Alumni

Sydney graduates, many at the peak of their chosen professions, are found all over the world. Among them are:

• Australian Prime Ministers Barton, McMahon, Whitlam and Howard
• an early president of the United Nations, Dr Herbert Vere Evatt
• Reserve Bank board member, Jill Broadbent
• former Governor-General, Sir William Deane
• geologist and Antarctic explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson
• Australia's Chief Justice, Murray Gleeson
• NSW Chief Justice, James Spigelman
• film directors Jane Campion, Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford
• former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK government, now President of the Royal Society, Lord Robert May
• academic and company director, Jill Ker Conway
• President of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn
• Aboriginal leaders Charles Perkins and Noel Pearson
• opera divas Dame Joan Sutherland and Yvonne Kenny
• former US Assistant Secretary of State, Martin Indyk
• designer, Marc Newson
• writers Kate Grenville, Les Murray, Germaine Greer and Clive James

Sir Robert Robinson
Sydney's first Professor of Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry 1912 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1947

Sir John Cornforth
Graduated with BSc 1938 and University Medal and MSc 1939 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1975

John Harsanyi
Graduated with Masters in Economics 1966 - Nobel Prize in Economics 1994