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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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)
Chancellors
The Chancellor of The University of Western Australia is its most senior officer:[3]
Term start | Term end | Name | Other positions |
---|---|---|---|
1912 | 1916 | Sir John Winthrop Hackett | Editor and proprietor of The West Australian Member of the Legislative Council (1890–1916) |
1916 | 1922 | Charles Riley | Bishop of Perth (1894–1914) Archbishop of Perth (1914–1929) |
1922 | 1929 | Athelstan Saw | Member of the Legislative Council (1915–1929) |
1930 | 1936 | Sir Walter James | Premier of Western Australia (1902–1904) |
1936 | 1943 | James Battye | |
1943 | 1948 | Sir Walter Murdoch | |
1948 | 1956 | E. W. Gillett | |
1956 | 1968 | Sir Alexander Reid | |
1968 | 1981 | Sir Lawrence Jackson | Chief Justice of Western Australia (1969–1977) |
1981 | 1990 | Donald Aitken | |
1990 | 1998 | Geoffrey Kennedy | Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia |
1998 | 2000 | Alexander Cohen | |
2001 | 2005 | Ken Michael | Governor of Western Australia (2006–2011) |
2005 | Michael Chaney |
References
- ↑ Mole new world for nice Aisha, The West Australian, 16 October 2013
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Former officers of the University – The University of Western Australia. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
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