List of University of Sydney people

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^[1]^[2]
Brian L. Byrne, social scientist known for research in psycholinguistics; Emeritus professor at the University of New England
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^[3]
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^[4]

Architecture

John Andrews, designer of CN Tower, Toronto, Canada, the tallest concrete structure in the world and often listed as one of the seven wonders of the modern world^[5]
Philip Cox AO, founder and principal of COX Architecture^[6]
Eleanor Cullis-Hill
László Peter Kollar, Hungarian-born former Australian architect and academic (Architecture)^[7]
Andrea Nield^[8]

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^[9]
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

Sikhanyiso Dlamini – Princess of Swaziland
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV – King of Tonga

Governors-General of Australia

Sir William Deane
Sir John Kerr

State governors and Territory Administrators

Dame Marie Bashir (NSW)
Richard Butler (Tas)
Peter Coleman (NF)
Sir Roden Cutler (NSW)
Sir Alan Mansfield (Qld)
Sir Jack Keith Murray (Papua and New Guinea)
Tom Pauling (NT)
Sir James Plimsoll (Tas)
Sir James Rowland (NSW)

Politicians

Prime Ministers of Australia

Premiers of New South Wales

Federal politicians

Australian state and territory politicians

Clare Martin (NT)
George Thorn (QLD)

International politicians

Natalie Bennett – Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
H. V. Evatt – President of the United Nations General Assembly
Martin Indyk – former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, special assistant to U.S. President Bill Clinton and senior director of Near East and South Asian Affairs at the United States National Security Council
Kevin Gardner
Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
Dave Sharma – youngest ever Australian diplomat, becoming Ambassador to Israel at the age of 36
Catherine West – Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
Akhilesh Yadav – 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India

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)^[12]
Ewart Smith – campaigner against the Australia Card (LLB)^[13]

Humanities

Margaret Clunies Ross – McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature, Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies
Jill Ker Conway – former Vice-President of the University of Toronto and President of Smith College; Visiting Professor in MIT's program in Science, Technology, and Society; serves on the boards of Nike, Merrill Lynch, and Colgate-Palmolive; chairman of Lend Lease Corporation
Sandy Edwards – photographer
Charles Firth
Tom Gleeson
Germaine Greer – feminist
Michael Halliday – creator of the systemic functional grammar, an internationally influential grammar model
Andrew Hansen
Dominic Knight
Chas Licciardello
Niall Lucy – writer and scholar, best known for his work on Jacques Derrida and deconstruction
Julian Morrow
Timothy Potts – known for his directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Kimbell Museum, and National Gallery of Victoria, and for his writings on the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Craig Reucassel
Chris Taylor
Georgina Wilson – model, host of Asia's Next Top Model

Arts

John Bell
Rose Byrne
Somaratne Dissanayake - Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter and stageplay director
Jacqueline Fernandez - Sri Lankan actress, model and TV host famous for her work in Bollywood
John Flaus
Michael Hannan – composer, pianist, and musicologist^[14]
Yvonne Kenny
Dolph Lundgren
Dame Joan Sutherland
Kip Williams – director of the Sydney Theatre Company
Roger Woodward – Foundation Director at California State University in San Francisco, School of Music & Dance; pianist and musician

Law

Other legal professionals

John Davies – Judge of the United States District Court
Marcus Einfeld (born 1938), Australian former Superior Court Judge
Geoffrey Robertson – international human rights lawyer
Charles Waterstreet – criminal defence lawyer, writer and producer

Military

Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman
Major-General John Broadbent CBE^[15]
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^[16]
Air Vice Marshal Lyndon Compton AO OBE^[16]
Roden Cutler – Victoria Cross recipient
Air Vice Marshal Christopher Deeble AM CSC^[16]
Air Vice Marshal Joseph Dietz^[16]
Major-General Sir Ivan Dougherty
Air Vice Marshal Desmond Douglas OBE DFC^[16]
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Drew – Director-General of Army Medical Services (United Kingdom)
Air Vice Marshal Brian Graf AO^[16]
Air Vice Marshal Michael Helsham AO DFC^[16]
Air Vice Marshal Ernest Hey CB CBE^[16]
Air Vice Marshal Colin Hingston AM^[16]
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^[17]
Lieutenant General James Legge – Chief of the General Staff
Major-General Greg Melick^[18]
Air Vice Marshal David Morgan AO OBE^[16]
Air Vice Marshal Rodney Noble AO^[16]
Air Vice Marshal Glen Reed^[16]
Air Vice Marshal Bruce Short^[19]
Air Vice Marshal Neil Smith AM MBE^[16]
Percy Storkey – Victoria Cross recipient
Air Vice Marshal Ian Sutherland AO^[16]
Major General Mervyn Tan – Chief of Air Force, Republic of Singapore Air Force
Major-General Sir Victor Windeyer

Religious leaders

Leo Ash – Bishop of Rockhampton
Neville Chynoweth – Bishop of Gippsland
Geoffrey Cranswick – Bishop of Tasmania
George Cranswick – Bishop of Gippsland
Hubert Cunliffe-Jones
Edwin Davidson – Bishop of Gippsland
Glenn Davies – Bishop of North Sydney
Anthony Fisher – Archbishop of Sydney
Robert Forsyth – Bishop of South Sydney
David Garnsey – Bishop of Gippsland
Eric Gowing – Bishop of Auckland
Arthur Green – Bishop of Ballarat
William Hilliard – Bishop of Nelson
Peter Jensen – Archbishop of Sydney
Clive Kerle – Bishop of Armidale
Sir Marcus Loane – Archbishop of Sydney
Henry Newton – Bishop of New Guinea
Anthony Howard Nichols – Bishop of North West Australia
Donald Robinson – Archbishop of Sydney
John Satterthwaite – Bishop of Lismore
Ian Shevill – Bishop of Newcastle
Father Joseph Patrick Slattery, C.M. – physicist, radiologist, pioneer in the field of radiography in Australia
Peter Watson – Archbishop of Melbourne
William Wright – Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle
Chen Fah Yong – Assistant Bishop of Sabah^[20]^[21]

Sciences

Brian Anderson
David Craig
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – former president of The Royal Society; Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government
Sir Gustav Nossal
Jim Peacock – former President of Australian Academy of Science
Michael Pitman
E. James Prendergast – former Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for DuPont Electronic & Communication Technologies^[22]

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

Marnie Blewitt – molecular biologist, scientist in the field of epigenetics
Catherine King – ecotoxicologist, Antarctic researcher
June Lascelles – microbiologist, pioneer in microbial photosynthesis
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – Crafoord Laureate Biosciences 1996
Roland Stocker – scientist in the field of redox biology

Chemistry

Arthur Birch
Sir John Cornforth – winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1975)
Noel Hush – FRS; winner of the 2007 Welch Award in Chemistry
Sir Robert Robinson – winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1947)
Anthony Weiss – McCaughey Professor in Biochemistry and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, for discoveries on human elastic materials that accelerate the healing and repair of arteries, skin and 3D human tissue components

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^[23]
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
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,^[24] 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

Nerilie Abram – climate scientist
Stephen Bourke
V. Gordon Childe – Culture-historical archaeology
Peter Cockcroft - petroleum geologist, researcher
Sir Edgeworth David – geologist and Antarctic explorer
Anthony Haymet – Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography^[25]
Basil Hennessy
Sir Douglas Mawson – geologist and Antarctic explorer
Beryl Nashar – geologist; first female PhD in geology at an Australian university (UTas); first female Dean of an Australian university
David O'Connor – Egyptologist
Timothy Potts
Karin Sowada
Griffith Taylor – Antarctic explorer; Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago; founder of the Geography department at the University of Toronto

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)^[26]
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^[27]
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
Janet Carr (1933–2014) – physiotherapist
John Carter AO – Endocrinologist and former president Australian Diabetes Society
Victor Chang AC (1936–1991) – a 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^[28]
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
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^[29]
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
Stanley 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 P ressure (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
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^[30]
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^[31]
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
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^[32]
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^[33]
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

'Snowy' Baker – rugby union, diving, boxing, swimming and polo^[34]^[35]
Nigel Barker – holder of Australia's first athletics world record, in the 370 metres (400 yd)
Ken Catchpole^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Alex Chambers – professional mixed martial artist in the UFC^[36]
Brendon Cook – international race car driver
Chloe Dalton OAM – formed part of the first female rugby 7s team to win gold at the Olympic Games, 2016^[37]
Caitlin De Wit – wheelchair basketball player
Nick Farr-Jones
Jessica Fox – French-born Australian slalom canoer, Olympic silver (K-1 slalom), world championships bronze (C-1)^[38]
Scott Gourley – rugby union and rugby league
Phil Hardcastle
Peter Johnson – rugby player^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Tom Lawton, Snr
Jack Metcalfe – whilst competing on Sydney University Oval on 14 December 1935, set a new world record in the triple jump, leaping 15.78 metres (51.8 ft)
Herbert Moran
Stirling Mortlock^{[lower-alpha 3]}
Dean Mumm^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Otto Nothling – rugby union and cricket player
Ellyse Perry – cricket and football player
Mike Pyke - rugby union player and Australian rules footballer
Alex Ross
Kevin Ryan – rugby union and rugby league player^{[lower-alpha 5]}
John Solomon
Johnny Taylor – rugby union and cricket
John Thornett^{[lower-alpha 6]}
Dick Tooth
John Treloar – first Australian to reach an Olympic Games 100-metre (330 ft) final sprint
Johnnie Wallace
Phil Waugh
Zhao Zong-Yuan – youngest Australian to become a chess Grandmaster; current Australian Chess champion

Other

Justine Ruszczyk

Footnotes

↑ Graduated with a Masters of Science; played exclusively for the Randwick Club.
↑ Played for Sydney University Club and was a member of Randwick Club at time of Australian captaincy.
↑ Graduated with a Bachelor of Science; played exclusively for the Gordon Club.
↑ Captained Australia in non-test matches in 2009.
↑ Graduated in Law; did not play for any Sydney University Club.
↑ Graduate in Science and Engineering; played for Sydney University Club and was a member of Northern Suburbs Club at time of Australian captaincy.

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^[39]
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

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.

Ordinal	Name	Term begin	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Edward William Terrick Hamilton	1851	1854	2–3 years	^[40]
2	Sir Charles Nicholson	1854	1862	7–8 years	^[41]
3	Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether	1862	1865	2–3 years	^[42]
4	Sir Edward Deas Thomson	1865	1878	12–13 years	^[43]
5	Sir William Montagu Manning	1878 (1878)	27 September 1895 (1895-09-27)	6–7 years	^[44]
6	Sir William Charles Windeyer	1895	1896	0–1 years	^[45]
7	Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin	October 1896 (1896-10)	24 August 1914 (1914-08-24)	7003653500000000000♠17 years, 327 days	^[46]
8	Sir William Cullen	1914	December 1934 (1934-12)	19–20 years	^[47]
9	Sir Mungo William MacCallum	1934	1936	1–2 years	^[48]
10	Sir Percival Halse Rogers	1936	1941	4–5 years	^[49]
11	Lt-Col. Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn	1941	1964	22–23 years	^[50]
12	Sir Charles George McDonald	1964	1970	5–6 years	^[51]
13	Sir Hermann David Black	1970	1990	19–20 years
14	Sir James Rowland	2 April 1990 (1990-04-02)	1 May 1991 (1991-05-01)	7002394000000000000♠1 year, 29 days	^[52]
15	Dame Leonie Kramer	1991	1 July 2001 (2001-07-01)	9–10 years	^[53]^[54]
16	Justice Kim Santow	2 October 2001 (2001-10-02)	31 May 2007 (2007-05-31)	7003206700000000000♠5 years, 241 days	^[55]
17	Dame Marie Bashir	1 June 2007 (2007-06-01)	15 December 2012 (2012-12-15)	7003202400000000000♠5 years, 197 days	^[56]
18	Belinda Hutchinson	February 2013 (2013-02)	present	7003208000000000000♠5 years, 254 days	^[57]

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.

Ordinal	Name	Term begin	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Sir Charles Nicholson	1851	1853		^[41]
2	Francis Merewether	1854	1862		^[42]
3	Sir Edward Deas Thomson	1863	1865		^[43]
4	John Hubert Plunkett	1865	1869
5	Robert Allwood	1869	1883
6	Sir William Charles Windeyer	1883	1886		^[45]
7	Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin	1887	1889		^[46]
8	Sir Arthur Renwick	1889	1891
9	Henry Chamberlain Russell	1891	1892
10	Alfred Paxton Backhouse	1892	1894
—	Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin	1895	1896		^[46]
—	Alfred Paxton Backhouse	1896	1899
—	Sir Arthur Renwick	1900	1902
11	Archibald Henry Simpson	1902	1904
12	Sir Philip Sydney Jones	1904	1906
—	Sir Arthur Renwick	1906	1908
13	Sir William Portus Cullen	1909	1911
—	His Honour Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse	1911	1914
14	Frank Leverrier	1914	1917
15	Cecil Purser	1917	1919
16	Sir David Gilbert Ferguson	1919	1921
—	Frank Leverrier	1921	1923
—	Cecil Purser	1923	1924
17	Sir Mungo William MacCallum	1924	1928
18	Sir Robert Strachan Wallace	1928	1947
19	Sir Stephen Henry Roberts	1947	1967
20	Sir Bruce Rodda Williams	1967	1981
21	John Manning Ward	1981	1990
22	Donald McNicol	1990	1996
—	Derek John Anderson (acting)	1996	1996
23	Gavin Brown	1996	2008	11–12 years
24	Michael Spence	11 July 2008 (2008-07-11)	incumbent	7003374600000000000♠10 years, 94 days	^[58]

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