This is an incomplete list of University of Tasmania people, including alumni and staff.
Alumni
Academia Ed Byrne, Principal of King's College London Peter Conrad, literary academic and author Rodney Croome, , academic and LGBT rights activist Peter Forrest, philosopher Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University Jeff Malpas, philosopher Michael Tate, , Catholic priest, legal scholar and former Labor politician Helen Tiffin, post-colonial theorist
Business Andrew MacLeod, businessman, author, former humanitarian lawyer and aid worker Capt. Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ports Saul Eslake, economist
Government
Vice-Regal Stanley Burbury, past Governor of Tasmania William Cox, past Governor of Tasmania Sir Guy Green, past Governor of Tasmania Peter Underwood, past Governor of Tasmania Kate Warner, , legal academic and current Governor of Tasmania
Politics
Federal politicians Eric Abetz, Liberal politician Neal Blewett , former Labor politician Ross Hart, former Labor politician Michael Hodgman , former Liberal politician and barrister Justine Keay, former Labor politician Christine Milne , former leader of the Australian Greens Ben Small, former Liberal politician Jonno Duniam, Liberal politician
State Premiers David Bartlett, former Premier of Tasmania Michael Field, former Premier of Tasmania Lara Giddings, Labor politician and former Premier of Tasmania Will Hodgman, Liberal politician and former Premier of Tasmania
State and territory politicians Guy Barnett, Liberal politician Sir Max Bingham, , former Deputy Premier and Opposition Leader of Tasmania David Bushby, Liberal politician Roy Fagan, former barrister and Deputy Premier of Tasmania Mike Gaffney, Independent MLC Adrian Gibson, , former Liberal politician and barrister Sue Napier, former Liberal politician Michelle O'Byrne, Labor politician Ros Spence, Labor politician
Other politicians Sue Hickey, Lord Mayor of Hobart Albert Van Zetten, Mayor of Launceston Hannah Yeoh, Malaysian politician, Minister of Youth and Sports (Malaysia) Halimah Ali, Malaysian politician, MP for Kapar
Public servants Ashton Calvert, , former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Rhodes Scholar Stephen Gumley, CEO of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation Philip Haddon-Cave, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed, SAARC Secretary-General
Humanities
Arts Anthony Ackroyd, comedian, speaker and writer Courtney Barnett, musician Rianti Cartwright, actress, model and presenter of MTV Indonesia John Clark, former director of NIDA Ian Cresswell, composer Essie Davis, film actress Matthew Dewey, composer Hannah Gadsby, comedian Roger Hodgman, director Constantine Koukias, composer Michael Lampard, opera singer, conductor and composer Geoffrey Lancaster, classical pianist Andrew Legg, ARIA-award nominated musician Raffaele Marcellino, composer Luke McGregor, comedian and actor Graeme Murphy, , ballet dancer and choreographer Robyn Nevin, , actress, director and former head of the Sydney Theatre Company Tom Samek, painter, stage designer and printmaker Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor Megan Walch, artist David Walsh, founder of the Museum of Old and New Art Shaun Wilson, artist and film director
History Marilyn Lake, historian Henry Reynolds, historian
Journalism and media John J. Smithies, founding director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image Charles Wooley, television journalist
Literature, writing and poetry Ivy Alvarez, author and poet Tim Bowden, author and journalist Helene Chung Martin, author and journalist Stephen Edgar, poet Richard Flanagan, author and film director; Rhodes Scholar Christopher Koch, author of The Year of Living Dangerously Amanda Lohrey, author and academic Christobel Mattingley, author Margaret Scott, author and poet Aaron Smith, author and journalist Vivian Smith, poet Danielle Wood, author Tansy Rayner Roberts, author
Law Damian Bugg, former Commonwealth and Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions Enid Campbell, , legal scholar, first Australian female professor and law school dean Chief Justice Ewan Crawford, Former Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania Stephen Estcourt, , Tasmanian Supreme Court judge Philip Lewis Griffiths, Acting Chief Judge of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea Hon Justice Peter Heerey, Federal Court Judge Andrew Inglis Clark, principal author of the Australian Constitution, barrister, politician and judge Leo Keke, first Nauruan lawyer, Nauruan MP (1976-1980) Duncan Kerr, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and former Attorney-General of Australia Michael Mansell, Aboriginal rights activist and criminal lawyer Davendra Pathik, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji David Mitchell, former Solicitor-general of Lesotho, Tasmanian representative at the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998 and procurator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia
Sciences Abigail Barrows, marine research scientist Noel Benson, geologist Geoffrey Charles Bratt, chemist and lichenologist Edward Byrne, neuroscientist, Principal of King's College, London; former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University John Donaldson, applied mathematics academic; father of Mary, Queen of Denmark Richard Dowden, noted geo- and astrophysicist Theodore Thomson Flynn, biologist and professor of biology; father of Errol Flynn Genevieve Gates, mycologist, ecologist, and taxonomist who is particularly focused on the fungal diversity of Tasmania. Sir Leonard Huxley, physicist Catherine King, ecotoxicologist, Antarctic researcher Kenneth G. McCracken, physicist and winner of the Pawsey Medal Jessica Melbourne-Thomas, marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division David Paver Mellor, inorganic chemist Beryl Nashar, geologist and first female PhD in geology, first female Dean of a School in Australia
Sports George Bailey, Australian cricketer Brendon Bolton, senior coach of the Carlton Football Club Scott Brennan, gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics for rowing Peter Daniel, former Essendon footballer Simon Hollingsworth, former athlete and CEO of the Australian Sports Commission; Rhodes Scholar Kerry Hore, Olympic rower Hamish Peacock, Olympic javelin thrower Meaghan Volker, Olympic rower Denis Scanlon, former Essendon footballer
Other Phillip Aspinall, Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia Simon Longstaff, Executive Director of the St James Ethics Centre Michael Lynch, evangelist and Christian blogger Bill Mollison, "father of permaculture" Brodie Neill, industrial designer Helen Szoke, Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia, former Australian Race Discrimination Commissioner and former Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner
Administration
Chancellors Order Chancellor Years Notes1The Hon. Sir William Lambert Dobson1890–18982The Reverend George Clarke1898–19073The Hon. Sir John Stokell Dodds, 1907–19144The Hon. Tetley Gant, 1914–19245The Hon. Sir (Neil) Elliott Lewis, 1924–19336Mr William Stops1933–19447The Hon. Sir John Demetrios Morris, 1944–1956Mr Cecil Roy Baker, 1953 (acting)8The Hon. Sir Henry Seymour Baker, 1956–19639Sir Henry Beaufort Somerset, 1964–197210Sir (Eustace) John Cameron, 1973–198111Sir (John) Peter Lloyd1982–198512The Hon. Sir Guy Green, 1985–199513 The Hon. Mr Justice William Zeeman 1995 (acting), 19961998 Ms Kimbra Boyer1998 (acting)14 Dr Michael Vertigan, 19982006 15 Mr Damian Bugg, 20062012 16 The Hon. Michael Field, 2013June 2021 17Ms Alison Watkins21 June 2021 – present
Vice-Chancellors Order Vice-Chancellor Years Notes 1 George Clarke 18901898 2 James Backhouse Walker 18981899 3 Thomas Stephens 19001901 4 Andrew Inglis Clark, 19011903 5 Sir Neil Elliott Lewis, 19031909 6 Tetley Gant, 19091914 7 William Stops 19141933 8 Robert Dunbabin 19331933 9 E. Morris Miller, 19331945 10 Alan Burn 19451949 11 Torleiv Hytten, 19491957 12 Keith Isles, 19571969 13 Sir George Cartland, 19691977 14 David Caro, 19771982 15 Alec Lazenby, 19821990 16 Alan Gilbert, 19911996 17 Don McNicol 19962002 18 Daryl Le Grew, 20032010 19 Peter Rathjen 20112017 20 Rufus Black 2018present
Faculty
Thomas Bavin, law academic and past Premier of New South Wales David Bollard, classical pianist Angela Christine Bridgland (former lecturer at TCAE), library educator Barry Brook, environmental sustainability academic Hans Adolph Buchdahl, physicist Douglas Copland, economist Rodney Croome, LGBT advocate and academic Winifred Curtis, botanist, author and plant science academic Robert Delbourgo, physicist John Dalgleish Donaldson, mathematics academic Angela Dwyer, social scientist and writer Roy Fagan, law academic and past Deputy Premier of Tasmania John Field, senior army officer and engineering academic Theodore Thomson Flynn, biologist, father of Errol Flynn Adrian Franklin, sociologist and television personality Barbara R. Holland, mathematics academic Peter D. Jarvis, physicist Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia Gareth Koch, classical guitarist E. E. Kurth, chemistry academic Delphine Lannuzel, sea ice biogeochemist and Antarctic researcher Frank Madill, , former Liberal politician, medical doctor and author John Martinkus, journalist James McAuley, poet Tim McCormack, international humanitarian law academic Jocelyn McPhie, adjunct professor of volcanology Lindsay Simpson, journalist, academic and crime writer Sydney Sparkes Orr, philosopher Garth Paltridge, atmospheric physicist Doug Parkinson, law academic and politician Anya Reading, geophysicist Grote Reber, radio astronomer Henry Reynolds, historian Steven M. Smith, plant genetics and biochemistry academic Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, law academic Michael Tate, Catholic priest, legal scholar and former Labor politician Helen Tiffin, post-colonial theorist Ernest Ewart Unwin, education academic Edward Ronald Walker, diplomat and economist Kate Warner, legal academic and former Governor of Tasmania Peter Whish-Wilson, politician and economist
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