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99 Notable alumni of University of Western Australia

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

University of Western Australia is ranked #178 in the world and #7 in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 99 notable alumni from University of Western Australia 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 Western Australia won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Chris Ellison

1. Chris Ellison

1954-. (aged 72)
lawyer politician
Christopher Martin Ellison is an Australian lawyer and former politician. He served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1993 to 2009, representing the Liberal Party. He held ministerial office in the Howard government as Minister for Customs and Consumer Affairs (1997), Schools, Vocational Education and Training (1997–1998), Special Minister of State (1998–2001), Justice and Customs (2001–2007), and Human Services...
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Alexandra Hasluck

2. Alexandra Hasluck

1908-1993 (aged 85)
historian author teacher biographer
Dame Alexandra Margaret Martin Hasluck, Lady Hasluck, AD, also known as Alix Hasluck, was an Australian author and social historian. She published a number of works on the history of Western Australia. She was the wife of Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia.
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Albert Jacob

3. Albert Jacob

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Albert Paul Jacob is an Australian politician. He was the mayor of the City of Joondalup from 2017 to 2025, the member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Ocean Reef from 2008 to 2017, and the Minister for the Environment and Heritage in Colin Barnett's government. He had previously served as the Parliamentary Secretary for Community Services; Seniors...
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Beryl Mills

4. Beryl Mills

1907-1977 (aged 70)
librarian
Beryl Lucy Mills was an advertising agent, librarian, and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the first woman to win the Miss Australia quest in 1926
Edward Russell

5. Edward Russell

1989-. (aged 37)
television presenter
Edward Russell is an English-Singaporean television presenter, host, and actor. He is a permanent presenter on Fox Sports Asia, anchoring Fox Sports Central Asia, and helming their MotoGP coverage and Friday Night Football. He currently hosts his own daily radio show on Singapore's number one English radio station (Mediacorp) Class 95 called "Cartunes with Jean Danker & Edward Russell"
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Reg Withers

6. Reg Withers

1924-2014 (aged 90)
barrister solicitor politician
Reginald Greive Withers was an Australian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as a Senator for Western Australia for nearly 20 years. He was a cabinet minister in the Fraser government and later served as Lord Mayor of Perth.
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Jim Middleton

7. Jim Middleton

journalist
Jim Middleton is an Australian journalist and was a senior advisor to former South Australian Senator Tim Storer.
Chris Back

8. Chris Back

1950-. (aged 76)
veterinarian politician
Christopher John Back is a former Australian politician, who was a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate for Western Australia from 2009 until his resignation in 2017.
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Bob McMullan

9. Bob McMullan

1947-. (aged 79)
politician
Robert Francis McMullan is a former Australian politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was a cabinet minister in the Keating government as Minister for Arts and Administrative Services (1993–1994) and Minister for Trade (1994–1996). He was a member of federal parliament for over 22 years, initially as a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 1988...
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Margaret Battye

10. Margaret Battye

1909-1949 (aged 40)
lawyer
Margaret Battye was an Australian barrister and jurist, who was one of the most influential women in politics, business and the legal advancement in Oceania. Battye was the first woman to represent a client and begin a legal practice in Western Australia, and she held a number of roles in the early history of the state's division of the Liberal...
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Peter Newman

11. Peter Newman

1945-. (aged 81)
researcher ecologist professor
Peter William Geoffrey Newman AO is an environmental scientist, author and educator based in Perth, Western Australia. He is currently Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University. He is best known for his contributions to the development of Perth's electrified metropolitan rail network through both activist and official consulting roles since the 1980s.
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Sue Ellery

12. Sue Ellery

1962-. (aged 64)
trade unionist politician
Suzanne Mary Ellery is an Australian politician who has been a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia since 2001, representing South Metropolitan Region. A senior figure in WA Labor, Ellery held a range of ministerial portfolios over two decades in Parliament. Most recently, she served as Minister for Finance, Commerce, and Women’s Interests in the McGowan...
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Eric Ripper

13. Eric Ripper

1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Eric Stephen Ripper AM is an Australian former politician. From 2008 to 2012 he was Leader of the Opposition and leader of the Labor Party in Western Australia.
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Ken Freeman

14. Ken Freeman

1940-. (aged 86)
astronomer
Kenneth Charles Freeman AC FAA FRS is an Australian astronomer and astrophysicist who is currently Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra. He was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1940, studied mathematics and physics at the University of Western Australia, and graduated...
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Richard Pestell

15. Richard Pestell

oncologist
Richard G. Pestell is an Australian American oncologist, endocrinologist and research scientist. Pestell was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medicine and medical education in 2019 by Queen Elizabeth II. He was previously Executive Vice President of Thomas Jefferson University and Director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson University. He founded...
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Barbara York Main

16. Barbara York Main

1929-2019 (aged 90)
arachnologist botanical collector
Barbara Anne York Main OAM was an Australian arachnologist and adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia. The author of four books and over 90 research papers, Main is recognised for her prolific work in establishing taxonomy for arachnids, personally describing 34 species and seven new genera. The BBC and ABC produced a film about her work, Lady of...
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Tony Buti

17. Tony Buti

1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Antonio De Paulo "Tony" Buti is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Armadale since 2 October 2010, when he was elected in a by-election.
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Wayne Martin

18. Wayne Martin

1952-. (aged 74)
lawyer judge
Wayne Stewart Martin AC KC is a lawyer and former judge who served as Chief Justice of Western Australia from 2006 until 2018, and Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia from 2009 to 2019.
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Jonathan Strahan

19. Jonathan Strahan

1964-. (aged 62)
editor
Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.
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Pierre Yang

20. Pierre Yang

1983-. (aged 43)
military officer lawyer politician
Pierre Shuai Yang is an Australian lawyer and politician who has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Council since 2017. First elected to represent the South Metropolitan Region, he subsequently stood for the North Metropolitan Region (Western Australia) at the 2021 Western Australian state election. As of the 2025 Western Australian state election all members of the...
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Joan London

21. Joan London

1948-. (aged 78)
novelist
Joan Elizabeth London is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.
Ralph Honner

22. Ralph Honner

1904-1994 (aged 90)
diplomat Australian rules football player
Lieutenant Colonel Hyacinth Ralph Honner DSO, MC, known as Ralph Honner, was a distinguished Australian soldier during the Second World War. He is considered particularly notable for his leadership during the Kokoda Track Campaign, during which he commanded the 39th Battalion, which fought a series of delaying actions as the Japanese advanced towards Port Moresby. In 1943 Honner was wounded...
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Kazi Shahidullah

23. Kazi Shahidullah

1952-2025 (aged 73)
academic
Kazi Shahidullah was a Bangladeshi academic and chairman of Bangladesh University Grants Commission from 2019 to 2024.
Ken Michael

24. Ken Michael

1938-. (aged 88)
civil servant governor engineer civil engineer
Kenneth Comninos Michael, AC is an Australian civil engineer, academic and former public servant who was the 30th Governor of Western Australia, serving from 2006 to 2011.
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Dave Warner

25. Dave Warner

1953-. (aged 73)
singer novelist songwriter children's writer screenwriter
David Robert Warner is an Australian rock musician, author and screenwriter. He lives in Sydney with his wife and three children.
Peter Dowding

26. Peter Dowding

1943-. (aged 83)
politician
Peter McCallum Dowding SC is an Australian lawyer and former politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 25 February 1988 until his resignation on 12 February 1990 due to a leadership spill. He was a member of the Parliament of Western Australia from 1980 to 1990 and a member of the Labor Party.
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Jarrad Seng

27. Jarrad Seng

1988-. (aged 38)
filmmaker photographer reality television participant
Jarrad Seng is an Australian photographer and filmmaker. Based in Perth, his work often mixes with his interests in music, travel and volunteering. Seng frequently collaborates with English singer Passenger, serving as his tour photographer on seven tours between 2012 and 2015, as well as directing many of his music videos. Seng has also toured with American band Matchbox Twenty...
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Rosamond McKitterick

28. Rosamond McKitterick

1949-. (aged 77)
historian medievalist university teacher
Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is an English medieval historian. She is an expert on the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD, who uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political, cultural, intellectual, religious, and social history of the Early Middle Ages. From 1999 until 2016 she was Professor of Medieval History and director of research...
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Malcolm McCusker

29. Malcolm McCusker

1938-. (aged 88)
barrister
Malcolm James McCusker AC CVO KC is an Australian barrister and philanthropist who was the 31st Governor of Western Australia, serving from July 2011 to June 2014.
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Greg Moriarty

30. Greg Moriarty

1964-. (aged 62)
diplomat civil servant
Gregory Laurence Moriarty, AO is a senior Australian public servant and diplomat, and the current Secretary of the Department of Defence since 4 September 2017. He was previously the Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Moriarty has been Australian Ambassador to Iran from 2005 to 2008, Australian Ambassador to Indonesia from 2010 to 2014, the inaugural Commonwealth Counter-Terrorism...
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Oren Yiftachel

31. Oren Yiftachel

1956-. (aged 70)
urban planner activist geographer
Oren Yiftachel is an Israeli professor of political and legal geography, urban studies and urban planning at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beersheba. He holds the Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Chair in Urban Studies.
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Megan Clark

32. Megan Clark

1958-. (aged 68)
academic administrator civil servant geologist engineer business executive
Megan Elizabeth Clark AC is an Australian geologist and business executive, former director of the CSIRO, former head of the Australian Space Agency and Chancellor of Monash University.
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Anthony de Jasay

33. Anthony de Jasay

1925-2019 (aged 94)
economist philosopher
Anthony de Jasay was a Hungarian writer, economist, and philosopher. He studied in Székesfehérvár and Budapest, obtaining a degree in agriculture. He then worked as a freelance journalist, but emigrated from Hungary in 1948 after the Communist government nationalized his father's farm. His views have been described as liberal, sceptical of the state, and favouring strict limits on government.
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John Dawkins

34. John Dawkins

1947-. (aged 79)
politician
John Sydney "Joe" Dawkins AO is an Australian former politician who was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993. He is notable for his reforms of tertiary education as Minister for Employment, Education and Training, his period as Treasurer when he attempted to increase taxes in order to balance the budget and his abrupt exit...
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Josh Wilson

35. Josh Wilson

1972-. (aged 54)
politician paralegal photojournalist
Joshua Hamilton Wilson is a British-born Australian politician. He is the Labor member for Fremantle in the House of Representatives, serving from 2 July 2016 until his resignation on 10 May 2018 as a part of the 2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis and then since the 2018 Fremantle by-election.
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David Irvine

36. David Irvine

1947-2022 (aged 75)
diplomat journalist
David Taylor Irvine, AO was an Australian diplomat who, from March 2009 to September 2014, was the Director-General of Security, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). Prior to his appointment to ASIO, he was Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) from 2003 to 2009. In 2017 he was appointed Chair of the Foreign Investment Review...
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Chris Evans

37. Chris Evans

1981-. (aged 45)
film producer film actor model film director television actor
Christopher Vaughan Evans is an Australian public servant and former politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia from 1993 to 2013, representing the Australian Labor Party. He has served as the first Australian Anti-Slavery Commissioner since 2 December 2024.
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Rachel Siewert

38. Rachel Siewert

1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Rachel Mary Siewert is an Australian politician. She was a senator for Western Australia from 2005 to 2021, representing the Australian Greens, and served as the party's co-deputy leader from 2017 to 2018. She previously worked as coordinator of the Conservation Council of Western Australia.
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C. J. van Rijsbergen

39. C. J. van Rijsbergen

1943-. (aged 83)
computer scientist engineer
C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen FREng is a professor of computer science at the University of Glasgow, where he founded the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group. He is one of the founders of modern Information Retrieval and the author of the seminal monograph Information Retrieval and of the textbook The Geometry of Information Retrieval.
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Shane Love

40. Shane Love

1961-. (aged 65)
politician
Ronald Shane Love is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Mid-West, representing the National Party of Australia (WA) and is a former leader of the opposition of Western Australia.
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Peter Bell

41. Peter Bell

1976-. (aged 50)
Australian rules football player
Peter Francis Bell is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. He played as a rover (or follower). A former captain of the Fremantle Football Club, Bell was twice named as a member of the All-Australian Team. He was an acclaimed ball-winner and had...
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Wong Soon Koh

42. Wong Soon Koh

1942-. (aged 84)
politician
Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bawang Assan since September 1991. He served as the State Leader of the Opposition of Sarawak from November 2020 to March 2024, State Minister of Finance II of Sarawak from 2004 and State Minister of International Trade and...
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Warren Snowdon

43. Warren Snowdon

1950-. (aged 76)
politician
Warren Edward Snowdon is an Australian former politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from July 1987 to March 1996, and again from October 1998 until May 2022. He initially represented the Division of Northern Territory, and later the Division of Lingiari. His electorate encompassed all the residents of the Northern Territory located outside Darwin, as...
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Madeleine King

44. Madeleine King

1973-. (aged 53)
barrister solicitor politician
Madeleine Mary Harvie King is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been Minister for Resources and Minister for Northern Australia in the Albanese government since June 2022. She has represented the Western Australian seat of Brand in the House of Representatives since 2016. She worked as a lawyer and political adviser...
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Taryn Fiebig

45. Taryn Fiebig

1972-2021 (aged 49)
opera singer cellist
Taryn Fiebig was an Australian soprano, a principal soprano of Opera Australia who also performed internationally. She appeared in many Mozart roles such as Susanna and Zerlina. The versatile singer also performed in Baroque opera, Italian repertoire, contemporary opera, operetta and musical theatre.
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Matt Price

46. Matt Price

1961-2007 (aged 46)
journalist
Matt Price was an Australian journalist and newspaper columnist.
Dean Smith

47. Dean Smith

1931-2015 (aged 84)
basketball player basketball coach engineer
Dean Anthony Smith is an Australian politician and Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since 2012, representing Western Australia.
Asha de Vos

48. Asha de Vos

1979-. (aged 47)
biologist
Asha de Vos is a Sri Lankan marine biologist, ocean educator and pioneer of blue whale research within the northern Indian Ocean. She is known for her Blue Whale Project. She is a Senior TED Fellow and was chosen for a BBC 100 Women award in 2018. She is a National Geographic 2016 Emerging Explorer Grantee.
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Michelle Gordon

49. Michelle Gordon

1964-. (aged 62)
judge barrister
Michelle Marjorie Gordon is a Justice of the High Court of Australia. She was appointed to the High Court in June 2015. Prior to her appointment, she was a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, to which she was appointed in 2007.
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H. C. Coombs

50. H. C. Coombs

1906-1997 (aged 91)
civil servant economist
Herbert Cole "Nugget" Coombs was an Australian economist and public servant. He was the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, in which capacity he served from 1960 to 1968. He is noted for his contributions to the arts, environment, and Indigenous justice movement.
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Fred Chaney

51. Fred Chaney

1941-. (aged 85)
barrister solicitor politician
Frederick Michael Chaney, AO is an Australian former politician who was deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 1989 to 1990 and served as a minister in the Fraser government. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 1974 to 1990, and then served a single term in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1993.
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Kerry Sanderson

52. Kerry Sanderson

1950-. (aged 76)
civil servant governor businessperson
Kerry Gaye Sanderson, AC, CVO is a retired Australian public servant and business director, who served as the 32nd Governor of Western Australia, in office from 20 October 2014 to 1 May 2018. She is the first woman to have held the position. She has since served as Chancellor of Edith Cowan University for 2019–2021.
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Alannah MacTiernan

53. Alannah MacTiernan

1953-. (aged 73)
politician
Alannah Joan Geraldine Cecilia MacTiernan is a former Australian politician. From 1988 to 2023, she has served in politics at a federal, state, and local level, including as a minister in the Western Australian state governments of Geoff Gallop, Alan Carpenter, and Mark McGowan. She is best known for her role as the minister for planning and infrastructure during the...
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Peter Whish-Wilson

54. Peter Whish-Wilson

1968-. (aged 58)
economist winegrower politician
Peter Stuart Whish-Wilson is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for Tasmania since 2012, representing the Australian Greens. Formerly a lecturer in economics at the University of Tasmania, Whish-Wilson was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy caused by the retirement of former party leader Bob Brown and has since won election in his own right...
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Alan Carpenter

55. Alan Carpenter

1957-. (aged 69)
journalist politician
Alan John Carpenter is an Australian former politician and journalist who was the premier of Western Australia from 25 January 2006 to 23 September 2008. A member of the Labor Party, he served in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2009 and was a minister in the Gallop government from 2001 to 2006.
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Dorothy Coade Hewett

56. Dorothy Coade Hewett

1923-2002 (aged 79)
writer playwright poet novelist
Dorothy Coade Hewett AM was an Australian playwright, poet and author. She wrote in a number of different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period.
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Roseanna Cunningham

57. Roseanna Cunningham

1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Roseanna Cunningham is a retired Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform from 2016 to 2021. She was previously Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training from 2014 until 2016.
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Melissa Price

58. Melissa Price

1963-. (aged 63)
solicitor politician
Melissa Lee Price is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Liberal Party and has served in the House of Representatives since 2013, representing the Western Australian seat of Durack. She held ministerial office in the Morrison government from 2018 to 2022, serving as Minister for the Environment (2018–2019), Minister for Defence Industry (2019–2022), and Minister for Science...
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Troy Buswell

59. Troy Buswell

1966-. (aged 60)
politician
Troy Raymond Buswell is an Australian former politician who was a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 2005 to 2014, representing the seat of Vasse. He was Treasurer of Western Australia in the Barnett Ministry from 2008 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2014, and also held several other portfolios.
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Carmen Lawrence

60. Carmen Lawrence

1948-. (aged 78)
researcher psychologist university teacher politician
Carmen Mary Lawrence AO is an Australian academic and former politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 1990 to 1993, the first woman to become the premier of an Australian state. To date she is the only female premier of Western Australia. A member of the Labor Party, she later entered federal politics as a member of the...
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Sandra Angelia

61. Sandra Angelia

1986-. (aged 40)
beauty pageant contestant
Sandra Angelia Hadisiswantoro is an Indonesian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Indonesia 2008. She was also voted "Miss Favorite" by the audience, beating soap opera star Kartika Indah Pelapory. She is a representative of the East Java province. Once elected as Miss Indonesia, she represented Indonesia in the Miss World 2008 pageant.
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Amanda Platell

62. Amanda Platell

1957-. (aged 69)
journalist presenter
Amanda Jane Platell is an Australian journalist. Between 1999 and 2001 she was the press secretary to William Hague, the then leader of the British Conservative Party. She is currently based in the UK.
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Shirley Strickland

63. Shirley Strickland

1925-2004 (aged 79)
athletics competitor sprinter
Shirley Barbara de la Hunty AO, MBE, known as Shirley Strickland during her early career, was an Australian athlete. She won more Olympic medals than any other Australian in running sports.
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Geoff Gallop

64. Geoff Gallop

1951-. (aged 75)
writer politician
Geoffrey Ian Gallop AC FASSA is an Australian academic and former politician who served as the 27th premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006. He is currently a professor and director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney and former chairman of the Australian Republican Movement.
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Billy Snedden

65. Billy Snedden

1926-1987 (aged 61)
civil servant lawyer politician
Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, KCMG, QC was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983.
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Paul Hasluck

66. Paul Hasluck

1905-1993 (aged 88)
politician historian diplomat journalist governor
Sir Paul Meernaa Caedwalla Hasluck was an Australian statesman who served as the 17th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1969 to 1974. Prior to that, he was a Liberal Party politician, holding ministerial office continuously from 1951 to 1969.
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Richard Court

67. Richard Court

1947-. (aged 79)
diplomat politician
Richard Fairfax Court AC is a former Australian politician and diplomat. He served as Premier of Western Australia from 1993 to 2001 and as Australian Ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2020. A member of the Liberal Party, he represented the Perth-area electorate of Nedlands in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2001. His father, Sir Charles Court,...
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Robert French

68. Robert French

1947-. (aged 79)
barrister solicitor jurist judge
Robert Shenton French is a former judge of the Federal Court of Australia and was Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 2008 to 2017. From 2017 to 2024, he was chancellor of the University of Western Australia, of which he is a graduate. He served as an overseas non-permanent judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final...
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Stephen Smith

69. Stephen Smith

1955-. (aged 71)
diplomat economist politician
Stephen Francis Smith is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the 26th high commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom from 2023 to 2026. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was the federal member of Parliament (MP) for the division of Perth from 1993 to 2013, serving in the Rudd and Gillard governments as...
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Fiona Stanley

70. Fiona Stanley

1946-. (aged 80)
epidemiologist
Fiona Juliet Stanley AC FAA FASSA is an Australian epidemiologist noted for her public health work, her research into child and maternal health as well as birth disorders such as cerebral palsy. Stanley is the patron of the Telethon Kids Institute and a distinguished professorial fellow in the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia....
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Nauman Niaz

71. Nauman Niaz

1969-. (aged 57)
journalist
Nauman Niaz is a Pakistani television personality, cricket correspondent, and author. Acknowledged for his significant contributions to sports journalism and broadcasting, Niaz has been honored with the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan's prestigious Civil Awards.
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Rachel Kum

72. Rachel Kum

1985-. (aged 41)
entrepreneur beauty pageant contestant
Rachel Kum is a Singaporean entrepreneur, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She co-founded the Singaporean company Rachel K Cosmetics. She won Miss Singapore Universe 2009 and represented Singapore in the Miss Universe 2009 pageant which was held at the Atlantis Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas on 23 August 2009.
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Kim Beazley

73. Kim Beazley

1948-. (aged 78)
viceroy diplomat university teacher politician
Kim Christian Beazley is an Australian former politician and diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as chairman of the Australian War Memorial. Previously, he was leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and leader of the opposition from 1996 to 2001 and 2005 to 2006, having previously been a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments. After leaving parliament,...
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Barry Marshall

74. Barry Marshall

1951-. (aged 75)
biologist autobiographer professor microbiologist physician
Barry James Marshall is an Australian physician, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused...
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William Heseltine

75. William Heseltine

1930-. (aged 96)
civil servant business executive press secretary party secretary
Sir William Frederick Payne Heseltine GCB GCVO AC QSO is a former Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II. He was in office from 1986 to 1990.
Andrew Forrest

76. Andrew Forrest

1961-. (aged 65)
jackaroo entrepreneur
John Andrew Henry Forrest AO, nicknamed Twiggy, is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the founder and current executive chairman of mining company Fortescue, one of Australia's largest companies.
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Christian Porter

77. Christian Porter

1970-. (aged 56)
lawyer politician
Charles Christian Porter is an Australian former politician and lawyer who served as the 37th Attorney-General of Australia from 2017 to 2021 in the Turnbull government and the subsequent Morrison government. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Division of Pearce from 2013 to 2022 and a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. Porter also served as...
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Toby Schmitz

78. Toby Schmitz

1977-. (aged 49)
film actor actor television actor
Toby Schmitz is an Australian actor, playwright and novelist.
Boediono

79. Boediono

1943-. (aged 83)
economist
Boediono is an Indonesian politician and economist who served as the 11th vice president of Indonesia from 2009 to 2014. He became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Before this, he had been the Governor of the Indonesian Central Bank and a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University.
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Colin Barnett

80. Colin Barnett

1950-. (aged 76)
politician economist
Colin James Barnett AC is an Australian former politician who was the 29th Premier of Western Australia. He concurrently served as the state's Treasurer at several points during his tenure and had previously held various other portfolios in Western Australia's Court–Cowan Ministry.
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Trilby Glover

81. Trilby Glover

1979-. (aged 47)
actor film director
Trilby Glover is an Australian actress known for her roles as Shoshanna in the USA’s Network mini-series The Starter Wife, Jessica in the feature film Righteous Kill, and as Jane Hollis in the second season of Fox comedy-horror series Scream Queens.
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Matthew Pavlich

82. Matthew Pavlich

1981-. (aged 45)
Australian rules football player
Matthew Lee Pavlich is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Pavlich is the chief executive of the Sydney Swans.
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Maram Susli

83. Maram Susli

1987-. (aged 39)
propagandist YouTuber podcaster blogger television producer
Maram Susli, also known as Mimi al-Laham, PartisanGirl, Syrian Girl and Syrian Sister, is a Syrian-Australian political commentator and media personality who prepares videos on the Syrian civil war, United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and Gamergate. She has defended the former Syrian government under Bashar al-Assad, and criticised Syrian rebels as well as ISIS. She has been...
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Simon Katich

84. Simon Katich

1975-. (aged 51)
cricketer
Simon Matthew Katich is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He captained New South Wales and also, until the end of the 2007 season, Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Katich also played for Lancashire, represented his birth state of Western Australia and played in the Indian Premier League for Kings XI Punjab. Katich was also a member of the Australian...
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Akshay Venkatesh

85. Akshay Venkatesh

1981-. (aged 45)
mathematician university teacher
Akshay Venkatesh FRS is an Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.
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Fatima Payman

86. Fatima Payman

1995-. (aged 31)
politician
Fatima Payman is an Australian politician who has served as a senator for Western Australia since 2022, first for the Labor Party and then as an independent, before launching her own political party − Australia's Voice − in October 2024.
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Shaun Tan

87. Shaun Tan

1974-. (aged 52)
illustrator children's writer writer novelist animator
Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer, and filmmaker. He is known for his graphic novel The Arrival (2006), which won several awards, and for his 2010 animated short film adaptation of the 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated, The Lost Thing, for which he won an Academy Award. He has also written and illustrated many other books, including...
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Matt Parker

88. Matt Parker

1980-. (aged 46)
physicist television producer mathematician writer YouTuber
Matthew Thomas Parker is an Australian recreational mathematician, author, comedian, YouTube personality and science communicator based in the United Kingdom. He is a New York Times best-selling author and his book Humble Pi was the first mathematics book in the UK to be a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. He is a former teacher and has helped popularise mathematics via...
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Marcus Stoinis

89. Marcus Stoinis

1989-. (aged 37)
cricketer
Marcus Peter Stoinis is an Australian international cricketer who represents the Australia national cricket team in Twenty20 International cricket. He is a right-handed batting all-rounder who bowls right-arm medium. Domestically, Stoinis captained Melbourne Stars in the 2024–25 Big Bash League and has played Sheffield Shield cricket for Western Australia and Victoria.
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Peter Lim

90. Peter Lim

1953-. (aged 73)
stockbroker
Peter Lim Eng Hock is a Singaporean business magnate who was a stockbroker and an investor in palm oil, and is now a private investor focused on healthcare, property, sports, and education. In 2024, he was ranked 26th on Forbes' list of Singapore's 50 Richest with a net worth of US$1.75 billion. He was a shareholder of English club Salford...
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Bob Hawke

91. Bob Hawke

1929-2019 (aged 90)
union organizer politician trade unionist
Robert James Lee Hawke was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as the leader of the Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1969 to 1980 and president of the Labor Party national executive from...
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Robin Warren

92. Robin Warren

1937-2024 (aged 87)
university teacher pathologist researcher microbiologist physician
John Robin Warren AC was an Australian pathologist, Nobel laureate, and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall. The duo proved to the medical community that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the cause of most peptic ulcers.
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Patrick Gorman

93. Patrick Gorman

1984-. (aged 42)
political adviser politician
Patrick Possum Gorman is an Australian politician, elected as an Australian Labor Party representative for the Division of Perth at the 2018 Perth by-election.
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Michaelia Cash

94. Michaelia Cash

1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician currently serving as shadow minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. She previously served as the 38th Attorney-General of Australia from 2021 to 2022 in the Morrison government. She has been a Senator for Western Australia since 2008 and is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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Robyn Eckersley

95. Robyn Eckersley

1958-. (aged 68)
university teacher political scientist
Robyn Eckersley is a Professor and Head of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Geraldine Doogue

96. Geraldine Doogue

1952-. (aged 74)
television presenter radio personality journalist
Geraldine Frances Doogue AO is an Australian journalist and radio and television presenter, known for her work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Since January 2024, she has been co-host of ABC Radio National's Global Roaming current affairs programme.
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John Tonkin

97. John Tonkin

1902-1995 (aged 93)
teacher politician
John Trezise Tonkin AC was an Australian politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 3 March 1971 to 8 April 1974. A member of the Labor Party, Tonkin was a minister in the Willcock, Wise and Hawke governments. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1933 to 1977, making him the longest-serving member of...
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Tim Minchin

98. Tim Minchin

1975-. (aged 51)
film screenwriter film actor film director songwriter actor
Timothy David Minchin AM is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician, poet, composer, and songwriter.
Alan Eggleston

99. Alan Eggleston

1941-2025 (aged 84)
politician physician
Alan Eggleston was an Australian politician who served as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1996 to 2014 representing Western Australia.