List of Australian National University people
This is an incomplete list of Australian National University people, including alumni and staff.
Alumni
Academia
- Des Ball, security specialist and ANU Professor
- Joanna Bourke, historian and academic
- Rosi Braidotti, feminist
- Harold Brookfield, academic
- Verity Burgmann, academi
- Dipesh Chakrabarty, historian and theorist
- Yang Hi Choe-Wall, Koreanist
- Peter Coutts, archaeologist
- Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne since 2005
- Peter Drysdale, economist
- Alan Dupont, academic
- Stevan Eldred-Grigg, historian and novelist
- Nicholas Evans, linguist
- Alan Finkel, historian
- John Frow, academic
- Bill Gammage, historian
- Ross Garnaut, economist
- Alan Gilbert, Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne 1996-2004; Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester 2004-2010
- Malcolm Gillies, Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University
- Nicholas Gruen, economist
- William Hale, academic
- Allan Hawke, diplomat and ANU Chancellor
- Chris Heyde, probabilist
- S A Hosseini, sociologist
- Wassana Im-Em, demographer
- Brij Lal, historian
- Marcia Langton, anthropologist (BA, ANU), geographer (PhD, Maquarie)
- Donald Laycock, linguist
- Michael McRobbie, President of Indiana University
- Toby Miller, academic
- David Nash, linguist
- Harjot Oberoi, academic
- Patrick O'Farrell, historian
- John Quiggin, economist
- Margaret Reeson, historian
- Ralph Regenvanu, anthropologist, artist and politician[1]
- Elizabeth Anne Reid, academic
- Michael Roe, historian
- Jessa Rogers, Aboriginal educator
- Leonie Sandercock, academic
- Carmel Schrire, anthropologist
- Bernard Smith, art historian
- Graeme Donald Snooks, Timothy Coghlan Professor of Economics & History, 1989-2010
- Clem Tisdell, economist
- Donald Tuzin, social anthropologist
- Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Nobel Prize winning medical researcher
Business
- John Bryant, CEO of Kellogg Company
- Cheong Choong Kong, former CEO of Singapore Airlines and current Chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
- Chris Corrigan, former CEO of Patrick Corporation and current Chairman of Qube Logistics
- Geoffrey Garrett, incoming Dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania[2]
Government
Politicians
Prime Ministers of Australia
- Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia 1983-1991 (attended but did not graduate)
- Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia 2007-2010, 2013
Other federal politicians
- Phil Barresi, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1996-2007
- Kim Beazley Sr, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1945-1977; Federal Minister 1972-1975
- Bob Catley, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1990-1993
- Barry Cohen, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1969-1990
- Stephen Conroy, Member of the Australian Senate since 2006; Federal Minister 2007-2013
- Craig Emerson, Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998; Federal Minister 2007-2013
- Christine Gallus, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1990-2004
- Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Member of the Australian Senate since 2005
- Peter Garrett, Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2004; Federal Minister 2007-2013
- Gary Gray, Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2007; Federal Minister since 2010-2013
- Alan Griffin, Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1993; Federal Minister 2007-2010
- Dame Margaret Guilfoyle, Member of the Australian Senate 1971-1987
- Harry Jenkins, Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1986; Speaker of the House 2008-2011
- Michael Keenan, Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2004
- John Kerin, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1972-1993; Federal Minister 1983-1993
- Catherine King, Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2001; Federal Minister 2013
- Joe Ludwig, Member of the Australian Senate since 1999; Federal Minister 2007-2013
- Brett Mason, Member of the Australian Senate since 1999
- Nick Minchin, Member of the Australian Senate 1993-2011; Federal Minister 1997-2007
- Susan Ryan, Member of the Australian Senate 1975-1988
- Zed Seselja, Member of the Australian Senate since 2013
- Warwick Smith, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1984-1998; Federal Minister 1996-1998
- Warren Snowdon, Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1987; Federal Minister 2007-2013
- Alex Somlyay, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1990-2013; Federal Minister 1997-1998
- Peter White, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1981-1990
State Premiers and territory Chief Ministers
State Premiers
- Jeff Kennett, Premier of Victoria 1992-1999 (attended but did not graduate)
- Barry O'Farrell, Premier of New South Wales 2011-2014
Territory Chief Ministers
- Andrew Barr, the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory since 2014
- Katy Gallagher, Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory 2011-2014
- Gary Humphries, Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory 2000-2001
- Jon Stanhope, Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory 2001-2011
- Shane Stone, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory 1995-1999
Other State and territory politicians
- Alistair Coe, Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2008
- Roslyn Dundas, Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly 2001-2004
- John Hannaford, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council 1984-2000; State Minister 1990-1995
- Kate Jones, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 2007-2012; State Minister 2009-2011
- Andrew McIntosh, Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999
- Michael Moore, Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly 1989-2001
- Shane Rattenbury, Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2008; Speaker of the Assembly 2008-2012
- Zed Seselja, Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2004; Leader of the Opposition 2007-2013
- Andrew Tink, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council 1988-2007
- Michael Yabsley, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council 1984-1994; State Minister 1988-1992
Civil servants
- Peter Achterstraat, Auditor-General of New South Wales
- Glenys Beauchamp, Secretary of the Department of Industry since 2013
- Peter Boxall, Secretary of the Department of Finance 1997-2002
- Stephen Brady, Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia since 2008
- Blair Comley, Secretary of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency 2011-2013
- Peta Credlin, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Tony Abbott 2013-2015
- Gordon de Brouwer, Secretary of the Department of the Environment since 2013
- Bernie Fraser, Secretary of the Australian Treasury 1984-1989
- Paul Grimes, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture since 2013
- Jane Halton, Secretary of the Department of Health (Australia) since 2001
- Stuart Hamilton, Secretary of the Department of Environment 1993-1996
- Allan Hawke, Secretary of the Department of Defence 1999-2002
- Michael Keating, Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet 1991-1996
- Renée Leon, Secretary of the Department of Employment since 2013
- Bill McLennan, Head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics 1995-2000
- Simon Overland, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police 2009-2011
- Martin Parkinson, Secretary of the Australian Treasury 2011-2014
- Lisa Paul, Secretary of the Department of Education (Australia) since 2004
- James Popple, Senior Member, Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal
- Finn Pratt, Secretary of the Department of Social Services since 2009
- Don Russell, Secretary of the Department of Industry 2011-2013
- Patricia Scott, Secretary of the Department of Communications 2007-2009
- Rod Sims, Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Dennis Trewin, Head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2000-2007
- Nick Warner, Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Diplomats
- Ian Biggs, Australian Ambassador to Turkey[3]
- Richard Butler, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations 1992-1996
- Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Bangladeshi Ambassador to the United Nations 2001-2007; Foreign Minister (2007-2009); Principal Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies [ISAS], National University of Singapore
- Martin Indyk, United States Ambassador to Israel 1995-1997 and 2000-2001
- Sione Ngongo Kioa, Tongan Ambassador to 10 countries
- Feleti Teo, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat 2008
- Peter Woolcott, former Australian Ambassador to Italy
- Rathakit Manathat, former Thai Ambassador to China
United Nations officials
- Robert Piper, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, with the rank of UN Assistant Secretary General; founding member of the Doug Anthony Allstars
Foreign officials
- Chatib Basri, Finance Minister in the Indonesian Government 2013-2014
- Don Brash, Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand 2003-2006, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1988-2002
- Patricia Hewitt, Member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom 1997-2010; British Minister 2001-2007
- Carlos Jarque, Mexican Government Minister 1995-2000
- Prince Katsura, Member of the Imperial House of Japan
- Gordon Darcy Lilo, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands since 2011
- Marty Natalegawa, Foreign Minister of Indonesia 2009-2014
- Mari Pangestu, Minister in the Indonesian Government since 2004
- Kuini Speed, Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji 1999-2000
- Jian Yang, Member of the House of Representatives of New Zealand since 2011
Law
Justices of High Court of Australia
- Stephen Gageler, Justice of the High Court of Australia since 2012; Solicitor-General of Australia 2008-2012
Justices of Federal Court of Australia
- John Griffiths, Justice of the Federal Court of Australia since 2012
- Alan Robertson, Justice of the Federal Court of Australia since 2011
- Tony Whitlam, Justice of the Federal Court of Australia 1993-2005
Justices of the Supreme Courts of Australian states and territories
- Peter Buchanan, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria since 1997
- Terence Higgins, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory since 2003
- Catherine Holmes, Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland since 2000
- Geoffrey Nettle, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria since 2002
Justices of Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand
- Rathakit Manathat, Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand since 2016
Federal Magistrates of Australia
- John Pascoe, Chief Federal Magistrate of Australia since 2004
Legal practitioners
- Tupou Draunidalo, Fijian Lawyer
- David Risstrom, barrister
- Jennifer Robinson, human rights and Wikileaks Lawyer; Rhodes Scholar 2006
Law professors
- George Williams, professor at the UNSW Faculty of Law; constitutional law expert
Humanities
Arts
- David Bradbury, filmmaker[4]
- Michael Brand, art scholar
- Ronny Chieng, comedian
- Jim Cotter, composer
- Jessica Cottis, conductor
- Ian Cresswell, composer
- Will Firth, translator
- Hannah Gadsby, comedian
- Alister Grierson, director and scriptwriter
- Geoffrey Lancaster, classical pianist and conductor
- Henry Nixon, actor
- Tim Rogers, musician
- Richard Roxburgh, actor
- Anita Ondine Smith, writer-producer
- Adam Spreadbury-Maher, theatre director and producer
- Katia Tiutiunnik, composer
- Sally Whitwell, ARIA Award winning pianist
Journalism and media
- Bettina Arndt, psychologist and journalist[5]
- Paul McDermott, comedian and television host
- Stephen Rice, journalist
- Peter Thompson, journalist
Literature, writing and poetry
- Don Aitkin, writer
- Diane Bell, anthropologist, author
- Michael Byrne, poet
- Kevin Hart, poet and literary critic
- Debra Oswald, scriptwriter
- Guy Pearse, author
- Gayla Reid, writer
- Pierre Ryckmans, writer, translator, sinologist
- Brendan Shanahan, author
- David Vernon, writer and sceptic
- Gerard Windsor, author and literary critic
- Vanessa Woods, author
Military
- Vice Admiral Ray Griggs, Chief of the Australian Navy
Sciences
Biology
- Nerilie Abram, climate scientist
- Leanne Armand, marine scientist
- Ian Brooker, botanist
- Kirsten Parris, urban ecologist
- Don VandenBerg, astronomer
Chemistry
- John Shine, biochemist
- Roland Stocker, biochemist
- G. S. R. Subba Rao, bio-organic chemist
Mathematics
- John Coates, mathematician
- Michael Cowling, mathematician
- Peter Hall, statistician
- Adrian Pagan, econometrician
- Charles E. M. Pearce, mathematician
Medicine
- Colin Butler, physician and humanitarian
- Anne Castles, cognitive scientist of reading and language
- M. Ilyas Kamboh, geneticist
- Sir William Liley, perinatal physiologist
- Rodolfo Llinás, neuroscientist
- Robert Webster, virologist
Physics
- Rodney Jory, physicist
- Ross H. McKenzie, physicist
- Keith Nugent, physicist
Sport
- William Cheung, kung fu practitioner
- Mick Fabar, numerous Guinness World Records holder
- David Gallop, CEO of the Football Federation Australia
- Lincoln Hall, mountain climber
- Stephen Larkham, rugby player, World Cup winner
- Tim Macartney-Snape, mountaineer
Other
- Brian George Farran, bishop
- Bettina Gorton, wife of John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia (1968–71)
- Andrew Tridgell, computer programmer
- Barbara Vernon, birth activist
- Tom Worthington, computer programmer
Faculty
Notable past and current faculty members include:
- Anthony Irvine Adams, public health physician
- Nicholas Agar, philosopher
- Patrick Atiyah, English barrister and legal writer
- Arthur Llewellyn Basham, South Asian historian
- Michael Barnsley, mathematician and entrepreneur
- Larissa Behrendt, academic; Professor of Indigenous Research
- David Bensusan-Butt, economist
- Arthur Birch, organic chemist
- Boediono, Indonesian Vice President
- Geoffrey Brennan, philosopher
- Richard P. Brent, mathematical scientist
- Miroslav Bukovsky, composer
- Chilla Bulbeck, women's studies
- Hedley Bull, Professor of International Relations
- Harvey Raymond Butcher, astronomer
- John Caldwell, demographer
- David Chalmers, philosopher
- Yang Hi Choe-Wall, Koreanist
- Manning Clark, historian
- John Coates, mathematician
- John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize- winning nuclear physicist, former chancellor
- H. C. Coombs, economist and public servant
- David P. Craig, research chemist
- Gavan Daws, historian and writer
- Rafe de Crespigny, sinologist
- Robert Dessaix, novelist and essayist
- Peter C. Doherty, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist
- Thomas K. Donaldson, mathematician
- Robert M. Douglas, medical researcher
- Sir John Eccles, Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist
- Fred Emery, social scientist
- Kep Enderby, lawyer and politician
- Denis Evans, physicist and chemist
- Frank Fenner, scientist
- Michael Flood, sociologist
- Lord Howard Florey, Nobel Prize winning medical researcher, former chancellor
- Derek Freeman, anthropologist
- Robert Gilbert, polymer chemist
- Colin Groves, anthropologist
- Fred Gruen, economist
- Wang Gungwu, specialist in studying the Chinese diaspora
- Clive Hamilton, philosopher
- Sir Keith Hancock, historian
- A. D. Hope, poet and essayist
- Leonard Huxley, physicist
- Ken Inglis, historian
- Edward A. Irving, geologist
- Frank Cameron Jackson, philosopher
- Zvonimir Janko, mathematician
- Rhys Jones, archaeologist
- Richard Joyce, philosopher
- James Jupp, political scientist
- Eugene Kamenka, philosopher
- Peter Karmel, economist
- Roger Keesing, anthropologist
- John Kekes, philosopher
- Ben Kerkvliet, political scientist
- Brij Lal, historian, novelist and writer of non-fiction
- Geoffrey Lancaster, musicologist and pianist
- Rae Langton, philosopher
- Andrew Leigh, economist
- Loren Lomasky, philosopher
- Ian McAllister, Irish-Australian public opinion political scientist
- Gavan McCormack, Orientalist
- Brendan McKay, computer scientist
- Warwick McKibbin, economist
- Henry Evans Maude, anthropologist
- Achdiat Karta Mihardja, novelist and writer[6]
- T. B. Millar, historian and political scientists
- John Minford, sinologist and literary translator
- Pat Moran, statistician
- Fred Nadel, anthropologist
- Bernhard Neumann, mathematician
- Hanna Neumann, mathematician, first female professor of mathematics in Australia
- Cliff Ollier, geologist
- Sir Mark Oliphant, physicist and Governor of South Australia
- John Passmore, philosopher
- Philip Pettit, philosopher
- Thomas Pogge, philosopher
- Sarah Pryke, ecologist
- Lindsay Pryor, botanist
- Leo Radom, research chemist
- Anthony Reid, historian of Southeast Asia
- Ted Ringwood, geologist
- Malcolm Ross, linguist
- Amin Saikal, political scientist
- Jonathan Schaffer, philosopher
- Susanna Schellenberg, philosopher
- Brian P. Schmidt, Nobel Prize winning Physicist
- Peter Self, academic
- Jeremy Shearmur, philosopher
- J. J. C. Smart, philosopher
- Michael Smith, philosopher
- Thomas Smith, economist
- Graeme Donald Snooks, economic historian
- Allan Snyder, optical physicist, visual scientist
- Oskar Spate, geographer
- Kim Sterelny, philosopher
- Trevor Swan, economist
- Richard Sylvan, philosopher
- Neil Trudinger, mathematician
- Royall Tyler, Japan specialist
- Jonathan Unger, contemporary China specialist
- Michael Vernon, scientist and consumer activist
- Ling Wang (Wang Ling), historian of Chinese science
- Jack Waterford, journalist
- Anna Wierzbicka, linguist
Administration
Chancellors
Order | Chair of Interim Council | Years | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Richard Mills | 1946–1951 | 1 |
Order | Chancellor | Years | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Viscount Bruce | 1951–1961 | |
2 | Sir John Cockcroft | 1961–1965 | |
3 | Baron Florey | 1965–1968 | |
4 | Dr. H. C. Coombs | 1968–1976 | |
5 | Sir John Crawford | 1976–1984 | |
6 | Sir Richard Blackburn | 1984–1987 | |
7 | Sir Gordon Jackson | 1987–1990 | |
8 | Sir Geoffrey Yeend | 1990–1994 | |
9 | Peter Baume | 1994–2006 | |
10 | Allan Hawke | 2006–2009 | 10 |
11 | Kim Beazley | 2009–2010 | |
12 | Gareth Evans | 2010– |
- 1 Mills served as Chair of the Interim Council while the University was initially beginning operations. While Bruce was officially the first Chancellor, Mills had been effectively fulfilling the same function.
- 10 Hawke retired on 1 January 2009 and was succeeded by Kim Beazley.
Vice-Chancellors
Order | Vice-Chancellor | Years | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Sir Douglas Copland | 1948–1953 | |
2 | Sir Leslie Melville | 1953–1960 | |
3 | Sir Leonard Huxley | 1960–1967 | |
4 | Sir John Crawford | 1968–1973 | |
5 | Robert Williams | 1973–1975 | |
6 | Donald Anthony Low | 1975–1982 | |
7 | Peter Karmel | 1982–1987 | |
8 | Lawrence Walter Nichol | 1988–1993 | |
9 | Deane Terrell | 1994–2001 | |
10 | Ian Chubb | 2001–2011 | |
11 | Ian Young | 2011–2015 | |
12 | Brian Schmidt | 2016- |
References
- ↑ "« Ralph », un anthropologue passionné de politique", Les Nouvelles calédoniennes, 4 September 2008
- ↑ "Management Department - Geoffrey Garrett". Retrieved 20 July 2014.
- ↑ "Australian Ambassador to Turkey". DFAT. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ↑ http://www.frontlinefilms.com.au/profile.htm
- ↑ http://wn.com/Bettina_Arndt
- ↑ "Obituary: 'Atheist' writer laid to rest in Canberra". Jakarta Post. 9 July 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
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