Prominent alumni
The University of Melbourne has a number of prominent alumni in the community spanning many different areas including:
- Arts, entertainment, literature & media
- Business
- Education
- Politics and government
- Professions including legal, medical and engineering
Arts, entertainment, literature & media
- Stephanie Alexander
Chef and author - Gillian Armstrong
Filmmaker - Creighton Burns
Former editor of The Age - Les Carlyon
Journalist - Deborah Conway
Singer/songwriter - Paul Cox
Filmmaker - John Duigan
Filmmaker - Lorraine Elliott
Director, Melbourne International Arts Festival - Ronald Farren-Price
Pianist - Helen Garner
Author - Robert Gottliebsen
Finance journalist - Michelle Grattan
Political journalist - Germaine Greer
Author - Jack Hibberd
Playwright/novelist and doctor - Barry Humphries
Theatre and television performer - Peter Isaacson
Publisher - Ramona Koval
Radio broadcaster - Patrick McCaughey
Curator and art critic - Hilary McPhee
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, University of Melbourne - Joanna Murray-Smith
Playwright - Hannie Rayson
Playwright - Peter Sculthorpe
Composer - Rob Sitch
Television performer - Magda Szubanski
Television performer - Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Poet and essayist - Jana Wendt
Television journalist - David Williamson
Playwright
- David Bardas
Owner of Sportsgirl - Phillip Brass
Former Managing Director, Pacific Dunlop - Jim Dominguez
Director, O'Connell Street Associates - Ahmed Fahour
CEO, National Australia Bank - Carillo Gantner
President, The Myer Foundation - Charles Goode
Chairman, ANZ - Sir Brian Inglis
Chairman, Amcor - Margaret Jackson
Chairperson, Qantas - Robert Kirby
Chairman, Village Roadshow - David Knott
Chair of the Dubai Financial Services Authority - Ananda Krishnan
Owner of Maxis Communications, Malaysia - David Morgan
CEO, Westpac Banking Corporation - Hugh Morgan
Board of Reserve Bank of Australia - Rupert Myer
Vice-President, The Myer Foundation - Richard Pratt
Chairman, Visy Recycling - Elizabeth Proust
Managing Director, Esanda Finance
- Sir Alec Broers
Former Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University - Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Blainey
Historian and Former Chancellor of Ballarat University
- Professor Graham Brown
Head of the Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital - The Hon Alex Chernov AO
Chancellor, University of Melbourne - Dame Leonie Kramer
Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney - Peter Laver
Chairman, Australian Building Codes Board - Fay Marles
Former Chancellor, University of Melbourne - Ross Millikan
Senior Fellow, Education Faculty, University of Melbourne - Roslyn Otzen
Former Principal, Korowa Girls School - Dorothy Pizzey
Former Principal, St Catherine's Girls School - James Riady
Deputy Chairman of Lippo Group, Indonesia - Ian Renard
Former Chancellor, University of Melbourne - Paul Sheahan
Headmaster, Melbourne Grammar School - Peter Singer
Philosopher, Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne
- Louise Asher
Victorian Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Water, Skills & Workforce Participation, Small Business, Tourism & Major Events - John Brumby
Victorian Premier, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Multicultural Affairs - John Button
Former Federal Minister for Industry, Commerce & Technology - Sir Zelman Cowen
Former Governor General of Australia
- David de Kretser
Current Victorian Governor - Gareth Evans
Former Federal Foreign Minister - Petro Georgiou
Federal MP - Julia Gillard
Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Sir James Gobbo
Former Governor of Victoria - Robin Gray
Former Premier of Tasmania - Clyde Holding
Former Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs - Brian Howe
Former Federal Minister for Health - Barry Jones
Former Federal Minister for Science - Joan Kirner
Former Victorian Premier - David Kemp
Former Federal Environment Minister - Peter McGauran
Federal MP - Andrew Peacock
Former Federal Opposition Leader - Thomas Pickering
Former US Ambassador - John So
Former Lord Mayor of Melbourne - Alan Stockdale
Former Victorian Treasurer - Sir Ninian Stephen
Former Governor-General of Australia - Lindsay Thompson
Former Premier of Victoria - David White
Former Victorian Health Minister - Ralph Willis
Former Federal Treasurer
Professions including legal, medical and engineering
- Justice Rosemary Balmford
Supreme Court of Victoria - Brian Burdekin
Advisor, UN High Commission for Human Rights - Justice Sally Brown
Family Court of Australia - Adrienne Clarke
Laureate Professor, School of Botany, University of Melbourne - Leigh Clifford
Chairman, Qantas - Suzanne Corey
Director, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research - Justice Susan Crennan
High Court Justice - Sir Daryl Dawson
Former High Court Justice - Ian Gust
Director of the World Health Organisation's Influenza Collaborating Centre - Sandra Hacker
Chairperson, Northern Health - Justice Kenneth Hayne
High Court Justice - Sir John Holland
Founder of John Holland Engineering & Construction - Brian Loton
Former CEO, BHP - Mechai Viravaidya
Chairman, Population and Community Development Association, Thailand - Sir Gustav Nossal
President of the Australian Academy of Science - John Stocker
Former Chief Executive of CSIRO - Carl Wood
Founder of Monash IVF
- David Crawshay
Olympic rower - Ralph Doubell
Olympic athlete
- Herb Elliott
Olympic athlete - Margot Foster
Olympic rower - Cathy Freeman
Olympic athlete - John Landy
Olympic athlete and former Governor of Victoria - Simon Madden
Australian Rules footballer - Paul Sheehan
Australian cricketer - Kathy Watt
Olympic cyclist