List of University of Tasmania people

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

Academia

 * Ed Byrne, Principal of King's College London
 * Peter Conrad, literary academic and author
 * Rodney Croome,, academic and LGBT rights activist
 * Peter Forrest, philosopher
 * Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
 * Jeff Malpas, philosopher
 * Tim McCormack, academic and specialist in international humanitarian law
 * Michael Tate,, Catholic priest, legal scholar and former Labor politician
 * Helen Tiffin, post-colonial theorist

Business

 * Andrew MacLeod, businessman, author, former humanitarian lawyer and aid worker
 * Capt. Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports
 * Saul Eslake, economist

Vice-Regal

 * Stanley Burbury, past Governor of Tasmania
 * William Cox, past Governor of Tasmania
 * Sir Guy Green, past Governor of Tasmania
 * Peter Underwood, past Governor of Tasmania
 * Kate Warner,, legal academic and current Governor of Tasmania

Federal politicians

 * Eric Abetz, Liberal politician
 * Neal Blewett, former Labor politician
 * Ross Hart, former Labor politician
 * Michael Hodgman, former Liberal politician and barrister
 * Justine Keay, former Labor politician
 * Christine Milne, former leader of the Australian Greens
 * Ben Small, former Liberal politician

State Premiers

 * David Bartlett, former Premier of Tasmania
 * Michael Field, former Premier of Tasmania
 * Lara Giddings, Labor politician and former Premier of Tasmania
 * Will Hodgman, Liberal politician and former Premier of Tasmania

State and territory politicians

 * Guy Barnett, Liberal politician
 * Sir Max Bingham,, former Deputy Premier and Opposition Leader of Tasmania
 * David Bushby, Liberal politician
 * Roy Fagan, former barrister and Deputy Premier of Tasmania
 * Mike Gaffney, Independent MLC
 * Adrian Gibson,, former Liberal politician and barrister
 * Sue Napier, former Liberal politician
 * Michelle O'Byrne, Labor politician
 * Ros Spence, Labor politician

Other politicians

 * Sue Hickey, Lord Mayor of Hobart
 * Albert Van Zetten, Mayor of Launceston
 * Hannah Yeoh, member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly
 * Halimah Ali, Malaysian politician, MP for Kapar

Public servants

 * Ashton Calvert,, former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Rhodes Scholar
 * Stephen Gumley, CEO of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation
 * Philip Haddon-Cave, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
 * Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed, SAARC Secretary-General

Arts

 * Anthony Ackroyd, comedian, speaker and writer
 * Courtney Barnett, musician
 * Rianti Cartwright, actress, model and presenter of MTV Indonesia
 * John Clark, former director of NIDA
 * Ian Cresswell, composer
 * Essie Davis, film actress
 * Matthew Dewey, composer
 * Hannah Gadsby, comedian
 * Roger Hodgman, director
 * Constantine Koukias, composer
 * Michael Lampard, opera singer, conductor and composer
 * Geoffrey Lancaster, classical pianist
 * Andrew Legg, ARIA-award nominated musician
 * Raffaele Marcellino, composer
 * Luke McGregor, comedian and actor
 * Graeme Murphy,, ballet dancer and choreographer
 * Robyn Nevin,, actress, director and former head of the Sydney Theatre Company
 * Tom Samek, painter, stage designer and printmaker
 * Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor
 * Megan Walch, artist
 * David Walsh, founder of the Museum of Old and New Art
 * Shaun Wilson, artist and film director

History

 * Marilyn Lake, historian
 * Henry Reynolds, historian

Journalism and media

 * John J. Smithies, founding director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
 * Charles Wooley, television journalist

Literature, writing and poetry

 * Ivy Alvarez, author and poet
 * Tim Bowden, author and journalist
 * Helene Chung Martin, author and journalist
 * Stephen Edgar, poet
 * Richard Flanagan, author and film director; Rhodes Scholar
 * Christopher Koch, author of The Year of Living Dangerously
 * Amanda Lohrey, author and academic
 * Christobel Mattingley, author
 * Margaret Scott, author and poet
 * Aaron Smith, author and journalist
 * Vivian Smith, poet
 * Danielle Wood, author
 * Tansy Rayner Roberts, author

Law

 * Damian Bugg, former Commonwealth and Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions
 * Enid Campbell,, legal scholar, first Australian female professor and law school dean
 * Chief Justice Ewan Crawford, Former Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania
 * Stephen Estcourt,, Tasmanian Supreme Court judge
 * Philip Lewis Griffiths, Acting Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea
 * Hon Justice Peter Heerey, Federal Court Judge
 * Andrew Inglis Clark, principal author of the Australian Constitution, barrister, politician and judge
 * Duncan Kerr, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and former Attorney-General of Australia
 * Michael Mansell, Aboriginal rights activist and criminal lawyer
 * Davendra Pathik, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji
 * David Mitchell, former Solicitor-general of Lesotho, Tasmanian representative at the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998 and procurator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia

Sciences

 * Abigail Barrows, marine research scientist
 * Noel Benson, geologist
 * Geoffrey Charles Bratt, chemist and lichenologist
 * Edward Byrne, neuroscientist, Principal of King's College, London; former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
 * John Donaldson, applied mathematics academic; father of Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
 * Richard Dowden (scientist) - noted geo- and astrophysicist
 * Theodore Thomson Flynn, biologist and professor of biology; father of Errol Flynn
 * Genevieve Gates, mycologist, ecologist, and taxonomist who is particularly focused on the fungal diversity of Tasmania.
 * Sir Leonard Huxley, physicist
 * Catherine King, ecotoxicologist, Antarctic researcher
 * Kenneth G. McCracken, physicist and winner of the Pawsey Medal
 * Jessica Melbourne-Thomas, marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division
 * David Paver Mellor, inorganic chemist
 * Beryl Nashar, geologist and first female PhD in geology, first female Dean of a School in Australia

Sports

 * George Bailey, Australian cricketer
 * Brendon Bolton, senior coach of the Carlton Football Club
 * Scott Brennan, gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics for rowing
 * Peter Daniel, former Essendon footballer
 * Simon Hollingsworth, former athlete and CEO of the Australian Sports Commission; Rhodes Scholar
 * Kerry Hore, Olympic rower
 * Hamish Peacock, Olympic javelin thrower
 * Meaghan Volker, Olympic rower
 * Denis Scanlon, former Essendon footballer

Other

 * Phillip Aspinall, Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia
 * Simon Longstaff, Executive Director of the St James Ethics Centre
 * Michael Lynch, evangelist and Christian blogger
 * Bill Mollison, "father of permaculture"
 * Brodie Neill, industrial designer
 * Helen Szoke, Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia, former Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner and former Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner

Faculty

 * Thomas Bavin, law academic and past Premier of New South Wales
 * David Bollard, classical pianist
 * Angela Christine Bridgland (former lecturer at TCAE), library educator
 * Barry Brook, environmental sustainability academic
 * Hans Adolph Buchdahl, physicist
 * Douglas Copland, economist
 * Rodney Croome, LGBT advocate and academic
 * Winifred Curtis, botanist, author and plant science academic
 * Robert Delbourgo, physicist
 * John Dalgleish Donaldson, mathematics academic
 * Roy Fagan, law academic and past Deputy Premier of Tasmania
 * John Field, senior army officer and engineering academic
 * Theodore Thomson Flynn, biologist
 * Adrian Franklin, sociologist and television personality
 * Barbara R. Holland, mathematics academic
 * Peter D. Jarvis, physicist
 * Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
 * Gareth Koch, classical guitarist
 * E. E. Kurth, chemistry academic
 * Delphine Lannuzel, sea ice biogeochemist and Antarctic researcher
 * Frank Madill,, former Liberal politician, medical doctor and author
 * John Martinkus, journalist
 * James McAuley, poet
 * Tim McCormack, international humanitarian law academic
 * Lindsay Simpson, journalist, academic and crime writer
 * Sydney Sparkes Orr, philosopher
 * Garth Paltridge, atmospheric physicist
 * Doug Parkinson, law academic and politician
 * Anya Reading, geophysicist
 * Grote Reber, radio astronomer
 * Henry Reynolds, historian
 * Steven M. Smith, plant genetics and biochemistry academic
 * Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, law academic
 * Michael Tate, Catholic priest, legal scholar and former Labor politician
 * Helen Tiffin, post-colonial theorist
 * Ernest Ewart Unwin, education academic
 * Edward Ronald Walker, diplomat and economist
 * Kate Warner, legal academic and former Governor of Tasmania
 * Peter Whish-Wilson, politician and economist