# List of University of Melbourne people

This is a list of University of Melbourne people, including alumni and staff.

## Alumni
### Academia

* Sir John Behan, educator; Australia's first Rhodes Scholar
* Geoff Bowker, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine
* Alec Broers, Baron Broers, electrical engineer, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
* Karen Burns, architectural historian
* Joseph Camilleri, professor at La Trobe University
* Simon Chesterman, Dean of Law at the National University of Singapore
* Michael Clyne, linguist
* Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University
* John Deeble, architect of Medicare Australia
* Richard Dowell, audiologist, academic and researcher
* Ding Dyason, medical historian
* Alan Ebringer, immunologist, professor at King's College in the University of London
* Arie Freiberg, AM, legal academic
* Germaine Greer, feminist
* Maria Gough, art historian at Harvard University
* Bella Guerin, educator and activist; first female university graduate in Australia
* John Alexander Gunn, philosophy professor
* Peter Karmel, former vice-chancellor of Australian National University and Flinders University
* Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith, Australian educator; landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.
* Arthur Lucas, principal of King's College London (1993–2003)
* Robert Manne, professor of politics at La Trobe University
* Samaresh Mitra, bioinorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
* Jennifer McKay, Professor of Business Law at the University of South Australia
* Peter McPhee, Provost of the University of Melbourne
* Fulvio Melia, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona and associate editor of the Astrophysical Journal
* Bruce Mitchell, fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
* David S. Oderberg, professor of philosophy at the University of Reading
* Richard G. Pestell, Executive Vice President at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia USA
* Abbas Rajabifard, professor and head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Melbourne School of Engineering
* Michael Roe, historian
* John Ralston (scientist), physical chemist and researcher at the UniSA
* David Shallcross, chemical engineer
* James Simpson, Harvard University professor
* Alexander Smits, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
* John Tasioulas, Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Oxford University
* Gillian Triggs, international legal academic and President of the Australian Human Rights Commission
* Frances Valintine, education futurist
* Sally Walker, Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University
* Frank T. M. White, Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Queensland; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics, McGill University

### Architecture

* Douglas Alexandra
* James Birrell
* Gregory Burgess
* Bianca Censori
* Peter Corrigan
* Norman Day
* John Denton
* Roy Grounds
* Ellison Harvie
* John Hipwell
* Peter Ho
* Nonda Katsalidis
* Hijjas Kasturi
* Barry Patten
* Louise St John Kennedy
* Neil Clerehan

### Business

* Leigh Clifford, Chairman of Qantas
* Robert Champion de Crespigny
* Margaret Dick
* Anthony Di Pietro, President of Melbourne Victory Football Club and CEO of Premier Fresh Australia
* John Elliott, President of Liberal Party of Australia & Carlton Football Club
* Aubrey Gibson
* Charles Goode, Chairman of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
* James P. Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
* David Hains
* John Holland, founder of John Holland Group
* Margaret Jackson
* Ananda Krishnan, CEO, Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd
* Hugh Morgan, former board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia
* Rupert Myer, director, Myer Family Company
* Richard Pratt
* James Riady, Chairman, Lippo Group
* Graeme Samuel, AC
* Karl Siegling, funds manager
* Peter Smedley, CEO of Colonial Group, Mayne Nickless
* Evan Thornley, entrepreneur

### Community activism

* Julian Assange, Wikileaks spokesperson and founder (did not graduate)
* Waleed Aly
* Alex Dekker, Humanitarian
* Helen Durham, international humanitarian lawyer
* Avery Ng, Hong Kong activist
* Tilman Ruff, public health scholar and founder of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

### Government
#### Governors General of Australia

* Richard Casey, Baron Casey, KG, GCMG, CH, DSO, MC, PC, 16th Governor-General of Australia (did not graduate)
* Sir Zelman Cowen, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC, PC
* Peter Hollingworth, AC, OBE
* Sir Isaac Isaacs, GCB, GCMG, KC, also former Chief Justice of Australia
* Sir Ninian Stephen, KG, AK, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, QC, also a previous Justice of the High Court of Australia

#### Governors of Victoria

* Alex Chernov, AC, QC
* Professor David de Kretser
* Sir James Gobbo, AC, CVO, QC, also a previous Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
* John Landy
* Richard McGarvie
* Sir Henry Winneke, AC KCMG KCVO OBE KStJ QC, also a previous Chief Justice of Victoria

#### Governors of other jurisdictions

* Sir Bede Clifford GCMG, CB, MVO, Governor of The Bahamas, then Governor of Mauritius and then Governor of Trinidad and Tobago

#### Politicians
##### Prime Ministers of Australia

* Alfred Deakin
* Julia Gillard, AC
* Harold Holt, CH
* Sir Robert Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC

##### Premiers of Victoria

* Ted Baillieu
* John Brumby
* John Cain II
* Rupert Hamer
* Sir William Irvine, GCMG, also a former Chief Justice of Victoria
* Joan Kirner
* William Shiels
* Lindsay Thompson

##### Premier of Queensland

* Thomas Ryan KC

##### Federal politicians

* Lyn Allison, former Member of the Australian Senate and leader of the Australian Democrats
* Richard Alston, AO, former Member of the Australian Senate
* Kevin Andrews, MP, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* Bruce Baird, AM, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* Neil Brown, QC, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* Anna Burke, MP, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* John Button, former Member of the Australian Senate
* Jim Cairns, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
* Sam Cohen, former Member of the Australian Senate
* Barney Cooney, former Member of the Australian Senate
* Mark Dreyfus, QC, MP, Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Gareth Evans, AC, QC, international policymaker, academic, and former Member of the Australian Senate
* John Alexander Forrest
* Petro Georgiou, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Andrew Giles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Ivor Greenwood, former Member of the Australian Senate
* Ray Groom, AO, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Premier of Tasmania
* H. B. Higgins, former Attorney-General of Australia and Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Greg Hunt, MP, Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Dennis Jensen, Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Barry Jones, AC former Member of Australian House of Representatives and Parliament of Victoria.
* David Kemp, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
* John Langmore, Member of Australian House of Representatives
* William Maloney, Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Richard Marles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Peter McGauran, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Kelly O'Dwyer, MP, Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Andrew Peacock, AC, GCL, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Sir Arthur Robinson, KCMG, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Nicola Roxon, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* Roger Shipton, OAM, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* Bill Shorten, MP, Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Bruce Smith, KC, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
* Sir John Spicer, former Member of the Australian Senate
* Sid Spindler, former Member of the Australian Senate
* Lindsay Tanner, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* Ralph Willis, AO, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* Agar Wynne, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives

##### Australian state and territory politicians

* Sir Clifden Eager KBE KC, former President of the Victorian Legislative Council
* Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* John Bourke, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* Thomas Brennan, political journalist and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
* Bruce Chamberlain, AM, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
* Robert Clark, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* Neil Cole, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and playwright and researcher
* Robert Dean, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* Frank Field, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* John Galbally, CBE, QC, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
* Matthew Groom, MP, Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
* Ray Groom, AO, former Premier of Tasmania and Member of the Australian House of Representatives
* Tim Holding, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* Robert Wilfred Holt, Minister for Lands in the Cain government 1952–54
* Trevor Oldham, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Deputy Premier
* Herbert Postle, former Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
* Robert Ramsay, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* Edward Reynolds, QC, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* T. J. Ryan, KC, former Premier of Queensland
* Sir Arthur Rylah, KBE, CMG, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Deputy Premier
* Prue Sibree, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
* Oswald Snowball, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Speaker
* Alan Stockdale, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Treasurer
* Shane Stone, AC, QC, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
* Richard Ward, QC, former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council and Supreme Court judge
* Sir Henry Wrixon, KCMG, QC, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
* Agar Wynne, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council

##### International politicians

* Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs
* Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor
* Hun Many, Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia
* Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
* Tajol Rosli Mohd Ghazali, former Menteri Besar of Perak
* Dato' Sri Mustapa Mohamed, Member of Parliament of Jeli, former Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry
* Baru Bian, Member of Parliament of Selangau, former Malaysian Minister of Works
* Raja Kamarul Bahrin, former Malaysian Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government
* Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister

##### Public servants

* William Macmahon Ball, diplomat
* Jean-Pierre Blais, Canadian bureaucrat; Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
* Peta Credlin, political advisor
* Francis Patrick Donovan, AM, diplomat and jurist
* Bill Paterson, Australian Ambassador to Republic of Korea; previously Australian Ambassador to Thailand and Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism
* Trevor Ashmore Pyman, diplomat.
* John So, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
* Fred Whitlam, Crown Solicitor; father of Gough
* Danielle Wood, economist and incoming chair of the Productivity Commission
* Luke Lazarus Arnold, Australian diplomat

### Humanities
#### Arts

* Angela Brennan, artist
* Steve Cox, painter and watercolourist
* John Dahlsen, environmental artist
* Hugh Davies, mixed media artist
* Bill Henson, photographer and Venice Biennale representative
* Ali Hogg, photographer and activist
* Pamela Irving, artist and educator
* Anastasia Klose, video artist and Biennale of Sydney representative
* Brian McFarlane (BA & DipEd), film historian, writer, and educator
* Doris McKellar, photographer
* Azlan McLennan, artist and activist
* Lewis Miller, Archibald Prize winning painter
* Victor O'Connor, artist
* Shaun Parker, award-winning choreographer, founder of Shaun Parker & Company
* Stieg Persson, painter
* Patricia Piccinini, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
* Van Thanh Rudd, artist and activist
* Anne-Louise Sarks, theatre director and writer
* Matt Scholten, theatre director, teacher and writer
* Ricky Swallow, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
* Timothy James Webb, artist
* Bradd Westmoreland, artist
* Marcus Wills, Archibald Prize winning painter

#### Film and television

* Adam Arkapaw, cinematographer (True Detective, Animal Kingdom, Snowtown)
* Gillian Armstrong, director (Charlotte Gray, Little Women)
* Tony Ayres, Australian Film Institute award-winning director (The Home Song Stories, Walking on Water)
* Alison Bell, Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award nominated actor (I Rock, Laid)
* Tahir Raj Bhasin, Indian actor
* Jill Bilcock, Academy Award-nominated editor (Elizabeth, Moulin Rouge!, Red Dog)
* Hamish Blake, comedian (did not graduate)
* Cate Blanchett, actress (did not graduate)
* Jamie Blanks, director (Urban Legend, Valentine)
* John Bluthal, actor
* Sibylla Budd, actor and documentary presenter (All Saints, Sea Patrol, The Secret Life of Us)
* Ronny Chieng, comedian
* Santo Cilauro, television and feature film producer
* Vince Colosimo, Australian Film Institute Award winning actor (Body of Lies, Chopper, Lantana)
* Marg Downey, comedian and actress
* Elizabeth Debicki, actress
* Adam Elliot, Academy Award-winning animator (Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max)
* Alexander England, actor
* Alice Garner, historian, musician and actress
* Antony I. Ginnane, film producer
* Tom Gleisner, director, producer, writer, comedian, actor and author
* Libbi Gorr, comedian
* Barry Humphries, comedian
* Red Hong Yi, artist and architectural designer
* Sammy J, comedian
* Clayton Jacobson, director (Kenny)
* Justin Kurzel, director (Snowtown, Macbeth (2015), Assassin's Creed)
* Andy Lee, comedian
* Anthony Lucas, Academy Award nominated animator (The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello)
* Robert Luketic, director (21, Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law)
* Catherine Mack-Hancock, actress
* Lara Jean Marshall, actress best known for her role on The Saddle Club
* Belinda McClory, actor and screenwriter (Acolytes, Blue Heelers, The Matrix)
* David Michôd, director (Animal Kingdom)
* Rhys Muldoon, actor
* Lloyd Newson, director, dancer and choreographer
* Michael Pattinson, producer (Ground Zero, Secrets)
* Hannie Rayson, Australian Writers' Guild Award and Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award winning playwright and actor (SeaChange)
* Glenn Robbins, comedian and actor
* Portia de Rossi, actress
* Pallavi Sharda, Indian actor
* Jonathan M. Shiff, Australian Film Institute and British Academy of Film and Television Arts award-winning producer (Ocean Girl, Thunderstone)
* Rob Sitch, co-writer and co-director of the movies The Castle and The Dish; co-host of The Panel
* Matt Scholten, director
* Simon Stone, director and actor
* Sam Strong, director, artistic director, Queensland Theatre
* Magda Szubanski, comedian and actress
* Nadia Townsend, actor and theatre director (City Homicide, Fireflies, Knowing)
* Andrew Upton, director and playwright
* Steve Vizard, television and radio presenter, lawyer, comedian, producer, author and screenwriter
* Luke Walker, director/producer (Beyond Our Ken, Lasseter's Bones)
* Sarah Watt, director and animator (Look Both Ways, My Year Without Sex)
* Angela White, pornographic actress, director
* Alison Whyte, Logie Award-winning actor (Frontline, Satisfaction)
* Geoffrey Wright, director (Macbeth (2006), Metal Skin, Romper Stomper)
* Julia Zemiro, television presenter
* Randeep Hooda, Indian actor
* Yashma Gill, Pakistani actor
* Lydia Zimmermann, director (Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino)
* Ashley Zukerman, Logie Award nominated actor (Lowdown, The Pacific, Rush)

#### History

* Geoffrey Blainey, one of the Australian Living Treasures
* Manning Clark
* Charles Coppel, former barrister and historian
* Keith Hancock
* Stuart Macintyre
* Michael Roe, historian and academic
* Ben Schrader, urban historian
* A. G. L. Shaw

#### Journalism

* Tiffiny Hall, journalist, author and television personality
* Joe Hildebrand, journalist, social commentator and news columnist
* Christine Kenneally, New York City-based journalist
* Matt Tinney, newsreader
* Bill Tipping, former journalist, social commentator and activist

#### Literature, writing and poetry

* Randa Abdel-Fattah, Australian Muslim author and lawyer
* Russell Blackford, writer, philosopher and critic
* Vincent Buckley
* Anna Ciddor, author and illustrator
* Helen Garner, author
* Kerry Greenwood, crime writer
* Germaine Greer, feminist writer and academic
* Jack Hibberd
* Fulvio Melia
* Gerald Murnane, novelist and short story writer
* Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University
* Lynne Kelly, writer, researcher and science educator

#### Music

* Harry James Angus, trumpeter and vocalist (The Cat Empire)
* Wouter De Backer, musician known as 'Gotye'
* Cheryl Barker, opera singer
* Michael Barker, drummer (John Butler Trio, Split Enz)
* Don Banks, composer
* Nicole Car, opera singer
* Arthur Chanter 1866–1950, composer
* Diana Doherty, oboe soloist (New York Philharmonic)
* Leonard Dommett, violinist and conductor
* Julian Gavin, opera singer
* Antoinette Halloran, opera singer
* Phil Harvey, creative director (Coldplay)
* Missy Higgins, singer-songwriter
* Rex Hobcroft, pianist and administrator
* Tania de Jong, soprano and social entrepreneur
* Liza Lim, composer
* John McAll, pianist and musical director
* Mona McBurney 1867–1932 composer
* Ryan Monro, bassist (The Cat Empire)
* Ian Munro, pianist and composer
* Patrick Savage, film composer and former principal first violin (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
* Peter Sculthorpe, composer
* Dudley Simpson, conductor and television composer
* Jan Skubiszewski, multi-award-winning record producer film composer
* Red Symons, musician, television and radio personality
* Penelope Thwaites, musicologist and pianist
* Yelian He, cellist
* Charles Zwar, songwriter, composer, lyricist, pianist and music director
* David Burd, US rapper, known as Lil Dicky

#### Philosophy

* Samuel Alexander
* Leslie Cannold
* Raimond Gaita
* Charles Leonard Hamblin
* Frank Cameron Jackson
* Graham Oppy
* Toby Ord
* Brian O'Shaughnessy
* Graham Priest
* Ian Robinson
* Peter Singer
* John Tasioulas, moral and legal philosopher
* Nick Trakakis
* John Weckert
* Damon Young

### Law
#### Chief Justices of Australia

* Sir Owen Dixon, OM, GCMG, KC
* Sir Frank Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC, KC
* Sir Isaac Isaacs, GCB, GCMG, KC
* Sir John Latham, GCMG, KC

#### Justices of the High Court of Australia

* Sir Keith Aickin, KBE, QC, former justice
* Susan Crennan
* Sir Daryl Dawson, AC, KBE, CB, QC, former justice
* Sir Wilfred Fullagar, KBE, KC, former justice
* Kenneth Hayne
* H. B. Higgins, former justice
* Sir Douglas Menzies, former justice
* Geoffrey Nettle
* Sir Ninian Stephen, KG, AK, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, QC, also a previous Governor-General of Australia

#### Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

* Michael Black, AC, QC, former Chief Justice

#### Justices of the Federal Court of Australia

* Geoffrey Giudice
* Sir Edward Woodward, AC, OBE, QC, also served as a Royal Commissioner and Director-General of Security

#### Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia

* Diana Bryant, AO, QC, Chief Justice since 2004
* Alastair Nicholson, AO, RFD, QC, former Chief Justice

#### Justices of the Family Court of Australia

* Linda Dessau, AM, former justice

#### Chief Justices of Victoria

* Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring, KCMG KBE DSO MC KStJ ED QC, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
* Sir William Irvine, GCMG, also a former Premier of Victoria
* Sir John Madden, GCMG, also a former Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University
* Sir Frederick Mann, KCMG, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
* John Harber Phillips, AC QC, also a former Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions and Director of the National Crime Authority
* Sir Henry Winneke, AC KCMG KCVO OBE KStJ QC, also a former Governor of Victoria
* Sir John Young, AC KCMG

#### Justices of the Supreme Court of Victoria

* Sir Kevin Anderson, QC
* Sir Arthur Dean, KC
* Sir James Gobbo, AC, CVO, QC, also a former Governor of Victoria
* Sir George Pape
* Joseph Santamaria QC

#### Presidents of the Victorian Court of Appeal

* Chris Maxwell
* John Winneke, AC, RFD, QC, RANR

#### Other legal professionals

* Philip Alston, international law scholar; former United Nations Special Rapporteur
* John Bennett, civil libertarian
* Matthew Collins, barrister and Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School
* Mario Condello, lawyer; murdered during Melbourne gangland killings
* Frank Costigan, QC, lawyer, Royal Commissioner and social justice activist
* Rowan Downing, QC, barrister and international jurist
* Frank Galbally, CBE, criminal defence lawyer
* Flos Greig, first woman to be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Australia
* Philip Griffiths, KC, jurist
* Francis Gurry, international intellectual property lawyer and bureaucrat
* Colin Lovitt, QC, criminal barrister
* Julian McMahon, A.C., barrister, humanitarian, campaigner against death penalty
* Rob Stary, criminal defence lawyer
* Tengku Amalin A'ishah Putri, Princess of Kelantan Royal Family
* Lord Uthwatt, Judge, Chancery Division, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords

### Military

* Group Captain John Balmer, OBE, DFC, World War II RAAF bomber pilot
* Major General Sir Julius Bruche, KCB, CMG, Second Boer War and World War I army officer
* Sir Samuel Burston, army doctor and World War II general
* Rupert Downes, army doctor and World War II general
* Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, army doctor and humanitarian
* Major General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, VD, politician and World War I army general
* Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, army doctor
* Brigadier General William Grant, CMG, World War I general
* Sir James Whiteside McCay, politician and World War I general
* Sir John Monash, World War I general
* Sir Kingsley Norris, army doctor and major general
* Lieutenant Colonel Philip Rhoden, OBE, ED, lawyer and World War II army officer
* Ian Upjohn, CSC, SC, Army Reserve officer and barrister

### Religious leaders

* Rabbi Raymond Apple

### Sciences
#### Agriculture

* Yvonne Aitken, botanist, first woman to earn a PhD in Agriculture form the University of Melbourne in 1970

#### Biology

* Elizabeth Blackburn, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009
* Margaret Blackwood, botanist and geneticist
* Kirsten Parris, urban ecologist
* Grant Sutherland, human geneticist

#### Computing

* Andrew Freeman, FACS – Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected in 1997), and an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the ACS (elected in 2018)

#### Geology

* Norman Greenwood

#### Chemistry

* Cyril Callister, creator of Vegemite
* Beryl Splatt
* Shu Jie Lam

#### Engineering

* Sir Walter Bassett
* William Charles Kernot
* Diane Lemaire, first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a degree in engineering
* Anthony Michell
* John Monash
* Elizabeth Jens
* Ian A. Young, senior fellow of Intel; co-inventor of BiCMOS logic family and clocks for Pentium series microprocessors
* Frank Caruso

#### Mathematics

* Robert Bartnik
* Keith Briggs
* Danny Calegari
* Robert William Chapman
* Thomas MacFarland Cherry
* Ian G. Enting
* Greg Hjorth
* Mark S. Joshi
* Kenneth McIntyre
* Brendan McKay
* Samuel McLaren
* John Henry Michell
* Edward J. Nanson
* Jonathan Pila
* E. J. G. Pitman
* J. Hyam Rubinstein
* Hans Schwerdtfeger
* Ian Sloan
* Geoffrey Watson
* William Parkinson Wilson

#### Medicine

* Lilian Helen Alexander, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
* Ellen Balaam, first woman surgeon in Melbourne
* Marjorie Bick, biochemist
* Vera Scantlebury Brown
* Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
* Amy de Castilla, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
* Clara Stone, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
* Sir John Carew Eccles, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
* Constance Ellis, first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine from the university
* Mavis Freeman, bacteriologist and biochemist
* Jane Stocks Greig, public health specialist
* Janet Greig, Victoria's first female anaesthetist
* David Handelsman, Australia's first professor in reproductive endocrinology and andrology
* Girlie Hodges (1904–1999), Australian surgeon and field hockey player who represented Australia
* James Lawson, public health doctor and scientist
* Annie O'Hara, doctor and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
* Elizabeth O'Hara, one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
* Lorna Verdun Sisely, Surgeon and founder of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre Breast Clinic.
* Elizabeth Scarr, associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, project leader of Cooperative Research Centre for Mental Health, and leader of the Psychiatric Neuropathology laboratory at the university
* Helen Sexton, surgeon, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
* Emily Mary Page Stone, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
* Rajaratnam Sundarason, surgeon, one of the founders of International House
* Elizabeth Kathleen Turner, medical superintendent of the (Royal) Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1943 until 1946. She was first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.
* Grace Vale, Physician and co-founder of the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
* Sydney James Van Pelt, pioneer of modern hypnotherapy
* Margaret Whyte, Physician, and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.

#### Physics

* Nicole Bell
* Walter Boas
* Samuel L. Braunstein
* John M. Cowley
* Rod Crewther
* Richard Dalitz, inventor of the Dalitz plot
* Terence James Elkins
* Colin J. Gillespie
* Kerr Grant
* Peter Hannaford
* Alan Head
* T. H. Laby
* Rodney Marks
* Leslie H. Martin
* Sir Harrie Massey
* Fulvio Melia
* Keith Nugent
* Helen Quinn, former president of the American Physical Society; recipient of the Dirac Medal in 2000 and the Sakurai Prize in 2013
* William Sutherland

#### Psychology

* Vicki Anderson, pediatric neuropsychologist
* Kathleen Funder, researcher, Australian Institute of Family Studies
* Peter O'Connor, psychologist

#### Veterinary Science

* Cyril Seelenmeyer, VFL footballer, veterinary surgeon, winner of Military Cross
* Harold Addison Woodruff, Professor of veterinary pathology and director of the veterinary institute

### Sport

* Russell Basser (born 1960), Olympic water polo player
* Kim Crow, London Olympics silver and bronze medallist for doubles and singles sculling respectively
* Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
* Bev Francis, IFBB professional Australian female bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion
* Geoff Grover, VFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)
* Jemima Montag (born 1998), Olympic racewalker
* John Robinson, VFL Footballer; recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal (1917)

## Faculty

* Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson
* Peter Baines, geophysicist
* Lisa Cameron
* Henri Daniel Rathgeber
* Jocelyn Hyslop, inaugural Director of Social Studies
* Josephine Forbes, Principal Research Fellow, Department of Medicine
* Katja Hölttä-Otto

## Administration
### Chancellors

| Ordinal | Name | Term begin | Term end | Time in office |
| 1 | Sir Redmond Barry KCMG | 17 May 1853 (1853-05-17) | 23 November 1880 (1880-11-23) | 27 years, 190 days |
| 2 | Sir William Stawell KCMG | 2 May 1881 (1881-05-02) | 8 May 1882 (1882-05-08) | 1 year, 6 days |
| 3 | James Moorhouse | 1883 | 1886 | |
| 4 | William HearnAM QC | 1886 | | |
| 5 | Sir Anthony Brownless CMG | 1887 | 1897 | |
| 6 | Sir John Madden GCMG | 1897 | 1918 | |
| 7 | Sir John MacFarland | 1918 | 1935 | |
| 8 | Sir James Barrett KBE CB CMG | 1935 | 1939 | |
| 9 | Sir John Latham PC GCMG KC | 1939 | 1941 | |
| 10 | Sir Charles John Lowe KCMG | 1941 | 1954 | |
| 11 | Sir Arthur Dean QC | 1954 | 1966 | |
| 12 | Sir William Upjohn OBE | 1966 | 1967 | |
| 13 | Sir Robert Menzies AK CH QC | 1967 | 1972 | |
| 14 | Leonard Weickhardt CBE | 1972 | 1978 | |
| 15 | Sir Oliver Gillard | 1978 | 1980 | |
| 16 | Sir Roy Wright AK | 1980 | 1989 | |
| 17 | Sir Edward Woodward AC OBE QC | 1990 | 2001 | |
| 18 | Fay Marles AM | 2001 | 2004 | |
| 19 | Ian Renard AM | 2005 | 2009 | |
| 20 | Alex Chernov AC QC | 2009 | 2011 | |
| 21 | Elizabeth Alexander AO | 8 April 2011 (2011-04-08) | 31 December 2016 (2016-12-31) | 5 years, 267 days |
| 22 | Allan Myers AC KC | 1 January 2017 (2017-01-01) | 31 December 2022 (2022-12-31) | 5 years, 364 days |
| 23 | Jane Hansen AO | 1 January 2023 (2023-01-01) | incumbent | 2 years, 74 days |

### Vice-Chancellors

| Order | Vice-Chancellor | Years |
| 1 | Hugh Childers | 1853–1857 |
| 2 | Anthony Brownless | 1858–1887 |
| 3 | Martin Irving | 1887–1889 |
| 4 | Sir John Madden | 1889–1897 |
| 5 | Sir Henry Wrixon | 1897–1910 |
| 6 | Sir John MacFarland | 1910–1918 |
| 7 | Sir John Grice | 1918–1923 |
| 8 | General Sir John Monash | 1923–1931 |
| 9 | James Barrett | 1931–1934 |
| 10 | Sir Raymond Priestley | 1935–1938 |
| 11 | Sir John Medley | 1938–1951 |
| 12 | Sir George Whitecross Paton | 1951–1968 |
| 13 | Sir David Plumley Derham | 1968–1982 |
| 14 | Professor David Caro | 1982–1987 |
| 15 | David Penington | 1988–1995 |
| 16 | Alan Gilbert | 1996–2004 |
| 17 | Glyn Davis | 2005–2018 |
| 18 | Duncan Maskell | 2018–present |