Jon Faine – Melbourne radio personality

• Phillip Frazer – publisher

• Max Gillies – actor and satirist

• Andy Griffiths – children's author

• John Griffiths – musician and musicologist

• Yalda Hakim – journalist

• Mark Holden – singer, actor, television personality and barrister

• Leslie Howard – pianist and composer

• Russel Howcroft – advertiser, media personality and Executive general manager of Network Ten

• Paul Jennings – children's author

• Adib Khan – novelist

• Lucy Kiraly – fashion model and television presenter

• Michael Leunig – cartoonist

• Campbell McComas – comedian and actor

• Brenda Niall – author

• Nikolai Nikolaeff – actor

• Eva Orner – Academy-Award-winning film producer

• Boyd Oxlade – author of Death in Brunswick

• Charlie Pickering – comedian

• Ben Quilty – artist

• Apsara Reddy – journalist

• John Romeril – playwright

• Raghav Sachar – Indian singer-songwriter

• John A. Scott – poet

• Fiona Spence – actress, star of Prisoner

• Jo Stanley – radio personality

• Stelarc – performance artist

• Yumi Stynes – radio and television personality

• Lucy Sussex – author

• Matt Tilley – comedian

• Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize

• Paul Yore – artist

• Don Watson – author

• Alan Wearne – poet

• Ilka White – textile artist

• David Williamson – playwright

• Shaun Wilson – artist

• Wendy Zukerman – podcast personality, science journalist

Business
• Fiona Balfour – businesswoman, former Qantas and Telstra executive

• John F. O. Bilson – economist

• Mark Birrell – company director; former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology

• Terry Budge – banking executive, former Chancellor of Murdoch University

• Tony D'Aloisio – Chairman, Australian Securities & Investments Commission; former CEO, Australian Securities Exchange

• Henry Ergas – economist

• John A. Fraser – Chairman and CEO of Global Asset Management at UBS; former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury

• Josh Frydenberg – Treasurer of Australia

• Peter Ivany – media mogul and billionaire

• Margaret Jackson – first female Chairman of Qantas

• Ruslan Kogan – founder and CEO of Australia's biggest online retailer Kogan.com; co-founder of Milan Direct

• Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman

• Tan Le – technology businesswoman, Young Australian of the Year

• Peter Lew – businessman

• Michael Luscombe – CEO and managing director, Woolworths

• Ian Macfarlane – economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996–2006)

• Paresh Narayan – economist

• Trevor O'Hoy – President and CEO, Foster's Group

• Pasuk Phongpaichit – economist, author, anti-corruption campaigner; recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

• Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development

• Gary P. Sampson – World Trade Organization economist

• Graeme Samuel – Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission

• Anna Skarbek – businesswoman and former investment banker

• Jannie Tay – Executive vice-chairman and co-founder of the Hour Glass; recipient of the 2003 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

Medicine and science
• Yahya Awang – cardiothoracic surgeon; performed the first heart transplant in Malaysia

• Greg Ayers – atmospheric scientist, Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

• David Brown – meteorologist, Seven News weatherman

• Michael Cowley – physiologist, Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009

• David de Kretser – medical researcher, former Governor of Victoria

• Weary Dunlop – military surgeon, World War II leader (attended the Victorian College of Pharmacy, now Monash Parkville Campus)

• Ian G. Enting – mathematician

• Tim Flannery – biologist, author, 2007 Australian of the Year

• Andrew Freeman FACS – Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected in 1997), and an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the ACS (elected in 2018)

• Kristine French – plant biologist and conservationist

• Peter Gibson – gastroenterologist who created the Low-FODMAP diet in collaboration with Susan Shepherd

• Susan Lim – surgeon, performed Singapore's first successful liver transplant; recipient of the 2005 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

• John Mattick – Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, whose research led to the discovery of the function of non-coding DNA

• Patrick McGorry – psychiatrist, 2010 Australian of the Year

• Dr Brad McKay – doctor, author and science communicator

• Jared Purton (1976–2009) – immunologist

• Lee J. Slavutin – pathologist; recipient of the 1974 Monash University Sophie Davis Memorial Prize

• Terry Speed – mathematician

• Abu Bakar Suleiman – Vice-Chancellor of International Medical University; recipient of the 2007 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

• Norman Arthur Wakefield – botanist

• Lynne Kelly – researcher and science educator

• Charles Clarke – botanist

Social services and academia
• Phillip Aspinall – Head of the Anglican Church of Australia

• Diane Bell – anthropologist

• Gidon Bromberg – environmentalist

• Karen Burns – architectural historian

• Michael Clyne – linguist

• Anthony G. Collins – President of Clarkson University

• Tim Costello – humanitarian, CEO of World Vision Australia, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures

• Mick Dodson – indigenous rights campaigner; Convenor of the ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia; one of the Australian Living Treasures; 2009 Australian of the Year

• Harriet Edquist – architectural historian

• Hugh Evans – 2004 Young Australian of the Year, philanthropist

• Ben Kiernan – leading researcher in the study of genocide

• Peter Leslie Lee – Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross University

• Stuart Macintyre – historian

• Ron McCallum – Labour law scholar

• Simon Molesworth KC, Chairman of the Australian Council of National Trusts

• Justin Oakley – philosopher

• Neil Rees – foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School

• James Mahmud Rice – sociologist

• Julian Savulescu – Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford

• Andrekos Varnava – historian, writer, and professor at Flinders University

• Brian Weatherson – philosopher

• Beth Wilson – Victorian Health Services Commissioner

• Dato' Michael Yeoh – founder, executive director and CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI)

Sport
• Catherine Arlove – Olympic judo competitor

• John Bertrand – yachtsman, skipper of Australia II

• Mordy Bromberg – former AFL footballer, barrister, current Judge of the Federal Court of Australia

• Travis Brooks – field hockey player, Olympic Games gold medallist

• Ashley Brown (born 1994) – footballer

• Nathan Burke – AFL footballer

• Alastair Clarkson – former AFL footballer, current Coach of the Hawthorn Football Club

• Tony Dodemaide – cricketer

• Ron Evans – AFL footballer and sports administrator

• Robby Foldvari – billiards and snooker player, world champion

• Brett Gosper – former member of the Australia national under-21 rugby union team; current CEO of the International Rugby Board

• Geoff Grover – former AFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)

• Lauren Hewitt – athlete

• Geoff Hunt – squash player, four-time world champion

• Janine Ilitch – netballer

• Paul McNamee – tennis player, sports administrator, winner of Wimbledon and Australian Open

• Anna Millward, née Wilson – cyclist, world champion and world record holder

• Brenton Rickard – swimmer, Olympic silver medallist

• Anna Segal – Olympic freestyle skier and 2-time world champion

• Paul Trimboli – soccer player

• David Zalcberg – Olympic table tennis player, Commonwealth Games medallist

Creative arts
• Dorothy Auchterlonie – writer and poet

• Trevor Barnard – pianist

• Janine Burke – author, novelist, art historian

• Kevin Hart – poet and literary critic

• Adrian Martin – film critic

• Brian Nelson – French literature expert and translator

• Jennifer Strauss – poet

• Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize

Humanities and social sciences
• Waleed Aly – Muslim community leader and political commentator

• Carina Garland – Labor Member for Chisholm Parliament of Australia

• Andrew Benjamin – philosopher

• Harold Bolitho – historian

• Geoffrey Bolton – historian

• John Brumby – former Premier of Victoria

• Kate Burridge – prominent linguist and occasional ABC presenter

• John Button – former Australian Senator; Leader of the Australian Labor Party in the Senate; Australian Minister for Industry (1983–1993)

• David P. Chandler – historian

• Chin Liew Ten – philosopher

• Michael Clyne – linguist

• Ken Coghill – former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria

• Peter Costello – longest-serving Treasurer of Australia; former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia

• Franz-Josef Deiters – literary scholar

• Nick Economou – political scientist and media commentator

• Ben Eltham – creative producer and social commentator

• Herbert Feith – Indonesian politics expert

• Allan Fels – economist and former Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission

• John Edward Fletcher – German studies expert

• James Alexander Forrest – lawyer, former University Council member

• Petro Georgiou – former Liberal Member of the Parliament of Australia

• Fred Gruen – economist

• Rob J. Hyndman – statistician, forecaster

• Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher

• Margaret J. Kartomi – ethnomusicologist

• David Kemp – political scientist; former Australian Minister for Education and the Environment

• Helga Kuhse – philosopher and bioethicist

• Andrew Linklater – international relations expert

• Mal Logan – geographer, former Vice-Chancellor

• Tony Lupton – former politician and Secretary to the Victorian Cabinet, now professor of public policy

• Race Mathews – economist; Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam; former Minister for Community Services; former Minister for Police and Emergency Services

• Yew-Kwang Ng – economist

• Graham Oppy – philosopher

• Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator and Minister for Health

• Mark Peel – historian

• Christian Reus-Smit – international relations expert

• John Rickard – economist

• Modjtaba Sadria – philosopher

• Richard Scotton – health economist, creator of Australian Medicare program

• Kamal Uddin Siddiqui – economist, diplomat

• Peter Singer – philosopher (now at Princeton University, US)

• J. J. C. Smart – philosopher

• Michael A. Smith – philosopher

• John Thwaites – former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change, now Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute

• Nick Trakakis – philosopher

• Hal Varian – economist

• David Wright-Neville – political scientist, terrorism expert

• Xiaokai Yang – economist, democracy campaigner, political prisoner

• Lara Owen – organisational studies, menstrual expert

Law
• Bob Baxt – lawyer, former Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission (now ACCC)

• Enid Campbell – jurist

• David Derham – jurist

• Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

• Arie Freiberg – Chairman of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council

• George Hampel, QC – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; leading advocacy instructor

• Felicity Hampel, SC – judge of the County Court of Victoria; human rights lawyer

• Peter Heerey – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

• Sarah Joseph – human rights scholar

• Marcia Neave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

• Stephen John Parker – jurist

• Mahadev Shankar – Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge

• Louis Waller – medical and criminal law expert

• Christopher Weeramantry – Judge and Vice-President of the International Court of Justice; human rights advocate

Medicine and life sciences
• Bill Charman – pharmaceutical scientist

• Michael Cowley – physiologist; Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009

• Dorothy Jean Hailes – medical practitioner

• David de Kretser – medical researcher; current Governor of Victoria

• Basil Hetzel – medical researcher, public health advocate, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures

• Frederic Jevons – biochemist

• Richard Larkins – medical researcher; former Monash University Vice-Chancellor

• Barrie Marmion – Foundation Professor of Microbiology (1963–68)

• A.T.S Sissons – pharmaceutical scientist

• Elsdon Storey – neurologist

• Alan O. Trounson – biologist, IVF pioneer and stem cell researcher

• Joanna Tully – forensic paediatrician; deputy director of the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service at the Royal Children's and Monash Children's hospitals

• Carl Wood – IVF pioneer

Physical sciences
• Robert Bartnik – mathematician

• Jim Breen – computer scientist, known for his work on Japanese dictionary projects

• Damian Conway – computer scientist, Perl

• John Crossley – mathematician

• John Michael Cullen – ornithologist

• Richard Gunstone – physicist

• Kenneth H. Hunt – kinematics expert

• Vit Klemes – hydrologist

• Gilah Leder – mathematics education

• Raymond Martin – chemical scientist, former Vice-Chancellor

• Louis Matheson – engineer, foundation Vice-Chancellor

• Louis Moresi – geophysicist

• Graeme Pearman – climate change scientist

• Andrew Prentice – mathematician

• Zenon J Pudlowski – engineering expert

• John Stillwell – mathematician

• Chris Wallace – computer scientist

• Les William – physical instrumentation

Vice-Chancellors
• Sir Louis Matheson (1960–1976)

• William Alexander Gowdie Scott (1976–1977)

• Raymond Martin AO (1977–1987)

• Mal Logan AC (1987–1996)

• David Robinson (1997–2002)

• Peter Darvall AO (2002–2003)

• Richard Larkins AO (2003–2009)

• Ed Byrne AC (2009–2014)

• Margaret Gardner AO (2014–2023)

Chancellors
• Sir Robert Rutherford Blackwood (1958–1968)

• Sir Douglas Ian Menzies (1968–1974)

• Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston (1975–1983)

• Sir George Hermann Lush (1983–1992)

• David William Rogers (1992–1998)

• Jerry Ellis (1999–2007)

• Alan Finkel (2008–2016)

• Simon McKeon (2016–)