List of Alumni of Wesley College, Melbourne - Academia, Scholars, Philosophers, Clergymen and Educators

Academia, Scholars, Philosophers, Clergymen and Educators

  • Dr Andrew Dent AC, Associate Professor of Medicine (Melbourne University)
  • Professor Brian Lewis, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture (University of Melbourne)
  • Professor Carl Wood AC, CBE, FRCS, FRANZCOG, IVF Pioneer (Monash University)
  • Professor Chris Silagy AO, Leading pioneer in evidence-based medicine
  • Sir David Rivett KCMG, Rhodes Scholar and Associate Professor and Professor of Chemistry (University of Melbourne)
  • Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC, historian
  • Professor Graham Oppy, philosopher (Monash University)
  • Professor John Henry Michell, mathematician and Senior Wrangler (Cambridge University)
  • Joseph Lade Pawsey, pioneer of the study of radio astronomy in Australia
  • The Hon. Chief Justice Michael Black AC QC, Barrister, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, Foundation Chairman of the Victorian Bar’s Readers Course, Chair of the Advisory Committee (Juris Doctor Degree at the Melbourne Law School)
  • Lawrence Pyke, Rhodes Scholar, Headmaster of Newington College
  • Samuel Alexander OM, British philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge College
  • Waleed Aly, Lecturer at Global Terrorism Research Centre, School of Political & Social Inquiry, and at the Monash University Faculty of Arts and spokesman for the Islamic Council of Victoria
  • Walter Rosenhain, metallurgist
  • Professor Warren Thomson OAM, Music (University of Sydney)

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