# List of University of Tasmania people

This is an incomplete list of University of Tasmania people, including alumni and staff.

## Alumni
### Academia

* Ed Byrne, Principal of King's College London
* Peter Conrad, literary academic and author
* Rodney Croome, AM, academic and LGBT rights activist
* Peter Forrest, philosopher
* Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
* Jeff Malpas, philosopher
* Michael Tate, AO, Catholic priest, legal scholar and former Labor politician
* Helen Tiffin, post-colonial theorist

### Business

* Andrew MacLeod, businessman, author, former humanitarian lawyer and aid worker
* Capt. Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports
* Saul Eslake, economist

### Government
#### Vice-Regal

* Stanley Burbury, past Governor of Tasmania
* William Cox, past Governor of Tasmania
* Sir Guy Green, past Governor of Tasmania
* Peter Underwood, past Governor of Tasmania
* Kate Warner, AM, legal academic and current Governor of Tasmania

#### Politics
##### Federal politicians

* Eric Abetz, Liberal politician
* Neal Blewett AC, former Labor politician
* Ross Hart, former Labor politician
* Michael Hodgman QC, former Liberal politician and barrister
* Justine Keay, former Labor politician
* Christine Milne AO, former leader of the Australian Greens
* Ben Small, former Liberal politician

##### State Premiers

* David Bartlett, former Premier of Tasmania
* Michael Field, former Premier of Tasmania
* Lara Giddings, Labor politician and former Premier of Tasmania
* Will Hodgman, Liberal politician and former Premier of Tasmania

##### State and territory politicians

* Guy Barnett, Liberal politician
* Sir Max Bingham, QC, former Deputy Premier and Opposition Leader of Tasmania
* David Bushby, Liberal politician
* Roy Fagan, former barrister and Deputy Premier of Tasmania
* Mike Gaffney, Independent MLC
* Adrian Gibson, OAM, former Liberal politician and barrister
* Sue Napier, former Liberal politician
* Michelle O'Byrne, Labor politician
* Ros Spence, Labor politician

##### Other politicians

* Sue Hickey, Lord Mayor of Hobart
* Albert Van Zetten, Mayor of Launceston
* Hannah Yeoh, Malaysian politician, Minister of Youth and Sports (Malaysia)
* Halimah Ali, Malaysian politician, MP for Kapar

#### Public servants

* Ashton Calvert, AC, former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Rhodes Scholar
* Stephen Gumley, CEO of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation
* Philip Haddon-Cave, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong
* Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed, SAARC Secretary-General

### Humanities
#### Arts

* Anthony Ackroyd, comedian, speaker and writer
* Courtney Barnett, musician
* Rianti Cartwright, actress, model and presenter of MTV Indonesia
* John Clark, former director of NIDA
* Ian Cresswell, composer
* Essie Davis, film actress
* Matthew Dewey, composer
* Hannah Gadsby, comedian
* Roger Hodgman, director
* Constantine Koukias, composer
* Michael Lampard, opera singer, conductor and composer
* Geoffrey Lancaster, classical pianist
* Andrew Legg, ARIA-award nominated musician
* Raffaele Marcellino, composer
* Luke McGregor, comedian and actor
* Graeme Murphy, AO, ballet dancer and choreographer
* Robyn Nevin, AM, actress, director and former head of the Sydney Theatre Company
* Tom Samek, painter, stage designer and printmaker
* Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor
* Megan Walch, artist
* David Walsh, founder of the Museum of Old and New Art
* Shaun Wilson, artist and film director

#### History

* Marilyn Lake, historian
* Henry Reynolds, historian

#### Journalism and media

* John J. Smithies, founding director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
* Charles Wooley, television journalist

#### Literature, writing and poetry

* Ivy Alvarez, author and poet
* Tim Bowden, author and journalist
* Helene Chung Martin, author and journalist
* Stephen Edgar, poet
* Richard Flanagan, author and film director; Rhodes Scholar
* Christopher Koch, author of The Year of Living Dangerously
* Amanda Lohrey, author and academic
* Christobel Mattingley, author
* Margaret Scott, author and poet
* Aaron Smith, author and journalist
* Vivian Smith, poet
* Danielle Wood, author
* Tansy Rayner Roberts, author

### Law

* Damian Bugg, former Commonwealth and Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions
* Enid Campbell, AO, legal scholar, first Australian female professor and law school dean
* Chief Justice Ewan Crawford, Former Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania
* Stephen Estcourt, QC, Tasmanian Supreme Court judge
* Philip Lewis Griffiths, Acting Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea
* Hon Justice Peter Heerey, Federal Court Judge
* Andrew Inglis Clark, principal author of the Australian Constitution, barrister, politician and judge
* Leo Keke, first Nauruan lawyer, Nauruan MP (1976-1980)
* Duncan Kerr, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and former Attorney-General of Australia
* Michael Mansell, Aboriginal rights activist and criminal lawyer
* Davendra Pathik, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji
* David Mitchell, former Solicitor-general of Lesotho, Tasmanian representative at the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998 and procurator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia

### Sciences

* Abigail Barrows, marine research scientist
* Noel Benson, geologist
* Geoffrey Charles Bratt, chemist and lichenologist
* Edward Byrne, neuroscientist, Principal of King's College, London; former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
* John Donaldson, applied mathematics academic; father of Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
* Richard Dowden, noted geo- and astrophysicist
* Theodore Thomson Flynn, biologist and professor of biology; father of Errol Flynn
* Genevieve Gates, mycologist, ecologist, and taxonomist who is particularly focused on the fungal diversity of Tasmania.
* Sir Leonard Huxley, physicist
* Catherine King, ecotoxicologist, Antarctic researcher
* Kenneth G. McCracken, physicist and winner of the Pawsey Medal
* Jessica Melbourne-Thomas, marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division
* David Paver Mellor, inorganic chemist
* Beryl Nashar, geologist and first female PhD in geology, first female Dean of a School in Australia

### Sports

* George Bailey, Australian cricketer
* Brendon Bolton, senior coach of the Carlton Football Club
* Scott Brennan, gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics for rowing
* Peter Daniel, former Essendon footballer
* Simon Hollingsworth, former athlete and CEO of the Australian Sports Commission; Rhodes Scholar
* Kerry Hore, Olympic rower
* Hamish Peacock, Olympic javelin thrower
* Meaghan Volker, Olympic rower
* Denis Scanlon, former Essendon footballer

### Other

* Phillip Aspinall, Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia
* Simon Longstaff, Executive Director of the St James Ethics Centre
* Michael Lynch, evangelist and Christian blogger
* Bill Mollison, "father of permaculture"
* Brodie Neill, industrial designer
* Helen Szoke, Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia, former Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner and former Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner

## Administration
### Chancellors

| Order | Chancellor | Years |
| 1 | The Hon. Sir William Lambert Dobson | 1890–1898 |
| 2 | The Reverend George Clarke | 1898–1907 |
| 3 | The Hon. Sir John Stokell Dodds, KCMG | 1907–1914 |
| 4 | The Hon. Tetley Gant, CMG | 1914–1924 |
| 5 | The Hon. Sir (Neil) Elliott Lewis, KCMG | 1924–1933 |
| 6 | Mr William Stops | 1933–1944 |
| 7 | The Hon. Sir John Demetrios Morris, KCMG | 1944–1956 |
| | Mr Cecil Roy Baker, OBE | 1953 (acting) |
| 8 | The Hon. Sir Henry Seymour Baker, KCMG, DSO | 1956–1963 |
| 9 | Sir Henry Beaufort Somerset, CBE | 1964–1972 |
| 10 | Sir (Eustace) John Cameron, CBE | 1973–1981 |
| 11 | Sir (John) Peter Lloyd | 1982–1985 |
| 12 | The Hon. Sir Guy Green, AC, KBE, CVO | 1985–1995 |
| 13 | The Hon. Mr Justice William Zeeman | 1995 (acting), 1996–1998 |
| | Ms Kimbra Boyer | 1998 (acting) |
| 14 | Dr Michael Vertigan, AC | 1998–2006 |
| 15 | Mr Damian Bugg, AM, QC | 2006–2012 |
| 16 | The Hon. Michael Field, AC | 2013–June 2021 |
| 17 | Ms Alison Watkins | 21 June 2021 – present |

### Vice-Chancellors

| Order | Vice-Chancellor | Years |
| 1 | George Clarke | 1890–1898 |
| 2 | James Backhouse Walker | 1898–1899 |
| 3 | Thomas Stephens | 1900–1901 |
| 4 | Andrew Inglis Clark, KCMG | 1901–1903 |
| 5 | Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, KCMG | 1903–1909 |
| 6 | Tetley Gant, CMG | 1909–1914 |
| 7 | William Stops | 1914–1933 |
| 8 | Robert Dunbabin | 1933–1933 |
| 9 | E. Morris Miller, CBE | 1933–1945 |
| 10 | Alan Burn | 1945–1949 |
| 11 | Torleiv Hytten, CMG | 1949–1957 |
| 12 | Keith Isles, CMG | 1957–1969 |
| 13 | Sir George Cartland, CMG | 1969–1977 |
| 14 | David Caro, AO OBE | 1977–1982 |
| 15 | Alec Lazenby, AO | 1982–1990 |
| 16 | Alan Gilbert, AO | 1991–1996 |
| 17 | Don McNicol | 1996–2002 |
| 18 | Daryl Le Grew, AO | 2003–2010 |
| 19 | Peter Rathjen | 2011–2017 |
| 20 | Rufus Black | 2018–present |

## Faculty

* Thomas Bavin, law academic and past Premier of New South Wales
* David Bollard, classical pianist
* Angela Christine Bridgland (former lecturer at TCAE), library educator
* Barry Brook, environmental sustainability academic
* Hans Adolph Buchdahl, physicist
* Douglas Copland, economist
* Rodney Croome, LGBT advocate and academic
* Winifred Curtis, botanist, author and plant science academic
* Robert Delbourgo, physicist
* John Dalgleish Donaldson, mathematics academic
* Roy Fagan, law academic and past Deputy Premier of Tasmania
* John Field, senior army officer and engineering academic
* Theodore Thomson Flynn, biologist, father of Errol Flynn
* Adrian Franklin, sociologist and television personality
* Barbara R. Holland, mathematics academic
* Peter D. Jarvis, physicist
* Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Gareth Koch, classical guitarist
* E. E. Kurth, chemistry academic
* Delphine Lannuzel, sea ice biogeochemist and Antarctic researcher
* Frank Madill, AM, former Liberal politician, medical doctor and author
* John Martinkus, journalist
* James McAuley, poet
* Tim McCormack, international humanitarian law academic
* Jocelyn McPhie, adjunct professor of volcanology
* Lindsay Simpson, journalist, academic and crime writer
* Sydney Sparkes Orr, philosopher
* Garth Paltridge, atmospheric physicist
* Doug Parkinson, law academic and politician
* Anya Reading, geophysicist
* Grote Reber, radio astronomer
* Henry Reynolds, historian
* Steven M. Smith, plant genetics and biochemistry academic
* Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, law academic
* Michael Tate, Catholic priest, legal scholar and former Labor politician
* Helen Tiffin, post-colonial theorist
* Ernest Ewart Unwin, education academic
* Edward Ronald Walker, diplomat and economist
* Kate Warner, legal academic and former Governor of Tasmania
* Peter Whish-Wilson, politician and economist