List of Australian National University people

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

Alumni[]

Academia[]

  • Robert Addo-Fening, historian and academic
  • Des Ball, security specialist and ANU Professor
  • Andrew Barker, British classicist
  • Joanna Bourke, historian and academic
  • Rosi Braidotti, feminist
  • Bob Brissenden, poet, novelist, critic and academic
  • Harold Brookfield, academic
  • Verity Burgmann, academic
  • Dipesh Chakrabarty, historian and theorist
  • Yang Hi Choe-Wall, Koreanist
  • Peter Coutts, archaeologist
  • Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne since 2005
  • John Deeble, Architect of Medicare
  • 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
  • Geoffrey Garrett, political scientist, dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania[1]
  • 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
  • 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
  • Diane Pearson, Professor in Environmental Management
  • John Quiggin, economist
  • Margaret Reeson, historian
  • Ralph Regenvanu, anthropologist, artist and politician[2]
  • Elizabeth Anne Reid, academic
  • Leslie Lloyd Robson, historian
  • Michael Roe, historian
  • Jessa Rogers, Aboriginal educator
  • Leonie Sandercock, academic
  • Carmel Schrire, anthropologist
  • Bernard Smith, art historian
  • Clem Tisdell, economist
  • Hrvoje Tkalčić, geophysicist
  • Donald Tuzin, social anthropologist
  • Tarisi Vunidilo, Fijian archaeologist and curator
  • Rolf Zinkernagel, Nobel Prize winning medical researcher

Business[]

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
  • Chris 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[]
Territory Chief Ministers[]
Other State and territory politicians[]

Civil servants[]

Diplomats[]
United Nations officials[]
  • Robert Piper, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, with the rank of United Nations Assistant Secretary General; founding member of the Doug Anthony Allstars
Foreign officials[]
  • Chirayu Isarangkun Na Ayuthaya, Director of the Crown Property Bureau of Thailand (1987-2018) and the Chief Economic Advisor in the Privy Council of H.M. The King of Thailand (2018–present)
  • 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
  • Teuea Toatu, the Vice-President and Minister for Finance & Economic Development of Kiribati since 2019 and 2016, respectively.
  • Damdin Tsogtbaatar, Foreign Minister of Mongolia since 2017
  • Jian Yang, Member of the House of Representatives of New Zealand since 2011

Law[]

Justices of the High Court of Australia[]

Judges of the Federal Court of Australia[]

  • Tony Whitlam, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia 1993-2005

Judges of the Supreme Courts of Australian states and territories[]

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[]

Law professors[]

  • George Williams, professor at the UNSW Faculty of Law; constitutional law expert

Humanities[]

Arts[]

  • David Bradbury, filmmaker[3]
  • 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
  • Nagita Slavina, an Indonesian actress
  • Geoffrey Lancaster, classical pianist and conductor
  • Henry Nixon, actor
  • Tim Rogers, musician
  • Richard Roxburgh, actor
  • Adam Spreadbury-Maher, theatre director and producer
  • Katia Tiutiunnik, composer
  • Sally Whitwell, ARIA Award-winning pianist

Journalism and media[]

  • Bettina Arndt, journalist[4]
  • Cynthia Banham, journalist and academic
  • Alice T. Days, documentary filmmaker
  • Toby Hendy, science communicator and YouTuber
  • 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
  • Shahnon Ahmad, prose writer, Malaysian National Laureate

Military[]

  • Vice Admiral Ray Griggs, Vice Chief of the Defence Force

Sciences[]

Astronomy[]

Biology[]

Chemistry[]

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
  • 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
  • David Gallop, CEO of the Football Federation Australia
  • Lincoln Hall, mountain climber
  • Tal Karp (born 1981), female Australian football (soccer) player
  • Stephen Larkham, rugby player, World Cup winner
  • Tim Macartney-Snape, mountaineer

Other[]

Faculty[]

Notable past and current faculty members include:

  • Anthony Irvine Adams, public health physician
  • 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
  • Coral Bell, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations
  • David Bensusan-Butt, economist
  • Arthur Birch, organic chemist
  • Boediono, Indonesian Vice President
  • Richard P. Brent, mathematical scientist
  • Miroslav Bukovsky, composer
  • Sydney James Butlin, economist, historian
  • Chilla Bulbeck, women's studies
  • Hedley Bull, Professor of International Relations
  • Harvey Raymond Butcher, astronomer
  • John Caldwell, demographer
  • 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
  • Paul Dibb, Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
  • 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
  • C. P. Fitzgerald, historian
  • Michael Flood, sociologist
  • Howard Florey, Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher, former chancellor
  • Derek Freeman, anthropologist
  • Robert Gilbert, polymer chemist
  • Peter Godfrey-Smith, philosopher and author of the book Other Minds
  • Colin Groves, anthropologist
  • Fred Gruen, economist
  • Wang Gungwu, specialist in studying the Chinese diaspora
  • Sir (William) Keith Hancock, historian
  • Peter Firman Harrison, architect and town planner
  • Peter Dunstan Hastings, journalist and editor
  • Anthony F. Hill, in synthetic, organometallic & coordination chemistry
  • A. D. Hope, poet and essayist
  • Leonard Huxley, physicist
  • Ken Inglis, historian
  • Edward A. Irving, geologist
  • Zvonimir Janko, mathematician
  • Frank Lancaster Jones, sociologist
  • Rhys Jones, archaeologist
  • James Jupp, political scientist
  • Peter Karmel, economist
  • Roger Keesing, anthropologist
  • Ben Kerkvliet, political scientist
  • Brij Lal, historian, novelist and writer of non-fiction
  • Geoffrey Lancaster, musicologist and pianist
  • Andrew Leigh, economist and federal politician
  • Ian McAllister, Irish-Australian public opinion political scientist
  • Gavan McCormack, Orientalist
  • Helen McGregor, geologist and climate change researcher, a Fellow with the Research School of Earth Sciences
  • Brendan McKay, computer scientist
  • Warwick McKibbin, economist
  • Henry Evans Maude, anthropologist
  • Achdiat Karta Mihardja, novelist and writer[5]
  • 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
  • Sarah Pryke, ecologist
  • Lindsay Pryor, botanist
  • Leo Radom, research chemist
  • Anthony Reid, historian of Southeast Asia
  • James Mahmud Rice, sociologist
  • Ted Ringwood, geologist
  • Malcolm Ross, linguist
  • Amin Saikal, political scientist
  • Brian P. Schmidt, Nobel Prize winning Physicist
  • Peter Self, academic
  • Thomas Smith, economist
  • Allan Snyder, optical physicist, visual scientist
  • Oskar Spate, geographer
  • Trevor Swan, economist
  • Neil Trudinger, mathematician
  • Royall Tyler, Japan specialist
  • Jonathan Unger, contemporary China specialist
  • Michael Vernon, scientist and consumer activist
  • Carola Garcia de Vinuesa, Head of the Department of Pathogens and Immunity at the College of Medicine
  • Ling Wang (Wang Ling), historian of Chinese science
  • Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
  • Jack Waterford, journalist
  • Anna Wierzbicka, linguist

Philanthropy[]

Administration[]

Chancellors[]

Order Chair of Interim Council Term start Term end Time in office Notes
1 Richard Mills 1946 1951 4–5 years 1
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.
Order Chancellor Term start Term end Time in office Notes
1 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne CH, MC, PC 1951 1961 9–10 years [6]
2 Sir John Cockcroft OM, KCB, CBE 1961 1965 3–4 years [7]
3 Lord Florey OM 1965 1968 2–3 years [8]
4 Dr. H. C. Coombs 1968 1976 7–8 years [9]
5 Sir John Crawford AC, KBE 1976 1984 7–8 years [10]
6 Sir Richard Blackburn OBE 1984 1987 2–3 years [11]
7 Sir Gordon Jackson AK 1987 1990 2–3 years [12]
8 Sir Geoffrey Yeend AC, CBE 1990 1994 3–4 years [13]
9 Peter Baume AC 1994 2006 11–12 years [14]
10 Allan Hawke AC 2006 31 December 2008 (2008-12-31) 1–2 years [15]
11 Kim Beazley AC 1 January 2009 (2009-01-01) 31 December 2009 (2009-12-31) 1 year, 0 days [16]
12 Gareth Evans AC, QC 1 January 2010 (2010-01-01) 31 December 2019 (2019-12-31) 10 years, 0 days [17]
13 Julie Bishop 1 January 2020 (2020-01-01) incumbent 2 years, 70 days [18]

Vice-Chancellors[]

Order Vice-Chancellor Term start Term end Time in office Notes
1 Sir Douglas Copland 11 May 1948 (1948-05-11) 1953 4–5 years [19]
2 Sir Leslie Melville 1953 1960 6–7 years [20]
3 Sir Leonard Huxley 30 September 1960 (1960-09-30) 1967 6–7 years [21]
4 Sir John Crawford 1968 1973 4–5 years [10]
5 Robert Williams 1973 1975 1–2 years
6 Donald Anthony Low 1975 1982 6–7 years
7 Peter Karmel 1982 1987 4–5 years [22]
8 Lawrence Walter Nichol 1988 1993 4–5 years
9 Deane Terrell 1994 31 December 2000 (2000-12-31) 6–7 years [23]
10 Ian Chubb 1 January 2001 (2001-01-01) 2011 9–10 years [24]
11 Ian Young 2011 31 December 2015 (2015-12-31) 4–5 years [25]
12 Brian Schmidt 1 January 2016 (2016-01-01) incumbent 6 years, 70 days [26]

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