# List of Australian National University people

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
* 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
* 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
* Pamela Gutman, Burmese art historian

### Business

* John Bryant, CEO of Kellogg's
* Cheong Choong Kong, former CEO of Singapore Airlines and current Chairman of OCBC Bank
* Swarnim Wagle, economist from Nepal, worked in World Bank and Asian Development Bank, former vice chairman of National Planning Commission of Nepal
* Chris Corrigan, former CEO of Patrick Corporation and current Chairman of Qube Holdings
* Sam Prince, founder of Zambrero, one of the largest Australian fast food restaurant franchise serving Mexican cuisine

### 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 2005-2022
* 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 2004-2019
* 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 2013-2022
* Warwick Smith, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1984–1998; Federal Minister 1996–1998
* Warren Snowdon, Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1987-2022; 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, 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

* Michael Pettersson, Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016
* 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
* Chris Steel, Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016
* 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

* 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
* Paul Dibb, Director of the Joint Intelligence Organisation 1986–1988 and Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence of the Department of Defence 1988–1991
* 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
* 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 & Consumer Commission
* Dennis Trewin, Head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2000–2007
* Nick Warner, Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service

##### Diplomats

* 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
* Cristelle Pratt, Assistant Secretary-General for the Environment and Climate Action, Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
* 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 United Nations Assistant Secretary General; founding member of the Doug Anthony Allstars
* Mai Sato, United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran

##### 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
* Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala, the Crown Prince of Tonga since 2012

### Law
#### Justices of the High Court of Australia

* Stephen Gageler, Chief Justice of Australia since 2023; Justice of the High Court of Australia since 2012; Solicitor-General of Australia 2008–2012

#### 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

* Peter Buchanan, Judge 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, Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland since 2000
* Geoffrey Nettle, Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria since 2002
* Janine Pritchard, Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia since 2010

#### President of the Chamber of the Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand

* Rathakit Manathat, President of the Chamber of the Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand since 2022

#### Federal Magistrates of Australia

* John Pascoe, Chief Federal Magistrate of Australia since 2004

#### Legal practitioners

* Tupou Draunidalo, Fijian Lawyer
* 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
* 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
* Emma Holland, comedian
* Geoffrey Lancaster, classical pianist and conductor
* Henry Nixon, actor
* Tim Rogers, musician
* Richard Roxburgh, actor
* Nagita Slavina, Indonesian actress
* Adam Spreadbury-Maher, theatre director and producer
* Katia Tiutiunnik, composer
* Sally Whitwell, ARIA Award-winning pianist

#### Journalism and media

* Bettina Arndt, journalist
* 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
* Matussin Omar, writer
* Debra Oswald, scriptwriter
* Guy Pearse, author
* Gayla Reid, writer
* Pierre Ryckmans, writer, translator, sinologist
* 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

* Jessie Christiansen, exoplanetologist
* Don VandenBerg, astronomer

#### Biology

* Nerilie Abram, climate scientist
* Leanne Armand, marine scientist
* Ian Brooker, botanist
* Kirsten Parris, urban ecologist
* Susanne von Caemmerer, plant physiologist

#### 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
* Sir William Liley, perinatal physiologist
* Adrian Liston, immunologist
* 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

* Brian George Farran, bishop
* Bettina Gorton, wife of John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia (1968–71)
* James Popple, CEO of the Law Council of Australia
* Naomi Rono, World Bank advisor
* Teretia Tokam, women's rights activist
* 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
* Patrick Atiyah, English barrister and legal writer
* Arthur Llewellyn Basham, South Asian historian
* Michael Barnsley, mathematician and entrepreneur
* Bronwyn Parry, Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences
* 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
* Roderic Broadhurst, criminal justice practitioner, academic, and author
* 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
* Lew Mander, organic chemist
* Henry Evans Maude, anthropologist
* Achdiat Karta Mihardja, novelist and writer
* 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
* Sir Ernest Titterton, nuclear physicist
* 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

* Phyllis Duguid, teacher, Aboriginal and women's rights advocate.

## 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 |
| 1 | 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne CH, MC, PC | 1951 | 1961 | 9–10 years |
| 2 | Sir John Cockcroft OM, KCB, CBE | 1961 | 1965 | 3–4 years |
| 3 | Lord Florey OM | 1965 | 1968 | 2–3 years |
| 4 | Dr. H. C. Coombs | 1968 | 1976 | 7–8 years |
| 5 | Sir John Crawford AC, KBE | 1976 | 1984 | 7–8 years |
| 6 | Sir Richard Blackburn OBE | 1984 | 1987 | 2–3 years |
| 7 | Sir Gordon Jackson AK | 1987 | 1990 | 2–3 years |
| 8 | Sir Geoffrey Yeend AC, CBE | 1990 | 1994 | 3–4 years |
| 9 | Peter Baume AC | 1994 | 2006 | 11–12 years |
| 10 | Allan Hawke AC | 2006 | 31 December 2008 (2008-12-31) | 1–2 years |
| 11 | Kim Beazley AC | 1 January 2009 (2009-01-01) | 31 December 2009 (2009-12-31) | 1 year, 0 days |
| 12 | Gareth Evans AC, QC | 1 January 2010 (2010-01-01) | 31 December 2019 (2019-12-31) | 10 years, 0 days |
| 13 | Julie Bishop | 1 January 2020 (2020-01-01) | incumbent | 5 years, 20 days |

### Vice-Chancellors

| Order | Vice-Chancellor | Term start | Term end | Time in office |
| 1 | Sir Douglas Copland | 11 May 1948 (1948-05-11) | 1953 | 4–5 years |
| 2 | Sir Leslie Melville | 1953 | 1960 | 6–7 years |
| 3 | Sir Leonard Huxley | 30 September 1960 (1960-09-30) | 1967 | 6–7 years |
| 4 | Sir John Crawford | 1968 | 1973 | 4–5 years |
| 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 |
| 8 | Lawrence Walter Nichol | 1988 | 1993 | 4–5 years |
| 9 | Deane Terrell | 1994 | 31 December 2000 (2000-12-31) | 6–7 years |
| 10 | Ian Chubb | 1 January 2001 (2001-01-01) | 2011 | 9–10 years |
| 11 | Ian Young | 2011 | 31 December 2015 (2015-12-31) | 4–5 years |
| 12 | Brian Schmidt | 1 January 2016 (2016-01-01) | 31 December 2023 (2023-12-31) | 9 years, 20 days |
| 13 | Genevieve Bell | 1 January 2024 (2024-01-01) | incumbent | |