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University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne (informally Melbourne Uni, Unimelb or just Melbourne) is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia, and the oldest in Victoria. The main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb just north...
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Fergus Henderson
Fergus Henderson (born 1971) is a computer scientist who was one of the original developers of the Mercury programming language. He is the maintainer for Distcc.
He now works for Google.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn (born on November 26, 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a molecular biologist.
Blackburn is renowned for her discovery of the genetic enzyme "Telomerase". Blackburn isolated and precisely described telomeres in...
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A. Richard Newton
Arthur Richard Newton (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 July 1951 – 2 January 2007) was the dean of the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering.
Newton was educated at the University of Melbourne and received a BE in 1973 and M...
Struan Sutherland
Struan Keith Sutherland AO (17 June 1936 – 11 January 2002) was an Australian medical researcher who developed effective antivenoms and other treatments for people bitten or stung by venomous Australian wildlife.
Sutherland was born in Sydney and...
Peter Bladen
Peter Bladen, (1922 – 2001) was an Australian poet born at Perth. He was later educated at the University of Western Australia, and the University of Melbourne. He travelled extensively through Australia, working in the 1960s as a journalist and...
Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 – 7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Deakin was a major contributor...
Kim Dovey
Kim Dovey is an Australian architectural critic and Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia, teaching urban design theory.
He received degrees from Curtin University and the University of Melbourne in...
Andrew Peacock
Andrew Sharp Peacock AC (born 13 February 1939), is a former Australian Liberal politician. He was a minister in the Gorton, McMahon and Fraser governments, and was federal leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1983–1985 and 1989–1990. He is...
Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth Prime Minister of Australia.
Menzies is to date the longest serving Prime Minister of Australia and founder and first leader of...
David Shallcross
David Shallcross is an Australian academic.
He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School, before studying for both his Bachelor degree and Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne. He is currently an Associate Professor and head of the Department of...
George Blaikie
George Blaikie (born 1915) is an Australian author and journalist.
He was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Grammar School and Melbourne University. He has worked for numerous papers included Smith's Weekly and the Courier Mail. His series Our...
John Cain II
John Cain (born 26 April 1931), Australian Labor Party politician, was the 41st Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1982 to 1990.
Cain was born in Melbourne, the son of John Cain, leader of the Labor Party in Victoria from 1937 to 1957 and...
Richard Casey, Baron Casey
Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC KStJ PC (29 August 1890 – 17 June 1976) was an Australian politician, diplomat and 16th Governor-General of Australia.
Casey was born in Brisbane, Queensland. His father, also named Richard...
David Kemp
Dr David Alistair Kemp (born 14 October 1941), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1990 to October 2004, representing the Division of Goldstein, Victoria. He was born in Melbourne,...
Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is an Australian lawyer, Muslim, academic and rock musician. In the past, he has been a member of the executive committee of the Islamic Council of Victoria and has also served as the Council's head of public affairs. He is a frequent...
David de Kretser
David Morritz de Kretser, AC (born 27 April 1939) is an Australian medical researcher, and the Governor of Victoria. He succeeded John Landy as the 27th Governor of Victoria on 7 April 2006. The Victorian Premier at the time, Steve Bracks announced...
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century.
Greer's ideas have...
Owen Dixon
Sir Owen Dixon, OM, GCMG, KC (28 April 1886 - 7 July 1972) Australian judge and diplomat, was the sixth Chief Justice of Australia. A justice of the High Court for thirty-five years, Dixon was one of the leading jurists in the English-speaking world...
Robert Dean
For other persons named Robert Dean, see Robert Dean (disambiguation).
Robert Logan Dean (born 31 October 1952) Australian politician is former member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
Before entering politics, Dean worked as a lawyer, having...
Helen Garner
Helen Garner (born 7 November 1942) is an award-winning Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.
Garner was born in Geelong, Australia, the eldest of six children. She attended Manifold Heights State School, Ocean Grove...
Daryl Dawson
Sir Daryl Michael Dawson, AC, KBE, CB (born 12 December 1933) Australian judge and naval officer, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1982 to 1997.
Dawson studied at the University of Melbourne, residing at Ormond College and received...
John Latham
Sir John Greig Latham GCMG QC (26 August 1877 – 25 July 1964) was an Australian judge and politician who served as fifth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia for seventeen years, from 1935 to 1952.
Latham was born in Ascot Vale, a suburb of...
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, OM, AK, KBE (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology. Burnet received his M.D. degree from the University...
Michael Clyne
Michael George Clyne AM is an Australian linguist and academic.
Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Clyne studied for his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees at the University of Melbourne, focusing on Germanic and French languages. He undertook...
William Maloney
Dr William Robert Nuttal Maloney (12 April 1854 - 29 August 1940) was a long serving Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for 36 years from 1904 to 1940.
Born into a wealthy family in West Melbourne, Maloney was...
John So
John Chun Sai So JP (Traditional Chinese: 蘇震西, Simplified Chinese: 苏震西) is a Chinese-Australian businessman who served as the 102nd Lord Mayor of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia. He was the first Lord Mayor in the city's history to be...
James Gobbo
Sir James Augustine Gobbo, AC, CVO, KStJ, QC (born 22 March 1931, Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian jurist and was the 25th Governor of Victoria.
James Gobbo was born to Italian parents, who returned to Italy briefly before returning to live...
William Sutherland
William Sutherland (4 August 1859 – 5 October 1911) was a Scottish physicist and writer for The Age newspaper.
Sutherland was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, son of George Sutherland, a carver of figure-heads for ships, and brother of Alexander...
Miles Lewis
Professor Miles Lewis AM (b. 1943, Amersham, UK) is an Australian academic serving as a Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is one of Australia's most notable Architectural...
John Carew Eccles
Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS (27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize together with Andrew Fielding...
Vincent Buckley
Vincent Thomas Buckley (1925–1988) was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic.
He was born in Romsey, Victoria and was educated at both the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge.
Buckley edited the magazine,...
Petro Georgiou
Petro Georgiou (born 30 November 1947), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 1994, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria.
Georgiou was born in Kerkyra, Greece, and was...
Bella Guerin
Julia Margaret Guerin Halloran Lavender (23 April 1858, Williamstown, Victoria - 26 July 1923, Adelaide, South Australia), known popularly as Bella Guerin, was an Australian feminist, women's activist women's suffragist, anti-conscriptionist,...
Leonie Wood
Leonie Wood (born 18 December 1961) is an Australian journalist who is one of the most senior editorial staff at The Age newspaper, in Melbourne.
She worked as a business reporter for The Age for over ten years before being moved to general news by...
Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist and character actor perhaps best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and...
Thomas Hollway
Thomas Tuke "Tom" Hollway (Ballarat, 2 October 1906 — Point Lonsdale, Victoria, 30 July 1971) was the 36th Premier of Victoria, holding office from 1947 to 1950, and again for a short period in 1952.
From 1932 until 1955, Hollway served in the...
Graeme Samuel
Graeme Samuel AO is an Australian businessman, currently serving as the chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. He has held the position since 1 July 2003.
Samuel was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, and studied law at...
William Macmahon Ball
William Macmahon Ball, AC (August 29, 1901 – December 26, 1986) was an Australian academic and diplomat. Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, Ball studied both psychology...
Jasmine Cresswell
Jasmine Rosemary Cresswell (born 1941 in Wales) is a best-selling author of over 50 romance novels.
Jasmine Cresswell was born in Wales and educated in London. After graduating early from high school, Cresswell received a diploma in technical French...
Rob Sitch
Robert Ian Sitch (born 17 March 1962), is an Australian director, producer, screenwriter, actor and comedian.
Sitch attended St. Kevin's College and graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Melbourne. He practised...
Edmond and Corrigan
Edmond and Corrigan is a firm of architects based in Melbourne, Australia. The principals are Maggie Edmond and Peter Corrigan. Corrigan is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture at RMIT University and has taught design studios there for...
Keith Aickin
Sir Keith Arthur Aickin KBE QC (1 February 1916–18 June 1982, age 66), Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Aickin was born in Melbourne in 1916, and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. He also studied at the...
Ismail Abdul Rahman
Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman (November 4, 1915 – August 2, 1973) was a Malaysian politician from the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). He held several Malaysian ministerial posts and was appointed as the second Deputy Prime Minister in 1970...
Lindsay Thompson
Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson AO, CMG (15 October 1923 – 16 July 2008), Australian Liberal Party politician, was the 40th Premier of Victoria from June 1981 to April 1982. He was also notable for his actions in the Faraday School kidnapping, and...
Joseph M. Baldwin
Joseph Mason Baldwin (9 September 1878 – 6 July 1945) was Victorian government astronomer 1920–1943.
Baldwin was born in Carlton, Melbourne, Australia, the third son of Joseph Baldwin (d.1887) and his wife Emma Maria, née Graham. J.M. Baldwin's...
Prue Sibree
Prudence Anne Sibree (née Turnor) and later Prudence Anne Leggoe (born 7 August 1946) is former Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
Before entering parliament, Sibree was educated at Strathcona Baptist Girls'...
Hugh Stretton
Hugh Stretton AC is an Australian historian and professor. He was ducated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, the University of Melbourne, the University of Oxford and Princeton University. He has been voted one of Australia's ten most influential...
John Elliott
John Dormer Elliott (born 3 October 1941) is a prominent Australian businessman, former president of the Liberal Party, and former president of Carlton Football Club. In 2003 he was found guilty of trading while insolvent and in 2005 declared...
Rupert Hamer
Sir Rupert James Hamer, AC, KCMG, ED (29 July 1916 - 23 March 2004), generally known until he was knighted in 1982 as Dick Hamer, Australian Liberal Party politician, was the 39th Premier of Victoria, serving from 1972 to 1981.
Dick Hamer was born...
Neil Brown
Neil Anthony Brown, QC (b. 22 February 1940) is an Australian lawyer, arbitrator,mediator and former Member of the Federal Parliament of Australia and Minister in the Federal Government.
He was a Liberal member of the Australian House of...
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart (born 1954) is an Australian poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian.
In addition to his poetry volumes, he has published studies of Jacques Derrida, Samuel Johnson, A. D. Hope and most recently French literary critic and...
Peter Corrigan
Peter Corrigan is an internationally renowned architect, theatre designer, author and academic, based in Melbourne, Australia. Corrigan is Professor of Architecture at RMIT University. Reknowned for his fiery temper and strict teaching methods, he...
H. B. Higgins
Henry Bournes Higgins (30 June 1851 - 13 January 1929), Australian politician and judge, always known in his lifetime as H. B. Higgins, was a highly influential figure in Australian politics and law.
He was born in County Mayo, Ireland, the son of...
Peter Karmel
Peter Henry Karmel, AC, CBE (9 May 1922 - 30 December 2008) was an Australian economist and professor.
Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge where he received a Ph.D., Karmel had served as...
Isaac Isaacs
Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG QC (6 August 1855–11 February 1948), Australian judge and politician, was the ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first born in Australia to occupy that post.
Isaac Isaacs was the son of Alfred Isaacs, a...
Stanley Argyle
Sir Stanley Seymour Argyle KBE (4 December 1867 – 23 November 1940), Australian politician, was the 32nd Premier of Victoria. He was born in Kyneton, Victoria, the son of a grazier, and was educated at Brighton Grammar School and the University of...
Enid Derham
Enid Derham (24 March 1882 – 13 November 1941, age 59) was an Australian poet and academic.
Derham was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, the eldest daughter of Thomas Plumley Derham, solicitor, and his wife Ellen Hyde, née Hodgson, of Melbourne...
Lesbia Harford
Lesbia Harford (9 April 1891 – 5 July 1927) was an Australian poet.
Lesbia Venner Harford, daughter of E. J. and Helen Keogh, was born at Brighton, Victoria, on 9 April 1891. She was educated at the Sacré Coeur school at Malvern, Victoria, Mary's...
Clyde Holding
Allan Clyde Holding (born 27 April 1931), Australian politician, was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria for ten years, and was later a federal minister.
Holding was born in Melbourne and educated at Trinity Grammar School, Victoria and the...
Susan Crennan
Susan Maree Crennan AC (born 1 July 1945), is an Australian judge, a Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.
Crennan was born and lives in Victoria, but has also worked in New South Wales. She is...
