# List of Monash University people

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
* Josh Burns – Federal Member for Macnamara Parliament of Australia
* 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
* Carina Garland – Federal Member for Chisholm Parliament of Australia
* 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 finance minister of Malaysia
* 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 – former 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
* Luke Lazarus Arnold – Australian High Commissioner to Brunei

### 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, KC – 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
* Lex Lasry KC – 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
* Paul Yore – artist
* Don Watson – author
* Alan Wearne – poet
* Ilka White – textile artist
* David Williamson – playwright
* Shaun Wilson – artist
* Wendy Zukerman – podcast personality, science journalist

### Business

* Fiona Balfour – businesswoman, former Qantas and Telstra executive
* John F. O. Bilson – economist
* Mark Birrell – company director; former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology
* Terry Budge – banking executive, former Chancellor of Murdoch University
* Tony D'Aloisio – Chairman, Australian Securities & Investments Commission; former CEO, Australian Securities Exchange
* Henry Ergas – economist
* John A. Fraser – Chairman and CEO of Global Asset Management at UBS; former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury
* Josh Frydenberg – Treasurer of Australia
* Peter Ivany – media mogul and billionaire
* Margaret Jackson – first female Chairman of Qantas
* Ruslan Kogan – founder and CEO of Australia's biggest online retailer Kogan.com; co-founder of Milan Direct
* Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
* Tan Le – technology businesswoman, Young Australian of the Year
* Peter Lew – businessman
* Michael Luscombe – CEO and managing director, Woolworths
* Ian Macfarlane – economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996–2006)
* Paresh Narayan – economist
* Trevor O'Hoy – President and CEO, Foster's Group
* Pasuk Phongpaichit – economist, author, anti-corruption campaigner; recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
* Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
* Gary P. Sampson – World Trade Organization economist
* Graeme Samuel – Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
* Anna Skarbek – businesswoman and former investment banker
* Jannie Tay – Executive vice-chairman and co-founder of the Hour Glass; recipient of the 2003 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

### 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
* Mark Febbraio - physiologist
* Tim Flannery – biologist, author, 2007 Australian of the Year
* Kristine French – plant biologist and conservationist
* Peter Gibson – gastroenterologist who created the Low-FODMAP diet in collaboration with Susan Shepherd
* 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
* 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 – researcher and science educator
* Charles Clarke – botanist

### 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 KC, 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
* Andrekos Varnava – historian, writer, and professor at Flinders University
* Brian Weatherson – philosopher
* Beth Wilson – Victorian Health Services Commissioner

### Sport

* Catherine Arlove – Olympic judo competitor
* John Bertrand – yachtsman, skipper of Australia II
* Mordy Bromberg – former AFL footballer, barrister, current Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
* Travis Brooks – field hockey player, Olympic Games gold medallist
* Ashley Brown (born 1994) – footballer
* Nathan Burke – AFL footballer
* Alastair Clarkson – former AFL footballer, current Coach of the Hawthorn Football Club
* Tony Dodemaide – cricketer
* Ron Evans – AFL footballer and sports administrator
* Robby Foldvari – billiards and snooker player, world champion
* Brett Gosper – former member of the Australia national under-21 rugby union team; current CEO of the International Rugby Board
* Geoff Grover – former AFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)
* Lauren Hewitt – athlete
* Geoff Hunt – squash player, four-time world champion
* Janine Ilitch – netballer
* Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva (born 2002) - Olympic rhythmic gymnast
* Paul McNamee – tennis player, sports administrator, winner of Wimbledon and Australian Open
* Anna Millward, née Wilson – cyclist, world champion and world record holder
* Brenton Rickard – swimmer, Olympic silver medallist
* Anna Segal – Olympic freestyle skier and 2-time world champion
* Paul Trimboli – soccer player
* David Zalcberg – Olympic table tennis player, Commonwealth Games medallist

## 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 scholar
* 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
* Jo Douglass – medical researcher and academic, Officer of the Order of Australia
* 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
* Joanna Tully – forensic paediatrician; deputy director of the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service at the Royal Children's and Monash Children's hospitals
* Carl Wood – IVF pioneer

### Physical sciences

* Robert Bartnik – mathematician
* Jim Breen – computer scientist, known for his work on Japanese dictionary projects
* Damian Conway – computer scientist, Perl
* John Crossley – mathematician
* John Michael Cullen – ornithologist
* Vicki Gardiner – chemical engineer
* Richard Gunstone – physicist
* Kenneth H. Hunt – kinematics expert
* Vit Klemes – hydrologist
* 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

Note: After 1990, the Vice-Chancellor was also given the additional title of President.
| No. | Vice-Chancellor | Held Office | Notes |
| 1 | Louis Matheson | 1960–1976 | civil engineer |
| 2 | William Alexander Gowdie Scott | 1976–1977 | English literature |
| 3 | Raymond Martin | 1977–1987 | inorganic chemist |
| 4 | Mal Logan | 1987–1996 | urban planner and academic administrator |
| 5 | David Robinson | 1997–2002 | Controversial figure that was forced to resign in 2002 over alleged cases of plagiarism that he was accused to have committed during the 1970s and 1980s. |
| 6 | Peter Darvall | 2002–2003 | academic, civil engineer |
| 7 | Richard Larkins | 2003–2009 | physician, Order of Australia |
| 8 | Ed Byrne | 2009–2014 | neuroscientist |
| 9 | Margaret Gardner | 2014–2023 | industrial relations specialist, 30th Governor of Victoria |
| 10 | Sharon Pickering | 2024–present | social scientist |

### Chancellors

| No. | Chancellor | Held Office | Notes |
| 1 | Robert Blackwood | 1958–1968 | engineer |
| 2 | Douglas Menzies | 1968–1974 | judge |
| 3 | Richard Moulton Eggleston | 1975–1983 | judge |
| 4 | George Lush | 1983–1992 | judge |
| 5 | David William Rogers | 1992–1998 | lawyer |
| 6 | Jeremy (Jerry) Ellis | 1999–2007 | mining entrepreneur |
| 7 | Alan Finkel | 2008–2016 | 8th Chief Scientist of Australia, neuroscientist |
| 8 | Simon McKeon | 2016–present | lawyer |