List of University of Melbourne people

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• Sir John Behan, educator; Australia's first Rhodes ScholarShaw, A. G. L., [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070244b.htm Behan, Sir John Clifford Valentine (1881 - 1957)], Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp 247–248. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
• Geoff Bowker, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine
• Alec Broers, Baron Broers, electrical engineer, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
• Karen Burns, architectural historian
• Joseph Camilleri, professor at La Trobe University
• Simon Chesterman, Dean of Law at the National University of Singapore{{cite press release|url=http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/pressrel/1110/311011.php|publisher=National University of Singapore|title=Professor Simon Chesterman to be new Dean of NUS Law School|date=31 October 2011|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Michael Clyne, linguist
• Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University
• John Deeble, architect of Medicare Australia
• Richard Dowell, audiologist, academic and researcher
• Ding Dyason, medical historian
• Alan Ebringer, immunologist, professor at King's College in the University of London
• Arie Freiberg, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AM}}, legal academic
• Germaine Greer, feminist
• Maria Gough, art historian at Harvard University
• Bella Guerin, educator and activist; first female university graduate in Australia
• John Alexander Gunn, philosophy professor
• Peter Karmel, former vice-chancellor of Australian National University and Flinders University
• Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith, Australian educator; landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915.
• Arthur Lucas, principal of King's College London (1993–2003)
• Robert Manne, professor of politics at La Trobe University
• Samaresh Mitra, bioinorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Jennifer McKay, Professor of Business Law at the University of South Australia
• Peter McPhee, Provost of the University of Melbourne
• Fulvio Melia, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona and associate editor of the Astrophysical Journal
• Bruce Mitchell, fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
• David S. Oderberg, professor of philosophy at the University of Reading
• Richard G. Pestell, Executive Vice President at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia USA
• Abbas Rajabifard, professor and head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Melbourne School of Engineering
• Michael Roe, historian
• John Ralston (scientist), physical chemist and researcher at the UniSA
• David Shallcross, chemical engineer
• James Simpson, Harvard University professor
• Alexander Smits, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
• John Tasioulas, Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Oxford University
• Gillian Triggs, international legal academic and President of the Australian Human Rights Commission[http://ussc.edu.au/s/media/docs/bios/triggs_gillian.pdf Curriculum Vitae Gillian D Triggs] - United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426090812/http://ussc.edu.au/s/media/docs/bios/triggs_gillian.pdf |date=2013-04-26 }} pdf
• Frances Valintine, education futurist
• Sally Walker, Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University
• Frank T. M. White, Foundation Professor, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Queensland; Macdonald Professor of Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics, McGill University

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• Douglas Alexandra
• James Birrell
• Gregory Burgess
• Bianca Censori
• Peter Corrigan
• Norman Day
• John Denton
• Roy Grounds
• Ellison Harvie
• John Hipwell
• Peter Ho
• Nonda Katsalidis
• Hijjas Kasturi
• Barry Patten
• Louise St John Kennedy
• Neil Clerehan

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• Leigh Clifford, Chairman of Qantas
• Robert Champion de Crespigny
• Margaret Dick
• Anthony Di Pietro, President of Melbourne Victory Football Club and CEO of Premier Fresh Australia
• John Elliott, President of Liberal Party of Australia & Carlton Football Club
• Aubrey Gibson
• Charles Goode, Chairman of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
• James P. Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
• David Hains
• John Holland, founder of John Holland Group
• Margaret Jackson
• Ananda Krishnan, CEO, Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd
• Hugh Morgan, former board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Rupert Myer, director, Myer Family Company
• Richard Pratt
• James Riady, Chairman, Lippo Group
• Graeme Samuel, {{post-nominals|AC}}{{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC}}
• Karl Siegling, funds manager
• Peter Smedley, CEO of Colonial Group, Mayne Nickless
• Evan Thornley, entrepreneur{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/07/1025667089032.html|title=Dot-com prodigal dreams of pies and peace|author=Sinclair, Jenny|date=8 July 2002|access-date=15 March 2015|work=The Age}}

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• Julian Assange, Wikileaks spokesperson and founder (did not graduate)
• Waleed Aly
• Alex Dekker, Humanitarian
• Helen Durham, international humanitarian lawyer{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life/australian-dr-helen-durham-breaks-glass-ceiling-at-international-committee-of-the-red-cross-20140611-zs4a9.html|title=Australian Dr Helen Durham breaks glass ceiling at International Committee of the Red Cross|author=Chandler, Kelly|work=The Age|date=11 June 2014|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Avery Ng, Hong Kong activist
• Tilman Ruff, public health scholar and founder of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

• Richard Casey, Baron Casey, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KG|GCMG|CH|DSO|MC|PC}}, 16th Governor-General of Australia (did not graduate)
• Sir Zelman Cowen, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AK|GCMG|GCVO|QC|PC}}{{cite web|title=The Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen|url=http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkecentre/patrons/Cowen.asp|work=Hawke Centre Biography|publisher=The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre|access-date=8 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102161432/http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkecentre/patrons/Cowen.asp|archive-date=2 January 2012}}
• Peter Hollingworth, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|OBE}}
• Sir Isaac Isaacs, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|GCB|GCMG|KC}}, also former Chief Justice of Australia
• Sir Ninian Stephen, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KG|AK|GCMG|GCVO|KBE|QC}}, also a previous Justice of the High Court of Australia{{cite web|url= http://www.hcourt.gov.au/justices|title=About the Justices|publisher=High Court of Australia|year=2010|access-date=7 May 2011}}

• Alex Chernov, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|QC}}{{cite news|first=Sushi|last=Das|url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-melbourne-man-20090206-7zzz.html|title=The Melbourne man|work=The Age|date=7 February 2009}}
• Professor David de Kretser
• Sir James Gobbo, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|CVO|QC}}, also a previous Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
• John Landy
• Richard McGarvie
• Sir Henry Winneke, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|KCMG|KCVO|OBE|KStJ|QC}}, also a previous Chief Justice of VictoriaColeman, Robert, Above renown: The biography of Sir Henry Winneke, South Melbourne, MacMillan Australia, 1988.

• Sir Bede Clifford {{post-nominals|country=UK|GCMG}}, {{post-nominals|country=UK|CB}}, {{post-nominals|country=UK|MVO}}, Governor of The Bahamas, then Governor of Mauritius and then Governor of Trinidad and Tobago

• Alfred Deakin{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Norris|first= R.|year=1981|id2=deakin-alfred-5927|title=Deakin, Alfred (1856–1919)|access-date=2 October 2013}}
• Julia Gillard, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}}{{cite web |title=Julia Gillard |url=http://history.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/people/politicians/julia-gillard/index.cfm |work=History of the Melbourne Law School |publisher=University of Melbourne |date=24 June 2010 |access-date=24 June 2010 |archive-date=1 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701070908/http://history.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/people/politicians/julia-gillard/index.cfm |url-status=dead }}
• Harold Holt, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CH}}{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Hancock|first=I. R.|year=1996|id A140546b|title=Holt, Harold Edward (1908–1967)|access-date=29 June 2010}}
• Sir Robert Menzies, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KT|AK|CH|FAA|FRS|QC}}{{cite journal |last1=White |first1=F. |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1979.0016 |title=Robert Gordon Menzies. 20 December 1894-15 May 1978 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=25 |pages=445–476 |year=1979 |title-link=Robert Menzies |s2cid=72109450 |doi-access=}}

• Ted Baillieu
• John Brumby
• John Cain II
• Rupert Hamer
• Sir William Irvine, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|GCMG}}, also a former Chief Justice of Victoria
• Joan Kirner
• William Shiels{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=Geoffrey |last=Serle|title=Shiels, William (1848–1904)|id2=shiels-william-8418|access-date=16 November 2012}}
• Lindsay Thompson

• Thomas Ryan {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KC}}

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• Lyn Allison, former Member of the Australian Senate and leader of the Australian Democrats
• Richard Alston, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO}}, former Member of the Australian Senate
• Kevin Andrews, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|MP}}, Member of the Australian House of Representatives{{cite web|year=2015|url=http://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=HK5|title=Hon Kevin Andrews MP|work=Senators and Members|publisher=Parliament of Australia|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Bruce Baird, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AM}}, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Australian House of Representatives{{cite encyclopedia |last1= Blackburn Abeyasekere |first1= Susan |title=Blackburn, Maurice McCrae (1880–1944)|url= http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blackburn-maurice-mccrae-5258 |encyclopedia=Australian Dictionary of Biography |location=Canberra |publisher=Australian National University |access-date=7 February 2015|volume=7|date=1979}}
• Neil Brown, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|QC}}, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Anna Burke, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|MP}}, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• John Button, former Member of the Australian Senate{{cite news|url=http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2008/may/1276828567/james-button/john-button-1933-2008|title=John Button, 1933–2008|author=Button, James|date=May 2008|work=The Monthly|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Jim Cairns, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
• Sam Cohen, former Member of the Australian Senate{{cite book|last=Phillips|first=Julian|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cohen-samuel-herbert-sam-9779|year=1993|access-date=14 April 2014|chapter=Cohen, Samuel Herbert (Sam) (1918–1969)|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University}}
• Barney Cooney, former Member of the Australian Senate{{cite web|last=Carr |first=Adam |title=Australian Election Archive |work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive |url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia |year=2008 |access-date=11 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006075129/http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia |archive-date=6 October 2008 |url-status=dead }}
• Mark Dreyfus, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|QC,|MP}}, Member of Australian House of Representatives{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-man-in-the-hot-seat-20111012-1ll1v.html|date=13 October 2011|author=Green, Shane|location=Melbourne|work=The Age|title=The man in the hot seat|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Gareth Evans, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC,|QC}}, international policymaker, academic, and former Member of the Australian Senate
• John Alexander Forrest
• Petro Georgiou, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
• Andrew Giles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
• Ivor Greenwood, former Member of the Australian Senate
• Ray Groom, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO}}, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives and Premier of Tasmania
• H. B. Higgins, former Attorney-General of Australia and Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Greg Hunt, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|MP}}, Member of Australian House of Representatives
• Dennis Jensen, Member of Australian House of Representatives
• Barry Jones, AC former Member of Australian House of Representatives and Parliament of Victoria.
• David Kemp, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
• John Langmore, Member of Australian House of Representatives
• William Maloney, Member of Australian House of Representatives
• Richard Marles, Member of Australian House of Representatives
• Peter McGauran, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
• Kelly O'Dwyer, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|MP}}, Member of Australian House of Representatives{{cite journal|journal=Lawyers Weekly|date=2009|url=http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/news/former-freehills-lawyer-wins-pre-selection|title=Former Freehills lawyer wins pre-selection|access-date=17 March 2015|archive-date=13 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213053146/http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/news/former-freehills-lawyer-wins-pre-selection|url-status=dead}}
• Andrew Peacock, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|GCL}}, former Member of Australian House of Representatives
• Sir Arthur Robinson, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KCMG}}, former Member of Australian House of Representatives{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Foster |first=Leonie |authorlink=|year=1988|id=A119431b.htm|title= Robinson, Sir Arthur (1872–1945)|access-date=16 March 2008}}
• Nicola Roxon, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives{{cite news|last=Stafford|first=Annabel|title=Going boldly into the minefield that is health|work=The Age|date=29 December 2007|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/12/28/1198778693395.html?page=fullpage|access-date=30 January 2008|location=Melbourne}}
• Roger Shipton, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|OAM}}, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Bill Shorten, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|MP}}, Member of Australian House of Representatives{{cite web|url=http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2012/july/1345679574/john-van-tiggelen/watch-face|title=Watch This Face: Bill Shorten|first=John|last=van Tiggelen|date=July 2012|work=The Monthly}}
• Bruce Smith, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KC}}, former Member of Australian House of RepresentativesRutledge, M. (1988) [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110657b.htm Smith, Arthur Bruce (1851 - 1937)], Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, Carlton.
• Sir John Spicer, former Member of the Australian Senate{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Browne |first=Geoff|year=2002|id=A160348b|title=Spicer, Sir John Armstrong (1899 - 1978)|access-date=23 October 2007}}
• Sid Spindler, former Member of the Australian Senate
• Lindsay Tanner, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Ralph Willis, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO}}, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Agar Wynne, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Bennet |first=Darryl |authorlink= |year=1990|id=A120661b|title= Wynne, Agar (1850–1934) |access-date=15 November 2007}}

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• Sir Clifden Eager {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KBE|KC}}, former President of the Victorian Legislative Council{{cite web|title=Eager, Sir Clifden Henry Andrews|publisher=Parliament of Victoria|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/details/1037-clifden-henry-andrews-eager|access-date= 18 April 2016}}
• Maurice Blackburn, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
• John Bourke, lawyer and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly{{cite web|title=Bourke, John Peter|publisher=Parliament of Victoria|year=1985|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=919|access-date=1 October 2011}}
• Thomas Brennan, political journalist and former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council{{cite web|title=Brennan, Thomas William|publisher=Parliament of Victoria|year=1985|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=924|access-date=30 September 2011}}
• Bruce Chamberlain, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AM}}, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council{{cite web|title=Chamberlain, Bruce Anthony, AM|work=Re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851|publisher=Parliament of Victoria|year=2008|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=954|access-date=4 August 2012}}
• Robert Clark, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/members/id/75|title=Hon Robert Clark|publisher=Parliament of Victoria}}
• Neil Cole, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and playwright and researcher{{cite web| url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=22|title=Cole, Neil Donald|work=People in Parliament|publisher=Parliament of Victoria|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Robert Dean, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
• Frank Field, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly{{cite web|title=Field, Francis|publisher=Parliament of Victoria|year=1985|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1064|access-date=1 October 2011}}
• John Galbally, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|CBE|QC}}, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1081| title=Galbally, John William| publisher=Parliament of Victoria}}
• Matthew Groom, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|MP}}, Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
• Ray Groom, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO}}, former Premier of Tasmania and Member of the Australian House of Representatives
• Tim Holding, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
• Robert Wilfred Holt, Minister for Lands in the Cain government 1952–54
• Trevor Oldham, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Deputy Premier{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=R.|last=Wright |title=Oldham, Trevor Donald (1900–1953)|id2=oldham-trevor-donald-11297/text20161|year=2000}}
• Herbert Postle, former Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly{{cite Tas Parliament |title=Postle, Dr Herbert Thomas |id=postleh421 |access-date=24 July 2022}}
• Robert Ramsay, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly{{cite Australasia|Ramsay, Hon. Robert}}
• Edward Reynolds, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|QC}}, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly
• T. J. Ryan, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KC}}, former Premier of Queensland{{cite encyclopedia

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• Sir Arthur Rylah, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KBE|CMG}}, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Deputy Premier{{cite encyclopedia

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• Prue Sibree, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly{{cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE1207b.htm|work=Australian Woman Biographical Entry|title=Sibree, Prudence Anne (1946 -)|access-date=7 June 2008}}
• Oswald Snowball, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Speaker
• Alan Stockdale, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, serving as Treasurer{{cite news|title=Taking stock|work=The Sunday Age|date=26 March 1995|author=Rule, Andrew}}
• Shane Stone, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|QC}}, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
• Richard Ward, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|QC}}, former Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council and Supreme Court judge{{cite web|title=The Hon. Richard Charles Ward|work=Former Judges|publisher=Supreme Court of the Northern Territory|year=2000|url=http://www.supremecourt.nt.gov.au/judges/former/ward.html|access-date=30 September 2011|archive-date=3 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003184713/http://www.supremecourt.nt.gov.au/judges/former/ward.html|url-status=dead}}
• Sir Henry Wrixon, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KCMG|QC}}, former Member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
• Agar Wynne, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council

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• Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs
• Kirsty Sword Gusmão, First Lady of East Timor{{cite interview|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1417333.htm|subject1=Gusmão, Xanana|subject2=Gusmão, Kirsty|work=Enough Rope with Andrew Denton|interviewer=Andrew Denton|title=Xanana and Kirsty Sword Gusmão|type=Interview|format=transcript|publisher=ABC TV|location=Australia |date=18 July 2005|access-date=19 January 2009 }}
• Hun Many, Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia
• Ismail Abdul Rahman, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
• Tajol Rosli Mohd Ghazali, former Menteri Besar of Perak
• Dato' Sri Mustapa Mohamed, Member of Parliament of Jeli, former Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry
• Baru Bian, Member of Parliament of Selangau, former Malaysian Minister of Works
• Raja Kamarul Bahrin, former Malaysian Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government
• Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister

• William Macmahon Ball, diplomat
• Jean-Pierre Blais, Canadian bureaucrat; Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission{{cite web |url=http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=4853 |title=Jean-Pierre Blais - Prime Minister of Canada |access-date=2012-06-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005150226/http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=4853 |archive-date=2013-10-05 }}
• Peta Credlin, political advisor{{cite news|last=Legge|first=Kate|title=Who's the boss?|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/whos-the-boss/story-e6frg8h6-1226182439093#|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=The Australian|date=5 November 2011}}
• Francis Patrick Donovan, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}}, diplomat and jurist{{cite web|title=University of Melbourne Obituary|url=http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/melbourne-law-school/community/history/people/professors/patrick-donovan|publisher=University of Melbourne Law School|access-date=12 October 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011054034/http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/melbourne-law-school/community/history/people/professors/patrick-donovan|archive-date=11 October 2013}}
• Bill Paterson, Australian Ambassador to Republic of Korea; previously Australian Ambassador to Thailand and Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism{{cite web|url=http://dfat.gov.au/about-us/our-people/homs/pages/ambassador-to-korea-republic-of.aspx |title=Ambassador to Korea (Republic of) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709103723/http://dfat.gov.au/about-us/our-people/homs/pages/ambassador-to-korea-republic-of.aspx |archive-date=2015-07-09 }}
• Trevor Ashmore Pyman, diplomat.
• John So, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• Fred Whitlam, Crown Solicitor; father of Gough{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Harry Frederick (Fred) Whitlam (1884–1961) |encyclopedia=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=Melbourne University Press |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/whitlam-harry-frederick-fred-12020/text21559 |last=Hazlehurst |first=Cameron |volume=16}}
• Danielle Wood, economist and incoming chair of the Productivity Commission
• Luke Lazarus Arnold, Australian diplomat

• Angela Brennan, artist
• Steve Cox, painter and watercolourist
• John Dahlsen, environmental artist
• Hugh Davies, mixed media artist
• Bill Henson, photographer and Venice Biennale representative
• Ali Hogg, photographer and activist
• Pamela Irving, artist and educator
• Anastasia Klose, video artist and Biennale of Sydney representative
• Brian McFarlane (BA & DipEd), film historian, writer, and educator{{cite web | title=Fellow Profile | website=Australian Academy of the Humanities | url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=467 | access-date=18 December 2024}}
• Doris McKellar, photographer{{Cite web|url=http://museumsandcollections.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/2031570/07_Laurenson-Kodak16.pdf|title=Give a woman a Kodak|last=Laurenson|first=Geoff|date=June 2015|website=University of Melbourne Collections}}
• Azlan McLennan, artist and activist
• Lewis Miller, Archibald Prize winning painter
• Victor O'Connor, artist{{cite web|title=Realist movement painter who was struck by harsh truths|url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/obituaries/realist-movement-painter-who-was-struck-by-harsh-truths-20101024-16z7i.html|work=The Age|location=Melbourne|access-date=17 October 2012|date=24 October 2010}}
• Shaun Parker, award-winning choreographer, founder of Shaun Parker & Company
• Stieg Persson, painter
• Patricia Piccinini, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
• Van Thanh Rudd, artist and activist
• Anne-Louise Sarks, theatre director and writer
• Matt Scholten, theatre director, teacher and writer
• Ricky Swallow, sculptor and Venice Biennale representative
• Timothy James Webb, artist
• Bradd Westmoreland, artist
• Marcus Wills, Archibald Prize winning painter

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• Adam Arkapaw, cinematographer (True Detective, Animal Kingdom, Snowtown)
• Gillian Armstrong, director (Charlotte Gray, Little Women)
• Tony Ayres, Australian Film Institute award-winning director (The Home Song Stories, Walking on Water)
• Alison Bell, Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award nominated actor (I Rock, Laid)
• Tahir Raj Bhasin, Indian actor
• Jill Bilcock, Academy Award-nominated editor (Elizabeth, Moulin Rouge!, Red Dog)
• Hamish Blake, comedian (did not graduate)
• Cate Blanchett, actress (did not graduate)
• Jamie Blanks, director (Urban Legend, Valentine)
• John Bluthal, actor
• Sibylla Budd, actor and documentary presenter (All Saints, Sea Patrol, The Secret Life of Us)
• Ronny Chieng, comedian
• Santo Cilauro, television and feature film producer{{cite web|first=Sean|last=Lynch|title=Interview: Santo Cilauro — Funky Squad|date=15 November 2007|url=http://www.webwombat.com.au/entertainment/dvds/santo-cilauro-unedited-int.htm|publisher=webwombat.com.au|access-date=19 January 2014}}
• Vince Colosimo, Australian Film Institute Award winning actor (Body of Lies, Chopper, Lantana)
• Marg Downey, comedian and actress
• Elizabeth Debicki, actress
• Adam Elliot, Academy Award-winning animator (Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max)
• Alexander England, actor
• Alice Garner, historian, musician and actress
• Antony I. Ginnane, film producer
• Tom Gleisner, director, producer, writer, comedian, actor and author{{cite web|url=http://www.independentweekly.com.au/news/local/news/news-features/tom-gleisner-thank-god-youre-here/1493911.aspx|title=Tom Gleisner – Thank God You're Here|work=The Independent Weekly|author=Nolan, Nic|date=23 April 2009}}
• Libbi Gorr, comedian
• Barry Humphries, comedian
• Red Hong Yi, artist and architectural designer
• Sammy J, comedian
• Clayton Jacobson, director (Kenny)
• Justin Kurzel, director (Snowtown, Macbeth (2015), Assassin's Creed)
• Andy Lee, comedian
• Anthony Lucas, Academy Award nominated animator (The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello)
• Robert Luketic, director (21, Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law)
• Catherine Mack-Hancock, actress
• Lara Jean Marshall, actress best known for her role on The Saddle Club
• Belinda McClory, actor and screenwriter (Acolytes, Blue Heelers, The Matrix)
• David Michôd, director (Animal Kingdom)
• Rhys Muldoon, actor
• Lloyd Newson, director, dancer and choreographer
• Michael Pattinson, producer (Ground Zero, Secrets)
• Hannie Rayson, Australian Writers' Guild Award and Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award winning playwright and actor (SeaChange)
• Glenn Robbins, comedian and actor
• Portia de Rossi, actress
• Pallavi Sharda, Indian actor
• Jonathan M. Shiff, Australian Film Institute and British Academy of Film and Television Arts award-winning producer (Ocean Girl, Thunderstone)
• Rob Sitch, co-writer and co-director of the movies The Castle and The Dish; co-host of The Panel
• Matt Scholten, director
• Simon Stone, director and actor
• Sam Strong, director, artistic director, Queensland Theatre
• Magda Szubanski, comedian and actress
• Nadia Townsend, actor and theatre director (City Homicide, Fireflies, Knowing)
• Andrew Upton, director and playwright
• Steve Vizard, television and radio presenter, lawyer, comedian, producer, author and screenwriter{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Beck |title=What I've learnt |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/22/1061474624281.html |newspaper=The Age|date=23 August 2003 |location=Melbourne}}
• Luke Walker, director/producer (Beyond Our Ken, Lasseter's Bones)
• Sarah Watt, director and animator (Look Both Ways, My Year Without Sex)
• Angela White, pornographic actress, director
• Alison Whyte, Logie Award-winning actor (Frontline, Satisfaction)
• Geoffrey Wright, director (Macbeth (2006), Metal Skin, Romper Stomper)
• Julia Zemiro, television presenter
• Randeep Hooda, Indian actor
• Yashma Gill, Pakistani actor
• Lydia Zimmermann, director (Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino)
• Ashley Zukerman, Logie Award nominated actor (Lowdown, The Pacific, Rush)

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• Geoffrey Blainey, one of the Australian Living Treasures
• Manning Clark
• Charles Coppel, former barrister and historian{{cite web|title=Charles Coppel|url=http://cicdatabank.library.ohiou.edu/opac/scholar_view.php?bibid[]=371&num=1&pagenum=12|publisher=Shao Center Database on Scholars and Librarians in Chinese Overseas Studies|access-date=3 February 2010|archive-date=20 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720020611/http://cicdatabank.library.ohiou.edu/opac/scholar_view.php?bibid%5B%5D=371&num=1&pagenum=12|url-status=dead}}
• Keith Hancock
• Stuart Macintyre
• Michael Roe, historian and academic
• Ben Schrader, urban historian
• A. G. L. Shaw

• Tiffiny Hall, journalist, author and television personality
• Joe Hildebrand, journalist, social commentator and news columnist
• Christine Kenneally, New York City-based journalist
• Matt Tinney, newsreader
• Bill Tipping, former journalist, social commentator and activist{{cite web |url=http://www.unimelb.edu.au/150/150people/tipping.htm |title=The University of Melbourne 150th Anniversary |access-date=2010-01-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129092708/http://www.unimelb.edu.au/150/150people/tipping.htm |archive-date=2010-01-29 }}

• Randa Abdel-Fattah, Australian Muslim author and lawyer{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3055917.htm|title=Panelist: Randa Abdel-Fattah|work=Q&A|publisher=ABC TV|location=Australia|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Russell Blackford, writer, philosopher and critic{{Cite web |url=http://randjblackford.customer.netspace.net.au/APhilosophyCV.htm |title=Russell Blackford – curriculum vitae |access-date=14 March 2015 |archive-date=21 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321201558/http://randjblackford.customer.netspace.net.au/APhilosophyCV.htm |url-status=dead }}
• Vincent Buckley
• Anna Ciddor, author and illustrator{{Cite book|title = Who's Who of Australian Writers|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ObhlAAAAMAAJ|publisher = D.W. Thorpe|date = 1991-01-01|isbn = 9780909532819|language = en}}
• Helen Garner, author
• Kerry Greenwood, crime writer
• Germaine Greer, feminist writer and academic
• Jack Hibberd
• Fulvio Melia
• Gerald Murnane, novelist and short story writer
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University
• Lynne Kelly, writer, researcher and science educator

• Harry James Angus, trumpeter and vocalist (The Cat Empire)
• Wouter De Backer, musician known as 'Gotye'
• Cheryl Barker, opera singer
• Michael Barker, drummer (John Butler Trio, Split Enz)
• Don Banks, composer
• Nicole Car, opera singer
• Arthur Chanter 1866–1950, composer
• Diana Doherty, oboe soloist (New York Philharmonic)
• Leonard Dommett, violinist and conductor
• Julian Gavin, opera singer
• Antoinette Halloran, opera singer
• Phil Harvey, creative director (Coldplay)
• Missy Higgins, singer-songwriter
• Rex Hobcroft, pianist and administrator
• Tania de Jong, soprano and social entrepreneur{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/soprano-on-a-mission-20140313-34o35.html|title=Soprano on a mission|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|author=Evans, Kathy|date=15 March 2014|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Liza Lim, composer
• John McAll, pianist and musical director
• Mona McBurney 1867–1932 composer
• Ryan Monro, bassist (The Cat Empire)
• Ian Munro, pianist and composer
• Patrick Savage, film composer and former principal first violin (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Peter Sculthorpe, composer
• Dudley Simpson, conductor and television composer
• Jan Skubiszewski, multi-award-winning record producer film composer
• Red Symons, musician, television and radio personality
• Penelope Thwaites, musicologist and pianist
• Yelian He, cellist
• Charles Zwar, songwriter, composer, lyricist, pianist and music director{{cite news |last=Parker |first=Stanley |date=20 December 1934 |title=ZWAR IS DECLARED! |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149585210 |accessdate=7 February 2025 |newspaper=Table Talk |location=Victoria, Australia |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia |issue=3476}}
• David Burd, US rapper, known as Lil DickyBurd, David. [https://twitter.com/lildickytweets/status/980961879878115328 "In 2009 I studied abroad in Australia for 6 months. in 2018 I will be coming back."], 3 April 2018, Twitter

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• Samuel Alexander
• Leslie Cannold
• Raimond Gaita
• Charles Leonard Hamblin
• Frank Cameron Jackson
• Graham Oppy
• Toby Ord
• Brian O'Shaughnessy
• Graham Priest
• Ian Robinson
• Peter Singer
• John Tasioulas, moral and legal philosopher
• Nick Trakakis
• John Weckert
• Damon Young

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{{see also|Category:Melbourne Law School alumni}}

;Chief Justices of Australia

• Sir Owen Dixon, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|OM|GCMG|KC}}{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Grant Anderson |first=Daryl Dawson |title=Dixon, Sir Owen (1886–1972)|id2=dixon-sir-owen-10024|access-date=10 October 2013}}
• Sir Frank Gavan Duffy, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KCMG|PC|KC}}{{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Frank Gavan|Last=Duffy |shortlink=0-dict-biogD.html#duffy2|date=|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Sir Isaac Isaacs, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|GCB|GCMG|KC}}{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=isaacs-sir-isaac-alfred-6805|title=Sir Isaac Isaacs|access-date=6 December 2013}}
• Sir John Latham, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|GCMG|KC}}{{cite book|chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/latham-sir-john-greig-7104|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=Stuart|last=Macintyre|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|via=Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter=Latham, Sir John Greig (1877–1964)}}

; Justices of the High Court of Australia

• Sir Keith Aickin, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KBE|QC}}, former justice{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Dawson|first=Daryl|title=Aickin, Sir Keith Arthur (1916–1982)|id2=aickin-sir-keith-arthur-12123|access-date=9 August 2012}}
• Susan Crennan
• Sir Daryl Dawson, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|KBE|CB|QC}}, former justice{{cite web|title=Sir Daryl Dawson: Citation (Doctor of Laws)|url=http://www.unimelb.edu.au/unisec/calendar/honcausa/citation/dawson.pdf|publisher=University of Melbourne|access-date=14 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405110547/http://www.unimelb.edu.au/unisec/calendar/honcausa/citation/dawson.pdf|archive-date=5 April 2015}}
• Sir Wilfred Fullagar, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KBE|KC}}, former justice{{cite book|first=Fricke|last=Graham|year=1986|title=Judges of the High Court| chapter=Wilfred Fullagar: The Scholarly Judge|publisher=Century Hutchison Australia|location=Melbourne|isbn=0-09-157150-2 }}
• Kenneth Hayne
• H. B. Higgins, former justice
• Sir Douglas Menzies, former justice
• Geoffrey Nettle
• Sir Ninian Stephen, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KG|AK|GCMG|GCVO|KBE|QC}}, also a previous Governor-General of Australia

;Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia

• Michael Black, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|QC}}, former Chief Justice{{cite web|url=http://www.aija.org.au/conference98/bio.htm|title=Biographical Information|work=Technology for Justice: Conference 1998|publisher=The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporated|date=March 1998|access-date=14 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301012514/http://www.aija.org.au/conference98/bio.htm|archive-date=1 March 2014}}

;Justices of the Federal Court of Australia

• Geoffrey Giudice{{cite web|title=The Hon Geoffrey Michael GIUDICE|url=http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/aboutct/giudice.html|publisher=Federal Court of Australia|access-date=25 February 2012}}
• Sir Edward Woodward, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|OBE|QC}}, also served as a Royal Commissioner and Director-General of Security{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/judge-sought-social-justice-for-all-20100428-tsc0.html|title=Obituary: Judge sought social justice for all|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=29 April 2010}}

;Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia

• Diana Bryant, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO|QC}}, Chief Justice since 2004{{cite web|title=Chief Justice |work=Family Court of Australia |url=http://www.familycourt.gov.au/presence/connect/www/home/about/the_courts_organisation/judges/court_org_judges_chief_justice |access-date=8 March 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820075228/http://www.familycourt.gov.au/presence/connect/www/home/about/the_courts_organisation/judges/court_org_judges_chief_justice |archive-date=20 August 2006 |url-status=dead }}
• Alastair Nicholson, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO|RFD|QC}}, former Chief Justice

;Justices of the Family Court of Australia

• Linda Dessau, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AM}}, former justice{{cite press release|title=Premier Announces 29th Governor of Victoria|url=http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/premier-announces-29th-governor-of-victoria|publisher=Premier of Victoria|date=11 February 2015|access-date=11 February 2015}}

;Chief Justices of Victoria

• Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KCMG|KBE|DSO|MC|KStJ|ED|QC}}, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria{{cite book|last=Sayers|first=Stuart|title=Ned Herring: A Life of Lieutenant-General the Honorable Sir Edmund Herring KCMG, KBE, MC, ED. K St J, MA, DCL|publisher=Hyland House|year=1980|location=Melbourne|isbn= 0-908090-25-0|pages=20–26, 35}}
• Sir William Irvine, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|GCMG}}, also a former Premier of Victoria{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|author1=Bennett, J. M.|author2=Smith, Ann G.|title=Irvine, Sir William Hill (1858–1943)|id2=irvine-sir-william-hill-6801/text11765|date=1983}}
• Sir John Madden, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|GCMG}}, also a former Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University
• Sir Frederick Mann, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KCMG}}, also a former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria{{cite web|title=The Supreme Court Scholarship and Prize Winners|work=History of the Melbourne Law School|publisher=University of Melbourne|url=http://history.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/people/prize-winners/index.cfm|access-date=5 September 2008|archive-date=1 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301092757/http://history.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/people/prize-winners/index.cfm|url-status=dead}}
• John Harber Phillips, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|QC}}, also a former Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions and Director of the National Crime Authority{{cite journal|title=Farewell Chief Justice Phillips |journal=Victorian Bar News |volume=77 |issue=6 |date=June 2003 |url=http://www.vicbar.com.au/webdata/VicBarNewsFiles/127%20Complete.pdf |access-date=13 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726072124/http://www.vicbar.com.au/webdata/VicBarNewsFiles/127%20Complete.pdf |archive-date=26 July 2008 }}
• Sir Henry Winneke, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|KCMG|KCVO|OBE|KStJ|QC}}, also a former Governor of Victoria
• Sir John Young, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|KCMG}}{{cite news |title=Traditionalist faithful to spirit of the law|url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/traditionalist-faithful-to-spirit-of-the-law-20081009-4xlc.html?skin=text-only|work=The Age|date= 10 October 2008 |access-date=11 October 2008}}

;Justices of the Supreme Court of Victoria

• Sir Kevin Anderson, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|QC}}Anderson, K.V. (1986) Fossil in the Sandstone: The Recollecting Judge. Spectrum Publications: Melbourne. 287pp. {{ISBN|0-86786-095-2}}
• Sir Arthur Dean, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KC}}{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=R. L.|last=Sharwood|title=Dean, Sir Arthur (1893–1970)|id2=dean-sir-arthur-9933|access-date=27 October 2013}}
• Sir James Gobbo, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|CVO|QC}}, also a former Governor of Victoria
• Sir George Pape{{cite web|url=http://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/imu/imu.php?request=display&port=45000&id=6c97&flag=start&offset=0&count=1&view=details|publisher=University of Melbourne|title=Archives|access-date=28 September 2012 }}
• Joseph Santamaria {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|QC}}

;Presidents of the Victorian Court of Appeal

• Chris Maxwell
• John Winneke, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AC|RFD|QC|RANR}}[http://www.vicbar.com.au/pdf/134Farewells.pdf Victorian Bar Farewells] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927220304/http://www.vicbar.com.au/pdf/134Farewells.pdf |date=2007-09-27 }}

• Philip Alston, international law scholar; former United Nations Special Rapporteur{{cite web|url=http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Executions/Pages/SRExecutionsIndex.aspx|title=Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions|work=Office of the High Commission on Human Rights|publisher=United Nations|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• John Bennett, civil libertarian{{cite web |title=ADC Online: John Pasquarelli Joins Holocaust Deniers |work=The Nizkor Project |publisher=B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc. |date=August 2008 |url=http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/ftp.py?orgs/australian/anti_defamation_commission/ADC_ONLINE.0008 |access-date=16 July 2008 |archive-date=16 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070916014438/http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/ftp.py?orgs%2Faustralian%2Fanti_defamation_commission%2FADC_ONLINE.0008 |url-status=dead }}
• Matthew Collins, barrister and Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School{{cite web |url=http://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/matt-collins |title=Dr Matt Collins QC |website=law.unimelb.edu.au |publisher=The University of Melbourne |access-date=7 November 2017}}
• Mario Condello, lawyer; murdered during Melbourne gangland killings
• Frank Costigan, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|QC}}, lawyer, Royal Commissioner and social justice activist{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/13/2541517.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415164307/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/13/2541517.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 April 2009|title=High-profile QC Frank Costigan dies|date=13 April 2009|work=ABC News|location=Australia|access-date=13 April 2009}}
• Rowan Downing, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|QC}}, barrister and international jurist{{cite web|url=http://www.eccc.gov.kh/en/persons/judge-rowan-downing-qc|title=Judge Rowan Downing QC|publisher=Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia|access-date=14 March 2015}}
• Frank Galbally, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CBE}}, criminal defence lawyer{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/frank-galbally-defender-of-the-underdog-dies/2005/10/12/1128796587872.html| title=Frank Galbally, defender of the underdog, dies|newspaper=The Age|location=Melbourne|first=Fergus|last=Shiel|date=13 October 2005}}
• Flos Greig, first woman to be admitted to practise as a barrister and solicitor in Australia{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|author1=Campbell, Ruth|author2=Hack, J. Barton|title=Greig, Grata Flos Matilda (1880 - 1958)|volume=9|pages=101–102 |publisher=Melbourne University Press|location=Carlton|year=1983|id=A090688b.htm|access-date=13 August 2006 }}
• Philip Griffiths, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KC}}, jurist{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=Michael|last=Roe|title=Griffiths, Philip Lewis (1881–1945)|id2=griffiths-philip-lewis-6490|access-date=27 October 2013}}
• Francis Gurry, international intellectual property lawyer and bureaucrat{{cite web|work=WIPO website|url=http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/dgo/dg_gurry_cv.html|title=Dr. Francis Gurry: Curriculum Vitae|access-date=21 February 2011}}
• Colin Lovitt, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|QC}}, criminal barrister{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/08/1086460283809.html|title=In the thick of it|work=The Age|author=Bragge, Lily|date=9 June 2004|access-date=14 March 2015}}

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• Julian McMahon, A.C., barrister, humanitarian, campaigner against death penalty
• Rob Stary, criminal defence lawyer
• Tengku Amalin A'ishah Putri, Princess of Kelantan Royal Family
• Lord Uthwatt, Judge, Chancery Division, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords

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• Group Captain John Balmer, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|OBE|DFC}}, World War II RAAF bomber pilot{{cite encyclopedia

|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130118b.htm

|title=Balmer, John Raeburn (1910–1944)

|encyclopedia=Australian Dictionary of Biography

|publisher=Australian National University

|access-date= 16 January 2015

|date=1993

|volume=13}}

• Major General Sir Julius Bruche, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|KCB|CMG}}, Second Boer War and World War I army officer{{cite book |author1=Dennis, Peter |display-authors=etal |title=The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History |year=1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Melbourne |isbn=0-19-553227-9|page=127}}
• Sir Samuel Burston, army doctor and World War II general
• Rupert Downes, army doctor and World War II general
• Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, army doctor and humanitarian
• Major General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|CB|CMG|DSO|DCM|VD}}, politician and World War I army generalHill, A. J. (1981) [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080453b.htm 'Elliott, Harold Edward (Pompey) (1878 - 1931)'], Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, Melbourne University Press, pp 428–431.
• Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, army doctor
• Brigadier General William Grant, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|CMG}}, World War I general
• Sir James Whiteside McCay, politician and World War I general
• Sir John Monash, World War I general
• Sir Kingsley Norris, army doctor and major general
• Lieutenant Colonel Philip Rhoden, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|OBE|ED}}, lawyer and World War II army officer{{cite book|last1=Chandler|first1=David P.|last2=Legge|first2=John David|last3=Ricklefs|first3=Merle Calvin|title=Nineteenth and twentieth century Indonesia: essays in honour of Professor J.D. Legge|year=1986|publisher=Monash University|isbn=978-0-86746-453-5|page=222}}
• Ian Upjohn, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CSC,|SC}}, Army Reserve officer and barrister{{cite web|title=Ian W Upjohn CSC SC – Barrister Profile|url=https://www.vicbar.com.au/profile?2880|publisher=Victorian Bar|access-date=25 January 2015}}

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• Rabbi Raymond AppleCrown Content, Who's Who in Australia 2007 page 150

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• Yvonne Aitken, botanist, first woman to earn a PhD in Agriculture form the University of Melbourne in 1970{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2001 |title=Aitken, Yvonne |encyclopedia=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |last=Haines |first=Catherin M. C. |pages=5 |doi=10.5040/9798400671609 |isbn=979-8-4006-7160-9}}

• Elizabeth Blackburn, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009
• Margaret Blackwood, botanist and geneticist
• Kirsten Parris, urban ecologist
• Grant Sutherland, human geneticist

• Andrew Freeman, FACS – Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected in 1997), and an Honorary Life Member (HLM) of the ACS (elected in 2018){{Cite web |title=Hall of Fame |url=https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-documents/hall-of-fame/HallofFame.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324175728/https://www.acs.org.au/content/dam/acs/acs-documents/hall-of-fame/HallofFame.pdf |archive-date=24 March 2018 |access-date=7 February 2025 |website=Australian Computer Society}}

• Norman Greenwood

• Cyril Callister, creator of Vegemite
• Beryl Splatt
• Shu Jie Lam

• Sir Walter Bassett
• William Charles Kernot
• Diane Lemaire, first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a degree in engineering
• Anthony Michell
• John Monash
• Elizabeth Jens
• Ian A. Young, senior fellow of Intel; co-inventor of BiCMOS logic family and clocks for Pentium series microprocessors
• Frank Caruso

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• Robert Bartnik
• Keith Briggs
• Danny Calegari
• Robert William Chapman
• Thomas MacFarland Cherry
• Ian G. Enting
• Greg Hjorth
• Mark S. Joshi
• Kenneth McIntyre
• Brendan McKay
• Samuel McLaren
• John Henry Michell
• Edward J. Nanson
• Jonathan Pila
• E. J. G. Pitman
• J. Hyam Rubinstein
• Hans Schwerdtfeger
• Ian Sloan
• Geoffrey Watson
• William Parkinson Wilson

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• Lilian Helen Alexander, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
• Ellen Balaam, first woman surgeon in Melbourne
• Marjorie Bick, biochemist
• Vera Scantlebury Brown
• Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1960 "for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self"
• Amy de Castilla, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
• Clara Stone, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
• Sir John Carew Eccles, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 "for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves"
• Constance Ellis, first woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine from the university
• Mavis Freeman, bacteriologist and biochemist{{Cite web |title=Freeman, Mavis Louisa |url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0039b.htm |access-date=2022-10-01 |website=The Australian Women's Register |language=en-gb}}
• Jane Stocks Greig, public health specialist
• Janet Greig, Victoria's first female anaesthetist
• David Handelsman, Australia's first professor in reproductive endocrinology and andrology
• Girlie Hodges (1904–1999), Australian surgeon and field hockey player who represented Australia
• James Lawson, public health doctor and scientist
• Annie O'Hara, doctor and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
• Elizabeth O'Hara, one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
• Lorna Verdun Sisely, Surgeon and founder of the Queen Victoria Medical Centre Breast Clinic.
• Elizabeth Scarr, associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, project leader of Cooperative Research Centre for Mental Health, and leader of the Psychiatric Neuropathology laboratory at the university
• Helen Sexton, surgeon, one of the first women to study medicine at the university
• Emily Mary Page Stone, Physician and co-founder of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and the Victorian Medical Women's Society.
• Rajaratnam Sundarason, surgeon, one of the founders of International House{{Cite web |last=Larkins |first=Frank |title=Dr Rajaratnam (Raj) Sundarason |url=https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/engage/alumni/community/obituaries/dr-rajaratnam-raj-sundarason |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412140801/https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/engage/alumni/community/obituaries/dr-rajaratnam-raj-sundarason |archive-date=12 April 2022 |website=University of Melbourne Medical School}}
• Elizabeth Kathleen Turner, medical superintendent of the (Royal) Children's Hospital Melbourne from 1943 until 1946. She was first doctor in Australia to administer penicillin.
• Grace Vale, Physician and co-founder of the Victorian Medical Women's Society. One of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.
• Sydney James Van Pelt, pioneer of modern hypnotherapy
• Margaret Whyte, Physician, and one of the first seven women to be allowed to study medicine at Melbourne University.

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• Nicole Bell
• Walter Boas
• Samuel L. Braunstein
• John M. Cowley
• Rod Crewther
• Richard Dalitz, inventor of the Dalitz plot
• Terence James Elkins
• Colin J. Gillespie
• Kerr Grant
• Peter Hannaford
• Alan Head
• T. H. Laby
• Rodney Marks
• Leslie H. Martin
• Sir Harrie Massey
• Fulvio Melia
• Keith Nugent
• Helen Quinn, former president of the American Physical Society; recipient of the Dirac Medal in 2000 and the Sakurai Prize in 2013
• William Sutherland

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• Vicki Anderson, pediatric neuropsychologist
• Kathleen Funder, researcher, Australian Institute of Family Studies
• Peter O'Connor, psychologist

• Cyril Seelenmeyer, VFL footballer, veterinary surgeon, winner of Military Cross
• Harold Addison Woodruff, Professor of veterinary pathology and director of the veterinary institute

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• Russell Basser (born 1960), Olympic water polo player
• Kim Crow, London Olympics silver and bronze medallist for doubles and singles sculling respectively
• Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
• Bev Francis, IFBB professional Australian female bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion
• Geoff Grover, VFL and VFA footballer; VFA interstate representative (1966 Hobart Carnival)
• Jemima Montag (born 1998), Olympic racewalker
• John Robinson, VFL Footballer; recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal (1917)

• Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson
• Peter Baines, geophysicist
• Lisa Cameron
• Henri Daniel Rathgeber
• Jocelyn Hyslop, inaugural Director of Social Studies
• Josephine Forbes, Principal Research Fellow, Department of Medicine
• Katja Hölttä-Otto

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080219224953/http://www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/prominent.html Prominent alumni] – from the University of Melbourne website

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