List of Monash University people

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

Notable alumni[]

Politics and government[]

  • 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
  • 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 – 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

Law[]

  • 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, QC – 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 QC – 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[]

  • 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
  • Don Watson – author
  • Alan Wearne – poet
  • Ilka White – textile artist
  • David Williamson – playwright
  • Shaun Wilson – artist
  • Wendy Zukerman – podcast personality, science journalist[2]

Business[]

Medicine and science[]

  • 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)[3]
  • Kristine French – plant biologist and conservationist
  • 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 (science writer) – researcher and science educator

Social services and academia[]

  • 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 QC, 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
  • Brian Weatherson – philosopher
  • Beth Wilson – Victorian Health Services Commissioner
  • Dato' Michael Yeoh – founder, executive director and CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI)

Sport[]

Notable staff (past and present)[]

Creative arts[]

  • 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[]

  • Waleed Aly – Muslim community leader and political commentator
  • 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 critic
  • 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[]

  • 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[]

  • 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
  • - Forensic Paediatrician; deputy director of the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service at the Royal Children's and Monash Children's hospitals[4]
  • Carl Wood – IVF pioneer

Physical sciences[]

  • Robert Bartnik – mathematician
  • Jim Breen – computer scientist, known for his work on Japanese dictionary projects[5]
  • Damian Conway – computer scientist, Perl
  • John Crossley – mathematician
  • John Michael Cullen – ornithologist
  • Richard Gunstone – physicist
  • Kenneth H. Hunt – kinematics expert
  • Vit Klemes – hydrologist
  • Carlo Kopp – defence analyst / strategist, computer scientist
  • 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[]

Vice-Chancellors[]

  • Sir Louis Matheson (1960–1976)
  • (1976–1977)
  • Raymond Martin AO (1977–1987)
  • Mal Logan AC (1987–1996)
  • (1997–2002)
  • Peter Darvall AO (2002–2003)
  • Richard Larkins AO (2003–2009)
  • Ed Byrne AC (2009–2014)
  • Margaret Gardner AO (2014–)

Chancellors[]

  • 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[]

  1. ^ "Obituary – Francine Valerie McNiff". vicbar.com.au. Victorian Bar. 7 April 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Drop in, don't drop out – Education". The Age. 23 February 2004. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  3. ^ https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-documents/hall-of-fame/HallofFame.pdf
  4. ^ "Joanna Tully - deputy director of VFPMS".
  5. ^ "Jim Breen's Pages Have Moved".

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