List of University of Western Australia people

The University of Western Australia has seen many notable people pass through its doors over its 0-year history, both as students and staff.

Politics
• Rozaina Adam, Maldivian Member of Parliament

• Colin Barnett, former Premier of Western Australia

• Kim Beazley, former Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Prime Minister and Ambassador to the United States, current Governor of Western Australia

• Kim Beazley Sr., former Whitlam government Cabinet Minister

• Boediono, former Vice President of Indonesia

• Alan Carpenter, former Premier of Western Australia

• Richard Court, former Premier of Western Australia

• Peter Dowding, former Premier of Western Australia

• Peter Durack, former Federal Attorney General

• Geoff Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia

• Sir Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia

• Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia

• Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of Western Australia, Federal Minister and President of the Australian Labor Party

• Donton Samuel Mkandawire, former MP for Mzimba District, Malawi and Minister of Education for Malawi

• Wangdi Norbu, Bhutanese Finance Minister

• Stephen Smith, former Australian Minister for Defence

• Billy Snedden, former Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia

• Daryl Williams, former Federal Attorney General

• Yeo Cheow Tong, former Minister of Transport in Singapore

Business
• Michael Chaney, former CEO of Wesfarmers; former chancellor of UWA

• Rod Eddington, former CEO of British Airways

• Andrew Forrest, mining magnate and founder of Fortescue Metals Group

• Richard Goyder, former CEO of Wesfarmers, chair of AFL Commission and Qantas

• Janet Holmes à Court, businesswoman

• Robert Holmes à Court, entrepreneur

• John Hay, former vice-chancellor of University of Queensland

• Peter Lim, Singaporean billionaire

• Michael Malone, iiNet founder

• Ken Michael, former Governor of Western Australia; former Chancellor of UWA

• Tan Sri Hamdan Mohamad, current Executive Director and President of Ranhill Berhad

• Sarfraz Nawaz President of Cricket

• Peter Smedley, CEO of Colonial Group, Mayne Nickless

Public service and community
• Ameer Ali, former president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils

• Nicholas Blain, former Deputy President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission

• Herbert Cole Coombs, first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

• Margaret Feilman, architect and town planner

• Allan Fels, former Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission

• Ron Fitch, commissioner of the South Australian Railways

• David Irvine, Director-General of Security; former Director-General of Australian Secret Intelligence Service; former Australian High Commissioner to PNG; Ambassador to the People's Republic of China

• Michael Sheldrick, policy entrepreneur advocating for polio eradication

• Ralph Townsend, headmaster of Winchester College

Law
• James Edelman, former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, current Justice of the High Court of Australia

• Robert French, former Chief Justice of Australia, current Chancellor UWA

• Zarah Garde-Wilson, criminal lawyer

• David Indermaur, criminal psychologist

• Wayne Martin, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia

• Neville Owen, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, current Chair of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council

• Christopher Steytler, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia

• John Toohey, former Justice of the High Court of Australia

• Ronald Wilson, former Justice of the High Court of Australia

Science, medicine, engineering and mathematics
• Caroline Bower, medical researcher and professor of medicine

• Michelle Harvey, forensic entomologist

• Sue Hatcher, Ph.D. Animal Science, 1995, animal genetics researcher

• Barry Marshall, physician, 2005 Nobel Prize laureate

• Dick Norris, entomologist

• Matt Parker, recreational mathematics author and communicator

• Richard G. Pestell, physician scientist, cancer biologist

• Cheryl Praeger, mathematician, Australian Scientist of the Year 2009

• Hugo Rietveld, Ph.D. Physics 1964, crystallographer, inventor of the Rietveld Method

• Gordon Royle, Ph.D. Mathematics 1987, co-author of Algebraic Graph Theory

• Dorothea Sandars, Parasitologist

• Amanda Sainsbury-Salis, molecular scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, educator and author

• Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist, 2003 Australian of the Year

• Mark Stevenson, epidemiologist

• Eric Underwood, B.Sci.Ag 1928, Dean of faculty, Agriculture 1946 to 1970

• Akshay Venkatesh, 2018 recipient Fields Medal

• Robin Warren, UWA Emeritus Professor, Nobel Prize laureate

• Fiona Wood, UWA Professor of Medicine, 2005 Australian of the Year

Arts, literature and religion
• Frederick Alexander, historian

• Geoffrey Bolton, historian

• Greg Egan, writer

• Tracy Farr, writer and scientist

• Geoff Gibbs, actor and WAAPA principal

• Gracie Gilbert, actress

• Rolf Harris, performer and artist

• Dorothy Hewett, writer

• Barry Hickey, Catholic Archbishop of Perth

• John Kinsella, writer

• John Andrew La Nauze, the first Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University (1978)

• Niall Lucy, writer and scholar, known for his work on Jacques Derrida and deconstruction

• Philippa Maddern, writer, historian and scholar, Winthrop Professor of History and founding Director of the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

• Sally Morgan, writer and artist

• Randolph Stow, writer

• Shaun Tan, artist and writer

• Arlene Textaqueen, artist

• Josephine Wilson, writer

Sport and entertainment
• Sandra Angelia, Miss Indonesia 2008

• Peter F. Bell, former captain of the Fremantle Dockers

• Ric Charlesworth, former Australia national field hockey team Kookaburras Captain and Hockeyroos coach

• Michael Fitzpatrick, former captain of the Carlton Football Club; current Chairman of the Australian Football League

• Darren Glass (MBA 2015), former captain of the West Coast Eagles

• Rachel Kum, Miss Singapore 2009

• Matthew Pavlich, captain of the Fremantle Dockers

• Ben Purser, basketball player who studied law and commerce

• Jarrad Seng, photographer

• Shirley Strickland, Olympic track and field athlete

• Kylie Wheeler, Olympic heptathlete

Music

 * Mili Davies, classical guitarist
 * Sara Macliver, soprano
 * Tim Minchin, pianist and comedian
 * Roger Smalley, pianist and composer
 * Rory Garton-Smith, record producer

Notable administrators

 * George Alexander Currie, second Vice Chancellor (1941–1952)

Chancellors
The Chancellor of The University of Western Australia is its most senior officer:

Notable faculty
Notable past and present members of faculty include:
 * Christopher Chantler, physicist
 * David Indermaur, psychologist
 * James R. Lawler, foundation professor of French Studies
 * Jill Milroy, Dean and Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia School of Indigenous Studies
 * Eric Saint, foundation professor of the Medical School