page_title: University of Ballarat
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: University of Ballarat / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian wheelchair basketballer Sandy Blythe during 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games match
context_page_description: The University of Ballarat, or Ballarat University, Australia was a dual-sector university with multiple campuses in Victoria, Australia, including its main Ballarat campus, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide that were authorized by the University to provide diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The university offered traditional programs, including business, information technology, building and construction, engineering, mining, education, social sciences, nursing, hospitality, and art.
  The University of Ballarat's history goes back to the gold rush era of the 1850s. It began as a tertiary school in 1870. In 1970, Founders Theatre was built at the St Helen campus after an appeal was made to commemorate the opening of the school 100 years earlier. The theatre opened in 1981.
  The University of Ballarat was formed from a number of varying types of schools. The earliest was the School of Mines in 1870, which subsequently merged with other related organizations. Another was through Ballarat Base Hospital School of Nursing.
context_section_description: David Noonan, Australian artist who lives and works in London
  Aunty Donna, absurdist sketch comedy troupe
  Kate Suratin
  Steve Bracks, former Premier of Victoria
  Sandy Blythe, wheelchair basketball player
  Dr. Cyril P. Callister, an Australian chemist and food technologist
  Jacqueline Dark, opera singer
  Keith Hamilton, former Minister for Agriculture and former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
  William Roy Hodgson, Human Rights Diplomat
  Will Longstaff
  Isolde Standish is an Australian and British Humanities Scholar and Film theorist specialised in East Asia.
caption: Sandy Blythe (1962 – 2005)  in action during competition at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Sydney
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