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100 Notable alumni of University of Sydney

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Sydney is ranked #56 in the world and #2 in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from University of Sydney sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Sydney won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Alex Hawke

1. Alex Hawke

1977-. (aged 49)
politician
Alexander George Hawke is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs from 2020 to 2022 in the Morrison government. Hawke has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitchell since 2007, representing the Liberal Party.
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Richard Bonynge

2. Richard Bonynge

1930-. (aged 96)
conductor pianist
Richard Alan Bonynge is an Australian conductor and pianist. He is the widower of Australian dramatic coloratura soprano Dame Joan Sutherland. Bonynge conducted virtually all of Sutherland's operatic performances from 1962 until her retirement in 1990.
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Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

3. Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

1936-2020 (aged 84)
university teacher zoologist ecologist politician engineer
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He was also a crossbench member of the House of Lords...
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Tony W Jones

4. Tony W Jones

1956-. (aged 70)
journalist
Anthony William Jones is an Australian television news and political journalist, radio and television presenter and writer.
Judith Wright

5. Judith Wright

1915-2000 (aged 85)
human rights defender poet literary critic writer environmentalist
Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, 1965 and 1967.
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David Warren

6. David Warren

1925-2010 (aged 85)
university teacher adviser engineer inventor chemist
David Ronald de Mey Warren AO was an Australian scientist, best known for inventing and developing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder (also known as FDR, CVR and "the black box").
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Bernard Foley

7. Bernard Foley

1989-. (aged 37)
rugby union player
Bernard Foley, nicknamed "The Iceman" and "Nard" is a professional Australian rugby union player. He plays for the Kubota Spears in the Japanese Rugby League One. He can cover both fullback and fly-half as well as inside centre. Foley has earned the nickname "the iceman" after successful game winning penalty goals in the 2014 Super Rugby final, and the 2015...
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James Morrison

8. James Morrison

1861-1950 (aged 89)
Catholic priest Catholic bishop
James Lloyd Morrison AM is an Australian jazz musician. Although his main instrument is trumpet, he has also performed on trombone, tuba, euphonium, flugelhorn, saxophone, clarinet, double bass, guitar, and piano. He is a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels.
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Tony Burke

9. Tony Burke

1969-. (aged 57)
lawyer politician
Anthony Stephen Burke is an Australian politician serving as Minister for Home Affairs, Immigration and Citizenship, Cyber Security and the Arts. A member of the Labor Party, he has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives for Watson since 2004. He previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 to 2013.
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John O'Sullivan

10. John O'Sullivan

engineer
John O'Sullivan is an Australian engineer.
Simone Young

11. Simone Young

1961-. (aged 65)
conductor music teacher
Simone Margaret Young AM is an Australian conductor and academic teacher. She is currently chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
J. L. Mackie

12. J. L. Mackie

1917-1981 (aged 64)
university teacher philosopher
John Leslie Mackie FBA was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism. He wrote six books. His most widely known, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977), opens by boldly stating,...
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Blanche d'Alpuget

13. Blanche d'Alpuget

1944-. (aged 82)
writer novelist journalist biographer
Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget is an Australian writer and the second wife of Bob Hawke, the longest-serving Labor Prime Minister of Australia.
Clover Moore

14. Clover Moore

1945-. (aged 81)
politician
Clover Margaret Moore is an Australian politician who has served as the 82nd Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney since 2004 and is currently the longest serving Lord Mayor of Sydney since the creation of the City of Sydney in 1842. She was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 2012, representing the...
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John Anderson

15. John Anderson

1922-1992 (aged 70)
television actor stage actor film director film actor
John Duncan Anderson is an Australian politician and commentator who served as the 11th deputy prime minister of Australia and leader of the National Party from 1999 to 2005. He also served as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy Minister for Transport and Regional Development in the Howard government.
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Ray Martin

16. Ray Martin

1941-. (aged 85)
politician
Raymond George Martin AM is an Australian television journalist and entertainment personality. Having won the Gold Logie five times, he is the most awarded star of Australian television, along with Graham Kennedy (although Kennedy won the 'Star of the Year Award', the forerunner of the Gold Logie in 1959).
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Jeremy Griffith

17. Jeremy Griffith

1945-. (aged 81)
biologist
Jeremy Griffith is an Australian biologist and author. He first came to public attention for his attempts to find the Tasmanian tiger. He later became noted for his writings on the human condition and theories about human progress, which seek to give a biological, rational explanation of human behaviour. He founded the World Transformation Movement in 1983.
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Bob Brown

18. Bob Brown

1944-. (aged 82)
physician environmentalist politician
Robert James Brown is an Australian former politician, medical doctor and environmentalist. He was a senator and the parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens. Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket, joining with sitting Greens Western Australia senator Dee Margetts to form the first group of Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election. He...
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Charles Perkins

19. Charles Perkins

1936-2000 (aged 64)
civil servant association football coach association football player
Charles Nelson Perkins, popularly known as Charlie Perkins, was an Aboriginal Australian activist, soccer player, and public administrator. He is often recognized as the first known Indigenous Australian man to graduate from a tertiary institution. Perkins was a prominent figure in the 1965 Freedom Ride, which highlighted racial discrimination in rural Australia, and played a significant role in campaigning for...
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James Wolfensohn

20. James Wolfensohn

1933-2020 (aged 87)
fencer banker jurist economist manager
Sir James David Wolfensohn KBE, AO was an Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist who served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group (1995–2005). During his tenure at the World Bank, he is credited with the focus on poverty alleviation and a rethink on development financing, earning him recognition as a banker to the world's poor. In his...
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Erin Holland

21. Erin Holland

1989-. (aged 37)
beauty pageant contestant
Erin Victoria Holland is an Australian singer, TV host, model, dancer, charity worker and beauty pageant titleholder. She won her national title, Miss World Australia, on 20 July 2013.
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Julia Jacklin

22. Julia Jacklin

1990-. (aged 36)
singer-songwriter singer
Julia Jacklin is an Australian singer-songwriter from the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales. Jacklin's musical style has been described as indie pop, indie folk, and alternative country. She has released three studio albums, Don't Let the Kids Win (2016), Crushing (2019) and Pre Pleasure (2022). Jacklin has also performed with the band Phantastic Ferniture, with whom she released...
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David McBride

23. David McBride

1942-. (aged 84)
politician
David William McBride is an Australian whistleblower, former British Army major, and Australian Army lawyer. In 2016, McBride provided the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with documents that contained information about war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
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Natalie Bennett

24. Natalie Bennett

1966-. (aged 60)
journalist
Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, is an Australian-British politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in Theresa May's 2019 resignation honours.
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Stuart Clark

25. Stuart Clark

1975-. (aged 51)
cricketer
Stuart Rupert Clark is an Australian former cricketer who played for New South Wales and the Australian team. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler. His nickname "Sarfraz" originates from the similarities of his bowling style to Sarfraz Nawaz. Clark was also a member of the Australian team that won the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
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Val Plumwood

26. Val Plumwood

1939-2008 (aged 69)
university teacher feminist philosopher
Val Plumwood was an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism. From the 1970s, she played a central role in the development of radical ecosophy. Working mostly as an independent scholar, she held positions at the University of Tasmania, North Carolina State University, the University of Montana, and the University of Sydney, and at the time of...
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Chris Bowen

27. Chris Bowen

1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Christopher Eyles Guy Bowen is an Australian politician who has been Minister for Climate Change and Energy in the Albanese government since June 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was first elected to parliament at the 2004 federal election. He held ministerial office in the Rudd and Gillard governments from 2007 to 2013.
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John Marsden

28. John Marsden

1950-2024 (aged 74)
novelist children's writer teacher science fiction writer head teacher
John Marsden was an Australian writer and teacher. He wrote more than 40 books in his career, including his young adult novel Tomorrow, When the War Began, which began a series of seven books.
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Joe Hockey

29. Joe Hockey

1965-. (aged 61)
statesperson lawyer diplomat politician
Joseph Benedict Hockey is an Australian former politician and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament for North Sydney from 1996 until 2015. He was the Treasurer of Australia in the Abbott government from 18 September 2013 until September 2015 when he resigned from Cabinet, having refused an alternative offer from the incoming prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull. He previously served...
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Bronwyn Bishop

30. Bronwyn Bishop

1942-. (aged 84)
solicitor politician
Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop AO is an Australian former politician who served as the 29th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015, during the Abbott government. Her service of almost 30 years as a member of the federal parliament is the longest of any woman in Australia. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, she served...
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Tom Gleeson

31. Tom Gleeson

1974-. (aged 52)
comedian television presenter
Thomas Francis Gleeson is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer, television and radio presenter. Gleeson currently hosts Hard Quiz and Taskmaster Australia and previously co-hosted The Weekly with Charlie Pickering alongside Judith Lucy.
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Nicola Olyslagers

32. Nicola Olyslagers

1996-. (aged 30)
athletics competitor
Nicola Lauren Olyslagers is an Australian high jumper. She won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics, the bronze medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the gold medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in the high jump. Olyslagers is the current high jump Oceanian record holder, 2025 Diamond League title holder and the...
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Mike Baird

33. Mike Baird

1968-. (aged 58)
banker investment banker politician
Michael Bruce Baird is an Australian investment banker and former politician who was the 44th Premier of New South Wales, the Minister for Infrastructure, the Minister for Western Sydney, and the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party from April 2014 to January 2017.
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Michael Youssef

34. Michael Youssef

1948-. (aged 78)
pastor televangelist writer
Michael Youssef is an Egyptian-American pastor. He is the founding rector and senior pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, and the executive president of Leading the Way.
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Steve Keen

35. Steve Keen

1953-. (aged 73)
author economist
Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific, and empirically unsupported.
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Eddie Woo

36. Eddie Woo

1985-. (aged 41)
secondary school teacher writer YouTuber mathematics teacher television producer
Edward Kent Woo is an Australian secondary school teacher and writer best known for his online mathematics lessons published on YouTube. In 2018, Woo was awarded the Australia's Local Hero Award.
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Julia Baird

37. Julia Baird

1967-. (aged 59)
academic writer historian journalist biographer
Julia Woodlands Baird is an Australian journalist, broadcaster and author. She contributes to The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald and was a regular host of The Drum, a television news review program on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Her non-fiction work includes a bestselling memoir, a biography of Queen Victoria and a meditation on the experience of...
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Indra Lesmana

38. Indra Lesmana

1966-. (aged 60)
singer record producer jazz musician pianist songwriter
Indra Lesmana is an Indonesian arranger, composer, songwriter, and jazz musician. He is the father of an Indonesian actress and singer-songwriter, Eva Celia Lesmana.
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Georgina Wilson

39. Georgina Wilson

1986-. (aged 40)
model actor
Georgina Ashley Diaz Wilson-Burnand is a British-Filipino model, actress, and entrepreneur. In 2015, Wilson hosted the third season of the reality show Asia's Next Top Model.
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Christine Caine

40. Christine Caine

1966-. (aged 60)
pastor social activist writer
Christine Caine is an Australian activist, evangelist, author, and public speaker.
Peter FitzSimons

41. Peter FitzSimons

1961-. (aged 65)
writer rugby union player journalist biographer
Peter John FitzSimons AM is an Australian author, journalist, and radio and television presenter. He is a former national representative rugby union player and was the chair of the Australian Republic Movement from 2015 to 2022.
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Haifaa al-Mansour

42. Haifaa al-Mansour

1974-. (aged 52)
screenwriter director film director
Haifaa al-Mansour is a Saudi Arabian film director. She is one of the country's best-known and one of the first female Saudi filmmakers.
John Kerr

43. John Kerr

1914-1991 (aged 77)
lawyer judge politician
Sir John Robert Kerr AK GCMG GCVO QC was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvement in the 1975 constitutional crisis, which culminated in the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the appointment of Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister.
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Matthew Mitcham

44. Matthew Mitcham

1988-. (aged 38)
competitive diver
Matthew John Mitcham OAM is an Australian retired diver and trampolinist. As a diver, he was the 2008 Olympic champion in the 10m platform, and he is the 2nd highest single-dive score in Olympic history (at the time it was the highest scoring dive ever). This made him the first openly gay man to win an Olympic gold medal. He...
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Geoffrey Robertson

45. Geoffrey Robertson

1946-. (aged 80)
playwright non-fiction writer radio personality jurist university teacher
Geoffrey Ronald Robertson is an Australian and British barrister, academic, author and broadcaster. Robertson is a founder and a former joint head of Doughty Street Chambers. He serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple, a recorder, and visiting professor at Queen Mary University of London.
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John Cornforth

46. John Cornforth

1917-2013 (aged 96)
university teacher chemist
Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., AC, CBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.
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Sherina Munaf

47. Sherina Munaf

1990-. (aged 36)
singer-songwriter actor
Sinna Sherina Munaf or better known as Sherina Munaf is an Indonesian actress, singer and songwriter of Minangkabau descent. She is the niece of Indonesian singer-songwriter, Fariz RM.
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Edmund Barton

48. Edmund Barton

1849-1920 (aged 71)
lawyer diplomat judge politician
Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton was an Australian politician, barrister and jurist who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903. He held office as the leader of the Protectionist Party, before resigning in 1903 to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia, on which he served until his death in 1920. Barton is...
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Geraldine Brooks

49. Geraldine Brooks

1955-. (aged 71)
writer author novelist journalist
Geraldine Brooks AO is an Australian-American journalist and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March.
John Horgan

50. John Horgan

1959-2024 (aged 65)
politician
John Joseph Horgan was a Canadian politician and diplomat who served as the 36th premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022 and the ambassador of Canada to Germany from 2023 to 2024. He led the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2014 to 2022, guiding the party to government after 16 years in opposition. A member of the Legislative...
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Julia Zemiro

51. Julia Zemiro

1967-. (aged 59)
actor television presenter
Julia Zemiro is an Australian television presenter, radio host, actress, singer, writer, and comedian. She is best known as the host of the music quiz and live performance show RocKwiz. Zemiro, who was born in France, is a fluent English and French speaker and has acted in French.
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Carmel Tebbutt

52. Carmel Tebbutt

1964-. (aged 62)
politician
Carmel Mary Tebbutt is an Australian former politician. She was the Labor Party Member for the former seat of Marrickville in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly until the 2015 election and was Deputy Premier of New South Wales from 2008 to 2011. She was also Minister for Health in the Keneally Government. She is the first woman to hold...
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Faith Yang

53. Faith Yang

1974-. (aged 52)
model recording artist actor singer
Faith Yang Naiwen is a Taiwanese musician. She grew up in Sydney, Australia and studied biology and genetics at the University of Sydney. In 2000, Yang won the Golden Melody Award for Best Female Mandarin Singer for the album Silence.
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Jordan Raskopoulos

54. Jordan Raskopoulos

1982-. (aged 44)
Twitch streamer singer actor comedian
Jordan Nicola Bridget Raskopoulos is an Australian comedian, singer, and television personality. She wrote and performed the Network Ten sketch comedy show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, and was lead singer for comedy rock group the Axis of Awesome. She came out as a transgender woman in 2016.
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Sikhanyiso Dlamini

55. Sikhanyiso Dlamini

1987-. (aged 39)
politician business executive
Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini is a Swazi princess and politician. She is the eldest daughter of King Mswati III of Eswatini, and is the country's former Minister of Information and Communication Technology.
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The Anime Man

56. The Anime Man

1994-. (aged 32)
Twitch streamer YouTuber voice actor television producer chess player
Joseph Tetsuro Bizinger, known online as The Anime Man, as well as his stage name Ikurru Kamijou (神城 維来, Kamijō Ikurru), is a Japanese-Australian YouTuber, voice actor, songwriter, and podcaster. His video work focuses on Japanese popular culture, which consists of anime and manga reviews, and vlogs on Japanese culture and society. Bizinger is also known for his interviews with...
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John Singleton

57. John Singleton

1968-2019 (aged 51)
film screenwriter film producer film director television producer actor
John Desmond Singleton AM is an Australian entrepreneur. He built his success and wealth in the advertising business in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, and later also had diverse investment interests in radio broadcasting, publishing and thoroughbred breeding and racing.
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Douglas Mawson

58. Douglas Mawson

1882-1958 (aged 76)
scientific collector explorer film director geologist botanical collector
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. He is known for being a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton (with whom he undertook the Nimrod Expedition in 1907–1909). However most of his geological work was undertaken in South...
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Mark Latham

59. Mark Latham

1961-. (aged 65)
politician political pundit trade unionist
Mark William Latham is an Australian politician and media commentator who is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He previously served as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from December 2003 to January 2005, leading the party to defeat at the 2004 federal election. He left the ALP in 2017...
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Bruce Beresford

60. Bruce Beresford

1940-. (aged 86)
screenwriter director film director film producer actor
Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director, opera director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career during the Australian New Wave, and has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee, and a four-time AACTA/AFI Awards winner out of 10 total nominations
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Vere Gordon Childe

61. Vere Gordon Childe

1892-1957 (aged 65)
university teacher trade unionist librarian classical philologist prehistorian
Vere Gordon Childe was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London. He wrote twenty-six books during his career. Initially an early proponent of culture-historical archaeology, he later became the first...
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Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga

62. Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga

1918-2006 (aged 88)
king
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV was King of Tonga from 1965 until his death in 2006. He was the tallest and heaviest Tongan monarch, weighing 209.5 kg (462 lb) and measuring 196 cm (6 ft 5 in).
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Phillip Noyce

63. Phillip Noyce

1950-. (aged 76)
screenwriter director film director film producer actor
Phillip Roger Noyce AO is an Australian film and television director. Since 1977, he has directed over 19 feature films in various genres, including historical drama (Newsfront, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Quiet American); thrillers (Dead Calm, Sliver, The Bone Collector); and action films (Blind Fury, The Saint, Salt). He has also directed the Jack Ryan adaptations Patriot Games (1992) and Clear...
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Germaine Greer

64. Germaine Greer

1939-. (aged 87)
journalist university teacher women's rights activist broadcaster essayist
Germaine Greer is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Manon Aubry

65. Manon Aubry

1989-. (aged 37)
humanitarian swimmer politician
Manon Aubry is a French politician who represents the left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI). A former advocacy officer for Oxfam France, she won a seat in the 2019 European Parliament election and the same year was elected co-chair with Martin Schirdewan of The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) group. She retained her seat following the 2024 European Parliament...
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Victor Chang

66. Victor Chang

1936-1991 (aged 55)
cardiac surgeon
Victor Peter Chang AC was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia.
Gough Whitlam

67. Gough Whitlam

1916-2014 (aged 98)
minister barrister politician diplomat jurist
Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the...
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Sarah Àlainn

68. Sarah Àlainn

1986-. (aged 40)
singer lyricist composer translator violinist
Sarah Àlainn is an Australian singer-songwriter. She is mostly active in Japan.
Derek Muller

69. Derek Muller

1982-. (aged 44)
television producer scientist YouTuber television presenter
Derek Alexander Muller is a Canadian-Australian science communicator and media personality best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium, which has over 20 million subscribers and 3.9 billion views as of January 2026.
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Maeve Dermody

70. Maeve Dermody

1985-. (aged 41)
actor film actor
Maeve Dermody is a UK-based Australian actress. After a film appearance at 5 years old, her adult acting career has included work in Australian and British television, theatre, short films and movies.
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Tony Abbott

71. Tony Abbott

1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Anthony John Abbott is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He led the Liberal Party from 2009 to 2015 and represented the New South Wales seat of Warringah from 1994 until 2019.
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William McMahon

72. William McMahon

1908-1988 (aged 80)
diplomat politician
Sir William McMahon was an Australian politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, and previously held various ministerial positions from 1951 to 1971, the longest continuous service in Australian history.
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Ryan Kwanten

73. Ryan Kwanten

1976-. (aged 50)
actor television actor model film actor voice actor
Ryan Christian Kwanten is an Australian actor and producer. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera Home and Away. After his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series Summerland, portraying Jay Robertson. From 2008 to 2014, he played Jason Stackhouse in True Blood. From 2018 to 2019 he produced and starred in...
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Christopher Clark

74. Christopher Clark

1960-. (aged 66)
historian historian of Modern Age university teacher biographer
Sir Christopher Munro Clark FBA is an Australian historian living in the United Kingdom and Germany. He is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. In the 2015 Birthday Honours, he was knighted for his services to Anglo-German relations.
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John Howard

75. John Howard

civil servant director physician science administrator
John Winston Howard is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the second-longest in Australian history, after that of Robert Menzies.
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DPR Ian

76. DPR Ian

1990-. (aged 36)
singer film director songwriter rapper musician
Christian Yu, known professionally as DPR Ian, is an Australian singer, songwriter, dancer, producer and director based in Los Angeles. He is a former member of Yedang Entertainment boy group C-Clown, which was active between 2012 and 2015. Yu made his solo debut under his co-founded label Dream Perfect Regime (DPR) with the digital single "So Beautiful" on 26 October...
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Sam Moran

77. Sam Moran

1978-. (aged 48)
singer dancer television actor
Samuel Alexander Moran is an Australian entertainer best known for having been a member of the children's band The Wiggles from 2006 to 2012.
Dominic Perrottet

78. Dominic Perrottet

1982-. (aged 44)
commercial lawyer politician
Dominic Francis Perrottet is an Australian politician who served as the 46th premier of New South Wales from 2021 to 2023. He held office as leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party of Australia, and assumed the position following the resignation of Gladys Berejiklian.
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Dolph Lundgren

79. Dolph Lundgren

1957-. (aged 69)
bodybuilder engineer judoka model chemist
Hans "Dolph" Lundgren is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. He gained recognition for portraying the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in his breakthrough role in Rocky IV (1985), a role he reprised in Creed II (2018).
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Rose Byrne

80. Rose Byrne

1979-. (aged 47)
voice actor stage actor actor film actor
Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. Renowned for her versatility across film and television, Byrne is particularly recognized for her leading roles in blockbuster comedies, independent dramas, and horror films. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a Silver Bear and a Volpi Cup in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Actor...
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Jacqueline Fernandez

81. Jacqueline Fernandez

1985-. (aged 41)
film actor beauty pageant contestant model
Jacqueline Genevieve Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress based in India. She has worked in Indian films, predominantly in Hindi, besides appearing in reality shows and music videos. Fernandez was born and raised in Bahrain. After graduating in mass communication from the University of Sydney and working as a television reporter in Sri Lanka, she joined the modelling industry. She...
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Elle Macpherson

82. Elle Macpherson

1964-. (aged 62)
television presenter businessperson entrepreneur actor television producer
Eleanor Nancy Macpherson is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host, and actress.
Anthony Albanese

83. Anthony Albanese

1963-. (aged 63)
prime minister party leader politician
Anthony Norman Albanese is an Australian politician who has served as the 31st prime minister of Australia since 2022. He has been the leader of the Labor Party since 2019 and the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Grayndler since 1996.
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Akhilesh Yadav

84. Akhilesh Yadav

1973-. (aged 53)
politician
Akhilesh Yadav is an Indian politician, engineer, agriculturalist and social worker. He is the national president of the Samajwadi Party who served as the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017. Having assumed the chief minister's office at the age of 38, he is the youngest person to have held the office till date. He is the...
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Malcolm Turnbull

85. Malcolm Turnbull

1954-. (aged 72)
barrister politician investment banker entrepreneur journalist
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull is an Australian former politician, businessman and barrister who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as leader of the Liberal Party from 2008 to 2009 and again from 2015 to 2018, and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Wentworth from 2004...
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Peter Weir

86. Peter Weir

1944-. (aged 82)
screenwriter director film director
Peter Lindsay Weir AM is an Australian retired film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), Fearless (1993), The Truman Show (1998), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World...
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Raymond Dart

87. Raymond Dart

1893-1988 (aged 95)
anatomist anthropologist prehistorian university teacher paleoanthropologist
Raymond Arthur Dart was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province.
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Andrew Laming

88. Andrew Laming

1966-. (aged 60)
politician ophthalmologist
Andrew Charles Laming is an Australian medical doctor and former politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Bowman for the Liberal National Party of Queensland from 2004 to 2022.
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Lucy Turnbull

89. Lucy Turnbull

1958-. (aged 68)
businessperson politician
Lucinda Mary Turnbull AO is an Australian businesswoman, philanthropist, and former local government politician. She served on the Sydney City Council from 1999 to 2004, including as Lord Mayor of Sydney from 2003 to 2004 – the first woman to hold the position. She has since held positions on a number of urban planning bodies, including as chief commissioner of...
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Gladys Berejiklian

90. Gladys Berejiklian

1970-. (aged 56)
politician banker
Gladys Berejiklian is an Australian businesswoman and former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejiklian currently works as an executive for the telecommunications company Optus.
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Robyn Denholm

91. Robyn Denholm

1963-. (aged 63)
entrepreneur businessperson
Robyn M. Denholm is an Australian business executive and former accountant who is chair of Tesla, Inc. In November 2018, Denholm was chosen by Elon Musk to succeed him as chair of Tesla. Prior to her appointment, she was relatively unknown. She is the highest-paid chair of any public company in the United States.
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Martin Indyk

92. Martin Indyk

1951-2024 (aged 73)
diplomat
Martin Sean Indyk was an Australian-American diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East.
Michael Kirby

93. Michael Kirby

1939-. (aged 87)
legal counselor barrister solicitor judge
Michael Donald Kirby is an Australian jurist and academic who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009. He has remained active in retirement; in May 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea, which reported in February 2014.
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Sam Dastyari

94. Sam Dastyari

1983-. (aged 43)
trade unionist politician
Sam Dastyari is an Australian former politician, who from 2013 to 2018 represented New South Wales in the Australian Senate as a member of the Australian Labor Party. Dastyari was previously General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Labor Party. He was the first person of Iranian origin and Azerbaijani descent to sit in the Australian Parliament....
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Dave Sharma

95. Dave Sharma

1975-. (aged 51)
diplomat politician
Devanand Noel "Dave" Sharma is an Australian politician and former public servant and diplomat who has served as Senator for New South Wales since November 2023. Prior to that, he served as the member for Wentworth in the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2022, when he lost the seat to independent challenger Allegra Spender. He is a member of...
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Glenn Diesen

96. Glenn Diesen

1979-. (aged 47)
political pundit political scientist
Glenn Eric Andre Diesen is a Norwegian political scientist, political commentator and politician currently serving as a professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway.
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Julian McMahon

97. Julian McMahon

1968-2025 (aged 57)
video game actor film producer film actor model television actor
Julian Dana William McMahon was an Australian-American actor. He was the only son of William McMahon, a former Prime Minister of Australia. He was best known for his roles as Ben Lucini in Home and Away, Detective John Grant in Profiler, Cole Turner in Charmed, Dr. Christian Troy in Nip/Tuck, Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Four duology, Jonah in Runaways...
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Jane Campion

98. Jane Campion

1954-. (aged 72)
screenwriter director film director film producer actor
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion DNZM is a New Zealand filmmaker. Best known for her feature films with themes of rebellion and often focused on women in leading roles who are outsiders in society, Campion is regarded as one of the prominent female filmmakers in women's cinema.
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James Mackay

99. James Mackay

1954-. (aged 72)
producer film producer
James Wilson Mackay is an Australian actor known for The CW television series Dynasty, as well as roles in films and on stage.
Jessica Rowe

100. Jessica Rowe

1970-. (aged 56)
journalist
Jessica June Rowe AM is an Australian journalist, author and television presenter. She was the co-host of Studio 10 on Network Ten until March 2018, and is Member of the Order of Australia for her mental health advocacy.
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