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, AM, academic and LGBT rights activist
- Peter Forrest, philosopher
- Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
- Jeff Malpas, philosopher
- Tim McCormack, academic and specialist in international humanitarian law
- Michael Tate, AO, 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[2]
- Kate Warner, AM, legal academic and current Governor of Tasmania[2]
Politics
Federal politicians
- Eric Abetz, Liberal politician
- Neal Blewett AC, former Labor politician
- Ross Hart, former Labor politician
- Michael Hodgman QC, former Liberal politician and barrister
- Justine Keay, former Labor politician
- Christine Milne AO, 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, QC, 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, OAM, 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, member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly[3]
- Halimah Ali, Malaysian politician, MP for Kapar
Public servants
- Ashton Calvert, AC, 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, AO, ballet dancer and choreographer
- Robyn Nevin, AM, 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, AO, 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, QC, 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
- 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[13]
- Jessica Melbourne-Thomas, marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division[14]
- 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[15]
- 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"[16]
- 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 | Chancellor | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hon. Sir William Lambert Dobson | 1890–1898 | [17] |
| 2 | The Reverend George Clarke | 1898–1907 | [18] |
| 3 | The Hon. Sir John Stokell Dodds, KCMG | 1907–1914 | [19] |
| 4 | The Hon. Tetley Gant, CMG | 1914–1924 | [20] |
| 5 | The Hon. Sir (Neil) Elliott Lewis, KCMG | 1924–1933 | [21] |
| 6 | Mr William Stops | 1933–1944 | [22] |
| 7 | The Hon. Sir John Demetrios Morris, KCMG | 1944–1956 | [23] |
| Mr Cecil Roy Baker, OBE | 1953 (acting) | [24] | |
| 8 | The Hon. Sir Henry Seymour Baker, KCMG, DSO | 1956–1963 | [25][26] |
| 9 | Sir Henry Beaufort Somerset, CBE | 1964–1972 | [27] |
| 10 | Sir (Eustace) John Cameron, CBE | 1973–1981 | [28] |
| 11 | Sir (John) Peter Lloyd | 1982–1985 | [29] |
| 12 | The Hon. Sir Guy Green, AC, KBE, CVO | 1985–1995 | [30] |
| 13 | The Hon. Mr Justice William Zeeman | 1995 (acting), 1996–1998 | [31] |
| Ms Kimbra Boyer | 1998 (acting) | [32] | |
| 14 | Dr Michael Vertigan, AC | 1998–2006 | [33] |
| 15 | Mr Damian Bugg, AM, QC | 2006–2012 | [34] |
| 16 | The Hon. Michael Field, AC | 2013–June 2021 | [35] |
| 17 | Ms Alison Watkins | 21 June 2021 – present | [36] |
Vice-Chancellors
| Order | Vice-Chancellor | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Clarke | 1890–1898 | |
| 2 | James Backhouse Walker | 1898–1899 | |
| 3 | Thomas Stephens | 1900–1901 | |
| 4 | Andrew Inglis Clark, KCMG | 1901–1903 | |
| 5 | Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, KCMG | 1903–1909 | |
| 6 | Tetley Gant, CMG | 1909–1914 | |
| 7 | William Stops | 1914–1933 | |
| 8 | Robert Dunbabin | 1933–1933 | |
| 9 | E. Morris Miller, CBE | 1933–1945 | |
| 10 | Alan Burn | 1945–1949 | |
| 11 | Torleiv Hytten, CMG | 1949–1957 | |
| 12 | Keith Isles, CMG | 1957–1969 | |
| 13 | Sir George Cartland, CMG | 1969–1977 | |
| 14 | David Caro, AO OBE | 1977–1982 | |
| 15 | Alec Lazenby, AO | 1982–1990 | |
| 16 | Alan Gilbert, AO | 1991–1996 | |
| 17 | Don McNicol | 1996–2002 | |
| 18 | Daryl Le Grew, AO | 2003–2010 | |
| 19 | Peter Rathjen | 2011–2017 | [37] |
| 20 | Rufus Black | 2018–present |
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
- 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[38]
- Frank Madill, AM, former Liberal politician, medical doctor and author
- John Martinkus, journalist
- James McAuley, poet
- Tim McCormack, international humanitarian law academic
- 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
References
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