List of University of Adelaide people

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

Notable alumni

* Julie Bishop, politician and Deputy Leader of the Opposition
* James Bradley, author
* John Jefferson Bray, poet
* Nick Bolkus, politician
* William Lawrence Bragg, physicist, Nobel prize winner (1915)
* Keith Briggs, mathematician
* Neil Bryans, former Australian Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Information and Weapon Systems)
* Helen Caldicott, physician and anti-nuclear advocate
* David Chalmers, philosopher and Federation Fellow (2004)
* Vickie Chapman, politician
* Ong Teng Cheong, former President of Singapore
* Herbert Thomas Condon, ornithologist
* Lynton Crosby, leading Australian campaign strategist and Liberal Party official
* Timothy Cooper, Managing Director of Coopers Brewery
* Natasha Stott Despoja, politician
* Don Dunstan, politician
* David Fitzsimons, athlete
* Howard Florey, pharmacologist, Nobel prize winner (1945)
* Chloe Fox, politician
* Jane Francis, former research Associate, Polar Medal (2002)
* Julia Gillard, politician and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
* Pru Goward, politician
* Francis Greenslade, comedian
* Max Harris, poet and intellectual
* Basil Hetzel, authority on iodine deficiency
* Robert Murray Hill, politician
* Annette Hurley, politician
* Rodney Jory, physicist
* Linda Kirk, politician
* Graham Koehne, composer
* John Lyster, dental practitioner
* Dichen Lachman, actress
* Aubrey Lewis - pre-eminent psychiatrist, first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and driving force of raising the profile of the discipline worldwide.
* Sim Cheok Lim, Singapore's Ambassador (Non-Resident) to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
* Roger Lough, former Australian Chief Defence Scientist
* Helen Mayo, pioneer in women's and children's health
* Abdul Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak
* Shaun Micallef, comedian
* Anton Middelberg, chemical engineer, Federation Fellow (2003)
* Dean Mildren, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
* Robin Millhouse, Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru and former politician
* Brian Morris, molecular biologist
* Nanda Nandagopal, Australia's Deputy Chief Defence Scientist (Policy and Programs)
* Keith Nugent, physicist, Federation Fellow (2001)
* Sir Mark Oliphant, nuclear physicist
* David Penberthy, editor-in-chief "The Daily Telegraph"
* Hugh Possingham, mathematical ecologist, Rhodes scholar and Federation Fellow (2006)
* Christopher Pyne, politician
* Thorburn Brailsford Robertson, pioneered insulin manufacture in Australia
* Maurice de Rohan, South Australian Agent General
* Jeremy Shum, television host
* Jack Snelling, politician
* Margaret Somerville, ethicist
* Andrew Southcott, politician
* Mark Sparnon, engineer and Chief of Design of the Airbus A380
* Colin Thiele, writer
* Andy Thomas, the first Australian in space
* Cecil Edgar Tilley, petrologist and geologist
* David Tonkin, politician
* Tony Tan, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
* Peter van Manen, Managing Director of McLaren Electronic Systems
* Amanda Vanstone, politician
* David Vigor, politician
* Robin Warren, pathologist, Nobel prize winner (2005)
* Stephen Whittington, composer, pianist and writer on music
* Neil Weste, microelectronics engineer and entrepreneur
* Penny Wong, politician
* Datuk Yong, Managing Director of Royal Selangor
* Dato' Sri Adenan bin Satem, Malaysia's Former Minister of Natural Resources and Environment

Notable staff

*Derek Abbott, physicist and engineer, pioneered the first terahertz (T-ray) program in Australia and led the early development of a branch of game theory known as Parrondo's paradox.
*Scott M. Allford, educator
*Leo Blair (senior), the father of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was a law lecturer at the University of Adelaide while Tony was a child.
*Sir William Bragg, physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1915)
* Keith Briggs, mathematician, was formerly on the staff of the Physics Department
*Gavin Brown, mathematician
*Barry Burgan, head of the business school and economist
*Tristram Cary, composer of the Dalek theme tune for Doctor Who
*JM Coetzee, retired to Adelaide and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Discipline of English, an acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel Prizewinner for Literature (2003)
*Rod Crewther, physicist, was a PhD student of the Nobel prize winner Murray Gell-Mann
*Alan Cooper, ancient DNA expert and Federation Fellow (2004)
*Paul Davies, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Templeton Prize winner (1995)
*Robert Champion de Crespigny, industrialist
*Tim Flannery, paleontologist, Australian of the Year
*Fay Gale, Adelaide's First Honours Geography graduate, first woman President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, President, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia 1998-2000, Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia 1990-1997
*Bert Green was a PhD student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born and Green is the "G" in "BBGKY."
*Graeme Hugo, demographer and Federation Fellow (2002)
*Frank Cameron Jackson, philosopher
*Frederic Wood Jones, naturalist
*Cecil Madigan, geologist
*Sir Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer and geologist
*Gavan McCormack, orientalist
*Sir William Mitchell, philosopher
*Tanya Monro, physicist and Federation Fellow (2008)
*Charles E. M. Pearce, applied mathematician
*Renfrey Potts, Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematics
*George Rudé, Marxist historian
*J. J. C. Smart, philosopher
*George Szekeres, mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem
*Ralph Tate, botanist and geologist
*Andrew Taylor, poet
*Mark Tester, botanist and Federation Fellow (2004)
*Ernie Tuck, applied mathematician
*Mike Tyler, Ig Nobel Prize winner (2005)
*Mathai Varghese, pure mathematician
*Sir Joseph Cooke Verco, physician and conchologist

High Achieving Graduates from Singapore

* Late President of Singapore, Mr Ong Teng Cheong
* Former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore and Minister of Defense, Republic of Singapore, Dr Tony Tan
* High Court Judge, Justice Lee Sieu Kin
* Minister for Transport, Mr Raymond Lim [http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/CabinetAppointments/Mr+Raymond+LIM+Siang+Keat.htm]
* Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Mr Iswaran
* Past Managing Director, Singapore Airlines; Chairman, Singapore Broadcasting Corporation; current Chairman, OCBC Bank, Singapore, Dr Cheong Choong Kong
* Singapore's Ambassador (Non-Resident) to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan,his Excellency, Mr Sim Cheok Lim [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/lifeimpact?id=21;m=profile]