List of University of Sydney people

This is a list of notable staff and alumni of the University of Sydney, Australia.

Alumni

Politics and Law

* President of the United Nations General Assembly (1948-1949), Dr H.V. Evatt
* Governors-General of Australia - Sir John Kerr, Sir William Deane
* Prime Ministers of Australia (in chronological order) -
**Sir Edmund Barton
**Sir Earle Page
**Sir William McMahon
**Gough Whitlam
**John Howard
* Chief Justices of the High Court of Australia (in chronological order) -
** Sir Samuel Griffith
** Sir Garfield Barwick
** Sir Anthony Mason
** Murray Gleeson
* Other Justices of the High Court (in chronological order) -
** Sir Edmund Barton
** Richard O'Connor
** Albert Piddington
** Sir George Rich
** Dr H. V. Evatt
** Sir Edward McTiernan
** Sir Dudley Williams
** Sir Frank Kitto
** Sir Alan Taylor
** Sir Victor Windeyer
** Sir Cyril Walsh
** Sir Kenneth Jacobs
** Lionel Murphy
** Sir William Deane
** Mary Gaudron
** Michael McHugh
** Michael Kirby
** William Gummow
** Dyson Heydon
** Susan Crennan
* State Governors - Sir Roden Cutler and Professor Marie Bashir (New South Wales), Richard Butler (Tasmania)
* Premiers of New South Wales - Neville Wran, Nick Greiner, Morris Iemma
* Other Premiers and Chief Ministers - George Thorn (Queensland), Clare Martin (Northern Territory )
* Present Chief Justice of New South Wales - Jim Spigelman
* Lord Mayors of Sydney - Frank Sartor, Lucy Turnbull, Clover Moore
* Other Mayors - Bill Carney (Mayor of the Municipality of Strathfield)
* Aboriginal leaders - Charles Perkins and Noel Pearson
* Other Federal politicians - Tony Abbott, Anthony Albanese, Kerry Bartlett, Ross Cameron, Craig Emerson, Laurie Ferguson, Martin Ferguson, Jennie George, Joe Hockey, Tom Hughes Peter King, Lionel Bowen, Daryl Melham, Danna Vale, Tsebin Tchen, Andrew Laming, Ros Kelly

* Other political figures:
**Martin Indyk, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, special assistant to U.S. President Bill Clinton and senior director of Near East and South Asian Affairs at the United States National Security Council.

* During the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975, the leaders of all branches of the Australian government were Sydney alumni:
** Sir John Kerr, Governor General (1974-1977)
** Sir Garfield Barwick, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia (1964-1981)
** Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister (1972-1975)

* In 1998 to 2001, again the leaders of all branches of the Australian government were Sydney alumni:
** Sir William Deane, Governor General (retired 2001)
** Murray Gleeson, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
** John Howard, Prime Minister

* From December 2, 2003 to January 28, 2005, the leaders of Australia's four largest political parties were all Sydney alumni.
**John Anderson, National Party of Australia leader (resigned July 2005)
**Bob Brown, Australian Greens leader
**John Howard, Liberal Party of Australia leader
**Mark Latham, Australian Labor Party leader (resigned January 2005)

Business and Industry

* Malcolm Turnbull - Politician, lawyer, investment banker, prominent Republican
* James Wolfensohn - President of the World Bank (1995-2005)
* Byram Johnston - former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia
* Allan Moss - ex Managing Director/CEO of Macquarie Bank
* Glenn Stevens - current governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

cience and Education

* Tony Vinson Honorary Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work
* Nobel Laureates:
** Sir Robert Robinson (Sydney's first Professor of Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry 1912 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1947),
** Sir John Cornforth (graduated with BSc 1938 and University Medal and MSc 1939 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1975),
** John Harsanyi (graduated with Masters in Economics 1966 - Nobel Prize in Economics 1994)
* Archaeologists - Vere Gordon Childe (1913), Basil Hennessy (1950), David O'Connor (BA 1958), Stephen Bourke, Alison Betts, Karin Sowada, Paul James Cowie (BA 1991)
* A. David Buckingham - Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge
* Dr Philip K. Chapman - the first Australian-born American astronaut
* Dr Bryan Gaensler - astronomer based at Harvard University
* Sir Douglas Mawson - Geologist and Antarctic explorer
* Lord Robert May - Former President of The Royal Society and Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government from 1995 to 2000
* Sir Ian Clunies Ross - head of CSIRO

Medicine

*Professor Valerie Beral - (graduated with first class honours in both medicine and surgery, 1969), epidemiologist, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Head of Cancer Epidemiology Unit for Cancer Research UK since 1989.

Arts, Literature and Religion

* Actors - John Bell (actor), John Flaus
* Broadcasters - Phillip Adams, Geoffrey Robertson QC, Ray Martin, Adam Spencer
* Comedians - The Chaser (Charles Firth, Dominic Knight, Andrew Hansen, Chas Licciardello, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Chris Taylor)
* Opera singers - Dame Joan Sutherland, Yvonne Kenny
* Writers -
** Geraldine Brooks: Author of March and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
** Christopher Brennan, Dymphna Cusack, Kate Grenville, A. D. Hope, Les Murray, Dr Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes, Clive James, Bob Ellis, Kimberley Starr
* Film Directors - Jane Campion, Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford
* Religious leaders - Peter Jensen
* Internet video producers - Hugh Atkin

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*John Anderson - Challis Professor of Philosophy
*Charles Badham - Professor of Classics and Logic
*John Burnheim - Professor of General Philosophy
*Robert Gilbert - Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Key Centre for Polymer Colloids
*Enoch Powell - British politician, Professor of Greek
*Leo Radom - Professor of Computational Chemistry
*James Stewart - Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
*Julius Stone - Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law
*George Winterton - Professor of Constitutional Law

Administration

Chancellors

* 1851–54: Edward Hamilton
* 1854–62: Sir Charles Nicholson
* 1862–65: The Hon. Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether
* 1865–78: The Hon. Sir Edward Deas Thomson
* 1878–95: The Hon. Sir William Montague Manning
* 1895–96: The Hon. Sir William Charles Windeyer
* 1896–1914: The Hon. Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin
* 1914–34: The Hon. Sir William Portus Cullen
* 1934–36: Sir Mungo William MacCallum
* 1936–41: The Hon. Sir Percival Halse Rogers
* 1941–64: Lt-Col. Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn
* 1964–70: Sir Charles George McDonald
* 1970–90: Sir Hermann David Black
* 1990–91: Sir James Rowland
* 1991–2001: Emer. Professor Dame Leonie Judith Kramer
* 2001–07: Justice Kim Santow
* 2007–present: Professor Marie BashirThe chancellor was elected by the fellows and presides at Senate meetings. In 1924, the executive position of vice-chancellor was created, and the chancellor ceased to have managerial responsibilities. Until 1860, the chancellor was known as the provost.

Vice Chancellors

The Vice-chancellor serves as the chief executive officer of the university, and oversees most of the university's day-to-day operations, with the chancellor serving in a largely ceremonial role. Before 1924, the vice-chancellors were a fellow of the University elected annually by the fellows.

* 1924–28: Professor Sir Mungo William MacCallum
* 1928–47: Sir Robert Strachan Wallace
* 1947–67: Emeritus Professor Sir Stephen Henry Roberts
* 1967–81: Professor Sir Bruce Rodda Williams
* 1981–90: Professor John Manning Ward
* 1990–96: Professor Donald McNicol
* 1996 (acting): Professor Derek John Anderson
* 1996–2008: Professor Gavin Brown
* 2008-present Dr Michael Spence

References

* Williams, Bruce. "Liberal education and useful knowledge: a brief history of the University of Sydney, 1850-2000", Chancellor's Committee, University of Sydney, 2002. ISBN 1-86487-439-2