List of University of Tasmania people
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This is an incomplete list of University of Tasmania people, including alumni and staff.
Academia
- Ed Byrne, Principal of King's College London
- Peter Conrad, literary academic and author
- Rodney Croome, AM, academic and LGBT rights activist
- Peter Forrest, philosopher
- Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
- Jeff Malpas, philosopher
- Michael Tate, AO, Catholic priest, legal scholar and former Labor politician
- Helen Tiffin, post-colonial theorist
Business
- Andrew MacLeod, businessman, author, former humanitarian lawyer and aid worker
- Capt. Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports
- Saul Eslake, economist[1]
Government
Vice-Regal
- Stanley Burbury, past Governor of Tasmania
- William Cox, past Governor of Tasmania
- Sir Guy Green, past Governor of Tasmania
- Peter Underwood, past Governor of Tasmania[2]
- Kate Warner, AM, legal academic and current Governor of Tasmania[2]
Politics
Federal politicians
- Eric Abetz, Liberal politician
- Neal Blewett AC, former Labor politician
- Ross Hart, former Labor politician
- Michael Hodgman QC, former Liberal politician and barrister
- Justine Keay, former Labor politician
- Christine Milne AO, former leader of the Australian Greens
- Ben Small, former Liberal politician
- Jonno Duniam, Liberal politician
State Premiers
- David Bartlett, former Premier of Tasmania
- Michael Field, former Premier of Tasmania
- Lara Giddings, Labor politician and former Premier of Tasmania
- Will Hodgman, Liberal politician and former Premier of Tasmania
State and territory politicians
- Guy Barnett, Liberal politician
- Sir Max Bingham, QC, former Deputy Premier and Opposition Leader of Tasmania
- David Bushby, Liberal politician
- Roy Fagan, former barrister and Deputy Premier of Tasmania
- Mike Gaffney, Independent MLC
- Adrian Gibson, OAM, former Liberal politician and barrister
- Sue Napier, former Liberal politician
- Michelle O'Byrne, Labor politician
- Ros Spence, Labor politician
Other politicians
- Sue Hickey, Lord Mayor of Hobart
- Albert Van Zetten, Mayor of Launceston
- Hannah Yeoh, Malaysian politician, Minister of Youth and Sports (Malaysia)[3]
- Halimah Ali, Malaysian politician, MP for Kapar
Public servants
- Ashton Calvert, AC, former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Rhodes Scholar
- Stephen Gumley, CEO of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation[4]
- Philip Haddon-Cave, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong[5]
- Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed, SAARC Secretary-General[6]
Humanities
Arts
- Anthony Ackroyd, comedian, speaker and writer[7]
- Courtney Barnett, musician
- Rianti Cartwright, actress, model and presenter of MTV Indonesia
- John Clark, former director of NIDA
- Ian Cresswell, composer
- Essie Davis, film actress
- Matthew Dewey, composer
- Hannah Gadsby, comedian
- Roger Hodgman, director
- Constantine Koukias, composer
- Michael Lampard, opera singer, conductor and composer
- Geoffrey Lancaster, classical pianist
- Andrew Legg, ARIA-award nominated musician
- Raffaele Marcellino, composer
- Luke McGregor, comedian and actor
- Graeme Murphy, AO, ballet dancer and choreographer
- Robyn Nevin, AM, actress, director and former head of the Sydney Theatre Company
- Tom Samek, painter, stage designer and printmaker
- Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor[8]
- Megan Walch, artist
- David Walsh, founder of the Museum of Old and New Art
- Shaun Wilson, artist and film director
History
- Marilyn Lake, historian
- Henry Reynolds, historian
Journalism and media
- John J. Smithies, founding director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Charles Wooley, television journalist
Literature, writing and poetry
- Ivy Alvarez, author and poet
- Tim Bowden, author and journalist
- Helene Chung Martin, author and journalist
- Stephen Edgar, poet
- Richard Flanagan, author and film director; Rhodes Scholar[9]
- Christopher Koch, author of The Year of Living Dangerously
- Amanda Lohrey, author and academic
- Christobel Mattingley, author
- Margaret Scott, author and poet
- Aaron Smith, author and journalist
- Vivian Smith, poet
- Danielle Wood, author
- Tansy Rayner Roberts, author
Law
- Damian Bugg, former Commonwealth and Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions
- Enid Campbell, AO, legal scholar, first Australian female professor and law school dean
- Chief Justice Ewan Crawford, Former Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania[10]
- Stephen Estcourt, QC, Tasmanian Supreme Court judge
- Philip Lewis Griffiths, Acting Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea[11]
- Hon Justice Peter Heerey, Federal Court Judge[12]
- Andrew Inglis Clark, principal author of the Australian Constitution, barrister, politician and judge
- Leo Keke, first Nauruan lawyer, Nauruan MP (1976-1980)[13]
- Duncan Kerr, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and former Attorney-General of Australia
- Michael Mansell, Aboriginal rights activist and criminal lawyer
- Davendra Pathik, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji
- David Mitchell, former Solicitor-general of Lesotho, Tasmanian representative at the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998 and procurator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia
Sciences
- Abigail Barrows, marine research scientist
- Noel Benson, geologist
- Geoffrey Charles Bratt, chemist and lichenologist
- Edward Byrne, neuroscientist, Principal of King's College, London; former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
- John Donaldson, applied mathematics academic; father of Mary, Queen of Denmark
- Richard Dowden, noted geo- and astrophysicist
- Theodore Thomson Flynn, biologist and professor of biology; father of Errol Flynn
- Genevieve Gates, mycologist, ecologist, and taxonomist who is particularly focused on the fungal diversity of Tasmania.
- Sir Leonard Huxley, physicist
- Catherine King, ecotoxicologist, Antarctic researcher
- Kenneth G. McCracken, physicist and winner of the Pawsey Medal[14]
- Jessica Melbourne-Thomas, marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division[15]
- David Paver Mellor, inorganic chemist
- Beryl Nashar, geologist and first female PhD in geology, first female Dean of a School in Australia
Sports
- George Bailey, Australian cricketer
- Brendon Bolton, senior coach of the Carlton Football Club
- Scott Brennan, gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics for rowing[16]
- Peter Daniel, former Essendon footballer
- Simon Hollingsworth, former athlete and CEO of the Australian Sports Commission; Rhodes Scholar
- Kerry Hore, Olympic rower
- Hamish Peacock, Olympic javelin thrower
- Meaghan Volker, Olympic rower
- Denis Scanlon, former Essendon footballer
Other
- Phillip Aspinall, Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia
- Simon Longstaff, Executive Director of the St James Ethics Centre
- Michael Lynch, evangelist and Christian blogger
- Bill Mollison, "father of permaculture"[17]
- Brodie Neill, industrial designer
- Helen Szoke, Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia, former Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner and former Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner