List of University of Western Australia people

This is a list of University of Western Australia people, including its notable alumni and staff:

Notable alumni

Politics

• Narongchai Akrasanee, former Minister of Commerce; Senator in the Thai government
• Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Australia
• Kim Beazley, former Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Prime Minister
• Kim Edward Beazley, former Whitlam Cabinet Minister
• Boediono, former Vice President of Indonesia
• Alan Carpenter, former Premier of Western Australia
• Richard Court, former Premier of Western Australia
• Peter Dowding, former Premier of Western Australia
• Peter Durack, former Federal Attorney General
• Geoff Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia
• Sir Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia
• Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia
• Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of Western Australia, Federal Minister and President of the Australian Labor Party
• Donton Samuel Mkandawire, former MP for Mzimba District, Malawi and Minister of Education for Malawi
• Wangdi Norbu, Bhutanese Finance Minister
• Associate Professor Samakoses, a former Deputy Minister of Education with the Thai Government
• Stephen Smith, former Australian Minister for Defence
• Billy Snedden, former Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
• Daryl Williams, former Federal Attorney General
• Yeo Cheow Tong, former Minister of Transport in Singapore

Business

• Michael Chaney, former CEO of Wesfarmers; current chancellor of UWA
• Sir Rod Eddington, former CEO of British Airways
• Andrew Forrest, mining magnate and founder of Fortescue Metals Group
• Richard Goyder, CEO of Wesfarmers
• Janet Holmes à Court, businesswoman
• Robert Holmes à Court, entrepreneur
• John A. Hay, current vice-chancellor of University of Queensland
• Peter Lim, Singaporean billionaire
• Michael Malone, iiNet founder
• Ken Michael, Governor of Western Australia; former Chancellor of UWA
• Tan Sri Hamdan Mohamad, current Executive Director and President of Ranhill Berhad
• Hilton Nathanson, BRW Rich 200 list member; founder of Marble Bar Asset Management
• Tony Poli, BRW Rich 200 list member; founder of Aquila Resources
• Andrew Roberts, former CEO of Multiplex

Public service and community

• Ameer Ali, former president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
• Herbert Cole Coombs, first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Margaret Feilman, architect and town planner
• Allan Fels, former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• Ron Fitch, commissioner of the South Australian Railways
• David Irvine, Director-General of Security; former Director-General of Australian Secret Intelligence Service; former Australian High Commissioner to PNG; Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
• Ralph Townsend, headmaster of Winchester College

Law

• Robert French, current Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Zarah Garde-Wilson, criminal lawyer
• Wayne Martin, current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
• Neville John Owen, current Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
• Christopher Steytler, current Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
• John Toohey, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Ronald Wilson, former Justice of the High Court of Australia

Science, medicine, engineering and mathematics

• Michelle Harvey, forensic entomologist
• Barry Marshall, physician, 2005 Nobel Prize laureate
• Niall McLaren, psychiatrist and philosopher, author of Humanizing Madness and Humanizing Psychiatry
• Kenneth Richard Norris, entomologist
• Cheryl Praeger, mathematician, Australian Scientist of the Year 2009
• Hugo Rietveld, Ph.D. Physics 1964, crystallographer, inventor of the Rietveld Method
• Gordon Royle, Ph.D. Mathematics 1987, co-author of Algebraic Graph Theory
• Amanda Sainsbury-Salis, molecular scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, educator and author
• Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist, 2003 Australian of the Year
• Dr Eric John Underwood, B.Sci.Ag 1928, Dean of faculty, Agriculture 1946 to 1970
• Robin Warren, UWA Emeritus Professor, Nobel Prize laureate
• Fiona Wood, UWA Professor of Medicine, 2005 Australian of the Year

Arts, literature and religion

• Frederick Alexander, historian
• Geoffrey Bolton, historian
• Greg Egan, writer
• Geoff Gibbs, actor and WAAPA principal
• Gracie Gilbert, actress
• Rolf Harris, performer and artist
• Dorothy Hewett, writer
• Barry Hickey, Catholic Archbishop of Perth
• Aisha Jefcoate, runner-up of the sixth season of the Australian version of The Mole^[1]
• John Kinsella, writer
• John Andrew La Nauze, the first Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University (1978)
• Niall Lucy, writer and scholar, known for his work on Jacques Derrida and deconstruction
• Sally Morgan, writer and artist
• Randolph Stow, writer
• Shaun Tan, artist and writer

Sport and entertainment

• Sandra Angelia, Miss Indonesia 2008
• Peter F. Bell, former captain of the Fremantle Dockers
• Ric Charlesworth, former Australia national field hockey team Kookaburras Captain and Hockeyroos coach
• Michael Fitzpatrick, former captain of the Carlton Football Club; current Chairman of the Australian Football League
• Rachel Kum, Miss Singapore 2009
• Matthew Pavlich, captain of the Fremantle Dockers
• Jarrad Seng, photographer^[2]
• Shirley Strickland, Olympic track and field athlete
• Kylie Wheeler, Olympic heptathlete

Music

• Mili Davies, classical guitarist
• Sara Macliver, soprano
• Tim Minchin, pianist and comedian
• Roger Smalley, pianist and composer

Notable administrators

• George Alexander Currie, second Vice Chancellor (1941-1952)

References

1. Mole new world for nice Aisha, The West Australian, 16 October 2013
2. Masters, Melita (2 September 2014). "Jarrad Seng » Spirit of the Masaai". Oh 8. Archived from the original on 31 December 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2016.