List of University of New South Wales alumni

This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni.

Alumni

Government, politics, and law

• Premiers of New South Wales
  • Bob Carr
• Premiers of Queensland
  • Campbell Newman, Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (ADFA Engineering alumnus)
• Lord Mayors of the City of Sydney
  • Lucy Turnbull
• Attorneys-General of Australia
  • Robert McClelland
• Justices of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
  • Elizabeth Fullerton
  • Megan Latham
  • Lucy McCallum
  • Tony Meagher (Court of Appeal)
• Other Australian politicians
  • Larry Anthony, politician
  • Sharan Burrow, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions
  • Alan Cadman, politician
  • Jason Clare, Member for Blaxland, former Minister for Home Affairs and former Minister for Defence Materiel
  • Greg Combet, Former Federal Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation, Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013 (Engineering alumnus)
  • Mehreen Faruqi, Greens MLC - NSW Parliament; Daily Life's 20 Women of the Year; Judy Raper Award for Leadership in Engineering (Engineering alumnus)
  • Michael Forshaw, senator
  • Peter Garrett, rock star/politician, former Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts
  • Scott Morrison, Federal Treasurer, Member of the House of Representatives
  • Gary Nairn, House of Representatives
  • Kerry Nettle, Australian Greens senator
  • Marise Payne, Senator for New South Wales and Federal Minister for Defence
  • Sussan Ley, Federal Minister for Health, Member of the House of Representatives
• International politicians
  • Andrew Cheng, Hong Kong politician, Councillor of Legislative Council of Hong Kong
  • Foo Mee Har, Singaporean MP
  • Meutya Hafid, Indonesian politician, member of People's Representative Council, former journalist
  • Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development of Singapore
• Other Australian judges
  • Bob Bellear, Australia's first indigenous judge
  • Annabelle Bennet, Federal Court Judge

Business and industry

• Rodney Adler, former Director of HIH Insurance and One.Tel, major figure in the companies' corporate scandal
• Ori Allon, Orion Search Engine (bought by Google); BRW Young Rich List, 2013 (Engineering alumnus)
• Rose Amal, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, UNSW Australia; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Anthony Armstrong, former Director of Research and Development, Austal Ships; Engineers Australia's AGM Michell Award for achievements in Engineering (Engineering alumnus)
• Monica Attard, Australian Broadcasting Corporation host; award-winning journalist
• John Bevan, CEO of Alumina Limited; Director of Ansell Limited
• Mark Bouris, Chairman of Yellow Brick Road and television personality
• Ross Bunyon, Chairman of RailCorp
• Robert Care, Principal, Arup Australasia; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013 (Engineering alumnus)
• Richard Carleton, television journalist
• Chang Victor Liu, engineer
• Karl Chong, founder and former CEO Groupon Singapore
• Paul Clitheroe, television presenter and businessman
• Roger Corbett, Chairman of the Reserve Bank of Australia, CEO of Woolworths Limited
• Philip Cox, architect
• Douglas Daft, former CEO of The Coca-Cola Company
• Satyajit Das, banker, author and academic^[1]
• Terry Davis, CEO Coca-Cola Amatil
• Bob Every, Chair, Wesfarmers; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Richard Farleigh, private investor
• Michael Farrell, Chief Executive, ResMed; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Martin Grimm, Principal Naval Architect, Navy Engineering Division, Department of Defence (Engineering alumnus)
• Andrew Harding (Mining), Chief Executive of Iron Ore, Rio Tinto, Perth; Engineers Australia Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2014
• Philip Hercus, founder of International Catamaran Designs; Engineers Australia's AGM Michell Award for achievements in Engineering (Engineering alumnus)
• Askin Iskveren, Head of Visionary Aircraft Concepts, Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V., Munich, Germany (Engineering alumnus)
• Chris Jenkins, Managing Director, Thales Australia; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• John Jeremy, former General Manager of Vickers Cockatoo Dockyard (Engineering alumnus)
• Yew Jin Kang, Chief Information Officer for Hong Leong Bank (Engineering alumnus)
• Grant King, Managing Director, Origin Energy; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Wal King, CEO Leighton Holdings
• Warren King, CEO, Defence Material Organisation; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Richard Leupen, Managing Director and CEO, UGL; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• David Lowy, Non Executive Deputy Chairman of the Westfield Group
• Peter Lowy, Group Managing Director of the Westfield Group
• Steven Lowy, Group Managing Director of the Westfield Group
• Bob Mansfield, former consultant for Prime Minister John Howard, chairman of Telstra, former CEO of McDonald's Australia, Optus Communications and John Fairfax
• Donald McDonald, former chairman of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
• Peter McIntyre, Managing Director, TransGrid; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Warwick McKibbin, Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of Australia; economist
• Nicholas Moore, chairman of Macquarie Group Ltd
• Bruce Munro (Civil Engineering), Managing Director, Thiess; Engineers Australia "Top 100 Influential Engineers", 2014
• Glenn Murcutt, architect, Pritzker Prize Laureate, founding president of the Australian Architecture Association
• John Niland, Director of Macquarie Bank Limited; Chairman of Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust; former Vice-Chancellor of University of New South Wales
• Christopher Norman, co-founding director of Austal Ships; Engineers Australia's AGM Michell Award for achievements in engineering (Engineering alumnus)
• John Prescott, former CEO of BHP Billiton
• Tonni Syamsuddin, Mine Engineer, Freeport McMoRan
• Mike Quigley, CEO, NBN Co; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013 (Engineering alumnus)
• Cornelis Radjawane, Vice-President, GMF AeroAsia (subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia); played a key role in the safety improvements of the airline Garuda Indonesia (Engineering alumnus)
• Chris Raine, President and CEO, Alstom Australia and New Zealand; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013 (Engineering alumnus)
• Chris Roberts, Chief Executive & President, Cochlear; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Gregory G. Rose, Principal Engineer at QUALCOMM inc. (Engineering alumnus)
• Trevor Ruting, Rear Admiral, Royal Australian Navy (retired) (Engineering alumnus)
• Paul Sathio, CEO of Crown Group Holdings Pty Ltd (Engineering alumnus)
• George Savvides, Managing Director, Medibank Private; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Sergei Sergienko, Managing Director, The Edway Group
• Jamie Shelton, National President, Consult Australia; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013 (Engineering alumnus)
• Zhengrong Shi, Founder and CEO, Suntech (Engineering alumnus)
• Ian Smith, Managing Director and CEO, Orica; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Nicholas Stavropoulos, CEO of St. Basils Homes
• Iwan Sunito, CEO of Crown Group Holdings Pty Ltd; recipient of the 2013 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Eastern Region awards Industry Category (Architecture alumnus)
• Elizabeth Taylor, Chair, RedR International; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)
• Guy Templeton, President & Chief Operating Officer Asia/Australia-Pacific/Southern Africa, Parsons Brinckerhoff; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering Alumnus)
• Michael Uzzell, Head of Navy Engineering, Royal Australian Navy; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013 (Engineering alumnus)
• Gai Waterhouse, horse trainer and businesswoman
• Les Wielinga, former Director-General, Transport for NSW, NSW Government (retired); Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013 (Engineering alumnus)
• Conan Wu, founder and former Principal, Conan Wu and Associates, Singapore (Engineering alumnus)

Science, medicine, and academia

• James Arvanitakis, sociologist
• Samy Azer, Professor of Medical Education; international medical educator
• Graeme Laurence Cohen, mathematician
• Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne
• Tim Flannery, mammalogist, palaeontologist, global warming activist and author; 2007 Australian of the Year
• David Gonski, businessman, Chancellor of UNSW
• Carsten Haitzler, computer scientist, creator of Enlightenment
• Robi Karp, computer scientist, founder of Fluffy Spider Technologies
• Adam Kennedy, computer scientist
• Steven Krilis, immunologist
• Karl Kruszelnicki, scientist
• Sam Michael, sporting director of McLaren
• Gordon Parker, psychiatrist
• Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom, first Thai elected to IEEE Fellow; current President of Mahanakorn University of Technology; Thailand's Minister of Information and Communication Technologies
• Judy Raper, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Wollongong; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013 (Engineering alumnus)
• Robyn Richmond, pioneer of smoking cessation tactics^[2]
• Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon
• Alan O. Trounson, biologist
• Tony Vinson, Emeritus Professor, Education and Social Work
• Stuart Wenham, Director of ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, UNSW Australia; Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013, 2014 (Engineering alumnus)

Arts, literature, and religion

• Jack Bedson, writer, children's author, poet and academic librarian
• Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal writer
• Alex Buzo, pioneer playwright
• Matt Carroll, film producer
• Tim Cook, historian and author
• Adam Cullen, artist
• Michael Dransfield, poet
• Anthony Georgiou, director
• Francis Giacco, artist
• Frank Howarth, geologist, Director of the Australian Museum
• Byron Kennedy, film producer
• Stephanie Lemelin, Canadian actress
• Lenka, born Lenka Kripac, singer
• Yaron Lifschitz, theatre director
• George Miller, movie producer, television screenwriter, producer and director of Happy Feet
• Drusilla Modjeska, writer
• Matthew Reilly, writer
• Gregory Charles Rivers, Hong Kong actor
• Pamela Stephenson, comedian/writer
• Rebel Wilson, actress,comedian and writer
• Markus Zusak, writer
• Amber Lawrence, singer, songwriter

Sport

• Usman Khawaja, cricketer
• Geoff Lawson, cricketer
• Tadhg Kennelly, Australian rules football player in AFL team Sydney Swans
• Ewen McKenzie, current coach of the Queensland Reds
• Simon Poidevin, former Wallabies captain
• Marshall Rosen, cricketer
• Warren Rosser, Judoka, Order of Australia (OAM) for service of judo 2014; Seoul Olympian; Head Coach of Judo Club of University of New South Wales
• Jane Saville, 2004 Summer Olympics medallist
• Michael Slater, cricketer
• Mark Taylor, cricketer (Australia's 39th test captain), Australian of the Year 1999
• Richard Walsh, professional mixed martial artist; semi-finalist of The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia, currently competing in the Welterweight Division of the UFC^[3]
• Michael Wenden,swimming champion, 1968 Summer Olympics gold medallist (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)

See also

• Category:University of New South Wales alumni

References

1. "Panellist: Satyajit Das". ABC. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
2. http://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-robyn-richmond
3. "Richard Walsh UFC Bio". Retrieved 2014.

• Hobson, Australia (2005). The good universities guide. Universities and private colleges. Years. ISBN 1-876197-88-9.