List of University of Melbourne people

This is a list of University of Melbourne people, including alumni and staff.

Academia

 * Sir John Behan, educator; Australia's first Rhodes Scholar
 * Geoff Bowker, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine
 * Alec Broers, Baron Broers, electrical engineer, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
 * Karen Burns, architectural historian
 * Joseph Camilleri, professor at La Trobe University
 * Simon Chesterman, Dean of Law at the National University of Singapore
 * Michael Clyne, linguist
 * Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University
 * John Deeble, architect of Medicare Australia
 * Richard Dowell, audiologist, academic and researcher
 * Ding Dyason, medical historian
 * Alan Ebringer, immunologist, professor at King's College in the University of London
 * Arie Freiberg,, legal academic
 * Germaine Greer, feminist
 * Maria Gough, art historian at Harvard University
 * Bella Guerin, educator and activist; first female university graduate in Australia
 * John Alexander Gunn, philosophy professor
 * Peter Karmel, former vice-chancellor of Australian National University and Flinders University
 * Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith, Australian educator; landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.
 * Arthur Lucas, principal of King's College London (1993–2003)
 * Robert Manne, professor of politics at La Trobe University
 * Samaresh Mitra, bioinorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
 * Peter McPhee, Provost of the University of Melbourne
 * Fulvio Melia, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona and associate editor of the Astrophysical Journal
 * Bruce Mitchell, fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
 * David S. Oderberg, professor of philosophy at the University of Reading
 * Richard G. Pestell, Executive Vice President at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia USA
 * Abbas Rajabifard, professor and head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Melbourne School of Engineering
 * Michael Roe, historian
 * John Ralston (scientist), physical chemist and researcher at the UniSA
 * David Shallcross, chemical engineer
 * James Simpson, Harvard University professor
 * Alexander Smits, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
 * John Tasioulas, Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Oxford University
 * Gillian Triggs, international legal academic and President of the Australian Human Rights Commission
 * Frances Valintine, education futurist
 * Sally Walker, Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University
 * Frank T. M. White, Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Queensland; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics, McGill University

Architecture

 * Douglas Alexandra
 * James Birrell
 * Gregory Burgess
 * Bianca Censori
 * Peter Corrigan
 * Norman Day
 * John Denton
 * Roy Grounds
 * Ellison Harvie
 * John Hipwell
 * Peter Ho
 * Nonda Katsalidis
 * Hijjas Kasturi
 * Barry Patten
 * Louise St John Kennedy
 * Neil Clerehan

Business

 * Leigh Clifford, Chairman of Qantas
 * Robert Champion de Crespigny
 * Margaret Dick
 * Anthony Di Pietro, President of Melbourne Victory Football Club and CEO of Premier Fresh Australia
 * John Elliott, President of Liberal Party of Australia & Carlton Football Club
 * Aubrey Gibson
 * Charles Goode, Chairman of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
 * James P. Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
 * David Hains
 * John Holland, founder of John Holland Group
 * Margaret Jackson
 * Ananda Krishnan, CEO, Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd
 * Hugh Morgan, former board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia
 * Rupert Myer, director, Myer Family Company
 * Richard Pratt
 * James Riady, Chairman, Lippo Group
 * Graeme Samuel,
 * Karl Siegling, funds manager
 * Peter Smedley, CEO of Colonial Group, Mayne Nickless
 * Evan Thornley, entrepreneur

Community activism

 * Julian Assange, Wikileaks spokesperson and founder (did not graduate)
 * Waleed Aly
 * Helen Durham, international humanitarian lawyer
 * Avery Ng, Hong Kong activist
 * Tilman Ruff, public health scholar and founder of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

Governors General of Australia

 * Richard Casey, Baron Casey,, 16th Governor-General of Australia (did not graduate)
 * Sir Zelman Cowen,
 * Peter Hollingworth,
 * Sir Isaac Isaacs,, also former Chief Justice of Australia
 * Sir Ninian Stephen,, also a previous Justice of the High Court of Australia

Governors of Victoria

 * Alex Chernov,
 * Professor David de Kretser
 * Sir James Gobbo,, also a previous Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
 * John Landy
 * Richard McGarvie
 * Sir Henry Winneke,, also a previous Chief Justice of Victoria

Governors of other jurisdictions

 * Sir Bede Clifford, , , Governor of The Bahamas, then Governor of Mauritius and then Governor of Trinidad and Tobago

Prime Ministers of Australia

 * Alfred Deakin
 * Julia Gillard,
 * Harold Holt,
 * Sir Robert Menzies,

Premiers of Victoria

 * Ted Baillieu
 * John Brumby
 * John Cain II
 * Rupert Hamer
 * Sir William Irvine,, also a former Chief Justice of Victoria
 * Joan Kirner
 * William Shiels
 * Lindsay Thompson

Premier of Queensland

 * Thomas Ryan

Federal politicians

 * Lyn Allison, former Member of the Australian Senate and leader of the Australian Democrats
 * Richard Alston,, former Member of the Australian Senate
 * Kevin Andrews,, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Bruce Baird,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Neil Brown,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Anna Burke,, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * John Button, former Member of the Australian Senate
 * Jim Cairns, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
 * Sam Cohen, former Member of the Australian Senate
 * Barney Cooney, former Member of the Australian Senate
 * Mark Dreyfus,, Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Gareth Evans,, international policymaker, academic, and former Member of the Australian Senate
 * John Alexander Forrest
 * Petro Georgiou, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Andrew Giles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Ivor Greenwood, former Member of the Australian Senate
 * Ray Groom,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Premier of Tasmania
 * H. B. Higgins, former Attorney-General of Australia and Justice of the High Court of Australia
 * Greg Hunt,, Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Dennis Jensen, Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Barry Jones, AC former Member of Australian House of Representatives and Parliament of Victoria.
 * David Kemp, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * John Langmore, Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * William Maloney, Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Richard Marles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Peter McGauran, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Kelly O'Dwyer,, Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Andrew Peacock,, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Sir Arthur Robinson,, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Nicola Roxon, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Roger Shipton,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Bill Shorten,, Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Bruce Smith,, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
 * Sir John Spicer, former Member of the Australian Senate
 * Sid Spindler, former Member of the Australian Senate
 * Lindsay Tanner, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Ralph Willis,, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Agar Wynne, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Australian state and territory politicians

 * Sir Clifden Eager, former President of the Victorian Legislative Council
 * Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * John Bourke, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * Thomas Brennan, political journalist and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
 * Bruce Chamberlain,, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
 * Robert Clark, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * Neil Cole, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and playwright and researcher
 * Robert Dean, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * Frank Field, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * John Galbally,, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
 * Matthew Groom,, Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
 * Ray Groom,, former Premier of Tasmania and Member of the Australian House of Representatives
 * Tim Holding, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * Robert Wilfred Holt, Minister for Lands in the Cain government 1952–54
 * Trevor Oldham, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Deputy Premier
 * Herbert Postle, former Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
 * Robert Ramsay, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * Edward Reynolds,, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * T. J. Ryan,, former Premier of Queensland
 * Sir Arthur Rylah,, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Deputy Premier
 * Prue Sibree, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
 * Oswald Snowball, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Speaker
 * Alan Stockdale, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Treasurer
 * Shane Stone,, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
 * Richard Ward,, former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council and Supreme Court judge
 * Sir Henry Wrixon,, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
 * Agar Wynne, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council

International politicians

 * Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor
 * Hun Many, Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia
 * Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
 * Tajol Rosli Mohd Ghazali, former Menteri Besar of Perak
 * Dato' Sri Mustapa Mohamed, Member of Parliament of Jeli, former Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry
 * Baru Bian, Member of Parliament of Selangau, former Malaysian Minister of Works
 * Raja Kamarul Bahrin, former Malaysian Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government
 * Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister

Public servants

 * William Macmahon Ball, diplomat
 * Jean-Pierre Blais, Canadian bureaucrat; Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
 * Peta Credlin, political advisor
 * Francis Patrick Donovan,, diplomat and jurist
 * Bill Paterson, Australian Ambassador to Republic of Korea; previously Australian Ambassador to Thailand and Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism
 * Trevor Ashmore Pyman, diplomat.
 * John So, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
 * Fred Whitlam, Crown Solicitor; father of Gough
 * Danielle Wood, economist and incoming chair of the Productivity Commission
 * Luke Lazarus Arnold, Australian diplomat

Arts

 * Angela Brennan, artist
 * Steve Cox, painter and watercolourist
 * John Dahlsen, environmental artist
 * Hugh Davies, mixed media artist
 * Bill Henson, photographer and Venice Biennale representative
 * Ali Hogg, photographer and activist
 * Pamela Irving, artist and educator
 * Anastasia Klose, video artist and Biennale of Sydney representative
 * Doris McKellar, photographer
 * Azlan McLennan, artist and activist
 * Lewis Miller, Archibald Prize winning painter
 * Victor O'Connor, artist
 * Shaun Parker, award-winning choreographer, founder of Shaun Parker & Company
 * Stieg Persson, painter
 * Patricia Piccinini, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
 * Van Thanh Rudd, artist and activist
 * Anne-Louise Sarks, theatre director and writer
 * Matt Scholten, theatre director, teacher and writer
 * Ricky Swallow, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
 * Timothy James Webb, artist
 * Bradd Westmoreland, artist
 * Marcus Wills, Archibald Prize winning painter

Film and television

 * Adam Arkapaw, cinematographer (True Detective, Animal Kingdom, Snowtown)
 * Gillian Armstrong, director (Charlotte Gray, Little Women)
 * Tony Ayres, Australian Film Institute award-winning director (The Home Song Stories, Walking on Water)
 * Alison Bell, Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award nominated actor (I Rock, Laid)
 * Tahir Raj Bhasin, Indian actor
 * Jill Bilcock, Academy Award-nominated editor (Elizabeth, Moulin Rouge!, Red Dog)
 * Hamish Blake, comedian (did not graduate)
 * Cate Blanchett, actress (did not graduate)
 * Jamie Blanks, director (Urban Legend, Valentine)
 * John Bluthal, actor
 * Sibylla Budd, actor and documentary presenter (All Saints, Sea Patrol, The Secret Life of Us)
 * Ronny Chieng, comedian
 * Santo Cilauro, television and feature film producer
 * Vince Colosimo, Australian Film Institute Award winning actor (Body of Lies, Chopper, Lantana)
 * Marg Downey, comedian and actress
 * Elizabeth Debicki, actress
 * Adam Elliot, Academy Award-winning animator (Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max)
 * Alexander England, actor
 * Alice Garner, historian, musician and actress
 * Antony I. Ginnane, film producer
 * Tom Gleisner, director, producer, writer, comedian, actor and author
 * Libbi Gorr, comedian
 * Barry Humphries, comedian
 * Red Hong Yi, artist and architectural designer
 * Sammy J, comedian
 * Clayton Jacobson, director (Kenny)
 * Justin Kurzel, director (Snowtown, Macbeth (2015), Assassin's Creed)
 * Andy Lee, comedian
 * Anthony Lucas, Academy Award nominated animator (The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello)
 * Robert Luketic, director (21, Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law)
 * Catherine Mack-Hancock, actress
 * Lara Jean Marshall, actress best known for her role on The Saddle Club
 * Belinda McClory, actor and screenwriter (Acolytes, Blue Heelers, The Matrix)
 * David Michôd, director (Animal Kingdom)
 * Rhys Muldoon, actor
 * Lloyd Newson, director, dancer and choreographer
 * Michael Pattinson, producer (Ground Zero, Secrets)
 * Hannie Rayson, Australian Writers' Guild Award and Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award winning playwright and actor (SeaChange)
 * Glenn Robbins, comedian and actor
 * Portia de Rossi, actress
 * Pallavi Sharda, Indian actor
 * Jonathan M. Shiff, Australian Film Institute and British Academy of Film and Television Arts award-winning producer (Ocean Girl, Thunderstone)
 * Rob Sitch, co-writer and co-director of the movies The Castle and The Dish; co-host of The Panel
 * Matt Scholten, director
 * Simon Stone, director and actor
 * Sam Strong, director, artistic director, Queensland Theatre
 * Magda Szubanski, comedian and actress
 * Nadia Townsend, actor and theatre director (City Homicide, Fireflies, Knowing)
 * Andrew Upton, director and playwright
 * Steve Vizard, television and radio presenter, lawyer, comedian, producer, author and screenwriter
 * Luke Walker, director/producer (Beyond Our Ken, Lasseter's Bones)
 * Sarah Watt, director and animator (Look Both Ways, My Year Without Sex)
 * Angela White, pornographic actress, director
 * Alison Whyte, Logie Award-winning actor (Frontline, Satisfaction)
 * Geoffrey Wright, director (Macbeth (2006), Metal Skin, Romper Stomper)
 * Julia Zemiro, television presenter
 * Randeep Hooda, Indian actor
 * Yashma Gill, Pakistani actor
 * Lydia Zimmermann, director (Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino)
 * Ashley Zukerman, Logie Award nominated actor (Lowdown, The Pacific, Rush)

History

 * Geoffrey Blainey, one of the Australian Living Treasures
 * Manning Clark
 * Charles Coppel, former barrister and historian
 * Keith Hancock
 * Stuart Macintyre
 * Michael Roe, historian and academic
 * Ben Schrader, urban historian
 * A. G. L. Shaw

Journalism

 * Tiffiny Hall, journalist, author and television personality
 * Joe Hildebrand, journalist, social commentator and news columnist
 * Christine Kenneally, New York City-based journalist
 * Matt Tinney, newsreader
 * Bill Tipping, former journalist, social commentator and activist

Literature, writing and poetry

 * Randa Abdel-Fattah, Australian Muslim author and lawyer
 * Russell Blackford, writer, philosopher and critic
 * Vincent Buckley
 * Anna Ciddor, author and illustrator
 * Helen Garner, author
 * Kerry Greenwood, crime writer
 * Germaine Greer, feminist writer and academic
 * Jack Hibberd
 * Fulvio Melia
 * Gerald Murnane, novelist and short story writer
 * Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University
 * Lynne Kelly, writer, researcher and science educator

Music

 * Harry James Angus, trumpeter and vocalist (The Cat Empire)
 * Wouter De Backer, musician known as 'Gotye'
 * Cheryl Barker, opera singer
 * Michael Barker, drummer (John Butler Trio, Split Enz)
 * Don Banks, composer
 * Nicole Car, opera singer
 * Arthur Chanter 1866–1950, composer
 * Diana Doherty, oboe soloist (New York Philharmonic)
 * Leonard Dommett, violinist and conductor
 * Julian Gavin, opera singer
 * Antoinette Halloran, opera singer
 * Phil Harvey, creative director (Coldplay)
 * Missy Higgins, singer-songwriter
 * Rex Hobcroft, pianist and administrator
 * Tania de Jong, soprano and social entrepreneur
 * Liza Lim, composer
 * John McAll, pianist and musical director
 * Mona McBurney 1867–1932 composer
 * Ryan Monro, bassist (The Cat Empire)
 * Ian Munro, pianist and composer
 * Patrick Savage, film composer and former principal first violin (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
 * Peter Sculthorpe, composer
 * Dudley Simpson, conductor and television composer
 * Jan Skubiszewski, multi-award-winning record producer film composer
 * Red Symons, musician, television and radio personality
 * Penelope Thwaites, musicologist and pianist
 * Yelian He, cellist
 * Charles Zwar, songwriter, composer, lyricist, pianist and music director
 * David Burd, US rapper, known as Lil Dicky

Philosophy

 * Samuel Alexander
 * Leslie Cannold
 * Raimond Gaita
 * Charles Leonard Hamblin
 * Frank Cameron Jackson
 * Graham Oppy
 * Toby Ord
 * Brian O'Shaughnessy
 * Graham Priest
 * Ian Robinson
 * Peter Singer
 * John Tasioulas, moral and legal philosopher
 * Nick Trakakis
 * John Weckert
 * Damon Young

Law

 * Chief Justices of Australia
 * Sir Owen Dixon,
 * Sir Frank Gavan Duffy,
 * Sir Isaac Isaacs,
 * Sir John Latham,


 * Justices of the High Court of Australia
 * Sir Keith Aickin,, former justice
 * Susan Crennan
 * Sir Daryl Dawson,, former justice
 * Sir Wilfred Fullagar,, former justice
 * Kenneth Hayne
 * H. B. Higgins, former justice
 * Sir Douglas Menzies, former justice
 * Geoffrey Nettle
 * Sir Ninian Stephen,, also a previous Governor-General of Australia


 * Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
 * Michael Black,, former Chief Justice


 * Justices of the Federal Court of Australia
 * Geoffrey Giudice
 * Sir Edward Woodward,, also served as a Royal Commissioner and Director-General of Security


 * Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
 * Diana Bryant,, Chief Justice since 2004
 * Alastair Nicholson,, former Chief Justice


 * Justices of the Family Court of Australia
 * Linda Dessau,, former justice


 * Chief Justices of Victoria
 * Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring,, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
 * Sir William Irvine,, also a former Premier of Victoria
 * Sir John Madden,, also a former Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University
 * Sir Frederick Mann,, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
 * John Harber Phillips,, also a former Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions and Director of the National Crime Authority
 * Sir Henry Winneke,, also a former Governor of Victoria
 * Sir John Young,


 * Justices of the Supreme Court of Victoria
 * Sir Kevin Anderson,
 * Sir Arthur Dean,
 * Sir James Gobbo,, also a former Governor of Victoria
 * Sir George Pape
 * Joseph Santamaria


 * Presidents of the Victorian Court of Appeal
 * Chris Maxwell
 * John Winneke,

Other legal professionals

 * Philip Alston, international law scholar; former United Nations Special Rapporteur
 * John Bennett, civil libertarian
 * Matthew Collins, barrister and Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School
 * Mario Condello, lawyer; murdered during Melbourne gangland killings
 * Frank Costigan,, lawyer, Royal Commissioner and social justice activist
 * Rowan Downing,, barrister and international jurist
 * Frank Galbally,, criminal defence lawyer
 * Flos Greig, first woman to be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Australia
 * Philip Griffiths,, jurist
 * Francis Gurry, international intellectual property lawyer and bureaucrat
 * Colin Lovitt,, criminal barrister


 * Julian McMahon, A.C., barrister, humanitarian, campaigner against death penalty
 * Rob Stary, criminal defence lawyer
 * Lord Uthwatt, Judge, Chancery Division, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords
 * Kissana Phathanacharoen, Deputy Commander of Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau and Deputy Spokesman of the Royal Thai Police

Military

 * Group Captain John Balmer,, World War II RAAF bomber pilot
 * Major General Sir Julius Bruche,, Second Boer War and World War I army officer
 * Sir Samuel Burston, army doctor and World War II general
 * Rupert Downes, army doctor and World War II general
 * Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, army doctor and humanitarian
 * Major General Harold 'Pompey' Elliott,, politician and World War I army general
 * Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, army doctor
 * Brigadier General William Grant,, World War I general
 * Sir James Whiteside McCay, politician and World War I general
 * Sir John Monash, World War I general
 * Sir Kingsley Norris, army doctor and major general
 * Lieutenant Colonel Philip Rhoden,, lawyer and World War II army officer
 * Ian Upjohn,, Army Reserve officer and barrister

Religious leaders

 * Rabbi Raymond Apple

Agriculture

 * Yvonne Aitken, botanist, first woman to earn a PhD in Agriculture form the University of Melbourne in 1970

Biology

 * Elizabeth Blackburn, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009
 * Margaret Blackwood, botanist and geneticist
 * Kirsten Parris, urban ecologist
 * Grant Sutherland, human geneticist

Computing

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

Geology

 * Norman Greenwood

Chemistry

 * Cyril Callister, creator of Vegemite
 * Beryl Splatt
 * Shu Jie Lam
 * Dr Ruth Wilson

Engineering

 * Sir Walter Bassett
 * William Charles Kernot
 * Diane Lemaire, first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a degree in engineering
 * Anthony Michell
 * John Monash
 * Elizabeth Jens
 * Ian A. Young, senior fellow of Intel; co-inventor of BiCMOS logic family and clocks for Pentium series microprocessors
 * Frank Caruso

Mathematics

 * Robert Bartnik
 * Keith Briggs
 * Danny Calegari
 * Robert William Chapman
 * Thomas MacFarland Cherry
 * Ian G. Enting
 * Greg Hjorth
 * Mark S. Joshi
 * Kenneth McIntyre
 * Brendan McKay
 * Samuel McLaren
 * John Henry Michell
 * Edward J. Nanson
 * Jonathan Pila
 * E. J. G. Pitman
 * J. Hyam Rubinstein
 * Hans Schwerdtfeger
 * Ian Sloan
 * Geoffrey Watson
 * William Parkinson Wilson

Medicine

 * Lilian Helen Alexander, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
 * Ellen Balaam, first woman surgeon in Melbourne
 * David Bowen, deregistered medical practitioner
 * Marjorie Bick, biochemist
 * Vera Scantlebury Brown
 * Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
 * Amy de Castilla Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
 * Clara Stone Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
 * Sir John Carew Eccles, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
 * Aditya Tedjaseputra, inventor of pain-free speculum
 * Constance Ellis, first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine from the university
 * Mavis Freeman, bacteriologist and biochemist
 * Jane Stocks Greig, public health specialist
 * Janet Greig, Victoria's first female anaesthetist
 * David Handelsman, Australia's first professor in reproductive endocrinology and andrology
 * Girlie Hodges (1904-1999) Australian surgeon and field hockey player who represented Australia
 * James Lawson, public health doctor and scientist
 * Annie O'Hara doctor and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
 * Elizabeth O'Hara (medical doctor) one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
 * Lorna Verdun Sisely, Surgeon and founder of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre Breast Clinic.
 * Elizabeth Scarr, associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, project leader of Cooperative Research Centre for Mental Health, and leader of the Psychiatric Neuropathology laboratory at the university
 * Helen Sexton, surgeon, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
 * Emily Mary Page Stone Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
 * Rajaratnam Sundarason, surgeon, one of the founders of International House
 * Elizabeth Kathleen Turner, medical superintendent of the (Royal) Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1943 until 1946. She was first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.
 * Grace Vale Physician and co-founder of the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
 * Sydney James Van Pelt, pioneer of modern hypnotherapy
 * Margaret Whyte Physician, and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.

Physics

 * Nicole Bell
 * Walter Boas
 * Samuel L. Braunstein
 * John M. Cowley
 * Rod Crewther
 * Richard Dalitz, inventor of the Dalitz plot
 * Terence James Elkins
 * Colin J. Gillespie
 * Kerr Grant
 * Peter Hannaford
 * Alan Head
 * T. H. Laby
 * Rodney Marks
 * Leslie H. Martin
 * Sir Harrie Massey
 * Fulvio Melia
 * Keith Nugent
 * Helen Quinn, former president of the American Physical Society; recipient of the Dirac Medal in 2000 and the Sakurai Prize in 2013
 * William Sutherland

Psychology

 * Vicki Anderson, pediatric neuropsychologist
 * Kathleen Funder, researcher, Australian Institute of Family Studies
 * Peter O'Connor, psychologist

Veterinary Science

 * Cyril Seelenmeyer, VFL footballer, veterinary surgeon, winner of Military Cross
 * Harold Addison Woodruff, Professor of veterinary pathology and director of the veterinary institute

Sport

 * Kim Crow, London Olympics silver and bronze medallist for doubles and singles sculling respectively
 * Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
 * Bev Francis, IFBB professional Australian female bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion
 * Geoff Grover, VFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)
 * John Robinson, VFL Footballer; recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal (1917)

Faculty

 * Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson
 * Peter Baines, geophysicist
 * Lisa Cameron
 * Henri Daniel Rathgeber
 * Jocelyn Hyslop, inaugural Director of Social Studies
 * Josephine Forbes, Principal Research Fellow, Department of Medicine