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This is a list of University of Melbourne people, including alumni and staff.
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Alumni
Academia
- Sir John Behan, educator; Australia's first Rhodes Scholar[1]
- Geoff Bowker, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine
- Alec Broers, Baron Broers, electrical engineer, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- Karen Burns, architectural historian
- Joseph Camilleri, professor at La Trobe University
- Simon Chesterman, Dean of Law at the National University of Singapore[2]
- Michael Clyne, linguist
- Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University
- John Deeble, architect of Medicare Australia
- Richard Dowell, audiologist, academic and researcher
- Ding Dyason, medical historian
- Alan Ebringer, immunologist, professor at King's College in the University of London
- Arie Freiberg, AM, legal academic
- Germaine Greer, feminist
- Maria Gough, art historian at Harvard University
- Bella Guerin, educator and activist; first female university graduate in Australia
- John Alexander Gunn, philosophy professor
- Peter Karmel, former vice-chancellor of Australian National University and Flinders University
- Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith, Australian educator; landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.
- Arthur Lucas, principal of King's College London (1993–2003)
- Robert Manne, professor of politics at La Trobe University
- Samaresh Mitra, bioinorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Jennifer McKay, Professor of Business Law at the University of South Australia
- Peter McPhee, Provost of the University of Melbourne
- Fulvio Melia, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona and associate editor of the Astrophysical Journal
- Bruce Mitchell, fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- David S. Oderberg, professor of philosophy at the University of Reading
- Richard G. Pestell, Executive Vice President at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia USA
- Abbas Rajabifard, professor and head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Melbourne School of Engineering
- Michael Roe, historian
- John Ralston (scientist), physical chemist and researcher at the UniSA
- David Shallcross, chemical engineer
- James Simpson, Harvard University professor
- Alexander Smits, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
- John Tasioulas, Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Oxford University
- Gillian Triggs, international legal academic and President of the Australian Human Rights Commission[3]
- Frances Valintine, education futurist
- Sally Walker, Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University
- Frank T. M. White, Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Queensland; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics, McGill University
Architecture
Business
- Leigh Clifford, Chairman of Qantas
- Robert Champion de Crespigny
- Margaret Dick
- Anthony Di Pietro, President of Melbourne Victory Football Club and CEO of Premier Fresh Australia
- John Elliott, President of Liberal Party of Australia & Carlton Football Club
- Aubrey Gibson
- Charles Goode, Chairman of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
- James P. Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
- David Hains
- John Holland, founder of John Holland Group
- Margaret Jackson
- Ananda Krishnan, CEO, Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd
- Hugh Morgan, former board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia
- Rupert Myer, director, Myer Family Company
- Richard Pratt
- James Riady, Chairman, Lippo Group
- Graeme Samuel, AC
- Karl Siegling, funds manager
- Peter Smedley, CEO of Colonial Group, Mayne Nickless
- Evan Thornley, entrepreneur[4]
Community activism
- Julian Assange, Wikileaks spokesperson and founder (did not graduate)
- Waleed Aly
- Alex Dekker, Humanitarian
- Helen Durham, international humanitarian lawyer[5]
- Avery Ng, Hong Kong activist
- Tilman Ruff, public health scholar and founder of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Government
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[6]
- 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[7]
Governors of Victoria
- Alex Chernov, AC, QC[8]
- 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[9]
Governors of other jurisdictions
Politicians
Prime Ministers of Australia
- Alfred Deakin[10]
- Julia Gillard, AC[11]
- Harold Holt, CH[12]
- Sir Robert Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC[13]
Premiers of Victoria
- Ted Baillieu
- John Brumby
- John Cain II
- Rupert Hamer
- Sir William Irvine, GCMG, also a former Chief Justice of Victoria[14]
- Joan Kirner
- William Shiels[15]
- Lindsay Thompson
Premier of Queensland
Federal politicians
- Lyn Allison, former Member of the Australian Senate and leader of the Australian Democrats
- Richard Alston, AO, former Member of the Australian Senate
- Kevin Andrews, MP, Member of the Australian House of Representatives[16]
- Bruce Baird, AM, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Australian House of Representatives[17]
- Neil Brown, QC, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Anna Burke, MP, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- John Button, former Member of the Australian Senate[18]
- Jim Cairns, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
- Sam Cohen, former Member of the Australian Senate[19]
- Barney Cooney, former Member of the Australian Senate[20]
- Mark Dreyfus, QC, MP, Member of Australian House of Representatives[21]
- Gareth Evans, AC, QC, international policymaker, academic, and former Member of the Australian Senate
- John Alexander Forrest
- Petro Georgiou, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Andrew Giles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Ivor Greenwood, former Member of the Australian Senate
- Ray Groom, AO, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Premier of Tasmania
- H. B. Higgins, former Attorney-General of Australia and Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Greg Hunt, MP, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Dennis Jensen, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Barry Jones, AC former Member of Australian House of Representatives and Parliament of Victoria.
- David Kemp, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
- John Langmore, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- William Maloney, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Richard Marles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Peter McGauran, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Kelly O'Dwyer, MP, Member of Australian House of Representatives[22]
- Andrew Peacock, AC, GCL, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
- Sir Arthur Robinson, KCMG, former Member of Australian House of Representatives[23]
- Nicola Roxon, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives[24]
- Roger Shipton, OAM, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Bill Shorten, MP, Member of Australian House of Representatives[25]
- Bruce Smith, KC, former Member of Australian House of Representatives[26]
- Sir John Spicer, former Member of the Australian Senate[27]
- Sid Spindler, former Member of the Australian Senate
- Lindsay Tanner, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Ralph Willis, AO, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Agar Wynne, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives[28]
Australian state and territory politicians
- Sir Clifden Eager KBE KC, former President of the Victorian Legislative Council[29]
- Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly[17]
- John Bourke, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly[30]
- Thomas Brennan, political journalist and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council[31]
- Bruce Chamberlain, AM, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council[32]
- Robert Clark, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly[33]
- Neil Cole, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and playwright and researcher[34]
- Robert Dean, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
- Frank Field, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly[35]
- John Galbally, CBE, QC, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council[36]
- Matthew Groom, MP, Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
- Ray Groom, AO, former Premier of Tasmania and Member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Tim Holding, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
- Robert Wilfred Holt, Minister for Lands in the Cain government 1952–54
- Trevor Oldham, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Deputy Premier[37]
- Herbert Postle, former Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly[38]
- Robert Ramsay, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly[39]
- Edward Reynolds, QC, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
- T. J. Ryan, KC, former Premier of Queensland[40]
- Sir Arthur Rylah, KBE, CMG, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Deputy Premier[41]
- Prue Sibree, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly[42]
- Oswald Snowball, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Speaker
- Alan Stockdale, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Treasurer[43]
- Shane Stone, AC, QC, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
- Richard Ward, QC, former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council and Supreme Court judge[44]
- Sir Henry Wrixon, KCMG, QC, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council[45]
- Agar Wynne, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council[28]
International politicians
- Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs
- Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor[46]
- Hun Many, Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia
- Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Tajol Rosli Mohd Ghazali, former Menteri Besar of Perak
- Dato' Sri Mustapa Mohamed, Member of Parliament of Jeli, former Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry
- Baru Bian, Member of Parliament of Selangau, former Malaysian Minister of Works
- Raja Kamarul Bahrin, former Malaysian Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government
- Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister
Public servants
- William Macmahon Ball, diplomat
- Jean-Pierre Blais, Canadian bureaucrat; Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission[47]
- Peta Credlin, political advisor[48]
- Francis Patrick Donovan, AM, diplomat and jurist[49]
- Bill Paterson, Australian Ambassador to Republic of Korea; previously Australian Ambassador to Thailand and Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism[50]
- Trevor Ashmore Pyman, diplomat.
- John So, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
- Fred Whitlam, Crown Solicitor; father of Gough[51]
- Danielle Wood, economist and incoming chair of the Productivity Commission
- Luke Lazarus Arnold, Australian diplomat
Humanities
Arts
- Angela Brennan, artist
- Steve Cox, painter and watercolourist
- John Dahlsen, environmental artist
- Hugh Davies, mixed media 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[52]
- Doris McKellar, photographer[53]
- Azlan McLennan, artist and activist
- Lewis Miller, Archibald Prize winning painter
- Victor O'Connor, artist[54]
- 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
- Adam Arkapaw, cinematographer (True Detective, Animal Kingdom, Snowtown)
- Gillian Armstrong, director (Charlotte Gray, Little Women)
- Tony Ayres, Australian Film Institute award-winning director (The Home Song Stories, Walking on Water)
- Alison Bell, Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award nominated actor (I Rock, Laid)
- Tahir Raj Bhasin, Indian actor
- Jill Bilcock, Academy Award-nominated editor (Elizabeth, Moulin Rouge!, Red Dog)
- Hamish Blake, comedian (did not graduate)
- Cate Blanchett, actress (did not graduate)
- Jamie Blanks, director (Urban Legend, Valentine)
- John Bluthal, actor
- Sibylla Budd, actor and documentary presenter (All Saints, Sea Patrol, The Secret Life of Us)
- Ronny Chieng, comedian
- Santo Cilauro, television and feature film producer[55]
- Vince Colosimo, Australian Film Institute Award winning actor (Body of Lies, Chopper, Lantana)
- Marg Downey, comedian and actress
- Elizabeth Debicki, actress
- Adam Elliot, Academy Award-winning animator (Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max)
- Alexander England, actor
- Alice Garner, historian, musician and actress
- Antony I. Ginnane, film producer
- Tom Gleisner, director, producer, writer, comedian, actor and author[56]
- Libbi Gorr, comedian
- Barry Humphries, comedian
- Red Hong Yi, artist and architectural designer
- Sammy J, comedian
- Clayton Jacobson, director (Kenny)
- Justin Kurzel, director (Snowtown, Macbeth (2015), Assassin's Creed)
- Andy Lee, comedian
- Anthony Lucas, Academy Award nominated animator (The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello)
- Robert Luketic, director (21, Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law)
- Catherine Mack-Hancock, actress
- Lara Jean Marshall, actress best known for her role on The Saddle Club
- Belinda McClory, actor and screenwriter (Acolytes, Blue Heelers, The Matrix)
- David Michôd, director (Animal Kingdom)
- Rhys Muldoon, actor
- Lloyd Newson, director, dancer and choreographer
- Michael Pattinson, producer (Ground Zero, Secrets)
- Hannie Rayson, Australian Writers' Guild Award and Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award winning playwright and actor (SeaChange)
- Glenn Robbins, comedian and actor
- Portia de Rossi, actress
- Pallavi Sharda, Indian actor
- Jonathan M. Shiff, Australian Film Institute and British Academy of Film and Television Arts award-winning producer (Ocean Girl, Thunderstone)
- Rob Sitch, co-writer and co-director of the movies The Castle and The Dish; co-host of The Panel
- Matt Scholten, director
- Simon Stone, director and actor
- Sam Strong, director, artistic director, Queensland Theatre
- Magda Szubanski, comedian and actress
- Nadia Townsend, actor and theatre director (City Homicide, Fireflies, Knowing)
- Andrew Upton, director and playwright
- Steve Vizard, television and radio presenter, lawyer, comedian, producer, author and screenwriter[57]
- Luke Walker, director/producer (Beyond Our Ken, Lasseter's Bones)
- Sarah Watt, director and animator (Look Both Ways, My Year Without Sex)
- Angela White, pornographic actress, director
- Alison Whyte, Logie Award-winning actor (Frontline, Satisfaction)
- Geoffrey Wright, director (Macbeth (2006), Metal Skin, Romper Stomper)
- Julia Zemiro, television presenter
- Randeep Hooda, Indian actor
- Yashma Gill, Pakistani actor
- Lydia Zimmermann, director (Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino)
- Ashley Zukerman, Logie Award nominated actor (Lowdown, The Pacific, Rush)
History
- Geoffrey Blainey, one of the Australian Living Treasures
- Manning Clark
- Charles Coppel, former barrister and historian[58]
- 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[59]
Literature, writing and poetry
- Randa Abdel-Fattah, Australian Muslim author and lawyer[60]
- Russell Blackford, writer, philosopher and critic[61]
- Vincent Buckley
- Anna Ciddor, author and illustrator[62]
- 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, creative director (Coldplay)
- Missy Higgins, singer-songwriter
- Rex Hobcroft, pianist and administrator
- Tania de Jong, soprano and social entrepreneur[63]
- 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[64]
- David Burd, US rapper, known as Lil Dicky[65]
Philosophy
Law
- Chief Justices of Australia
- Sir Owen Dixon, OM, GCMG, KC[66]
- Sir Frank Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC, KC[67]
- Sir Isaac Isaacs, GCB, GCMG, KC[68]
- Sir John Latham, GCMG, KC[69]
- Justices of the High Court of Australia
- Sir Keith Aickin, KBE, QC, former justice[70]
- Susan Crennan
- Sir Daryl Dawson, AC, KBE, CB, QC, former justice[71]
- Sir Wilfred Fullagar, KBE, KC, former justice[72]
- Kenneth Hayne
- H. B. Higgins, former justice
- Sir Douglas Menzies, former justice
- Geoffrey Nettle
- Sir Ninian Stephen, KG, AK, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, QC, also a previous Governor-General of Australia[7]
- Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
- Michael Black, AC, QC, former Chief Justice[73]
- Justices of the Federal Court of Australia
- Geoffrey Giudice[74]
- Sir Edward Woodward, AC, OBE, QC, also served as a Royal Commissioner and Director-General of Security[75]
- Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia
- Diana Bryant, AO, QC, Chief Justice since 2004[76]
- Alastair Nicholson, AO, RFD, QC, former Chief Justice
- Justices of the Family Court of Australia
- Linda Dessau, AM, former justice[77]
- Chief Justices of Victoria
- Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring, KCMG KBE DSO MC KStJ ED QC, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria[78]
- Sir William Irvine, GCMG, also a former Premier of Victoria[14]
- Sir John Madden, GCMG, also a former Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University[79]
- Sir Frederick Mann, KCMG, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria[80]
- John Harber Phillips, AC QC, also a former Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions and Director of the National Crime Authority[81]
- Sir Henry Winneke, AC KCMG KCVO OBE KStJ QC, also a former Governor of Victoria[9]
- Sir John Young, AC KCMG[82]
- Justices of the Supreme Court of Victoria
- Sir Kevin Anderson, QC[83]
- Sir Arthur Dean, KC[84]
- Sir James Gobbo, AC, CVO, QC, also a former Governor of Victoria
- Sir George Pape[85]
- Joseph Santamaria QC
- Presidents of the Victorian Court of Appeal
Other legal professionals
- Philip Alston, international law scholar; former United Nations Special Rapporteur[87]
- John Bennett, civil libertarian[88]
- Matthew Collins, barrister and Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School[89]
- Mario Condello, lawyer; murdered during Melbourne gangland killings
- Frank Costigan, QC, lawyer, Royal Commissioner and social justice activist[90]
- Rowan Downing, QC, barrister and international jurist[91]
- Frank Galbally, CBE, criminal defence lawyer[92]
- Flos Greig, first woman to be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Australia[93]
- Philip Griffiths, KC, jurist[94]
- Francis Gurry, international intellectual property lawyer and bureaucrat[95]
- Colin Lovitt, QC, criminal barrister[96]
- Julian McMahon, A.C., barrister, humanitarian, campaigner against death penalty
- Rob Stary, criminal defence lawyer
- Tengku Amalin A'ishah Putri, Princess of Kelantan Royal Family
- Lord Uthwatt, Judge, Chancery Division, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords
Military
- Group Captain John Balmer, OBE, DFC, World War II RAAF bomber pilot[97]
- Major General Sir Julius Bruche, KCB, CMG, Second Boer War and World War I army officer[98]
- Sir Samuel Burston, army doctor and World War II general
- Rupert Downes, army doctor and World War II general
- Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, army doctor and humanitarian
- Major General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, VD, politician and World War I army general[99]
- Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, army doctor
- Brigadier General William Grant, CMG, World War I general
- Sir James Whiteside McCay, politician and World War I general
- Sir John Monash, World War I general
- Sir Kingsley Norris, army doctor and major general
- Lieutenant Colonel Philip Rhoden, OBE, ED, lawyer and World War II army officer[100]
- Ian Upjohn, CSC, SC, Army Reserve officer and barrister[101]
Religious leaders
Sciences
Agriculture
- Yvonne Aitken, botanist, first woman to earn a PhD in Agriculture form the University of Melbourne in 1970[103]
Biology
- Elizabeth Blackburn, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009
- Margaret Blackwood, botanist and geneticist
- Kirsten Parris, urban ecologist
- Grant Sutherland, human geneticist
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)[104]
Geology
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
- Robert Bartnik
- Keith Briggs
- Danny Calegari
- Robert William Chapman
- Thomas MacFarland Cherry
- Ian G. Enting
- Greg Hjorth
- Mark S. Joshi
- Kenneth McIntyre
- Brendan McKay
- Samuel McLaren
- John Henry Michell
- Edward J. Nanson
- Jonathan Pila
- E. J. G. Pitman
- J. Hyam Rubinstein
- Hans Schwerdtfeger
- Ian Sloan
- Geoffrey Watson
- William Parkinson Wilson
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[105]
- 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.
- Rajaratnam Sundarason, surgeon, one of the founders of International House[106]
- 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
- Nicole Bell
- Walter Boas
- Samuel L. Braunstein
- John M. Cowley
- Rod Crewther
- Richard Dalitz, inventor of the Dalitz plot
- Terence James Elkins
- Colin J. Gillespie
- Kerr Grant
- Peter Hannaford
- Alan Head
- T. H. Laby
- Rodney Marks
- Leslie H. Martin
- Sir Harrie Massey
- Fulvio Melia
- Keith Nugent
- Helen Quinn, former president of the American Physical Society; recipient of the Dirac Medal in 2000 and the Sakurai Prize in 2013
- William Sutherland
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
Sport
- Russell Basser (born 1960), Olympic water polo player
- Kim Crow, London Olympics silver and bronze medallist for doubles and singles sculling respectively
- Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
- Bev Francis, IFBB professional Australian female bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion
- Geoff Grover, VFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)
- Jemima Montag (born 1998), Olympic 2x bronze medal winning racewalker
- John Robinson, VFL footballer; recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal (1917)
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Faculty
- Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson
- Peter Baines, geophysicist
- Lisa Cameron
- Henri Daniel Rathgeber
- Jocelyn Hyslop, inaugural Director of Social Studies
- Josephine Forbes, Principal Research Fellow, Department of Medicine
- Katja Hölttä-Otto
Administration
Chancellors
Vice-Chancellors
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External links
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