List of University of Sydney people

Last updated February 20, 2025

This is a list of University of Sydney people, including notable alumni and staff.

Alumni

Academia

Dennis A. Ahlburg – former president of Trinity University; dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Professor of Human Resources at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota
Brian Anderson – former president of the Australian Academy of Science; Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Australian National University
Elizabeth Bannan – educationist; fellow of the Australian College of Education ^[1]^[2]
Brian L. Byrne – social scientist known for research in psycholinguistics; Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of New England
Jill Ker Conway – former vice-president of the University of Toronto and President of Smith College; Visiting Professor in MIT's program in Science, Technology, and Society; Chairman of Lendlease; director of Nike, Merrill Lynch, and Colgate-Palmolive
Beverly Derewianka – Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wollongong
Theodore Thomson Flynn, professor of marine biology and zoology at the University of Tasmania and Queen's University of Belfast, Chair of Zoology at Queen's University of Belfast, director of the marine station at Portaferry, father of actor Errol Flynn
Margaret Gardner – Governor of Victoria, Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, President and Vice-Chancellor of RMIT University
Michael Halliday – creator of the systemic functional grammar, an internationally influential grammar model
Jenny Hammond - linguist known for research on literacy development
Frank Lancaster Jones – sociologist known for research on social inequality, social stratification, social mobility, and national identity
Sir Robert Madgwick – first Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England; former chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission; Director of the Australian Army Education Service during World War II ^[3]
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – former president of the Royal Society; Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government
Jim Peacock – former president of Australian Academy of Science
Michael Pitman – former chief scientist of Australia
Ken Robinson – former head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of New South Wales
Nicholas Saunders – former vice-chancellor of the University of Newcastle and former dean of medicine at Monash University and Flinders University
Michael Spence – president and provost of the University College London and former vice-chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney
Sir Brian Windeyer – former dean of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School at the University of London and former vice-chancellor of the University of London^[4]
Nicki Packer – Distinguished Professor of Glycoproteomics at Macquarie University

Architecture

Business

Matt Barrie – CEO of Freelancer.com
David S. Clarke – former Chairman of Macquarie Bank
Cameron Clyne – former CEO of National Australia Bank
Matt Comyn – CEO of Commonwealth Bank
Robyn Denholm – Chairwoman of Tesla, Inc.
John Grill – Chairman of WorleyParsons
Angus Harris – Co-CEO of Harris Farm Markets
Sir David Higgins – Chairman of United Utilities Group
Fred Hilmer – former director and Deputy Chairman of Westfield Group
Michael Hintze, Baron Hintze – founder and Executive Chairman of CQS
Ryan Junee – founder and CEO of Omnisio and Inporia
Jeni Klugman – former director of the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme
Jim Millner – former chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson
Allan Moss – former Managing Director/CEO of Macquarie Bank
John Mulcahy – former CEO of Suncorp-Metway Ltd
Michael Patsalos-Fox – Chairman of McKinsey & Co in America
Mark Scott – former CEO of Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Glenn Stevens – former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
Matt Sweeny – CEO and co-founder of Flirtey, inventor
Tom Waterhouse – former CEO of William Hill Australia
Sir James Wolfensohn – former President of the World Bank

Community activism

Government

Royalty

Sikhanyiso Dlamini – Princess of Swaziland
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV – King of Tonga

Governors-General of Australia

Sir William Deane
Sir John Kerr

State governors and Territory Administrators

Dame Marie Bashir (NSW)
Richard Butler (Tas)
Peter Coleman (NF)
Sir Roden Cutler (NSW)
Tom Pauling (NT)
Sir James Plimsoll (Tas)
Sir James Rowland (NSW)

Politicians

Prime ministers of Australia

Premiers of New South Wales

Australian state and territory politicians

International politicians

Natalie Bennett – former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
H. V. Evatt – 3rd President of the United Nations General Assembly
Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes – member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom
John Horgan – 36th Canadian Premier of British Columbia
Martin Indyk – former United States Ambassador to Israel
Dave Sharma – former Australia Ambassador to Israel
Alvin Tan – Minister of State of Singapore
Teh Cheang Wan – former Minister of National Development of Singapore
Catherine West – member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Akhilesh Yadav – 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh of India
Roderick Yong – 7th Secretary-General of ASEAN ^[11]

Lord mayors of the City of Sydney

Public servants

Tony Cole – 13th Secretary of the Department of the Treasury
Philip Flood – 5th Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Neil McInnes – intellectual, journalist and senior public servant^[12]
Ewart Smith – campaigner against the Australia Card ^[13]

Humanities

Arts

John Bell – actor, theatre director and theatre impresario
Bruce Beresford – film director
Anne Boyd – composer, first Australian and first woman appointed Professor of Music at the University of Sydney
Rose Byrne – actress
Jane Campion – New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter
Alex Cubis – actor
Somaratne Dissanayake – Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter and producer
Christopher Doyle – cinematographer
Sandy Edwards – photographer
Jacqueline Fernandez – Bahraini–Sri Lankan actress and model who predominantly works in Bollywood, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2006
Charles Firth – comedian
John Flaus – broadcaster, actor, voice talent, anarchist, poet and raconteur
Ania Freer – documentary filmmaker
Andrew Hansen – comedian and musician
Michael Hannan – composer, pianist, and musicologist^[14]
Tom Gleeson – comedian, radio and television presenter
May Hollinworth – theatre producer and director
Yvonne Kenny – soprano
Chas Licciardello – comedian
Dolph Lundgren – Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist
Julian Morrow – comedian and television producer
Craig Reucassel – comedian, radio and television presenter
Dame Joan Sutherland – dramatic coloratura soprano
Chris Taylor – comedian
Huỳnh Trần Ý Nhi – Vietnamese model, Miss World Vietnam 2023
Peter Weir – film director
Kip Williams – director of the Sydney Theatre Company
Georgina Wilson – Filipino-British model, actress
Roger Woodward – pianist, composer, conductor

History

Journalism

Philosophy

Law

Other legal professionals

Hugh Atkin – lawyer, former Tipstaff at the Supreme Court of New South Wales
John Davies – Judge of the United States District Court
Marcus Einfeld – Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
Geoffrey Robertson – international human rights lawyer
Charles Waterstreet – criminal defence lawyer, writer and producer

Military

Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman – Deputy Chief of the General Staff
Major-General John Broadbent ^[15]
Major-General Paul Brereton – Head of the Cadet, Reserve and Employer Support Division
Lieutenant General Sir Mervyn Brogan – Chief of the General Staff
Brigadier Sir Frederick Oliver Chilton
Roden Cutler
Major-General Sir Ivan Dougherty
Major-General W B "Digger" James – Director-General of Army Medical Services
Lieutenant General Sir Carl Jess – Director-General of Repatriation
Captain Gordon Grimsley King ^[16]
Lieutenant General James Legge – Chief of the General Staff
Percy Storkey
Major General Mervyn Tan – Chief of Air Force of the Republic of Singapore Air Force
Major-General Sir Victor Windeyer

Religious leaders

Leo Ash – Bishop of Rockhampton
Neville Chynoweth – Bishop of Gippsland
Geoffrey Cranswick – Bishop of Tasmania
George Cranswick – Bishop of Gippsland
Hubert Cunliffe-Jones – former chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales
Edwin Davidson – Bishop of Gippsland
Glenn Davies – Archbishop of Sydney
Anthony Fisher – Archbishop of Sydney
Robert Forsyth – Bishop of South Sydney
David Garnsey – Bishop of Gippsland
Eric Gowing – Bishop of Auckland
Arthur Green – Bishop of Ballarat
William Hilliard – Bishop of Nelson
Peter Jensen – Archbishop of Sydney
Clive Kerle – Bishop of Armidale
Sir Marcus Loane – Archbishop of Sydney
Henry Newton – Bishop of New Guinea
Anthony Howard Nichols – Bishop of North West Australia
Donald Robinson – Archbishop of Sydney
John Satterthwaite – Bishop of Gibraltar, Bishop of Fulham
Ian Shevill – Bishop of Newcastle
Father Joseph Patrick Slattery – physicist, radiologist, pioneer in the field of radiography
Peter Watson – Archbishop of Melbourne
William Wright – Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle

Sciences

Astronauts and astronomy

Ron Bracewell – known for nulling interferometry, and the Bracewell probe concept in SETI; Lewis M. Terman Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Philip K. Chapman – Apollo 14 Mission Scientist
Greg Chamitoff – NASA astronaut and University of Sydney Lawrence Hargrave Professor of Aeronautical Engineering
Bernard Mills – developed the Mills Cross Telescope and Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope
Ruby Payne-Scott – first to use radio interferometry
Edwin Ernest Salpeter – Crafoord Laureate Astronomy 1997, known for the initial mass function and accretion disk model of active galactic nuclei
Paul D. Scully-Power – first Australian-born astronaut to fly in space

Biology

Marnie Blewitt – molecular biologist, scientist in the field of epigenetics
Marguerite Henry – zoologist^[17]
Catherine King – ecotoxicologist, Antarctic researcher
June Lascelles – microbiologist, pioneer in microbial photosynthesis
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – winner of the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences (1996)
Roland Stocker – scientist in the field of redox biology
John Mattick – molecular biologist
Sir Gustav Nossal
Pamela Ann Wills - research biologist and radiology scientist.^[18]

Chemistry

Arthur Birch
Sir John Cornforth – winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975)
David Craig
Philip A. Gale
Noel Hush – winner of the Welch Award (2007)
Alice Motion
Elizabeth New
Sir Robert Robinson – winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1947)
Peter Rutledge
Barbara H. Stuart
Anthony Weiss
Jenny Zhang

Computer scientists

Michael Georgeff – AAAI Fellow, Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
Rick Jelliffe – inventor of the Schematron schema language
Rod Johnson – best-selling author; expert in Java/Java EE; founder of the Spring Framework
John Lions – author of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code , commonly known as the Lions Book
Vaughan Pratt – ACM Fellow; pioneer in computer science; Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
Ross Quinlan – AAAI Fellow; highly cited scholar and a pioneer in decision theory
Ken Thompson– co-creator of unix; winner of the Turing Award (1983)^[19]
Andrew Tridgell – co-inventor of the rsync algorithm; author of and contributor to the Samba file server

Engineering

Ronald Ernest Aitchison – solid-state physicist and electronics engineer
Ronald N. Bracewell – known for nulling interferometry, and the Bracewell probe concept in SETI; Lewis M. Terman Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
John Bradfield – designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Julie Cairney – materials scientist and engineer and Director of the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
Graeme Clark – inventor of the bionic ear implant
Bryan Gaensler – dean of Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – former chairman of the University Research Board and Professor of Zoology at Princeton University
John O'Sullivan – winner of Prime Minister's Prize for Science (2009); an originator of wireless technology, credited with the invention of WiFi,^[20]
Ruby Payne-Scott – first female radio astronomer
David Skellern – made pioneering contributions to WIFI technology
Richard H. Small – co-inventor of Thiele/Small parameters
Neville Thiele – co-inventor of Thiele/Small parameters
David Warren – inventor of the "black box" (flight data recorder)

Geology, archeology and oceanography

Nerilie Abram – climate scientist
Elaine Baker – marine science and environment researcher; Director of the University of Sydney Marine Studies Institute
Stephen Bourke – archaeologist of the ancient Near East
V. Gordon Childe – archaeologist of Prehistoric Europe
Peter Cockcroft – petroleum geologist
Sir Edgeworth David – geologist and Antarctic explorer
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg – marine biologist and climate scientist
Basil Hennessy – archaeologist of the Ancient Near East
Sir Douglas Mawson – geologist and Antarctic explorer
Beryl Nashar – geologist; first female PhD in geology at an Australian university; first female Dean of an Australian university
David O'Connor – egyptologist
Timothy Potts – art historian, archaeologist, and Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum
Karin Sowada – archaeologist of Egypt
Griffith Taylor – Antarctic explorer; Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago; founder of the Geography department at the University of Toronto

Mathematics and economics

Robert Griffiths – Professor of Mathematical Genetics at the University of Oxford
Peter Gavin Hall – Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Davis
John Harsanyi – winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1994)
Richard Holden – Professor of Economics of the UNSW Business School at the University of New South Wales
Jan Kmenta – Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan
Kelvin Lancaster – creator of the theory of the second best and "A New Approach to Consumer Theory"; John Bates Clark Professor of Economics at Columbia University
Graeme Milton – Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah, winner of the SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize; SIAM fellow
Pat Moran – statistician known for his work on probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics
Yew-Kwang Ng – economist at Monash University
Graeme Segal – Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry; Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge ^[21]
Eugene Seneta – co-inventor of the Variance-gamma distribution
Trevor Swan – economist best known for his work on the Solow-Swan Model
Justin Wolfers – economist of Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania
Eddie Woo – secondary school teacher and writer best known for his work on mathematics lessons published on YouTube

Medicine

George Henry Abbott – surgeon and former Fellow at the University of Sydney
Katie Louisa Ardill – first woman to be appointed as a divisional surgeon in New South Wales; among the first female doctors when she joined the British Expeditionary Forces in Egypt in 1915
Nikos Athanasou – Professor of Musculoskeletal Pathology at the Oxford University and Greek-Australian novelist
Samy Azer – Professor of Medical Education; international medical educator
Maxwell Bennett – proved that nerve terminals on muscles release transmitter molecules, rather than just the noradrenaline and acetylcholine that were previously known
Dame Valerie Beral – epidemiologist; Fellow of the Royal Society; Head of Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and Cancer Research UK ^[22]
Ralph Beattie Blacket – beriberi and heart disease researcher
Grace Boelke – general practitioner; one of the first two female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney
Claudia Bradley – pharmacist, paediatrician, orthopaedist
Jennifer Byrne – cancer researcher
Janet Carr – physiotherapist
John Carter – endocrinologist and former President of Australian Diabetes Society
Victor Chang – pioneer of modern heart transplantation
Robert Clancy – developer of first oral vaccine for acute bronchitis
Graeme Clark – inventor of cochlear ear implant
Iza Coghlan – physician; one of the first two female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney
David A. Cooper – HIV/AIDS researcher and Director of the Kirby Institute
Grace Cuthbert-Browne – doctor and Director of Maternal and Baby Welfare in the New South Wales Department of Public Health, 1937–1964
Justine Damond – veterinarian, spiritual healer, and meditation coach before being killed by a Minneapolis Police Department officer
Raymond Dart – anatomist and anthropologist, known for his discovery in 1924 of a fossil (first ever found) of Australopithecus africanus (extinct hominid closely related to humans)
John Diamond – developer of Behavioral Kinesiology (now called Life-Energy Analysis), a system based upon applied kinesiology, incorporating the emotions
Anna Donald – pioneer and advocate of evidence-based medicine
Rachael Dunlop – medical researcher and sceptic
John Dwyer – Australian doctor, Professor of Medicine, and public health advocate.
Creswell Eastman – Endocrinologist, Professor of Medicine, known for Iodine Deficiency Disorders research.
Sir John Eccles – winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1963)
Peter Green – Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University
Sir Norman Gregg – identified rubella in early pregnancy as a human teratogen
Sir Henry Harris – Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford; first demonstrated the existence of tumour-suppressing genes
Freida Ruth Heighway – obstetrician and gynaecologist
Ken Hillman – intensive care physician
Portia Holman – child psychiatrist
David Hunter – Dean of Academic Affairs of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University
John Hunter – Challis Professor of Anatomy at age 24 years whose brilliant career, achieving international recognition, was cut short by fever just two years later
Sir Keith Jones – surgeon and former president of the Australian Medical Association
Sir Bernard Katz – 1970 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology "for discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation"
Robert Kavanaugh – dentist and George Cross recipient
Ross Kerridge - anesthesiologist; Lord Mayor of Newcastle
Stephen W. Kuffler – "father of modern neuroscience"
Max Lake – Australia's first specialist hand surgeon
Gerald Lawrie – American heart surgeon and pioneer in the surgical treatment of valvular heart disease; performed the first mitral valve repair using the daVinci robotic surgical system; Methodist Hospital Michael E. Debakey Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine
Sir Herbert Maitland – surgeon
William McBride – obstetrician, who in 1961 first warned the medical world against thalidomide as a human teratogen
Charles George McDonald – physician, army officer and academic
Patrick McGorry – Australian of the Year 2010
Wirginia Maixner – neurosurgeon, Director of neurosurgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne; graduated in 1986
Sir Michael Marmot – President of British Medical Association, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London; has conducted ground-breaking studies into stroke
John Mattick – Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, whose research led to the discovery of the function of non-coding DNA
Stan Devenish Meares – former president of Australian Council Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Donald Metcalf – his research revealed the control of blood cell formation
Errol Solomon Meyers – prominent Brisbane doctor; one of the founding fathers of the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland
Jacques Miller – discoverer of the function of the thymus (the last major organ of the human body whose function remained unknown)
Sir William Morrow – former president of Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Philip Nitschke – physician, humanist, founder and director of Exit International
Sir Gustav Nossal – immunologist, discoverer of the "one cell-one antibody" rule, which states that each B lymphocyte, developed in bone marrow, secretes a specific antibody in response to an encounter with a specific foreign antigen
Mitchell Notaras – graduate who funded the $1.1 million Mitchel J Notaras Scholarship for Colorectal Medicine at the University of Sydney
Susie O'Reilly – family doctor and obstetrician, noted for her rejected application for residency at Sydney Hospital in favour of male applicants in 1905 despite her excellent academic record
Brian Owler – president of the Australian Medical Association
Cecil Purser – former chairman Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Margery Scott-Young – surgeon
Colin Sullivan – inventor of the Continuous Positive Airflow Pressure (CPAP) mask
Mavis Sweeney – hospital pharmacist
Frank Tidswell – former director New South Wales Government Bureau of Microbiology and Director of Pathology at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
Alan O. Trounson – President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
John Turtle – Kellion Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Sydney
Nan Waddy – psychiatrist
Robert Walsh - medical researcher and geneticist
Claire Weekes – health writer and pioneer of anxiety treatment; first woman to graduate from the University of Sydney with a doctorate of science
Harry Windsor – heart surgeon
Donald Wood-Smith – Professor of Clinical Surgery at Columbia University
Jeannette Young – medical doctor and Chief Health Officer of Queensland

Physics

Bruce Bolt – pioneer of engineering seismology; Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Brian O'Brien – physicist and space scientist
Richard Dowden – noted geo- and astrophysicist
Herbert Huppert – Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director of Institute of Theoretical Geophysics at the University of Cambridge; Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
Richard Makinson – physicist known for his contributions to amorphous semiconductors
Bernard Mills – inventor of the Mills Cross Telescope
Edwin Ernest Salpeter – astrophysicist known for his contributions to Bethe–Salpeter equation and initial mass function; Emeritus Professor of Physics at Cornell University

Veterinary and agricultural scientists

Vanessa Barrs – feline researcher
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge – Professor of Animal Pathology and Director of the Institute of Animal Pathology at the University of Cambridge
Chris Brown – veterinarian and TV presenter
Sir Ian Clunies Ross – Chairman of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Hugh McLeod Gordon – veterinary parasitologist
Daria Nina Love – veterinary microbiologist
Gordon McClymont – agricultural scientist, ecologist, and educationist; foundation chair of the Department of Rural Science at the University of New England; originator of the term "sustainable agriculture"
Ross Perry – Australia’s first registered avian veterinarian; first to study and name Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease, for which he was co-discoverer of viral infection agent^[23]
Sanjaya Rajaram – winner of the World Food Prize (2014); former head of Wheat Programme at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre
Elizabeth Tasker – fire ecologist

Sport

'Snowy' Baker – rugby union, diving, boxing, swimming and polo player^[24]^[25]
Nigel Barker – sprinter
Ken Catchpole ^[a] – rugby union footballer, state and national representative half-back
Alex Chambers – mixed martial artist^[26]
Chloe Dalton – Australian rules football, rugby union player and basketballer; gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics ^[27]
Caitlin De Wit – wheelchair basketball player
Kilian Elkinson – Bermudian footballer
Nick Farr-Jones – rugby union footballer
Jessica Fox – slalom canoer, gold medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics ^[28]
Peter Fuzes – association soccer player
Scott Gourley – rugby union and rugby league
Sienna Green - water polo player
Phil Hardcastle – rugby union footballer
Peter Johnson – rugby player^[b]
Tom Lawton, Snr – rugby union player
Jack Metcalfe – long jumper, triple jumper and javelin thrower
Herbert Moran – rugby union player
Stirling Mortlock ^[c] – rugby union player
Dean Mumm ^[d] – rugby union player
Otto Nothling – rugby union and cricket player
Ellyse Perry – cricket and football player
Mike Pyke – rugby union player and Australian rules footballer
Alex Ross – state and national representative rugby union player
Kevin Ryan – rugby union and rugby league player^[e]
John Solomon – rugby union player, state and national representative versatile back
Johnny Taylor – rugby union and cricket player
John Thornett ^[f] – rugby union player
Dick Tooth – rugby union footballer
John Treloar – sprinter,
Johnnie Wallace – rugby union player, state and national representative three-quarter
Phil Waugh – rugby union footballer
Zhao Zong-Yuan – youngest Australian to become a chess Grandmaster

Other

David Gulasi – Australian social media figure active in China^[29]
Paul Hockings – anthropologist
Margaret McArthur – anthropologist and nutritionist
Mervyn Meggitt – anthropologist
Anne Pattel-Gray – theologian

Footnotes

↑ Graduated with a Masters of Science; played exclusively for the Randwick Club.
↑ Played for Sydney University Club and was a member of Randwick Club at time of Australian captaincy.
↑ Graduated with a Bachelor of Science; played exclusively for the Gordon Club.
↑ Captained Australia in non-test matches in 2009.
↑ Graduated in Law; did not play for any Sydney University Club.
↑ Graduate in Science and Engineering; played for Sydney University Club and was a member of Northern Suburbs Club at time of Australian captaincy.

Faculty

John Anderson – Challis Professor of Philosophy
Nadia Badawi – Chair of Cerebral Palsy
Charles Badham – Professor of Classics and Logic
Noel Benson – demonstrator in the Department of Geology
Alison Betts – professor of Silk Road studies
Quentin Bryce – principal of The Women's College, University of Sydney, 1997–2003; later governor-General of Australia^[30]
John Burnheim – professor of general philosophy
Gregory Chamitoff – Lawrence Hargrave Professor of Aeronautical Engineering
James Crawford – Challis Professor of International Law and dean of the Faculty of Law; later justice of the International Court of Justice
Keith Dobney – Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiries
William A. Foley – Professor of Linguistics; co-developer of Role and Reference Grammar
Moira Gatens – Challis Professor of philosophy
Robert Gilbert – Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Key Centre for Polymer Colloids
Julia Kindt – Professor in Classics and Ancient History Department, ARC Future Fellow
Kirsten McCaffery – Research Fellow and Director of Research at the Sydney School of Public Health^[31]
Margaret C. Miller – Arthur and Renee George Professor of Classical Archaeology
Helen Plummer Phillips – first tutor to women students
Enoch Powell – Professor of Greek; later British politician
Leo Radom – Professor of Computational Chemistry
John Smith – Professor of Chemistry and Experimental Physics
James Stewart – Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology
Julius Stone – Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law
Dacheng Tao – Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science
Yanis Varoufakis – senior lecturer in economics; later Finance Minister of Greece during the Greek Debt Crisis of 2015
Roger Vaughan – rector of St John's College, University of Sydney – 1874–1877; later archbishop of Sydney
George Winterton – Professor of Constitutional Law
Dinesh Wadiwel – senior lecturer in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies
Fiona A. White – professor of social psychology

Administration

Chancellors

The chancellor is elected by the fellows and presides at Senate meetings. In 1924, the executive position of vice-chancellor was created, and the chancellor ceased to have managerial responsibilities. Until 1860, the chancellor was known as the provost.

Ordinal	Name	Term begin	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Edward Hamilton	1851	1854	3 years	^[32]
2	Sir Charles Nicholson	1854	1862	8 years	^[33]
3	Francis Merewether	1862	1865	3 years	^[34]
4	Sir Edward Deas Thomson	1865	1878	13 years	^[35]
5	Sir William Montagu Manning	1878	1895	7 years	^[36]
6	Sir William Charles Windeyer	1895	1896	1 year	^[37]
7	Sir Normand MacLaurin	1896	1914	18 years	^[38]
8	Sir William Portus Cullen	1914	1934	20 years	^[39]
9	Sir Mungo William MacCallum	1934	1936	2 years	^[40]
10	Sir Percival Halse Rogers	1936	1941	5 years	^[41]
11	Sir Charles Blackburn	1941	1964	23 years	^[42]
12	Sir Charles George McDonald	1964	1970	6 years	^[43]
13	Sir Hermann Black	1970	1990	20 years
14	Sir James Rowland	1990	1991	1 year	^[44]
15	Dame Leonie Kramer	1991	2001	10 years	^[45]^[46]
16	Kim Santow	2001	2007	6 years	^[47]
17	Dame Marie Bashir	2007	2012	5 years	^[48]
18	Belinda Hutchinson	2013	present	12 years	^[49]

Vice-Chancellors

The vice-chancellor serves as the chief executive officer of the university, and oversees most of the university's day-to-day operations, with the chancellor serving in a largely ceremonial role. Before 1924, the vice-chancellors were fellows of the university, elected annually by the fellows. Until 1860, the vice-chancellor was known as the vice-provost. Since 1955, the full title has been Vice-Chancellor and Principal.

Ordinal	Name	Term begin	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Sir Charles Nicholson	1851	1853	2 years	^[33]
2	Francis Merewether	1854	1862	8 years	^[34]
3	Sir Edward Deas Thomson	1863	1865	2 years	^[35]
4	John Plunkett	1865	1869	4 years
5	Robert Allwood	1869	1883	14 years
6	Sir William Charles Windeyer	1883	1886	3 years	^[37]
7	Sir Normand MacLaurin	1887	1889	2 years	^[38]
8	Sir Arthur Renwick	1889	1891	2 years
9	Henry Chamberlain Russell	1891	1892	1 year
10	Alfred Paxton Backhouse	1892	1894	2 years
—	Sir Normand MacLaurin	1895	1896	1 year	^[38]
—	Alfred Paxton Backhouse	1896	1899	3 years
—	Sir Arthur Renwick	1900	1902	2 years
11	Archibald Henry Simpson	1902	1904	2 years
12	Sir Philip Sydney Jones	1904	1906	2 years
—	Sir Arthur Renwick	1906	1908	2 years
13	Sir William Portus Cullen	1909	1911	2 years
—	Alfred Paxton Backhouse	1911	1914	3 years
14	Frank Leverrier	1914	1917	3 years
15	Cecil Purser	1917	1919	2 years
16	Sir David Gilbert Ferguon	1919	1921	2 years
—	Frank Leverrier	1921	1923	2 years
—	Cecil Purser	1923	1924	1 year
17	Sir Mungo William MacCallum	1924	1928	4 years
18	Sir Robert Strachan Wallace	1928	1947	19 years
19	Sir Stephen Henry Roberts	1947	1967	20 years
20	Sir Bruce Rodda Williams	1967	1981	14 years
21	John Manning Ward	1981	1990	9 years
22	Donald McNicol	1990	1996	6 years
23	Derek John Anderson	1996	1996	less than 1 year
24	Gavin Brown	1996	2008	12 years
25	Michael Spence	2008	2020	12 years	^[50]
26	Stephen Garton	2020	2021	less than 1 year	^[51]
27	Mark Scott	2021	present	4 years	^[52]

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