List of Monash University people

A list of Monash University people, including a number of notable alumni and staff.

Notable alumni

Politics and government

• Daniel Andrews – 48th Premier of Victoria
• Kevin Andrews – former Australian Defence Minister
• Louise Asher – former Deputy Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party
• Jim Bacon – former Premier of Tasmania (did not graduate)
• Adam Bandt – Federal Member of Parliament for the Australian Greens; first Green elected to Federal Parliament at a general election
• Boediono – former Vice President of Indonesia
• Sue Boyce – Australian Senator
• Andrew Brideson – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Helen Buckingham – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Anna Burke – politician, former Deputy Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
• Elaine Carbines – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Peter Cleeland – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Jacinta Collins – Australian Senator
• Ann Corcoran – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Peter Costello – longest-serving Treasurer of Australia; former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
• Simon Crean – Australian Minister for Trade; former Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the ALP
• David de Kretser – medical researcher; former Governor of Victoria
• John Delzoppo – former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria
• Richard Di Natale – Leader of the Australian Greens, Senator for Victoria
• Robert Doyle – former Leader of the Opposition in Victoria and Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party; former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• John Elferink – Northern Territory Shadow Treasurer
• Peter Falconer – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• David Feeney – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Jeannie Ferris – Australian Senator
• Gail Gago – South Australian Minister for Environment, Conservation and Mental Health
• James Gomez – Singaporean politician and academic at Monash
• Alan Griffiths – former Australian Minister for Industry and Resources
• Peter Hall – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Alistair Harkness – Member of the Parliament of Victoria, political commentator
• Carolyn Hirsh – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Rob Hudson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Dennis Jensen – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Gary Johns – former Special Minister of State, academic
• Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
• Norman Lacy – former Minister for Arts and Minister for Educational Services
• Albert Langer – political activist
• John Langmore – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives; Director of Social Policy and Development at the United Nations; academic
• John Lenders – Victorian Treasurer; Victoria's longest-serving Finance Minister
• Lim Guan Eng – Malaysian politician; former Finance Minister of Malaysia
• Hong Lim – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Tony Lupton – Member of the Parliament of Victoria; Secretary of Cabinet under John Brumby
• Julian McGauran – Former Australian Senator
• Marlene Moses – diplomat, Foreign Minister of Nauru
• Lauren Moss – Member of the Northern Territory Parliament
• Simbarashe Mumbengegwi – former Foreign Minister of Zimbabwe
• Janice Munt – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Brendan O'Connor – former Australian Minister for Home Affairs and Employment, now Opposition Cabinet member
• Gavan O'Connor – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Neil O'Keefe – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Clare O'Neil – Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Hotham; former Mayor of the City of Greater Dandenong; youngest female mayor in Australian history
• Martin Pakula – Attorney General of Victoria
• John Pandazopoulos – former Victorian Minister for Employment and Major Projects
• Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator; former Minister for Health
• Chris Pearce – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Sue Pennicuik – Greens Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Victor Perton – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Inga Peulich – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Robert Ray – Australian Senator; former Defence Minister
• Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; former Defence Minister; former Minister for Workplace Relations
• Gordon Rich-Phillips – Shadow Victorian Finance Minister
• Tony Robinson – Victorian Minister for Consumer Affairs and Gaming
• Bill Shorten – Federal Opposition leader, Member of the Australian House of Representatives; former National Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union; President of the Victorian ALP
• Helen Silver – public servant; Secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet
• Adem Somyurek – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Sharman Stone – former Australian Minister for Workforce Participation, former Shadow Minister for Immigration
• Kirsty Sword Gusmão – political activist; former first lady of East Timor
• Murray Thompson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• John Thwaites – former Deputy Premier of Victoria; Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change
• David Vigor – Australian Senator
• Nick Wakeling – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
• Don Watson – speechwriter to Paul Keating, author
• Graeme Weideman – former Victorian Minister for Tourism
• Dean Wells – former Attorney-General of Queensland; Minister for Education and Minister for the Environment
• Steve Wettenhall – Member of the Parliament of Queensland
• Greg Wilton (1955–2000) – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Michael Wooldridge – former Australian Minister for Health and Chairman of UNAIDS
• Luke Lazarus Arnold – Australian High Commissioner to Brunei

Law

• Greg Barns – barrister and political commentator
• Kevin Bell – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; current President of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
• Diana Bryant – current Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
• Julian Burnside, KC – high-profile barrister; human rights advocate; author; one of the Australian Living Treasures
• Paul Cronin – Justice of the Family Court of Australia
• Tom Danos – high-profile barrister; Treasurer of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association; defence lawyer in the Keith William Allan murder trial
• Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• Ian Gray – current Chief Magistrate, Magistrates' Court of Victoria
• Felicity Hampel – human rights lawyer; Judge of the County Court of Victoria
• Peter Hayes QC – high-profile barrister
• Peter Hogg – constitutional law scholar
• Graeme Johnstone – current State Coroner of Victoria
• Murray Kellam – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria;first President of VCAT
• Ron McCallum – legal scholar specialising in industrial law
• Francine McNiff – legal scholar, and first woman state magistrate in Victoria
• Lex Lasry KC – high-profile barrister, Chairman of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association; human rights advocate; Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Stuart Morris – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; former President of VCAT
• Ross Ray – current President of the Law Council of Australia
• Neil Rees – current Chairman of the Victorian Law Reform Commission; foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School
• Michael Rozenes – current Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria
• Pamela Tate – current Solicitor-General of Victoria
• Mark Weinberg – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia; former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions; current Chief Justice of Norfolk Island

Media and arts

• Rory Barnes – novelist
• Jean Bedford – novelist
• Peter Bonner – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize
• Damien Broderick – author, futurist
• Peter Carey – Booker prize-winning novelist
• Nick Cave – musician
• Doug Chappel – comedian actor
• Tim Charles – musician
• Timothy Conigrave (1959–1994) – actor and writer
• Peter Corris – crime fiction author
• Dagmar Evelyn Cyrulla – artist
• Andrew Daddo – actor, voice artist, author and television personality
• Cecilia Dart-Thornton – author
• Lindy Davies – actor; Dean of the Victorian College of Arts
• Cherie Ditcham – actress, model
• Laurie Duggan – poet
• Hazel Edwards – children's author
• Jon Faine – Melbourne radio personality
• Phillip Frazer – publisher
• Max Gillies – actor and satirist
• Andy Griffiths – children's author
• John Griffiths – musician and musicologist
• Yalda Hakim – journalist
• Mark Holden – singer, actor, television personality and barrister
• Leslie Howard – pianist and composer
• Russel Howcroft – advertiser, media personality and Executive general manager of Network Ten
• Paul Jennings – children's author
• Adib Khan – novelist
• Lucy Kiraly – fashion model and television presenter
• Michael Leunig – cartoonist
• Campbell McComas – comedian and actor
• Brenda Niall – author
• Nikolai Nikolaeff – actor
• Eva Orner – Academy-Award-winning film producer
• Boyd Oxlade – author of Death in Brunswick
• Charlie Pickering – comedian
• Ben Quilty – artist
• Apsara Reddy – journalist
• John Romeril – playwright
• Raghav Sachar – Indian singer-songwriter
• John A. Scott – poet
• Fiona Spence – actress, star of Prisoner
• Jo Stanley – radio personality
• Stelarc – performance artist
• Yumi Stynes – radio and television personality
• Lucy Sussex – author
• Matt Tilley – comedian
• Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize
• Paul Yore – artist
• Don Watson – author
• Alan Wearne – poet
• Ilka White – textile artist
• David Williamson – playwright
• Shaun Wilson – artist
• Wendy Zukerman – podcast personality, science journalist

Business

• Fiona Balfour – businesswoman, former Qantas and Telstra executive
• John F. O. Bilson – economist
• Mark Birrell – company director; former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology
• Terry Budge – banking executive, former Chancellor of Murdoch University
• Tony D'Aloisio – Chairman, Australian Securities & Investments Commission; former CEO, Australian Securities Exchange
• Henry Ergas – economist
• John A. Fraser – Chairman and CEO of Global Asset Management at UBS; former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury
• Josh Frydenberg – Treasurer of Australia
• Peter Ivany – media mogul and billionaire
• Margaret Jackson – first female Chairman of Qantas
• Ruslan Kogan – founder and CEO of Australia's biggest online retailer Kogan.com; co-founder of Milan Direct
• Michael Kroger – Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
• Tan Le – technology businesswoman, Young Australian of the Year
• Peter Lew – businessman
• Michael Luscombe – CEO and managing director, Woolworths
• Ian Macfarlane – economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996–2006)
• Paresh Narayan – economist
• Trevor O'Hoy – President and CEO, Foster's Group
• Pasuk Phongpaichit – economist, author, anti-corruption campaigner; recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
• Peter Reith – Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
• Gary P. Sampson – World Trade Organization economist
• Graeme Samuel – Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
• Anna Skarbek – businesswoman and former investment banker
• Jannie Tay – Executive vice-chairman and co-founder of the Hour Glass; recipient of the 2003 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award

Medicine and science

• Yahya Awang – cardiothoracic surgeon; performed the first heart transplant in Malaysia
• Greg Ayers – atmospheric scientist, Director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
• David Brown – meteorologist, Seven News weatherman
• Michael Cowley – physiologist, Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009
• David de Kretser – medical researcher, former Governor of Victoria
• Weary Dunlop – military surgeon, World War II leader (attended the Victorian College of Pharmacy, now Monash Parkville Campus)
• Ian G. Enting – mathematician
• Tim Flannery – biologist, author, 2007 Australian of the Year
• Andrew Freeman FACS – Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected in 1997), and an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the ACS (elected in 2018)
• Kristine French – plant biologist and conservationist
• Peter Gibson – gastroenterologist who created the Low-FODMAP diet in collaboration with Susan Shepherd
• Susan Lim – surgeon, performed Singapore's first successful liver transplant; recipient of the 2005 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
• John Mattick – Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, whose research led to the discovery of the function of non-coding DNA
• Patrick McGorry – psychiatrist, 2010 Australian of the Year
• Dr Brad McKay – doctor, author and science communicator
• Jared Purton (1976–2009) – immunologist
• Lee J. Slavutin – pathologist; recipient of the 1974 Monash University Sophie Davis Memorial Prize
• Terry Speed – mathematician
• Abu Bakar Suleiman – Vice-Chancellor of International Medical University; recipient of the 2007 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
• Norman Arthur Wakefield – botanist
• Lynne Kelly – researcher and science educator
• Charles Clarke – botanist

Social services and academia

• Phillip Aspinall – Head of the Anglican Church of Australia
• Diane Bell – anthropologist
• Gidon Bromberg – environmentalist
• Karen Burns – architectural historian
• Michael Clyne – linguist
• Anthony G. Collins – President of Clarkson University
• Tim Costello – humanitarian, CEO of World Vision Australia, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
• Mick Dodson – indigenous rights campaigner; Convenor of the ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia; one of the Australian Living Treasures; 2009 Australian of the Year
• Harriet Edquist – architectural historian
• Hugh Evans – 2004 Young Australian of the Year, philanthropist
• Ben Kiernan – leading researcher in the study of genocide
• Peter Leslie Lee – Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross University
• Stuart Macintyre – historian
• Ron McCallum – Labour law scholar
• Simon Molesworth KC, Chairman of the Australian Council of National Trusts
• Justin Oakley – philosopher
• Neil Rees – foundation Dean of the University of Newcastle Law School
• James Mahmud Rice – sociologist
• Julian Savulescu – Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford
• Andrekos Varnava – historian, writer, and professor at Flinders University
• Brian Weatherson – philosopher
• Beth Wilson – Victorian Health Services Commissioner
• Dato' Michael Yeoh – founder, executive director and CEO of Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI)

Sport

• Catherine Arlove – Olympic judo competitor
• John Bertrand – yachtsman, skipper of Australia II
• Mordy Bromberg – former AFL footballer, barrister, current Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
• Travis Brooks – field hockey player, Olympic Games gold medallist
• Ashley Brown (born 1994) – footballer
• Nathan Burke – AFL footballer
• Alastair Clarkson – former AFL footballer, current Coach of the Hawthorn Football Club
• Tony Dodemaide – cricketer
• Ron Evans – AFL footballer and sports administrator
• Robby Foldvari – billiards and snooker player, world champion
• Brett Gosper – former member of the Australia national under-21 rugby union team; current CEO of the International Rugby Board
• Geoff Grover – former AFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)
• Lauren Hewitt – athlete
• Geoff Hunt – squash player, four-time world champion
• Janine Ilitch – netballer
• Paul McNamee – tennis player, sports administrator, winner of Wimbledon and Australian Open
• Anna Millward, née Wilson – cyclist, world champion and world record holder
• Brenton Rickard – swimmer, Olympic silver medallist
• Anna Segal – Olympic freestyle skier and 2-time world champion
• Paul Trimboli – soccer player
• David Zalcberg – Olympic table tennis player, Commonwealth Games medallist

Notable staff (past and present)

Creative arts

• Dorothy Auchterlonie – writer and poet
• Trevor Barnard – pianist
• Janine Burke – author, novelist, art historian
• Kevin Hart – poet and literary critic
• Adrian Martin – film critic
• Brian Nelson – French literature expert and translator
• Jennifer Strauss – poet
• Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the Dobell Prize

Humanities and social sciences

• Waleed Aly – Muslim community leader and political commentator
• Carina Garland – Labor Member for Chisholm Parliament of Australia
• Andrew Benjamin – philosopher
• Harold Bolitho – historian
• Geoffrey Bolton – historian
• John Brumby – former Premier of Victoria
• Kate Burridge – prominent linguist and occasional ABC presenter
• John Button – former Australian Senator; Leader of the Australian Labor Party in the Senate; Australian Minister for Industry (1983–1993)
• David P. Chandler – historian
• Chin Liew Ten – philosopher
• Michael Clyne – linguist
• Ken Coghill – former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria
• Peter Costello – longest-serving Treasurer of Australia; former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
• Franz-Josef Deiters – literary scholar
• Nick Economou – political scientist and media commentator
• Ben Eltham – creative producer and social commentator
• Herbert Feith – Indonesian politics expert
• Allan Fels – economist and former Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
• John Edward Fletcher – German studies expert
• James Alexander Forrest – lawyer, former University Council member
• Petro Georgiou – former Liberal Member of the Parliament of Australia
• Fred Gruen – economist
• Rob J. Hyndman – statistician, forecaster
• Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher
• Margaret J. Kartomi – ethnomusicologist
• David Kemp – political scientist; former Australian Minister for Education and the Environment
• Helga Kuhse – philosopher and bioethicist
• Andrew Linklater – international relations expert
• Mal Logan – geographer, former Vice-Chancellor
• Tony Lupton – former politician and Secretary to the Victorian Cabinet, now professor of public policy
• Race Mathews – economist; Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam; former Minister for Community Services; former Minister for Police and Emergency Services
• Yew-Kwang Ng – economist
• Graham Oppy – philosopher
• Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator and Minister for Health
• Mark Peel – historian
• Christian Reus-Smit – international relations expert
• John Rickard – economist
• Modjtaba Sadria – philosopher
• Richard Scotton – health economist, creator of Australian Medicare program
• Kamal Uddin Siddiqui – economist, diplomat
• Peter Singer – philosopher (now at Princeton University, US)
• J. J. C. Smart – philosopher
• Michael A. Smith – philosopher
• John Thwaites – former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change, now Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute
• Nick Trakakis – philosopher
• Hal Varian – economist
• David Wright-Neville – political scientist, terrorism expert
• Xiaokai Yang – economist, democracy campaigner, political prisoner
• Lara Owen – organisational studies, menstrual expert

Law

• Bob Baxt – lawyer, former Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission (now ACCC)
• Enid Campbell – jurist
• David Derham – jurist
• Raymond Finkelstein – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• Arie Freiberg – Chairman of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council
• George Hampel, QC – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; leading advocacy instructor
• Felicity Hampel, SC – judge of the County Court of Victoria; human rights lawyer
• Peter Heerey – Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• Sarah Joseph – human rights scholar
• Marcia Neave – Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Stephen John Parker – jurist
• Mahadev Shankar – Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge
• Louis Waller – medical and criminal law expert
• Christopher Weeramantry – Judge and Vice-President of the International Court of Justice; human rights advocate

Medicine and life sciences

• Bill Charman – pharmaceutical scientist
• Michael Cowley – physiologist; Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009
• Dorothy Jean Hailes – medical practitioner
• David de Kretser – medical researcher; current Governor of Victoria
• Basil Hetzel – medical researcher, public health advocate, listed as one of the Australian Living Treasures
• Frederic Jevons – biochemist
• Richard Larkins – medical researcher; former Monash University Vice-Chancellor
• Barrie Marmion – Foundation Professor of Microbiology (1963–68)
• A.T.S Sissons – pharmaceutical scientist
• Elsdon Storey – neurologist
• Alan O. Trounson – biologist, IVF pioneer and stem cell researcher
• Joanna Tully – forensic paediatrician; deputy director of the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service at the Royal Children's and Monash Children's hospitals
• Carl Wood – IVF pioneer

Physical sciences

• Robert Bartnik – mathematician
• Jim Breen – computer scientist, known for his work on Japanese dictionary projects
• Damian Conway – computer scientist, Perl
• John Crossley – mathematician
• John Michael Cullen – ornithologist
• Richard Gunstone – physicist
• Kenneth H. Hunt – kinematics expert
• Vit Klemes – hydrologist
• Gilah Leder – mathematics education
• Raymond Martin – chemical scientist, former Vice-Chancellor
• Louis Matheson – engineer, foundation Vice-Chancellor
• Louis Moresi – geophysicist
• Graeme Pearman – climate change scientist
• Andrew Prentice – mathematician
• Zenon J Pudlowski – engineering expert
• John Stillwell – mathematician
• Chris Wallace – computer scientist
• Les William – physical instrumentation

Administration

Vice-Chancellors

• Sir Louis Matheson (1960–1976)
• William Alexander Gowdie Scott (1976–1977)
• Raymond Martin AO (1977–1987)
• Mal Logan AC (1987–1996)
• David Robinson (1997–2002)
• Peter Darvall AO (2002–2003)
• Richard Larkins AO (2003–2009)
• Ed Byrne AC (2009–2014)
• Margaret Gardner AO (2014–2023)

Chancellors

• Sir Robert Rutherford Blackwood (1958–1968)
• Sir Douglas Ian Menzies (1968–1974)
• Sir Richard Moulton Eggleston (1975–1983)
• Sir George Hermann Lush (1983–1992)
• David William Rogers (1992–1998)
• Jerry Ellis (1999–2007)
• Alan Finkel (2008–2016)
• Simon McKeon (2016–)

External links

• Monash Expertline