List of University of Adelaide people

This is an incomplete list of University of Adelaide people including notable alumni and staff associated with the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Alumni

Business

Government

Heads of state

  • Roma Mitchell – Australia's first female judge; its first female Governor 1991–1996
  • Eric Neal – business leader, Governor 1996–2001
  • Mark Oliphant – physicist; Governor 1971–1976
  • Keith Seaman – Uniting Church minister; Governor 1977–1982
  • Hieu Van Le – Lieutenant Governor of South Australia 2007–2014; Governor 2014–present

Politicians

National leaders
Australia
All other countries
  • Peter Ong Boon Kwee — Head of the Civil Service, Singapore since 2010,[2][3] the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Singapore since 2009,[4] and Permanent Secretary with Special Duties in the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore[5]
  • Ong Teng Cheong — 5th President of Singapore (1993–99)[6]
  • Joseph Pairin Kitingan — 7th Chief Minister of Sabah, Malaysia (1985–94)
  • Abdul Taib — 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak]], Malaysia (1981–2014); Governor of Sarawak (2014–)
  • Adenan Satem — 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (2014–present)
  • Tony Tan Keng Yam — 7th President of Singapore (2011–);[7] Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1995–2005[8])
South Australian premiers
  • Lynn Arnold — Premier of South Australia 1992–1993
  • John Bannon — Premier of South Australia 1982–1992
  • Henry Barwell — Premier of South Australia 1920–1924
  • Dean Brown — Premier of South Australia 1993–1996
  • Don Dunstan — Premier of South Australia 1967–1968, and 1970–1979
  • Rob Kerin — Premier of South Australia 2001–2002
  • David Tonkin — Premier of South Australia 1979–1982
  • Jay Weatherill — Premier of South Australia 2011–2018
Other Federal politicians
Other state and territory politicians
  • Adair Blain – Member for the Northern Territory (1934–1949)
  • Pru Goward – Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, current minister
  • Peter Malinauskas – South Australian Leader of the Opposition
  • Shane Stone – Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (1995–1999)
  • Ian Wilson – Member for Sturt (1966–1969, 1972–1993), former minister
Other politician figures
  • David Combe – former Secretary of the Australian Labor Party
  • Lynton Crosby – campaign strategist and co-founder of the Crosby Textor Group
  • Lim Soo Hoon – first female Permanent Secretary of Singapore
  • Raymond Lim – Member of Parliament of Singapore (2001–2015), Minister for Transport
  • Parameshwara Gangadharaiah – Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka
  • Lockwood Smith – Member of the New Zealand Parliament (1984–2013), Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, High Commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom

Public servants

Diplomats
  • Frances Adamson – Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China (2011–)
  • Walter Crocker – diplomat and writer
  • Maurice de Rohan – South Australian Agent General in London (1998–2006)
  • Tim George – Australian diplomat
  • Ivan Shearer – Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee,[9] former Dean of Adelaide and Sydney University Law Schools[10]
  • Sim Cheok Lim – Singaporean diplomat[11]
Military
  • Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC, CMG, CBE — soldier and lawyer; awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916[12]
  • Brigadier Andrew Nikolic (see under Politics, Legislators)

Humanities

Arts

History

Journalism and media

Literature, writing and poetry

Philosophy and theology

Judiciary and the law

  • John Basten – Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
  • Richard Blackburn – former Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory
  • Catherine Branson – former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
  • John Bray – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, poet and classicist
  • James Crawford – legal academic; Judge of the International Court of Justice (2014)
  • Bill Denny – Attorney-General of South Australia
  • John Doyle – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
  • John Finnis – legal scholar and philosopher
  • Francis Robert Fisher – Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, Vice Chancellor Flinders University
  • Regina Graycar – Emeritus Professor of Law School, University of Sydney
  • Hermann Homburg – Attorney-General of South Australia
  • Elliott Johnston – Communist activist and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
  • Len King – South Australian Attorney-General; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
  • Robert Lawson – Attorney-General of South Australia
  • Chris Kourakis – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
  • Bruce Lander – South Australia's first Independent Commissioner Against Corruption
  • G. C. Ligertwood – Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
  • Brian Martin – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
  • Robin Millhouse – lawyer, politician, Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru
  • Roma Mitchell – lawyer, first female Queen's Counsel in Australia (1962); Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; first female superior court judge in the British Commonwealth (1965)
  • George Murray – Chief Justice of South Australia
  • Mellis Napier – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
  • Rosemary Owens – Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide Law School
  • Angas Parsons – former judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and former Attorney-General of South Australia
  • Geoffrey Reed – Judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia; the first director-general of ASIO
  • Len Roberts-Smith – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
  • Paul Rofe – former South Australian Director of Public Prosecutions
  • Colin Rowe – Attorney-General of South Australia
  • Reginald Rudall – Attorney-General of South Australia
  • Chris Sumner – Attorney-General of South Australia
  • Margaret White – first female judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland

Medicine and science

Nobel laureates

  • William Lawrence Bragg — physicist, Nobel laureate with his father (William Henry Bragg) "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"[13]
  • Howard Florey — pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine,1945) "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"[14]
  • Robin Warren — pathologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2005), for the "discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"

Medicine

Science and mathematics

Sports

Administration

Chancellors

OrderChancellorsTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
1Sir Richard Hanson187418761–2 years[19]
2The Rt. Rev'd Augustus Short187618836–7 years
3Sir Samuel Way PC1883191632–33 years
4Sir George Murray KCMG1916194225–26 years
5Sir William Mitchell KCMG194219485–6 years[20]
6Sir Mellis Napier KCMG1948196112–13 years[19]
7Sir George Ligertwood196119664–5 years
8Sir Kenneth Wills KBE, MC, KStJ, ED196619681–2 years[21]
9John Jefferson Bray AC1968198314–15 years[19]
10Dame Roma Mitchell AC, DBE, CVO, QC198319906–7 years
11William Faulding Scammell AO, CBE199119975–6 years
12Bruce Phillip Webb AM199820001–2 years
13Robert Champion de Crespigny AC200020043–4 years
14John von Doussa AO, QC200420105–6 years
15Robert Hill AC201020143–4 years
16Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce AC, CSC, RANR1 December 2014 (2014-12-01)incumbent5 years, 201 days[22]

Vice-chancellors

OrderVice-ChancellorsTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
1Augustus Short187418761–2 years
2Sir Samuel Way187618836–7 years
3William Fletcher188318873–4 years
4George Farr188718935–6 years
5John Anderson Hartley189318962–3 years
6William Barlow1896191518–19 years
7Sir George Murray191519160–1 years
8Sir William Mitchell1916194225–26 years[20]
9Sir Herbert Parsons194219452–3 years
10J. McKellar Stewart194519482–3 years
11Albert Rowe194819589–10 years
12Sir Henry Basten195819678–9 years
13Sir Geoffrey Badger196719779–10 years
14Don Stranks197719879–10 years
15Kevin Marjoribanks19871987 years
16Gavin Brown198719979–10 years
17Mary O'Kane199720013–4 years
18Clifford Blake200120020–1 years
19 James McWha200220129–10 years
20Warren Bebbington201220185–6 years
21Peter Rathjen8 January 2018 (2018-01-08)incumbent2 years, 163 days[23]

Faculty

Nobel laureates

  • Sir William Bragg – physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his son William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
  • J. M. Coetzee – acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel laureate (Literature, 2003); retired to Adelaide and honorary visiting research fellow in the Discipline of English

Law

Science

Natural sciences

Mathematicians

  • Keith Briggs – mathematician, formerly on the staff of the Physics Department
  • Gavin Brown – mathematician, former vice chancellor of Adelaide and Sydney Universities
  • Charles E. M. Pearce – applied mathematician
  • Renfrey Potts – Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematics
  • George Szekeres – mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem
  • Ernie Tuck – applied mathematician
  • Mathai Varghese – pure mathematician, Elder Professor of Mathematics, Australian Laureate Fellow (2018)

Physicists

  • Derek Abbott – physicist and engineer; pioneered the first terahertz radiation (T-ray) program in Australia; led the early development of a branch of game theory known as Parrondo's paradox
  • Rod Crewther – physicist; former PhD student of the Nobel prize winner Murray Gell-Mann
  • Sir Kerr Grant – Elder professor of physics 1911–1948
  • Bert Green – former PhD student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born; the "G" in "BBGKY"
  • Kenneth G. McCracken – physicist and former director of CSIRO
  • Tanya Monro – physicist and Federation Fellow (2008)
  • Albert Percival Rowe – Vice-Chancellor, physicist; previously radar pioneer in Britain
  • Anthony William Thomas – Elder professor of physics; South Australian Scientist of the Year 2014

Medicine

  • Brendon Coventry – discovered the immune cycle; cancer pioneer
  • Edward Charles Stirling – physiologist, politician and advocate for women's suffrage
  • Sir Joseph Cooke Verco – physician and conchologist

Humanities

Other

  • Barry Brook – climate scientist and advocate of nuclear power
  • Alan Cooper – ancient DNA expert and Federation Fellow (2004)
  • Paul Davies – Professor of Natural Philosophy, Templeton Prize winner (1995)
  • Tim Flannery – paleontologist, Australian of the Year
  • Fay Gale – geographer; vice-chancellor of University of Western Australia (1990–1997)
  • Elizabeth Grant – architect and anthropologist
  • Geoff Harcourt – economist
  • Frederic Wood Jones – naturalist
  • Peng Shi – engineer
  • Peter Sutton – anthropologist

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