- Gernot Heiser
Gernot Heiser (born 1957) is professor for operating systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is also leader of the Embedded, Real-Time and Operating Systems (ERTOS) research program at NICTA. Recently he has founded a company called Open Kernel Labs (OK) where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. His research focuses on microkernels and microkernel-based systems as well as virtual machines.
- Peter Saunders
Peter Saunders is an Australian social researcher (not to be confused with the right-wing social researcher of the same name). He is a professor and Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1995.
- Martin Green
Martin Green is an Australian professor at the University of New South Wales who works intensively with the development of the use of solar energy. He was born 1948 in Brisbane, graduated from University of Queensland and completed his PhD at McMaster University in Canada, where he specialised in solar energy. In 1974, at the University of New South Wales, he initiated the Solar Photovoltaics Group which soon worked on the development of silicon solar cells.
- Gordon Parker
Gordon Parker is a professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales, specializing in research in mental health. He is the director of the Black Dog Institute, an organization based at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, New South Wales, that focuses on the treatment of mood disorders, in particular clinical depression and bipolar disorder.
- Fred Hilmer
Professor Fred Hilmer AO is an Australian academic and business figure. Professor Hilmer is presently the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, an appointment he began in June 2006. He also serves as a director and Deputy-Chairman of the Westfield Group. Professor Hilmer was previsouly the Chief Executive Officer of John Fairfax Holdings Limited from 1998 - 2005.
- Ori Allon
Ori Allon is the PhD student behind the Orion Search Engine that earned praise from Bill Gates among others for its ability to return pages on not just the keyword entered in, but also pages with content that is strongly related to the keyword. Mr Allon, a computer scientist, was born in Israel but came to study at Melbourne's Monash University in the '90s. After completing his Bachelor and Masters degrees, he moved to the University of New South Wales in Sydney, …
- David Gonski
Mr. Gonski was appointed Non-Executive Independent Director of ASX on 1 June 2007. He is a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, and following the retirement of Mr Newman, will be appointed Chairman of the ASX Board and the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.
- John Sweller
John Sweller is an Australian educational psychologist who is best known for formulating an influential theory of cognitive load. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide's Department of Psychology — his thesis was titled "Effects of initial discrimination training on subsequent shift learning in animals and humans" — and also has a B.A. (Hons.) from the same institution.
- Kerry Nettle
Kerry Michelle Nettle (born 24 December 1973) is an Australian Senator.
- John Yu
Dr. John Samuel Yu AC is a distinguished paediatrics doctor. Born in Nanjing, China, he attended Fort Street High School in Sydney, Australia. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children at the time of its relocation from inner-city Camperdown to Westmead in western Sydney in 1995 (the hospital now uses the name The Children's Hospital at Westmead in addition to its official title), …
- Mark Wainwright
Mark Wainwright AM is an Australian academic. He served as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales from July 2004 until June 2006. Prior to this appointment, Wainwright had been the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University from mid-April 2004. Previously to that, Wainwright was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), an appointment he had held since January 2001.
- Larissa Behrendt
Larissa Behrendt (1969 -) is an Aboriginal Australian academic and writer. She is currently a Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Behrendt completed a Bachelor of Laws at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1992, and in the same year she was admitted by the Supreme Court of New South Wales to practice as a solicitor.
- 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 St John's College, University of Sydney (1971-74), where he was influenced by philosophers David Stove and David Armstrong. He completed his PhD in 1981 at Warwick University, on algebraic groups.
- Ian Sloan
Ian Sloan is an Australian applied mathematician who was born in Melbourne in 1938. He was educated at Melbourne University (BSc 1958, BA (hons) 1960), Adelaide University (MSc, 1961) and London University (PhD, 1964). He was a research scientist for CSR Co 1964-5, and since 1965 has been at the University of New South Wales, where he has been Scientia Professor since 1999. His early work was in theoretical nuclear physics but he moved to applied mathematics, …
- Marie Bashir
Professor Marie Roslyn Bashir AC CVO (born 1930) is the current Governor of New South Wales and Chancellor of the University of Sydney.
- Mr Miyagi
Benjamin Lee (born July 21, 1969) is a prominent Singaporean blogger who writes as "Mr Miyagi", a nickname he acquired playing rugby in Sydney, Australia, where he spent 8 years reading law at the University of New South Wales. He spent his secondary school years at the Anglo-Chinese School. In collaboration with mrbrown, another prominent Singaporean blogger, he produces the popular podcast known as the mrbrown show.
- Gavin Brown
Gavin Brown AO (27 February 1942) is a Scottish-born mathematician, and the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. His academic career began at the University of Liverpool, where he became a senior lecturer in mathematics. He accepted the Chair of Pure Mathematics at the University of New South Wales in 1975 when he and his family emigrated to Australia.
- Miraca Gross
Born in Scotland but spending the majority of her life in Australia, Dr Miraca U. M. Gross is Professor of Gifted Education at the University of New South Wales School of Education. She is a well known authority on the academic, social and emotional needs of gifted children and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.
- Don Weatherburn
Dr Don Weatherburn has been Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research in Sydney since 1988 and is an Adjunct Professor with the School of Social Science and Policy at the University of New South Wales. Don Weatherburn was educated at Newington College and the University of Sydney where in 1974 he received his BA with first class honours. He completed a Ph.D in 1979 and lectured in the School of Justice Administration at Charles Sturt University.
- John della Bosca
John Della Bosca is an Australian Labor Party (ALP) politician in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Della Bosca is currently a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Formerly the Minister for Commerce, Minister for Finance, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Disability Services and Vice President of the Executive Council. He serves as Leader of the Government in the upper house.
- Greg Combet
Gregory Ivan Combet AM (born April 28 1958) is an Australian trade unionist and has been Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) since 2000. Combet is married to Petra Hilsen and has one daughter (Anna), one stepdaughter (Clara) and one stepson (Yanni). Greg Combet was born in Sydney and educated at the Universities of New South Wales and Sydney, where he studied engineering, economics and labour relations.
- Chris Winder
Professor Chris Winder JP, is a UK born Australian academic figure and scientist. Professor Winder is presently Professor in Applied Toxicology in the School of Safety Science of the University of New South Wales, an appointment he began in 1992. He also served as chairman of the Standards Australia committee SF/1, developing standards for occupational health and safety management systems (AS 4804 & AS 4801), …
- Donald Horne
Professor Donald Horne was an Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellectuals. Horne published three novels and more than twenty volumes of history, memoir and political and cultural analysis. He also edited "The Bulletin", "The Observer" and "Quadrant". His best known work was "The Lucky Country" (1964), …
- Robert McClelland
Robert Bruce McClelland (born 26 January 1958), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Barton, New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Senator Doug McClelland, who was a Senator for New South Wales 1962-87, a minister in the Whitlam government and President of the Senate 1983-87.
- Tony Vinson
Tony Vinson 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 Professor in the School of Social Work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney from which he graduated in 1956. His career spans the disciplines of social work, social policy, psychology, education, public administration and social research.
- Michael Cowling
Michael Cowling is an Australian pure mathematician who was born in Melbourne in 1949. He gained a BSc (Hons) (1971) from ANU and a PhD (1974) from Flinders University. After some years mainly at the University of Genoa, he became Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of New South Wales in 1983. His work centres on harmonic analysis and geometry of Lie groups. He was the 1989 winner of the Australian Mathematical Society Medal.
- Oleg Sushkov
Oleg Sushkov is a Professor at the University of New South Wales and a leader in the field of high temperature super-conductors. Educated in Russia in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics, he now teaches in Australia.
- Michael Lee
Michael Lee is an Australian Labor Party member of the City of Sydney Council. Lee grew up in the Sydney beach side suburb of Cronulla and attended the local De la Salle College. His immediate classmates included Steve Hutchins, now an Australian Senator, and John Della Bosca, now the NSW Minister for Industrial Relations. After graduating in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales, …
- Patrick O'Farrell
Patrick O'Farrell (1933 - 2003), was a historian known for his histories of Roman Catholicism in Australia, Irish history and the Irish in Australia. He was born in Greymouth, New Zealand and educated at Marist Brothers High School, Greymouth, and at the University of Canterbury, where he received both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in History. He moved to Australia in 1956 and received a PhD from the Australian National University.
- David Foster
David Foster (born 1944) is a contemporary Australian novelist. David Foster was born in Katoomba, New South Wales and grew up in the Blue Mountains. He studied science at University of Sydney and took a doctorate from Australian National University. He has worked as a research scientist, truck driver, postie and on a prawn trawler as well as writing. The subjects of his novels range from rock music to ancient mythology, with some characters like D'Arcy D'Oliveres, …
- Karl Kruszelnicki
Karl Kruszelnicki AM (1948 Helsingborg, Sweden) is a scientist, although best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television. He is usually referred to as "Dr Karl" by his fans, although his full name is actually Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of New South Wales, …
- Andrew Morton
Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers on the Linux kernel project. He currently maintains a patchset known as the "mm" tree, which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official 2.6 kernel maintained by Linus Torvalds. In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, …
- Raj Reddy
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937 in Katoor, India, near Chennai) is a world-renowned researcher in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Computer Interaction. After his undergraduate studies at the College of Engineering, Guindy (now part of Anna University) in 1958, he did a master's degree in Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales, and a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1966.
- Larry Anthony
Lawrence James "Larry" Anthony (born 17 December 1961), Australian politician, was a National Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Richmond, New South Wales, from March 1996 until his defeat in the parliamentary election of October 9 2004. He held the seat that was previously held by his father, Doug Anthony, and his grandfather, Larry Anthony.
- Marion May Campbell
Marion May Campbell is a contemporary Australian novelist and academic. Marion Campbell earned a BA in French Literature at the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Australia. She then pursued post-graduate study at Aix en Provence, writing a dissertation on the work of Stéphane Mallarmé. Her four published novels explore professional and personal relationships between women and literary theoretical concerns, …
- Gary Nairn
Gary Roy Nairn (born 3 January 1951), Australian politician, has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Eden-Monaro, New South Wales. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at the University of New South Wales. He was a surveyor in private practice and managing director of a surveying and mapping consultancy before entering politics.
- Marise Payne
Marise Ann Payne (b. July 29 1964) is a Liberal Senator for the state of New South Wales in Australia. Senator Payne was appointed to the Senate on April 4, 1997, and elected in 2001 for a full term which began on July 1 2002. After growing up in Sydney and the NSW Southern Highlands, Senator Payne went on to complete her education at MLC School, Burwood and her Bachelor of Arts and Laws at the University of New South Wales.
- James Weirick
Professor James Weirick is an Australian academic who is currently serving as Director of the Master of Urban Design program at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Professor Weirick is well-known as a world authority on Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin, the architects who won the international competition to design the masterplan for Australia's capital, Canberra.
- Ben Peek
Ben Peek (October 12, 1976, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael. Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including "Fantasy Magazine" and "Aurealis". His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes. In 2000, he created a zine called "The Urban Sprawl Project", a black and white pamphlet of photography and prose, and this remains the name of his online journal.
- John Kaye
John Kaye is a former teacher and researcher in electrical engineering at the University of New South Wales where he specialised in sustainable energy and greenhouse issues. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and over twenty years of research and teaching experience. He is a vocal critic of electricity industry privatisation and a strong advocate for renewable energy and energy efficiency.