List of University of Adelaide people explained
This is an incomplete list of University of Adelaide people including notable alumni and staff associated with the University of Adelaide in Australia.
Alumni
Business
Government
Heads of state
Politicians
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- Peter Ong Boon Kwee – Head of the Civil Service, Singapore since 2010,[2] [3] the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Singapore since 2009,[4] and Permanent Secretary with Special Duties in the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore[5]
- Ong Teng Cheong – 5th President of Singapore (1993–1999)[6]
- Joseph Pairin Kitingan – 7th Chief Minister of Sabah, Malaysia (1985–1994)
- Abdul Taib – 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (1981–2014); Governor of Sarawak (2014–)
- Adenan Satem – 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (2014–2017)
- Tony Tan Keng Yam – 7th President of Singapore (2011–2017);[7] Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1995–2005[8])
South Australian premiers
Other Federal politicians
- Benjamin Benny – Senator for South Australia (1920–1926)
- Gordon Bilney – Member for Kingston (1983–1996), former minister
- Simon Birmingham – Senator for South Australia (2007–), former minister
- Julie Bishop – Member for Curtin (1998–), former minister
- Mark Bishop – Senator for Western Australia (1996–2014)
- Nick Bolkus – Senator for South Australia (1981–2005), former minister
- Mark Butler – Member for Hindmarsh (2007–), current minister
- Peter Duncan – Member for Makin (1984–1996), former minister
- Don Farrell – Senator for South Australia (2008–2014, 2016–), current minister
- Janine Haines – Senator for South Australia (1977–1978, 1981–1990)
- Sarah Hanson-Young – Senator for South Australia (2008–)
- Robert Hill – Senator for South Australia (1981–2006), former minister, and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations
- Annette Hurley – Senator for South Australia (2005–2011)
- Linda Kirk – Senator for South Australia (2002–2008)
- Keith Laught – Senator for South Australia (1951–1969)
- Alexander McLachlan – Senator for South Australia (1926–1944), Postmaster-General
- Andrew Nikolic – Member for Bass (2013–2016)
- Christopher Pyne – Member for Sturt (1993–2019), former minister
- Margaret Reid – Senator for the Australian Capital Territory (1981–2003)
- Andrew Southcott – Member for Boothby (1996–2016)
- Natasha Stott Despoja – Senator for South Australia (1995–2008), Leader of the Australian Democrats (2001–2002)
- Amanda Vanstone – Senator for South Australia (1984–2007), former minister, Ambassador to Italy (2007–2010)
- David Vigor – Senator for South Australia (1984–1987)
- Keith Wilson – Senator for South Australia (1938–1944), Member for Sturt (1949–1954, 1955–1966)
- Penny Wong – Senator for South Australia (2002–), current minister
- Nick Xenophon – Senator for South Australia (2008–2018)
Other state and territory politicians
- Adair Blain – Member for the Northern Territory (1934–1949)
- Pru Goward – Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, current minister
- Shane Stone – Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (1995–1999)
- Ian Wilson – Member for Sturt (1966–1969, 1972–1993), former minister
Other politician figures
Public servants
Diplomats
Military
- Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn – soldier and lawyer; awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916[9]
- Brigadier Andrew Nikolic (see under Politics, Legislators)
Humanities
Arts
History
Journalism and media
Literature, writing and poetry
Philosophy and theology
Judiciary and the law
- Amanda Banton – lawyer
- John Basten – Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
- Richard Blackburn – former Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory
- Catherine Branson – former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
- John Bray – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, poet and classicist
- James Crawford – legal academic; Judge of the International Court of Justice (2014)
- Bill Denny – Attorney-General of South Australia
- John Doyle – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- John Finnis – legal scholar and philosopher
- Regina Graycar – Emeritus Professor of Law School, University of Sydney
- Hermann Homburg – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Elliott Johnston – Communist activist and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Len King – South Australian Attorney-General; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Robert Lawson – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Chris Kourakis – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Bruce Lander – South Australia's first Independent Commissioner Against Corruption
- G. C. Ligertwood – Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Brian Martin – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
- Robin Millhouse – lawyer, politician, Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru
- Roma Mitchell – lawyer, first female Queen's Counsel in Australia (1962); Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; first female superior court judge in the British Commonwealth (1965)
- George Murray – Chief Justice of South Australia
- Mellis Napier – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Rosemary Owens – Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide Law School
- Angas Parsons – former judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and former Attorney-General of South Australia
- Geoffrey Reed – Judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia; the first director-general of ASIO
- Len Roberts-Smith – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
- Paul Rofe – former South Australian Director of Public Prosecutions
- Colin Rowe – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Reginald Rudall – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Chris Sumner – Attorney-General of South Australia
- Margaret White – first female judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland
Medicine and science
Nobel laureates
- William Lawrence Bragg – physicist, Nobel laureate with his father (William Henry Bragg) "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"[10]
- Howard Florey – pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1945) "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"[11]
- Robin Warren – pathologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2005), for the "discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"
Medicine
Science and mathematics
- Herbert Basedow – anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer and medical practitioner
- Warren Bonython – conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer
- Keith Briggs – mathematician
- Henry Brose – physicist
- Helen Caldicott – physician and anti-nuclear advocate
- Herbert Condon – ornithologist
- Constance Davey – psychologist
- Margaret M. Davies – herpetologist
- Anthony C. Hearn – computer scientist
- Tim Jarvis – environmental scientist
- Norman Jolly – forest researcher
- Rodney Jory – physicist
- Abdul Karim – soil scientist[12]
- Aubrey Lewis – first professor of psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry
- Trevor McDougall – physical oceanographer and climate researcher
- Brian Morris – molecular biologist
- Keith Nugent – physicist
- Mark Oliphant – nuclear physicist
- Ian Plimer – professor and global warming critic
- Hugh Possingham – mathematical ecologist
- Lindsay Pryor – botanist and founding designer of the Australian National Botanic Gardens
- Enid Lucy Robertson – Systematic botanist
- Roy Robinson – forest researcher
- Nagendra Kumar Singh – National Professor, Dr. B.P.Pal Chair, Indian Council of Agricultural Research
- Reg Sprigg – geologist and conservationist; discovered Ediacara biota
- Ted Strehlow – Australian anthropologist
- Andy Thomas – first Australia-born professional astronaut to enter space
- Cecil Edgar Tilley – petrologist and geologist
- Norman Tindale – Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist
Sports
Administration
Chancellors
Order | | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes |
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| | 1874 | 1876 | years | [16] |
| | 1876 | 1883 | years |
| | 1883 | 1916 | years |
| | 1916 | 1942 | years |
| | 1942 | 1948 | years | [17] |
| | 1948 | 1961 | years | |
| | 1961 | 1966 | years |
| | 1966 | 1968 | years | [18] |
| | 1968 | 1983 | years | |
| | 1983 | 1990 | years |
| | 1991 | 1997 | years |
| | 1998 | 2000 | years |
| | 2000 | 2004 | years |
| | 2004 | 2010 | years |
| | 2010 | 2014 | years |
| | | | | [19] |
| | | incumbent | | [20] | |
Vice-chancellors
Order | Vice-Chancellors | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes |
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| | 1874 | 1876 | years | |
| | 1876 | 1883 | years | |
| | 1883 | 1887 | years | |
| | 1887 | 1893 | years | |
| | 1893 | 1896 | years | |
| | 1896 | 1915 | years | |
| | 1915 | 1916 | years | |
| | 1916 | 1942 | years | |
| | 1942 | 1945 | years | |
| | 1945 | 1948 | years | |
| | 1948 | 1958 | years | |
| | 1958 | 1967 | years | |
| | 1967 | 1977 | years | |
| | 1977 | 1986 | years | |
| | 1987 | 1993 | years | |
| | 1994 | 1996 | years | [21] |
| | 1997 | 2001 | years | |
– | (interim) | 2001 | 2002 | years | |
| | 2002 | 2012 | years | |
| | 2012 | 2017 | years | |
– | (interim) | April 2017 | January 2018 | 8–9 months | [22] |
| | | | | [23] |
– | (interim) | | | | [24] [25] |
| | | incumbent | | | |
Faculty
Nobel laureates
Law
Science
Natural sciences
Mathematicians
- Keith Briggs – mathematician, formerly on the staff of the Physics Department
- Gavin Brown – mathematician, former vice chancellor of Adelaide and Sydney Universities
- Charles E. M. Pearce – applied mathematician
- Renfrey Potts – Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematics
- George Szekeres – mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem
- Ernie Tuck – applied mathematician
- Mathai Varghese – pure mathematician, Elder Professor of Mathematics, Australian Laureate Fellow (2018)
Physicists
Medicine
Humanities
Other
Notes and References
- Web site: Australia's new PM pays tribute to her 'great education'. 2010-06-24. The University of Adelaide.
- News: Civil Service head Peter Ong says policy makers must be close to the ground. 26 March 2014. The Straits Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20140327062754/http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/civil-service-head-peter-ong-says-policy-makers-must-be-close-the-grou. 27 March 2014. live.
- Web site: New Chairman for the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA). 30 August 2010. Singapore Government. 16 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20120710075358/http://www.news.gov.sg/public/sgpc/en/media_releases/agencies/mof/press_release/P-20100830-2/AttachmentPar/0/file/ACRA%20Chairmanship%20Appt%20(FINAL).pdf. 10 July 2012. dead. dmy-all.
- Web site: MOF: Organisational Structure. Ministry of Finance, Singapore Government. 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140214012059/http://app.mof.gov.sg/organisational_structure.aspx. 14 February 2014. dead. 16 November 2014. dmy-all.
- Web site: Prime Minister's Office: Senior Management & Their Personal Assistants. 2014. Singapore Government. https://web.archive.org/web/20131026053913/http://app.sgdi.gov.sg/listing.asp?agency_subtype=dept&agency_id=0000000014. 26 October 2013. live.
- Web site: Istana - Former Presidents . 2011-08-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110807162119/http://www.istana.gov.sg/content/istana/thepresident/formerpresidents/otc.html . 7 August 2011 . dmy-all . Istana Singapore – former Presidents – Mr Ong Teng Cheong
- Channel News Asia : PE: Dr Tony Tan elected Singapore's 7th President
- Web site: NUS - National University of Singapore - President's Office - Welcome . 2011-06-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110613050303/http://www.nus.edu.sg/president/past_presidents/tonytan.php . 13 June 2011 . dmy-all . National University of Singapore : Past Presidents and Vice Chancellors — Dr Tony TAN Keng Yam
- Encyclopedia: Blackburn . R.A . Australian Dictionary of Biography. Blackburn, Arthur Seaforth (1892 - 1960). 2008-01-23. Online . 1979. Melbourne University Press. 7. Melbourne. 307–308. . Blackburn also attended Pulteney Grammar School.
- Web site: Lawrence Bragg — Biography . The Nobel Foundation. 1915.
- Web site: Sir Howard Florey — Biography. The Nobel Foundation. 1945.
- Book: Munni, Tanjina Khan . 2012 . Karim, Abdul1 . http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Karim,_Abdul1 . Islam . Sirajul . Sirajul Islam . Jamal . Ahmed A. . Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh . Second . Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- News: LAWN TENNIS. The Late Dr. A. C. Curtis. . . 15 September 1933 . 18 April 2015 . 15 . National Library of Australia.
News: Lawn Tennis Tournament. . . 1 September 1896 . 18 April 2015 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
News: Mr. A. Curtis (the Lawn Tennis Champion). . . 31 July 1897 . 18 April 2015 . 233 . National Library of Australia.
- News: Australia claims record medal haul at world rowing championships after gold in men's quad sculls . 7 April 2020 . www.foxsports.com.au . 3 September 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121007212643/http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sports/australia-claims-record-medal-haul-at-world-rowing-championships-after-gold-in-mens-quad-sculls/story-e6frf56c-1226129074368 . 7 October 2012.
- News: Gold medal row for Aussie pair . 7 April 2020 . www.couriermail.com.au . 6 November 2010 . en.
- Web site: Former Chancellors . . 10 January 2018 . 17 April 2018 .
- V. A. Edgeloe . Mitchell, Sir William (1861–1962) . 1986 . mitchell-sir-william-7610 .
- David Palmer . 2002 . A160665b . Wills, Sir Kenneth Agnew (1896–1977) . 5 April 2010.
- Web site: Uni of Adelaide appoints former Governor as 16th Chancellor. adelaide.edu.au. 27 May 2016.
- Web site: University of Adelaide appoints its 17th Chancellor. 2020-07-14. Newsroom . University of Adelaide. en.
- Web site: Special Collections. 21 May 2023.
- Web site: Home. https://web.archive.org/web/20200210100631/https://www.adelaide.edu.au/provost/. 10 February 2020.
- Web site: Professor Peter Rathjen, Vice-Chancellor and President . Office of the Vice-Chancellor and President . . 2018 . 17 April 2018 .
- Web site: University of Adelaide appoints Professor Peter Høj as Vice-Chancellor.
- Web site: Council Members' Biographies | University Governance.