Martin Silink AO is an Australian paediatric endocrinologist specialising in type 1 diabetes, and Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney. [1] [2] In 2006, he became the first Australian president of the International Diabetes Federation. [3] As the president of the IDF, he campaigned for international support of a United Nations resolution on diabetes, which encouraged governments to develop policies to prevent and treat diabetes. [1] He was appointed Member of the Order of Australia in 2002 [4] and promoted to Officer of the Order of Australia in 2014. [5] He was nominated for Senior Australian of the Year in 2013. [1]
John Joseph Cahill, also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to his death in 1959. Born the son of Irish migrants in Redfern, New South Wales, Cahill worked for the New South Wales Government Railways from the age of 16 before joining the Australian Labor Party. Being a prominent unionist organiser, including being dismissed for his role in the 1917 general strike, Cahill was eventually elected to the Parliament of New South Wales for St George in 1925.
Charles Hamilton "Charlie" Bell AO was an Australian business executive. He served as president of the American-based fast-food chain McDonald's from December 2002, and additionally as chief executive officer from April to November 2004. Bell was the first non-American and the youngest person to hold that position, and the first to be CEO from starting at the bottom of the chain as a crew member in a restaurant.
Stephen Paul Martin is a former Australian politician, senior academic and rugby league referee. He served as an Australian Labor Party (ALP) member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Macarthur, south west of Sydney, from 1984 to 1993; and, following redistribution, represented Cunningham from 1993 until his resignation in 2002. Martin was the Chief Executive of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) from January 2011 until his retirement in April 2017.
Professor Emerita Dianne Yerbury is an Australian university administrator and company director. She was the Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia from 1987 to 2005.
David Parker Craig, an Australian chemist, was the Foundation Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and later Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Margaret Elaine Whitlam, AO was an Australian social campaigner, author, and swimmer, and the wife of Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975. She represented Australia in swimming at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney.
Nicholas Richard Cowdery, , a barrister, was the Director of Public Prosecutions for the Australian state of New South Wales from 1994 to 2011. Cowdery also served as President of the International Association of Prosecutors from 1999 to 2005.
John Ross Turtle OF is an Australian medical academic and endocrinologist.
George Hampel AM QC was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1983 to 2000, having previously practised as a barrister since 1958.
Michael Gerard L'Estrange is an Australian academic and former public servant. He is the former Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, in Canberra. L'Estrange had earlier served a long career in the Australian public service including as a diplomat and as Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Ian Roger Vanderfield AO OBE was an Australian doctor, and a rugby union referee and administrator. Vanderfield refereed over 1200 games, including 32 test matches and internationals.
Henry Shiu-Lung Tsang is an Australian architect, politician and formerly a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1999 until his resignation effective 3 December 2009.
Graham Clifford Goodwin is an Australian Laureate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Ann Janet Woolcock AO FAA FRACP was an Australian respiratory physician–scientist and one of the world's leading asthma experts. She contributed greatly to the field of asthma research and founded the Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Sydney, which is now known as the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.
Margaret Alison Telfer was a university administrator at the University of Sydney.
Cassandra Jean Pybus is an Australian historian and writer. She is a professor of history at the University of Sydney, and has published extensively on Australian and American history.
The Challis Professorship are professorships at the University of Sydney named in honour of John Henry Challis, an Anglo-Australian merchant, landowner and philanthropist, whose bequests to the University of Sydney allowed for their establishment.
Professor Alan J Sinclair is a clinical scientist and diabetes specialist from Newcastle-under-Lyme, England.
Marcello Costa is an Italian-born Australian medical researcher, academic, and public health advocate. He specializes in the structure and functions of the enteric nervous system. He taught in Turin, Melbourne, and Helsinki before moving to Adelaide in 1975 where he was a foundation lecturer at the Flinders Medical School, building the new discipline of neuroscience at the college. He has been at Flinders University since, where he is the Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Neurophysiology in the Department of Physiology.
Marco Tilio is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for A-League club Melbourne City.