List of University of New South Wales alumni

This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni.

Academia

 * Toby Walsh, computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert
 * Dijana Alić, architect and academic
 * Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University from 2008 until 2014 (Mathematics)
 * Gernot Heiser, John Lions chair and computer scientist
 * Sharon Beder, arts academic (Engineering)
 * Gareth Peters, endowed chair professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Statistics)
 * Glyn Davis, current Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne (Political science)
 * John Deeble, Architect of Medicare Australia
 * Rosalyn Diprose, philosopher and UNSW academic (Philosophy)
 * Ross Fitzgerald, academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator (PhD Politics)
 * Michael Fullilove, public and international policy academic, executive director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy (Arts/Law)
 * David Gonski, prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Commerce/LLB)
 * Atiqul Islam, accountant and current Vice-Chancellor of North South University, Bangladesh (Commerce)
 * Koo Tsai Kee, Singaporean academic and former politician (Surveying)
 * Chandran Kukathas, Malaysian-born Australian political theorist and academic (MA, Politics)
 * Jane Stapleton, academic and Master at Christ's College, Cambridge
 * Tony Vinson, Emeritus Professor, Education and Social Work

Business

 * Rodney Adler, former FAI Insurance chief executive
 * Brad Banducci, CEO of Woolworths Group.
 * Cheryl Bart, lawyer, company director and mountain climber (Commerce/LLB 1986)
 * Mark Bouris, chairman of Yellow Brick Road and television personality
 * Mike Cannon-Brookes, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian (Information Science)
 * Paul Clitheroe, television presenter and businessman (Arts)
 * Matt Comyn, CEO of Commonwealth Bank
 * Roger Corbett, former chairman of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and a former CEO of Woolworths (Commerce)
 * Douglas Daft, prominent Australian and US business executive who served as CEO of The Coca-Cola Company between 1999 and 2004; now a global non-executive director (Dipl.Admin)
 * Satyajit Das, banker, author and academic (Law)
 * John De Margheriti, software developer and entrepreneur, founding father of Australia's video games industry (Electrical engineering)
 * Michael Easson, businessman and former union leader (Politics/History)
 * Richard Farleigh, private investor (Economics)
 * Scott Farquhar, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian (Arts/Science)
 * Angela Mak Soek Fun, Hong Kong-based business executive (Commerce/LLB)
 * David Gonski, prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Commerce/LLB)
 * John M. Green, deputy chairman of QBE Insurance; co-founder of Pantera Press; author
 * Catherine Harris, co-founder and chairman of Harris Farm Markets and company director (Commerce)
 * Philip Hercus, founder of International Catamaran Designs (Engineering)
 * Grant King, managing director, Origin Energy (Engineering)
 * David Lowy, non-executive deputy chairman of the Westfield Group
 * Steven Lowy, group managing director of the Westfield Group
 * Donald McDonald, former chairman of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
 * Warwick McKibbin, Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of Australia; economist
 * John Niland, director of Macquarie Group; Chairman of Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust; former Vice-Chancellor of UNSW Sydney
 * John Prescott, former CEO of BHP
 * Gregory G. Rose, principal engineer at Qualcomm (Engineering)
 * George Savvides, managing director, Medibank Private (Engineering)
 * Jillian Segal, non-executive director, National Australia Bank; Deputy Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Law)
 * Gai Waterhouse, horse trainer and businesswoman

Community activism



 * Sharan Burrow, global union leader (Education)
 * Eva Cox, writer, feminist, sociologist, social commentator and activist (Sociology)
 * Louise Crossley, scientist and environmental activist (PhD)
 * Karen Dawn, American animal rights and welfare advocate and writer (Psychology)
 * Graeme Dunstan, cultural and political activist (Engineering)
 * Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist; 2007 Australian of the Year (PhD Palaeontology)
 * Peter Garrett, musician, social activist, former politician (LLB 1977)
 * Heinz Harant, student activist and founder of the university's alumni association (Electrical engineering (Hons) 1955)
 * Betty Kitchener, Australian mental health educator and consumer advocate

Prime Ministers

 * Scott Morrison, current Member for Cook and 30th Prime Minister of Australia

State Premiers

 * Gladys Berejiklian, former Premier of New South Wales (Commerce)
 * Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales, former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, former politician, author (Arts)
 * Stephen Hatton, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
 * Campbell Newman, former Premier of Queensland, former politician

Federal politicians

 * Larry Anthony, former politician (Commerce)
 * Mark Arbib, former politician (Arts)
 * Vicki Bourne, former politician (Science)
 * Bob Carr, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Premier of New South Wales, former politician, author (Arts)
 * Alan Cadman, former politician (Agriculture)
 * Jason Clare, current Member for Blaxland, former Minister for Home Affairs and former Minister for Defence Materiel (Arts/Law)
 * David Coleman, current Member for Banks (Arts/Law)
 * Greg Combet, former politician and trade unionist (Engineering)
 * Mehreen Faruqi, current Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Environmental Engineering)
 * David Fawcett, current Senator for South Australia and former Army officer (Science)
 * Michael Forshaw, former politician (Law)
 * Jason Falinski, current Member for Mackellar (MBA)
 * Peter Garrett, musician, social activist, former politician (LLB 1977)
 * Michael Hatton former politician (Arts)
 * Andrew Hastie, current Member for Canning, retired Army officer
 * Mike Kelly, current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer (PhD Law)
 * Craig Laundy, former Member for Reid (Economics)
 * Michael Lee, former politician (Electrical Engineering)
 * Julian Leeser, current Member for Berowra (LLB)
 * Sussan Ley, current Member for Farrer, former Minister for Health and Ageing
 * Ted Mack, former politician (Architecture)
 * Louise Markus, former politician (Arts)
 * Stephen Mutch, former politician (LLB)
 * Gary Nairn, former politician
 * Kerry Nettle, former politician
 * Andrew Nikolic, former politician and retired Army officer (Management)
 * Melissa Parke, former United Nations senior lawyer, former politician (Law)
 * Marise Payne, current Senator for New South Wales and former Minister for Defence
 * Lee Rhiannon, former Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Science)
 * Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Army officer (Arts)

Australian state and territory politicians

 * Jack Beale, former politician (Engineering)
 * Stephen Bromhead, former Member for Myall Lakes (M.Law)
 * Arthur Chesterfield-Evans, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Science)
 * Ian Cohen, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Arts/DipEd)
 * Kevin Conolly, current Member for Riverstone (Arts)
 * Paul Crittenden former Member for Wyong (Commerce)
 * Mehreen Faruqi, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales (Environmental Engineering)
 * Luke Foley, former Member for Auburn and NSW Leader of the Opposition (Arts)
 * Bryce Gaudry, former politician and teacher (Arts)
 * Alex Greenwich, current Member for Sydney (Arts)
 * Sylvia Hale, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (LLB 1998)
 * Brad Hazzard, former Member for Wakehurst (Law)
 * Courtney Houssos, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Arts)
 * Andrew Humpherson, former Member for Davidson (Chemical Engineering)
 * Trevor Khan, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (LLB/B.Juris.)
 * Sonya Kilkenny, current Member for Carrum in the Victorian Legislative Assembly (BA/LLB 1995)
 * Ernie Page, former politician
 * Doug Parkinson, former politician in Tasmania
 * Eleni Petinos, Member for Miranda (LLB 2011)
 * Lee Rhiannon, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales (Science)
 * Eric Roozendaal, former Treasurer of New South Wales and former politician (Law)
 * Penny Sharpe, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Food Technology)
 * Gabrielle Upton, current Member for Vaucluse (Arts/Law)

International politicians

 * Jackie Chan, former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Engineering)
 * Andrew Cheng, Hong Kong politician, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Law)
 * Chua Tian Chang, Malaysian politician, current Member of Parliament for the Batu constituency (Philosophy)
 * Mehdi Ghazanfari, former Iranian politician
 * Meutya Hafid, Indonesian politician, member of People's Representative Council, former journalist
 * Foo Mee Har, Singaporean politician, Member of Parliament for the West Coast Group constituency (Science)
 * Koo Tsai Kee, former Singaporean politician and academic (Surveying)
 * Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fijian politician and current Attorney General of Fiji (LLB)
 * Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development of Singapore
 * Jeremy Tam, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong, airline pilot (Engineering)

Australian local government politicians

 * Kathryn Greiner, former Alderman of the City of Sydney and social advocate (Social Work)
 * Lucy Turnbull, former Lord Mayor of Sydney (MBA)

Public servants

 * Michele Bruniges, current secretary of the Department of Education and Training (Education)
 * Elizabeth Broderick, former Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner (Law)
 * Ian Campbell, former secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Economics)
 * Jeff Harmer, former secretary of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (BA (Hons), DipEd, PhD)
 * Ken Henry, economist and former secretary of The Treasury (Economics)
 * John Holloway, former diplomat and public servant (Arts)
 * Frank Howarth, former director of the Australian Museum (MSc Soc)
 * Robyn Kruk, former secretary of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and a director-general of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet (Science [Honours])
 * Patrick Lawless, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Brazil (LLB)
 * Damien Miller, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Denmark, Norway and Iceland (Arts/Law)
 * Anne-Marie Schwirtlich AM, Director-General of the National Library of Australia

Other public figures

 * Bruce Hawker, political pundit, political writer, political consultant, political advisor (LLB)
 * Janette Howard, spouse of the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard (Arts)

Architecture

 * Philip Cox, architect and entrepreneur, founder of COX Architects (Science)
 * Richard Johnson, architect, best known as the creator of some of the Australian most important and iconic cultural buildings and spaces (Architecture, 1969)

Arts

 * Del Kathryn Barton, visual artist
 * Matt Carroll, Australian film and television producer
 * Queenie Chan, Chinese-Australian comic artist (Computer Programming)
 * Barbara Cleveland, Australian contemporary performance artist
 * Judith Clingan, composer, conductor, performer and music educator
 * Adam Cullen, visual artist (Fine Arts)
 * John Davis, documentary filmmaker, mountaineer, television producer, chemical engineer (Science)
 * Marta Dusseldorp, actor (Film/Theatre)
 * Anne Ferran, photographer (Fine Arts)
 * David Fung, concert pianist (MB BS)
 * Francis Giacco, visual artist (Architecture)
 * Shaun Gladwell, visual artist
 * Gordon Hanley, visual artist
 * Noel Hodda, actor, writer, dramaturge, director and teacher (Acting)
 * Frank Howarth, geologist, Director of the Australian Museum
 * Byron Kennedy, film producer
 * Amber Lawrence, singer, songwriter
 * Stephanie Lemelin, Canadian actress
 * Lenka, born Lenka Kripac, singer
 * Yaron Lifschitz, theatre director
 * George Miller, movie producer, television screenwriter, producer and director of Happy Feet
 * Gregory Charles Rivers, Hong Kong actor
 * Emile Sherman, Oscar winner, film producer (Arts/Law)
 * Glenn Sorensen, Australia-born, Sweden artist
 * Rebel Wilson, actress, writer, and producer (Arts/LLB 2009)

History

 * John Blaxland, Australian historian, academic, and former Australian Army officer (Arts)
 * Tim Cook, Canadian military historian and author (PhD)
 * Jeffrey Grey, former Australian military historian and academic (PhD Military history)
 * David Horner, Australian military historian and academic (M.Arts [Honours])

Journalism

 * Jordan Shanks, Political commentator
 * Bettina Arndt, sex therapist and journalist
 * Monica Attard, award-winning journalist and Australian Broadcasting Corporation host (LLB)
 * Richard Carleton, television journalist (Commerce)
 * Allan Hogan, investigative journalist and television producer (Commerce)
 * Craig James, economic journalist and economist, currently chief economist with Commsec (Commerce/Economics)
 * Debbie Kruger, Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer (BA/MA)

Literature, writing and poetry

 * Jack Bedson, writer, children's author, poet and academic librarian
 * Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal writer and academic (LLB/B.Juri 1992)
 * Alex Buzo, pioneer playwright
 * Melissa Chiu, museum director, curator writer
 * Tim Cook, historian and author
 * Michael Dransfield, poet
 * Suzanne Falkiner, writer (Arts)
 * Susanne Gervay, author of young adult fiction (Education)
 * John M. Green, author and publisher
 * Anita Heiss, author, presenter and commentator (Arts/History)
 * Tristan Jepson, comedic writer (LLB)
 * Drusilla Modjeska, writer
 * Matthew Reilly, author (Law)
 * Pamela Stephenson, comedian/writer
 * Natalie Tran, producer, actress, comedian, writer
 * Rebel Wilson, actress, comedian and writer (Law)
 * Markus Zusak, writer

Philosophy

 * Khosrow Bagheri, Iranian philosopher
 * Rosalyn Diprose, Australian philosopher and academic (Philosophy)
 * Moira Gatens, Australian academic

Judges and magistrates

 * Bob Bellear, Australia's first indigenous District Court judge (LLB 1978)
 * Annabelle Bennett, chancellor of Bond University and former Federal Court judge (LLB)
 * Chris Craigie, District Court judge and former Director of Public Prosecutions
 * Ros Croucher, lawyer and academic, incoming president of the Australian Human Rights Commission (PhD Legal history)
 * Karin Emerton, Victorian Supreme Court judge (LLB)
 * Anna Katzmann, current Federal Court judge (LLB)
 * Megan Latham, current Supreme Court of New South Wales judge (BA/LLB 1979)
 * Robert McClelland, Family Court judge and former Commonwealth Attorney-General (BA/LLB 1981)
 * Anthony Meagher, current judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Commerce/LLB)
 * Helen Murrell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
 * Matthew Myers, Federal Circuit Court Judge and Commissioner Australian Law Reform Commission
 * John Nicholas, Federal Court judge (BA/LLB)
 * Pat O'Shane, teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist, Aboriginal activist; Australia's first Aboriginal magistrate; former chancellor of the University of New England (LLB 1976)

Other legal professionals

 * Stuart Fuller, legal partner in the banking and finance team at law firm King & Wood Mallesons (Commerce/Law)
 * Stuart Littlemore, barrister, writer and original host of ABC's Media Watch (Law)
 * George Newhouse, human rights lawyer and a former local councillor (Commerce/Law)

Military

 * Peter Abigail, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general
 * Tim Barrett, current Australian Chief of Navy, ranked vice admiral
 * Greg Bilton, current Australian Army officer serving as Deputy Chief of Joint Operations, ranked major general
 * Rick Burr, current Australian Army officer serving as Chief of Army, ranked lieutenant general
 * John Caligari, retired Australian Army officer, ranked lieutenant general (Arts/Defence Studies)
 * John Cantwell,, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general
 * Allan du Toit, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked real admiral (Defence/Strategic Studies)
 * Gus Gilmore, current Australian Army officer, serving as Head of Military Strategic Commitments Division, ranked major general (Arts)
 * James Goldrick, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked rear admiral (Arts)
 * Ian Gordon, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general (Science/Military Studies, 1973)
 * John Harvey, retired Royal Australian Air Force officer, ranked air marshal (Architecture/Psychology/Information Science)
 * Andrew Hastie, current Member for Canning, retired Australian Army officer
 * Peter Jones, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked vice admiral (BA/MA)
 * Mark Kelly, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general (BA/MA)
 * Mike Kelly, current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer (PhD Law)
 * David Kilcullen, Australian author, strategist and global counterinsurgency expert; retired Australian Army officer, ranked lieutenant colonel (BA, PhD)
 * Andrew Nikolic, former politician and retired Australian Army officer (Management)
 * Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Australian Army officer (Arts)

Popular culture

 * Amy Lyons – Internet personality in China
 * Sam Chui – World's most popular Aviation Blogger based in United Arab Emirates
 * Pranav Mohanlal – Malayalam film actor

Religious leaders

 * Peter Chiswell, Anglican bishop, formerly the Bishop of Armidale
 * Tom Frame, Anglican bishop, historian, academic, author and social commentator (Arts/PhD)
 * Peter Hayward, Anglican bishop, currently serving as the Bishop of Wollongong (Civil Engineering)
 * Brian King, former Anglican assistant bishop in the Diocese of Sydney (Theology)
 * Julian Leow Beng Kim, current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur (Building)

Biology

 * Mark Burgman, ecologist (Science)
 * Jessie Christiansen, exoplanetologist
 * Bernard d'Abrera, entomological taxonomist and philosopher of science (Arts with majors in History/Science)
 * Jocelyn Dela-Cruz, eco-physiologist
 * Steve Donnellan, biologist and chief research scientist of the Evolutionary Biology Unit at the South Australian Museum (Science)
 * Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist; 2007 Australian of the Year (PhD Palaeontology)
 * Levon Khachigian, vascular cell and molecular biologist and academic (B.Science (Honours), PhD, D.Science)
 * Zinnia Kumar, evolutionary biologist, ecologist and fashion model (B. Advanced Science [Honours])
 * Alan O. Trounson, biologist
 * Camille Goldstone-Henry, Wildlife Scientist

Chemistry

 * Rose Amal, chemical engineer
 * Gordon Aylward, chemist and author
 * Naiyyum Choudhury, Bangladeshi biochemist, founding Chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) (Biotechnology)
 * Kathryn Fagg AO (M.Com.), chemical engineer, chair of the CSIRO from 2021

Computer scientists

 * Clive Finkelstein, computer scientist, known as the "father" of information technology engineering (Science)
 * Carsten Haitzler, computer scientist, creator of Enlightenment
 * Gernot Heiser, operating systems and ACM Fellow
 * Adam Kennedy, computer scientist
 * Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, first Thai elected to IEEE Fellow; current President of Mahanakorn University of Technology; Thailand's Minister of Information and Communication Technologies
 * Claude Sammut, computer scientist
 * Raj Reddy, computer scientist, Turing Award

Engineering

 * Julie Cairney, Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
 * Michael Collins, Canadian structural engineer (PhD)
 * Saeid Eslamian, Iranian hydrologist (Engineering)
 * Ron Fitch, railway executive and railway engineer (PhD)
 * Graham Goodwin, Australian electrical engineer and academic (Science, 1964; PhD, 1970)
 * Saul Griffith, Australian American inventor and material science mechanical engineer (Mechanical Engineering, 1997)
 * Sam Michael, sporting director of McLaren (Engineering)
 * Stuart Wenham, Director of ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, UNSW Australia (Engineering)

Mathematics and economics

 * Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University from 2008 until 2014 (Mathematics)
 * Lynne Billard, statistician and US academic (Science)
 * Lawrie Brown, cryptographer and computer security researcher (Mathematics)
 * Stephen Duckett, health economist (Health Administration/PhD)

Medicine

 * Samy Azer, international medical educator (Medicine)
 * Julie Campbell, vascular biologist
 * David A. Cooper, HIV/AIDS researcher and immunologist
 * Sir Richard Feachem, global public health administrator and anti-malaria activist (PhD in Environmental Health)
 * Peter Fricker, sports physician and administrator (MB BS)
 * Michelle Haber, paediatric cancer researcher (Psychology, PhD [Pathology])
 * Louise Maple-Brown, endocrinologist and clinical researcher
 * Steven Krilis, immunologist
 * Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon

Other medical sciences

 * John Ball, cognitive scientist
 * Julie Campbell, vascular biologist and current Director of the Centre for Research in Vascular Biology at the University of Queensland (Physiology)
 * David Cooper, Australian HIV/AIDS researcher, immunologist, professor at the University of New South Wales, and the director of the Kirby Institute (Medicine)
 * Gordon Parker, psychiatrist

Physics

 * Joan Adler, computational physicist
 * Murray Batchelor, mathematical physicist
 * Karl Kruszelnicki, physicist, medical practitioner, and science communicator (Biomedical Engineering)
 * John Pyke, physicist and retired law lecturer (LLB)

Service sector

 * Huen Su Yin, Malaysian blogger and cake designer (Construction Management)

Sport



 * Sally Bennett, sabre fencer
 * Matt Carroll, sports administrator and current chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee (Construction)
 * Todd Greenberg, sports administrator and current chief executive of the National Rugby League (Sports Science)
 * Andrew Jones, sports administrator and current chief executive of Cricket NSW (BA/LLB)
 * Phil Kearns, former rugby union international; former Wallabies captain (Arts)
 * Tadhg Kennelly, former Australian rules football who played for the Sydney Swans
 * Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-born Australian cricketer (Aviation)
 * Geoff Lawson, cricketer
 * Ewen McKenzie, current coach of the Queensland Reds
 * Simon Poidevin, former Wallabies captain
 * Marshall Rosen, cricketer
 * Jane Saville, 2004 Summer Olympics medallist
 * Michael Slater, cricketer
 * Mark Taylor, cricketer (Australia's 39th test captain), Australian of the Year 1999
 * Richard Walsh, professional mixed martial artist
 * Michael Wenden, swimming champion, 1968 Summer Olympics gold medallist (two gold, one silver, one bronze)