List of Flinders University people
This is an incomplete list of Flinders University people including notable alumni and staff associated with the Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.

Graduates of Flinders University include:
 Australian of the Year:  Richard Harris
 Fields Medalist (for maths): Terry Tao
 Several Rhodes scholars

Other notable alumni include:

Arts and humanities
Entertainment

Mario Andreacchio – film director and producer
Michael Atkinson (founding member of Redgum)
Benedict Andrews – theatre director 
Matthew Bate – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
Geordie Brookman – theatre director (Flinders Drama Centre)
Matthew Cormack – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
Matt Crook – actor
Alex Frayne – film director
Nuala Hafner – TV presenter (Flinders Drama Centre)
Noni Hazlehurst – actress (Flinders Drama Centre)
Scott Hicks – film director
Victoria Hill – actress, writer and producer (Flinders Drama Centre)
 Nicholas Hope – actor (Flinders Drama Centre)
Aimee Horne – actress and singer
Sophie Hyde – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
 Paul Kelly (1973; did not complete)
Steve Knapman – TV producer (Flinders Drama Centre)
Craig Lahiff – film director
Nina Landis – actress
Verity Laughton – playwright (PhD, Creative Arts thesis, 2020)
Caleb Lewis – playwright (Flinders Drama Centre)
Sam Mac – radio and television personality
Anthony Maras – film director, writer and producer
Bryan Mason – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
Louisa Mignone – actress
Doc Neeson – singer, songwriter, and front man of The Angels
 Tania Nehme – film editor (Flinders Drama Centre, 1983)
Greig Pickhaver (also known as H.G. Nelson) – actor, comedian and writer (Flinders Drama Centre)
Michael Pope – TV presenter and producer (Flinders Drama Centre)
 Damien Richardson – actor (Flinders Drama Centre)
Brendan Rock – film actor (Flinders Drama Centre)
Dario Russo – film director and writer
Xavier Samuel – actor (Flinders Drama Centre)
John Schumann – founding member of Redgum
Wendy Strehlow – actress
Rebecca Summerton – film producer
Chris Timms, founding member of Redgum
Verity Truman, Chris Timms, founding member of Redgum
Melanie Vallejo – actress (Flinders Drama Centre)
Matt Vesely – filmmaker, of Closer Productions
Eddie White – animation writer and director(Flinders Drama Centre)

Literature

Mem Fox – children's author
Jackie Huggins – author, historian, Aboriginal rights advocate, and academic
Hannah Kent – author, winner of the Stella Prize
Peter Martin – economics journalist and commentator (Distinguished Alumnus 2016)
Sudesh Mishra – poet
Susan Mitchell – author (Flinders Drama Centre)
Christopher Pearson – journalist, founder of the Adelaide Review and speechwriter for Prime Minister John Howard
Mark Peel – Australian historian
Petar Pjesivac – Serbian poet and essayist
Sean Williams – author 

Humanities academics

Jack Barbalet – professor of sociology
Carl Bridge – professor of history at King's College London
Jackie Huggins – author, historian, Aboriginal rights advocate, and academic
Marion Jones – nursing and interprofessional practice academic (PhD, 2000)
Marion Maddox – author and professor of history at Macquarie University
Haydon Manning – political scientist (PhD1994; later, associate professor, Politics and Public Policy at Flinders)
Andrekos Varnava – writer and professor of history
Wesley Wildman – professor of theology at Boston University
Graham Hill – associate professor of missiology and World Christianity at the University of Divinity, Australia

Science and medicine
Medicine

Nazira Abdula – pediatrician and Mozambican Minister of Health
Richard "Harry" Harris – anaesthetist and 2019 Australian of the Year
Sally Goold – first Indigenous nurse in New South Wales and 2006 Senior Nurse of the Year
Philip Nitschke (PhD in applied physics)

Other sciences

Rod Boswell – professor, Plasma Research Laboratory, ANU
Philip Bourne – professor of pharmacology at UCSD
Rodney Brooks – professor of robotics at MIT
Sabine Dittmann – marine biologist
Mohammad Kaykobad – computer scientist, professor of CSE, BUET
Mamoru Mohri – retired astronaut, scientist and engineer
Colin Raston – professor of green chemistry, SA Scientist of the Year inventor of the Vortex Fluidic Device
Cori Stewart – associate professor and innovator, Women in AI: manufacturing, winner 2022
Terence Tao – Fields Medalist, professor of mathematics at UCLA
Tony Thomas – professor of physics at the University of Adelaide

Politics

John Bannon – former South Australian premier
Zoe Bettison – South Australian state politician and minister
Susan Close – South Australian state politician, minister and deputy premier
David Cox – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Kate Ellis – Member of the Australian House of Representatives and minister
 Chris Gallus – Federal politician for the Liberal Party
Bronwyn Halfpenny – Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Don Hopgood –  (PhD) Deputy Premier of South Australia from 1985 to 1992 
Ian Hunter – South Australian state politician and minister
Tom Kenyon – South Australian state politician and minister
Stephanie Key – South Australian state politician and minister
Jenny Leong – Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Brendan Nelson – former Australian leader of the opposition
Chris Picton – South Australian state politician and minister 
Mike Rann – former premier, appointed as a Flinders University professor
Amanda Rishworth – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Don Russell – former Australian ambassador to the United States
Robert Simms – Australian senator
Andrew Southcott – Member of the Australian House of Representatives
Gayle Tierney – Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
Sialeʻataonga Tuʻivakanō – Prime Minister of Tonga
Lynne Walker – Northern Territory deputy leader of the opposition
Pratikno – Minister of State Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia
Nicolle Flint – Member of the Australian House of Representatives

Sport

Matthew Liptak – Adelaide Crows footballer
Agnes Milowka – technical diver and author
Nigel Smart – Adelaide Crows footballer

 Faculty 
Donald Brook – (1927–2018), artist; founder of the Experimental Art Foundation; inaugural professor of fine arts; after retirement in 1989, emeritus professor
Jeri Kroll – poet and author, inaugural dean of graduate research, later emeritus professor
Haydon Manning – political scientist (PhD 1994); associate professor, politics and public policy
 Mike Rann – professorial fellow in social and policy studies, 2012–?Owen, Michael. Mike Rann appointed professor at Flinders University. The Australian, 27 January 2012.Biography. Mike Rann website, archived 2012.

See also
 :Category:Flinders University alumni

References

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