List_of_Monash_University_people Knowpia

A list of Monash University people, including a number of notable alumni and staff.

Notable alumni edit

Politics and government edit

Daniel Andrews – 48th Premier of Victoria
Kevin Andrews – former Australian Defence Minister
Louise Asher – former Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party
Jim Bacon – former Premier of Tasmania (did not graduate)
Adam Bandt – Federal Member of Parliament for the Australian Greens; first Green elected to Federal Parliament at a general election
Boediono – former Vice President of Indonesia
Sue Boyce – Australian Senator
Andrew Brideson – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Helen Buckingham – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Anna Burke – politician, former Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
Elaine Carbines – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Peter Cleeland – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Jacinta Collins – Australian Senator
Ann Corcoran – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Peter Costello – longest-serving Treasurer of Australia; former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
Simon Crean – Australian Minister for Trade; former Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the ALP
David de Kretser – medical researcher; former Governor of Victoria
John Delzoppo – former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria
Richard Di Natale – Leader of the Australian Greens, Senator for Victoria
Robert Doyle – former Leader of the Opposition in Victoria and Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party; former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
John Elferink – Northern Territory Shadow Treasurer
Peter Falconer – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
David Feeney – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Jeannie Ferris – Australian Senator
Gail Gago – South Australian Minister for Environment, Conservation and Mental Health
James Gomez – Singaporean politician and academic at Monash
Alan Griffiths – former Australian Minister for Industry and Resources
Peter Hall – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Alistair Harkness – Member of the Parliament of Victoria, political commentator
Carolyn Hirsh – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Rob Hudson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Dennis Jensen – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Gary Johns – former Special Minister of State, academic
Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
Norman Lacy – former Minister for Arts and Minister for Educational Services
Albert Langer – political activist
John Langmore – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives; Director of Social Policy and Development at the United Nations; academic
John Lenders – Victorian Treasurer; Victoria's longest-serving Finance Minister
Lim Guan Eng – Malaysian politician; former Finance Minister of Malaysia
Hong Lim – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Tony Lupton – Member of the Parliament of Victoria; Secretary of Cabinet under John Brumby
Julian McGauran – Former Australian Senator
Marlene Moses – diplomat, Foreign Minister of Nauru
Lauren Moss – Member of the Northern Territory Parliament
Simbarashe Mumbengegwi – former Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe
Janice Munt – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Brendan O'Connor – former Australian Minister for Home Affairs and Employment, now Opposition Cabinet member
Gavan O'Connor – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Neil O'Keefe – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Clare O'Neil – Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Hotham; former Mayor of the City of Greater Dandenong; youngest female mayor in Australian history
Martin Pakula – Attorney General of Victoria
John Pandazopoulos – former Victorian Minister for Employment and Major Projects
Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator; former Minister for Health
Chris Pearce – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Sue Pennicuik – Greens Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Victor Perton – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Inga Peulich – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Robert Ray – Australian Senator; former Defence Minister
Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; former Defence Minister; former Minister for Workplace Relations
Gordon Rich-Phillips – Shadow Victorian Finance Minister
Tony Robinson – Victorian Minister for Consumer Affairs and Gaming
Bill Shorten – Federal Opposition leader, Member of the Australian House of Representatives; former National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union; President of the Victorian ALP
Helen Silver – public servant; Secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet
Adem Somyurek – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Sharman Stone – former Australian Minister for Workforce Participation, former Shadow Minister for Immigration
Kirsty Sword Gusmão – political activist; former first lady of East Timor
Murray Thompson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
John Thwaites – former Deputy Premier of Victoria; Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change
David Vigor – Australian Senator
Nick Wakeling – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Don Watson – speechwriter to Paul Keating, author
Graeme Weideman – former Victorian Minister for Tourism
Dean Wells – former Attorney-General of Queensland; Minister for Education and Minister for the Environment
Steve Wettenhall – Member of the Parliament of Queensland
Greg Wilton (1955–2000) – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Michael Wooldridge – former Australian Minister for Health and Chairman of UNAIDS
Luke Lazarus Arnold – Australian High Commissioner to Brunei

Law edit

Greg Barns – barrister and political commentator
Kevin Bell – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; current President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
Diana Bryant – current Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
Julian Burnside, KC – high-profile barrister; human rights advocate; author; one of the Australian Living Treasures
Paul Cronin – Justice of the Family Court of Australia
Tom Danos – high-profile barrister; Treasurer of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association; defence lawyer in the Keith William Allan murder trial
Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
Ian Gray – current Chief Magistrate, Magistrates' Court of Victoria
Felicity Hampel – human rights lawyer; Judge of the County Court of Victoria
Peter Hayes QC – high-profile barrister
Peter Hogg – constitutional law scholar
Graeme Johnstone – current State Coroner of Victoria
Murray Kellam – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria;first President of VCAT
Ron McCallum – legal scholar specialising in industrial law
Francine McNiff – legal scholar, and first woman state magistrate in Victoria^[1]
Lex Lasry KC – high-profile barrister, Chairman of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association; human rights advocate; Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Stuart Morris – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; former President of VCAT
Ross Ray – current President of the Law Council of Australia
Neil Rees – current Chairman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission; foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School
Michael Rozenes – current Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria
Pamela Tate – current Solicitor-General of Victoria
Mark Weinberg – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia; former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions; current Chief Justice of Norfolk Island

Media and arts edit

Rory Barnes – novelist
Jean Bedford – novelist
Peter Bonner – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize
Damien Broderick – author, futurist
Peter Carey – Booker prize-winning novelist
Nick Cave – musician
Doug Chappel – comedian actor
Tim Charles – musician
Timothy Conigrave (1959–1994) – actor and writer
Peter Corris – crime fiction author
Dagmar Evelyn Cyrulla – artist
Andrew Daddo – actor, voice artist, author and television personality
Cecilia Dart-Thornton – author
Lindy Davies – actor; Dean of the Victorian College of Arts
Cherie Ditcham – actress, model
Laurie Duggan – poet
Hazel Edwards – children's author
Jon Faine – Melbourne radio personality
Phillip Frazer – publisher
Max Gillies – actor and satirist
Andy Griffiths – children's author
John Griffiths – musician and musicologist
Yalda Hakim – journalist
Mark Holden – singer, actor, television personality and barrister
Leslie Howard – pianist and composer
Russel Howcroft – advertiser, media personality and Executive general manager of Network Ten
Paul Jennings – children's author
Adib Khan – novelist
Lucy Kiraly – fashion model and television presenter
Michael Leunig – cartoonist
Campbell McComas – comedian and actor
Brenda Niall – author
Nikolai Nikolaeff – actor
Eva Orner – Academy-Award-winning film producer
Boyd Oxlade – author of Death in Brunswick
Charlie Pickering – comedian
Ben Quilty – artist
Apsara Reddy – journalist
John Romeril – playwright
Raghav Sachar – Indian singer-songwriter
John A. Scott – poet
Fiona Spence – actress, star of Prisoner
Jo Stanley – radio personality
Stelarc – performance artist
Yumi Stynes – radio and television personality
Lucy Sussex – author
Matt Tilley – comedian
Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize
Paul Yore – artist
Don Watson – author
Alan Wearne – poet
Ilka White – textile artist
David Williamson – playwright
Shaun Wilson – artist
Wendy Zukerman – podcast personality, science journalist^[2]

Business edit

Fiona Balfour – businesswoman, former Qantas and Telstra executive
John F. O. Bilson – economist
Mark Birrell – company director; former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology
Terry Budge – banking executive, former Chancellor of Murdoch University^[3]
Tony D'Aloisio – Chairman, Australian Securities & Investments Commission; former CEO, Australian Securities Exchange
Henry Ergas – economist
John A. Fraser – Chairman and CEO of Global Asset Management at UBS; former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury
Josh Frydenberg – Treasurer of Australia
Peter Ivany – media mogul and billionaire
Margaret Jackson – first female Chairman of Qantas
Ruslan Kogan – founder and CEO of Australia's biggest online retailer Kogan.com; co-founder of Milan Direct
Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
Tan Le – technology businesswoman, Young Australian of the Year
Peter Lew – businessman
Michael Luscombe – CEO and managing director, Woolworths
Ian Macfarlane – economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996–2006)
Paresh Narayan – economist
Trevor O'Hoy – President and CEO, Foster's Group
Pasuk Phongpaichit – economist, author, anti-corruption campaigner; recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
Gary P. Sampson – World Trade Organization economist
Graeme Samuel – Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
Anna Skarbek – businesswoman and former investment banker
Jannie Tay – Executive vice-chairman and co-founder of the Hour Glass; recipient of the 2003 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

Medicine and science edit

Yahya Awang – cardiothoracic surgeon; performed the first heart transplant in Malaysia
Greg Ayers – atmospheric scientist, Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
David Brown – meteorologist, Seven News weatherman
Michael Cowley – physiologist, Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009
David de Kretser – medical researcher, former Governor of Victoria
Weary Dunlop – military surgeon, World War II leader (attended the Victorian College of Pharmacy, now Monash Parkville Campus)
Ian G. Enting – mathematician
Tim Flannery – biologist, author, 2007 Australian of the Year
Andrew Freeman FACS – Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected in 1997), and an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the ACS (elected in 2018)^[4]
Kristine French – plant biologist and conservationist
Peter Gibson – gastroenterologist who created the Low-FODMAP diet in collaboration with Susan Shepherd
Susan Lim – surgeon, performed Singapore's first successful liver transplant; recipient of the 2005 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
John Mattick – Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, whose research led to the discovery of the function of non-coding DNA
Patrick McGorry – psychiatrist, 2010 Australian of the Year
Dr Brad McKay – doctor, author and science communicator
Jared Purton (1976–2009) – immunologist
Lee J. Slavutin – pathologist; recipient of the 1974 Monash University Sophie Davis Memorial Prize
Terry Speed – mathematician
Abu Bakar Suleiman – Vice-Chancellor of International Medical University; recipient of the 2007 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
Norman Arthur Wakefield – botanist
Lynne Kelly – researcher and science educator
Charles Clarke – botanist

Social services and academia edit

Phillip Aspinall – Head of the Anglican Church of Australia
Diane Bell – anthropologist
Gidon Bromberg – environmentalist
Karen Burns – architectural historian
Michael Clyne – linguist
Anthony G. Collins – President of Clarkson University
Tim Costello – humanitarian, CEO of World Vision Australia, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
Mick Dodson – indigenous rights campaigner; Convenor of the ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia; one of the Australian Living Treasures; 2009 Australian of the Year
Harriet Edquist – architectural historian
Hugh Evans – 2004 Young Australian of the Year, philanthropist
Ben Kiernan – leading researcher in the study of genocide
Peter Leslie Lee – Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross University
Stuart Macintyre – historian
Ron McCallum – Labour law scholar
Simon Molesworth KC, Chairman of the Australian Council of National Trusts
Justin Oakley – philosopher
Neil Rees – foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School
James Mahmud Rice – sociologist
Julian Savulescu – Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford
Andrekos Varnava – historian, writer, and professor at Flinders University
Brian Weatherson – philosopher
Beth Wilson – Victorian Health Services Commissioner
Dato' Michael Yeoh – founder, executive director and CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI)

Sport edit

Catherine Arlove – Olympic judo competitor
John Bertrand – yachtsman, skipper of Australia II
Mordy Bromberg – former AFL footballer, barrister, current Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
Travis Brooks – field hockey player, Olympic Games gold medallist
Ashley Brown (born 1994) – footballer
Nathan Burke – AFL footballer
Alastair Clarkson – former AFL footballer, current Coach of the Hawthorn Football Club
Tony Dodemaide – cricketer
Ron Evans – AFL footballer and sports administrator
Robby Foldvari – billiards and snooker player, world champion
Brett Gosper – former member of the Australia national under-21 rugby union team; current CEO of the International Rugby Board
Geoff Grover – former AFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)
Lauren Hewitt – athlete
Geoff Hunt – squash player, four-time world champion
Janine Ilitch – netballer
Paul McNamee – tennis player, sports administrator, winner of Wimbledon and Australian Open
Anna Millward, née Wilson – cyclist, world champion and world record holder
Brenton Rickard – swimmer, Olympic silver medallist
Anna Segal – Olympic freestyle skier and 2-time world champion
Paul Trimboli – soccer player
David Zalcberg – Olympic table tennis player, Commonwealth Games medallist

Notable staff (past and present) edit

Creative arts edit

Dorothy Auchterlonie – writer and poet
Trevor Barnard – pianist
Janine Burke – author, novelist, art historian
Kevin Hart – poet and literary critic
Adrian Martin – film critic
Brian Nelson – French literature expert and translator
Jennifer Strauss – poet
Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize

Humanities and social sciences edit

Waleed Aly – Muslim community leader and political commentator
Carina Garland – Labor Member for Chisholm Parliament of Australia
Andrew Benjamin – philosopher
Harold Bolitho – historian
Geoffrey Bolton – historian
John Brumby – former Premier of Victoria
Kate Burridge – prominent linguist and occasional ABC presenter
John Button – former Australian Senator; Leader of the Australian Labor Party in the Senate; Australian Minister for Industry (1983–1993)
David P. Chandler – historian
Chin Liew Ten – philosopher
Michael Clyne – linguist
Ken Coghill – former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria
Peter Costello – longest-serving Treasurer of Australia; former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
Franz-Josef Deiters – literary scholar
Nick Economou – political scientist and media commentator
Ben Eltham – creative producer and social commentator
Herbert Feith – Indonesian politics expert
Allan Fels – economist and former Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
John Edward Fletcher – German studies expert
James Alexander Forrest – lawyer, former University Council member
Petro Georgiou – former Liberal Member of the Parliament of Australia
Fred Gruen – economist
Rob J. Hyndman – statistician, forecaster
Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher
Margaret J. Kartomi – ethnomusicologist
David Kemp – political scientist; former Australian Minister for Education and the Environment
Helga Kuhse – philosopher and bioethicist
Andrew Linklater – international relations expert
Mal Logan – geographer, former Vice-Chancellor
Tony Lupton – former politician and Secretary to the Victorian Cabinet, now professor of public policy
Race Mathews – economist; Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam; former Minister for Community Services; former Minister for Police and Emergency Services
Yew-Kwang Ng – economist
Graham Oppy – philosopher
Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator and Minister for Health
Mark Peel – historian
Christian Reus-Smit – international relations expert
John Rickard – economist
Modjtaba Sadria – philosopher
Richard Scotton – health economist, creator of Australian Medicare program
Kamal Uddin Siddiqui – economist, diplomat
Peter Singer – philosopher (now at Princeton University, US)
J. J. C. Smart – philosopher
Michael A. Smith – philosopher
John Thwaites – former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change, now Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute
Nick Trakakis – philosopher
Hal Varian – economist
David Wright-Neville – political scientist, terrorism expert
Xiaokai Yang – economist, democracy campaigner, political prisoner
Lara Owen – organisational studies, menstrual expert

Law edit

Bob Baxt – lawyer, former Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission (now ACCC)
Enid Campbell – jurist
David Derham – jurist
Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
Arie Freiberg – Chairman of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council
George Hampel, QC – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; leading advocacy instructor
Felicity Hampel, SC – judge of the County Court of Victoria; human rights lawyer
Peter Heerey – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
Sarah Joseph – human rights scholar
Marcia Neave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Stephen John Parker – jurist
Mahadev Shankar – Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge
Louis Waller – medical and criminal law expert
Christopher Weeramantry – Judge and Vice-President of the International Court of Justice; human rights advocate

Medicine and life sciences edit

Bill Charman – pharmaceutical scientist
Michael Cowley – physiologist; Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009
Dorothy Jean Hailes – medical practitioner
David de Kretser – medical researcher; current Governor of Victoria
Basil Hetzel – medical researcher, public health advocate, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
Frederic Jevons – biochemist
Richard Larkins – medical researcher; former Monash University Vice-Chancellor
Barrie Marmion – Foundation Professor of Microbiology (1963–68)
A.T.S Sissons – pharmaceutical scientist
Elsdon Storey – neurologist
Alan O. Trounson – biologist, IVF pioneer and stem cell researcher
Joanna Tully – forensic paediatrician; deputy director of the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service at the Royal Children's and Monash Children's hospitals^[5]
Carl Wood – IVF pioneer

Physical sciences edit

Robert Bartnik – mathematician
Jim Breen – computer scientist, known for his work on Japanese dictionary projects^[6]
Damian Conway – computer scientist, Perl
John Crossley – mathematician
John Michael Cullen – ornithologist
Richard Gunstone – physicist
Kenneth H. Hunt – kinematics expert
Vit Klemes – hydrologist
Gilah Leder – mathematics education
Raymond Martin – chemical scientist, former Vice-Chancellor
Louis Matheson – engineer, foundation Vice-Chancellor
Louis Moresi – geophysicist
Graeme Pearman – climate change scientist
Andrew Prentice – mathematician
Zenon J Pudlowski – engineering expert
John Stillwell – mathematician
Chris Wallace – computer scientist
Les William – physical instrumentation

Administration edit

Vice-Chancellors edit

Sir Louis Matheson (1960–1976)
William Alexander Gowdie Scott (1976–1977)
Raymond Martin AO (1977–1987)
Mal Logan AC (1987–1996)
David Robinson (1997–2002)
Peter Darvall AO (2002–2003)
Richard Larkins AO (2003–2009)
Ed Byrne AC (2009–2014)
Margaret Gardner AO (2014–2023)

Chancellors edit

Sir Robert Rutherford Blackwood (1958–1968)
Sir Douglas Ian Menzies (1968–1974)
Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston (1975–1983)
Sir George Hermann Lush (1983–1992)
David William Rogers (1992–1998)
Jerry Ellis (1999–2007)
Alan Finkel (2008–2016)
Simon McKeon (2016–)

References edit

^ "Obituary – Francine Valerie McNiff". vicbar.com.au. Victorian Bar. 7 April 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
^ "Drop in, don't drop out – Education". The Age. 23 February 2004. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
^ "Terry Budge". Business News. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
^ https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-documents/hall-of-fame/HallofFame.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ "Joanna Tully - deputy director of VFPMS".
^ "Jim Breen's Pages Have Moved".