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University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (informally Sydney University, USyd or simply Sydney) is the oldest university in Australia. It was established in Sydney in 1850. It is a member of Australia's "Group of Eight" universities that are highly ranked in terms of their research performance. In 2009, the...
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Ronald Ernest Aitchison
Ronald Ernest Aitchison (1921 - 1996), was born in Hurstville, NSW, Australia on 29 December 1921. From 1942 to 1945 Ron worked as an engineer with the Amalgamated Wireless Valve Company on the design and production of klystrons and radar magnetrons...
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran (July 14, 1917 – September 19, 1988), commonly known as Pat Moran was an Australian statistician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics.
Moran...
Janette Howard
Janette Howard (born 11 July 1944) is the wife of John Howard, who was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia.
Alison Janette Parker was born in Kingsford, a working-class suburb of Sydney in 1944. Her father was an engineer with the New South Wales...
Tony Burke
Anthony Stephen (Tony) Burke (born November 4, 1969(1969-11-04)) is an Australian politician representing the Labor Party. He was elected as a member of the Parliament of New South Wales in 2003, and in October 2004 was elected to the federal House...
John Cornforth
Sir John Warcup 'Kappa' Cornforth, AC, CBE, FRS (born 7 September 1917), is an Australian scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
He has been deaf since his teens....
Greg Combet
Gregory Ivan Combet AM (born 28 April 1958) is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) between 2000 and 2007. He was elected member for the New South Wales seat of Charlton at...
Ronald N. Bracewell
Ronald Newbold Bracewell AO (July 22, 1921 – August 12, 2007) was the Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus of the Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University until his death.
Bracewell was...
John Howard
John Winston Howard, AC (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies.
Howard was a member of the Australian...
Daryl Melham
Daryl Melham (born 27 November 1954), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Banks, New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South...
Glenn Stevens
Glenn Robert Stevens (born 23 January 1958) is an Australian economist and the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Stevens was born in Sydney in 1958. He was educated at the University of Sydney from which he received the degree of...
Robert Madgwick
Sir Robert Bowden Madgwick, OBE (10 May 1905 – 25 March 1979), Australian teacher, soldier, academic and public servant, was the first vice-chancellor of the University of New England from 1954 until 1966, and chairman of the Australian Broadcasting...
Richard Butler
Richard William Butler, AC (born 13 May 1942) served as an Australian diplomat, United Nations weapons inspector, and Governor of Tasmania.
Butler was born in Coolah in rural New South Wales. He grew up in Sydney and was educated at Sydney...
Kelvin Lancaster
Kelvin John Lancaster (December 10, 1924 – July 23, 1999) was a mathematical economist and John Bates Clark professor of economics at Columbia University. He is best known for the development of the Theory of the Second Best with Richard Lipsey....
Rob Robertson-Cuninghame
Robert Clarence Robertson-Cuninghame AO (born 31 May 1924), Australian pastoralist and academic, was the fourth Chancellor of the University of New England from 1981 until 1993.
A descendant of Frederick Robert White, the builder of Booloominbah,...
Carolyn Simpson
Carolyn Chalmers Simpson (born 30 March, 1946) is a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Simpson made legal history in 1999 as one of three women judges who formed the first all-female bench to sit in an Australian court.
Simpson was born...
David Bradbury
David John Bradbury (born 28 February 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian politician who was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the Division of Lindsay, New South Wales for the Australian Labor Party at the 2007...
George Fuller
Sir George Warburton Fuller KCMG (22 January 1861 – 22 July 1940) was Premier of New South Wales, Australia on two occasions during the 1920s. His first term of office lasted less than one day (20 December 1921); his second lasted from 13 April 1922...
Ian Macfarlane
Ian John Macfarlane, AC (born 22 June 1946), Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia's central bank, from 1996 to 17 September 2006. He is also former Chairman of the Payments System Board of the Reserve...
Hunter Nield
Hunter Nield is an Australian entrepreneur.
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- 1998
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- 1995
Marie Bashir
Professor Marie Bashir AC, CVO (born 1930) is the current Governor of New South Wales and Chancellor of the University of Sydney. She is the first female governor of New South Wales.
Marie Rosyln Bashir was born in Narrandera, New South Wales, to...
Jacques Miller
Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller AC FRS (born 2 April 1931) is a distinguished research scientist. He is famous for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of...
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
Barton's greatest contribution to Australian history...
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- 1868
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- 1865
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
Barton's greatest contribution to Australian history...
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- 1870
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Gina Rinehart
Georgina Rinehart, born in 1954, is the chairman of Hancock Prospecting and is the first female billionaire of Australia. Dubbed as "Australia's richest woman", Gina is the daughter of mining magnate Lang Hancock. She was recently embroiled in a...
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Thomas Bavin
Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin, KCMG (5 May 1874 – 31 August 1941) was the 24th Premier of New South Wales.
Born in Kaiapoi, New Zealand to a Methodist minister and his wife, Bavin was educated at Auckland Grammar School until 1889 when his family moved...
Nick Greiner
Nicholas (Nick) Frank Hugo Greiner, AC (born 27 April 1947) was the parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party in New South Wales, Australia and also Premier from 1988 to 1992. He is married to Kathryn Greiner AO, a former Councillor in the Sydney...
James West
James West (born 21 February 1982) is an Australian journalist, author, and documentary film maker. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
He was born in Sydney and attended high school at Barker College, an independent school in Hornsby, a North Shore...
David Higgins
David Higgins (born Brisbane in 1954), is an Australian businessman, the Chief Executive of the London 2012 Summer Olympics Delivery Authority.
Higgins was educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview in Sydney. He then gained a degree in civil...
Eric Austin Gowing
Eric Austin Gowing (11 March 1913 - 3 June 1981) was the seventh Anglican Bishop of Auckland whose Episcopate spanned a long period during the second half of the 20th century. Born in Sydney he was educated at North Sydney High School and the...
Jonathan Watkins
Jonathan Watkins (born 1957) is an English curator, and is currently Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.
Watkins emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969 and studied Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Sydney, where he...
Michael L'Estrange
Michael Gerard L'Estrange AO, born October 12, 1952, is an Australian public servant, and the current secretary (Chief Executive Officer) of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). .
L'Estrange attended St Aloysius' College in Sydney and...
Bob Baxt
Professor Robert Baxt AO (born 27 June 1938 - ) is an Australian lawyer and a former Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission (now the ACCC), former Dean of Law at Monash University and a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne.
Baxt...
Stuart Kaye
Professor Stuart Bruce Kaye (1967 - ) is an Australian professor of law.
Kaye was educated at Newington College (1980-1985) and holds degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney, and a doctorate in law from Dalhousie University. He was...
Mark Gregory Pegg
Mark Gregory Pegg (born 1963) is an Australian professor of medieval history, currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. He specializes in scholarship of the Albigensian Crusade and the Inquisition, the...
James Tandy
James Tandy MBE (13 January 1918 - 6 April 1997) was Australian public servant who became Commonwealth Director of Aboriginal Education.
Jim Tandy was born at Muswellbrook, New South Wales and attended Newington College (1932-1933). He began his...
Coral Lansbury
Coral Lansbury (1929 – 3 April 1991) was an Australian-born writer and academic.
Coral Lansbury was born in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. Her parents were Oscar Vincent Stephen Lansbury (died 1968 in Sydney) and May Morle (died 1968 in Sydney)....
Marshall Davidson Hatch
Dr Marshall Davidson Hatch AM (b. 24 December 1932) is an Australian biochemist and plant physiologist and Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry in Canberra. He is a Clarke Medalist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of...
Keith Jones
Sir Keith Stephen Jones FRCS (born 7 July 1911) is an Australian medical practitioner and surgeon. He is a past national president of the Australian Medical Association.
Jones was born in Narrandera, New South Wales, and attended Newington College ...
Matthew England
Matthew England is a physical oceanographer and climate scientist who was born in Sydney on 11 June 1966. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Sydney, Australia. In 2005 he became a Professor at the...
Peter Coleman
William Peter Coleman (born 15 December 1928) is an Australian writer/journalist and former politician. Coleman was born in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield and educated at the selective North Sydney Boys High School. He graduated from the...
Charles Blackburn
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn KCMG, OBE (22 April 1874 – 20 July 1972) was an Australian university chancellor and physician. Blackburn was born in the town of Greenhithe, in the county of Kent, England. Mainly known as a long...
John Turtle
John Ross Turtle (born 13 January 1937) is an Australian medical academic and endocrinologist. He is an Emeritous Professor of Medicine and an Honorary President of the International Diabetes Federation.
Turtle was born in Sydney, Australia, and...
Sever Sternhell
Sever Sternhell (born May 30, 1930) is a Polish born Australian academic and organic chemist. He has been professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. His current research is on the...
Michael Hintze
Michael Hintze is an Australian millionaire businessman, philanthropist and political patron, based in the United Kingdom.
He was educated at the University of Sydney residing at St John's College, and Harvard University.
He is the head of CQS...
Nicholas Saunders
Nicholas Andrew Saunders (born June 26, 1946) is an Australian academic who since 2004 has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle.
Saunders was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and attended Newington College (1959-1962) before...
Michael Sharkey
A/Prof Michael Sharkey (born 1 August 1946 in Canterbury, New South Wales) is an Australian poet. Sharkey studied at the University of Sydney, where he was awarded a BA, and then he completed his doctorate at the University of Auckland.
Sharkey is a...
Jason Carthew
Jason Carthew, is an Australian Film Director and Teacher. He has directed many short movies, the most well know being A.I.W.U, an independent film that premiered at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.
Carthew grew up in...
Tony Vinson
Tony Vinson AM (born 11 November 1935) is "one of Australia's leading social scientists and outspoken public intellectuals", an honorary Doctor of Letters in Social Work (honoris causa) from the University of Sydney, as well as being an Honorary...
James Franklin
James Franklin, Australian historian of ideas and philosopher, was born in 1953 in Sydney, Australia, and educated at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, NSW. His undergraduate work was at the University of Sydney (1971–74), where he attended St...
Lew Mander
Lewis N. Mander, FAA, FRS (b. September 8, 1939) is a New Zealand organic chemist. He has widely explored the synthesis and chemistry of the gibberellin class of diterpenes over a 20 year period.
Lew Mander completed a BSc degree at the University...
Jeannette McHugh
Jeannette McHugh (born 18 December 1934), Australian politician, is a former Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Divisions of Phillip (1983–1993) and Grayndler (1993–1996) in New South Wales....
Ian Biggs
Ian Biggs (born 11 November 1963) is a career diplomat and is now Secretary for the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.
Biggs holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with double honours from the University of Sydney and a...
Jacqueline Fernandez
Jacqueline Fernandez is a beauty queen from Sri Lanka who won Miss Sri Lanka 2006.
Jacqueline Fernandez is a Bollywood actress who hails from the island nation of Sri Lanka. She was born on 2nd June, 1985. She has three siblings, two brothers and an...
John Passmore
John Passmore AC (9 September 1914 – 25 July 2004) was an Australian philosopher.
Passmore was born in Manly, Sydney. He graduated from the University of Sydney with first-class honours in English literature and philosophy, and went on to study to...
Roger Hawken
Roger William Hercules Hawken (12 May 1878 – 18 October 1947), an Australian engineer, was the first lecturer in Civil Engineering, and then a professor, at the University of Queensland.
Hawken was born at Darlington, New South Wales, the son of...
Padraic McGuinness
Padraic Pearse "Paddy" McGuinness AO (27 October 1938 – 26 January 2008) was an Australian journalist, activist, and commentator. He was notable for the evolution of his political beliefs over his lifetime. He began his career on the far left but...
Faith Yang
Faith Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨乃文; traditional Chinese: 楊乃文; pinyin: Yáng Nǎiwén, born 2 March 1974 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a rock musician and fashion model. She grew up in Sydney, Australia and studied biology and genetics at Sydney University....
Michael Devitt
Michael Devitt (born 1938) is an Australian philosopher currently teaching at the City University of New York in New York City. His primary interests include philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His current work...
William Charles Windeyer
Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge.
As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park (north of the new Central railway constructed in 1874 in...
Henry Bauer
Henry H. Bauer (born Austria, 1931) is an emeritus professor of chemistry and science studies, and emeritus dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech"). Bauer earned his Ph.D. in...
