Academia •
Dennis A. Ahlburg – former president of
Trinity University; dean of the
Leeds School of Business at the
University of Colorado at Boulder and Professor of Human Resources at the
Carlson School of Management at the
University of Minnesota •
Brian Anderson – former president of the
Australian Academy of Science; emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the
Australian National University •
Elizabeth Bannan – educationist; fellow of the
Australian College of Education •
Brian L. Byrne –
social scientist known for research in
psycholinguistics; emeritus Professor of Psychology at the
University of New England •
Leonie Byrnes – educator and school inspector •
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; Chairman of
Lendlease; director of
Nike,
Merrill Lynch, and
Colgate-Palmolive •
Beverly Derewianka – Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the
University of Wollongong •
Theodore Thomson Flynn – professor of marine biology and zoology at the
University of Tasmania and
Queen's University of Belfast, Chair of Zoology at Queen's University of Belfast, director of the marine station at
Portaferry, father of actor
Errol Flynn •
Margaret Gardner –
Governor of Victoria, Vice-Chancellor of
Monash University, President and Vice-Chancellor of
RMIT University •
Michael Halliday – creator of the
systemic functional grammar, an internationally influential grammar model •
Jenny Hammond – linguist known for research on
literacy development •
Frank Lancaster Jones – sociologist known for research on social inequality, social stratification, social mobility, and national identity • Sir
Robert Madgwick – first
Vice-Chancellor of the
University of New England; former chairman of the
Australian Broadcasting Commission; Director of the
Australian Army Education Service during
World War II •
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – former president of the
Royal Society;
Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government •
Jim Peacock – former president of
Australian Academy of Science •
Michael Pitman – former
chief scientist of Australia •
Ken Robinson – former head of the Department of Computer Science at the
University of New South Wales •
Nicholas Saunders – former vice-chancellor of the
University of Newcastle and former dean of medicine at
Monash University and
Flinders University •
Michael Spence – president and provost of the
University College London and former vice-chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney • Sir
Brian Windeyer – former dean of the
Middlesex Hospital Medical School at the
University of London and former
vice-chancellor of the University of London •
Nicki Packer – Distinguished Professor of Glycoproteomics at
Macquarie University Architecture •
Andrew Andersons •
John Andrews •
Arthur Baldwinson •
Marion Hall Best •
Louise Cox •
Philip Cox •
Eleanor Cullis-Hill •
Neville Gruzman •
Peter Kollar •
Richard Leplastrier •
Andrea Nield •
Paul Pholeros •
Penelope Seidler •
Alexander Tzannes •
Leslie Wilkinson •
Ken Woolley Business •
Matt Barrie – CEO of
Freelancer.com •
David S. Clarke – former Chairman of
Macquarie Group •
Cameron Clyne – former CEO of
National Australia Bank •
Matt Comyn – CEO of
Commonwealth Bank •
James Curran – former CEO of
Grok Academy •
Robyn Denholm – Chairwoman of
Tesla •
John Grill – Chairman of
WorleyParsons •
Angus Harris – Co-CEO of
Harris Farm Markets •
David Higgins – Chairman of
United Utilities Group •
Fred Hilmer – former director and Deputy Chairman of
Westfield Group •
Michael Hintze, Baron Hintze – founder and Executive Chairman of
CQS •
Ryan Junee – founder and CEO of Omnisio and Inporia •
Jeni Klugman – former director of the Human Development Report Office,
United Nations Development Programme •
Jim Millner – former chairman of
Soul Patts •
Allan Moss – former Managing Director/CEO of
Macquarie Group •
John Mulcahy – former CEO of
Suncorp-Metway •
Michael Patsalos-Fox – Chairman of
McKinsey & Company in America •
Mark Scott – former CEO of
Australian Broadcasting Corporation •
Glenn Stevens – former Governor of the
Reserve Bank of Australia •
Matt Sweeny – CEO and co-founder of
Flirtey, inventor •
Tom Waterhouse – former CEO of
William Hill Australia • Sir
James Wolfensohn – former President of the
World Bank Community activism •
Eva Maria Cox •
Germaine Greer •
Noel Pearson •
Charles Perkins Government Royalty •
Sikhanyiso Dlamini – Princess of Swaziland •
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV – King of Tonga •
Princess Ingrid Alexandra – Princess of Norway
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) •
Tom Pauling (NT) • Sir
James Plimsoll (Tas) • Sir
James Rowland (NSW)
Politicians Prime ministers of Australia •
Tony Abbott •
Anthony Albanese • Sir
Edmund Barton •
John Howard • Sir
William McMahon • Sir
Earle Page •
Malcolm Turnbull •
Gough Whitlam Premiers of New South Wales •
Mike Baird •
Gladys Berejiklian • Sir
Thomas Bavin • Sir
Joseph Carruthers •
John Fahey • Sir
George Fuller •
Nick Greiner •
Morris Iemma •
James McGirr •
Dominic Perrottet •
Nathan Rees • Sir
Eric Willis •
Neville Wran Federal politicians •
Ash Ambihaipahar •
John Anderson • Sir
Garfield Barwick •
Lionel Bowen • Sir
Nigel Bowen • Sir
Percy Spender •
Kerry Bartlett •
Chris Bowen •
Bob Brown •
Ross Cameron •
Peter Coleman •
Craig Emerson •
Laurie Ferguson •
Martin Ferguson •
Carina Garland •
Jennie George •
Joe Hockey •
Tom Hughes •
Ros Kelly •
Peter King •
Andrew Laming •
Mark Latham •
Robert McClelland •
Daryl Melham •
Tsebin Tchen •
Danna Vale •
Andrew Charlton •
Angus Taylor •
Tanya Plibersek •
Peter Garrett •
Robert McClelland Australian state and territory politicians •
Clare Martin (NT) •
George Thorn (QLD) •
Max Willis (NSW)
International politicians •
Natalie Bennett – former leader of the
Green Party of England and Wales •
H. V. Evatt – 3rd
President of the United Nations General Assembly •
Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes – member of the
House of Lords of the United Kingdom •
John Horgan – 36th Canadian Premier of
British Columbia •
Martin Indyk – former
United States Ambassador to Israel •
Dave Sharma – former
Australia Ambassador to Israel •
Alvin Tan –
Minister of State of Singapore •
Teh Cheang Wan – former
Minister of National Development of Singapore •
Catherine West – member of the
House of Commons of the United Kingdom •
Akhilesh Yadav – 20th
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh of India •
Roderick Yong – 7th
Secretary-General of ASEAN =====Lord mayors of the
City of Sydney===== • Sir
Emmet McDermott •
Nelson Meers •
Clover Moore •
Frank Sartor •
Lucy Turnbull Public servants •
Tony Cole – 13th Secretary of the
Department of the Treasury •
Philip Flood – 5th Secretary of the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade •
Neil McInnes – intellectual, journalist and senior public servant •
Ewart Smith – campaigner against the
Australia Card Humanities Arts •
John Bell – actor, theatre director and theatre impresario •
Bruce Beresford – film director •
Anne Boyd – composer, first Australian and first woman appointed Professor of Music at the University of Sydney •
Rose Byrne – actress •
Jane Campion – New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter •
Alex Cubis – actor •
Somaratne Dissanayake – Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter and producer •
Christopher Doyle – cinematographer •
Sandy Edwards – photographer •
Jacqueline Fernandez – Bahraini–Sri Lankan actress and model who predominantly works in
Bollywood,
Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2006 •
Charles Firth – comedian •
John Flaus – broadcaster, actor, voice talent, anarchist, poet and raconteur •
Ania Freer – documentary filmmaker •
Andrew Hansen – comedian and musician •
Michael Hannan – composer, pianist, and musicologist •
Tom Gleeson – comedian, radio and television presenter •
May Hollinworth – theatre producer and director •
Yvonne Kenny – soprano •
Chas Licciardello – comedian •
Dolph Lundgren – Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist •
Julian Morrow – comedian and television producer •
Craig Reucassel – comedian, radio and television presenter • Dame
Joan Sutherland – dramatic coloratura soprano •
Chris Taylor – comedian •
Huỳnh Trần Ý Nhi – Vietnamese model,
Miss World Vietnam 2023 •
Peter Weir – film director •
Kip Williams – director of the Sydney Theatre Company •
Georgina Wilson – Filipino-British model, actress •
Roger Woodward – pianist, composer, conductor •
Whitney Duan – artist
History •
Alan Atkinson •
Carl Bridge • Sir
Christopher Clark •
Peter Loveday (historian) •
Anne Philomena O'Brien •
John Manning Ward Journalism •
Phillip Adams •
Bob Ellis •
Elizabeth Fell •
Eliza Harvey •
Robert Hughes •
Clive James •
Paul Kelly •
Ray Martin •
Richard McGregor •
Jessica Rowe •
Lillian Roxon •
Adam Spencer •
Avani Dias Literature, writing and poetry •
Millicent Armstrong •
Nikos Athanasou •
Clive Stephen Barry •
Dora Birtles •
Christopher Brennan •
Geraldine Brooks – winner of the
Pulitzer Prize (2006) •
Dymphna Cusack •
Brook Emery — poet, educator •
Germaine Greer •
Kate Grenville •
A. D. Hope •
Geoffrey Lehmann •
Dominic Knight •
Niall Lucy •
Jeni Mawter •
Les Murray •
Jennifer Rowe •
James Roy •
Margaret Clunies Ross •
Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) •
Kimberley Starr Philosophy •
David Malet Armstrong •
Stephen Hetherington •
Peter Godfrey-Smith •
J. L. Mackie •
John Passmore •
Wesley Wildman Law • Sir
Robert Garran • Sir
Edmund Barton • Sir
Garfield Barwick •
Tom Bathurst •
Virginia Bell • Sir
Maurice Byers •
Susan Crennan • Sir
William Portus Cullen • Sir
William Deane •
H. V. Evatt •
Mary Gaudron •
Murray Gleeson • Sir
Samuel Griffith •
William Gummow • Sir
Leslie Herron •
Dyson Heydon • Sir
Kenneth Jacobs • Sir
Lawrence Jackson • Sir
Frederick Jordan • Sir
John Kerr •
Michael Kirby • Sir
Frank Kitto •
Hugh Macrossan • Sir
Alan Mansfield • Sir
Anthony Mason •
Michael McHugh • Sir
Edward McTiernan •
Lionel Murphy •
Richard O'Connor •
Albert Piddington • Sir
George Rich • Sir
Percy Spender •
James Spigelman • Sir
Kenneth Whistler Street • Sir
Laurence Whistler Street • Sir
Philip Whistler Street • Sir
Alan Taylor • Sir
Cyril Walsh • Sir
Dudley Williams • Sir
Victor Windeyer Other legal professionals •
Hugh Atkin – lawyer, former Tipstaff at the
Supreme Court of New South Wales •
John Davies – Judge of the
United States District Court •
Marcus Einfeld – Judge of the
Federal Court of Australia •
Geoffrey Robertson – international human rights lawyer •
Charles Waterstreet – criminal defence lawyer, writer and producer
Military • Lieutenant General Sir
Frank Berryman – Deputy Chief of the General Staff • Major-General
John Broadbent • Major-General
Paul Brereton – Head of the Cadet, Reserve and Employer Support Division • Lieutenant General Sir
Mervyn Brogan – Chief of the General Staff • Brigadier Sir
Frederick Oliver Chilton •
Roden Cutler • Major-General Sir
Ivan Dougherty • Major-General
W B "Digger" James – Director-General of Army Medical Services • Lieutenant General Sir
Carl Jess – Director-General of Repatriation • Captain
Gordon Grimsley King • Lieutenant General
James Legge – Chief of the General Staff •
Percy Storkey • Major General
Mervyn Tan – Chief of Air Force of the 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 – former chairman of the
Congregational Union of England and Wales •
Edwin Davidson – Bishop of Gippsland •
Glenn Davies – Archbishop of 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 Gibraltar, Bishop of Fulham •
Ian Shevill – Bishop of Newcastle • Father
Joseph Patrick Slattery – physicist, radiologist, pioneer in the field of radiography •
Peter Watson – Archbishop of Melbourne •
William Wright – Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle
Sciences Astronauts and astronomy •
Ron Bracewell – known for
nulling interferometry, and the
Bracewell probe concept in
SETI; Lewis M. Terman Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at
Stanford University •
Philip K. Chapman –
Apollo 14 Mission Scientist •
Greg Chamitoff –
NASA astronaut and University of Sydney Lawrence Hargrave Professor of Aeronautical Engineering •
Bernard Mills – developed the
Mills Cross Telescope and
Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope •
Anna Moore – director of The Australian National University Institute for Space •
Ruby Payne-Scott – first to use
radio interferometry •
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
Biology •
Marnie Blewitt – molecular biologist, scientist in the field of epigenetics •
Marguerite Henry – zoologist •
Catherine King – ecotoxicologist, Antarctic researcher •
June Lascelles – microbiologist, pioneer in microbial photosynthesis •
John Mattick – molecular biologist •
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – winner of the
Crafoord Prize in Biosciences (1996) • Sir
Gustav Nossal •
Roland Stocker – scientist in the field of redox biology •
Pamela Anne Wills – research biologist and radiology scientist
Chemistry •
Arthur Birch • Sir
John Cornforth – winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975) •
David Craig •
Philip A. Gale •
Noel Hush – winner of the
Welch Award (2007) •
Alice Motion •
Elizabeth New •
Addy Pross • Sir
Robert Robinson – winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1947) •
Peter Rutledge •
Barbara H. Stuart •
Anthony Weiss •
Jenny Zhang 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; emeritus Professor of Computer Science at
Stanford University •
Ross Quinlan –
AAAI Fellow; highly cited scholar and a pioneer in decision theory •
Ken Thompson – co-creator of
unix; winner of the
Turing Award (1983) •
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 •
Ronald N. Bracewell – known for
nulling interferometry, and the
Bracewell probe concept in
SETI; Lewis M. Terman Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering 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 – dean of
Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Professor of Astronomy at the
University of Toronto •
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
Prime Minister's Prize for Science (2009); an originator of wireless technology, credited with the invention of
WiFi, •
Ruby Payne-Scott – first female radio astronomer •
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 •
Elaine Baker – marine science and environment researcher; Director of the University of Sydney Marine Studies Institute •
Stephen Bourke – archaeologist of the ancient Near East •
V. Gordon Childe – archaeologist of Prehistoric Europe •
Peter Cockcroft – petroleum geologist • Sir
Edgeworth David – geologist and Antarctic explorer •
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg – marine biologist and climate scientist •
Basil Hennessy – archaeologist of the Ancient Near East • Sir
Douglas Mawson – geologist and Antarctic explorer •
Beryl Nashar – geologist; first female PhD in geology at an Australian university; first female Dean of an Australian university •
David O'Connor – egyptologist •
Timothy Potts – art historian, archaeologist, and Director of the
J. Paul Getty Museum •
Karin Sowada – archaeologist of Egypt •
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 •
Robert Griffiths – Professor of Mathematical Genetics at the
University of Oxford •
Peter Gavin Hall – Professor of Statistics at the
University of California, Davis •
John Harsanyi – winner of the
Nobel Prize in Economics (1994) •
Richard Holden – Professor of Economics of the
UNSW Business School at the
University of New South Wales •
Jan Kmenta – Emeritus Professor of Economics at the
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 the
University of Utah, winner of the
SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize;
SIAM fellow •
Pat Moran – statistician known for his work on probability theory and its application to
population and
evolutionary genetics •
Yew-Kwang Ng – economist at
Monash University •
Graeme Segal –
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry; Fellow of
St John’s College, Cambridge •
Eugene Seneta – co-inventor of the
Variance-gamma distribution •
Trevor Swan – economist best known for his work on the
Solow-Swan Model •
Justin Wolfers – economist of
Wharton School of Business at the
University of Pennsylvania •
Eddie Woo – secondary school teacher and writer best known for his work on mathematics lessons published on YouTube
Medicine •
George Henry Abbott – surgeon and former Fellow at the 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 the
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 –
epidemiologist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Head of Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and
Cancer Research UK •
Dagmar Berne – first woman to study medicine in Australia. Completed her studies in France after the Vice Chancellor and Dean of Medicine prevented her from graduating. •
Ralph Beattie Blacket – beriberi and heart disease researcher •
Grace Boelke – general practitioner; one of the first two female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney •
Claudia Bradley – pharmacist, paediatrician, orthopaedist •
Jennifer Byrne – cancer researcher •
Janet Carr – physiotherapist •
John Carter – endocrinologist and former President of Australian Diabetes Society •
Victor Chang – pioneer of modern
heart transplantation •
Robert Clancy – developer of first oral vaccine for acute bronchitis •
Graeme Clark – inventor of
cochlear ear implant •
Iza Coghlan – physician; one of the first two female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney •
David A. Cooper – HIV/AIDS researcher and Director of the
Kirby Institute •
Grace Cuthbert-Browne – doctor and Director of Maternal and Baby Welfare in the New South Wales Department of Public Health, 1937–1964 •
Justine Damond – veterinarian, spiritual healer, and meditation coach before being killed by a
Minneapolis Police Department officer •
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 – pioneer and advocate of evidence-based medicine •
Rachael Dunlop – medical researcher and sceptic •
John Dwyer – Australian doctor, Professor of Medicine, and public health advocate. •
Creswell Eastman – Endocrinologist, Professor of Medicine, known for Iodine Deficiency Disorders research. • Sir
John Eccles – winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1963) •
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 – Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford; first demonstrated the existence of tumour-suppressing genes •
Freida Ruth Heighway – obstetrician and gynaecologist •
Ken Hillman – intensive care physician •
Portia Holman – child psychiatrist •
David Hunter – Dean of Academic Affairs of
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at
Harvard University •
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 •
Ross Kerridge – anesthesiologist;
Lord Mayor of Newcastle •
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 •
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 – neurosurgeon, 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 of Australian Council
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists •
Donald Metcalf – his research revealed the control of blood cell formation •
Errol Solomon Meyers – prominent Brisbane doctor; one of the founding fathers of the
School of Medicine at the
University of Queensland •
Jacques Miller – discoverer of the function of the thymus (the last major organ of the human body whose function remained unknown) • Sir
William Morrow – former president of
Royal Australasian College of Physicians •
Philip Nitschke – physician, humanist, founder and director of
Exit International • Sir
Gustav Nossal – 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 •
Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart – founder of the University of Sydney medical school •
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 – Kellion Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Sydney •
Nan Waddy – psychiatrist •
Robert Walsh – medical researcher and geneticist •
Claire Weekes – health writer and pioneer of anxiety treatment; first woman to graduate from the University of Sydney with a
doctorate of science •
Harry Windsor – heart surgeon •
Donald Wood-Smith – Professor of Clinical Surgery at
Columbia University •
Jeannette Young – medical doctor and Chief Health Officer of Queensland
Physics •
Bruce Bolt – pioneer of engineering
seismology; Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the
University of California, Berkeley •
Brian O'Brien – physicist and space scientist •
Richard Dowden – noted geo- and astrophysicist •
Herbert Huppert – Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director of Institute of Theoretical Geophysics at the
University of Cambridge; Fellow of
King's College, Cambridge •
Richard Makinson – physicist known for his contributions to
amorphous semiconductors •
Bernard Mills – inventor of the
Mills Cross Telescope •
Edwin Ernest Salpeter – astrophysicist known for his contributions to
Bethe–Salpeter equation and
initial mass function; emeritus Professor of Physics at
Cornell University Veterinary and agricultural scientists •
Vanessa Barrs – feline researcher •
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge – Professor of Animal Pathology and Director of the Institute of Animal Pathology at the University of Cambridge •
Chris Brown – veterinarian and TV presenter • Sir
Ian Clunies Ross – Chairman of
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation •
Hugh McLeod Gordon – veterinary parasitologist •
Daria Nina Love – veterinary microbiologist •
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 – winner of the
World Food Prize (2014); former head of Wheat Programme at
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre •
Elizabeth Tasker –
fire ecologist Sport •
'Snowy' Baker – rugby union, diving, boxing, swimming and polo player •
Nigel Barker – sprinter •
Ken Catchpole – rugby union footballer, state and national representative half-back •
Alex Chambers – mixed martial artist •
Chloe Dalton – Australian rules football, rugby union player and basketballer; gold medalist at the
2016 Summer Olympics •
Caitlin De Wit – wheelchair basketball player •
Kilian Elkinson – Bermudian footballer •
Nick Farr-Jones – rugby union footballer •
Jessica Fox –
slalom canoer, gold medalist at the
2020 Summer Olympics and
2024 Summer Olympics •
Peter Fuzes – association soccer player •
Scott Gourley – rugby union and rugby league •
Sienna Green – water polo player •
Phil Hardcastle – rugby union footballer •
Peter Johnson – rugby player •
Tom Lawton, Snr – rugby union player •
Jack Metcalfe – long jumper, triple jumper and javelin thrower •
Herbert Moran – rugby union player •
Stirling Mortlock – rugby union player •
Dean Mumm – rugby union player •
Otto Nothling – rugby union and cricket player •
Ellyse Perry – cricket and football player •
Mike Pyke – rugby union player and Australian rules footballer •
Alex Ross – state and national representative rugby union player •
Kevin Ryan – rugby union and rugby league player •
John Solomon – rugby union player, state and national representative versatile back •
Johnny Taylor – rugby union and cricket player •
John Thornett – rugby union player •
Dick Tooth – rugby union footballer •
John Treloar – sprinter, •
Johnnie Wallace – rugby union player, state and national representative three-quarter •
Phil Waugh – rugby union footballer •
Zhao Zong-Yuan – youngest Australian to become a chess
Grandmaster Other •
David Gulasi – Australian social media figure active in China •
Paul Hockings – anthropologist •
Margaret McArthur – anthropologist and nutritionist •
Mervyn Meggitt – anthropologist •
Anne Pattel-Gray – theologian •
Jane Sinclair Reid – educator of blind students
Footnotes ==Faculty==