List of University of Adelaide people#Chancellors

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• Shaun Bonett – founder of the Precision Group
• John Langdon Bonython – founding chairman of Santos
• Bruce Carter – chairman of ASC Pty Ltd
• Cheong Choong Kong – former chief executive officer of Singapore Airlines, chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
• Tim Cooper – managing director of Coopers Brewery
• Simon Hackett – founder of Internode (ISP)
• Tim Harcourt – economist
• Edward Holden – managing director of General Motors-Holden
• Wayne Jackson – former chief executive officer of the Australian Football League (AFL)
• Lim Siong Guan – group president of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation
• Gillon McLachlan – chief executive officer of the AFL
• Thorburn Brailsford Robertson – pioneered insulin manufacture in Australia
• Bo Songvisava – chef and restaurateur
• John Spalvins – managing director of the Adelaide Steamship Company
• Raymond Spencer – chair of the South Australian Economic Development Board
• Neil Weste – microelectronics engineer and entrepreneur
• Philip Wollen – former Vice President Citibank; General Manager at Citicorp, Philanthropist
• Danielle Wood — economist and incoming chair of the Productivity Commission
• Wan Zulkiflee – chairman of Malaysia Airlines, former president and chief executive officer of Petronas

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• Frances Adamson – governor 2021–present
• Roma Mitchell – Australia's first female judge; its first female governor 1991–1996
• Eric Neal – business leader, governor 1996–2001
• Mark Oliphant – physicist; governor 1971–1976
• Keith Seaman – Uniting Church minister; governor 1977–1982
• Hieu Van Le – lieutenant governor of South Australia 2007–2014; governor 2014–2021

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• Julia Gillard – 27th Prime Minister of Australia (2009–2012) (attended 1979 to 1982, transferred to the University of Melbourne{{cite web|url=http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news39962.html|title=Australia's new PM pays tribute to her 'great education'|date=2010-06-24|publisher=The University of Adelaide}})

• Peter Ong Boon Kwee – Head of the Civil Service, Singapore since 2010,{{Cite news|title=Civil Service head Peter Ong says policy makers must be close to the ground|date=26 March 2014|work=The Straits Times|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/civil-service-head-peter-ong-says-policy-makers-must-be-close-the-grou|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327062754/http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/civil-service-head-peter-ong-says-policy-makers-must-be-close-the-grou|archivedate=27 March 2014|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=New Chairman for the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA)|date=30 August 2010|publisher=Singapore Government|url=http://www.news.gov.sg/public/sgpc/en/media_releases/agencies/mof/press_release/P-20100830-2/AttachmentPar/0/file/ACRA%20Chairmanship%20Appt%20(FINAL).pdf|access-date=16 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710075358/http://www.news.gov.sg/public/sgpc/en/media_releases/agencies/mof/press_release/P-20100830-2/AttachmentPar/0/file/ACRA%20Chairmanship%20Appt%20(FINAL).pdf|archive-date=10 July 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Singapore since 2009,{{Cite web|title=MOF: Organisational Structure|publisher=Ministry of Finance, Singapore Government|year=2014|url=http://app.mof.gov.sg/organisational_structure.aspx|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214012059/http://app.mof.gov.sg/organisational_structure.aspx|archivedate=14 February 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=16 November 2014|df=dmy-all}} and Permanent Secretary with Special Duties in the Prime Minister's Office, Singapore{{Cite web|title=Prime Minister's Office: Senior Management & Their Personal Assistants|year=2014|publisher=Singapore Government|url=http://app.sgdi.gov.sg/listing.asp?agency_subtype=dept&agency_id=0000000014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026053913/http://app.sgdi.gov.sg/listing.asp?agency_subtype=dept&agency_id=0000000014|archivedate=26 October 2013|url-status=live}}
• Ong Teng Cheong – 5th President of Singapore (1993–1999){{cite web |url=http://www.istana.gov.sg/content/istana/thepresident/formerpresidents/otc.html |title=Istana - Former Presidents |accessdate=2011-08-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807162119/http://www.istana.gov.sg/content/istana/thepresident/formerpresidents/otc.html |archivedate=7 August 2011 |df=dmy-all }} Istana Singapore – former Presidents – Mr Ong Teng Cheong
• Joseph Pairin Kitingan – 7th Chief Minister of Sabah, Malaysia (1985–1994)
• Adenan Satem – 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (2014–2017)
• Abdul Taib – 4th Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (1981–2014); Governor of Sarawak (2014–)
• Tony Tan Keng Yam – 7th President of Singapore (2011–2017);[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1149594/1/.html Channel News Asia : PE: Dr Tony Tan elected Singapore's 7th President] Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1995–2005{{cite web |url=http://www.nus.edu.sg/president/past_presidents/tonytan.php |title=NUS - National University of Singapore - President's Office - Welcome |accessdate=2011-06-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613050303/http://www.nus.edu.sg/president/past_presidents/tonytan.php |archivedate=13 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }} National University of Singapore : Past Presidents and Vice Chancellors — Dr Tony TAN Keng Yam)

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• Lynn Arnold – Premier of South Australia 1992–1993
• John Bannon – Premier of South Australia 1982–1992
• Henry Barwell – Premier of South Australia 1920–1924
• Dean Brown – Premier of South Australia 1993–1996
• Don Dunstan – Premier of South Australia 1967–1968, and 1970–1979
• Rob Kerin – Premier of South Australia 2001–2002
• Peter Malinauskas – Premier of South Australia 2022–
• David Tonkin – Premier of South Australia 1979–1982
• Jay Weatherill – Premier of South Australia 2011–2018

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• Benjamin Benny – Senator for South Australia (1920–1926)
• Gordon Bilney – Member for Kingston (1983–1996), former minister
• Simon Birmingham – Senator for South Australia (2007–), former minister
• Julie Bishop – Member for Curtin (1998–), former minister
• Mark Bishop – Senator for Western Australia (1996–2014)
• Nick Bolkus – Senator for South Australia (1981–2005), former minister
• Mark Butler – Member for Hindmarsh (2007–), current minister
• Peter Duncan – Member for Makin (1984–1996), former minister
• Don Farrell – Senator for South Australia (2008–2014, 2016–), current minister
• Janine Haines – Senator for South Australia (1977–1978, 1981–1990)
• Sarah Hanson-Young – Senator for South Australia (2008–)
• Robert Hill – Senator for South Australia (1981–2006), former minister, and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations
• Annette Hurley – Senator for South Australia (2005–2011)
• Linda Kirk – Senator for South Australia (2002–2008)
• Keith Laught – Senator for South Australia (1951–1969)
• Alexander McLachlan – Senator for South Australia (1926–1944), Postmaster-General
• Andrew Nikolic – Member for Bass (2013–2016)
• Christopher Pyne – Member for Sturt (1993–2019), former minister
• Margaret Reid – Senator for the Australian Capital Territory (1981–2003)
• Andrew Southcott – Member for Boothby (1996–2016)
• Natasha Stott Despoja – Senator for South Australia (1995–2008), Leader of the Australian Democrats (2001–2002)
• Amanda Vanstone – Senator for South Australia (1984–2007), former minister, Ambassador to Italy (2007–2010)
• David Vigor – Senator for South Australia (1984–1987)
• Keith Wilson – Senator for South Australia (1938–1944), Member for Sturt (1949–1954, 1955–1966)
• Penny Wong – Senator for South Australia (2002–), current minister
• Nick Xenophon – Senator for South Australia (2008–2018)

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• Adair Blain – Member for the Northern Territory (1934–1949)
• Pru Goward – Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, current minister
• Shane Stone – Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (1995–1999)
• Ian Wilson – Member for Sturt (1966–1969, 1972–1993), former minister

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• David Combe – former Secretary of the Australian Labor Party
• Lynton Crosby – campaign strategist and co-founder of the Crosby Textor Group
• Lim Soo Hoon – first female Permanent Secretary of Singapore
• Raymond Lim – Member of Parliament of Singapore (2001–2015), Minister for Transport
• Parameshwara Gangadharaiah – Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka
• Lockwood Smith – Member of the New Zealand Parliament (1984–2013), Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, High Commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom

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• Finlay Crisp – public servant, academic and political scientist
• John Menadue – Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
• Martin Parkinson – Secretary of the Department of the Treasury
• John E. Scanlon – Secretary General of CITES

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• Richard Broinowski – Australian Ambassador to Mexico (1994–1997)
• Walter Crocker – diplomat and writer
• Maurice de Rohan – South Australian Agent General in London (1998–2006)
• Tim George – Australian diplomat

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• Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|VC|CMG|CBE}} – soldier and lawyer; awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916{{cite encyclopedia| last = Blackburn | first = R.A | encyclopedia = Australian Dictionary of Biography| title = Blackburn, Arthur Seaforth (1892 - 1960)| url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070315b.htm?hilite=Victoria+Cross| accessdate = 2008-01-23| edition = Online | year = 1979| publisher = Melbourne University Press| volume = 7| location = Melbourne| pages = 307–308}}. Blackburn also attended Pulteney Grammar School.

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• Robyn Archer – performer and director
• Julian Cochran – composer
• Ruby Davy – pianist and composer
• John Dowie – painter and sculptor
• Francis Greenslade – comedian
• Robert Hannaford – realist artist
• Mark Holden – singer, actor, television personality and barrister
• Graham Jenkin – poet, composer and historian
• Graeme Koehne – composer
• Dichen Lachman – actress
• Anthony "Lehmo" Lehmann – comedian
• Lionel Logue – speech and language therapist and stage actor who successfully treated King George VI
• Gary McCaffrie – comedy writer and producer
• Shaun Micallef – comedian and writer
• Keith Michell – film and television actor
• Steve J. Spears – playwright and director
• Stephen Whittington – composer, pianist and writer on music

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• Geoffrey Dutton – author and historian
• Anne Philomena O'Brien – author and historian
• Russel Ward – historian and author of The Australian Legend
• Graham Zanker – professor

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• Keith Conlon – television and radio presenter
• Annabel Crabb – political writer and commentator
• Zoe Daniel – ABC foreign correspondent
• Chris Dore – editor in chief of The Australian
• Fran Kelly – journalist and political correspondent
• Christian Kerr – political commentator and journalist
• Samantha Maiden – national political editor of News Corporation Sunday papers
• Hamish McLachlan – television sports commentator for the Seven Network
• David Penberthy – editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph
• Angela Pippos – ABC sports journalist
• Michael Stutchbury – editor-in-chief of The Australian Financial Review
• Anne Summers – feminist writer and commentator

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• Georgia Blain – author
• James Bradley – author
• John Jefferson Bray – poet and jurist
• Nancy Cato – author
• Garry Disher – author
• Brian Elliott – academic
• Anna Goldsworthy – writer and classical pianist
• Kerryn Goldsworthy – writer and critic
• Peter Goldsworthy – author
• Max Harris – Angry Penguins poet and publisher
• Rex Ingamells – poet and founder of the Jindyworobak Movement
• Joe Penhall – playwright
• Colin Thiele – writer
• Sean Williams – science fiction author

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• David Chalmers – philosopher and Federation Fellow
• Margaret Somerville – ethicist

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• Amanda Banton – lawyer
• John Basten – Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
• Richard Blackburn – former Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory
• Catherine Branson – former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
• John Bray – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, poet and classicist
• James Crawford – legal academic; Judge of the International Court of Justice (2014)
• Bill Denny – Attorney-General of South Australia
• John Doyle – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• John Finnis – legal scholar and philosopher
• Regina Graycar – Emeritus Professor of Law School, University of Sydney
• Hermann Homburg – Attorney-General of South Australia
• Elliott Johnston – Communist activist and Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Len King – South Australian Attorney-General; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Robert Lawson – Attorney-General of South Australia
• Chris Kourakis – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Bruce Lander – South Australia's first Independent Commissioner Against Corruption
• G. C. Ligertwood – Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Brian Martin – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
• Robin Millhouse – lawyer, politician, Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; Chief Justice of Kiribati and Nauru
• Roma Mitchell – lawyer, first female Queen's Counsel in Australia (1962); Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia; first female superior court judge in the British Commonwealth (1965)
• George Murray – Chief Justice of South Australia
• Mellis Napier – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
• Rosemary Owens – Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide Law School
• Angas Parsons – former judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and former Attorney-General of South Australia
• Geoffrey Reed – Judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia; the first director-general of ASIO
• Len Roberts-Smith – former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
• Paul Rofe – former South Australian Director of Public Prosecutions
• Colin Rowe – Attorney-General of South Australia
• Reginald Rudall – Attorney-General of South Australia
• Chris Sumner – Attorney-General of South Australia
• Margaret White – first female judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland

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• William Lawrence Bragg – physicist, Nobel laureate with his father (William Henry Bragg) "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1915/wl-bragg.html|publisher=The Nobel Foundation|year=1915|title=Lawrence Bragg — Biography }}
• Howard Florey – pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1945) "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1945/florey.html|publisher=The Nobel Foundation|year=1945|title=Sir Howard Florey — Biography}}
• Robin Warren – pathologist, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2005), for the "discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"

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• Raymond Begg – orthodontist
• Henry Fry – physician and anthropologist
• John Charles Hargrave – surgeon and leprosy expert
• Basil Hetzel – authority on iodine deficiency
• Rory Hume – dentist
• Tareq Kamleh – doctor who joined Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Loretta Marron {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}} – CEO of Friends of Science in Medicine
• Helen Marshall – vaccinologist
• Helen Mayo – pioneer in women's and children's health
• Henry Simpson Newland – surgeon
• Nicola Spurrier – SA Chief Public Health Officer
• Philip Nitschke – pro euthanasia advocate

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• Herbert Basedow – anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer and medical practitioner
• Warren Bonython – conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer
• Keith Briggs – mathematician
• Henry Brose – physicist
• Helen Caldicott – physician and anti-nuclear advocate
• Herbert Condon – ornithologist
• Constance Davey – psychologist
• Margaret M. Davies – herpetologist
• Anthony C. Hearn – computer scientist
• Tim Jarvis – environmental scientist
• Norman Jolly – forest researcher
• Rodney Jory – physicist
• Abdul Karim – soil scientist{{cite book |last=Munni |first=Tanjina Khan |year=2012 |chapter=Karim, Abdul1 |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Karim,_Abdul1 |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}}
• Aubrey Lewis – first professor of psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry
• Jim May – chemical engineer and metallurgist
• Trevor McDougall – physical oceanographer and climate researcher
• Brian Morris – molecular biologist
• Keith Nugent – physicist
• Mark Oliphant – nuclear physicist
• Ian Plimer – professor and global warming critic
• Hugh Possingham – mathematical ecologist
• Lindsay Pryor – botanist and founding designer of the Australian National Botanic Gardens
• Enid Lucy Robertson – Systematic botanist
• Roy Robinson – forest researcher
• Nagendra Kumar Singh – National Professor, Dr. B.P.Pal Chair, Indian Council of Agricultural Research
• Reg Sprigg – geologist and conservationist; discovered Ediacara biota
• Ted Strehlow – Australian anthropologist
• Andy Thomas – first Australia-born professional astronaut to enter space
• Cecil Edgar Tilley – petrologist and geologist
• Norman Tindale – Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist

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• Max Basheer – football administrator
• Leonidas Bott – cricketer
• Matthew Cowdrey – swimmer; Australia's most successful Paralympian
• Collier Cudmore – Olympic rower and gold medal winner
• Albert Curtis – tennis player{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17007321 |title=LAWN TENNIS. The Late Dr. A. C. Curtis. |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=15 September 1933 |accessdate=18 April 2015 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123362029 |title=Lawn Tennis Tournament. |work=Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald & General Advertiser |date=1 September 1896 |accessdate=18 April 2015 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
  {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163796317 |title=Mr. A. Curtis (the Lawn Tennis Champion). |work=Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser |date=31 July 1897 |accessdate=18 April 2015 |page=233 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Hannah Davis – Olympic medal winning sprint canoer
• Moya Dodd – soccer official and player
• Annette Edmondson – Olympic cyclist and bronze medal winner at 2012 Summer Olympics
• Jaime Fernandez – three time Olympic rower in the Men's Eight (1992, 1996 and 2000), winning a silver medal in 2000
• David Fitzsimons – middle-distance runner
• Amber Halliday – rower
• Juliet Haslam – hockey player and Olympic gold medalist
• Marguerite Houston – Olympic rower
• James McRae – world champion and Olympic medal winning rower
• Chris Morgan – rower, world champion, and Olympian{{cite news |title=Australia claims record medal haul at world rowing championships after gold in men's quad sculls |url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sports/australia-claims-record-medal-haul-at-world-rowing-championships-after-gold-in-mens-quad-sculls/story-e6frf56c-1226129074368 |accessdate=7 April 2020 |publisher=www.foxsports.com.au |date=3 September 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007212643/http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sports/australia-claims-record-medal-haul-at-world-rowing-championships-after-gold-in-mens-quad-sculls/story-e6frf56c-1226129074368 |archivedate=7 October 2012}}{{cite news |title=Gold medal row for Aussie pair |url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/gold-medal-row-for-australian-coxed-pair-at-world-championships/story-e6frep5o-1225948760026 |accessdate=7 April 2020 |work=www.couriermail.com.au |date=6 November 2010 |language=en}}
• Darren Ng – professional basketball player for the Adelaide 36ers
• Kate Slatter – Olympic rower; won gold at Atlanta 1996 and a silver at Sydney 2000
• Tim Willoughby – Olympic rower

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• Sir William Bragg – physicist, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1915) with his son William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
• J. M. Coetzee – acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel laureate (Literature, 2003); retired to Adelaide and honorary visiting research fellow in the Discipline of English

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• Leo Blair – father of British Prime Minister Tony Blair; law lecturer at the University of Adelaide while Tony was a child
• William Jethro Brown – professor of law
• Hilary Charlesworth – feminist international law scholar
• Norval Morris – U.S. law professor
• Marcia Neave – Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• D. P. O'Connell – international law professor
• John Salmond – professor of law and judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand

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• Noel Benson – geologist
• Lawrence A. Frakes – geologist and palaeoclimatologist
• Martin Glaessner – geologist and palaeontologist
• Victor Gostin – geologist
• Maciej Henneberg – physical anthropologist, anatomist
• Walter Howchin – geologist
• Arthur Mills Lea – entomologist
• Cecil Madigan – explorer and geologist
• Sir Douglas Mawson – Antarctic explorer and geologist
• Ian Plimer – geologist and noted global warming critic
• Ralph Tate – botanist and geologist
• Charles Rowland Twidale – geomorphologist
• Michael J. Tyler – herpetologist
• Frederic Wood Jones – naturalist and anthropologist

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• Keith Briggs – mathematician, formerly on the staff of the Physics Department
• Gavin Brown – mathematician, former vice chancellor of Adelaide and Sydney Universities
• Charles E. M. Pearce – applied mathematician
• Renfrey Potts – Adelaide's first professor of applied mathematics
• George Szekeres – mathematician known for the Erdős–Szekeres theorem
• Ernie Tuck – applied mathematician
• Mathai Varghese – pure mathematician, Elder Professor of Mathematics, Australian Laureate Fellow (2018)

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• Derek Abbott – physicist and engineer; pioneered the first terahertz radiation (T-ray) program in Australia; led the early development of a branch of game theory known as Parrondo's paradox; cracked the Somerton Man case
• Rod Crewther – physicist; former PhD student of the Nobel prize winner Murray Gell-Mann
• Sir Kerr Grant – Elder professor of physics 1911–1948
• Bert Green – former PhD student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born; the "G" in "BBGKY"
• Kenneth G. McCracken – physicist and former director of CSIRO
• Tanya Monro – physicist and Federation Fellow (2008)
• Albert Percival Rowe – Vice-Chancellor, physicist; previously radar pioneer in Britain
• Anthony William Thomas – Elder professor of physics; South Australian Scientist of the Year 2014

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• Caroline Crowther – professor of Women's and Children's Health
• Edward Charles Stirling – physiologist, politician and advocate for women's suffrage
• Sir Joseph Cooke Verco – physician and conchologist

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• Neal Blewett – academic, politician and diplomat
• Tristram Cary – composer of the Dalek theme tune for Doctor Who
• Brian Castro – novelist
• Robert Champion de Crespigny – industrialist
• Alexander Downer – former Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Keith Hancock – historian
• Graeme Hugo – demographer and Federation Fellow (2002)
• Ken Inglis – journalist and historian
• Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher
• Jill Jones – poet
• Charles Jury – poet
• Gavan McCormack – orientalist
• Sir Leslie Melville – inaugural professor of economics at age 27; later vice-chancellor of the Australian National University
• Sir William Mitchell – philosopher
• Sir Archibald Grenfell Price – historian and politician
• George Rudé – Marxist historian
• J. J. C. Smart – philosopher
• J. I. M. Stewart – novelist
• Randolph Stow – novelist
• Hugh Stretton – historian and sociologist
• Andrew Taylor – poet
• Ghil'ad Zuckermann – linguist

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• Barry Brook – climate scientist and advocate of nuclear power
• Adrian Cheok – electrical engineer, roboticist
• Alan Cooper – ancient DNA expert and Federation Fellow (2004)
• Paul Davies – Professor of Natural Philosophy, Templeton Prize winner (1995)
• Guy Debelle – economist and former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Tim Flannery – palaeontologist, Australian of the Year
• Fay Gale – geographer; vice-chancellor of University of Western Australia (1990–1997)
• Elizabeth Grant – architect and anthropologist
• Geoff Harcourt – economist
• Peng Shi – engineer
• Peter Sutton – anthropologist
• Riccardo Tossani – Italo-Australian architect

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