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A list of
Monash University people , including a number of notable alumni and staff.
Daniel Andrews – 48th
Premier of Victoria
Kevin Andrews – former Australian Defence Minister
Louise Asher – former Deputy Leader of the
Victorian Liberal Party
Jim Bacon – former
Premier of
Tasmania (did not graduate)
Adam Bandt – Federal Member of Parliament for the
Australian Greens ; first Green elected to Federal Parliament at a general election
Boediono – former
Vice President of Indonesia
Sue Boyce – Australian Senator
Andrew Brideson – former Member of the
Parliament of Victoria
Helen Buckingham – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Anna Burke – politician, former
Deputy Speaker of the
Australian House of Representatives
Elaine Carbines – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Peter Cleeland – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Jacinta Collins – Australian Senator
Ann Corcoran – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Peter Costello – longest-serving
Treasurer of Australia ; former Deputy Leader of the
Liberal Party of Australia
Simon Crean – Australian
Minister for Trade ; former
Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the
ALP
David de Kretser – medical researcher; former
Governor of
Victoria
John Delzoppo – former Speaker of the
Parliament of Victoria
Richard Di Natale – Leader of the
Australian Greens , Senator for Victoria
Robert Doyle – former
Leader of the Opposition in Victoria and Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party; former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
John Elferink – Northern Territory Shadow Treasurer
Peter Falconer – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
David Feeney – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Jeannie Ferris – Australian Senator
Gail Gago – South Australian Minister for Environment, Conservation and Mental Health
James Gomez – Singaporean politician and academic at Monash
Alan Griffiths – former Australian Minister for Industry and Resources
Peter Hall – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Alistair Harkness – Member of the Parliament of Victoria, political commentator
Carolyn Hirsh – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Rob Hudson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Dennis Jensen – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Gary Johns – former
Special Minister of State , academic
Michael Kroger –
Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
Norman Lacy – former Minister for Arts and Minister for Educational Services
Albert Langer – political activist
John Langmore – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives; Director of Social Policy and Development at the United Nations; academic
John Lenders – Victorian Treasurer; Victoria's longest-serving
Finance Minister
Lim Guan Eng – Malaysian politician; former
Finance Minister of Malaysia
Hong Lim – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Tony Lupton – Member of the Parliament of Victoria; Secretary of Cabinet under
John Brumby
Julian McGauran – Former Australian Senator
Marlene Moses – diplomat,
Foreign Minister of
Nauru
Lauren Moss – Member of the
Northern Territory Parliament
Simbarashe Mumbengegwi – former
Foreign Minister of
Zimbabwe
Janice Munt – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Brendan O'Connor – former Australian Minister for Home Affairs and Employment, now Opposition Cabinet member
Gavan O'Connor – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Neil O'Keefe – former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Clare O'Neil – Member of the
Australian House of Representatives for
Hotham ; former Mayor of the
City of Greater Dandenong ; youngest female mayor in Australian history
Martin Pakula – Attorney General of Victoria
John Pandazopoulos – former Victorian Minister for Employment and Major Projects
Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator; former Minister for Health
Chris Pearce – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Sue Pennicuik – Greens Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Victor Perton – former Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Inga Peulich – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Robert Ray – Australian Senator; former Defence Minister
Peter Reith – Executive Director of the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; former Defence Minister; former Minister for Workplace Relations
Gordon Rich-Phillips – Shadow Victorian
Finance Minister
Tony Robinson – Victorian Minister for Consumer Affairs and Gaming
Bill Shorten – Federal Opposition leader, Member of the Australian House of Representatives; former National Secretary of the
Australian Workers' Union ; President of the Victorian
ALP
Helen Silver – public servant; Secretary of the Victorian
Department of Premier and Cabinet
Adem Somyurek – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Sharman Stone – former Australian Minister for Workforce Participation, former Shadow Minister for Immigration
Kirsty Sword Gusmão – political activist; former first lady of
East Timor
Murray Thompson – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
John Thwaites – former Deputy Premier of Victoria; Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change
David Vigor – Australian Senator
Nick Wakeling – Member of the Parliament of Victoria
Don Watson – speechwriter to
Paul Keating , author
Graeme Weideman – former Victorian Minister for Tourism
Dean Wells – former
Attorney-General of
Queensland ; Minister for Education and Minister for the Environment
Steve Wettenhall – Member of the
Parliament of Queensland
Greg Wilton (1955–2000) – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Michael Wooldridge – former Australian Minister for Health and Chairman of
UNAIDS
Luke Lazarus Arnold – Australian High Commissioner to Brunei
Rory Barnes – novelist
Jean Bedford – novelist
Peter Bonner – artist, winner of the
Dobell Prize
Damien Broderick – author, futurist
Peter Carey –
Booker prize -winning novelist
Nick Cave – musician
Doug Chappel – comedian actor
Tim Charles – musician
Timothy Conigrave (1959–1994) – actor and writer
Peter Corris – crime fiction author
Dagmar Evelyn Cyrulla – artist
Andrew Daddo – actor, voice artist, author and television personality
Cecilia Dart-Thornton – author
Lindy Davies – actor; Dean of the
Victorian College of Arts
Cherie Ditcham – actress, model
Laurie Duggan – poet
Hazel Edwards – children's author
Jon Faine – Melbourne radio personality
Phillip Frazer – publisher
Max Gillies – actor and satirist
Andy Griffiths – children's author
John Griffiths – musician and musicologist
Yalda Hakim – journalist
Mark Holden – singer, actor, television personality and barrister
Leslie Howard – pianist and composer
Russel Howcroft – advertiser, media personality and Executive general manager of
Network Ten
Paul Jennings – children's author
Adib Khan – novelist
Lucy Kiraly – fashion model and television presenter
Michael Leunig – cartoonist
Campbell McComas – comedian and actor
Brenda Niall – author
Nikolai Nikolaeff – actor
Eva Orner –
Academy-Award -winning film producer
Boyd Oxlade – author of
Death in Brunswick
Charlie Pickering – comedian
Ben Quilty – artist
Apsara Reddy – journalist
John Romeril – playwright
Raghav Sachar – Indian singer-songwriter
John A. Scott – poet
Fiona Spence – actress, star of
Prisoner
Jo Stanley – radio personality
Stelarc – performance artist
Yumi Stynes – radio and television personality
Lucy Sussex – author
Matt Tilley – comedian
Mary Tonkin – artist, winner of the
Dobell Prize
Paul Yore – artist
Don Watson – author
Alan Wearne – poet
Ilka White – textile artist
David Williamson – playwright
Shaun Wilson – artist
Wendy Zukerman – podcast personality, science journalist
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Fiona Balfour – businesswoman, former
Qantas and
Telstra executive
John F. O. Bilson – economist
Mark Birrell – company director; former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology
Terry Budge – banking executive, former Chancellor of Murdoch University
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Tony D'Aloisio – Chairman,
Australian Securities & Investments Commission ; former CEO,
Australian Securities Exchange
Henry Ergas – economist
John A. Fraser – Chairman and CEO of Global Asset Management at
UBS ; former Deputy Secretary of the Australian Treasury
Josh Frydenberg –
Treasurer of Australia
Peter Ivany – media mogul and billionaire
Margaret Jackson – first female Chairman of
Qantas
Ruslan Kogan – founder and CEO of Australia's biggest online retailer
Kogan.com ; co-founder of Milan Direct
Michael Kroger –
Liberal Party of Australia powerbroker and businessman
Tan Le – technology businesswoman,
Young Australian of the Year
Peter Lew – businessman
Michael Luscombe – CEO and managing director,
Woolworths
Ian Macfarlane – economist, Governor of the
Reserve Bank of Australia (1996–2006)
Paresh Narayan – economist
Trevor O'Hoy – President and CEO,
Foster's Group
Pasuk Phongpaichit – economist, author, anti-corruption campaigner; recipient of the 1999/2000 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
Peter Reith – Executive Director of the
European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
Gary P. Sampson –
World Trade Organization economist
Graeme Samuel – Chairman of the
Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
Anna Skarbek – businesswoman and former investment banker
Jannie Tay – Executive vice-chairman and co-founder of the Hour Glass; recipient of the 2003 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
Yahya Awang –
cardiothoracic surgeon ; performed the first heart transplant in Malaysia
Greg Ayers – atmospheric scientist, Director of the
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
David Brown – meteorologist,
Seven News weatherman
Michael Cowley – physiologist, Australian Science Minister's Life Scientist of the Year 2009
David de Kretser – medical researcher, former
Governor of
Victoria
Weary Dunlop – military surgeon, World War II leader (attended the
Victorian College of Pharmacy , now Monash Parkville Campus)
Ian G. Enting – mathematician
Tim Flannery – biologist, author, 2007
Australian of the Year
Andrew Freeman FACS – Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected in 1997), and an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the ACS (elected in 2018)
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Kristine French – plant biologist and conservationist
Peter Gibson – gastroenterologist who created the
Low-FODMAP diet in collaboration with Susan Shepherd
Susan Lim – surgeon, performed Singapore's first successful liver transplant; recipient of the 2005 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
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
Patrick McGorry – psychiatrist, 2010 Australian of the Year
Dr Brad McKay – doctor, author and science communicator
Jared Purton (1976–2009) – immunologist
Lee J. Slavutin – pathologist; recipient of the 1974
Monash University Sophie Davis Memorial Prize
Terry Speed – mathematician
Abu Bakar Suleiman – Vice-Chancellor of
International Medical University ; recipient of the 2007 Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
Norman Arthur Wakefield – botanist
Lynne Kelly – researcher and science educator
Charles Clarke – botanist
Social services and academia
Catherine Arlove – Olympic judo competitor
John Bertrand – yachtsman, skipper of
Australia II
Mordy Bromberg – former
AFL footballer, barrister, current Judge of the
Federal Court of Australia
Travis Brooks – field hockey player, Olympic Games gold medallist
Ashley Brown (born 1994) – footballer
Nathan Burke – AFL footballer
Alastair Clarkson – former AFL footballer, current Coach of the
Hawthorn Football Club
Tony Dodemaide – cricketer
Ron Evans – AFL footballer and sports administrator
Robby Foldvari – billiards and snooker player, world champion
Brett Gosper – former member of the
Australia national under-21 rugby union team ; current CEO of the
International Rugby Board
Geoff Grover – former AFL and
VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (
1966 Hobart Carnival )
Lauren Hewitt – athlete
Geoff Hunt – squash player, four-time world champion
Janine Ilitch – netballer
Paul McNamee – tennis player, sports administrator, winner of
Wimbledon and Australian Open
Anna Millward , née Wilson – cyclist, world champion and world record holder
Brenton Rickard – swimmer, Olympic silver medallist
Anna Segal – Olympic freestyle skier and 2-time world champion
Paul Trimboli – soccer player
David Zalcberg – Olympic table tennis player, Commonwealth Games medallist
Notable staff (past and present)
Humanities and social sciences
Waleed Aly – Muslim community leader and political commentator
Carina Garland – Labor Member for Chisholm
Parliament of Australia
Andrew Benjamin – philosopher
Harold Bolitho – historian
Geoffrey Bolton – historian
John Brumby – former
Premier of Victoria
Kate Burridge – prominent linguist and occasional
ABC presenter
John Button – former Australian Senator; Leader of the
Australian Labor Party in the Senate; Australian Minister for Industry (1983–1993)
David P. Chandler – historian
Chin Liew Ten – philosopher
Michael Clyne – linguist
Ken Coghill – former Speaker of the
Parliament of Victoria
Peter Costello – longest-serving
Treasurer of Australia ; former Deputy Leader of the
Liberal Party of Australia
Franz-Josef Deiters – literary scholar
Nick Economou – political scientist and media commentator
Ben Eltham – creative producer and social commentator
Herbert Feith – Indonesian politics expert
Allan Fels – economist and former Chairman of the
Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
John Edward Fletcher – German studies expert
James Alexander Forrest – lawyer, former University Council member
Petro Georgiou – former Liberal Member of the
Parliament of Australia
Fred Gruen – economist
Rob J. Hyndman – statistician, forecaster
Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher
Margaret J. Kartomi – ethnomusicologist
David Kemp – political scientist; former Australian Minister for Education and the Environment
Helga Kuhse – philosopher and bioethicist
Andrew Linklater –
international relations expert
Mal Logan – geographer, former Vice-Chancellor
Tony Lupton – former politician and Secretary to the Victorian Cabinet, now professor of public policy
Race Mathews – economist; Chief of Staff to Prime Minister
Gough Whitlam ; former Minister for Community Services; former Minister for Police and Emergency Services
Yew-Kwang Ng – economist
Graham Oppy – philosopher
Kay Patterson – former Australian Senator and Minister for Health
Mark Peel – historian
Christian Reus-Smit – international relations expert
John Rickard – economist
Modjtaba Sadria – philosopher
Richard Scotton – health economist, creator of Australian
Medicare program
Kamal Uddin Siddiqui – economist, diplomat
Peter Singer – philosopher (now at
Princeton University , US)
J. J. C. Smart – philosopher
Michael A. Smith – philosopher
John Thwaites – former Deputy
Premier of
Victoria and Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change, now Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute
Nick Trakakis – philosopher
Hal Varian – economist
David Wright-Neville – political scientist, terrorism expert
Xiaokai Yang – economist, democracy campaigner, political prisoner
Lara Owen – organisational studies, menstrual expert
Medicine and life sciences
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