# List of La Trobe University people

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

## Alumni
### Academia

* Lindsay Falvey – academic
* Sze Flett – scientist

### Business

* Martyn Dunne – CEO of NZ Customs
* Ahmed Fahour – former CEO of National Australia Bank and Australia Post
* Jamila Gordon – former CIO of Qantas
* Stephen Hill – co-founder of Globe International
* David Morgan – Westpac CEO; former Treasury official; BHP Director
* Scott Pape – The Barefoot Investor
* Maureen Wheeler – founder of Lonely Planet

### Government
#### Politicians
##### In Australia

* Jacinta Allan – state politician and minister
* David Baden-Powell – life peer and scout leader
* Helen Buckingham – state politician
* Phil Cleary – former federal politician; author; social activist; political and sports commentator; former VFL footballer
* Jacinta Collins – Senator for Victoria
* Mary Delahunty – state politician; former minister; former ABC TV presenter
* Martin Dixon – state politician; opposition frontbencher
* Matthew Guy – state politician
* Sussan Ley – federal politician
* Gladys Liu – federal politician
* Andrew Robb – federal politician; Parliamentary secretary; former Liberal Treasurer
* Tony Sheehan – state politician and Treasurer; deputy opposition leader
* Sharman Stone – federal politician; former government minister
* Theo Theophanous – state politician and minister
* Christian Zahra – former federal politician

##### In other countries

* Abdirahman Farole – former President of Puntland
* Maximus Ongkili – Malaysian Cabinet Minister
* Abdul Ghani Othman – former Chief Minister of Johor, Malaysia
* Emília Pires – Finance Minister, East Timor
* Mahinda Samarasinghe – Sri Lankan cabinet minister of disaster management; MP
* Bisera Turkovic – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu – Former Member of Parliament in India state of Andhra Pradesh

#### Civil servants

* Mary Amiti – senior official at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, formerly IMF and World Bank
* Stephen Duckett – former Secretary of Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (1994–1996); current President and Chief Executive Officer of Alberta Health Services in Canada
* Terry Moran – Head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet; Head of the Federal Public Service
* Geoff Raby – Foreign Affairs secretary; Australia's most senior Trade official; World Trade Organization negotiator; Australian ambassador to China
* Ian Watt – Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Finance; former Treasury and cabinet official; former diplomat
* Vinod Kumar Yadav – 1980 batch IRSEE officer and current Chairman of the Indian Railways Board

### Humanities
#### Arts

* Dailan Evans – comedian (current student)
* Corinne Grant – TV personality, comedian, actor
* Pia Miranda – actress
* Bob Morley – actor, twice receiver of E! Online's Alpha Male Madness, ex-singer, star on The 100
* Rachel Peters – model, beauty queen (Miss Universe Philippines 2017)

#### Journalism and media

* Morag Fraser – academic, social commentator, journalist
* Jane Gazzo – BBC presenter
* Jennifer Keyte – journalist, TV news presenter
* Naomi Robson – journalist, presenter
* Tim Ross – TV and radio personality, comedian
* Virginia Trioli – ABC presenter, journalist, author, political commentator
* Geoff Walsh – former Australian Labor Party National Secretary; United Nations official and delegate; adviser to Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating; Consul General to Hong Kong; Age and Australian Financial Review journalist

#### Literature, writing and poetry

* Paul Jennings – children's author
* John Silvester – crime writer; The Age journalist
* Don Watson – author, academic, political commentator, former speechwriter for Paul Keating

### Medicine and science

* Elaine Baker – marine science and environment researcher; Director of the University of Sydney Marine Studies Institute
* Richard Di Natale (Master of Health Sciences, 2004; Master of Public Health, 2005) – GP, former leader of the Australian Greens
* Tim Entwisle (PhD in Botany 1987) – CEO and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
* Tim Flannery – biologist, author, and commentator on global warming; 2007 Australian of the Year
* Neil J. Gunther – Australian/American physicist and computer scientist
* Lynne Kelly – researcher and science educator
* Jim Thomas (BSc 1995) – zoologist; CEO and co-founder of Tenkile Conservation Alliance
* Phillip Toyne (1947–2015; Diploma of Education 1973) – expert in environmental law, founder of Landcare Australia

### Sport

* Catherine Arlove – Olympian, judo
* Linda Beilharz – adventurer
* Samuel Beltz – Olympian, rowing
* Andrew Demetriou – former Australian Football League CEO
* Warwick Draper – Olympic kayak competitor
* Lachlan Giles – grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor
* Brad Green – former Melbourne footballer; current Carlton development coach
* Rachel Imison – Olympian, field hockey
* Joshua Katz (born 1997) – Olympian, judo
* Ahmed Kelly – Paralympian (current student)
* Tamsyn Manou – Olympic athlete, world champion
* Tim Matthews – Paralympian
* Bree Mellberg – wheelchair basketball player
* Angus Monfries – AFL player, Essendon (current student)
* Chris Mullins – Paralympian

### Other

* Bill Kelty – former Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary; union official; AFL Commissioner
* Brian Loughnane – Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia

## Administration
### Chancellors

| Order | Chancellor | Term start | Term end | Time in office |
| 1 | Sir Archibald Glenn OBE | 8 March 1967 (1967-03-08) | 1972 | 4–5 years |
| 2 | Reginald Smithers | 1972 (1972) | 1980 (1980) | 7–8 years |
| 3 | Richard McGarvie | 1981 (1981) | 1992 (1992) | 10–11 years |
| 4 | Nancy Millis AC, MBE | 1992 (1992) | 31 March 2006 (2006-03-31) | 13–14 years |
| 5 | Sylvia Walton AO | 1 April 2006 (2006-04-01) | 25 February 2011 (2011-02-25) | 4 years, 330 days |
| 6 | Adrienne Clarke AC | 26 February 2011 (2011-02-26) | 25 February 2017 (2017-02-25) | 5 years, 365 days |
| 7 | Richard Larkins AO | 26 February 2017 (2017-02-26) | 28 March 2019 (2019-03-28) | 2 years, 30 days |
| 8 | John Brumby AO | 29 March 2019 (2019-03-29) | incumbent | 5 years, 335 days |

### Vice-Chancellors

| Order | Vice-Chancellor | Term start | Term end | Time in office |
| 1 | David Myers AO | 1965 (1965) | 1976 (1976) | 10–11 years |
| 2 | John Scott | 1976 (1976) | 1989 (1989) | 11–12 years |
| 3 | Michael Osborne | 1990 (1990) | 2005 | 14–15 years |
| 4 | Brian Stoddart | 2006 (2006) | 2006 (2006) | 0 years |
| 5 | Roger Parish (acting) | 2007 (2007) | 2007 (2007) | 0 years |
| 6 | Paul Johnson | 2007 (2007) | 31 December 2011 (2011-12-31) | 3–4 years |
| 7 | John Dewar | 16 January 2012 (2012-01-16) | incumbent | 13 years, 42 days |

## Faculty
### Current
#### Politics

* Dennis Altman – academic; expert on the politics of gender
* Nick Bisley – professor of politics and international relations; frequently contributes to the media and public debates
* Judith Brett – academic in the field of politics; author of several books on Australian politics
* Joseph Camilleri – academic in the field of international relations and director of the Centre for Dialogue
* Robert Manne – academic; public intellectuals; author of books on Australian politics and society

#### Sociology and anthropology

* Peter Beilharz – public intellectual
* John Carroll – academic in the field of sociology; public intellectual

#### Economics and finance

* Don Brash – former Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand; former New Zealand Opposition Leader
* Joanna Poyago-Theotoky – professor of economics

#### Philosophy

* Agnes Heller – philosopher
* Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher

#### English

* David Tacey – literature academic

#### History

* Richard Broome – Aboriginal historian
* Quinn Eades – historian
* John Hirst – historian and commentator
* Katie Holmes – historian
* Marilyn Lake – social historian
* Yves Rees – historian

#### Archaeology

* David Frankel – archaeologist, known for work on sites in Cyprus
* Peter Mathews – archaeologist, known for work on Mayan hieroglyphs
* Tim Murray – archaeologist, Dean of faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

#### Cinema and media studies

* John Flaus – film academic and actor
* Terrie Waddell – film academic and actress

#### Linguistics

* David Bradley – linguist

#### Science

* Michael Clarke – zoologist
* Erinna Lee – biochemistry researcher
* Ádám Mechler – materials scientist
* Bree Mellberg – biochemistry researcher, wheelchair basketball player
* Roger Parish – botanist
* Pamela Claire Snow – educational psychologist and speech pathologist

### Past

* Graeme Clark – key figure in the research and development of the cochlear implant
* Inga Clendinnen
* Peter Cochrane – historian and author
* Burkhard Dallwitz – composer, Golden Globe winner
* Edward Duyker – historian and author
* Elizabeth Essex-Cohen – physicist
* Alan Frost – historian
* Petro Georgiou – Federal Liberal MP
* Gerard Henderson
* Daryl E. Hooper – inaugural professor in engineering
* Rhys Isaac – Pulitzer Prize winner
* Robert Lovell Reid – professor of agriculture 1968 to 1979 after whom the R L Reid Building is named
* Andrew Robb – current Federal Liberal MP; former Liberal Party treasurer
* J. J. C. Smart – philosopher

#### Administrative

* Fran Kelly – journalist, ABC presenter