# List of University of New South Wales alumni

This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni.

## Academia

* Toby Walsh, computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert
* Dijana Alić, architect and academic
* Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University from 2008 until 2014 (Mathematics)
* Gernot Heiser, John Lions chair and computer scientist
* Sharon Beder, arts academic (Engineering)
* Gareth Peters, endowed chair professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Statistics)
* Glyn Davis
, current Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne (Political science)
* John Deeble, Architect of Medicare Australia
* Rosalyn Diprose, philosopher and UNSW academic (Philosophy)
* Ross Fitzgerald AM, academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator (PhD Politics)
* Michael Fullilove, public and international policy academic, executive director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy (Arts/Law)
* David Gonski AC, prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Commerce/LLB)
* Atiqul Islam, accountant and current Vice-Chancellor of North South University, Bangladesh (Commerce)
* Koo Tsai Kee, Singaporean academic and former politician (Surveying)
* Chandran Kukathas, Malaysian-born Australian political theorist and academic (MA, Politics)
* Jane Stapleton, academic and Master at Christ's College, Cambridge
* Tony Vinson, Emeritus Professor, Education and Social Work

## Business

* Rodney Adler, former FAI Insurance chief executive
* Brad Banducci, CEO of Woolworths Group.
* Cheryl Bart AO, lawyer, company director and mountain climber (Commerce/LLB 1986)
* Mark Bouris, chairman of Yellow Brick Road and television personality
* Mike Cannon-Brookes, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian (Information Science)
* Frank Cicutto, CEO of National Australia Bank (Commerce)
* Paul Clitheroe AM, television presenter and businessman (Arts)
* Matt Comyn, CEO of Commonwealth Bank
* Roger Corbett AO, former chairman of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and a former CEO of Woolworths (Commerce)
* Douglas Daft AC, prominent Australian and US business executive who served as CEO of The Coca-Cola Company between 1999 and 2004; now a global non-executive director (Dipl.Admin)
* Satyajit Das, banker, author and academic (Law)
* John De Margheriti, software developer and entrepreneur, founding father of Australia's video games industry (Electrical engineering)
* Michael Easson AM, businessman and former union leader (Politics/History)
* Richard Farleigh, private investor (Economics)
* Scott Farquhar, entrepreneur, billionaire, and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian (Arts/Science)
* David Gonski AC, prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Commerce/LLB)
* John M. Green, deputy chairman of QBE Insurance; co-founder of Pantera Press; author
* Catherine Harris AO, PSM, co-founder and chairman of Harris Farm Markets and company director (Commerce)
* Philip Hercus, founder of International Catamaran Designs (Engineering)
* Grant King, managing director, Origin Energy (Engineering)
* David Lowy, non-executive deputy chairman of the Westfield Group
* Steven Lowy, group managing director of the Westfield Group
* Donald McDonald, former chairman of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
* Warwick McKibbin, Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of Australia; economist
* John Niland, director of Macquarie Group; Chairman of Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust; former Vice-Chancellor of UNSW Sydney
* John Prescott, former CEO of BHP
* Gregory G. Rose, principal engineer at Qualcomm (Engineering)
* George Savvides, managing director, Medibank Private (Engineering)
* Jillian Segal, non-executive director, National Australia Bank; Deputy Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Law)
* Gai Waterhouse, horse trainer and businesswoman

## Community activism

* Sharan Burrow, global union leader (Education)
* Eva Cox AO, writer, feminist, sociologist, social commentator and activist (Sociology)
* Louise Crossley, scientist and environmental activist (PhD)
* Karen Dawn, American animal rights and welfare advocate and writer (Psychology)
* Graeme Dunstan, cultural and political activist (Engineering)
* Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist; 2007 Australian of the Year (PhD Palaeontology)
* Peter Garrett, musician, social activist, former politician (LLB 1977)
* Heinz Harant, student activist and founder of the university's alumni association (Electrical engineering (Hons) 1955)
* Betty Kitchener AM, Australian mental health educator and consumer advocate

## Government
### Prime Ministers

* Scott Morrison, current Member for Cook and 30th Prime Minister of Australia

### State Premiers

* Gladys Berejiklian, former Premier of New South Wales (Commerce)
* Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales, former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, former politician, author (Arts)
* Stephen Hatton, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
* Campbell Newman, former Premier of Queensland, former politician

### Federal politicians

* Larry Anthony, former politician (Commerce)
* Mark Arbib, former politician (Arts)
* Vicki Bourne, former politician (Science)
* Bob Carr, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Premier of New South Wales, former politician, author (Arts)
* Alan Cadman, former politician (Agriculture)
* Jason Clare, current Member for Blaxland, former Minister for Home Affairs and former Minister for Defence Materiel (Arts/Law)
* David Coleman, current Member for Banks (Arts/Law)
* Greg Combet, former politician and trade unionist (Engineering)
* Mehreen Faruqi, current Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Environmental Engineering)
* David Fawcett, current Senator for South Australia and former Army officer (Science)
* Michael Forshaw, former politician (Law)
* Jason Falinski, current Member for Mackellar (MBA)
* Peter Garrett AM, musician, social activist, former politician (LLB 1977)
* Michael Hatton former politician (Arts)
* Andrew Hastie, current Member for Canning, retired Army officer
* Mike Kelly AO, current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer (PhD Law)
* Craig Laundy, former Member for Reid (Economics)
* Michael Lee, former politician (Electrical Engineering)
* Julian Leeser, current Member for Berowra (LLB)
* Sussan Ley, current Member for Farrer, former Minister for Health and Ageing
* Ted Mack, former politician (Architecture)
* Louise Markus, former politician (Arts)
* Stephen Mutch, former politician (LLB)
* Gary Nairn, former politician
* Kerry Nettle, former politician
* Andrew Nikolic, former politician and retired Army officer (Management)
* Melissa Parke, former United Nations senior lawyer, former politician (Law)
* Marise Payne, current Senator for New South Wales and former Minister for Defence
* Lee Rhiannon, former Senator for New South Wales and former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Science)
* Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Army officer (Arts)

### Australian state and territory politicians

* Jack Beale, former politician (Engineering)
* Stephen Bromhead, former Member for Myall Lakes (M.Law)
* Arthur Chesterfield-Evans, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Science)
* Ian Cohen, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Arts/DipEd)
* Kevin Conolly, current Member for Riverstone (Arts)
* Paul Crittenden former Member for Wyong (Commerce)
* Mehreen Faruqi, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales (Environmental Engineering)
* Luke Foley, former Member for Auburn and NSW Leader of the Opposition (Arts)
* Bryce Gaudry, former politician and teacher (Arts)
* Alex Greenwich, current Member for Sydney (Arts)
* Sylvia Hale, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council (LLB 1998)
* Brad Hazzard, former Member for Wakehurst (Law)
* Courtney Houssos, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Arts)
* Andrew Humpherson, former Member for Davidson (Chemical Engineering)
* Trevor Khan, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (LLB/B.Juris.)
* Sonya Kilkenny, current Member for Carrum in the Victorian Legislative Assembly (BA/LLB 1995)
* Ernie Page, former politician
* Doug Parkinson, former politician in Tasmania
* Eleni Petinos, Member for Miranda (LLB 2011)
* Lee Rhiannon, former Member of the NSW Legislative Council and current Senator for New South Wales (Science)
* Eric Roozendaal, former Treasurer of New South Wales and former politician (Law)
* Penny Sharpe, current Member of the NSW Legislative Council (Food Technology)
* Gabrielle Upton, current Member for Vaucluse (Arts/Law)

#### International politicians

* Jackie Chan, former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Engineering)
* Andrew Cheng, Hong Kong politician, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Law)
* Chua Tian Chang, Malaysian politician, current Member of Parliament for the Batu constituency (Philosophy)
* Emil Dardak, Vice Governor of East Java
* Mehdi Ghazanfari, former Iranian politician
* Meutya Hafid, Indonesian politician, member of People's Representative Council, former journalist
* Foo Mee Har, Singaporean politician, Member of Parliament for the West Coast Group constituency (Science)
* Koo Tsai Kee, former Singaporean politician and academic (Surveying)
* Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fijian politician and current Attorney General of Fiji (LLB)
* Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development of Singapore
* Jeremy Tam, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong, airline pilot (Engineering)

#### Australian local government politicians

* Kathryn Greiner AO, former Alderman of the City of Sydney and social advocate (Social Work)
* Lucy Turnbull, former Lord Mayor of Sydney (MBA)

### Public servants

* Michele Bruniges AM, current secretary of the Department of Education and Training (Education)
* Elizabeth Broderick, former Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner (Law)
* Ian Campbell AO, PSM, former secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Economics)
* Jeff Harmer AO, former secretary of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (BA (Hons), DipEd, PhD)
* Ken Henry AC, economist and former secretary of The Treasury (Economics)
* John Holloway, former diplomat and public servant (Arts)
* Frank Howarth PSM, former director of the Australian Museum (MSc Soc)
* Robyn Kruk AM, former secretary of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and a director-general of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet (Science [Honours])
* Patrick Lawless, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Brazil (LLB)
* Damien Miller, Australian diplomat, current Ambassador to Denmark, Norway and Iceland (Arts/Law)
* Anne-Marie Schwirtlich AM, Director-General of the National Library of Australia

### Other public figures

* Bruce Hawker, political pundit, political writer, political consultant, political advisor (LLB)
* Janette Howard, spouse of the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard (Arts)

## Humanities
### Architecture

* Philip Cox, architect and entrepreneur, founder of COX Architects (Science)
* Richard Johnson AO, MBE, architect, best known as the creator of some of the Australian most important and iconic cultural buildings and spaces (Architecture, 1969)

### Arts

* Del Kathryn Barton, visual artist
* Matt Carroll, Australian film and television producer
* Queenie Chan, Chinese-Australian comic artist (Computer Programming)
* Barbara Cleveland, Australian contemporary performance artist
* Judith Clingan AM, composer, conductor, performer and music educator
* Adam Cullen, visual artist (Fine Arts)
* John Davis, documentary filmmaker, mountaineer, television producer, chemical engineer (Science)
* Marta Dusseldorp, actor (Film/Theatre)
* Anne Ferran, photographer (Fine Arts)
* David Fung, concert pianist (MB BS)
* Francis Giacco, visual artist (Architecture)
* Shaun Gladwell, visual artist
* Gordon Hanley, visual artist
* Noel Hodda, actor, writer, dramaturge, director and teacher (Acting)
* Frank Howarth, geologist, Director of the Australian Museum
* Byron Kennedy, film producer
* Amber Lawrence, singer, songwriter
* Stephanie Lemelin, Canadian actress
* Lenka, born Lenka Kripac, singer
* Yaron Lifschitz, theatre director
* George Miller, movie producer, television screenwriter, producer and director of Happy Feet
* Gregory Charles Rivers, Hong Kong actor
* Emile Sherman, Oscar winner, film producer (Arts/Law)
* Glenn Sorensen, Australia-born, Sweden artist
* Rebel Wilson, actress, writer, and producer (Arts/LLB 2009)

### History

* John Blaxland, Australian historian, academic, and former Australian Army officer (Arts)
* Tim Cook CM, Canadian military historian and author (PhD)
* Jeffrey Grey, former Australian military historian and academic (PhD Military history)
* David Horner AM, Australian military historian and academic (M.Arts [Honours])

### Journalism

* Jordan Shanks, Political commentator
* Bettina Arndt, sex therapist and journalist
* Monica Attard OAM, award-winning journalist and Australian Broadcasting Corporation host (LLB)
* Richard Carleton, television journalist (Commerce)
* Allan Hogan, investigative journalist and television producer (Commerce)
* Craig James, economic journalist and economist, currently chief economist with Commsec (Commerce/Economics)
* Debbie Kruger, Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer (BA/MA)

### Literature, writing and poetry

* Jack Bedson, writer, children's author, poet and academic librarian
* Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal writer and academic (LLB/B.Juri 1992)
* Alex Buzo, pioneer playwright
* Melissa Chiu, museum director, curator writer
* Tim Cook, historian and author
* Michael Dransfield, poet
* Suzanne Falkiner, writer (Arts)
* Susanne Gervay, author of young adult fiction (Education)
* John M. Green, author and publisher
* Anita Heiss, author, presenter and commentator (Arts/History)
* Tristan Jepson, comedic writer (LLB)
* Drusilla Modjeska, writer
* Matthew Reilly, author (Law)
* Pamela Stephenson, comedian/writer
* Natalie Tran, producer, actress, comedian, writer
* Rebel Wilson, actress, comedian and writer (Law)
* Markus Zusak, writer

### Philosophy

* Khosrow Bagheri, Iranian philosopher
* Rosalyn Diprose, Australian philosopher and academic (Philosophy)
* Moira Gatens, Australian academic

### Law
#### Judges and magistrates

* Bob Bellear, Australia's first indigenous District Court judge (LLB 1978)
* Annabelle Bennett AO, SC, chancellor of Bond University and former Federal Court judge (LLB)
* Chris Craigie SC, District Court judge and former Director of Public Prosecutions
* Ros Croucher AM, lawyer and academic, incoming president of the Australian Human Rights Commission (PhD Legal history)
* Karin Emerton, Victorian Supreme Court judge (LLB)
* Anna Katzmann, current Federal Court judge (LLB)
* Megan Latham, current Supreme Court of New South Wales judge (BA/LLB 1979)
* Robert McClelland, Family Court judge and former Commonwealth Attorney-General (BA/LLB 1981)
* Anthony Meagher, current judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Commerce/LLB)
* Helen Murrell SC, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory
* Matthew Myers AM, Federal Circuit Court Judge and Commissioner Australian Law Reform Commission
* John Nicholas, Federal Court judge (BA/LLB)
* Pat O'Shane AM, teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist, Aboriginal activist; Australia's first Aboriginal magistrate; former chancellor of the University of New England (LLB 1976)

#### Other legal professionals

* Stuart Fuller, legal partner in the banking and finance team at law firm King & Wood Mallesons (Commerce/Law)
* Stuart Littlemore QC, barrister, writer and original host of ABC's Media Watch (Law)
* George Newhouse, human rights lawyer and a former local councillor (Commerce/Law)

## Military

* Peter Abigail, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general
* Tim Barrett AO, CSC, current Australian Chief of Navy, ranked vice admiral
* Greg Bilton AM, CSC, current Australian Army officer serving as Deputy Chief of Joint Operations, ranked major general
* Rick Burr AO, DSC, MVO, current Australian Army officer serving as Chief of Army, ranked lieutenant general
* John Caligari AO, DSC, retired Australian Army officer, ranked lieutenant general (Arts/Defence Studies)
* John Cantwell, AO, DSC, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general
* Allan du Toit AM, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked real admiral (Defence/Strategic Studies)
* Gus Gilmore AO, DSC, current Australian Army officer, serving as Head of Military Strategic Commitments Division, ranked major general (Arts)
* James Goldrick AO, CSC, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked rear admiral (Arts)
* Ian Gordon AO, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general (Science/Military Studies, 1973)
* John Harvey, retired Royal Australian Air Force officer, ranked air marshal (Architecture/Psychology/Information Science)
* Andrew Hastie, current Member for Canning, retired Australian Army officer
* Peter Jones AO, DSC, retired Australian Navy officer, ranked vice admiral (BA/MA)
* Mark Kelly AO, DSC, retired Australian Army officer, ranked major general (BA/MA)
* Mike Kelly AO, current Member for Eden-Monaro, retired Australian Army officer (PhD Law)
* David Kilcullen, Australian author, strategist and global counterinsurgency expert; retired Australian Army officer, ranked lieutenant colonel (BA, PhD)
* Andrew Nikolic, former politician and retired Australian Army officer (Management)
* Stuart Robert, current Member for Fadden, former Australian Army officer (Arts)

## Popular culture

* Amy Lyons – Internet personality in China
* Sam Chui – World's most popular Aviation Blogger based in United Arab Emirates
* Pranav Mohanlal – Malayalam film actor

## Religious leaders

* Peter Chiswell, Anglican bishop, formerly the Bishop of Armidale
* Tom Frame, Anglican bishop, historian, academic, author and social commentator (Arts/PhD)
* Peter Hayward, Anglican bishop, currently serving as the Bishop of Wollongong (Civil Engineering)
* Brian King, former Anglican assistant bishop in the Diocese of Sydney (Theology)
* Julian Leow Beng Kim, current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur (Building)

## Sciences
### Biology

* Mark Burgman, ecologist (Science)
* Jessie Christiansen, exoplanetologist
* Bernard d'Abrera, entomological taxonomist and philosopher of science (Arts with majors in History/Science)
* Steve Donnellan, biologist and chief research scientist of the Evolutionary Biology Unit at the South Australian Museum (Science)
* Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist; 2007 Australian of the Year (PhD Palaeontology)
* Levon Khachigian, vascular cell and molecular biologist and academic (B.Science (Honours), PhD, D.Science)
* Zinnia Kumar, evolutionary biologist, ecologist and fashion model (B. Advanced Science [Honours])
* Alan O. Trounson, biologist
* Camille Goldstone-Henry, Wildlife Scientist

### Chemistry

* Rose Amal, chemical engineer
* Gordon Aylward, chemist and author
* Naiyyum Choudhury, Bangladeshi biochemist, founding Chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) (Biotechnology)
* Kathryn Fagg AO (M.Com.), chemical engineer, chair of the CSIRO from 2021

### Computer scientists

* Clive Finkelstein, computer scientist, known as the "father" of information technology engineering (Science)
* Carsten Haitzler, computer scientist, creator of Enlightenment
* Gernot Heiser, operating systems and ACM Fellow
* Adam Kennedy, computer scientist
* Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, first Thai elected to IEEE Fellow; current President of Mahanakorn University of Technology; Thailand's Minister of Information and Communication Technologies
* Claude Sammut, computer scientist
* Raj Reddy, computer scientist, Turing Award

### Engineering

* Julie Cairney, Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
* Michael Collins, Canadian structural engineer (PhD)
* Saeid Eslamian, Iranian hydrologist (Engineering)
* Ron Fitch, railway executive and railway engineer (PhD)
* Graham Goodwin, Australian electrical engineer and academic (Science, 1964; PhD, 1970)
* Saul Griffith, Australian American inventor and material science mechanical engineer (Mechanical Engineering, 1997)
* Sam Michael, sporting director of McLaren (Engineering)
* Jim May, CEO of AMIRA, Chemical Engineer and Metallurgist
* Stuart Wenham, Director of ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, UNSW Australia (Engineering)

### Mathematics and economics

* Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University from 2008 until 2014 (Mathematics)
* Lynne Billard, statistician and US academic (Science)
* Lawrie Brown, cryptographer and computer security researcher (Mathematics)
* Stephen Duckett, health economist (Health Administration/PhD)

### Medicine

* Samy Azer, international medical educator (Medicine)
* Julie Campbell, vascular biologist
* David A. Cooper, HIV/AIDS researcher and immunologist
* Sir Richard Feachem KBE, global public health administrator and anti-malaria activist (PhD in Environmental Health)
* Peter Fricker OAM, sports physician and administrator (MB BS)
* Michelle Haber AM, paediatric cancer researcher (Psychology, PhD [Pathology])
* Louise Maple-Brown FAHMS, endocrinologist and clinical researcher
* Steven Krilis, immunologist
* Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon

#### Other medical sciences

* John Ball, cognitive scientist
* Julie Campbell, vascular biologist and current Director of the Centre for Research in Vascular Biology at the University of Queensland (Physiology)
* David Cooper AO, FAA, Australian HIV/AIDS researcher, immunologist, professor at the University of New South Wales, and the director of the Kirby Institute (Medicine)
* Gordon Parker, psychiatrist

### Physics

* Joan Adler, computational physicist
* Murray Batchelor, mathematical physicist
* Karl Kruszelnicki, physicist, medical practitioner, and science communicator (Biomedical Engineering)
* John Pyke, physicist and retired law lecturer (LLB)

## Service sector

* Huen Su Yin, Malaysian blogger and cake designer (Construction Management)

## Sport

* Sally Bennett, sabre fencer
* Matt Carroll AM, sports administrator and current chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee (Construction)
* Todd Greenberg, sports administrator and current chief executive of the National Rugby League (Sports Science)
* Andrew Jones, sports administrator and current chief executive of Cricket NSW (BA/LLB)
* Phil Kearns AM, former rugby union international; former Wallabies captain (Arts)
* Tadhg Kennelly, former Australian rules football who played for the Sydney Swans
* Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-born Australian cricketer (Aviation)
* Geoff Lawson, cricketer
* Ewen McKenzie, current coach of the Queensland Reds
* Simon Poidevin, former Wallabies captain
* Marshall Rosen, cricketer
* Jane Saville, 2004 Summer Olympics medallist
* Michael Slater, cricketer
* Mark Taylor, cricketer (Australia's 39th test captain), Australian of the Year 1999
* Richard Walsh, professional mixed martial artist
* Michael Wenden, swimming champion, 1968 Summer Olympics gold medallist (two gold, one silver, one bronze)