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Lee Duffield
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This is a list of University of Sydney people, including notable alumni and staff.

Alumni

Academia

  • Elizabeth Bannan, educationist awarded the Walter Beavis prize and the Jones medal
  • Brian L. Byrne, social scientist known for research in psycholinguistics; Emeritus professor at the University of New England
  • Beverly Derewianka, Emeritus Professor of linguistics at University of Wollongong
  • Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, biologist and climate scientist known as a leading expert in the effects of climate change on coral reefs
  • Frank Lancaster Jones, sociologist known for research on social inequality, social stratification, social mobility, and national identity
  • Sir Robert Madgwick OBE, first Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England; two-term Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission; Director of the Australian Army Education Service during World War II
  • Nicholas Saunders, Former Vice-Chancellor University of Newcastle and former Dean of Medicine Monash University and Flinders University
  • Eddie Woo, the most famous mathematics teacher in Australia

Architecture

Business

  • Matt Barrie – CEO of Freelancer.com
  • David S. Clarke – Chairman of Macquarie Bank (1985–2007)
  • Cameron Clyne – CEO of National Australia Bank (2009–2014)
  • Matt Comyn – CEO of Commonwealth Bank
  • Philip Corne – CEO of Louis Vuitton Oceania
  • Margaret Gardner – CEO of Monash University
  • John Grill – billionaire, CEO of WorleyParsons
  • Angus Harris – Co-CEO of Harris Farm Markets
  • Sir David Higgins – CEO of Network Rail
  • Fred Hilmer – CEO of University of New South Wales
  • Michael Hintze– billionaire, philanthropist; former Head of U.K. Trading and Head of European emerging markets trading at Goldman Sachs
  • Ryan Junee – founder and CEO of Omnisio and Inporia
  • Jeni Klugman – Director of the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • Jim Millner – former Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson
  • Allan Moss – Managing Director/CEO of Macquarie Bank (1993–2008)
  • John Mulcahy – CEO of Suncorp-Metway Ltd (2003–2009)
  • Michael Patsalos-Fox – Chairman of McKinsey & Co in America
  • Timothy Potts – Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles
  • Mark Scott – former CEO of Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  • Michael Spence – Vice-Chancellor and Principal of University of Sydney
  • Glenn Stevens – Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Matt Sweeny – CEO and co-founder of Flirtey, inventor
  • Malcolm Turnbull – Prime Minister, lawyer, investment banker, prominent republican
  • Tom Waterhouse – bookmaker;CEO of William Hill Australia
  • James Wolfensohn – President of the World Bank (1995–2005)

Community activism

Government

Royalty

Governors-General of Australia

State governors and Territory Administrators

Politicians

Prime Ministers of Australia
Premiers of New South Wales
Federal politicians
Australian state and territory politicians
International politicians
Lord mayors of the City of Sydney

Public servants

  • Tony Cole – thirteenth Secretary of the Department of the Treasury
  • Philip Flood – former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  • Devadas Krishnadas, author and socio-political commentator,former Singapore civil servant
  • Neil McInnes AM – intellectual, journalist and senior public servant (Medicine and Physiology; did not graduate)
  • Ewart Smith – campaigner against the Australia Card (LLB)

Humanities

Arts

History

Journalism

Literature, writing and poetry

Philosophy

Law

Other legal professionals

Military

  • Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman
  • Major-General John Broadbent CBE
  • Major-General Paul Brereton – Head Cadet, Reserve and Employer Support Division
  • Lieutenant General Sir Mervyn Brogan – Chief of the General Staff
  • Brigadier Sir Frederick Oliver Chilton – led the Sydney Anzac Day March in his 100th year
  • Air Vice Marshal William Collins AO
  • Air Vice Marshal Lyndon Compton AO OBE
  • Roden Cutler – Victoria Cross recipient
  • Air Vice Marshal Christopher Deeble AM CSC
  • Air Vice Marshal Joseph Dietz
  • Major-General Sir Ivan Dougherty
  • Air Vice Marshal Desmond Douglas OBE DFC
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Drew – Director-General of Army Medical Services (United Kingdom)
  • Air Vice Marshal Brian Graf AO
  • Air Vice Marshal Michael Helsham AO DFC
  • Air Vice Marshal Ernest Hey CB CBE
  • Air Vice Marshal Colin Hingston AM
  • Major-General W B "Digger" James – Director-General of Army Medical Services
  • Lieutenant General Sir Carl Jess
  • Captain Gordon Grimsley King – commando leader awarded the Distinguished Service Order for action at the Battle of Kaiapit
  • Lieutenant General James Legge – Chief of the General Staff
  • Major-General Greg Melick
  • Air Vice Marshal David Morgan AO OBE
  • Air Vice Marshal Rodney Noble AO
  • Air Vice Marshal Glen Reed
  • Air Vice Marshal Bruce Short
  • Air Vice Marshal Neil Smith AM MBE
  • Percy Storkey – Victoria Cross recipient
  • Air Vice Marshal Ian Sutherland AO
  • Major General Mervyn Tan – Chief of Air Force, Republic of Singapore Air Force
  • Major-General Sir Victor Windeyer

Religious leaders

Sciences

Astronauts and astronomy

  • Ruby Payne-Scott – first to use radio interferometry
  • Bernard Mills – developed the Mills Cross Telescope and Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
  • Ron Bracewell – known for nulling interferometry, and the Bracewell probe concept in SETI; Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University
  • Edwin Ernest Salpeter – Crafoord Laureate Astronomy 1997, known for the initial mass function and accretion disk model of active galactic nuclei
  • Paul D. Scully-Power – first Australian-born astronaut to fly in space
  • Greg Chamitoff – NASA astronaut and University of Sydney Lawrence Hargrave Professor of Aeronautical Engineering
  • Philip K. Chapman – Apollo 14 Mission Scientist

Biology

Chemistry

Computer scientists

  • Michael Georgeff – AAAI Fellow, Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
  • Rick Jelliffe – inventor of the Schematron schema language
  • Rod Johnson –best-selling author; expert in Java/Java EE; founder of the Spring Framework
  • John Lions – author of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, commonly known as the Lions Book
  • Vaughan Pratt – ACM Fellow; pioneer in computer science; Professor Emeritus at Stanford University
  • Ross Quinlan – AAAI Fellow; highly cited scholar and a pioneer in decision theory
  • Ken Thompson– co-creator of unix; Turing Award recipient
  • Andrew Tridgell – co-inventor of the rsync algorithm; author of and contributor to the Samba file server

Engineering

  • Ronald Ernest Aitchison – solid-state physicist and electronics engineer
  • Harvey Warren Blanch – biochemical engineer
  • Ronald N. Bracewell – known for nulling interferometry, and the Bracewell probe concept in SETI; Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University
  • John Bradfield – designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
  • Julie Cairney – materials scientist and engineer and Director of the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • Graeme Clark – inventor of the bionic ear implant
  • Bryan Gaensler – former associate professor of astronomy at Harvard University; ARC Federation Fellow at the University of Sydney
  • Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – former Chairman of the University Research Board and Professor of Zoology at Princeton University
  • John O'Sullivan – winner of 2009 Prime Minister's Prize for Science; an originator of wireless technology, credited with the invention of WiFi, earning hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties
  • Ruby Payne-Scott – first female radio astronomer
  • Terence Percival – made pioneering contributions to WIFI technology
  • David Skellern – made pioneering contributions to WIFI technology
  • Richard H. Small – co-inventor of Thiele/Small parameters
  • Neville Thiele – co-inventor of Thiele/Small parameters
  • David Warren – inventor of the "black box" (flight data recorder)

Geology, archeology and oceanography

Mathematics and economics

  • Dennis A. Ahlburg – President of Trinity University; previously dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder and professor of human resources at Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota
  • Robert Griffiths – FRS, Professor of Mathematical Genetics at University of Oxford
  • Peter Gavin Hall – Professor of Statistics at University of California, Davis
  • John Harsanyi – Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994)
  • Richard Holden – economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Jan Kmenta – Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Michigan
  • Kelvin Lancaster – creator of the theory of the second best and "A New Approach to Consumer Theory"; John Bates Clark Professor of Economics at Columbia University
  • Graeme Milton – Professor of Mathematics at University of Utah, recipient of SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize and SIAM fellow
  • Pat Moran – made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics
  • Yew-Kwang Ng – economist at Monash University
  • Graeme Segal – FRS, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry; Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge (1990–1999)
  • Eugene Seneta – co-inventor of the Variance-gamma distribution
  • Trevor Swan – the Swan in the Solow-Swan Model
  • Justin Wolfers – economist at Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business

Medicine

  • George Henry Abbott – surgeon and former Fellow University of Sydney
  • Katie Louisa Ardill – first woman to be appointed as a divisional surgeon in New South Wales; among the first female doctors when she joined the British Expeditionary Forces in Egypt in 1915
  • Nikos Athanasou – Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology at Oxford University and Greek-Australian novelist
  • Samy Azer – Professor of Medical Education; international medical educator
  • Maxwell Bennett – proved that nerve terminals on muscles release transmitter molecules, rather than just the noradrenaline and acetylcholine that were previously known
  • Dame Valerie Beral (graduated with first-class honours in both medicine and surgery, 1969) – epidemiologist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Head of Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and Cancer Research UK since 1989
  • Grace Boelke – general practitioner; one of the first two female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney
  • Claudia Bradley, MBE (1909–1967) – pharmacist, paediatrician, orthopaedist
  • Jennifer Byrne – cancer research
  • Janet Carr (1933–2014) – physiotherapist
  • John Carter AO – endocrinologist and former president Australian Diabetes Society
  • Victor Chang AC (1936–1991) – pioneer of modern heart transplantation
  • Robert Clancy – developer of first oral vaccine for acute bronchitis
  • Graeme Clark FRS – inventor of cochlear ear implant
  • Sir Archibald Collins – President of British Medical Association in Australia
  • David A. Cooper AO – HIV/AIDS researcher and director of the Kirby Institute
  • Grace Cuthbert-Browne, MBE – doctor and Director of Maternal and Baby Welfare in the New South Wales Department of Public Health, 1937–1964
  • Raymond Dart – anatomist and anthropologist, known for his discovery in 1924 of a fossil (first ever found) of Australopithecus africanus (extinct hominid closely related to humans)
  • John Diamond – developer of Behavioral Kinesiology (now called Life-Energy Analysis), a system based upon applied kinesiology, incorporating the emotions
  • Anna Donald (1966–2009) – pioneer and advocate of evidence-based medicine
  • Rachael Dunlop – medical researcher and sceptic
  • John Dwyer AO – Australian doctor, professor of medicine, and public health advocate.
  • Creswell Eastman AM – Endocrinologist, professor of medicine, known for Iodine Deficiency Disorders research.
  • Sir John Eccles – 1963 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology "for discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
  • Peter Green – Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University
  • Sir Norman Gregg – identified rubella in early pregnancy as a human teratogen
  • Sir Henry Harris FRS – Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford; first demonstrated the existence of tumour-suppressing genes
  • Freida Ruth Heighway (1907–1963) – obstetrician and gynaecologist
  • Ken Hillman – intensive care physician
  • Portia Holman – child psychiatrist
  • David Hunter – Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Harry Critchley Hinder – surgeon and Former President of the NSW Branch of the British Medical Association
  • John Hunter – Challis Professor of Anatomy at age 24 years whose brilliant career, achieving international recognition, was cut short by fever just two years later
  • Sir Keith Jones – surgeon and former president of the Australian Medical Association
  • Sir Bernard Katz – 1970 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology "for discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation"
  • Robert Kavanaugh – dentist and George Cross recipient
  • Stephen W. Kuffler – "father of modern neuroscience"
  • Max Lake – Australia's first specialist hand surgeon
  • Gerald Lawrie – American heart surgeon and pioneer in the surgical treatment of valvular heart disease; performed the first mitral valve repair using the daVinci robotic surgical system; Methodist Hospital Michael E. Debakey Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine
  • Sir Herbert Maitland – surgeon
  • Wirginia Maixner – neurosurgeon
  • William McBride – obstetrician, who in 1961 first warned the medical world against thalidomide as a human teratogen
  • Charles George McDonald – physician, army officer and academic
  • Patrick McGorry – Australian of the Year 2010
  • Wirginia Maixner – director of neurosurgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne; graduated in 1986
  • Sir Michael Marmot – President of British Medical Association, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London; has conducted ground-breaking studies into stroke
  • 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
  • Stan Devenish Meares – former President Australian Council Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Donald Metcalf FRS – his research revealed the control of blood cell formation
  • Errol Solomon Meyers – prominent Brisbane doctor; one of the founding fathers of the University of Queensland School of Medicine
  • Jacques Miller FRS – discoverer of the function of the thymus (the last major organ of the human body whose function remained unknown)
  • Sir William Morrow – former President Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • Philip Nitschke – physician, humanist, author, founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International
  • Sir Gustav Nossal FRS – immunologist, discoverer of the "one cell-one antibody" rule, which states that each B lymphocyte, developed in bone marrow, secretes a specific antibody in response to an encounter with a specific foreign antigen
  • Mitchell Notaras – graduate who funded the $1.1 million Mitchel J Notaras Scholarship for Colorectal Medicine at the University of Sydney
  • Susie O'Reilly – family doctor and obstetrician, noted for her rejected application for residency at Sydney Hospital in favour of male applicants in 1905 despite her excellent academic record
  • Brian Owler – President of the Australian Medical Association
  • Cecil Purser – former chairman Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
  • Margery Scott-Young – surgeon
  • Colin Sullivan – inventor of the Continuous Positive Airflow Pressure (CPAP) mask
  • Mavis Sweeney – hospital pharmacist
  • Frank Tidswell – former Director New South Wales Government Bureau of Microbiology and Director of Pathology at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
  • Alan O. Trounson – President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  • John Turtle – former Kellion Professor of Endocrinology University of Sydney
  • Nan Waddy – psychiatrist
  • Geoff White – vascular surgeon; perfected new surgical methods and devices that vastly improved the survival rates of patients and replaced intrusive open surgery, sometimes with day procedures
  • Harry Windsor – heart surgeon
  • Sir Brian Windeyer – Professor of Therapeutic Radiology at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London; Vice-Chancellor of the University of London
  • Donald Wood-Smith – Professor of Clinical Surgery Columbia University New York

Physics

  • Bruce Bolt – pioneer of engineering seismology; Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Richard Dowden (scientist) – noted geo- and astrophysicist
  • Herbert Huppert – FRS, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University since 1989; Fellow of King's College, Cambridge since 1970
  • Richard Makinson – physicist notable for his contributions to amorphous semiconductors
  • Bernard Mills – FRS, inventor of the Mills Cross Telescope
  • Edwin Ernest Salpeter – known for his contributions to astronomy; Professor of Physics, Emeritus at Cornell University

Veterinary and agricultural scientists

  • William Ian Beardmore Beveridge – Professor of Animal Pathology and Director of the Institute of Animal Pathology at Cambridge University from 1947 to 1975
  • Sir Ian Clunies Ross – Chairman Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
  • Hugh McLeod Gordon – veterinary parasitologist
  • Charles MacKenzie AO, Michigan State University – significant contributor to filarial disease eradication in the peoples of Equatorial Africa
  • Gordon McClymont – agricultural scientist, ecologist, and educationist; foundation chair of the Department of Rural Science at the University of New England; originator of the term "sustainable agriculture"
  • Ross Perry – Australia’s first registered avian veterinarian; first to study and name Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease, for which he was co-discoverer of viral infection agent
  • Sanjaya Rajaram– World Food Prize Laureate and the Head of Wheat Programme from 1976 to 2001 at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), once referred to as "the greatest present-day wheat scientist in the world" by Norman Borlaug

Sport

Other

  • David Gulasi, Australian social media star active in China
  • Justine Ruszczyk

Footnotes

Faculty

  • John Anderson – Challis professor of Philosophy
  • Nadia Badawi AM – Chair of Cerebral Palsy
  • Charles Badham – professor of Classics and Logic
  • William Noel Benson – demonstrator in the Department of Geology
  • Alison Betts – professor of Silk Road Studies
  • Quentin Bryce – principal of The Women's College, University of Sydney, 1997–2003; later Governor-General of Australia
  • John Burnheim – professor of General Philosophy
  • Gregory Chamitoff – adjunct professor; later astronaut
  • James Crawford – Challis professor of International Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law; later justice of the International Court of Justice
  • William A. Foley – professor of Linguistics; co-developer of Role and Reference Grammar
  • Moira Gatens – Challis professor of philosophy
  • Robert Gilbert – professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Key Centre for Polymer Colloids
  • Enoch Powell – professor of Greek; later British politician
  • Leo Radom – professor of Computational Chemistry
  • John Smith – professor of Chemistry and Experimental Physics
  • James Stewart – professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
  • Julius Stone – Challis professor of Jurisprudence and International Law
  • Yanis Varoufakis – senior lecturer in economics; later Finance Minister of Greece during the Greek Debt Crisis of 2015
  • Roger Vaughan – rector of St John's College, University of Sydney – 1874–1877; later archbishop of Sydney
  • George Winterton – professor of Constitutional Law
  • Dinesh Wadiwel – senior lecturer in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies
  • Dacheng Tao – FAA, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science

Administration

Chancellors

The chancellor is elected by the fellows and presides at Senate meetings. In 1924, the executive position of vice-chancellor was created, and the chancellor ceased to have managerial responsibilities. Until 1860, the chancellor was known as the provost.

OrdinalNameTerm beginTerm endTime in officeNotes
1Edward William Terrick Hamilton185118542–3 years
2Sir Charles Nicholson185418627–8 years
3Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether186218652–3 years
4Sir Edward Deas Thomson1865187812–13 years
5Sir William Montagu Manning1878 (1878)27 September 1895 (1895-09-27)6–7 years
6Sir William Charles Windeyer189518960–1 years
7Sir Henry Normand MacLaurinOctober 1896 (1896-10)24 August 1914 (1914-08-24)17 years, 327 days
8Sir William Cullen1914December 1934 (1934-12)19–20 years
9Sir Mungo William MacCallum193419361–2 years
10Sir Percival Halse Rogers193619414–5 years
11Lt-Col. Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn1941196422–23 years
12Sir Charles George McDonald196419705–6 years
13Sir Hermann David Black1970199019–20 years
14Sir James Rowland2 April 1990 (1990-04-02)1 May 1991 (1991-05-01)1 year, 29 days
15Dame Leonie Kramer19911 July 2001 (2001-07-01)9–10 years
16Justice Kim Santow2 October 2001 (2001-10-02)31 May 2007 (2007-05-31)5 years, 241 days
17Dame Marie Bashir1 June 2007 (2007-06-01)15 December 2012 (2012-12-15)5 years, 197 days
18Belinda HutchinsonFebruary 2013 (2013-02)present7 years, 122 days

Vice-Chancellors

The vice-chancellor serves as the chief executive officer of the university, and oversees most of the university's day-to-day operations, with the chancellor serving in a largely ceremonial role. Before 1924, the vice-chancellors were fellows of the university, elected annually by the fellows. Until 1860, the vice-chancellor was known as the vice-provost. Since 1955, the full title has been Vice-Chancellor and Principal.

OrdinalNameTerm beginTerm endTime in officeNotes
1Sir Charles Nicholson18511853
2Francis Merewether18541862
3Sir Edward Deas Thomson18631865
4John Hubert Plunkett18651869
5Robert Allwood18691883
6Sir William Charles Windeyer18831886
7Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin18871889
8Sir Arthur Renwick18891891
9Henry Chamberlain Russell18911892
10Alfred Paxton Backhouse18921894
Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin18951896
Alfred Paxton Backhouse18961899
Sir Arthur Renwick19001902
11Archibald Henry Simpson19021904
12Sir Philip Sydney Jones19041906
Sir Arthur Renwick19061908
13Sir William Portus Cullen19091911
His Honour Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse19111914
14Frank Leverrier19141917
15Cecil Purser19171919
16Sir David Gilbert Ferguson19191921
Frank Leverrier19211923
Cecil Purser19231924
17Sir Mungo William MacCallum19241928
18Sir Robert Strachan Wallace19281947
19Sir Stephen Henry Roberts19471967
20Sir Bruce Rodda Williams19671981
21John Manning Ward19811990
22Donald McNicol19901996
Derek John Anderson (acting)19961996
23Gavin Brown1996200811–12 years
24Michael Spence11 July 2008 (2008-07-11)incumbent11 years, 327 days
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