This is a list of University of Sydney people, including notable alumni and staff.
Alumni
Academia
Dennis A. Ahlburg – former President of Trinity University; Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Professor of Human Resources at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota Brian Anderson – former President of the Australian Academy of Science; Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Australian National University Elizabeth Bannan – educationist awarded the Walter Beavis prize and the Jones medal Brian L. Byrne – social scientist known for research in psycholinguistics; Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of New England Jill Ker Conway – former Vice-President of the University of Toronto and President of Smith College; Visiting Professor in MIT's program in Science, Technology, and Society; Chairman of Lend Lease Corporation; director of Nike, Merrill Lynch, and Colgate-Palmolive Beverly Derewianka – Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wollongong Margaret Gardner – Vice-Chancellor of Monash University Michael Halliday – creator of the systemic functional grammar, an internationally influential grammar model Frank Lancaster Jones – sociologist known for research on social inequality, social stratification, social mobility, and national identity Sir Robert Madgwick – first Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England; former Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission; Director of the Australian Army Education Service during World War II Robert May, Baron May of Oxford – former President of the Royal Society; Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government Jim Peacock – former President of Australian Academy of Science Michael Pitman – former Chief Scientist of Australia Ken Robinson – former Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of New South Wales Nicholas Saunders – former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle and former Dean of Medicine at Monash University and Flinders University Michael Spence – President and Provost of the University College London and former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney Sir Brian Windeyer – former Dean of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School at the University of London and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of London Nicki Packer – Distinguished Professor of Glycoproteomics at Macquarie University
Architecture
Andrew Andersons
John Andrews – designer of CN Tower, Toronto, Canada, the tallest concrete structure in the world and often listed as one of the seven wonders of the modern world Arthur Baldwinson Louise Cox Philip Cox – founder and principal of COX Architecture Eleanor Cullis-Hill Neville Gruzman Peter Kollar – Hungarian-born former Australian architect and academic (Architecture) Richard Leplastrier Andrea Nield – first President of Emergency Architects Australia Paul Pholeros Penelope Seidler Alexander Tzannes Leslie Wilkinson Ken Woolley
Business
Matt Barrie – CEO of Freelancer.com
David S. Clarke – Chairman of Macquarie Bank (1985–2007) Cameron Clyne – CEO of National Australia Bank (2009–2014) Matt Comyn – CEO of Commonwealth Bank Robyn Denholm – Chairwoman of Tesla, Inc. John Grill – Chairman of WorleyParsons Angus Harris – Co-CEO of Harris Farm Markets Sir David Higgins – Chairman of United Utilities Group Fred Hilmer – former Director and Deputy Chairman of Westfield Group Michael Hintze, Baron Hintze – founder and Executive Chairman of CQS Ryan Junee – founder and CEO of Omnisio and Inporia Jeni Klugman – former Director of the Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Jim Millner – former Chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson Allan Moss – Managing Director/CEO of Macquarie Bank (1993–2008) John Mulcahy – former CEO of Suncorp-Metway Ltd Michael Patsalos-Fox – Chairman of McKinsey & Co in America Davina Reichman – business consultant Mark Scott – former CEO of Australian Broadcasting Corporation Glenn Stevens – Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (2006–2016) Matt Sweeny – CEO and co-founder of Flirtey, inventor Tom Waterhouse – former CEO of William Hill Australia Sir James Wolfensohn – President of the World Bank (1995–2005)