List of University of Melbourne people

Governors General of Australia

• Richard Casey, Baron Casey, KG, GCMG, CH, DSO, MC, PC, 16th Governor-General of Australia (did not graduate)
• Sir Zelman Cowen, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC, PC^[7]
• Peter Hollingworth, AC, OBE
• Sir Isaac Isaacs, GCB, GCMG, KC, also former Chief Justice of Australia
• Sir Ninian Stephen, KG, AK, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, QC, also a previous Justice of the High Court of Australia^[8]

Governors of Victoria

• Alex Chernov, AC, QC^[9]
• Professor David de Kretser
• Sir James Gobbo, AC, CVO, QC, also a previous Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• John Landy
• Richard McGarvie
• Sir Henry Winneke, AC KCMG KCVO OBE KStJ QC, also a previous Chief Justice of Victoria^[10]

Governors of other jurisdictions

• Sir Bede Clifford GCMG, CB, MVO, Governor of The Bahamas, then Governor of Mauritius and then Governor of Trinidad and Tobago

Politicians

Arts

• Angela Brennan, artist
• Steve Cox, painter and watercolourist
• John Dahlsen, environmental artist
• Hugh Davies, mixed media artist
• Lisa Gervasoni, artist
• Bill Henson, photographer and Venice Biennale representative
• Ali Hogg, photographer and activist
• Pamela Irving, artist and educator
• Anastasia Klose, video artist and Biennale of Sydney representative
• Brian McFarlane (BA & DipEd), film historian, writer, and educator^[53]
• Doris McKellar, photographer^[54]
• Azlan McLennan, artist and activist
• Lewis Miller, Archibald Prize winning painter
• Victor O'Connor, artist^[55]
• Daniel Palmer, historian, critic, academic, and theorist of contemporary art, photography, and digital media
• Shaun Parker, award-winning choreographer, founder of Shaun Parker & Company
• Stieg Persson, painter
• Patricia Piccinini, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
• Van Thanh Rudd, artist and activist
• Anne-Louise Sarks, theatre director and writer
• Matt Scholten, theatre director, teacher and writer
• Ricky Swallow, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
• Timothy James Webb, artist
• Bradd Westmoreland, artist
• Marcus Wills, Archibald Prize winning painter

Film and television

History

• Geoffrey Blainey, one of the Australian Living Treasures
• Manning Clark
• Charles Coppel, former barrister and historian^[59]
• Keith Hancock
• Stuart Macintyre
• Michael Roe, historian and academic
• Ben Schrader, urban historian
• A. G. L. Shaw

Journalism

• Tiffiny Hall, journalist, author and television personality
• Joe Hildebrand, journalist, social commentator and news columnist
• Christine Kenneally, New York City-based journalist
• Matt Tinney, newsreader
• Bill Tipping, former journalist, social commentator and activist^[60]

Literature, writing and poetry

• Randa Abdel-Fattah, Australian Muslim author and lawyer^[61]
• Russell Blackford, writer, philosopher and critic^[62]
• Caroline Brothers, novelist and foreign correspondent
• Vincent Buckley
• Anna Ciddor, author and illustrator^[63]
• Helen Garner, author
• Kerry Greenwood, crime writer
• Germaine Greer, feminist writer and academic
• Jack Hibberd
• Fulvio Melia
• Gerald Murnane, novelist and short story writer
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University
• Lynne Kelly, writer, researcher and science educator

Music

• Harry James Angus, trumpeter and vocalist (The Cat Empire)
• Wouter De Backer, musician known as 'Gotye'
• Cheryl Barker, opera singer
• Michael Barker, drummer (John Butler Trio, Split Enz)
• Don Banks, composer
• Nicole Car, opera singer
• Arthur Chanter 1866–1950, composer
• Diana Doherty, oboe soloist (New York Philharmonic)
• Leonard Dommett, violinist and conductor
• Julian Gavin, opera singer
• Antoinette Halloran, opera singer
• Phil Harvey, manager and creative director (Coldplay)
• Missy Higgins, singer-songwriter
• Rex Hobcroft, pianist and administrator
• Tania de Jong, soprano and social entrepreneur^[64]
• Liza Lim, composer
• John McAll, pianist and musical director
• Mona McBurney 1867–1932 composer
• Ryan Monro, bassist (The Cat Empire)
• Ian Munro, pianist and composer
• Patrick Savage, film composer and former principal first violin (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Peter Sculthorpe, composer
• Dudley Simpson, conductor and television composer
• Jan Skubiszewski, multi-award-winning record producer film composer
• Red Symons, musician, television and radio personality
• Penelope Thwaites, musicologist and pianist
• Yelian He, cellist
• Charles Zwar, songwriter, composer, lyricist, pianist and music director^[65]
• David Burd, US rapper, known as Lil Dicky^[66]

Philosophy

Agriculture

• Yvonne Aitken, botanist, first woman to earn a PhD in Agriculture form the University of Melbourne in 1970^[104]

Biology

• Elizabeth Blackburn, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009
• Margaret Blackwood, botanist and geneticist
• Kirsten Parris, urban ecologist
• Grant Sutherland, human geneticist
• Torsten Seemann, bioinformatician

Computing

• Andrew Freeman, FACS – Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected in 1997), and an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the ACS (elected in 2018)^[105]

Geology

• Norman Greenwood

Chemistry

• Cyril Callister, creator of Vegemite
• Beryl Splatt
• Shu Jie Lam

Engineering

• Sir Walter Bassett
• William Charles Kernot
• Diane Lemaire, first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a degree in engineering
• Anthony Michell
• John Monash
• Elizabeth Jens
• Ian A. Young, senior fellow of Intel; co-inventor of BiCMOS logic family and clocks for Pentium series microprocessors
• Frank Caruso

Mathematics

Medicine

• Lilian Helen Alexander, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
• Ellen Balaam, first woman surgeon in Melbourne
• Marjorie Bick, biochemist
• Vera Scantlebury Brown
• Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
• Amy de Castilla, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
• Clara Stone, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
• Sir John Carew Eccles, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
• Constance Ellis, first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine from the university
• Mavis Freeman, bacteriologist and biochemist^[106]
• Jane Stocks Greig, public health specialist
• Janet Greig, Victoria's first female anaesthetist
• David Handelsman, Australia's first professor in reproductive endocrinology and andrology
• Girlie Hodges (1904–1999), Australian surgeon and field hockey player who represented Australia
• James Lawson, public health doctor and scientist
• Annie O'Hara, doctor and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
• Elizabeth O'Hara, one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
• Lorna Verdun Sisely, Surgeon and founder of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre Breast Clinic.
• Elizabeth Scarr, associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, project leader of Cooperative Research Centre for Mental Health, and leader of the Psychiatric Neuropathology laboratory at the university
• Helen Sexton, surgeon, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
• Emily Mary Page Stone, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
• Jaishankar Raman, cardiothoracic surgeon and academic.
• Rajaratnam Sundarason, surgeon, one of the founders of International House^[107]
• Elizabeth Kathleen Turner, medical superintendent of the (Royal) Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1943 until 1946. She was first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.
• Grace Vale, Physician and co-founder of the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
• Sydney James Van Pelt, pioneer of modern hypnotherapy
• Margaret Whyte, Physician, and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.

Physics

Psychology

• Vicki Anderson, pediatric neuropsychologist
• Kathleen Funder, researcher, Australian Institute of Family Studies
• Peter O'Connor, psychologist

Veterinary Science

• Cyril Seelenmeyer, VFL footballer, veterinary surgeon, winner of Military Cross
• Harold Addison Woodruff, Professor of veterinary pathology and director of the veterinary institute