This is an incomplete list of Australian National University people , including alumni and staff.
Faculty
Notable past and current faculty members include:
Anthony Irvine Adams , public health physician
Patrick Atiyah , English barrister and legal writer
Arthur Llewellyn Basham , South Asian historian
Michael Barnsley , mathematician and entrepreneur
Bronwyn Parry , Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences
Larissa Behrendt , academic; Professor of Indigenous Research
Coral Bell , Senior Research Fellow in International Relations
David Bensusan-Butt , economist
Arthur Birch , organic chemist
Boediono , Indonesian Vice President
Richard P. Brent , mathematical scientist
Roderic Broadhurst , criminal justice practitioner, academic, and author
Miroslav Bukovsky , composer
Sydney James Butlin , economist, historian
Chilla Bulbeck , women's studies
Hedley Bull , Professor of International Relations
Harvey Raymond Butcher , astronomer
John Caldwell , demographer
Yang Hi Choe-Wall , Koreanist
Manning Clark , historian
John Coates , mathematician
John Cockcroft , Nobel Prize - winning nuclear physicist , former chancellor
H. C. Coombs , economist and public servant
David P. Craig , research chemist
Gavan Daws , historian and writer
Rafe de Crespigny , sinologist
Robert Dessaix , novelist and essayist
Paul Dibb , Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
Peter C. Doherty , Nobel Prize -winning immunologist
Thomas K. Donaldson , mathematician
Robert M. Douglas , medical researcher
Sir John Eccles , Nobel Prize -winning neurophysiologist
Fred Emery , social scientist
Kep Enderby , lawyer and politician
Denis Evans , physicist and chemist
Frank Fenner , scientist
C. P. Fitzgerald , historian
Michael Flood , sociologist
Howard Florey , Nobel Prize -winning medical researcher, former chancellor
Derek Freeman , anthropologist
Robert Gilbert , polymer chemist
Peter Godfrey-Smith , philosopher and author of the book Other Minds
Colin Groves , anthropologist
Fred Gruen , economist
Wang Gungwu , specialist in studying the Chinese diaspora
Sir (William) Keith Hancock , historian
Peter Firman Harrison , architect and town planner
Peter Dunstan Hastings , journalist and editor
Anthony F. Hill , in synthetic, organometallic & coordination chemistry
A. D. Hope , poet and essayist
Leonard Huxley , physicist
Ken Inglis , historian
Edward A. Irving , geologist
Zvonimir Janko , mathematician
Frank Lancaster Jones , sociologist
Rhys Jones , archaeologist
James Jupp , political scientist
Peter Karmel , economist
Roger Keesing , anthropologist
Ben Kerkvliet , political scientist
Brij Lal , historian, novelist and writer of non-fiction
Geoffrey Lancaster , musicologist and pianist
Andrew Leigh , economist and federal politician
Ian McAllister , Irish-Australian public opinion political scientist
Gavan McCormack , Orientalist
Helen McGregor , geologist and climate change researcher, a Fellow with the Research School of Earth Sciences
Brendan McKay , computer scientist
Warwick McKibbin , economist
Lew Mander , organic chemist
Henry Evans Maude , anthropologist
Achdiat Karta Mihardja , novelist and writer[5]
T. B. Millar , historian and political scientists
John Minford , sinologist and literary translator
Pat Moran , statistician
Fred Nadel , anthropologist
Bernhard Neumann , mathematician
Hanna Neumann , mathematician, first female professor of mathematics in Australia
Cliff Ollier , geologist
Sir Mark Oliphant , physicist and Governor of South Australia
Sarah Pryke , ecologist
Lindsay Pryor , botanist
Leo Radom , research chemist
Anthony Reid , historian of Southeast Asia
James Mahmud Rice , sociologist
Ted Ringwood , geologist
Malcolm Ross , linguist
Amin Saikal , political scientist
Brian P. Schmidt , Nobel Prize winning physicist
Peter Self , academic
Thomas Smith , economist
Allan Snyder , optical physicist, visual scientist
Oskar Spate , geographer
Trevor Swan , economist
Neil Trudinger , mathematician
Royall Tyler , Japan specialist
Jonathan Unger , contemporary China specialist
Michael Vernon , scientist and consumer activist
Carola Garcia de Vinuesa , Head of the Department of Pathogens and Immunity at the College of Medicine
Ling Wang (Wang Ling) , historian of Chinese science
Hugh White , Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
Jack Waterford , journalist
Anna Wierzbicka , linguist