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This is an incomplete list of Australian National University people , including alumni and staff.
Robert Addo-Fening , historian and academicDes Ball , security specialist and ANU ProfessorAndrew Barker , British classicistJoanna Bourke , historian and academicRosi Braidotti , feministBob Brissenden , poet, novelist, critic and academicHarold Brookfield , academicVerity Burgmann , academicDipesh Chakrabarty , historian and theoristYang Hi Choe-Wall , KoreanistPeter Coutts , archaeologistGlyn Davis , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne since 2005John Deeble , architect of MedicarePeter Drysdale , economistAlan Dupont , academicStevan Eldred-Grigg , historian and novelistNicholas Evans , linguistAlan Finkel , historianJohn Frow , academicBill Gammage , historianRoss Garnaut , economistGeoffrey Garrett , political scientist, dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania [ 1] Alan Gilbert , Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne 1996–2004; Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester 2004–2010Malcolm Gillies , Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University Nicholas Gruen , economistWilliam Hale , academicAllan Hawke , diplomat and ANU ChancellorChris Heyde , probabilistBrij Lal , historianMarcia Langton , anthropologist (BA, ANU), geographer (PhD, Maquarie)Donald Laycock , linguistMichael McRobbie , President of Indiana University Toby Miller , academicDavid Nash , linguistHarjot Oberoi , academicPatrick O'Farrell , historianDiane Pearson , Professor in Environmental Management John Quiggin , economistMargaret Reeson , historianRalph Regenvanu , anthropologist, artist and politician[ 2] Elizabeth Anne Reid , academicLeslie Lloyd Robson , historianMichael Roe , historianJessa Rogers , Aboriginal educatorLeonie Sandercock , academicCarmel Schrire , anthropologistBernard Smith , art historianClem Tisdell , economistHrvoje Tkalčić , geophysicist Donald Tuzin , social anthropologistTarisi Vunidilo , Fijian archaeologist and curatorRolf Zinkernagel , Nobel Prize winning medical researcherPamela Gutman , Burmese art historian
Prime Ministers of Australia [ edit ] Other federal politicians [ edit ]
Phil Barresi , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1996–2007Kim Beazley Sr , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1945–1977; Federal Minister 1972–1975Bob Catley , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1990–1993Barry Cohen , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1969–1990Stephen Conroy , Member of the Australian Senate since 2006; Federal Minister 2007–2013Craig Emerson , Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998; Federal Minister 2007–2013Chris Gallus , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1990–2004Concetta Fierravanti-Wells , Member of the Australian Senate 2005-2022Peter Garrett , Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2004; Federal Minister 2007–2013Gary Gray , Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2007; Federal Minister since 2010–2013Alan Griffin , Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1993; Federal Minister 2007–2010Dame Margaret Guilfoyle , Member of the Australian Senate 1971–1987
Harry Jenkins , Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1986; Speaker of the House 2008–2011Michael Keenan , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 2004-2019John Kerin , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1972–1993; Federal Minister 1983–1993Catherine King , Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2001; Federal Minister 2013Joe Ludwig , Member of the Australian Senate since 1999; Federal Minister 2007–2013Brett Mason , Member of the Australian Senate since 1999Nick Minchin , Member of the Australian Senate 1993–2011; Federal Minister 1997–2007Susan Ryan , Member of the Australian Senate 1975–1988Zed Seselja , Member of the Australian Senate 2013-2022Warwick Smith , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1984–1998; Federal Minister 1996–1998Warren Snowdon , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1987-2022; Federal Minister 2007–2013Alex Somlyay , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1990–2013; Federal Minister 1997–1998Peter White , Member of the Australian House of Representatives 1981–1990
State Premiers and territory Chief Ministers [ edit ] Territory Chief Ministers [ edit ] Other State and territory politicians [ edit ]
Michael Pettersson , Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016Alistair Coe , Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2008Roslyn Dundas , Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly 2001–2004John Hannaford , Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council 1984–2000; State Minister 1990–1995Kate Jones , Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 2007–2012; State Minister 2009–2011Andrew McIntosh , Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1999Michael Moore , Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly 1989–2001Shane Rattenbury , Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2008; Speaker of the Assembly 2008–2012Chris Steel , Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016Zed Seselja , Member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2004; Leader of the Opposition 2007–2013Andrew Tink , Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council 1988–2007Michael Yabsley , Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council 1984–1994; State Minister 1988–1992
Glenys Beauchamp , Secretary of the Department of Industry since 2013Peter Boxall , Secretary of the Department of Finance 1997–2002Stephen Brady , Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia since 2008Blair Comley , Secretary of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency 2011–2013Peta Credlin , Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Tony Abbott 2013–2015Gordon de Brouwer , Secretary of the Department of the Environment since 2013Paul Dibb , Director of the Joint Intelligence Organisation 1986–1988 and Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence of the Department of Defence 1988–1991Bernie Fraser , Secretary of the Australian Treasury 1984–1989Paul Grimes , Secretary of the Department of Agriculture since 2013Jane Halton , Secretary of the Department of Health (Australia) since 2001Stuart Hamilton , Secretary of the Department of Environment 1993–1996Allan Hawke , Secretary of the Department of Defence 1999–2002Michael Keating , Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet 1991–1996Renée Leon , Secretary of the Department of Employment since 2013Bill McLennan , Head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics 1995–2000Simon Overland , Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police 2009–2011Martin Parkinson , Secretary of the Australian Treasury 2011–2014Lisa Paul , Secretary of the Department of Education (Australia) since 2004Finn Pratt , Secretary of the Department of Social Services since 2009Don Russell , Secretary of the Department of Industry 2011–2013Patricia Scott , Secretary of the Department of Communications 2007–2009Rod Sims , Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission Dennis Trewin , Head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2000–2007Nick Warner , Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Richard Butler , Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations 1992–1996Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury , Bangladeshi Ambassador to the United Nations 2001–2007; Foreign Minister (2007–2009); Principal Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies [ISAS], National University of Singapore Martin Indyk , United States Ambassador to Israel 1995–1997 and 2000–2001Sione Ngongo Kioa , Tongan Ambassador to 10 countriesCristelle Pratt , Assistant Secretary-General for the Environment and Climate Action, Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States Feleti Teo , Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat 2008Peter Woolcott , former Australian Ambassador to Italy Rathakit Manathat , former Thai Ambassador to China
United Nations officials [ edit ]
Chirayu Isarangkun Na Ayuthaya , Director of the Crown Property Bureau of Thailand (1987–2018) and the Chief Economic Advisor in the Privy Council of H.M. The King of Thailand (2018–present)Chatib Basri , Finance Minister in the Indonesian Government 2013–2014Don Brash , Leader of the Opposition in New Zealand 2003–2006, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1988–2002Patricia Hewitt , Member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom 1997–2010; British Minister 2001–2007Carlos Jarque , Mexican Government Minister 1995–2000Prince Katsura , Member of the Imperial House of Japan Gordon Darcy Lilo , Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands since 2011Marty Natalegawa , Foreign Minister of Indonesia 2009–2014Mari Pangestu , Minister in the Indonesian Government since 2004Kuini Speed , Deputy Prime Minister of Fiji 1999–2000Teuea Toatu , the Vice-President and Minister for Finance & Economic Development of Kiribati since 2019 and 2016, respectively.Damdin Tsogtbaatar , Foreign Minister of Mongolia since 2017Jian Yang , Member of the House of Representatives of New Zealand since 2011Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala , the Crown Prince of Tonga since 2012
Justices of the High Court of Australia [ edit ] Judges of the Federal Court of Australia [ edit ] Tony Whitlam , Judge of the Federal Court of Australia 1993–2005Judges of the Supreme Courts of Australian states and territories [ edit ] President of the Chamber of the Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand [ edit ] Federal Magistrates of Australia [ edit ] Legal practitioners [ edit ]
David Bradbury , filmmaker[ 3] Michael Brand , art scholarRonny Chieng , comedianJim Cotter , composerJessica Cottis , conductorIan Cresswell , composerWill Firth , translatorHannah Gadsby , comedianAlister Grierson , director and scriptwriterGeoffrey Lancaster , classical pianist and conductorHenry Nixon , actorTim Rogers , musicianRichard Roxburgh , actorNagita Slavina , Indonesian actressAdam Spreadbury-Maher , theatre director and producerKatia Tiutiunnik , composerSally Whitwell , ARIA Award-winning pianist
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Don Aitkin , writerDiane Bell , anthropologist, authorMichael Byrne , poetKevin Hart , poet and literary criticMatussin Omar , writerDebra Oswald , scriptwriterGuy Pearse , authorGayla Reid , writerPierre Ryckmans , writer, translator, sinologistDavid Vernon , writer and scepticGerard Windsor , author and literary criticVanessa Woods , authorShahnon Ahmad , prose writer, Malaysian National Laureate
Notable past and current faculty members include:
Anthony Irvine Adams , public health physicianPatrick Atiyah , English barrister and legal writerArthur Llewellyn Basham , South Asian historianMichael Barnsley , mathematician and entrepreneurBronwyn Parry , Dean of the College of Arts and Social SciencesLarissa Behrendt , academic; Professor of Indigenous ResearchCoral Bell , Senior Research Fellow in International RelationsDavid Bensusan-Butt , economistArthur Birch , organic chemistBoediono , Indonesian Vice PresidentRichard P. Brent , mathematical scientistRoderic Broadhurst , criminal justice practitioner, academic, and authorMiroslav Bukovsky , composerSydney James Butlin , economist, historianChilla Bulbeck , women's studiesHedley Bull , Professor of International RelationsHarvey Raymond Butcher , astronomerJohn Caldwell , demographerYang Hi Choe-Wall , KoreanistManning Clark , historianJohn Coates , mathematicianJohn Cockcroft , Nobel Prize - winning nuclear physicist , former chancellorH. C. Coombs , economist and public servantDavid P. Craig , research chemistGavan Daws , historian and writerRafe de Crespigny , sinologistRobert Dessaix , novelist and essayistPaul Dibb , Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre Peter C. Doherty , Nobel Prize -winning immunologist Thomas K. Donaldson , mathematicianRobert M. Douglas , medical researcherSir John Eccles , Nobel Prize -winning neurophysiologist Fred Emery , social scientistKep Enderby , lawyer and politicianDenis Evans , physicist and chemistFrank Fenner , scientistC. P. Fitzgerald , historianMichael Flood , sociologistHoward Florey , Nobel Prize -winning medical researcher, former chancellorDerek Freeman , anthropologistRobert Gilbert , polymer chemistPeter Godfrey-Smith , philosopher and author of the book Other Minds Colin Groves , anthropologistFred Gruen , economistWang Gungwu , specialist in studying the Chinese diasporaSir (William) Keith Hancock , historianPeter Firman Harrison , architect and town plannerPeter Dunstan Hastings , journalist and editorAnthony F. Hill , in synthetic, organometallic & coordination chemistryA. D. Hope , poet and essayistLeonard Huxley , physicistKen Inglis , historianEdward A. Irving , geologistZvonimir Janko , mathematicianFrank Lancaster Jones , sociologistRhys Jones , archaeologistJames Jupp , political scientistPeter Karmel , economistRoger Keesing , anthropologistBen Kerkvliet , political scientistBrij Lal , historian, novelist and writer of non-fictionGeoffrey Lancaster , musicologist and pianistAndrew Leigh , economist and federal politicianIan McAllister , Irish-Australian public opinion political scientistGavan McCormack , OrientalistHelen McGregor , geologist and climate change researcher, a Fellow with the Research School of Earth SciencesBrendan McKay , computer scientistWarwick McKibbin , economistLew Mander , organic chemistHenry Evans Maude , anthropologistAchdiat Karta Mihardja , novelist and writer[ 5] T. B. Millar , historian and political scientistsJohn Minford , sinologist and literary translatorPat Moran , statisticianFred Nadel , anthropologistBernhard Neumann , mathematicianHanna Neumann , mathematician, first female professor of mathematics in AustraliaCliff Ollier , geologistSir Mark Oliphant , physicist and Governor of South Australia
Sarah Pryke , ecologistLindsay Pryor , botanistLeo Radom , research chemistAnthony Reid , historian of Southeast AsiaJames Mahmud Rice , sociologistTed Ringwood , geologistMalcolm Ross , linguistAmin Saikal , political scientistBrian P. Schmidt , Nobel Prize winning physicistPeter Self , academicThomas Smith , economistAllan Snyder , optical physicist, visual scientistOskar Spate , geographerTrevor Swan , economistSir Ernest Titterton , nuclear physicist
Neil Trudinger , mathematicianRoyall Tyler , Japan specialistJonathan Unger , contemporary China specialistMichael Vernon , scientist and consumer activistCarola Garcia de Vinuesa , Head of the Department of Pathogens and Immunity at the College of MedicineLing Wang (Wang Ling) , historian of Chinese scienceHugh White , Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre Jack Waterford , journalistAnna Wierzbicka , linguist
Order
Chair of Interim Council
Term start
Term end
Time in office
Notes
1 Richard Mills
1946
1951
4–5 years
1
1 Mills served as Chair of the Interim Council while the University was initially beginning operations. While Bruce was officially the first Chancellor, Mills had been effectively fulfilling the same function.
Order
Chancellor Term start
Term end
Time in office
Notes
1 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne CH MC PC 1951
1961
9–10 years
[ 6]
2 Sir John Cockcroft OM KCB CBE 1961
1965
3–4 years
[ 7]
3 Lord Florey OM 1965
1968
2–3 years
[ 8]
4 Dr. H. C. Coombs 1968
1976
7–8 years
[ 9]
5 Sir John Crawford AC KBE 1976
1984
7–8 years
[ 10]
6 Sir Richard Blackburn OBE 1984
1987
2–3 years
[ 11]
7 Sir Gordon Jackson AK 1987
1990
2–3 years
[ 12]
8 Sir Geoffrey Yeend AC CBE 1990
1994
3–4 years
[ 13]
9 Peter Baume AC 1994
2006
11–12 years [ 14]
10 Allan Hawke AC 2006
31 December 2008 (2008-12-31 )
1–2 years
[ 15]
11 Kim Beazley AC 1 January 2009 (2009-01-01 )
31 December 2009 (2009-12-31 )
1 year, 0 days
[ 16]
12 Gareth Evans AC QC 1 January 2010 (2010-01-01 )
31 December 2019 (2019-12-31 )
10 years, 0 days
[ 17]
13 Julie Bishop 1 January 2020 (2020-01-01 )
incumbent 4 years, 302 days
[ 18]
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