Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Jewish-Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a preference utilitarian perspective. In addition, he holds an atheistic view of the world.

Kate Burridge is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Clayton campus. Burridge completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the University of Western Australia. This was followed by three years postgraduate study at the University of London.

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 the University of Melbourne, focusing on Germanic and French languages. He undertook further graduate studies in German and general linguistics at Utrecht and Bonn Universities, before joining the German language faculty at Monash University in Melbourne in 1962. He earned a Ph.D. from Monash in 1965, …

Professor Christopher Stewart Wallace was an Australian computer scientist (and physicist, etc.) notable for having devised: * The minimum message length principle (Wallace and Boulton, 1968, WB1968) - an information-theoretic principle in statistics, econometrics and machine learning which can be seen both as a mathematical formalisation of Occam's Razor and as an invariant Bayesian method of model selection and point estimation.

James William Breen (born 1947) is a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia, where he was a professor before his retirement in 2003. He is well known for his involvement in several popular free Japanese-related projects: the EDICT and JMDict Japanese-English dictionaries, the KANJIDIC kanji dictionary, and the WWWJDIC portal which provides an interface to search them.

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, Victoria, and was educated at the University of Melbourne and Yale University, where he gained a doctoral degree in politics. He is the brother of Senator Rod Kemp.

Ian Macfarlane AC (born 22 June, 1946), Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia's central bank, from 1996 to September 17, 2006. He is also former Chairman of the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank and Chairman of the Council of Financial Regulators. Macfarlane was educated at Monash University, Melbourne and tutored in economics there before joining the RBA in 1970.

Jody Diamond (b. Pasadena, California, April 23, 1953) is an American composer, performer, writer, publisher, editor, and educator. She specializes in new music for the Indonesian gamelan and is considered an international expert on the subject. She received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, and an M.A. from San Francisco State University in 1979, pursuing interdisciplinary studies in music, anthropology, and education.

The Hon Dr Kay Patterson (Liberal Senator for Victoria)<br /> BA (Hons) (Syd), PhD, Dip Ed (Monash), MAPss.<br /><br /> "Born: 21 November 1944" Kay Patterson was elected to the Senate in 1987. Prior to entering the Senate she commenced her working life as a secretary and then manager of a small business. Returning to school when she was 20 she completed matriculation, a degree at the University of Sydney and a PhD in psychology at Monash University.

Damian Conway (born 1964) was, until August 2005, an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (formerly Department of Computer Science) at Monash University. He is a prominent member of the Perl community and exponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. Damian completed his B.Sc. (with honours) and Ph.D. at Monash. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to CPAN and Perl 6 language design, …

Professor Alan Trounson MSc PhD Alan Trounson is professor of stem cell sciences and director, Monash immunology and stem cell laboratories at Monash University, and the founder and executive vice chairman of the National Biotechnology Centre of Excellence Australian Stem Cell Centre, as well as global scientific strategy advisor. Professor Trounson graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1971 with an MSc in wool and pastoral sciences.

Dorothy Auchterlonie (1915-1991) was born in County Durham in England. She was educated in both England and Australia, and studied at the University of Sydney. She taught at various schools, and in 1961 became the first female lecturer at Monash University, lecturing in literature. Her teaching career included positions at both the Australian National University and the Australian Defence Force Academy.

Bruce Andrew Knox (b. 1936) is an Australian academic who is currently a Honorary research associate at Monash University near Melbourne (Victoria), Australia.