List of University of Technology Sydney people

This is a list of University of Technology Sydney people, including notable alumni and staff.

Academia

 * Martin Bean – former vice-chancellor at the Open University and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
 * Anthony D. Burke – Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales
 * Judith Beveridge – Australian poet and research supervisor at the University of Sydney
 * John Croucher – Australian statistician and Professor of Management at Macquarie University
 * Rosalyn Diprose – Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the University of New South Wales
 * Hatice Gunes – Professor of Affective Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Cambridge
 * Margaret Simons – Associate Professor of journalism at Monash University

Architecture

 * Jeremy Edmiston – Australian architect
 * Penelope Seidler – Australian architect

Business

 * Peter Agnew – deputy chair of Surf Life Saving Australia
 * Russell Balding – former managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
 * Nina Blackwell – former senior director at Yahoo! and press secretary to former U.S. senator Hillary Clinton
 * Kate Burleigh – managing director of Intel in Australia and New Zealand
 * Maile Carnegie – group executive of ANZ Banking Group (ANZ) retail division and former managing director of Google Australia
 * Neil Chatfield – former chairman of Virgin Australia and former non-executive director at Transurban
 * Cristina Pieta Cifuentes – Economist and former board member of the Australian Energy Regulator
 * Rob Coombe – Chairman of Colonial First State and former chairman of MLC Limited
 * Cathryn Cox – Executive Director of Health System Planning and Investment, NSW Ministry of Health
 * Larry Diamond – Founder & CEO of Zip Co
 * Jacqui Feeney – managing director of Fox International Channels (Australia and New Zealand)
 * Mark Fitzgibbon – CEO and managing director of nib Health Funds
 * Sean Gordon (Bachelor of Education in Adult Education, 2000; 2016 UTS Faculty of the Arts and Social Sciences Alumni Award Recipient) –managing director and owner of Gidgee Group, an Indigenous-owned and -managed consultancy; also co-convenor of the Liberals for Yes group,  and member of the First Nations Referendum Working Group for the 2023 Australian referendum
 * Todd Greenberg – CEO of the National Rugby League
 * Rachel Grimes – former CFO (Technology) of Westpac
 * Vanessa Hudson – CEO of Qantas
 * Frances Hughes – former CEO of the International Council of Nurses (ICN)
 * Ben Kennedy – Founder & CEO of Gecko
 * George Koukis – founder and former chairman of Temenos AG
 * Ido Leffler – Israeli-Australian entrepreneur
 * Geoff Lloyd – former CEO of MLC Limited
 * Graeme Mason – CEO of Screen Australia
 * Kim McKay – CEO of Australian Museum
 * Bettina McMahon – Executive General Manager, Government and Industry Collaboration and Adoption, Australian Digital Health Agency
 * David Murray – former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank (CBA)
 * Warwick Negus – Non-executive director at Dexus and former managing director at Goldman Sachs
 * Gregory Poche – founder and former chairman of StarTrack
 * George Savvides – former managing director of Medibank
 * Nicky Sparshott – CEO of Unilever Australia and New Zealand
 * Vivian Wong – Group Vice President (Higher Educations Technologies) of Oracle Corporation
 * Jim White – Senior Vice President (Human Resources) of Paramount Pictures

Premiers of New South Wales

 * Morris Iemma – former Premier of New South Wales (2005–2008)

Federal politicians

 * Tanya Plibersek – Member of the House of Representatives for Sydney and former Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party
 * Roger Price – Former member of the House of Representatives for Chifley, representing the Australian Labor Party
 * Susan Templeman – Member of the House of Representatives for Macquarie, representing the Australian Labor Party
 * Matt Thistlethwaite – Member of the House of Representatives for Kingsford Smith, representing the Australian Labor Party

Australian state and territory politicians

 * Bryan Doyle – Australian politician
 * Matt Kean – Australian politician
 * Wendy Machin – former Australian politician
 * Natasha Maclaren-Jones – Australian politician
 * Daniel Mookhey – Australian politician
 * Marjorie O'Neill – Australian politician
 * Anthony Roberts – Australian Politician
 * John Robertson – former Leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales
 * Henry Tsang – former Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney

International politicians

 * Shawn Atleo – former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada
 * Sekai Holland – Zimbabwean senator
 * Gibran Rakabuming Raka – Mayor of Solo in Indonesia

Public servants

 * Michael Coutts-Trotter – director general of the NSW Department of Family and Community Services

Arts

 * Charlotte Best – Australian actress and model
 * Natasha Liu Bordizzo – Australian actress and model
 * Anh Do – Vietnamese-born Australian actor, author and comedian
 * Genevieve Clay-Smith – Australian filmmaker
 * Hugh Jackman – Australian actor, singer and producer
 * Sophie Lee – Australian actor and author
 * Alyssa McClelland – Australian director and actress
 * James Millar – Australian actor
 * Zoe Naylor – Australian actress
 * Amanda Palmer – film executive
 * Chris Plummer – New Zealand film editor
 * Chris Taylor – Australian performer and comedian
 * Rachel Ward – Australian actress and film director
 * Emma Watkins – Australian actress and The Wiggles member
 * Allanah Zitserman – Australian film producer

History

 * Jeannine Baker – historian and research fellow at Macquarie University

Journalism

 * David Astle – Australian author, broadcaster and columnist
 * Jayne Azzopardi – Australian television presenter for Weekend Today & Nine News
 * Brooke Boney – Entertainment reporter at Nine Network's Today show
 * Kathryn Eisman – Australian fashion and lifestyle television journalist, author and former model
 * Jan Fran – Australian journalist
 * Lynda Kinkade – Australian journalist and anchor at CNN
 * Sonia Kruger – television presenter
 * Joel Labi – news anchor and producer
 * Caroline Meldrum-Hanna – Australian journalist
 * Timothy Palmer – Australian journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
 * Lara Pitt – Australian television presenter and sports journalist
 * Georgia Rickard – Australian travel journalist

Literature, writing and poetry

 * Anna Funder – Australian writer and winner of the Miles Franklin Award
 * Nikki Gemmell – Australian writer
 * Kate Grenville – Australian author
 * Yvette Holt – Australian poet
 * Janine Shepherd – Australian author
 * Vanessa Montgomery – Australian author (Astrology)

Law

 * Elizabeth Broderick – Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner (2007–2015)
 * Margaret Cunneen – deputy senior crown prosecutor of New South Wales

Sciences

 * Sarah Benson – Chief forensic scientist at the Australian Federal Police
 * Jordan Nguyen – Bio-medical engineer, inventor, and futurist
 * Lily Serna – Australian mathematician and television presenter
 * Vanessa Peterson – Australian chemist at ANSTO.

Sport

 * John Allen – teacher, rugby player and cricketer
 * Lachie Anderson – rugby union player
 * Jo Brigden-Jones – Australian kayaker
 * Bart Bunting – former Australian skier, Salt Lake City Paralympic gold medalist
 * James Chapman – former Australian rower, London Olympic silver medalist
 * Pat Cummins – Australian cricketer
 * Nina Curtis – Australian sailor, London Olympic silver medalist for sailing
 * Claudia Gunjaca – Australian rules football player
 * Alyssa Healy – Australian cricketer
 * Katie Kelly – Australian paratriathlete, Rio Olympic gold medalist
 * Boyd Killingworth – rugby union player
 * Adrienne Marie – former Australian volleyball player
 * Alexander Purnell – Australian rower, Tokyo Olympic gold medalist
 * Hayder Shkara – former Australian taekwondo athlete
 * Danielle Small – former Australian soccer player
 * Lucinda Whitty – Australian sailor, London Olympic silver medalist
 * Gavin Woods – former Australian water polo player

Other

 * Mervyn Bishop – Australian photographer

Notable staff

 * Debra Adelaide – Australian novelist, writer and academic
 * Philip A. Gale – British supramolecular chemist
 * Stan Grant – Australian journalist
 * Nick Kaldas – Deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force
 * Michael Keane – American economist
 * Antony Kidman – Australian psychologist and academic
 * Rosetta Martiniello-Wilks – Australian cancer researcher
 * Ann Moyal – Australia historian
 * Jim Peacock – Australian molecular biologist
 * Göran Roos – Swedish academic and businessman
 * Louise Ryan – Australian biostatistician
 * Rosie Scott – Australian and New Zealand novelist
 * Margaret Trask – Australian librarian
 * Helen Vatsikopoulos – Australian journalist
 * Cynthia Whitchurch – Australian microbiologist
 * Mary-Anne Williams – Australian scientist
 * Steve Wozniak – American electronics engineer and entrepreneur