List of University of Sydney people

• Matt Barrie – CEO of Freelancer.com
• Francisco Serra-Martins – investor and philanthropist
• David S. Clarke – Chairman of Macquarie Bank (1985–2007)
• Cameron Clyne – CEO of National Australia Bank (2009–2014)
• Matt Comyn – CEO of Commonwealth Bank
• Robyn Denholm – Chairwoman of Tesla, Inc.
• John Grill – billionaire, CEO of WorleyParsons
• Angus Harris – Co-CEO of Harris Farm Markets
• Sir David Higgins – Chairman of United Utilities Group
• Fred Hilmer – CEO of University of New South Wales
• Michael Hintze – billionaire, philanthropist
• Ryan Junee – founder and CEO of Omnisio and Inporia
• Jeni Klugman – Director of the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Jim Millner – former Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson
• Allan Moss – Managing Director/CEO of Macquarie Bank (1993–2008)
• John Mulcahy – CEO of Suncorp-Metway Ltd (2003–2009)
• Michael Patsalos-Fox – Chairman of McKinsey & Co in America
• Timothy Potts – Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles
• Davina Reichman – business consultant
• Mark Scott – former CEO of Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Michael Spence – Vice-Chancellor and Principal of University of Sydney
• Glenn Stevens – Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Matt Sweeny – CEO and co-founder of Flirtey, inventor
• Malcolm Turnbull – Prime Minister, lawyer, investment banker, prominent republican
• Tom Waterhouse – bookmaker; CEO of William Hill Australia
• Sir James Wolfensohn – President of the World Bank (1995–2005)

Royalty[]

• Sikhanyiso Dlamini – Princess of Swaziland
• Taufa'ahau Tupou IV – King of Tonga

Governors-General of Australia[]

• Sir William Deane
• Sir John Kerr

State governors and Territory Administrators[]

• Dame Marie Bashir (NSW)
• Richard Butler (Tas)
• Peter Coleman (NF)
• Sir Roden Cutler (NSW)
• Tom Pauling (NT)
• Sir James Plimsoll (Tas)
• Sir James Rowland (NSW)

Politicians[]

Prime Ministers of Australia[]

• Tony Abbott
• Sir Edmund Barton
• John Howard
• Sir William McMahon
• Sir Earle Page
• Malcolm Turnbull
• Gough Whitlam

Premiers of New South Wales[]

• Mike Baird
• Sir Thomas Bavin
• Sir Joseph Carruthers
• John Fahey
• Sir George Fuller
• Nick Greiner
• Morris Iemma
• James McGirr
• Nathan Rees
• Sir Eric Willis
• Neville Wran

Federal politicians[]

• Anthony Albanese
• John Anderson
• Sir Garfield Barwick
• Lionel Bowen
• Sir Nigel Bowen
• Sir Percy Spender
• Kerry Bartlett
• Chris Bowen
• Bob Brown
• Ross Cameron
• Peter Coleman
• Craig Emerson
• Laurie Ferguson
• Martin Ferguson
• Jennie George
• Joe Hockey
• Tom Hughes
• Ros Kelly
• Peter King
• Andrew Laming
• Mark Latham
• Robert McClelland
• Daryl Melham
• Tsebin Tchen
• Danna Vale

Australian state and territory politicians[]

• Clare Martin (NT)
• George Thorn (QLD)

International politicians[]

• John Horgan – Premier of British Columbia
• Natalie Bennett – Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
• H. V. Evatt – President of the United Nations General Assembly
• Martin Indyk – former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, special assistant to U.S. President Bill Clinton and senior director of Near East and South Asian Affairs at the United States National Security Council
• Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes
• Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
• Dave Sharma – youngest ever Australian diplomat, becoming Ambassador to Israel at the age of 36
• Catherine West – Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
• Akhilesh Yadav – 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India
• Teh Cheang Wan – Minister of National Development, Singapore
• Alvin Tan – Minister of State, Singapore

Lord mayors of the City of Sydney[]

• Sir Emmet McDermott
• Nelson Meers
• Clover Moore
• Frank Sartor
• Lucy Turnbull

Public servants[]

• Tony Cole – thirteenth Secretary of the Department of the Treasury
• Philip Flood – fifth Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Devadas Krishnadas – author and socio-political commentator, former Singapore civil servant
• Neil McInnes AM – intellectual, journalist and senior public servant (Medicine and Physiology; did not graduate)^[11]
• Ewart Smith – campaigner against the Australia Card (LLB)^[12]
• Meredith Leigh – acting First Parliamentary Council ^[13]

• Sir Robert Garran
• Hugh Atkin
• Sir Edmund Barton
• Sir Garfield Barwick
• Tom Bathurst
• Virginia Bell
• Sir Maurice Byers
• Susan Crennan
• Sir William Portus Cullen
• Sir William Deane
• H. V. Evatt
• Mary Gaudron
• Murray Gleeson
• Sir Samuel Griffith
• William Gummow
• Sir Leslie James Herron
• Dyson Heydon
• Sir Kenneth Jacobs
• Sir Lawrence Jackson
• Sir Frederick Richard Jordan
• Sir John Kerr
• Michael Kirby
• Sir Frank Kitto
• Hugh Macrossan
• Sir Alan Mansfield
• Sir Anthony Mason
• Michael McHugh
• Sir Edward McTiernan
• Lionel Murphy
• Richard O'Connor
• Albert Piddington
• Sir George Rich
• Sir Percy Spender
• James Spigelman
• Sir Kenneth Whistler Street
• Sir Laurence Whistler Street
• Sir Philip Whistler Street
• Sir Alan Taylor
• Sir Cyril Walsh
• Sir Dudley Williams
• Sir Victor Windeyer

• Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman
• Major-General John Broadbent CBE ^[15]
• Major-General Paul Brereton – Head Cadet, Reserve and Employer Support Division
• Lieutenant General Sir Mervyn Brogan – Chief of the General Staff
• Brigadier Sir Frederick Oliver Chilton – led the Sydney Anzac Day March in his 100th year
• Roden Cutler – Victoria Cross recipient
• Major-General Sir Ivan Dougherty
• Major-General W B "Digger" James – Director-General of Army Medical Services
• Lieutenant General Sir Carl Jess
• Captain Gordon Grimsley King – commando leader awarded the Distinguished Service Order for action at the Battle of Kaiapit^[16]
• Lieutenant General James Legge – Chief of the General Staff
• Percy Storkey – Victoria Cross recipient
• Major General Mervyn Tan – Chief of Air Force, Republic of Singapore Air Force
• Major-General Sir Victor Windeyer

• Leo Ash – Bishop of Rockhampton
• Neville Chynoweth – Bishop of Gippsland
• Geoffrey Cranswick – Bishop of Tasmania
• George Cranswick – Bishop of Gippsland
• Hubert Cunliffe-Jones – former chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales
• Edwin Davidson – Bishop of Gippsland
• Glenn Davies – Archbishop of Sydney
• Anthony Fisher – Archbishop of Sydney
• Robert Forsyth – Bishop of South Sydney
• David Garnsey – Bishop of Gippsland
• Eric Gowing – Bishop of Auckland
• Arthur Green – Bishop of Ballarat
• William Hilliard – Bishop of Nelson
• Peter Jensen – Archbishop of Sydney
• Clive Kerle – Bishop of Armidale
• Sir Marcus Loane – Archbishop of Sydney
• Henry Newton – Bishop of New Guinea
• Anthony Howard Nichols – Bishop of North West Australia
• Donald Robinson – Archbishop of Sydney
• John Satterthwaite – Bishop of Gibraltar, Bishop of Fulham
• Ian Shevill – Bishop of Newcastle
• Father Joseph Patrick Slattery, C.M. – physicist, radiologist, pioneer in the field of radiography in Australia
• Peter Watson – Archbishop of Melbourne
• William Wright – Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle

• Brian Anderson
• David Craig
• Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – former president of The Royal Society; Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government
• Sir Gustav Nossal
• Jim Peacock – former President of Australian Academy of Science
• Michael Pitman
• Elizabeth Tasker – fire ecologist

• Nerilie Abram – climate scientist
• Elaine Baker - marine science and environment researcher; Director of the University of Sydney Marine Studies Institute
• Stephen Bourke – archaeologist of the ancient Near East
• V. Gordon Childe – culture-historical archaeology
• Peter Cockcroft – petroleum geologist, researcher
• Sir Edgeworth David – geologist and Antarctic explorer
• Basil Hennessy – archaeologist of the Ancient Near East
• Sir Douglas Mawson – geologist and Antarctic explorer
• Beryl Nashar – geologist; first female PhD in geology at an Australian university (UTas); first female Dean of an Australian university
• David O'Connor – Egyptologist
• Timothy Potts – art historian, archaeologist, and museum director
• Karin Sowada
• Griffith Taylor – Antarctic explorer; Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago; founder of the Geography department at the University of Toronto

• Robert Griffiths FRS – Professor of Mathematical Genetics at University of Oxford
• Peter Gavin Hall – Professor of Statistics at University of California, Davis
• John Harsanyi – Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994)
• Richard Holden – Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School
• Jan Kmenta – Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Michigan
• Kelvin Lancaster – creator of the theory of the second best and "A New Approach to Consumer Theory"; John Bates Clark Professor of Economics at Columbia University
• Graeme Milton – Professor of Mathematics at University of Utah, recipient of SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize and SIAM fellow
• Pat Moran – made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics
• Yew-Kwang Ng – economist at Monash University
• Graeme Segal FRS – Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry; Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge (1990–1999)^[19]
• Eugene Seneta – co-inventor of the Variance-gamma distribution
• Trevor Swan – economist best known for his work on the Solow-Swan Model
• Justin Wolfers – economist at Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business
• Eddie Woo – secondary school teacher and writer best known for his online mathematics lessons published on YouTube

• George Henry Abbott – surgeon and former Fellow University of Sydney
• Katie Louisa Ardill – first woman to be appointed as a divisional surgeon in New South Wales; among the first female doctors when she joined the British Expeditionary Forces in Egypt in 1915
• Nikos Athanasou – Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology at Oxford University and Greek-Australian novelist
• Samy Azer – Professor of Medical Education; international medical educator
• Maxwell Bennett – proved that nerve terminals on muscles release transmitter molecules, rather than just the noradrenaline and acetylcholine that were previously known
• Dame Valerie Beral (graduated with first-class honours in both medicine and surgery, 1969) – epidemiologist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Head of Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and Cancer Research UK since 1989^[20]
• Grace Boelke – general practitioner; one of the first two female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney
• Claudia Bradley MBE (1909–1967) – pharmacist, paediatrician, orthopaedist
• Jennifer Byrne – cancer research
• Janet Carr (1933–2014) – physiotherapist
• John Carter AO – endocrinologist and former president Australian Diabetes Society
• Victor Chang AC (1936–1991) – pioneer of modern heart transplantation
• Robert Clancy – developer of first oral vaccine for acute bronchitis
• Graeme Clark FRS – inventor of cochlear ear implant
• David A. Cooper AO – HIV/AIDS researcher and director of the Kirby Institute
• Grace Cuthbert-Browne MBE – doctor and Director of Maternal and Baby Welfare in the New South Wales Department of Public Health, 1937–1964
• Raymond Dart – anatomist and anthropologist, known for his discovery in 1924 of a fossil (first ever found) of Australopithecus africanus (extinct hominid closely related to humans)
• John Diamond – developer of Behavioral Kinesiology (now called Life-Energy Analysis), a system based upon applied kinesiology, incorporating the emotions
• Anna Donald (1966–2009) – pioneer and advocate of evidence-based medicine
• Rachael Dunlop – medical researcher and sceptic
• John Dwyer AO – Australian doctor, professor of medicine, and public health advocate.
• Creswell Eastman AM – Endocrinologist, professor of medicine, known for Iodine Deficiency Disorders research.
• Sir John Eccles – 1963 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology "for discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
• Peter Green – Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University
• Sir Norman Gregg – identified rubella in early pregnancy as a human teratogen
• Sir Henry Harris FRS – Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford; first demonstrated the existence of tumour-suppressing genes
• Freida Ruth Heighway (1907–1963) – obstetrician and gynaecologist
• Ken Hillman – intensive care physician
• Portia Holman – child psychiatrist
• David Hunter – Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard School of Public Health
• John Hunter – Challis Professor of Anatomy at age 24 years whose brilliant career, achieving international recognition, was cut short by fever just two years later
• Sir Keith Jones – surgeon and former president of the Australian Medical Association
• Sir Bernard Katz – 1970 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology "for discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation"
• Robert Kavanaugh – dentist and George Cross recipient
• Stephen W. Kuffler – "father of modern neuroscience"
• Max Lake – Australia's first specialist hand surgeon
• Gerald Lawrie – American heart surgeon and pioneer in the surgical treatment of valvular heart disease; performed the first mitral valve repair using the daVinci robotic surgical system; Methodist Hospital Michael E. Debakey Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine
• Sir Herbert Maitland – surgeon
• William McBride – obstetrician, who in 1961 first warned the medical world against thalidomide as a human teratogen
• Charles George McDonald – physician, army officer and academic
• Patrick McGorry – Australian of the Year 2010
• Wirginia Maixner – neurosurgeon, director of neurosurgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne; graduated in 1986
• Sir Michael Marmot – President of British Medical Association, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London; has conducted ground-breaking studies into stroke
• 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
• Stan Devenish Meares – former President Australian Council Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Donald Metcalf FRS – his research revealed the control of blood cell formation
• Errol Solomon Meyers – prominent Brisbane doctor; one of the founding fathers of the University of Queensland School of Medicine
• Jacques Miller FRS – discoverer of the function of the thymus (the last major organ of the human body whose function remained unknown)
• Sir William Morrow – former President Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Philip Nitschke – physician, humanist, author, founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International
• Sir Gustav Nossal FRS – immunologist, discoverer of the "one cell-one antibody" rule, which states that each B lymphocyte, developed in bone marrow, secretes a specific antibody in response to an encounter with a specific foreign antigen
• Mitchell Notaras – graduate who funded the $1.1 million Mitchel J Notaras Scholarship for Colorectal Medicine at the University of Sydney
• Susie O'Reilly – family doctor and obstetrician, noted for her rejected application for residency at Sydney Hospital in favour of male applicants in 1905 despite her excellent academic record
• Brian Owler – President of the Australian Medical Association
• Cecil Purser – former chairman Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
• Margery Scott-Young – surgeon
• Colin Sullivan – inventor of the Continuous Positive Airflow Pressure (CPAP) mask
• Mavis Sweeney – hospital pharmacist
• Frank Tidswell – former Director New South Wales Government Bureau of Microbiology and Director of Pathology at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
• Alan O. Trounson – President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
• John Turtle – former Kellion Professor of Endocrinology University of Sydney
• Nan Waddy – psychiatrist
• Harry Windsor – heart surgeon
• Donald Wood-Smith – Professor of Clinical Surgery Columbia University New York
• Jeannette Young – medical doctor and Chief Health Officer of Queensland

• 'Snowy' Baker – rugby union, diving, boxing, swimming and polo^[22][23]
• Nigel Barker – holder of Australia's first athletics world record, in the 370 metres (400 yd)
• Ken Catchpole^[a] – rugby union footballer, a state and national representative half-back
• Alex Chambers – professional mixed martial artist in the UFC^[24]
• Brendon Cook – international race car driver
• Chloe Dalton OAM – formed part of the first female rugby 7s team to win gold at the Olympic Games, 2016^[25]
• Caitlin De Wit – wheelchair basketball player
• Nick Farr-Jones – rugby union footballer
• Jessica Fox – French-born Australian slalom canoer, Olympic silver (K-1 slalom), world championships bronze (C-1)^[26]
• Peter Fuzes (born 1947) – association soccer player
• Scott Gourley – rugby union and rugby league
• Phil Hardcastle – rugby union footballer
• Peter Johnson – rugby player^[b]
• Tom Lawton, Snr – rugby union player
• Jack Metcalfe – whilst competing on Sydney University Oval on 14 December 1935, set a new world record in the triple jump, leaping 15.78 metres (51.8 ft)
• Herbert Moran – rugby union player
• Stirling Mortlock^[c] – rugby union player
• Dean Mumm^[d] – rugby union player
• Otto Nothling – rugby union and cricket player
• Ellyse Perry – cricket and football player
• Mike Pyke – rugby union player and Australian rules footballer
• Alex Ross – state and national representative rugby union player
• Kevin Ryan – rugby union and rugby league player^[e]
• John Solomon – rugby union player, a state and national representative versatile back
• Johnny Taylor – rugby union and cricket
• John Thornett^[f] – rugby union player
• Dick Tooth – rugby union footballer
• John Treloar – first Australian to reach an Olympic Games 100-metre (330 ft) final sprint
• Johnnie Wallace – rugby union player, a state and national representative three-quarter
• Phil Waugh – rugby union footballer
• Zhao Zong-Yuan – youngest Australian to become a chess Grandmaster. As of September 2019, he was the third-ranked active chess player in Australia.^[27]

• John Anderson – Challis professor of Philosophy
• Nadia Badawi AM – Chair of Cerebral Palsy
• Charles Badham – professor of Classics and Logic
• Noel Benson – demonstrator in the Department of Geology
• Alison Betts – professor of Silk Road Studies
• Quentin Bryce – principal of The Women's College, University of Sydney, 1997–2003; later Governor-General of Australia^[29]
• John Burnheim – professor of General Philosophy
• Gregory Chamitoff – adjunct professor; later astronaut
• James Crawford – Challis professor of International Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law; later justice of the International Court of Justice
• Keith Dobney - Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiries
• William A. Foley – professor of Linguistics; co-developer of Role and Reference Grammar
• Moira Gatens – Challis professor of philosophy
• Robert Gilbert – professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Key Centre for Polymer Colloids
• Enoch Powell – professor of Greek; later British politician
• Leo Radom – professor of Computational Chemistry
• John Smith – professor of Chemistry and Experimental Physics
• James Stewart – professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
• Julius Stone – Challis professor of Jurisprudence and International Law
• Yanis Varoufakis – senior lecturer in economics; later Finance Minister of Greece during the Greek Debt Crisis of 2015
• Roger Vaughan – rector of St John's College, University of Sydney – 1874–1877; later archbishop of Sydney
• George Winterton – professor of Constitutional Law
• Dinesh Wadiwel – senior lecturer in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies
• Dacheng Tao FAA – Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science