This is an incomplete list of University of Adelaide people including notable alumni and staff associated with the University of Adelaide in Australia.
All other countries [ edit ] Peter Ong Boon Kwee – Head of the Civil Service, Singapore since 2010,[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] Ong Teng Cheong – 5th President of Singapore (1993–1999)[ 6] Joseph Pairin Kitingan – 7th Chief Minister of Sabah, Malaysia (1985–1994)Adenan Satem – 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (2014–2017)Abdul Taib – 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (1981–2014); Governor of Sarawak (2014–)Tony Tan Keng Yam – 7th President of Singapore (2011–2017);[ 7] [ 8] South Australian premiers [ edit ] Other Federal politicians [ edit ] Benjamin Benny – Senator for South Australia (1920–1926)Gordon Bilney – Member for Kingston (1983–1996), former ministerSimon Birmingham – Senator for South Australia (2007–), former ministerJulie Bishop – Member for Curtin (1998–), former ministerMark Bishop – Senator for Western Australia (1996–2014)Nick Bolkus – Senator for South Australia (1981–2005), former ministerMark Butler – Member for Hindmarsh (2007–), current ministerPeter Duncan – Member for Makin (1984–1996), former ministerDon Farrell – Senator for South Australia (2008–2014, 2016–), current ministerJanine 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-GeneralAndrew Nikolic – Member for Bass (2013–2016)Christopher Pyne – Member for Sturt (1993–2019), former ministerMargaret 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 ministerNick Xenophon – Senator for South Australia (2008–2018) Other state and territory politicians [ edit ] Adair Blain – Member for the Northern Territory (1934–1949)Pru Goward – Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, current ministerShane Stone – Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (1995–1999)Ian Wilson – Member for Sturt (1966–1969, 1972–1993), former minister [ edit ] Philosophy and theology [ edit ] Judiciary and the law [ edit ] Amanda Banton – lawyerJohn Basten – Justice of the New South Wales Court of AppealRichard Blackburn – former Chief Justice of the Australian Capital TerritoryCatherine Branson – former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and Justice of the Federal Court of AustraliaJohn Bray – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, poet and classicistJames Crawford – legal academic; Judge of the International Court of Justice (2014)Bill Denny – Attorney-General of South AustraliaJohn Doyle – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South AustraliaJohn Finnis – legal scholar and philosopherRegina Graycar – Emeritus Professor of Law School, University of SydneyHermann Homburg – Attorney-General of South AustraliaElliott Johnston – Communist activist and Justice of the Supreme Court of South AustraliaLen King – South Australian Attorney-General; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South AustraliaRobert Lawson – Attorney-General of South AustraliaChris Kourakis – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South AustraliaBruce Lander – South Australia's first Independent Commissioner Against CorruptionG. C. Ligertwood – Judge of the Supreme Court of South AustraliaBrian Martin – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern TerritoryRobin Millhouse – lawyer, politician, Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; Chief Justice of Kiribati and NauruRoma 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 AustraliaMellis Napier – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South AustraliaRosemary Owens – Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide Law SchoolAngas Parsons – former judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and former Attorney-General of South AustraliaGeoffrey Reed – Judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia; the first director-general of ASIOLen Roberts-Smith – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western AustraliaPaul Rofe – former South Australian Director of Public ProsecutionsColin Rowe – Attorney-General of South AustraliaReginald Rudall – Attorney-General of South AustraliaChris Sumner – Attorney-General of South AustraliaMargaret White – first female judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland Medicine and science [ edit ] 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" Science and mathematics [ edit ] Herbert Basedow – anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer and medical practitionerWarren Bonython – conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineerKeith Briggs – mathematicianHenry Brose – physicistHelen Caldicott – physician and anti-nuclear advocateHerbert Condon – ornithologistConstance Davey – psychologistMargaret M. Davies – herpetologistAnthony C. Hearn – computer scientistTim Jarvis – environmental scientistNorman Jolly – forest researcherRodney Jory – physicistAbdul Karim – soil scientist[ 12] Aubrey Lewis – first professor of psychiatry at the Institute of PsychiatryJim May – chemical engineer and metallurgistTrevor McDougall – physical oceanographer and climate researcherBrian Morris – molecular biologistKeith Nugent – physicistMark Oliphant – nuclear physicistIan Plimer – professor and global warming criticHugh Possingham – mathematical ecologistLindsay Pryor – botanist and founding designer of the Australian National Botanic GardensEnid Lucy Robertson – Systematic botanistRoy Robinson – forest researcherNagendra Kumar Singh – National Professor, Dr. B.P.Pal Chair, Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchReg Sprigg – geologist and conservationist; discovered Ediacara biotaTed Strehlow – Australian anthropologistAndy Thomas – first Australia-born professional astronaut to enter spaceCecil Edgar Tilley – petrologist and geologistNorman Tindale – Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist Order Chancellors Term start Term end Time in office Notes 1 Sir Richard Hanson 1874 1876 1–2 years [ 16] 2 The Rt. Rev'd Augustus Short 1876 1883 6–7 years 3 Sir Samuel Way PC 1883 1916 32–33 years 4 Sir George Murray KCMG 1916 1942 25–26 years 5 Sir William Mitchell KCMG 1942 1948 5–6 years [ 17] 6 Sir Mellis Napier KCMG 1948 1961 12–13 years [ 16] 7 Sir George Ligertwood 1961 1966 4–5 years 8 Sir Kenneth Wills KBE MC KStJ ED 1966 1968 1–2 years [ 18] 9 John Jefferson Bray AC 1968 1983 14–15 years [ 16] 10 Dame Roma Mitchell AC DBE CVO QC 1983 1990 6–7 years 11 William Faulding Scammell AO CBE 1991 1997 5–6 years 12 Bruce Phillip Webb AM 1998 2000 1–2 years 13 Robert Champion de Crespigny AC 2000 2004 3–4 years 14 John von Doussa AO QC 2004 2010 5–6 years 15 Robert Hill AC 2010 2014 3–4 years 16 Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce AC CSC RANR 1 December 2014 (2014-12-01 ) 4 May 2020 (2020-05-04 ) 5 years, 155 days [ 19] 17 Catherine Branson AC QC 14 July 2020 (2020-07-14 ) incumbent 4 years, 130 days [ 20]
Keith Briggs – mathematician, formerly on the staff of the Physics DepartmentGavin Brown – mathematician, former vice chancellor of Adelaide and Sydney UniversitiesCharles E. M. Pearce – applied mathematicianRenfrey Potts – Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematicsGeorge Szekeres – mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theoremErnie Tuck – applied mathematicianMathai Varghese – pure mathematician, Elder Professor of Mathematics, Australian Laureate Fellow (2018) ^ "Australia's new PM pays tribute to her 'great education' . The University of Adelaide. 24 June 2010.^ "Civil Service head Peter Ong says policy makers must be close to the ground" . The Straits Times . 26 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014.^ "New Chairman for the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA)" (PDF) . Singapore Government. 30 August 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2014 .^ "MOF: Organisational Structure" . Ministry of Finance, Singapore Government. 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014 .^ "Prime Minister's Office: Senior Management & Their Personal Assistants" . Singapore Government. 2014. Archived from the original on 26 October 2013.^ "Istana - Former Presidents" . Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2011 .Istana Singapore – former Presidents – Mr Ong Teng Cheong ^ Channel News Asia : PE: Dr Tony Tan elected Singapore's 7th President ^ "NUS - National University of Singapore - President's Office - Welcome" . Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011 .National University of Singapore : Past Presidents and Vice Chancellors — Dr Tony TAN Keng Yam ^ Blackburn, R.A (1979). "Blackburn, Arthur Seaforth (1892 - 1960)" . Australian Dictionary of Biography . Vol. 7 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 307–308. Retrieved 23 January 2008 . Pulteney Grammar School .^ "Lawrence Bragg — Biography" . The Nobel Foundation. 1915.^ "Sir Howard Florey — Biography" . The Nobel Foundation. 1945.^ Munni, Tanjina Khan (2012). "Karim, Abdul1" . In Islam, Sirajul ; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh . ^ "LAWN TENNIS. The Late Dr. A. C. Curtis" . The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 18 April 2015 – via National Library of Australia."Lawn Tennis Tournament" . Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald & General Advertiser . Retrieved 18 April 2015 – via National Library of Australia."Mr. A. Curtis (the Lawn Tennis Champion)" . Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser . Retrieved 18 April 2015 – via National Library of Australia.^ "Australia claims record medal haul at world rowing championships after gold in men's quad sculls" . www.foxsports.com.au. 3 September 2011. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2020 .^ "Gold medal row for Aussie pair" . www.couriermail.com.au . 6 November 2010. Retrieved 7 April 2020 .^ a b c "Former Chancellors" . University of Adelaide . 10 January 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018 .^ a b V. A. Edgeloe (1986). "Mitchell, Sir William (1861–1962)" . Australian Dictionary of Biography Australian National University . ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7 ISSN 1833-7538 . OCLC 70677943 . ^ David Palmer (2002). "Wills, Sir Kenneth Agnew (1896–1977)" . Australian Dictionary of Biography Australian National University . ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7 ISSN 1833-7538 . OCLC 70677943 . Retrieved 5 April 2010 . ^ "Uni of Adelaide appoints former Governor as 16th Chancellor" . adelaide.edu.au . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .^ "University of Adelaide appoints its 17th Chancellor" . Newsroom . University of Adelaide. Retrieved 14 July 2020 .^ "Special Collections" (PDF) . Retrieved 21 May 2023 .^ "Home" . Archived from the original on 10 February 2020.^ "Professor Peter Rathjen, Vice-Chancellor and President" . Office of the Vice-Chancellor and President . University of Adelaide . 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018 .^ "University of Adelaide appoints Professor Peter Høj as Vice-Chancellor" .^ "Council Members' Biographies | University Governance" .^ https://www.adelaide.edu.au/vco/
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