- List of University of Melbourne people
This is an incomplete list of
University of Melbourne people, including alumni and staff.Governors General of Australia
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Richard Casey, Baron Casey
*SirZelman Cowen
*Peter Hollingworth
*SirIsaac Isaacs , also a previous Chief Justice of Australia
*SirNinian Stephen Governors of Victoria
*Sir
Henry Winneke , also a previous Chief Justice of Victoria
*Richard McGarvie
*SirJames Gobbo
*John Landy
*ProfessorDavid de Kretser Politicians
Prime Ministers of Australia
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Alfred Deakin
*Harold Holt
*SirRobert Menzies Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
* Dr
Jim Cairns (Deputy Prime Minister of Australia )
*Julia Gillard (Incumbent)Premiers of Victoria
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John Brumby
*John Cain II
*Rupert Hamer
*Sir William Irvine
*Joan Kirner
*William Shiels
*Lindsay Thompson Other prominent politicians
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Ismail Abdul Rahman , formerDeputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
*Lyn Allison , current leader ofAustralian Democrats party
*Bruce Baird , Member of theAustralian House of Representatives
*William Macmahon Ball , diplomat
*Anna Burke , Member of the Australian House of Representatives
*John Alexander Forrest
*Petro Georgiou , Member of Australian House of Representatives
*H.B. Higgins , formerAttorney-General of Australia and Justice of theHigh Court of Australia
*Tim Holding - Current Victorian Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Victorian Minister for Corrections
*Greg Hunt , Member of Australian House of Representatives
*Dr.Dennis Jensen , Member of Australian House of Representatives
*David Kemp- Former Howard government Cabinet Minister
*John Langmore , Member of Australian House of Representatives
*William Maloney , Member of Australian House of Representatives
*Peter McGauran , federal government minister
*Dato'Mustapa Mohamed , Higher Education Minister ofMalaysia
*Andrew Peacock former Australian Foreign Minister and Treasurer
*Nicola Roxon Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Health Minister
*Ralph Willis , Former Federal Treasurer of Australia and Member of the Australian House of RepresentativesLord Mayor of Melbourne
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John So First Lady
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Kirsty Sword Gusmão , First Lady ofEast Timor Prominent Members of the Military
*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.
*Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, politician and World War I general.
*SirNeil Hamilton Fairley , Army doctor.
*SirEdmund Herring , World War II general.
*SirJames Whiteside McCay , politician and World War I general.
*SirJohn Monash , famed World War I general.
*SirKingsley Norris , Army doctor and Major General.Legal profession
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Philip Lewis Griffiths , juristChief Justices of Australia
* Sir
Owen Dixon
* SirFrank Gavan Duffy
* SirIsaac Isaacs
* Sir John LathamJustices of High Court of Australia
*Sir
Keith Aickin
*Susan Crennan
*SirDaryl Dawson
*SirOwen Dixon
*SirWilfred Fullagar
*SirFrank Gavan Duffy
*Kenneth Hayne
*H.B. Higgins
*SirIsaac Isaacs
*SirDouglas Menzies
*SirNinian Stephen Chief Justice of Federal Court of Australia
Chief Justice of Family Court of Australia
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Alastair Bothwick Nicholson Chief Justices of Victoria
* Sir John Madden
* Sir William Irvine
* SirFrederick Mann
* SirEdmund Herring
* SirHenry Winneke
*John Harber Phillips Presidents of Victorian Court of Appeal
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John Winneke
*Chris Maxwell Corporate Figures
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Robert Champion de Crespigny
*John Elliott
*SirJohn Holland
*SirBrian Inglis
*Margaret Jackson
*Ananda Krishnan
*Brian Loton
*Richard Pratt
*Graeme Samuel
*Evan Thornley Academic
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Michael Clyne , linguist
*Bella Guerin , educator and activist; first female University graduate in Australia
*Peter Karmel , formervice-chancellor ofAustralian National University andFlinders University
*Peter McPhee, Provost of the University of Melbourne
*Fulvio Melia , Professor of Physics and Astronomy at theUniversity of Arizona and associate editor of theAstrophysical Journal
*Michael Roe, historian
*David Shallcross , chemical engineer
*Rajkumar Buyya , software engineer
*Greg Craven Vice Chancellor of Australian Catholic University.Scientists
Physicists
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Fulvio Melia
* William Sutherland
*Richard Dalitz Geologists
* Sir
Albert Ernest Kitson , winner of the 1927Lyell Medal Doctors
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Vera Scantlebury Brown
*SirFrank Macfarlane Burnet , awarded theNobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 "for the discovery that theimmune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
*SirJohn Carew Eccles , awarded theNobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
*Dr.David Richter , graduated third in the University of Melbourne's Medical School Class of 1971. Renowned Rheumatologist in the greater Akron, OH area.Historians
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Geoffrey Blainey , listed as one of theAustralian Living Treasures
*Manning Clark
*Alice Garner
*Keith Hancock
*Stuart Macintyre
*A.G.L.Shaw Architect
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Barry Patten Organisation leaders
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Waleed Aly Authors
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Germaine Greer
*Helen Garner
*Jack Hibberd
*Fulvio Melia Philosopher
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Peter Singer Artists
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Cate Blanchett , actress
*Barry Humphries
*Alice Garner, historian, musician, actress
*Rob Sitch , co-writer and co-director of the movies "The Castle" and "The Dish "; and co-host of "The Panel "Poets
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Visiting Professor of Australian Studies atHarvard University
*Vincent Buckley External links
* [http://www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/prominent.html Prominent alumni] - from the University of Melbourne website
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