List of University of Western Australia people

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This is a list of University of Western Australia people, including its notable alumni and staff:

Notable alumni

Narongchai Akrasanee, former Minister of Commerce; Senator in the Thai government
Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Australia
Kim Beazley, former Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Prime Minister
Kim Edward Beazley, former Whitlam Cabinet Minister
Boediono, former Vice President of Indonesia
Alan Carpenter, former Premier of Western Australia
Richard Court, former Premier of Western Australia
Peter Dowding, former Premier of Western Australia
Peter Durack, former Federal Attorney General
Geoff Gallop, former Premier of Western Australia
Sir Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia
Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia
Carmen Lawrence, former Premier of Western Australia, Federal Minister and President of the Australian Labor Party
Donton Samuel Mkandawire, former MP for Mzimba District, Malawi and Minister of Education for Malawi.
Associate Professor Samakoses, a former Deputy Minister of Education with the Thai Government
Stephen Smith, former Australian Minister for Defence
Billy Snedden, former Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
Daryl Williams, former Federal Attorney General
Yeo Cheow Tong, former Minister of Transport in Singapore

Michael Chaney, former CEO of Wesfarmers; current chancellor of UWA
Sir Rod Eddington, former CEO of British Airways
Andrew Forrest, mining magnate and founder of Fortescue Metals Group
Richard Goyder, CEO of Wesfarmers
Janet Holmes à Court, businesswoman
Robert Holmes à Court, entrepreneur
John A. Hay, current vice-chancellor of University of Queensland
Peter Lim, Singaporean billionaire
Michael Malone, iiNet founder
Ken Michael, Governor of Western Australia; former Chancellor of UWA
Tan Sri Hamdan Mohamad, current Executive Director and President of Ranhill Berhad
Hilton Nathanson, BRW Rich 200 list member; founder of Marble Bar Asset Management
Tony Poli, BRW Rich 200 list member; founder of Aquila Resources
Andrew Roberts, former CEO of Multiplex

Ameer Ali, former president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils
Herbert Cole Coombs, first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia
Margaret Feilman, architect and town planner
Allan Fels, former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Ron Fitch, commissioner of the South Australian Railways
David Irvine, Director-General of Security; former Director-General of Australian Secret Intelligence Service; former Australian High Commissioner to PNG; Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
Ralph Townsend, headmaster of Winchester College

Michelle Harvey, forensic entomologist
Barry Marshall, physician, 2005 Nobel Prize laureate
Niall McLaren, psychiatrist and philosopher, author of Humanizing Madness and Humanizing Psychiatry
Kenneth Richard Norris, entomologist
Cheryl Praeger, mathematician, Australian Scientist of the Year 2009
Hugo Rietveld, Ph.D. Physics 1964, crystallographer, inventor of the Rietveld Method
Gordon Royle, Ph.D. Mathematics 1987, co-author of Algebraic Graph Theory
Amanda Sainsbury-Salis, molecular scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, educator and author
Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist, 2003 Australian of the Year
Dr Eric John Underwood, B.Sci.Ag 1928, Dean of faculty, Agriculture 1946 to 1970
Robin Warren, UWA Emeritus Professor, Nobel Prize laureate
Fiona Wood, UWA Professor of Medicine, 2005 Australian of the Year

Frederick Alexander, historian
Geoffrey Bolton, historian
Greg Egan, writer
Geoff Gibbs, actor and WAAPA principal
Gracie Gilbert, actress
Rolf Harris, performer and artist
Dorothy Hewett, writer
Barry Hickey, Catholic Archbishop of Perth
Aisha Jefcoate, runner-up of the sixth season of the Australian version of The Mole^[1]
John Kinsella, writer
John Andrew La Nauze, the first Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University (1978)
Niall Lucy, writer and scholar, known for his work on Jacques Derrida and deconstruction
Sally Morgan, writer and artist
Randolph Stow, writer
Shaun Tan, artist and writer

Sandra Angelia, Miss Indonesia 2008
Peter F. Bell, former captain of the Fremantle Dockers
Ric Charlesworth, former Australia national field hockey team Kookaburras Captain and Hockeyroos coach
Michael Fitzpatrick, former captain of the Carlton Football Club; current Chairman of the Australian Football League
Rachel Kum, Miss Singapore 2009
Matthew Pavlich, captain of the Fremantle Dockers
Jarrad Seng, photographer^[2]
Shirley Strickland, Olympic track and field athlete
Kylie Wheeler, Olympic heptathlete