The University of Sydney takes great pride in all of the 245,000 students who have graduated since 1850.
Many of these alumni have become eminent leaders in their fields, including:
In Government
Australian Prime Ministers Sir Edmund Barton (MA 1870), Sir William McMahon LLB '33, B Ec '49), Gough Whitlam AC QC (BA '38, LLB '46, D Litt '81) and John Howard (LLB '61)
Current New South Wales Governor, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO (MBBS '56, MD '02)
Former Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, John Dauth LVO (BA '69, Hon Fellow '96)
Former Governor-General, Sir William Deane AC KBE (BA '51, LLB '54, LLD '90)
Australian Ambassador to the United States of America, Dennis Richardson AO (BA '69)
Former President of the World Bank, Dr James Wolfensohn AO KBE (BA '54, LLB '57, D Sc Ec '97)
In Business and Law
Former Chief Judge, Family Court of Australia, The Hon Elizabeth Evatt AC (LLB '55, LLD '85)
Managing Director, Sony Pictures Television, John Ford (BA '79, LLB '81)
Australian High Court Judge, The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG (BA '59, LLB '62, B Ec '66, LLM '67, LLD '96)
Chief Executive Officer, Macquarie Bank, Allan Moss AO (BA '71, LLB '74)
NSW Chief Justice, The Hon Justice James Spigelman AC (BA '67, LLB '71, LLD '04)
In Academia and Science
Inventor of the Cochlear ear implant, Graeme Clark AM (MB '58, MS '69, PhD Med '70, MD '89)
Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Frederick Hilmer AO (LLB '66)
Academic, Author and Company Director, Professor Jill Ker Conway (BA '58)
Australia's Chief Scientist, Dr William Peacock AC (B Sc '58, PhD Sc '63, D Agr '02)
Geologist and Antarctic Explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson (BE '02, B Sc '05, D Sc '52)
Former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK government, now President of the Royal Society, Professor Lord Robert May OM AC Kt PRS (B Sc '57, PhD Sc '60, D Sc '95)
In Humanities and the Arts
Aboriginal leaders Dr Charles Perkins AO (BA '66, LLD '00) and Noel Pearson (BA '87, LLB '93)
Film Directors Jane Campion (Dip Vis Arts '79, B Vis Arts '84) and Bruce Beresford (BA '64)
Opera divas Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE (D Mus '84) and Yvonne Kenny AM (B Sc '72, D Mus '99)
Writers Kate Grenville (BA '73), Dr Les Murray AO (BA '70, D Litt '01), Professor Germaine Greer (MA '63)and Clive James AM (BA '61, D Litt '99)
Alumni & Friends
