List of University of Tasmania people explained

This is an incomplete list of University of Tasmania people, including alumni and staff.

Alumni

Academia

• Ed Byrne, Principal of King's College London
• Peter Conrad, literary academic and author
• Rodney Croome,, academic and LGBT rights activist
• Peter Forrest, philosopher
• Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
• Jeff Malpas, philosopher
• Michael Tate,, Catholic priest, legal scholar and former Labor politician
• Helen Tiffin, post-colonial theorist

Business

• Andrew MacLeod, businessman, author, former humanitarian lawyer and aid worker
• Capt. Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports
• Saul Eslake, economist^[1]

Government

Vice-Regal

• Stanley Burbury, past Governor of Tasmania
• William Cox, past Governor of Tasmania
• Sir Guy Green, past Governor of Tasmania
• Peter Underwood, past Governor of Tasmania
• Kate Warner,, legal academic and current Governor of Tasmania^[2]

Politics

Federal politicians

• Eric Abetz, Liberal politician
• Neal Blewett, former Labor politician
• Ross Hart, former Labor politician
• Michael Hodgman, former Liberal politician and barrister
• Justine Keay, former Labor politician
• Christine Milne, former leader of the Australian Greens
• Ben Small, former Liberal politician

State Premiers

• David Bartlett, former Premier of Tasmania
• Michael Field, former Premier of Tasmania
• Lara Giddings, Labor politician and former Premier of Tasmania
• Will Hodgman, Liberal politician and former Premier of Tasmania

State and territory politicians

• Guy Barnett, Liberal politician
• Sir Max Bingham,, former Deputy Premier and Opposition Leader of Tasmania
• David Bushby, Liberal politician
• Roy Fagan, former barrister and Deputy Premier of Tasmania
• Mike Gaffney, Independent MLC
• Adrian Gibson,, former Liberal politician and barrister
• Sue Napier, former Liberal politician
• Michelle O'Byrne, Labor politician
• Ros Spence, Labor politician

Other politicians

• Sue Hickey, Lord Mayor of Hobart
• Albert Van Zetten, Mayor of Launceston
• Hannah Yeoh, Malaysian politician, Minister of Youth and Sports (Malaysia)^[3]
• Halimah Ali, Malaysian politician, MP for Kapar

Public servants

• Ashton Calvert,, former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Rhodes Scholar
• Stephen Gumley, CEO of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation^[4]
• Philip Haddon-Cave, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong^[5]
• Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed, SAARC Secretary-General^[6]

Humanities

Arts

• Anthony Ackroyd, comedian, speaker and writer^[7]
• Courtney Barnett, musician
• Rianti Cartwright, actress, model and presenter of MTV Indonesia
• John Clark, former director of NIDA
• Ian Cresswell, composer
• Essie Davis, film actress
• Matthew Dewey, composer
• Hannah Gadsby, comedian
• Roger Hodgman, director
• Constantine Koukias, composer
• Michael Lampard, opera singer, conductor and composer
• Geoffrey Lancaster, classical pianist
• Andrew Legg, ARIA-award nominated musician
• Raffaele Marcellino, composer
• Luke McGregor, comedian and actor
• Graeme Murphy,, ballet dancer and choreographer
• Robyn Nevin,, actress, director and former head of the Sydney Theatre Company
• Tom Samek, painter, stage designer and printmaker
• Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor^[8]
• Megan Walch, artist
• David Walsh, founder of the Museum of Old and New Art
• Shaun Wilson, artist and film director

History

• Marilyn Lake, historian
• Henry Reynolds, historian

Journalism and media

• John J. Smithies, founding director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
• Charles Wooley, television journalist

Literature, writing and poetry

• Ivy Alvarez, author and poet
• Tim Bowden, author and journalist
• Helene Chung Martin, author and journalist
• Stephen Edgar, poet
• Richard Flanagan, author and film director; Rhodes Scholar^[9]
• Christopher Koch, author of The Year of Living Dangerously
• Amanda Lohrey, author and academic
• Christobel Mattingley, author
• Margaret Scott, author and poet
• Aaron Smith, author and journalist
• Vivian Smith, poet
• Danielle Wood, author
• Tansy Rayner Roberts, author

Law

• Damian Bugg, former Commonwealth and Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions
• Enid Campbell,, legal scholar, first Australian female professor and law school dean
• Chief Justice Ewan Crawford, Former Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania^[10]
• Stephen Estcourt,, Tasmanian Supreme Court judge
• Philip Lewis Griffiths, Acting Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea^[11]
• Hon Justice Peter Heerey, Federal Court Judge^[12]
• Andrew Inglis Clark, principal author of the Australian Constitution, barrister, politician and judge
• Leo Keke, first Nauruan lawyer, Nauruan MP (1976-1980)^[13]
• Duncan Kerr, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and former Attorney-General of Australia
• Michael Mansell, Aboriginal rights activist and criminal lawyer
• Davendra Pathik, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji
• David Mitchell, former Solicitor-general of Lesotho, Tasmanian representative at the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998 and procurator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia

Sciences

• Abigail Barrows, marine research scientist
• Noel Benson, geologist
• Geoffrey Charles Bratt, chemist and lichenologist
• Edward Byrne, neuroscientist, Principal of King's College, London; former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
• John Donaldson, applied mathematics academic; father of Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
• Richard Dowden (scientist) - noted geo- and astrophysicist
• Theodore Thomson Flynn, biologist and professor of biology; father of Errol Flynn
• Genevieve Gates, mycologist, ecologist, and taxonomist who is particularly focused on the fungal diversity of Tasmania.
• Sir Leonard Huxley, physicist
• Catherine King, ecotoxicologist, Antarctic researcher
• Kenneth G. McCracken, physicist and winner of the Pawsey Medal^[14]
• Jessica Melbourne-Thomas, marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division^[15]
• David Paver Mellor, inorganic chemist
• Beryl Nashar, geologist and first female PhD in geology, first female Dean of a School in Australia

Sports

• George Bailey, Australian cricketer
• Brendon Bolton, senior coach of the Carlton Football Club
• Scott Brennan, gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics for rowing^[16]
• Peter Daniel, former Essendon footballer
• Simon Hollingsworth, former athlete and CEO of the Australian Sports Commission; Rhodes Scholar
• Kerry Hore, Olympic rower
• Hamish Peacock, Olympic javelin thrower
• Meaghan Volker, Olympic rower
• Denis Scanlon, former Essendon footballer

Other

• Phillip Aspinall, Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia
• Simon Longstaff, Executive Director of the St James Ethics Centre
• Michael Lynch, evangelist and Christian blogger
• Bill Mollison, "father of permaculture"^[17]
• Brodie Neill, industrial designer
• Helen Szoke, Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia, former Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner and former Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner

Administration

Chancellors

Order		Years	Notes
1	The Hon. Sir William Lambert Dobson	1890–1898	[18]
2	The Reverend George Clarke	1898–1907	[19]
3	The Hon. Sir John Stokell Dodds,	1907–1914	[20]
4	The Hon. Tetley Gant,	1914–1924	[21]
5	The Hon. Sir (Neil) Elliott Lewis,	1924–1933	[22]
6	Mr William Stops	1933–1944	[23]
7	The Hon. Sir John Demetrios Morris,	1944–1956	[24]
	Mr Cecil Roy Baker,	1953 (acting)	[25]
8	The Hon. Sir Henry Seymour Baker,	1956–1963	[26] [27]
9	Sir Henry Beaufort Somerset,	1964–1972	[28]
10	Sir (Eustace) John Cameron,	1973–1981	[29]
11	Sir (John) Peter Lloyd	1982–1985	[30]
12	The Hon. Sir Guy Green,	1985–1995	[31]
13	The Hon. Mr Justice William Zeeman	1995 (acting), 19961998	[32]
	Ms Kimbra Boyer	1998 (acting)	[33]
14	Dr Michael Vertigan,	19982006	[34]
15	Mr Damian Bugg,	20062012	[35]
16	The Hon. Michael Field,	2013June 2021	[36]
17	Ms Alison Watkins	21 June 2021 – present	[37]

Vice-Chancellors

Order		Years	Notes
1		18901898
2		18981899
3		19001901
4	Andrew Inglis Clark,	19011903
5	Sir Neil Elliott Lewis,	19031909
6	Tetley Gant,	19091914
7	William Stops	19141933
8	Robert Dunbabin	19331933
9	E. Morris Miller,	19331945
10	Alan Burn	19451949
11	Torleiv Hytten,	19491957
12	Keith Isles,	19571969
13	Sir George Cartland,	19691977
14	David Caro,	19771982
15	Alec Lazenby,	19821990
16	Alan Gilbert,	19911996
17	Don McNicol	19962002
18	Daryl Le Grew,	20032010
19		20112017	[38]
20		2018present

Faculty

• Thomas Bavin, law academic and past Premier of New South Wales
• David Bollard, classical pianist
• Angela Christine Bridgland (former lecturer at TCAE), library educator
• Barry Brook, environmental sustainability academic
• Hans Adolph Buchdahl, physicist
• Douglas Copland, economist
• Rodney Croome, LGBT advocate and academic
• Winifred Curtis, botanist, author and plant science academic
• Robert Delbourgo, physicist
• John Dalgleish Donaldson, mathematics academic
• Roy Fagan, law academic and past Deputy Premier of Tasmania
• John Field, senior army officer and engineering academic
• Theodore Thomson Flynn, biologist, father of Errol Flynn
• Adrian Franklin, sociologist and television personality
• Barbara R. Holland, mathematics academic
• Peter D. Jarvis, physicist
• Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Gareth Koch, classical guitarist
• E. E. Kurth, chemistry academic
• Delphine Lannuzel, sea ice biogeochemist and Antarctic researcher^[39]
• Frank Madill,, former Liberal politician, medical doctor and author
• John Martinkus, journalist
• James McAuley, poet
• Tim McCormack, international humanitarian law academic
• Jocelyn McPhie, adjunct professor of volcanology
• Lindsay Simpson, journalist, academic and crime writer
• Sydney Sparkes Orr, philosopher
• Garth Paltridge, atmospheric physicist
• Doug Parkinson, law academic and politician
• Anya Reading, geophysicist
• Grote Reber, radio astronomer
• Henry Reynolds, historian
• Steven M. Smith, plant genetics and biochemistry academic
• Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, law academic
• Michael Tate, Catholic priest, legal scholar and former Labor politician
• Helen Tiffin, post-colonial theorist
• Ernest Ewart Unwin, education academic
• Edward Ronald Walker, diplomat and economist
• Kate Warner, legal academic and former Governor of Tasmania^[2]
• Peter Whish-Wilson, politician and economist

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vice-Chancellor's Fellow - Vice-Chancellor. 2022-02-07. Vice-Chancellor - University of Tasmania, Australia. en-AU.
2. http://www.govhouse.tas.gov.au/governor/curriculum-vitae Curriculum Vitae of The Governor
3. Web site: https://www.hannahyeoh.com/.
4. Web site: Australian Government, Department of Defence . Chief Executive Officer of the Defence Materiel Organisation - Department of Defence . Defence.gov.au . 2010-05-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090912002223/http://www.defence.gov.au/leaders/dmo/stephenGumley/index.htm . 12 September 2009 .
5. Web site: An examination of shifting costs and their effects on Tasmanian exporting industries / by C.P. Haddo... | National Library of Australia . Catalogue.nla.gov.au . 2010-05-16.
6. Web site: bhutantimes - SAARC's council of ministers summit kicks off . Bhutantimes.bt . 2011-01-12 . 2011-08-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724022047/http://www.bhutantimes.bt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2325&Itemid=1 . 24 July 2011 . dmy-all .
7. Web site: Panellist: Anthony Ackroyd . . . 3 June 2016.
8. Web site: Hari. Shanker R. . Metro Plus Thiruvananthapuram: On a roll . https://web.archive.org/web/20091017220827/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/10/15/stories/2009101550960100.htm . dead . 2009-10-17 . 2009-10-15. The Hindu. 2011-08-02.
9. Web site: NOTES FOR READING GROUPS - Richard Flanagan. 2004-11-03. Picador Australia. 2009-11-08. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091003151402/http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/resources/9780330364751-notes.pdf. 3 October 2009. dmy-all.
10. Web site: Lieutenant Governor named - Tasmanian Government Media Releases . Media.tas.gov.au . 2010-05-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090515051002/http://www.media.tas.gov.au/print.php?id=26532 . 15 May 2009 .
11. Book: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090117b.htm . Griffiths, Philip Lewis (1881 - 1945) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online . Philip Lewis Griffiths (1881–1945) . Adb.online.anu.edu.au . 2010-05-16.
12. Web site: LawAlumni News . Law.utas.edu.au . 2010-05-16.
13. Web site: The Nauru Constitutional Review Commission Report. 28 February 2007. 202. 15 August 2024.
14. Web site: McCracken, Kenneth Gordon . CSIRO . 24 May 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402114921/http://www.csiropedia.csiro.au/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1868010 . 2 April 2015 . dmy-all .
15. News: Australia : Ecosystems Expert to Compile Collective Climate Change Knowledge. https://web.archive.org/web/20180715064433/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-501299170.html. dead. 15 July 2018. 21 August 2017. Mena Report. 12 July 2018.
16. Web site: Aussies Crawshay and Brennan win double sculls gold - 2008 Beijing Olympic Games - ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) . ABC . 2010-05-16.
17. Web site: Permaculture - A Quiet Revolution :: An Interview with Bill Mollison . Scottlondon.com . 2010-05-16.
18. Web site: The Hon. Sir (William) Lambert Dobson. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
19. Web site: The Reverend George Clarke. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
20. Web site: The Hon. Sir John Dodds, KCMG. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
21. Web site: The Hon. Tetley Gant, CMG. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
22. Web site: The Hon. Sir (Neil) Elliott Lewis, KCMG. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
23. Web site: Mr William Stops. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
24. Web site: The Hon. Sir John Morris, KCMG. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
25. Web site: Mr Cecil Roy Baker, OBE. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
26. Book: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/baker-sir-henry-seymour-9409. Biography - Sir Henry Seymour Baker - Australian Dictionary of Biography. Sir Henry Seymour Baker (1890–1968) . Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University . 11 May 2018.
27. Web site: The Hon . Sir Henry Baker, KCMG, DSO. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
28. Web site: Sir Henry Somerset, CBE. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
29. Web site: Sir (Eustace) John Cameron, CBE. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
30. Web site: Sir (John) Peter Lloyd. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
31. Web site: The Hon. Sir Guy Green, AC, KBE, CVO. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
32. Web site: The Hon. Mr Justice William Zeeman. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
33. Web site: Ms Kimbra Boyer. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
34. Web site: Dr Michael Vertigan. University of Tasmania. 11 May 2018.
35. Bugg Interview. Bugg, Damian. Damian Bugg. ABC TV. Stateline. Airlie Ward. Tasmania]]|date=21 July 2006. 5 March 2015.
36. Former premier to be the next UTAS Chancellor. University of Tasmania. 3 July 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130509232304/http://www2.utas.edu.au/tools/recent-news/news/former-premier-to-be-the-next-utas-chancellor. 9 May 2013. dmy-all.
37. Web site: Members – University Council. 2021-09-18. University of Tasmania, Australia. en-AU.
38. Web site: Professor Peter Rathjen: Vice-Chancellor. University Council. University of Tasmania. 2 March 2015.
39. Web site: Delphine Lannuzel. www.utas.edu.au. 2016-06-14.